14 Letter 6 Letter 9 Letter Countdown Words Containing A

AAH (6) AAL (3) AAS (3) ABA (5) [noun] A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair. | [noun] A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs. | [noun] An outer garment made of the above, very simple in form, worn by the Arabs of the desert. The illustration shows such an aba, made of two breadths of stuff sewed together to make an oblong about four by nine feet. | [noun] An altazimuth used for astronomy on either land or water. | [noun] The electric fish Gymnarchus niloticus (frankfish, freshwater rat-tail, African knifefish), found in swamps, lakes and rivers in Africa. ABO (5) [noun] An aborigine; aboriginal. ABS (5) [noun] Abdominal muscle. | [noun] An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin. | [verb] To abseil. ABY (8) [verb] To pay the penalty for; to suffer for; to atone for. ACE (5) [noun] A single point or spot on a playing card or die. | [noun] A card or die face so marked. | [noun] The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games. | [noun] A person who is asexual. ACT (5) [noun] Something done, a deed. | [noun] Actuality. | [noun] Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work. ADD (5) [noun] An act or instance of adding. | [noun] An additional enemy that joins a fight after the primary target. | [verb] To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. ADO (4) [noun] Trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion ADS (4) [noun] Advertisement. | [noun] Advantage | [noun] (debating) advantage ADZ (13) [noun] A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood. | [verb] To shape a material using an adze. AFF (9) AFT (6) [noun] The stern portion of a vessel. | [adjective] Located at the back of a boat, ship, or airplane | [adverb] At, near, or towards the stern of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel). | [noun] The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm. AGA (4) [noun] An honorific for high officials used in Turkey and certain Muslim countries. AGE (4) [noun] The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive. | [noun] The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive. | [noun] One of the stages of life. AGO (4) [adjective] Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away. | [adjective] Nearly gone; dead (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century) | [adverb] Before AHA (6) [interjection] An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition. | [interjection] An exclamation of surprise, exaltation, or contempt. AID (4) [noun] Help; assistance; succor, relief. | [noun] A helper; an assistant. | [noun] Something which helps; a material source of help. | [verb] To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist. AIL (3) [noun] An ailment; trouble; illness. | [verb] To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.) | [verb] To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled. | [adjective] Painful; troublesome. | [noun] The awn of barley or other types of corn. 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. AIN (3) [noun] A Scottish word for "one." | [noun] An eye, in Scottish dialect. AIR (3) [noun] The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly: | [noun] (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but now considered to be surrounded by the near vacuum of outer space. | [noun] A breeze; a gentle wind. AIS (3) [noun] A type of three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, endemic to forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil. AIT (3) [noun] An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. | [noun] An oat. ALA (3) [noun] A wing or winglike structure. | [noun] A winglike anatomical process or part, especially of bone. | [noun] The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family. | [preposition] In the style or manner of. ALB (5) [noun] A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments. ALE (3) [noun] A beer made without hops. | [noun] A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized. | [noun] A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk. ALL (3) [noun] (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of. | [noun] The totality of one's possessions. | [adjective] All gone; dead. ALP (5) [noun] A very high mountain. Specifically, one of the Alps, the highest chain of mountains in Europe. ALS (3) [noun] The Indian mulberry, Morinda citrifolia, especially as used to make dye. | [adverb] (focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too. | [adverb] To the same degree or extent; so, as. ALT (3) [noun] High pitch, of a voice or instrument; especially, the octave above the top line of the treble stave. | [noun] A state of excitement, a heightened emotional condition. | [noun] An alternate or secondary character. 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. ANA (3) [noun] A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table | [adverb] (in prescriptions) Of each; an equal quantity. | [noun] Anorexia (used especially by the pro-ana movement). | [adverb] In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension. | [noun] A unit of currency in former British India equal to 12 pies or 1/16 rupee. AND (4) [noun] In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | [conjunction] As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | [conjunction] (heading) Expressing a condition. | [noun] Breath. | [verb] To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. ANE (3) [noun] A Scottish word for "one." | [noun] A hydrocarbon suffix used in chemistry to denote saturated compounds. ANI (3) [noun] A bird of the genus Crotophaga in the cuckoo family. | [noun] The lower orifice of the alimentary canal, through which feces and flatus are ejected. ANT (3) [noun] Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females. | [noun] A Web spider. | [verb] To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers. ANY (6) [adverb] To even the slightest extent, at all. | [pronoun] Any thing(s) or person(s). APE (5) [noun] A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail. | [noun] Any such primate other than a human. | [noun] An uncivilised person. | [adjective] Wild; crazy. APT (5) [adjective] Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited. | [adjective] (of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards. | [adjective] Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn. | [noun] An apartment; a flat. ARB (5) [noun] The act of or potential for arbitrage. | [noun] One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur. | [noun] An arboretum. ARC (5) [noun] That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. | [noun] A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. | [noun] A curve, in general. ARE (3) [noun] An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a. ARF (6) [interjection] Representing the sound of a dog's bark. ARK (7) [noun] A large box with a flat lid. | [noun] Noah's Ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge. | [noun] Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge 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. ARS (3) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter R. ART (3) [noun] The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. | [noun] The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc. | [noun] Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus. ASH (6) [noun] The solid remains of a fire. | [noun] The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process. | [noun] Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash. | [noun] A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus. ASK (7) [noun] An act or instance of asking. | [noun] Something asked or asked for. | [noun] An asking price. | [noun] An eft; newt. ASP (5) [noun] A water snake. | [noun] A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis). | [noun] The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) | [noun] The aspen tree. ASS (3) [noun] Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden. | [noun] A stupid person. | [noun] Buttocks. ATE (3) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. ATT (3) AUK (7) [noun] Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. AVA (6) AVE (6) [noun] An Ave Maria. | [noun] A reverential salutation. | [noun] A broad street, especially one bordered by trees. AVO (6) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Macanese pataca. | [noun] The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree. | [noun] The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family. AWA (6) AWE (6) [noun] A feeling of fear and reverence. | [noun] A feeling of amazement. | [noun] Power to inspire awe. AWL (6) [noun] A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc. | [noun] Any of various hesperiid butterflies. AWN (6) [noun] The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. AXE (10) [noun] A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it. | [noun] An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle. | [noun] A dismissal or rejection. | [noun] The axle of a wheel. | [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). AYE (6) [adverb] Ever, always | [noun] An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative. | [interjection] Yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. | [interjection] An attention grabber AYS (6) [noun] An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative. AZO (12) [adjective] Azote, nitrogen | [adjective] Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc. | [adjective] Now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group (-N=N-) uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene etc. BAA (5) [noun] The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep. | [verb] To make the characteristic cry of a sheep. | [interjection] The characteristic cry of a sheep. | [noun] The letter ب in the Arabic script. BAD (6) [noun] Error, mistake. | [noun] An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good. | [adjective] Unfavorable; negative; not good. | [adjective] Fantastic. | [verb] To issue a command; to tell. | [verb] To shell (a walnut). BAG (6) [noun] A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc. | [noun] A handbag | [noun] A suitcase. BAH (8) [interjection] (sometimes humorous) Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper. BAL (5) [noun] A festival or celebration, especially a masked ball. | [noun] In Indian English, a child or young person. 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. BAN (5) [noun] Prohibition. | [noun] A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms. | [noun] The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu. | [noun] A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit. | [noun] A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century. BAP (7) [noun] A soft bread roll, originally from Scotland. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast. | [verb] To hit lightly. BAR (5) [noun] A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. | [noun] A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1/4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip. | [noun] A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. | [verb] To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). | [noun] A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level. BAS (5) [noun] (Egyptian mythology) A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food. | [noun] Father, baba. BAT (5) [noun] Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous. | [noun] An old woman. | [noun] A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket. | [verb] To flutter | [noun] A packsaddle. | [noun] The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang. BAY (8) [noun] A berry. | [noun] Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries. | [noun] Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb. | [noun] A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land. | [noun] An opening in a wall, especially between two columns. | [noun] The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked. | [noun] A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses. BOA (5) [noun] Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico, and the chevalier boa of Peru. | [noun] (plural "boas") A type of scarf typically made from feathers. BRA (5) [noun] An item of underwear worn to support the breasts; now commonly shortened to bra. | [noun] One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket. | [noun] Friend CAB (7) [noun] A taxi; a taxicab. | [noun] Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver | [noun] Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower | [noun] A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure. | [noun] Initialism of chest compressions, airway and breathing. CAD (6) [noun] A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow. | [noun] A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards. 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 CAN (5) [verb] (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to. | [verb] (modal auxiliary verb, defective) May; to be permitted or enabled to. | [verb] (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible. | [noun] A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top. CAP (7) [noun] A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked. | [noun] A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc. | [noun] An academic mortarboard. | [noun] Capitalization. | [noun] An uppercase letter. | [noun] Capacitor | [noun] A recording or screenshot. | [noun] A capsule of a drug. | [noun] A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles. CAR (5) [noun] A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation. | [noun] A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot. | [noun] An unpowered unit in a railroad train. | [noun] A turn. | [noun] The first part of a cons in LISP. The first element of a list CAT (5) [noun] An animal of the family Felidae: | [noun] A person: | [noun] A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship. | [noun] A twin-hulled ship or boat. | [noun] A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output. | [adjective] Terrible, disastrous. | [noun] A street name of the drug methcathinone. | [noun] A catapult. | [noun] A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria. | [noun] Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth | [noun] Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.) CAW (8) [noun] The harsh cry of a crow. | [verb] To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven. | [interjection] Cry of a crow. CAY (8) [noun] A small, low island largely made of sand or coral. DAB (6) [noun] A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow. | [noun] A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval. | [noun] A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance. | [noun] One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept. | [noun] A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder. | [adjective] (costers) Bad. DAD (5) [noun] A father, a male parent. | [noun] (familiar) Used to address one's father | [noun] Used to address an older adult male | [noun] A lump or piece. DAG (5) [noun] A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. | [noun] A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. | [verb] To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. | [noun] A skewer. | [interjection] Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. | [noun] One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance. | [noun] A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V, E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. | [noun] A misty shower; dew. | [noun] A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding. DAH (7) [noun] The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code. | [noun] (Burma) A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard. DAK (8) [noun] A post system by means of transport relays of horses stationed at intervals along a route or network, carrying mail and passengers. DAL (4) [noun] Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils. | [noun] A dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc. | [noun] A tropical herb with yellow flowers; the pigeon pea. 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. DAP (6) [noun] Elaborate handshake, especially hooking thumbs. | [noun] A fistbump. | [verb] To greet with a dap. DAW (7) [noun] A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw. | [noun] An idiot, a simpleton; fool. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To dawn. DAY (7) [noun] Any period of 24 hours. | [noun] A period from midnight to the following midnight. | [noun] Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth). EAR (3) [noun] The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. | [noun] The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle. | [noun] A police informant. | [noun] The fruiting body of a grain plant. | [verb] To plough. EAT (3) [noun] Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item. | [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. EAU (3) [proper noun] Misspelling of Eau ERA (3) [noun] A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year. | [noun] A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods. ETA (3) [noun] The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek. | [noun] A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin. | [noun] A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people. FAD (7) [noun] A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time. FAG (7) [noun] In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric. | [noun] (dated in US and Canada) A cigarette. | [noun] The worst part or end of a thing. | [noun] A chore: an arduous and tiresome task. | [noun] (usually offensive, sometimes affectionate) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an especially effeminate or unusual one. FAN (6) [noun] A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself. | [noun] An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc. | [noun] The action of fanning; agitation of the air. | [noun] A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport. FAR (6) [adjective] Distant; remote in space. | [adjective] Remote in time. | [adjective] Long. | [noun] Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it. | [noun] A litter of piglets; a farrow. FAS (6) [noun] A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale. FAT (6) [noun] A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy. | [noun] A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat. | [noun] That part of an organization deemed wasteful. | [noun] A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern. FAX (13) [noun] The hair of the head. | [noun] A fax machine or a document received and printed by one. | [verb] To send a document via a fax machine. FAY (9) [verb] To fit. | [verb] To join or unite closely or tightly. | [verb] To lie close together. | [verb] To cleanse; clean out. | [noun] A fairy. | [noun] A white person. GAB (6) [noun] Idle chatter. | [noun] The mouth or gob. | [noun] One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines. GAD (5) [interjection] An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake. | [noun] One who roams about idly; a gadabout. | [verb] To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. | [noun] A greedy and/or stupid person. | [noun] A sharp-pointed object; a goad. GAE (4) GAG (5) [noun] A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap. | [noun] An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject. | [noun] A joke or other mischievous prank. GAL (4) [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints | [noun] Exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon | [noun] 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon") | [noun] A young woman. | [noun] A galileo (a unit of acceleration). 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). GAN (4) [noun] (thieves') Mouth. | [verb] To begin. | [verb] (obsolete outside Northumbria) To go. GAP (6) [noun] An opening in anything made by breaking or parting. | [noun] An opening allowing passage or entrance. | [noun] An opening that implies a breach or defect. | [noun] An elected head of a gewog in Bhutan. GAR (4) [noun] A spear. | [noun] Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws. | [noun] A garfish, Belone belone. | [verb] To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done). GAS (4) [noun] Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly. | [noun] A chemical element or compound in such a state. | [noun] A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles. | [noun] Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel. | [adjective] Comical, zany; fun, amusing GAT (4) [noun] (in old westerns) A Gatling gun. | [noun] (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol. | [verb] To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm. | [noun] A guitar | [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [noun] An opening between sandbanks; a strait. | [noun] A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen. GAY (7) [noun] (chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian. | [noun] Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower. | [noun] An ornament, a knick-knack. | [noun] The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand. GOA (4) HAD (7) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAE (6) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAG (7) [noun] A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard. | [noun] An ugly old woman. | [noun] A fury; a she-monster. | [noun] A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled. | [verb] To harass; to weary with vexation. HAH (9) [interjection] A representation of laughter. | [interjection] An exclamation of triumph or discovery. | [interjection] An exclamation of grief. | [noun] The fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). HAJ (13) [noun] The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam. 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. HAO (6) HAP (8) [noun] (in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on. | [noun] That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck. | [verb] To happen; to befall; to chance. | [noun] (Western Pennsylvania) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm. | [noun] Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini. HAS (6) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAT (6) [noun] A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration. | [noun] A particular role or capacity that a person might fill. | [noun] Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery. | [verb] (heading, physical) To strike. HAW (9) [verb] To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation. | [interjection] An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw). | [interjection] An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made. | [noun] Fruit of the hawthorn. | [verb] (of an animal) To turn towards the driver, typically to the left. | [noun] The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. HAY (9) [noun] Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder. | [noun] Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder. | [noun] Cannabis; marijuana. | [noun] A hedge. | [noun] The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand. JAB (12) [noun] A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion. | [noun] A short straight punch. | [noun] A medical injection. JAG (11) [noun] A sharp projection. | [noun] A part broken off; a fragment. | [noun] A cleft or division. | [noun] Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful. 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. JAR (10) [noun] An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial. | [noun] A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes. | [noun] A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful. | [noun] A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality. JAW (13) [noun] One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth. | [noun] The part of the face below the mouth. | [noun] Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance. | [adjective] (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump) JAY (13) [noun] Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely coloured, usually having a crest, and often noisy. | [noun] Other birds of similar appearance and behaviour. | [noun] Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium. | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter J. KAB (9) KAE (7) KAF (10) KAS (7) [noun] A spiritual part of the soul in Egyptian mythology, which survived after death. KAT (7) KAY (10) [interjection] Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance. | [interjection] Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said. | [interjection] Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter. KEA (7) [noun] Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand. KOA (7) [noun] Acacia koa, a species of large tree in the family Fabaceae which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree. LAB (5) [noun] A laboratory. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result. | [noun] A Labrador retriever. | [noun] A telltale; a blabber. LAC (5) [noun] A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect. | [noun] One hundred thousand (commonly used in Pakistan and India). | [noun] Short for Cadillac. | [noun] Laceration. LAD (4) [noun] A boy or young man. | [noun] A Jack the lad; a boyo. | [noun] A familiar term of address for a young man. LAG (4) [noun] A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency. | [noun] Delay; latency. | [noun] One sentenced to transportation for a crime. 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. LAP (5) [noun] The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. | [noun] An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. | [noun] The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered | [noun] The act or process of lapping. | [verb] To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or using laparoscopy or a laparoscope. LAR (3) [noun] The lar gibbon. LAS (3) LAT (3) [noun] A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind. | [noun] A monumental pillar, particularly the Buddhist columns erected in East India. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A latrine: a rudimentary or military facility for urination and defecation. | [noun] The gold-backed monetary unit of Latvia from August 1922 until April 1941, when it was replaced by the Soviet ruble; it was typically pegged at about 25 to the British pound. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A latissimus dorsi muscle. | [noun] Latitude LAV (6) [noun] An item of jewellery consisting of a pendant, sometimes with one stone, suspended from a necklace. | [noun] A kind of microphone intended to clip onto the lapel at about the level of the pendant on a lavalier. | [noun] A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly: LAW (6) [noun] The body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities. | [noun] A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way. | [noun] (more generally) A rule, such as: | [noun] A tumulus of stones. | [interjection] An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks. LAX (10) [noun] A salmon. | [adjective] Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict. | [adjective] Loose; not tight or taut. | [noun] Lacrosse. LAY (6) [noun] Arrangement or relationship; layout. | [noun] A share of the profits in a business. | [noun] A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance. | [noun] A lake. | [adjective] Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them. | [verb] To rest in a horizontal position on a surface. | [noun] A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung. | [noun] A meadow; a lea. | [noun] A law. | [verb] To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)). LEA (3) [noun] An open field, meadow. | [noun] Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards. | [noun] A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle. 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. 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. NAB (5) [verb] To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive). | [verb] To grab or snatch something. | [noun] The summit of an eminence. NAE (3) NAG (4) [noun] A small horse; a pony. | [noun] An old useless horse. | [noun] A paramour. | [noun] Someone or something that nags. NAH (6) [interjection] No NAM (5) NAN (3) [noun] A mother of someone's parent. | [noun] A female ancestor or progenitor. | [noun] A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden. | [noun] A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine. NAP (5) [noun] A short period of sleep, especially one during the day. | [verb] To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day. | [verb] To be off one's guard. | [noun] A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather. | [noun] A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips. | [verb] To grab; to nab. | [verb] To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive). | [noun] (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl. NAW (6) [interjection] Pronunciation spelling of no. | [interjection] (1990s) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. NAY (6) [noun] A vote against. | [noun] A person who voted against. | [noun] A denial; a refusal. https//books.google.com/books?id=uysQzJy9IwMC&pg=PA818&dq=%22word+nay+a+denial+refusal%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwij_5CHi-3cAhWJ2FMKHWjCDdMQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=%22word%20nay%20a%20denial%20refusal%22&f=false OAF (6) [noun] A person, especially a large male, who is clumsy or a simpleton. | [noun] An elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins, hence, a deformed or foolish child. OAK (7) [noun] A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus. | [noun] The wood of the oak. | [noun] A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood. OAR (3) [noun] A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat . | [noun] An oarsman; a rower. | [noun] An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates. OAT (3) [noun] Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa. | [noun] Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena. | [noun] (usually as plural) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop. OCA (5) [noun] Any of certain species of Oxalis (Oxalis crenata, and Oxalis tuberosa) which bear edible tubers. OKA (7) [noun] A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram. | [noun] A unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres. ORA (3) [noun] A mouth; an opening. | [noun] In particular, either end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) or external (to the vagina). | [noun] A unit of money among the Anglo-Saxons. OVA (6) [noun] The female gamete in animals; the egg cell. PAC (7) PAD (6) [noun] A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on. | [noun] A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame. | [noun] A soft, or small, cushion. | [noun] A toad. | [noun] A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track. See footpad. | [noun] A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods. | [verb] To travel along (a road, path etc.). | [noun] The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc. PAH (8) [interjection] Used to express distaste, disgust or outrage. | [noun] Father, papa. | [noun] Grandpa, grandfather. PAL (5) [noun] A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with. | [noun] An informal term of address, often used ironically in a hostile way. | [verb] Be friends with, hang around with. PAM (7) PAN (5) [noun] A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking. | [noun] The contents of such a receptacle. | [noun] A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home. | [verb] Of a camera, etc.: to turn horizontally. | [noun] A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf. | [verb] To join or fit together; to unite. | [noun] A part; a portion. | [adjective] Pansexual. PAP (7) [noun] Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children. | [noun] Nonsense. | [noun] Porridge. | [noun] A female breast or nipple. | [noun] Pap smear | [adjective] (South African slang) Flat. | [noun] A paparazzo. | [noun] Pa; father PAR (5) [noun] A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented. | [noun] A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject. | [noun] An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures. | [preposition] By; with. | [noun] Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper. | [noun] Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater. PAS (5) [noun] A pace; a step, as in a dance or in marching. | [noun] The right of going foremost; precedence. | [noun] Father, papa. PAT (5) [noun] The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep | [noun] A light tap or slap, especially with the hands | [noun] A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung. | [noun] Patent. PAW (8) [noun] The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot. | [noun] A hand. | [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. | [noun] Father; pa. PAX (12) [noun] A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory. | [noun] Friendship; truce. | [noun] The kiss of peace. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A passenger; passengers. PAY (8) [noun] Money given in return for work; salary or wages. | [verb] To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | [verb] To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. | [verb] To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear. PEA (5) [noun] A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family. | [noun] The edible seed of some of these plants. | [noun] A ball travelling at high velocity. | [noun] A peafowl | [noun] Wampum. PIA (5) [noun] The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord | [noun] A perennial Polynesian herb whose fleshy tubers yield arrowroot. PYA (8) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Burmese kyat. | [noun] A subdivision of currency in colonial Burma, equal to 1/4 of an anna or 1/64 of a rupee QAT (12) [noun] A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant. QUA (12) [preposition] As; in the capacity of RAD (4) [noun] A non-SI unit of absorbed dose of radiation, equal to 0.01 gray. | [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angular measure of angle equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle. Symbol: rad | [noun] Anything which radiates or emits rays. RAG (4) [noun] (in the plural) Tattered clothes. | [noun] A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter. | [noun] A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. | [noun] A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone. | [noun] A prank or practical joke. | [noun] An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands. RAH (6) [noun] A person (especially a student) with a posh accent who looks down on those who are "common". | [adjective] Posh. | [interjection] An exclamation of encouragement. | [interjection] An expression of surprise. RAJ (10) [noun] Reign; rule. 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. RAN (3) [verb] To run. | [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] (fluids) To flow. | [noun] Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch. | [noun] Open robbery. RAP (5) [noun] A sharp blow with something hard. | [noun] Blame for something. | [noun] A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction. | [verb] To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock. | [noun] A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. | [noun] Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value. | [verb] To seize and carry off. RAS (3) RAT (3) [noun] A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus. | [noun] Any of the numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) that resemble true rats in appearance, usually having a pointy snout, a long, bare tail, and body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches. | [noun] A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling. | [noun] A scratch or a score. | [noun] A ration. RAW (6) [noun] (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such. | [noun] A galled place; an inveterate sore. | [noun] (by extension) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive. RAX (10) RAY (6) [noun] A beam of light or radiation. | [noun] A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin. | [noun] One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran. | [noun] A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail. | [noun] Array; order; arrangement; dress. | [noun] The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand. | [noun] A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale. RIA (3) [noun] A submergent coastal landform, often known as a drowned river valley RYA (6) SAB (5) [noun] A saboteur, especially of fox hunts. | [verb] To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports. SAC (5) [noun] A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid. | [noun] (games) A sacrifice. | [verb] (games) To sacrifice. | [noun] The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines. SAD (4) [verb] To make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone). | [adjective] (heading) Emotionally negative. | [adjective] Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary. | [noun] The letter ص in the Arabic script. SAE (3) SAG (4) [noun] The state of sinking or bending; a droop. | [noun] The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points. | [noun] The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens. | [noun] An Indian dish made from greens (usually spinach) cooked down to a thick paste. SAL (3) [noun] Salt | [noun] Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree. SAP (5) [noun] The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. | [noun] The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. | [noun] Any juice. | [noun] A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack. | [noun] A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. SAT (3) [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | [verb] (of a person) To move oneself into such a position. | [verb] (of an object) To occupy a given position permanently. | [noun] A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one. SAU (3) SAW (6) [noun] A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal | [noun] A musical saw. | [noun] A sawtooth wave. | [noun] Something spoken; speech, discourse. | [interjection] What's up (either as a greeting or actual question). SAX (10) [noun] A slate-cutter's hammer; slate-ax. | [noun] A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length. | [verb] To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify. | [noun] A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards. SAY (6) [noun] A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision. | [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. | [noun] A type of fine cloth similar to serge. | [noun] Trial by sample; assay; specimen. | [noun] A strainer for milk. SEA (3) [noun] A large body of salt water. | [noun] A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish. | [noun] The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow. SHA (6) SKA (7) [noun] A style of Jamaican dance music combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues. SPA (5) [noun] A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring. | [noun] A trendy or fashionable resort. | [noun] A health club. | [noun] A clumsy person (see spastic) TAB (5) [noun] A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc. | [noun] An ear. | [noun] (by extension) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls. | [noun] A restaurant bill. | [noun] A cigarette. | [noun] A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments. | [noun] (British slang) A student of Cambridge University. | [noun] A tabloid newspaper. | [noun] A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs. | [noun] A tableau curtain. TAD (4) [noun] A small amount; a little bit. | [noun] A street boy; an urchin. TAE (3) TAG (4) [noun] A small label. | [noun] A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it". | [noun] A skin tag, an excrescence of skin. | [noun] A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls. TAJ (10) [noun] A tall brimless hat, usually conical or curved on top, worn in Muslim countries as a sign of distinction and prestige. | [noun] A crown worn by Indian princes as a sign of high rank. 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. TAN (3) [noun] A yellowish-brown colour. | [noun] A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources. | [noun] The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained. | [verb] To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun. | [numeral] The second cardinal number two, formerly used in Celtic areas, especially Cumbria and parts of Yorkshire, for counting sheep, and stitches in knitting. | [noun] An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh | [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 twig or small switch. TAO (3) [proper noun] In Taoism, The Way, specifically the transcendental basis of nature and, and/or the ideal way to live one's life. | [noun] The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution | [noun] The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area. TAP (5) [noun] A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask. | [noun] A device used to dispense liquids. | [noun] Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor. | [noun] A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat. | [noun] An Indian malarial fever. TAR (3) [noun] (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal. | [noun] Coal tar. | [noun] A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke. | [noun] A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems. | [noun] A Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus. | [noun] A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East. TAS (3) [noun] A heap, pile. | [noun] A cup or cupful. | [noun] An Oriental silk fabric, with gold or silver thread. TAT (3) [noun] Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze. | [noun] Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets. | [noun] Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute). | [verb] To make (something by) tatting. | [noun] A pony. | [noun] A tattoo. TAU (3) [noun] The letter Τ/τ in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek. | [noun] A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol. | [noun] A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon. TAV (6) TAW (6) [noun] Tawed leather. | [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [noun] A favorite marble in the game of marbles. | [noun] The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic. | [verb] To push; to tug; to tow. TAX (10) [noun] Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services. | [noun] A burdensome demand. | [noun] A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. | [verb] To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company). TEA (3) [noun] A drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, cannabis. | [noun] The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa. | [noun] Food consumed before going to bed. | [noun] A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea. It is now found in Chinese-language historical fiction. TWA (6) UTA (3) VAC (8) [noun] A vacation. | [noun] A vacuum cleaner. | [verb] To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner. VAN (6) [noun] A covered vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck/lorry. | [noun] An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods. | [noun] A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods. | [noun] The leading units at the front of an army or fleet. | [noun] A shovel used in cleansing ore. | [noun] A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain. VAR (6) [noun] A unit of electrical power, in an AC circuit, equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere. | [noun] Something that is variable. | [noun] Something whose value may be dictated or discovered. VAS (6) [noun] A vessel or duct transporting any bodily fluid, such as blood, lymph, chyle, or semen. | [noun] (specifically) The vas deferens. VAT (6) [noun] A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning. | [noun] A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry. | [noun] A vessel for holding holy water. VAU (6) VAV (9) [noun] The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ו. VAW (9) VIA (6) [noun] A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.) | [noun] A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers. | [preposition] By way of; passing through. WAB (8) WAD (7) [noun] An amorphous, compact mass. | [noun] A substantial pile (normally of money). | [noun] A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon. | [noun] Plumbago, graphite. WAE (6) WAG (7) [noun] An oscillating movement. | [noun] A witty person. | [verb] To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief. WAN (6) [noun] The quality of being wan; wanness. | [adjective] Pale, sickly-looking. | [adjective] Dim, faint. | [noun] The digit or figure 1. | [verb] To conquer, defeat. WAP (8) [noun] A blow or beating; a whap. | [noun] A breast. | [noun] A bundle. WAR (6) [noun] Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces. | [noun] A particular conflict of this kind. | [noun] (by extension) Any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict. WAS (6) WAT (6) [noun] A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia. | [noun] A kind of stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea. | [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. | [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. WAW (9) WAX (13) [noun] Beeswax. | [noun] Earwax. | [noun] Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters. | [verb] To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. | [noun] The process of growing. | [noun] An outburst of anger. WAY (9) [noun] (heading) To do with a place or places. | [noun] A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism. | [noun] A state or condition | [adverb] (with comparative or modified adjective) Much. | [noun] The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand. WHA (9) YAH (9) [adverb] Yes. | [noun] An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger. YAK (10) [noun] An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Burma, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane. | [noun] A talk, particular an informal talk; chattering; gossip. | [noun] A laugh. | [noun] A kayak. 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 YAP (8) [noun] The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar. | [noun] Casual talk; chatter. | [noun] The mouth, which produces speech. YAR (6) YAW (9) [noun] The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane. | [noun] The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile. | [noun] A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness. | [noun] A single tumor in the disease called yaws. YAY (9) [interjection] An expression of happiness. | [adverb] Yes. | [adverb] Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture). | [noun] The letter for the y sound in Pitman shorthand. | [noun] Cocaine (powder or crack). YEA (6) [noun] An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken | [adverb] Yes. | [adverb] Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture). | [interjection] Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc. ZAG (13) [noun] One of a series of sharp turns or reversals. | [noun] Twist in a storyline | [verb] To move with a sharp turn or reversal. ZAP (14) [noun] A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy. | [noun] An electric shock. | [noun] A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism. ZAX (19) [noun] A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing. ZOA (12)

AAHS (7) AALS (4) ABAS (6) ABBA (8) [noun] Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period. | [noun] A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair. | [noun] A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs. ABBE (8) [noun] A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey. | [noun] An honorific title for a member of the French clergy. ABED (7) [adverb] In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed. | [adverb] To childbed ABET (6) [noun] Fraud or cunning. | [noun] An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid. | [verb] To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. ABLE (6) [adjective] Easy to use. | [adjective] Suitable; competent. | [adjective] Liable to. | [verb] To make ready. | [noun] The letter "A" in Navy Phonetic Alphabet. ABLY (9) [adverb] In an able manner; with great ability. ABOS (6) [noun] An aborigine; aboriginal. ABRI (6) ABUT (6) [verb] To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) | [verb] To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to. | [verb] To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. ABYE (9) [verb] To pay the penalty for; to suffer for; to atone for (archaic past tense: abode or abought). ABYS (9) ACED (7) [verb] (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly. | [verb] To win a point by an ace. | [verb] To make an ace (hole in one). ACES (6) [noun] A single point or spot on a playing card or die. | [noun] A card or die face so marked. | [noun] The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games. ACHE (9) [noun] Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. | [verb] To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed. | [verb] To cause someone or something to suffer pain. | [noun] Parsley | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter H. ACHY (12) [adjective] Suffering from aches, sore. ACID (7) [noun] A sour substance. | [noun] Any of several classes of compound having the following properties: | [noun] Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) 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. ACNE (6) [noun] A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection. | [noun] A pattern of blemishes in an area of skin resulting from the skin condition. ACRE (6) [noun] An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters. | [noun] Any of various similar units of area in other systems. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A wide expanse. ACTA (6) [noun] Plural of actum; records of the proceedings or transactions of a society or organization. ACTS (6) [noun] Something done, a deed. | [noun] Actuality. | [noun] Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work. ACYL (9) [noun] Any of class of organic radicals, RCO-, formed by the removal of a hydroxyl group from a carboxylic acid. ADDS (6) [noun] An act or instance of adding. | [noun] An additional enemy that joins a fight after the primary target. | [verb] To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. ADIT (5) [noun] A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes. ADOS (5) [noun] Plural of ado, meaning fuss or trouble. | [noun] Unnecessary activity or ceremony. ADZE (14) [noun] A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood. | [verb] To shape a material using an adze. AEON (4) [noun] (preferred spelling, with æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead. | [noun] (Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology. | [noun] Eternity. AERO (4) [noun] Aerodynamics. | [noun] An airplane or airship. | [noun] Aerospace. AERY (7) [noun] An eagle's nest, typically built high in a tree or on a cliff. | [noun] A high, secluded place or dwelling. AFAR (7) [adverb] At, to, or from a great distance; far away. AGAR (5) [noun] A gelatinous material obtained from red algae, especially Gracilaria species, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive. | [noun] A culture medium based on this material. AGAS (5) [noun] An honorific for high officials used in Turkey and certain Muslim countries. AGED (6) [verb] To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. | [verb] To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt. | [verb] To categorize by age. AGEE (5) AGER (5) [noun] One who ages something. | [noun] A substance used to accelerate aging or maturation processes. AGES (5) [noun] The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive. | [noun] The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive. | [noun] One of the stages of life. AGHA (8) [noun] A commander or official of high rank in the Ottoman Empire or other Muslim countries. AGIN (5) [adverb] Another time; once more. | [adverb] Over and above a factor of one. | [adverb] Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion. AGIO (5) [noun] The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio. AGLY (8) 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. AGOG (6) [adjective] In eager desire, eager, astir. | [adjective] (chiefly of eyes) Wide open. | [adverb] In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest. AGON (5) [noun] A struggle or contest, especially in ancient Greek drama between the protagonist and antagonist. | [noun] In ancient Greece, a public competition or athletic contest. AGUE (5) [noun] An acute fever. | [noun] An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. | [noun] The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever 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 AHOY (10) [noun] An utterance of this interjection. | [verb] To hail with a cry of "ahoy". | [interjection] Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention. AIDE (5) [noun] An assistant. | [noun] An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp. AIDS (5) [noun] Help; assistance; succor, relief. | [noun] A helper; an assistant. | [noun] Something which helps; a material source of help. AILS (4) [noun] An ailment; trouble; illness. | [verb] To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.) | [verb] To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled. 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 AINS (4) [noun] Plural of ain, a Scottish word for "one." | [noun] Plural of ain, meaning one's own in Scottish English. AIRN (4) [noun] A direction of the Scottish word "airt," meaning direction or quarter. | [noun] A Scottish or dialectal term for a direction or point of the compass. AIRS (4) [noun] The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly: | [noun] (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but now considered to be surrounded by the near vacuum of outer space. | [noun] A breeze; a gentle wind. AIRT (4) [noun] A direction or point of the compass, especially in Scottish usage. | [verb] To guide or direct. AIRY (7) [adjective] Consisting of air. | [adjective] Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial. | [adjective] Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy. AITS (4) [noun] An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. | [noun] An oat. AJAR (11) [verb] To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar. | [adjective] Slightly turned or opened. | [adverb] Slightly turned or opened. | [verb] To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew. AJEE (11) [adverb] Awry or askew; in a wrong or improper manner. AKEE (8) [noun] A tropical evergreen tree, Blighia sapida, related to the lychee and longan. | [noun] The fruit of the tree, of which only the arils are edible, the remainder being poisonous. AKIN (8) [adjective] (of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood. | [adjective] (often followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind. ALAE (4) [noun] Plural of ala, meaning wing-like structures or appendages in anatomy and biology. ALAN (4) ALAR (4) [adjective] Of or relating to the armpit; axillary. | [adjective] Having, resembling, or composed of wings or alae. ALAS (4) [interjection] Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion or grief. | [noun] A type of depression which occurs in Yakutia, formed by the subsidence of permafrost. ALBA (6) [noun] A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn. | [noun] A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba. | [noun] A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba. | [noun] A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs. ALBS (6) [noun] A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments. ALEC (6) [noun] An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried. | [noun] A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce. ALEE (4) [adverb] On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather) ALEF (7) ALES (4) [noun] A beer made without hops. | [noun] A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized. | [noun] A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk. ALFA (7) ALGA (5) [noun] Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic. ALIF (7) ALIT (4) ALKY (11) [noun] An alcoholic. ALLS (4) ALLY (7) [noun] A person, group, or state (etc) which is associated with another for a common cause; one united to another by treaty or common purpose; a confederate. | [noun] A person, group, concept (etc) which is associated with another as a helper; a supporter; an auxiliary. | [noun] Anything akin to something else by structure, etc. | [noun] A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings. ALMA (6) ALME (6) ALMS (6) [noun] Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food. ALOE (4) [noun] (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica. | [noun] A plant of the genus Aloe. | [noun] A strong, bitter drink made from the juice of such plants, used as a purgative. ALOW (7) [adverb] Low down. | [adverb] Towards the lower part of a vessel; towards the lower rigging or the decks. | [preposition] Below. | [adjective] Alight; ablaze ALPS (6) [noun] A very high mountain. Specifically, one of the Alps, the highest chain of mountains in Europe. ALSO (4) [adverb] (focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too. | [adverb] To the same degree or extent; so, as. ALTO (4) [noun] A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody. | [noun] A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part. | [noun] An alto saxophone ALTS (4) [noun] An alternate or secondary character. | [noun] An alternate account. | [noun] An alternative investment or alternative fund. 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 ANAL (4) [noun] Any of the anal scales of a reptile. | [noun] Anal sex. | [adjective] Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. ANAS (4) [noun] Plural of ana, a collection of someone's memorable sayings or literary pieces. | [noun] A genus of dabbling ducks. ANDS (5) [noun] In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | [noun] Breath. | [noun] Sea smoke; steam fog. ANES (4) [noun] Plural of "ane," a hydrocarbon suffix used in chemistry, or plural of "an," a Scottish word for "one." ANEW (7) [adverb] Again, once more; afresh, in a new way, newly. ANGA (5) ANIL (4) [noun] A West Indian shrub from which indigo dye is obtained. | [noun] The indigo dye itself. ANIS (4) [noun] A bird of the genus Crotophaga in the cuckoo family. ANKH (11) [noun] A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the Egyptian triliteral ꜥnḫ and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept. | [noun] Tau cross ANNA (4) [noun] A unit of currency in former British India equal to 12 pies or 1/16 rupee. ANOA (4) [noun] Any of either Bubalus quarlesi or Bubalus depressicornis, being species of small Indonesian water buffalo similar in appearance to a deer. ANON (4) [adverb] Straight away; at once. | [adverb] Soon; in a little while. | [adverb] At another time; then; again. | [noun] An anonymous person, especially an author. ANSA (4) [noun] A loop-shaped anatomical structure, such as a handle-like projection or curved part of an organ. ANTA (4) [noun] A pilaster or pier formed at the corner of a building or at the end of a wall. ANTE (4) [noun] A price or cost, as in up the ante. | [noun] In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards. | [verb] To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up. ANTI (4) [noun] A person opposed to a concept or principle. | [adjective] Opposed to something. | [adjective] That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180° ANTS (4) [noun] Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females. | [noun] A Web spider. | [verb] To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers. ANUS (4) [noun] The lower orifice of the alimentary canal, through which feces and flatus are ejected. APED (7) [verb] To behave like an ape. | [verb] To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly. APER (6) [noun] One who apes or mimics. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of "ape," meaning to imitate or mimic. APES (6) [noun] A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail. | [noun] Any such primate other than a human. | [noun] An uncivilised person. APEX (13) [noun] Conical priest cap | [noun] The highest or the greatest point of something. | [noun] The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc. APOD (7) APSE (6) [noun] A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar. | [noun] The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches. | [noun] A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept. | [noun] An aspen tree. AQUA (13) [noun] The compound water. | [noun] A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green similar to the colour turquoise. | [adjective] Of a greenish-blue colour. ARAK (8) [noun] A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East | [noun] The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica. ARBS (6) [noun] The act of or potential for arbitrage. | [noun] One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur. | [noun] An arboretum. ARCH (9) [noun] An inverted U shape. | [noun] An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward. | [noun] An architectural element having the shape of an arch | [noun] A chief. ARCO (6) [adverb] A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato. ARCS (6) [noun] That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. | [noun] A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. | [noun] A curve, in general. AREA (4) [noun] A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units. | [noun] A particular geographic region. | [noun] Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent. ARES (4) [noun] An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a. ARFS (7) [noun] Plural of arf, which is the sound a dog makes; barks. | [verb] Third person singular of arf, meaning to bark like a dog. ARIA (4) [noun] A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata. ARID (5) [adjective] Very dry. | [adjective] Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually. | [adjective] Devoid of value. ARIL (4) [noun] A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates. ARKS (8) [noun] A large box with a flat lid. | [noun] Noah's Ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge. | [noun] Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge 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. ARSE (4) [noun] The buttocks or more specifically, the anus. | [noun] A stupid, mean or despicable person. | [verb] To be silly, act stupid or mess around. ARTS (4) [noun] The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. | [noun] The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc. | [noun] Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus. ARTY (7) [adjective] Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown. ARUM (6) [noun] A flower or plant in the genus Arum ARVO (7) [noun] Afternoon. ARYL (7) [noun] Any univalent organic radical derived from an aromatic hydrocarbon by removing a hydrogen atom. ASCI (6) [noun] A sac-shaped cell present in ascomycete fungi; it is a reproductive cell in which meiosis and an additional cell division produce eight spores. ASEA (4) [adjective] On the sea; at sea. ASHY (10) [adjective] Having the color of ashes. | [adjective] Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored). ASKS (8) [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). | [verb] To put forward (a question) to be answered. | [verb] To interrogate or enquire of (a person). ASPS (6) [noun] A water snake. | [noun] A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis). | [noun] The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) ATAP (6) [noun] A palm tree native to Southeast Asia, or the leaf thatch made from this tree used for roofing. ATES (4) [verb] Third person singular simple present tense of "ate," meaning to consume food. | [noun] Plural of "ate," the Greek goddess of mischief and ruin. 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. ATOP (6) [adverb] On, to, or at the top. | [preposition] On the top of. | [preposition] On the top, with "of". AUKS (8) [noun] Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. AULD (5) [adjective] Old AUNT (4) [noun] The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The female cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. AURA (4) [noun] Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something. | [noun] An invisible force surrounding a living creature. | [noun] Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache. AUTO (4) [noun] An automobile. | [noun] A setting for automatic operation. | [noun] An automatic gearbox / transmission. | [noun] An autorickshaw. AVER (7) [verb] To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner. | [verb] To prove or justify a plea. | [verb] To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify. | [noun] Possessions, property, belongings, wealth. | [noun] A work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden. AVES (7) [noun] An Ave Maria. | [noun] A reverential salutation. AVID (8) [adjective] Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something AVOS (7) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Macanese pataca. | [noun] The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree. | [noun] The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family. AVOW (10) [noun] Avowal | [verb] To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. | [verb] To bind or devote by a vow. AWAY (10) [verb] To depart; to go to another place. | [adjective] Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation. | [adjective] At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively. AWED (8) [verb] To inspire fear and reverence in. | [verb] To control by inspiring dread. | [adjective] Filled with awe. AWEE (7) AWES (7) [verb] To inspire fear and reverence in. | [verb] To control by inspiring dread. AWLS (7) [noun] A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc. | [noun] Any of various hesperiid butterflies. AWNS (7) [noun] The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. AWNY (10) AWOL (7) [noun] Absence without proper authority from the properly appointed place of duty, or from unit, organization, or other place of duty at which one is required to be at the time prescribed. | [noun] A person who holds AWOL status. | [noun] (generic) Somebody who is absent without permission. AWRY (10) [adjective] Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry. | [adjective] Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss. | [adverb] Obliquely, crookedly; askew. AXAL (11) AXED (12) [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). | [verb] To put forward (a question) to be answered. | [verb] To interrogate or enquire of (a person). AXEL (11) [noun] A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air. AXES (11) [noun] A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it. | [noun] An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle. | [noun] A dismissal or rejection. | [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). | [noun] An imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or is symmetrically arranged (an axis of symmetry). AXIL (11) [noun] The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs. AXIS (11) [noun] An imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or is symmetrically arranged (an axis of symmetry). | [noun] A fixed one-dimensional figure, such as a line or arc, with an origin and orientation and such that its points are in one-to-one correspondence with a set of numbers; an axis forms part of the basis of a space or is used to position and locate data in a graph (a coordinate axis) | [noun] The second cervical vertebra of the spine | [noun] Axis axis, a deer native to Asia. AXLE (11) [noun] Shoulder. | [noun] The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel. | [noun] A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree. AXON (11) [noun] A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse. AYAH (10) [noun] A South Asian female servant, maid or nanny, historically, often one working for Europeans in South Asia. | [noun] A verse in the Quran. AYES (7) [noun] An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative. AYIN (7) [noun] The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. | [noun] An eye or spring of water in desert regions. AZAN (13) [noun] The call to prayer, which originally consisted of simply four takbirs followed by the statement لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱلله (أَشْهَدُ أَنْ). | [noun] A staining technique involving azocarmine and aniline dyes. AZON (13) [noun] A guided aerial bomb used during World War II that was controlled by radio signals. BAAL (6) [noun] A deity worshipped in ancient Phoenician and Hebrew cultures. | [noun] In Scrabble, a valid word referring to a false god or idol. BAAS (6) [noun] An employer, a boss. Frequently as a form of address. | [noun] The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep. | [verb] To make the characteristic cry of a sheep. BABA (8) [noun] A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup. | [noun] (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother. | [noun] An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture. BABE (8) [noun] A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. | [noun] An attractive person, especially a young woman. | [noun] Darling (term of endearment). BABU (8) [noun] (Indian English) A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man | [noun] (Indian English) (Originally) a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official. BABY (11) [noun] A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered. | [noun] Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chickens for the babies of birds. See for more. | [noun] Unborn young; a fetus. BACH (11) [noun] (northern) A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction. | [verb] To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress. (Compare bachelor pad.) BACK (12) [noun] The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly. | [noun] That which is farthest away from the front. | [noun] Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back. | [noun] A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. BADE (7) [verb] To issue a command; to tell. | [verb] To invite; to summon. | [verb] To utter a greeting or salutation. BADS (7) [noun] Plural of bad, used as a noun to refer to bad things or negative aspects. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of the verb "bad," meaning to make worse or to worsen. BAFF (12) [verb] To strike or hit. | [verb] To baffle or perplex. BAGS (7) [noun] A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc. | [noun] A handbag | [noun] A suitcase. | [verb] To reserve for oneself. BAHT (9) [noun] The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang. | [adverb] Without (Yorkshire dialect, famously part of the song title On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at) BAIL (6) [noun] Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial. | [noun] Release from imprisonment on payment of such money. | [noun] The person providing such payment. | [verb] To exit quickly. | [noun] A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket). | [verb] To confine. BAIT (6) [noun] Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net. | [noun] Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests. | [noun] Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something | [verb] To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport. | [verb] To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey. | [adjective] Obvious; blatant. BAKE (10) [noun] The act of cooking food by baking. | [noun] Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole. | [noun] A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served. BALD (7) [noun] A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. | [verb] To become bald. | [adjective] Having no hair, fur or feathers. BALE (6) [noun] Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death. | [noun] Suffering, woe, torment. | [noun] A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire. | [noun] A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation. | [verb] To remove water from a boat with buckets etc. BALK (10) [noun] An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. | [noun] The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation. | [noun] Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks". | [verb] To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring. BALL (6) [noun] A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. | [noun] A round or ellipsoidal object. | [noun] (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle. | [noun] A formal dance. 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. BALS (6) [noun] Plural of bal, a type of traditional Balinese dance or festival. | [noun] Plural of bal, an archaic or dialectal term for balls or dances. 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. BAND (7) [noun] A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling. | [noun] A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area. | [noun] A strip of decoration. | [noun] A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist. | [verb] To tie; to confine by any ligature. BANE (6) [noun] A cause of misery or death. | [noun] Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants. | [noun] A killer, murderer, slayer. | [noun] Bone BANG (7) [noun] A sudden percussive noise. | [noun] A strike upon an object causing such a noise. | [noun] An explosion. | [noun] Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent. BANI (6) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu. BANK (10) [noun] An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs. | [noun] A branch office of such an institution. | [noun] An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque. | [noun] An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse. | [noun] A row or panel of items stored or grouped together. | [noun] A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. BANS (6) [noun] Prohibition. | [noun] A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms. | [noun] The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word. BAPS (8) [noun] A soft bread roll, originally from Scotland. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast. BARB (8) [noun] The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. | [noun] A hurtful or disparaging remark. | [noun] A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. | [noun] The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors. | [noun] A barbiturate. BARD (7) [noun] A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. | [noun] (by extension) A poet. | [noun] A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.) BARE (6) [noun] (‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin. | [noun] Surface; body; substance. | [noun] That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather. | [verb] To uncover; to reveal. | [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. BARF (9) [noun] Vomit | [verb] To vomit. | [verb] Of a system: to fail. BARK (10) [noun] The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals. | [noun] An abrupt loud vocal utterance. | [verb] To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). | [noun] The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree. | [noun] A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge. 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 BARN (6) [noun] A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle. | [noun] A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres. | [noun] An arena. | [noun] A child. BARS (6) [noun] A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. | [noun] A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1/4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip. | [noun] A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. BASE (6) [noun] Something from which other things extend; a foundation. | [noun] The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis. | [noun] A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material. | [adjective] Low in height; short. | [noun] The game of prisoners' bars. | [noun] Acronym of building, antenna-tower, span, earth. BASH (9) [noun] A large party; gala event. | [noun] An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists. | [verb] To strike heavily. | [verb] To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance. BASK (10) [verb] To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat. | [verb] To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in"). BASS (6) [noun] A low spectrum of sound tones. | [noun] A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor. | [noun] One who sings in the bass range. | [noun] The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes. | [noun] The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats. BAST (6) [noun] Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord. BATE (6) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. | [noun] Strife; contention. | [noun] An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning. | [verb] To hit; strike | [verb] To masturbate. BATH (9) [noun] A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub. | [noun] A building or area where bathing occurs. | [noun] The act of bathing. | [noun] A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons). BATS (6) [noun] Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous. | [noun] An old woman. | [noun] A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket. BATT (6) [noun] Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation | [noun] (usually in the plural) A shoe. BAUD (7) [noun] A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second. | [noun] Bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol. BAWD (10) [noun] A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame. | [noun] A lewd person. | [verb] To procure women for lewd purposes. BAWL (9) [noun] A loud, intense shouting or wailing. | [verb] To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. | [verb] To wail; to give out a blaring cry. BAYS (9) [noun] A berry. | [noun] Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries. | [noun] Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb. | [noun] Baize. BEAD (7) [noun] Prayer, later especially with a rosary. | [noun] Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. | [noun] A small, round object. BEAK (10) [noun] Anatomical uses. | [noun] Figurative uses. | [noun] Colloquial uses. 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) BEAN (6) [noun] A reusable software component written in Java. | [noun] Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods. | [noun] The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean or garbanzo bean). BEAR (6) [noun] A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae. | [noun] A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. | [noun] An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. | [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. | [noun] Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley. | [noun] A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow. BEAT (6) [noun] A stroke; a blow. | [noun] A pulsation or throb. | [noun] A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. | [noun] A beatnik. BEAU (6) [noun] A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. | [noun] A male lover; a boyfriend. | [noun] A male escort. 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. BETA (6) [noun] The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase. | [noun] Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc. | [noun] Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices. BIAS (6) [noun] Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection. | [noun] The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric. | [noun] A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference. BIMA (8) [noun] The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium. BLAB (8) [noun] One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper. | [noun] Gossip; prattle. | [verb] To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion. BLAE (6) [noun] A dark blue or blue-black color, particularly used in Scottish dialect to describe the color of blackberries or bilberries. BLAH (9) [noun] Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk. | [noun] (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc. | [verb] To utter idle, meaningless talk. 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 BLAT (6) [verb] To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat. | [verb] To make a senseless noise. | [verb] To talk inconsiderately. | [noun] Connections; relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society). BLAW (9) BOAR (6) [noun] A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. | [noun] A male pig. | [noun] A male boar (sense 1). BOAS (6) [noun] Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico, and the chevalier boa of Peru. | [noun] (plural "boas") A type of scarf typically made from feathers. BOAT (6) [noun] A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind. | [noun] A full house. | [noun] A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape. BOLA (6) [noun] A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord. BORA (6) [noun] A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales. | [noun] A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world. BOTA (6) [noun] A leather bottle or bag, typically made from a goatskin, used for storing and carrying liquids such as wine or water. BRAD (7) [noun] A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin. | [noun] (elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet. | [verb] To attach using a brad. BRAE (6) [noun] The sloping bank of a river valley. | [noun] Any hillside or slope. BRAG (7) [noun] A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification. | [noun] The thing which is boasted of. | [noun] (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag. BRAN (6) [noun] The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain. | [noun] The European carrion crow. BRAS (6) [noun] One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket. | [noun] Friend | [noun] Female version of bro BRAT (6) [noun] A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish. | [noun] A son or daughter (at any age) of an active military service member. | [noun] A turbot or flatfish | [noun] Bratwurst | [noun] A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime. | [noun] Acronym of Born, Raised, And Transferred. BRAW (9) [adjective] Fine or good; excellent (Scottish English). BRAY (9) [noun] The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel. | [noun] (by extension) Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound. | [verb] Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry. | [verb] To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar. BURA (6) [noun] A violent cold northeasterly wind that blows across Central Asia and southeastern Europe. CABS (8) [noun] Initialism of chest compressions, airway and breathing. | [noun] Initialism of caffeinated alcoholic beverage. | [noun] A taxi; a taxicab. CACA (8) [noun] Excrement CADE (7) [noun] A young animal (especially a lamb or calf) abandoned by its mother and raised by hand. | [noun] A barrel or cask, especially a small one. CADI (7) [noun] A civil judge in certain Islamic countries. CADS (7) [noun] A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow. | [noun] A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards. CAFE (9) [noun] A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items. | [noun] A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises. | [noun] A small restaurant of any genre. CAFF (12) [noun] Café, cafeteria. CAGE (7) [noun] An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals. | [noun] The passenger compartment of a lift. | [noun] (water polo) The goal. CAGY (10) [adjective] Wary, careful, shrewd. | [adjective] Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information. CAID (7) [noun] A Muslim judge or leader in North Africa and the Middle East. CAIN (6) CAKE (10) [noun] A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. | [noun] A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough. | [noun] A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake. | [verb] To cackle like a goose. CAKY (13) [adjective] Resembling or containing cake; having the texture or consistency of cake. | [adjective] Covered with or caked with a substance; encrusted. CALF (9) [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). | [noun] The back of the leg below the knee. CALK (10) [noun] A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent it slipping. | [noun] A spike on the sole of a boot to prevent slipping, particularly used in logging | [verb] To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice. CALL (6) [noun] A telephone conversation. | [noun] A short visit, usually for social purposes. | [noun] A visit by a ship or boat to a port. 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. CALO (6) CALX (13) [noun] The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation). | [noun] In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot. 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. CANE (6) [noun] A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof | [noun] The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool | [noun] A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane CANS (6) [noun] A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top. | [noun] A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can). | [noun] A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish. CANT (6) [noun] An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup. | [noun] A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group. | [noun] A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta. | [noun] Side, edge, corner, niche. | [noun] A parcel, a division. | [adjective] Lively, lusty. CAPE (8) [noun] A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland. | [noun] A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders. | [noun] A superhero. | [verb] To look for, search after. CAPH (11) [noun] The palm of the hand. | [noun] A Hebrew letter. CAPO (8) [noun] A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings. | [noun] A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime. | [noun] A leader and organizer of supporters at a sporting event, particularly association football matches. CAPS (8) [noun] A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked. | [noun] A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc. | [noun] An academic mortarboard. CARB (8) [noun] Clipping of carburettor / carburetor. | [noun] (nutrition) A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant. | [noun] (by extension, metonym) Any food rich in starch or other carbohydrates. CARD (7) [noun] A playing card. | [noun] (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game. | [noun] A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose. | [noun] Material with embedded short wire bristles. | [noun] One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.) CARE (6) [noun] Grief, sorrow. | [noun] Close attention; concern; responsibility. | [noun] Worry. | [verb] To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about). CARK (10) [noun] A noxious or corroding worry. | [noun] The state of being filled with worry. | [verb] To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles. | [verb] To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight. | [verb] See cark it. CARL (6) [noun] A rude, rustic man; a churl. | [noun] A stingy person; a niggard. | [verb] To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly. CARN (6) [noun] A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. | [noun] A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. | [noun] A cairn terrier. | [interjection] Come on. CARP (8) [noun] Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. | [verb] To complain about a fault; to harp on. | [verb] To say; to tell. CARR (6) [noun] A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland. | [noun] A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland. | [noun] A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation. CARS (6) [noun] A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation. | [noun] A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot. | [noun] An unpowered unit in a railroad train. CART (6) [noun] A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers. | [noun] A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart. | [noun] A shopping cart. | [noun] A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements. CASA (6) [noun] House CASE (6) [noun] An actual event, situation, or fact. | [noun] A given condition or state. | [noun] A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession. | [noun] A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture. CASH (9) [noun] Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions. | [noun] Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged. | [noun] Money. | [noun] Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin. | [verb] To disband. To do away with, kill CASK (10) [noun] A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. | [noun] A casket; a small box for jewels. | [verb] To put into a cask. CAST (6) [noun] An act of throwing. | [noun] An instance of throwing out a fishing line. | [noun] Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc. CATE (6) [noun] (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food. CATS (6) [noun] An animal of the family Felidae: | [noun] A person: | [noun] A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship. CAUL (6) [noun] A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen. | [noun] (often capitalized, used on maps) An entry to a mill lead taken from a burn or stream (a mill lead (or mill waterway) is generally smaller than a canal but moves a large volume of water). | [noun] A membrane. CAVE (9) [noun] A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside. | [noun] A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made. | [noun] A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese. | [interjection] (public school slang) look out!; beware! CAVY (12) [noun] A tailless rodent of the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia, with short ears and larger than a hamster; the species Cavia porcellus is often kept as a pet. | [noun] A rodent of any of several species within the family Caviidae. | [noun] A living experimental subject. CAWS (9) [noun] The harsh cry of a crow. | [verb] To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven. CAYS (9) [noun] A small, low island largely made of sand or coral. CECA (8) [noun] A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon. CHAD (10) [noun] Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc. | [noun] One of these pieces of paper. | [noun] (pickup community) A very handsome, usually tall, man whom women find sexually attractive; at times seen as an alpha male of a group. 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. CHAO (9) [noun] A farewell greeting; goodbye (Italian origin, used in English). CHAP (11) [noun] (obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow. | [noun] A customer, a buyer. | [noun] A child. | [noun] A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin. | [noun] (often in the plural) The jaw. | [noun] (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided. CHAR (9) [noun] A charred substance. | [verb] To burn something to charcoal. | [verb] To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour. | [noun] A charred substance. | [noun] A time; a turn or occasion. | [noun] A character (text element such as a letter or symbol). | [noun] Tea, sometimes specifically masala chai CHAT (9) [noun] Informal conversation. | [noun] A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations. | [noun] (totum pro parte, typically with definite article) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a single member thereof. | [noun] A small potato, such as is given to swine. | [noun] (local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines. | [noun] A louse (small, parasitic insect). | [noun] Any savory snack, sold from a roadside stall in India, or served as a starter in an Indian restaurant CHAW (12) [noun] Chewing tobacco. | [noun] A plug or wad of chewing tobacco. | [noun] The jaw. CHAY (12) [noun] Tea, especially as served in India. | [noun] A type of tea made with spices and milk. CHIA (9) [noun] A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica. | [noun] Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico. CIAO (6) [noun] A greeting or farewell using the word "ciao". | [interjection] Hello, hi. | [interjection] Bye, goodbye. CLAD (7) [verb] (past tense clad) To clothe. | [verb] (past tense clad or cladded) To cover (with insulation or another material); to surround, envelop. | [verb] (figuratively) To imbue (with a specified quality) CLAG (7) [noun] A glue or paste made from starch. | [noun] Low cloud, fog or smog. | [noun] Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit. 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. CLAN (6) [noun] A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief. | [noun] A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain | [noun] Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity. CLAP (8) [noun] The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together. | [noun] The explosive sound of thunder. | [noun] Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound. | [noun] (with "the") Gonorrhea. CLAW (9) [noun] A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird. | [noun] A foot equipped with such. | [noun] The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod. | [verb] To scratch or to tear at. CLAY (9) [noun] A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics. | [noun] An earth material with ductile qualities. | [noun] A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate. COAL (6) [noun] A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel. | [noun] A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English) | [noun] A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof. COAT (6) [noun] An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp | [noun] A covering of material, such as paint.Wp | [noun] The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.Wp COAX (13) [noun] A simpleton; a dupe. | [verb] To fondle, kid, pet, tease. | [verb] To wheedle, persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something. | [noun] Short for coaxial cable. COCA (8) [noun] Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America. | [noun] The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine. | [noun] A pastry typically made and consumed in the Spanish Mediterranean coast. CODA (7) [noun] A person born hearing to deaf parents. | [noun] A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation. | [noun] The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants. COLA (6) [noun] The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts. | [noun] A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water. | [noun] The punctuation mark ":". | [noun] A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant. 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. COXA (13) [noun] The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example). CRAB (8) [noun] A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace. | [noun] The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat | [noun] A bad-tempered person. | [noun] The crab apple or wild apple. | [noun] The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America. | [noun] Short for carabiner. CRAG (7) [noun] A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep rock or cliff. | [noun] A rough broken fragment of rock. | [noun] A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age. | [noun] The neck or throat. 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. CRAP (8) [noun] The husk of grain; chaff. | [noun] (mildly) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk. | [noun] (mildly) Nonsense; something untrue. | [noun] A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps. CRAW (9) [noun] The stomach of an animal. | [noun] The crop of a bird. | [verb] To caw, crow. CYAN (9) [noun] A vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light. | [adjective] Of the colour cyan. 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. CZAR (15) [noun] An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area. | [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. DABS (7) [noun] A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow. | [noun] A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval. | [noun] A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance. DACE (7) [noun] The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common in fast-flowing rivers in England and Wales and in Europe. | [noun] Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America. DADA (6) [noun] Father, dad. | [noun] (Southeast Asia) Illegal drugs. | [noun] A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art. DADO (6) [noun] The section of a pedestal above the base. | [noun] The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion. | [noun] The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain. DADS (6) [noun] A father, a male parent. | [noun] (familiar) Used to address one's father | [noun] Used to address an older adult male DAFF (11) [noun] A fool; an idiot; a blockhead. | [verb] To be foolish; make sport; play; toy. | [verb] To daunt. | [verb] To toss (aside); to dismiss. | [noun] A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales. | [noun] A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East. DAFT (8) [adjective] Foolish, silly, stupid. | [adjective] Crazy, insane, mad. | [adjective] Gentle, meek, mild. DAGO (6) [noun] A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or other Mediterranean descent. | [noun] A person of Italian descent. DAGS (6) [noun] A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. | [noun] A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. | [verb] To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. DAHL (8) [noun] An Indian dish of spiced lentils or split peas, often served with rice or bread. DAHS (8) [noun] The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code. | [noun] (Burma) A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard. DAIS (5) [noun] A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. | [noun] A bench, a settle, a pew. | [noun] An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table. DAKS (9) [noun] A post system by means of transport relays of horses stationed at intervals along a route or network, carrying mail and passengers. DALE (5) [noun] A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area. | [noun] A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. DALS (5) [noun] Plural of dal, an Indian lentil dish or the lentils used to make it. 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. DANG (6) [noun] A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration. | [verb] Damn. | [adjective] Damn. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To dash. DANK (9) [noun] Moisture; humidity; water. | [adjective] Dark, damp and humid. | [adjective] (of marijuana) Highly potent. | [verb] To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc. | [noun] A small silver coin formerly used in Persia. DAPS (7) [noun] Elaborate handshake, especially hooking thumbs. | [noun] A fistbump. | [verb] To greet with a dap. DARB (7) DARE (5) [noun] A challenge to prove courage. | [noun] The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. | [noun] Defiance; challenge. | [verb] To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified. | [noun] A small fish, the dace. DARK (9) [adjective] Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light. | [adjective] (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light. | [adjective] Hidden, secret, obscure. | [noun] A complete or (more often) partial absence of light. | [verb] To grow or become dark, darken. DARN (5) [verb] Euphemism of damn. | [adjective] Damn. | [adverb] (degree) Damned. | [noun] A place mended by darning. DART (5) [noun] A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin | [noun] Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon. | [verb] To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch. DASH (8) [noun] Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar). | [noun] (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code. | [noun] A short run, flight. DATA (5) [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. DATE (5) [noun] The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel. | [noun] The date palm. | [noun] The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made. DATO (5) [noun] A chief or leader in the Philippines or Malaysia. | [noun] A Filipino or Malaysian title of respect for a man of rank. DAUB (7) [noun] Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. | [noun] A soft coating of mud, plaster etc. | [noun] A crude or amateurish painting. DAUT (5) [verb] To fondle or caress. | [verb] To pet or stroke an animal. DAVY (11) [noun] A safety lamp used by miners, named after its inventor Sir Humphry Davy. DAWK (12) DAWN (8) [noun] The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise. | [noun] The rising of the sun. | [noun] The time when the sun rises. DAWS (8) [noun] A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw. | [noun] An idiot, a simpleton; fool. DAWT (8) DAYS (8) [noun] Any period of 24 hours. | [noun] A period from midnight to the following midnight. | [noun] Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth). | [adverb] During the day. DAZE (14) [noun] The state of being dazed | [noun] A glittering stone. | [verb] To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear DEAD (6) [noun] (with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died. | [noun] (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense. | [noun] (usually plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings. DEAF (8) [noun] A deaf person. | [noun] (with "the") Those who are deaf, taken as a group. | [verb] To deafen. DEAL (5) [noun] A division, a portion, a share. | [noun] (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good). | [noun] An act of dealing or sharing out. | [noun] Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir). DEAN (5) [noun] A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students). | [noun] A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons. | [noun] The senior member of some group of people. | [noun] (chiefly in place names) A hill. DEAR (5) [noun] A very kind, loving person. | [noun] A beloved person. | [noun] An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife. | [adjective] Severe, or severely affected; sore. DEVA (8) [noun] A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism. DHAK (12) DHAL (8) [noun] Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils. | [noun] A dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc. | [noun] A tropical herb with yellow flowers; the pigeon pea. DIAL (5) [noun] A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed). | [noun] A clock face. | [noun] A sundial. DITA (5) DIVA (8) [noun] Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress. | [noun] A person who may be considered or who considers herself (or by extension himself) much more important than others, has high expectations of others and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges. DOAT (5) DONA (5) DOPA (7) [noun] The amino acid dihydroxyphenylalanine that is generated in the liver from tyrosine and then converted into dopamine in the brain. DRAB (7) DRAG (6) [noun] Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it. | [noun] (foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold. | [noun] A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing. | [noun] Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment. 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. DRAT (5) [verb] To damn or curse. | [interjection] Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration. DRAW (8) [noun] The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie. | [noun] The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined. | [noun] Something that attracts e.g. a crowd. DRAY (8) [noun] A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads. | [noun] A kind of sledge or sled. | [noun] A squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree. DUAD (6) [noun] A pair or couple. | [noun] Dwadasama. | [noun] An unordered pair. DUAL (5) [noun] Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair. | [noun] Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces. | [noun] (grammar) dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything (a couple of, exactly two of), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number. 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. DURA (5) [noun] The dura mater, the outer covering of the brain and spinal cord. | [noun] A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor). DYAD (9) [noun] A set of two elements treated as one; a pair. | [noun] Any set of two different pitch classes. | [noun] A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation. EACH (9) [noun] (operations) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping. | [adverb] For one; apiece; per. | [pronoun] Every one; every thing. EARL (4) [noun] (nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts. EARN (4) [verb] To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To curdle, as milk. | [verb] To long; to yearn. | [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) EARS (4) [noun] The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. | [noun] The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle. | [noun] A police informant. EASE (4) [noun] Ability, the means to do something, particularly: | [noun] Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness, particularly: | [noun] Relief, an end to discomfort, particularly: EAST (4) [noun] One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox. Abbreviated as E. | [adjective] Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward. | [adjective] Wind from the east EASY (7) [noun] Something that is easy | [adjective] Comfortable; at ease. | [adjective] Requiring little skill or effort. EATH (7) EATS (4) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. EAUX (11) EAVE (7) [noun] Eaves: the underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building. EGAD (6) [interjection] A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc. EGAL (5) ELAN (4) [noun] Ardor or zeal inspired by passion or enthusiasm. EPHA (9) ERAS (4) [noun] A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year. | [noun] A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods. ETAS (4) [noun] The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek. | [noun] A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin. | [noun] A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people. ETNA (4) 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. EYAS (7) [noun] A young hawk or falcon in the nest, or that has not yet fledged, especially one that will be trained for falconry. EYRA (7) [noun] A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. FACE (9) [noun] The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose and mouth, and the surrounding area. | [noun] One's facial expression. | [noun] (in expressions such as 'make a face') A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc. FACT (9) [noun] Something actual as opposed to invented. | [noun] Something which is real. | [noun] Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation. FADE (8) [noun] A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw. | [noun] A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade. | [noun] A fight. | [adjective] Strong; bold; doughty. FADO (8) [noun] A Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in nature; the structure of the song is of greater importance. FADS (8) [noun] A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time. FAGS (8) [noun] In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric. | [noun] (dated in US and Canada) A cigarette. | [noun] The worst part or end of a thing. FAIL (7) [noun] Poor quality; substandard workmanship. | [noun] A failure (condition of being unsuccessful) | [noun] A failure (something incapable of success) | [noun] A piece of turf cut from grassland. FAIN (7) [adjective] Well-pleased, glad. | [adjective] Satisfied, contented. | [adjective] Eager, willing or inclined to. | [adverb] With joy; gladly. | [verb] To be delighted or glad; to rejoice. FAIR (7) [noun] Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective). | [noun] A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women. | [noun] Fairness, beauty. | [noun] A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements. FAKE (11) [noun] Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently. | [noun] A trick; a swindle. | [noun] A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent. | [noun] One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil. FALL (7) [noun] The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity. | [noun] A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc. | [noun] The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. | [noun] The chasing of a hunted whale. FALX (14) 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. FANE (7) [noun] A weathercock, a weather vane. | [noun] A banner, especially a military banner. | [noun] A temple or sacred place. FANG (8) [noun] A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh | [noun] (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom | [verb] To strike or attack with the fangs. | [verb] To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of. | [noun] A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold. FANO (7) FANS (7) [noun] A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself. | [noun] An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc. | [noun] The action of fanning; agitation of the air. FARD (8) [noun] Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint. | [verb] To paint, as the cheeks or face. | [verb] To embellish or gloss over. | [noun] Force of movement, impetus, rush; hence, a violent onset. | [noun] A commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfil; a religious duty or obligation. FARE (7) [noun] A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage. | [noun] Money paid for a transport ticket. | [noun] A paying passenger, especially in a taxi. | [verb] To go, travel. FARL (7) [noun] A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake. | [noun] Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls. | [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) 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 FARO (7) [noun] A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack. FART (7) [noun] An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. | [noun] (impolite) An irritating person; a fool. | [noun] (impolite, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views. FASH (10) [noun] A worry; trouble; bother. | [verb] To worry; to bother, annoy. | [verb] To trouble oneself; to take pains. | [noun] A fascist, a member of the far-right. FAST (7) [noun] A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations | [adjective] Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable. | [adjective] Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. | [noun] The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food. FATE (7) [noun] The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. | [noun] The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. | [noun] An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time. FATS (7) [noun] A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy. | [noun] A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat. | [noun] That part of an organization deemed wasteful. FAUN (7) [noun] A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis. FAUX (14) [adjective] Fake or artificial FAVA (10) [noun] A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself. FAVE (10) [noun] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) | [verb] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) | [adjective] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK). FAWN (10) [noun] A young deer. | [noun] A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn. | [noun] The young of an animal; a whelp. | [noun] A servile cringe or bow. FAYS (10) [noun] A fairy. | [noun] A white person. FAZE (16) [verb] To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. FEAL (7) FEAR (7) [noun] A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. | [noun] A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. | [noun] Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. | [adjective] Able; capable; stout; strong; sound. FEAT (7) [noun] A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment. | [verb] To form; to fashion. | [adjective] Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty. | [verb] To feature. I FETA (7) [noun] A variety of curd cheese made from sheep’s or goat’s milk and originating from Greece. FIAR (7) FIAT (7) [noun] An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree. | [noun] Authorization, permission or (official) sanction. | [noun] (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes. FILA (7) FLAB (9) [noun] Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat. FLAG (8) [noun] A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol. | [noun] An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites). | [noun] A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship. | [verb] To weaken, become feeble. | [noun] Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus. | [noun] A slice of turf; a sod. | [noun] A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc. FLAK (11) [noun] Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells. | [noun] Anti-aircraft shell fire. | [noun] Adverse criticism. 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. FLAN (7) [noun] Baked tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case. (Compare quiche.) | [noun] (Belize) A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries. | [noun] A coin die. (Compare planchet.) | [noun] A fan of the U.S. TV series Firefly. FLAP (9) FLAT (7) [noun] An area of level ground. | [noun] A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪). | [noun] A flat tyre/tire. | [noun] An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room. | [verb] To beat or strike; pound FLAW (10) [noun] A flake, fragment, or shiver. | [noun] A thin cake, as of ice. | [noun] A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion. | [noun] A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw. FLAX (14) [noun] A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds. | [noun] The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles. | [noun] The flax bush, a plant of the genus Phormium, native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps. FLAY (10) [noun] A fright; a scare. | [noun] Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual. | [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). | [verb] To strip skin off FLEA (7) [noun] A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities. | [noun] A thing of no significance. | [verb] To remove fleas from (an animal). | [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). FOAL (7) [noun] A young horse or related animal, especially just after birth or less than a year old. | [noun] A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub. | [verb] To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring. 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. FORA (7) [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. FRAE (7) FRAG (8) [noun] A fragmentation grenade. | [noun] A successful kill in a deathmatch game. | [verb] To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade. FRAP (9) [verb] To draw together tightly; to secure by many turns of a lashing. | [verb] To strike. | [noun] An iced cappuccino. FRAT (7) [noun] Shortened form for fraternity, college organization. (Often used as a noun modifier.) FRAY (10) [verb] To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope. | [verb] To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength). | [verb] Frighten; alarm | [noun] A fight or argument GABS (7) [noun] Idle chatter. | [noun] The mouth or gob. | [noun] One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines. GABY (10) GADI (6) GADS (6) [noun] One who roams about idly; a gadabout. | [verb] To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. | [noun] A greedy and/or stupid person. GAED (6) GAEN (5) GAES (5) GAFF (11) [noun] A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat. | [noun] A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe. | [noun] A trick or con. | [noun] Rough or harsh treatment; criticism. | [noun] (especially Manchester and Cockney) A place of residence. GAGA (6) [adjective] Mentally senile. | [adjective] Crazy. | [adjective] Infatuated. | [noun] A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon. GAGE (6) [noun] Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). | [noun] Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom. | [verb] To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn. | [noun] A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard | [noun] A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica. | [noun] A quart pot. GAGS (6) [noun] A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap. | [noun] An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject. | [noun] A joke or other mischievous prank. GAIN (5) [noun] The act of gaining; acquisition. | [noun] What is gained. | [noun] The factor by which a signal is multiplied. | [preposition] Against. | [adjective] Straight, direct; near; short. | [noun] A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam. GAIT (5) [noun] Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. | [noun] One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training. | [verb] To teach a specific gait to a horse. | [noun] A sheaf of corn. GALA (5) [noun] Pomp, show, or festivity. | [noun] A showy and festive party. | [adjective] Celebratory; festive. | [noun] A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. GALE (5) [verb] To sing; charm; enchant. | [verb] To cry; groan; croak. | [verb] (of a person) To talk. | [noun] A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale. | [noun] A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens. | [noun] A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity. GALL (5) [noun] Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver. | [noun] The gall bladder. | [noun] Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances. | [noun] A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii. GALS (5) [noun] A young woman. | [noun] A galileo (a unit of acceleration). | [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints 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 GANE (5) GANG (6) [verb] To go; walk; proceed. | [noun] A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose. | [noun] A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad. | [verb] (obsolete outside Northumbria) To go. | [verb] To participate in a gangbang. | [noun] The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore. GAOL (5) [noun] A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. | [noun] Confinement in a jail. | [noun] The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). GAPE (7) [noun] An act of gaping; a yawn. | [noun] A large opening. | [noun] A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping. GAPS (7) [noun] An opening in anything made by breaking or parting. | [noun] An opening allowing passage or entrance. | [noun] An opening that implies a breach or defect. GAPY (10) GARB (7) [noun] Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. | [noun] A type of dress or clothing. | [noun] A guise, external appearance. | [noun] A wheat sheaf. GARS (5) [noun] A spear. | [noun] Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws. | [noun] A garfish, Belone belone. GASH (8) [noun] A deep cut. | [noun] A vulva. | [noun] A woman | [adjective] Ghastly; hideous GASP (7) [noun] A short, sudden intake of breath. | [noun] : A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper). | [verb] To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock. GAST (5) GATE (5) [noun] A doorlike structure outside a house. | [noun] Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. | [noun] Movable barrier. | [noun] A way, path. GATS (5) [noun] (in old westerns) A Gatling gun. | [noun] (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol. | [verb] To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm. GAUD (6) [noun] A cheap showy trinket | [noun] Trick; jest; sport | [noun] Deceit; fraud; artifice | [verb] To sport or keep festival. GAUM (7) GAUN (5) GAUR (5) [noun] An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition. GAVE (8) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GAWK (12) [noun] A cuckoo. | [noun] A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person. | [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. GAWP (10) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. GAYS (8) [noun] (chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian. | [noun] Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower. | [noun] An ornament, a knick-knack. GAZE (14) [noun] A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. | [noun] The object gazed on. | [noun] In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed. GEAR (5) [noun] Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. | [noun] Clothing; garments. | [noun] Goods; property; household items. GETA (5) GHAT (8) [noun] A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place. | [noun] A mountain range. | [noun] A mountain pass. GIGA (6) GLAD (6) [verb] To make glad | [adjective] Pleased, happy, gratified. | [adjective] Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness. GLIA (5) [noun] The network of glial cells that supports nervous system tissue. GNAR (5) GNAT (5) [noun] Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera. GNAW (8) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GOAD (6) [noun] A long, pointed stick used to prod animals. | [noun] That which goads or incites; a stimulus. | [verb] To prod with a goad. GOAL (5) [noun] A result that one is attempting to achieve. | [noun] In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object. | [noun] The act of placing the object into the goal. GOAS (5) GOAT (5) [noun] A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra. | [noun] A lecherous man. | [noun] A scapegoat. GRAB (7) [noun] A sudden snatch at something. | [noun] An acquisition by violent or unjust means. | [noun] A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. | [noun] A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast. GRAD (6) [noun] A unit of angle equal to 0.9 degrees, so that there are 100 gradians in a right angle. | [noun] A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. | [noun] A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school. | [noun] A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this. 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. GRAN (5) [noun] (usually affectionate) a grandmother | [noun] A grandfather GRAT (5) GRAY (8) [noun] An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. | [noun] An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. | [noun] An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head. | [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy GUAN (5) [noun] Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas. GUAR (5) [noun] An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans. HAAF (10) [noun] The open sea, especially as a place to fish | [noun] The practice of sea fishing for such as cod, ling and tusk HAAR (7) [noun] Coastal fog along the coast of North East England and Scotland bordering the North Sea. HABU (9) HACK (13) [noun] A tool for chopping. | [noun] A hacking blow. | [noun] A gouge or notch made by such a blow. | [noun] A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained. | [noun] A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired. | [noun] A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack. HADE (8) [noun] State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality. | [noun] A slope; the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip. | [verb] To slope or incline from the vertical. | [noun] A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned. HADJ (15) [noun] The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam. HAED (8) 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. HAEN (7) HAES (7) HAET (7) HAFT (10) [noun] The handle of a tool or weapon. | [verb] To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle | [noun] A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted. HAGS (8) [noun] A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard. | [noun] An ugly old woman. | [noun] A fury; a she-monster. HAHA (10) [interjection] An onomatopoeic representation of laughter. | [noun] Type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. HAHS (10) HAIK (11) [noun] A covering for the head and body worn by Arabs. HAIL (7) [noun] Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm. | [verb] Of hail, to fall from the sky. | [verb] To send or release hail. | [verb] To greet; give salutation to; salute. HAIR (7) [noun] A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals. | [noun] The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body. | [noun] A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. HAJI (14) [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HAJJ (21) [noun] The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam. HAKE (11) [noun] A hook; a pot-hook. | [noun] A kind of weapon; a pike. | [noun] (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough. | [noun] One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies. | [noun] A drying shed, as for unburned tile. | [verb] To loiter; to sneak. HALE (7) [noun] Health, welfare. | [adjective] Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired. | [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HALF (10) [noun] One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided. | [noun] Half of a standard measure; frequently used for half a pint of beer or cider. | [noun] (preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2. HALL (7) [noun] A corridor; a hallway. | [noun] A meeting room. | [noun] A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion). HALM (9) HALO (7) [noun] A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere. | [noun] A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies. | [noun] Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs. HALT (7) [verb] To limp; move with a limping gait. | [verb] To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. | [verb] To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. | [noun] A cessation, either temporary or permanent. | [noun] Lameness; a limp. 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. HAND (8) [noun] The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals. | [noun] That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand. | [noun] In linear measurement: HANG (8) [noun] The way in which something hangs. | [noun] A grip, understanding. | [noun] An instance of ceasing to respond to input. | [noun] Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches. | [noun] Name and trademark of a musical instrument invented and built by PANArt Hangbau AG. HANK (11) [noun] A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope. | [noun] A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down. | [noun] Doubt, difficulty. HANT (7) HAPS (9) [noun] (in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on. | [noun] That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck. | [verb] To happen; to befall; to chance. HARD (8) [noun] A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water. | [noun] A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums. | [noun] Crack cocaine. HARE (7) [noun] Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears. | [noun] The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed. | [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. | [adjective] Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people). HARK (11) [noun] (Scots) A whisper | [verb] To listen attentively; often used in the imperative. HARL (7) HARM (9) [noun] Physical injury; hurt; damage | [noun] Emotional or figurative hurt | [noun] Detriment; misfortune. HARP (9) [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body | [noun] A harmonica. | [noun] A grain sieve. HART (7) [noun] A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year. | [noun] A red deer or one of related species. | [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. HASH (10) [noun] Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. | [noun] A confused mess. | [noun] The # symbol (octothorpe, pound). | [noun] Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant. HASP (9) [noun] A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door. | [noun] A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on. | [noun] An instrument for cutting the surface of grassland; a scarifier. HAST (7) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HATE (7) [noun] An object of hatred. | [noun] Hatred. | [noun] Negative feedback, abusive behaviour. HATH (10) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HATS (7) [noun] A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration. | [noun] A particular role or capacity that a person might fill. | [noun] Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery. HAUL (7) [noun] An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug. | [noun] The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long. | [noun] An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip. HAUT (7) HAVE (10) [noun] A wealthy or privileged person. | [noun] One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | [verb] To possess, own. | [noun] A fraud or deception; something misleading. HAWK (14) [noun] A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle. | [noun] Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon | [noun] An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions. | [noun] A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard. | [verb] To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle. | [noun] A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat. HAWS (10) [verb] To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation. | [noun] Fruit of the hawthorn. | [noun] A hedge. HAYS (10) [noun] Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder. | [noun] Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder. | [noun] Cannabis; marijuana. HAZE (16) [noun] Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. | [noun] A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid. | [noun] An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent. | [verb] To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit. HAZY (19) [adjective] Thick or obscured with haze. | [adjective] Not clear or transparent. | [adjective] Obscure; confused; not clear. HEAD (8) [noun] The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. | [noun] The topmost, foremost, or leading part. | [noun] (social, metonymy) A leader or expert. | [adjective] Foremost in rank or importance. HEAL (7) [noun] A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment. | [noun] Health | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. HEAP (9) [noun] A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people. | [noun] A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation. | [noun] A great number or large quantity of things. HEAR (7) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEAT (7) [noun] Thermal energy. | [noun] The condition or quality of being hot. | [noun] An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. | [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). HILA (7) [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. HOAR (7) [noun] A white or greyish-white colour. | [noun] Hoariness; antiquity. | [verb] To become mouldy or musty. HOAX (14) [noun] Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick. | [verb] To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. HORA (7) [noun] A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide. | [noun] A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods. HOYA (10) [noun] Any plant of the genus Hoya HULA (7) [noun] A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. | [verb] To dance the hula. HWAN (10) HYLA (10) [noun] A tree frog of the genus Hyla. | [noun] Matter | [noun] The first matter of the cosmos, from which the four elements arose, according to the doctrines of Empedocles and Aristotle. IAMB (8) [noun] A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. IDEA (5) [noun] An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples. | [noun] The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal. | [noun] The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic. IKAT (8) [noun] A style of weaving that uses a process similar to tie-dye to dye the threads. | [noun] A work woven in this style. ILEA (4) [noun] The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine. ILIA (4) [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. ILKA (8) IMAM (8) [noun] (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader. | [noun] One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque. INIA (4) IOTA (4) [noun] The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. | [noun] A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity. ISBA (6) IXIA (11) [noun] Any of the genus Ixia of cormous plants native to South Africa. IZAR (13) JABS (13) [noun] A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion. | [noun] A short straight punch. | [noun] A medical injection. JACK (17) [noun] A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather. | [noun] A man. | [noun] A device or utensil. | [noun] The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself. | [noun] A home run. JADE (12) [noun] A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines. | [noun] A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones. | [noun] A succulent plant, Crassula ovata. | [noun] A horse too old to be put to work. JAGG (13) JAGS (12) [noun] A sharp projection. | [noun] A part broken off; a fragment. | [noun] A cleft or division. JAIL (11) [noun] A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. | [noun] Confinement in a jail. | [noun] The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). JAKE (15) [noun] A juvenile male turkey. | [noun] Police, a federal government officer. | [noun] A police officer (on foot, rather than in a patrol car) 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. JANE (11) [noun] A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century. | [noun] A woman, often specifically a girlfriend. | [noun] A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century. JAPE (13) [noun] A joke or quip. | [noun] A prank or trick. | [verb] To jest; play tricks. JARL (11) [noun] A medieval Scandinavian nobleman, especially in Norway and Denmark. JARS (11) [noun] An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial. | [noun] A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes. | [noun] A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful. JATO (11) [noun] An auxiliary jet engine in a detachable unit that provides extra power for the takeoff of an aircraft | [noun] A takeoff assisted by such a unit | [noun] A RATO unit or RATO takeoff - a rocket assisted take-off JAUK (15) JAUP (13) JAVA (14) [noun] A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java. | [noun] Coffee in general. | [noun] A dance popular in France in the early 20th century. JAWS (14) [noun] One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth. | [noun] The part of the face below the mouth. | [noun] Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance. JAYS (14) [noun] Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely coloured, usually having a crest, and often noisy. | [noun] Other birds of similar appearance and behaviour. | [noun] Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium. JAZZ (29) [noun] A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation. | [noun] Energy, excitement, excitability. | [noun] The substance or makeup of a thing. JEAN (11) [noun] Denim. JIAO (11) [noun] A currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan. JOTA (11) [noun] A traditional popular dance of the Iberian peninsula with regional variations. | [noun] The music to which this dance is set, normally of 3/4 or 6/8 time. JUBA (13) [noun] The mane of an animal. | [noun] A loose panicle whose axis falls to pieces, as in certain grasses. | [noun] An American dance of West African origin that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks. JUGA (12) [noun] One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants. | [noun] A pair of opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant. JURA (11) KAAS (8) KABS (10) KADI (9) [noun] A civil judge in certain Islamic countries. KAES (8) KAFS (11) KAGU (9) [noun] A New Caledonian endemic bird species, Rhynochetos jubatus, the only surviving member of the family Rhynochetidae. KAIF (11) KAIL (8) [noun] Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables. | [noun] A broth made with kale or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. | [noun] An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) KAIN (8) KAKA (12) [noun] Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands. KAKI (12) [noun] A persimmon, more specifically the Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki). KALE (8) [noun] An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) | [noun] Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea. | [noun] Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient. 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. KANA (8) [noun] The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji. | [noun] A hiragana or katakana character. KANE (8) KAON (8) [noun] Any of four unstable subatomic particles, mesons, they are a combination of a strange quark or antiquark and either an up or down quark or antiquark KAPA (10) KAPH (13) KARN (8) KART (8) [noun] A go-cart. | [verb] To ride in a go-cart. KATA (8) [noun] Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts. | [noun] (in combination) A drop (in temperature). | [adverb] In a direction analogous to down, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension. | [noun] A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries. KATS (8) KAVA (11) [noun] A plant from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum. | [noun] An intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant. KAYO (11) [noun] A knockout (in boxing). | [verb] To knock someone out, or render them unconscious or senseless. KAYS (11) KBAR (10) KEAS (8) [noun] Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand. KHAF (14) KHAN (11) [noun] A ruler over various Turkish, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages. | [noun] An Ottoman sultan. | [noun] A noble or man of rank in various Muslim countries of Central Asia, including Afghanistan. | [noun] A caravanserai; a resting-place for a travelling caravan. KHAT (11) [noun] A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant. KINA (8) [noun] The national currency of Papua New Guinea, divided into 100 toea. | [noun] Evechinus chloroticus, a sea urchin endemic to New Zealand. KIVA (11) [noun] A ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village. KNAP (10) [noun] A sharp blow or slap. | [verb] To shape a brittle material having conchoidal fracture, usually a mineral (flint, obsidian, chert etc.), by breaking away flakes, often forming a sharp edge or point. | [verb] To rap or strike sharply. | [noun] A protuberance; a swelling; a knob. KNAR (8) [noun] A knot or burl in a tree; a knurl, a gnarl. KOAN (8) [noun] A story about a Zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of Zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the Zen student’s mind leading to satori. | [noun] A riddle with no solution, used to provoke reflection on the inadequacy of logical reasoning, and to lead to enlightenment. KOAS (8) [noun] Acacia koa, a species of large tree in the family Fabaceae which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree. KOLA (8) [noun] The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts. | [noun] A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water. | [noun] A tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown seeds ("nuts") that are the source of cola extract. KVAS (11) KYAK (15) KYAR (11) KYAT (11) [noun] The official currency of Myanmar. LABS (6) [noun] A laboratory. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result. | [noun] A Labrador retriever. LACE (6) [noun] A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. Wp | [noun] A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. Wp | [noun] A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. | [verb] To fasten (something) with laces. LACK (10) [noun] A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy. | [noun] A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want. | [verb] To be without, to need, to require. LACS (6) [noun] A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect. | [noun] One hundred thousand (commonly used in Pakistan and India). | [noun] Short for Cadillac. LACY (9) [adjective] Made of lace or decorated with it. | [adjective] Looking like lace. LADE (5) [noun] A load. | [verb] To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment). | [verb] To weigh down, oppress, or burden. | [noun] The mouth of a river. LADS (5) [noun] A boy or young man. | [noun] A Jack the lad; a boyo. | [noun] A familiar term of address for a young man. LADY (8) [noun] An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers. | [noun] A high priestess. | [noun] The mistress of a household. LAGS (5) [noun] A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency. | [noun] Delay; latency. | [noun] One sentenced to transportation for a crime. LAIC (6) [noun] A layperson, as opposed to a member of the clergy. | [adjective] Lay, relating to laypersons, as opposed to clerical. LAID (5) [adjective] (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould. | [verb] To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position. | [verb] To cause to subside or abate. LAIN (4) [verb] To rest in a horizontal position on a surface. | [verb] To be placed or situated. | [verb] To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition. | [verb] To conceal, keep quiet about. LAIR (4) [noun] A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground. | [noun] A shed or shelter for domestic animals. | [noun] A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway. | [noun] A bog; a mire. | [noun] A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off. LAKE (8) [noun] A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain. | [noun] A large, landlocked stretch of water. | [noun] A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake. | [noun] An offering, sacrifice, gift. | [noun] A kind of fine, white linen. | [noun] In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant. LAKH (11) [numeral] (Sri Lanka) One hundred thousand; 100,000. Often used with units of money. LAKY (11) LALL (4) 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. LAND (5) [noun] The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water. | [noun] Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected. | [noun] A country or region. | [noun] Lant; urine LANE (4) [noun] (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare. | [noun] A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees. | [noun] A narrow road, as in the country. LANG (5) LANK (8) [verb] To become lank. | [adjective] Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean. | [adjective] Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity. LAPS (6) [noun] The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. | [noun] An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. | [noun] The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered LARD (5) [noun] Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy. | [noun] Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork. | [verb] To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking. LARI (4) [noun] The national currency of Georgia, divided into 100 tetri. LARK (8) [noun] Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae. | [noun] Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark. | [noun] (by extension) One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks. | [noun] A romp, frolic, some fun. LARS (4) LASE (4) [verb] To use a laser beam on, as for cutting. | [verb] To operate as a laser, to release coherent light due to stimulation. LASH (7) [noun] The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. | [noun] A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare. | [noun] A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough. | [verb] To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten. | [adjective] Remiss, lax. LASS (4) [noun] A young woman or girl. | [noun] (Mackem) A sweetheart. LAST (4) [adjective] Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind. | [adjective] Most recent, latest, last so far. | [adjective] Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable. | [verb] To perform, carry out. | [noun] A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes. | [noun] A burden; load; a cargo; freight. LATE (4) [noun] A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night. | [adjective] Near the end of a period of time. | [adjective] Specifically, near the end of the day. LATH (7) [noun] A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc. | [verb] To cover or line with laths LATI (4) LATS (4) [noun] A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind. | [noun] A monumental pillar, particularly the Buddhist columns erected in East India. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A latrine: a rudimentary or military facility for urination and defecation. | [noun] Latrines: rudimentary or military facilities for urination and defecation. | [noun] A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind. | [noun] The latissimus dorsi muscles. | [noun] A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind. LAUD (5) [noun] Praise or glorification. | [noun] Hymn of praise. | [noun] (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins. LAVA (7) [noun] The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides. | [noun] Magma. | [noun] A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava. LAVE (7) [verb] To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. | [verb] To draw, as water; drink in. | [verb] To give bountifully; lavish. | [noun] (archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others. LAVS (7) [noun] An item of jewellery consisting of a pendant, sometimes with one stone, suspended from a necklace. | [noun] A kind of microphone intended to clip onto the lapel at about the level of the pendant on a lavalier. | [noun] A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly: LAWN (7) [noun] An open space between woods. | [noun] Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. | [noun] An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists. | [noun] A type of thin linen or cotton. LAWS (7) [noun] The body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities. | [noun] A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way. | [noun] (more generally) A rule, such as: LAYS (7) [noun] Arrangement or relationship; layout. | [noun] A share of the profits in a business. | [noun] A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance. LAZE (13) [noun] An instance of lazing. | [noun] Laziness. | [verb] To be lazy, waste time. | [noun] Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water. LAZY (16) [noun] A lazy person. | [noun] Sloth (animal). | [verb] To laze, act in a lazy manner. LEAD (5) [noun] A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum). | [noun] A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots. | [noun] A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. | [noun] The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course LEAF (7) [noun] The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. | [noun] Anything resembling the leaf of a plant. | [noun] A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin. LEAK (8) [noun] A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape. | [noun] The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture. | [noun] A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret. LEAL (4) [adjective] Loyal, honest. | [adjective] True, genuine. LEAN (4) [noun] (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical. | [verb] To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. | [verb] To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. | [noun] Meat with no fat on it. | [verb] To conceal. | [noun] A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States. LEAP (6) [noun] The act of leaping or jumping. | [noun] The distance traversed by a leap or jump. | [noun] A group of leopards. | [noun] A basket. LEAR (4) LEAS (4) [noun] An open field, meadow. | [noun] Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards. | [noun] A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle. LEVA (7) [noun] The currency of Bulgaria, divided into 100 stotinki LIAR (4) [noun] One who tells lies. | [noun] A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week. LIMA (6) LIRA (4) [noun] The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel. | [noun] The basic unit of currency in Turkey. | [noun] The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar) | [noun] A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy. | [noun] Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs LOAD (5) [noun] A burden; a weight to be carried. | [noun] A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind. | [noun] A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time. LOAF (7) [noun] (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking. | [noun] Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar. | [noun] Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf). | [verb] To do nothing, to be idle. 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. LOAN (4) [noun] An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use. | [noun] A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest). | [noun] The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan. | [noun] A lonnen. LOCA (6) LOTA (4) [noun] A spherical pot, specifically a water pot used for washing and ablution, typically made of brass. | [noun] A person who switches loyalties, especially from one political party to another. LUAU (4) [noun] An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment. LUNA (4) 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. MESA (6) [noun] Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges. 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. 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. MINA (6) 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. 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. MORA (6) MOXA (13) [noun] Dried leaves of an Asian species of mugwort, Artemisia argyi as used in moxibustion. | [noun] Any other plant used in moxibustion. MURA (6) MYNA (9) [noun] One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae. NAAN (4) [noun] A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine. NABE (6) [noun] Neighborhood. | [noun] (frequently plural) Neighborhood theater, neighborhood cinema. NABS (6) [verb] To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive). | [verb] To grab or snatch something. | [noun] A single-serving package of crackers, usually filled with peanut butter. Snack crackers. NADA (5) [pronoun] Nothing. NAGS (5) [noun] A small horse; a pony. | [noun] An old useless horse. | [noun] A paramour. NAIF (7) [noun] One who is naive. | [adjective] Naive. NAIL (4) [noun] The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals. | [noun] The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera. | [noun] The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds. | [verb] To fix (an object) to another object using a nail. 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. NANA (4) [noun] A banana | [noun] A fool | [noun] (term of endearment) one's grandmother NANS (4) [noun] A mother of someone's parent. | [noun] A female ancestor or progenitor. | [noun] A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden. NAOI (4) [noun] The inner part of a Greek temple. It contained a statue of the appropriate deity surrounded by a colonnaded portico and later gave rise to the Roman cella. NAOS (4) [noun] The inner part of a Greek temple. It contained a statue of the appropriate deity surrounded by a colonnaded portico and later gave rise to the Roman cella. NAPE (6) [noun] The back part of the neck. | [noun] The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head. | [noun] A tablecloth. | [noun] Napalm. NAPS (6) [noun] A short period of sleep, especially one during the day. | [verb] To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day. | [verb] To be off one's guard. NARC (6) [noun] A narcotics squad police officer. | [noun] A police spy or informer. | [noun] An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others. | [verb] (underwater diving) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (for example, while scuba diving). | [noun] A narcissist. NARD (5) [noun] Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine. | [noun] A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized. | [noun] American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root. | [noun] (1980s, usually plural) Testicles. NARK (8) [noun] A police spy or informer. | [noun] An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others. | [verb] To watch; to observe. | [noun] A narcotics squad police officer. NARY (7) [adjective] Not, never. NAVE (7) [noun] The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances. | [noun] A hub of a wheel. | [noun] The navel. NAVY (10) [noun] A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel. | [noun] A governmental department in charge of a country's sea force. | [noun] A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue. NAYS (7) [noun] A vote against. | [noun] A person who voted against. | [noun] A denial; a refusal. https//books.google.com/books?id=uysQzJy9IwMC&pg=PA818&dq=%22word+nay+a+denial+refusal%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwij_5CHi-3cAhWJ2FMKHWjCDdMQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=%22word%20nay%20a%20denial%20refusal%22&f=false NAZI (13) [noun] A member of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly called the NSDAP or Nazi Party). | [noun] One who subscribes to or advocates (neo-)Nazism or a similarly fascist, racist (especially anti-Semitic), xenophobic, ethnic supremacist, or ultranationalist ideology; a neo-Nazi. | [noun] (usually derogatory, sometimes offensive, see usage notes below) One who imposes one’s views on others; one who is considered unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict. (also frequently uncapitalised: nazi) NEAP (6) [noun] The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals. | [noun] A neap tide. | [verb] To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides. | [noun] The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland. NEAR (4) [noun] The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc. | [verb] To come closer to; to approach. | [adjective] Physically close. NEAT (4) [noun] An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy. | [adjective] Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities. | [adjective] Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below. | [noun] A bull or cow. NEMA (6) NIPA (6) [noun] A palm tree of the species Nypa fruticans. | [noun] A liquor made from the sap of nipa palm. | [noun] The leaves of the nipa palm, when used as a material for thatching, basketry or other uses. | [noun] Distichlis palmeri, a saltgrass native to the Sonoran Desert of Mexico and the United States, Palmer's grass. NOMA (6) [noun] A gangrenous disease leading to tissue destruction of the face, especially the mouth and cheek. NONA (4) NOTA (4) [noun] The back; the dorsal aspect of the thorax in insects. NOVA (7) [noun] Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star. OAFS (7) [noun] A person, especially a large male, who is clumsy or a simpleton. | [noun] An elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins, hence, a deformed or foolish child. OAKS (8) [noun] A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus. | [noun] The wood of the oak. | [noun] A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood. | [noun] A stakes race in which entry is restricted to 3-year-old fillies. OARS (4) [noun] A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat . | [noun] An oarsman; a rower. | [noun] An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates. OAST (4) [noun] A kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops. OATH (7) [noun] A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise. | [noun] A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge. | [noun] A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity. OATS (4) [noun] Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa. | [noun] Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena. | [noun] (usually as plural) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop. OBIA (6) OCAS (6) [noun] Any of certain species of Oxalis (Oxalis crenata, and Oxalis tuberosa) which bear edible tubers. ODEA (5) [noun] An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry. | [noun] A theatre or concert hall. OFAY (10) [noun] A white person. | [adjective] White; white-skinned. OGAM (7) [noun] A single character in this alphabet. OHIA (7) OKAS (8) [noun] A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram. | [noun] A unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres. OKAY (11) [noun] Endorsement; approval. | [verb] To approve. | [verb] To confirm by activating a button marked OK. OKRA (8) [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. | [noun] The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones. OLEA (4) OLLA (4) OPAH (9) [noun] Any of various large, colourful, deep-bodied pelagic fish of the family Lamprididae. OPAL (6) [noun] A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity, of the chemical formula SiO2·nH2O. | [noun] A colloquial name used in molecular biology referring to a particular stop codon sequence, "UGA." | [noun] Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Nesolycaena. ORAD (5) ORAL (4) [noun] A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class. | [noun] A physical examination of the mouth. | [noun] Oral sex. ORCA (6) [noun] A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale. ORRA (4) [adjective] Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over. | [adjective] Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable. OSAR (4) OSSA (4) [noun] Bone. OVAL (7) [noun] An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse. | [noun] A thing having such a shape, such as an arena. | [noun] In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point. PACA (8) [noun] Any of the large rodents of the genus Cuniculus (but see also its synonyms), native to Central America and South America, which have dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides. PACE (8) [noun] Step. | [noun] Way of stepping. | [noun] Speed or velocity in general. | [preposition] With all due respect to. | [noun] Easter. PACK (12) [noun] A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale. | [noun] A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack | [noun] A multitude. | [verb] (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. PACS (8) PACT (8) [noun] An agreement; a compact; a covenant. | [noun] An agreement between two or more nations | [verb] To form a pact; to agree formally. PADI (7) PADS (7) [noun] A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on. | [noun] A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame. | [noun] A soft, or small, cushion. PAGE (7) [noun] One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. | [noun] One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed. | [noun] Any record or writing; a collective memory. | [noun] A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education. PAID (7) [verb] To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | [verb] To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. | [verb] To be profitable for. | [adjective] That is not free of charge; that costs money. PAIK (10) PAIL (6) [noun] A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover). | [noun] (In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container. PAIN (6) [noun] An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. | [noun] The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress | [noun] (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing. | [noun] Any of various breads stuffed with a filling. PAIR (6) [noun] Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of. | [noun] Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship. | [noun] Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts) | [verb] To impair, to make worse. PALE (6) [noun] Paleness; pallor. | [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [noun] A wooden stake; a picket. PALL (6) [noun] Senses relating to cloth. | [noun] Senses relating to clothing. | [verb] To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. | [verb] To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken. | [noun] A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence. 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. PALP (8) [noun] A pedipalp, an appendage found near the mouth in invertebrates; has a variety of functions but is often primarily used for predating. | [noun] A fleshy part of a fingertip. | [noun] Short for palpation. PALS (6) [noun] A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with. | [noun] An informal term of address, often used ironically in a hostile way. | [verb] Be friends with, hang around with. PALY (9) [adjective] Vertically striped | [adjective] Pale; lacking colour PAMS (8) PANE (6) [noun] An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc. | [noun] A layer in the build-up of a GUI. | [noun] A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface. PANG (7) [noun] (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. | [noun] (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. | [verb] To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. PANS (6) [noun] A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking. | [noun] The contents of such a receptacle. | [noun] A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home. PANT (6) [noun] A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. | [noun] Eager longing. | [noun] A violent palpitation of the heart. | [noun] A pair of pants (trousers or underpants). | [noun] (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain. PAPA (8) [noun] Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father. | [noun] A pet name for one's grandfather. | [noun] A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church. PAPS (8) [noun] Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children. | [noun] Nonsense. | [noun] Porridge. PARA (6) [noun] A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions. | [noun] A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word. | [noun] A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented. | [noun] A paratrooper. | [adjective] Very drunk | [noun] Short for paraprofessional educator. PARD (7) [noun] A leopard; a panther. | [noun] Partner; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation PARE (6) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PARK (10) [noun] An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation. | [noun] A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region. | [noun] An area used for specific purposes. PARR (6) [noun] Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater. | [noun] A young leveret. PARS (6) [noun] Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper. | [noun] Equality of condition or circumstances. | [noun] (mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole. PART (6) [noun] A portion; a component. | [noun] Duty; responsibility. | [noun] The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. PASE (6) PASH (9) [noun] A passionate kiss. | [noun] A romantic infatuation; a crush. | [noun] The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush. | [noun] A crushing blow. | [verb] To throw (or be thrown) and break. PASS (6) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. | [noun] An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford. | [noun] A password (especially one for a restricted-access website). PAST (6) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. PATE (6) [noun] (somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown. | [noun] Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities. | [noun] The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color. PATH (9) [noun] A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians. | [noun] A course taken. | [noun] A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry. | [noun] (abbreviation) Pathology. PATS (6) [noun] The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep | [noun] A light tap or slap, especially with the hands | [noun] A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung. PATY (9) PAVE (9) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAWL (9) [noun] A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction. | [noun] A similar device to prevent motion in other mechanisms besides ratchets. | [verb] To stop with a pawl. PAWN (9) [noun] The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant. | [noun] Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end. | [noun] The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge. | [noun] A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf. | [noun] A gallery. | [verb] (originally leet) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game). PAWS (9) [noun] The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot. | [noun] A hand. | [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. PAYS (9) [noun] Money given in return for work; salary or wages. | [verb] To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | [verb] To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. PEAG (7) PEAK (10) [noun] A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. | [noun] The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period. | [noun] The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point. | [verb] To become sick or wan. | [noun] Wampum. PEAL (6) [noun] A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc. | [noun] A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale. | [noun] The changes rung on a set of bells. | [noun] A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. PEAN (6) [noun] A heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field. | [adjective] : In blazon, a heraldic fur of a black field. with gold spots | [noun] A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle. | [noun] The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end. PEAR (6) [noun] An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem. | [noun] A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis). | [noun] The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood). PEAS (6) [noun] A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family. | [noun] The edible seed of some of these plants. | [noun] A ball travelling at high velocity. PEAT (6) [noun] Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. | [noun] A pet, a darling; a woman. PHAT (9) [adjective] (originally African American Vernacular English) Excellent; cool; very good. | [adjective] Sexy. | [adjective] Rich in texture; prominent. PIAL (6) PIAN (6) PIAS (6) PICA (8) [noun] A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand. | [noun] A size of type between small pica and English, standardized as 12-point. | [noun] (usually with qualifier) A font of this size. | [noun] Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia. | [noun] A magpie. PIKA (10) [noun] Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia. PIMA (8) [noun] A soft form of cotton having long fibres (Gossypium barbadense) PINA (6) [noun] Cloth woven from pineapple fiber | [noun] A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting. | [noun] The residual cone of spongy silver left after the retorting. PITA (6) [noun] A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels. | [noun] A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper. | [noun] The plant which yields the fiber. PLAN (6) [noun] A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc. | [noun] A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal. | [noun] A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation. PLAT (6) [noun] A plot of land; a lot. | [noun] A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document. | [noun] A plot, a scheme. | [noun] A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.). | [adjective] (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level. PLAY (9) [noun] Activity for amusement only, especially among the young. | [noun] Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills. | [noun] The conduct, or course, of a game. PLEA (6) [noun] An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty. | [noun] An excuse; an apology. | [noun] That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification. 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. PRAO (6) PRAT (6) [noun] A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. | [adjective] Cunning, astute. | [noun] A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. PRAU (6) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PRAY (9) [verb] To direct words and/or thoughts to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc. | [verb] To humbly beg a person for aid or their time. | [verb] To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. PROA (6) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PUJA (13) [noun] A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship. PULA (6) [noun] Rain, used as an expression of greeting or good luck. | [noun] The currency of Botswana, divided into 100 thebe. 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. PUNA (6) [noun] An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population. PUPA (8) [noun] An insect in the development stage between larva and adult. PYAS (9) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Burmese kyat. | [noun] A subdivision of currency in colonial Burma, equal to 1/4 of an anna or 1/64 of a rupee QAID (14) QATS (13) [noun] A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant. QUAD (14) [noun] Four shots of espresso. | [noun] A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once. | [noun] The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume. | [noun] A quadrangle (courtyard). | [noun] A quad bike (from quadricycle) | [noun] A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type. QUAG (14) [noun] Quagmire; marsh; bog. QUAI (13) QUAY (16) [noun] A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf. | [verb] To land or tie up at a quay or similar structure, especially used in the phrase "quay up". RACE (6) [noun] A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins | [noun] Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed. | [noun] A race condition. | [noun] A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics: | [noun] A rhizome or root, especially of ginger. | [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. RACK (10) [noun] A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other | [noun] Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel. | [noun] A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits. | [verb] To stretch a person's joints. | [noun] Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky. | [verb] To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs. | [noun] A fast amble. | [noun] A wreck; destruction. | [noun] A young rabbit, or its skin. | [noun] A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East RACY (9) [adjective] Mildly risqué. | [adjective] Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil. | [adjective] (by extension) Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively. RADS (5) [noun] A non-SI unit of absorbed dose of radiation, equal to 0.01 gray. | [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angular measure of angle equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle. Symbol: rad | [noun] Anything which radiates or emits rays. RAFF (10) RAFT (7) [noun] A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform. | [noun] (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion. | [noun] A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water. | [noun] A large (but unspecified) number, a lot. RAGA (5) [noun] Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form. | [noun] Passion, love, lust. RAGE (5) [noun] Violent uncontrolled anger. | [noun] A current fashion or fad. | [noun] Any vehement passion. RAGI (5) [noun] A type of grain, Eleusine coracana, cultivated as a cereal in arid areas of Africa and Asia; finger millet. | [noun] A type of yeast traditionally used in winemaking, baking, and brewing, now identified as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. RAGS (5) [noun] (in the plural) Tattered clothes. | [noun] A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter. | [noun] A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. RAIA (4) RAID (5) [noun] A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle. | [noun] An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering | [noun] An attacking movement. RAIL (4) [noun] A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing. | [noun] The metal bar that makes the track for a railroad. | [noun] A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation. | [noun] Any of several birds in the family Rallidae. | [verb] To complain violently (against, about). | [noun] An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress. | [verb] (of a liquid) To gush, flow. RAIN (4) [noun] Condensed water falling from a cloud. | [noun] Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops. | [noun] An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air. RAJA (11) [noun] A Hindu prince or ruler in India. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Charaxes. RAKE (8) [noun] A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor. | [noun] (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes. | [noun] The act of raking. | [noun] A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey. | [noun] Rate of progress; pace, speed. | [noun] A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope. | [noun] A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct. RAKI (8) [noun] A Turkish liqueur flavored with anise. RALE (4) [noun] (now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema. 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. RAND (5) [noun] The border of an area of land, especially marshland. | [noun] A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak. | [noun] A border, edge or rim. | [noun] A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand | [verb] To rant; to storm. RANG (5) [verb] Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. | [verb] To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound. | [verb] To produce (a sound) by ringing. RANI (4) [noun] The wife of a rajah. | [noun] A Hindu princess or female ruler in India. RANK (8) [adjective] Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things). | [adjective] Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross. | [adjective] Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric. | [noun] A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"]. RANT (4) [noun] A criticism done by ranting. | [noun] A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation. | [noun] A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop. RAPE (6) RAPS (6) [noun] A sharp blow with something hard. | [noun] Blame for something. | [noun] A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction. RAPT (6) [noun] An ecstasy; a trance. | [noun] Rapidity. | [verb] To transport or ravish. RARE (4) [noun] A scarce or uncommon item. | [adjective] Very uncommon; scarce. | [adjective] (of a gas) Thin; of low density. | [adjective] (particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense). | [verb] To rear, rise up, start backwards. | [adjective] Early RASE (4) [noun] A scratching out, or erasure | [noun] A slight wound; a scratch | [noun] A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it RASH (7) [adjective] Acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences; not careful; hasty. | [adjective] So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. | [adjective] Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. | [noun] An area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin. | [noun] An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted. | [verb] To pull off or pluck violently. RASP (6) [noun] A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file. | [noun] The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound. | [verb] To use a rasp. | [noun] The raspberry. RATE (4) [noun] The worth of something; value. | [noun] The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. | [noun] Speed. | [verb] To berate, scold. RATH (7) [noun] A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age. | [noun] A Burmese carriage of state. | [adjective] Alternative form of rathe. RATO (4) RATS (4) [noun] A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus. | [noun] Any of the numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) that resemble true rats in appearance, usually having a pointy snout, a long, bare tail, and body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches. | [noun] A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling. RAVE (7) [noun] An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). | [noun] An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use. | [noun] The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties. | [noun] One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh. | [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. RAWS (7) RAYA (7) RAYS (7) [noun] A beam of light or radiation. | [noun] A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin. | [noun] One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran. RAZE (13) [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. | [verb] To scrape as if with a razor. | [noun] A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins | [noun] A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through. RAZZ (22) [noun] A version of seven card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball). | [verb] To tease playfully; to heckle. | [verb] To drive an automobile around. READ (5) [noun] A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play. | [noun] (in combination) Something to be read; a written work. | [noun] A person's interpretation or impression of something. | [verb] To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. REAL (4) [noun] A commodity; see realty. | [noun] (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages. | [noun] A real number. | [noun] Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies. | [noun] A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942. 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. REAP (6) [noun] A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. | [verb] To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine | [verb] To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting. REAR (4) [verb] To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. | [verb] (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. | [verb] To rise up on the hind legs | [verb] To move; stir. | [adjective] (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw. | [noun] The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front. RHEA (7) [noun] A large flightless bird of the genus Rhea, native to South America. | [noun] Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a fiber-yielding plant. RIAL (4) [noun] The official currencies of Iran, Oman, and Yemen. | [noun] An old gold coin of England. RIAS (4) [noun] A submergent coastal landform, often known as a drowned river valley ROAD (5) [noun] A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane. | [noun] A road; or particularly a car, as a means of transportation. | [noun] A path chosen in life or career. 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. ROAN (4) [noun] An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in. | [noun] The color of such an animal. | [noun] A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco. | [noun] Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan. ROAR (4) [noun] A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open. | [noun] The cry of the lion. | [noun] The deep cry of the bull. ROTA (4) [noun] A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar. | [noun] A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music. RUGA (5) RYAS (7) SABE (6) SABS (6) [verb] To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports. SACK (10) [noun] A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel. | [noun] The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds). | [noun] The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city. | [noun] A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry. | [noun] A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid. | [noun] A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid. SACS (6) [noun] A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid. | [noun] (games) A sacrifice. SADE (5) SADI (5) SAFE (7) [noun] A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping. | [noun] A condom. | [noun] A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects. SAGA (5) [noun] An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends. | [noun] Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story. SAGE (5) [noun] A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher. | [adjective] Wise. | [adjective] Grave; serious; solemn | [noun] The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes. | [verb] The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply. SAGO (5) [noun] A powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener. | [noun] A similar starch obtained from a palm-like cycad, Cycas revoluta | [noun] Any of the palms from which sago is extracted. SAGS (5) [noun] The state of sinking or bending; a droop. | [noun] The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points. | [noun] The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens. SAGY (8) SAID (5) [adjective] Mentioned earlier; aforesaid. | [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. SAIL (4) [noun] A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes. | [noun] (nautical,uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance. | [noun] The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport. | [verb] To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power. SAIN (4) SAKE (8) [noun] Cause, interest or account | [noun] Purpose or end; reason | [noun] The benefit or regard of someone or something | [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. SAKI (8) [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. | [noun] A class of Japanese rice wines made from polished rice and typically about 20% alcohol by volume. | [noun] Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia. with large ears and a long hairy tail that is not prehensile. SALE (4) [noun] A hall. | [noun] An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit. | [noun] (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices. SALL (4) SALP (6) [noun] Any of the free-swimming tunicates of the order Salpida and its single family Salpidae. SALS (4) [noun] Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree. SALT (4) [noun] A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative. | [noun] One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid. | [noun] A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea. 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. SAND (5) [noun] Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction. | [noun] (often in the plural) A beach or other expanse of sand. | [noun] (circa 1920) Personal courage. | [verb] To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it. | [noun] A sandpiper. SANE (4) [adjective] Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally. | [adjective] Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner. | [adjective] Rational; reasonable; sensible. SANG (5) [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. | [verb] To soothe with singing. | [noun] A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass). SANK (8) [verb] (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something. | [verb] (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished. | [verb] To conceal and appropriate. SANS (4) [adjective] Short for sans serif. | [preposition] Without; lacking | [noun] A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ) that came after pi and before qoppa. SAPS (6) [noun] The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. | [noun] The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. | [noun] Any juice. SARD (5) [noun] A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. | [noun] Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with (a woman). SARI (4) [noun] The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head. SARK (8) [noun] A shirt. | [verb] To cover with sarking, or thin boards. SASH (7) [noun] A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist. | [noun] A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions. | [verb] To adorn with a sash. | [noun] The opening part (casement) of a window usually containing the glass panes, hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window. SASS (4) [noun] Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm. | [noun] Vegetables used in making sauces. | [verb] To talk, to talk back. SATE (4) [verb] To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up. | [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | [verb] (of a person) To move oneself into such a position. | [noun] Satay SATI (4) [noun] The traditional custom of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion. SAUL (4) SAVE (7) [noun] In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring. | [noun] When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead. | [noun] A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten. SAWN (7) [verb] To cut (something) with a saw. | [verb] To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. | [verb] To be cut with a saw. SAWS (7) [noun] A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal | [noun] A musical saw. | [noun] A sawtooth wave. SAYS (7) [noun] A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision. | [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. SCAB (8) [noun] An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. | [noun] The scabies. | [noun] The mange, especially when it appears on sheep. SCAD (7) [noun] Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic. | [noun] (in the plural) A large number or quantity. SCAG (7) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SCAM (8) [noun] A fraudulent deal. | [noun] Something that is promoted using scams. | [verb] To defraud or embezzle. SCAN (6) [noun] Close investigation. | [noun] An instance of scanning. | [noun] The result or output of a scanning process. SCAR (6) [noun] A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound. | [noun] (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience. | [noun] Any permanent mark resulting from damage. | [noun] A cliff or rock outcrop. | [noun] A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae). SCAT (6) [noun] A tax; tribute. | [noun] A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands. | [noun] Animal excrement; droppings, dung. | [noun] Scat singing. | [verb] To leave quickly (often used in the imperative). | [noun] Any fish in the family Scatophagidae SEAL (4) [noun] A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal. | [noun] A bearing representing a creature something like a walrus. | [verb] To hunt seals. | [noun] A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax. | [verb] To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls. 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 SEAR (4) [adjective] Dry; withered, especially of vegetation. | [noun] A scar produced by searing | [noun] Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled. SEAS (4) [noun] A large body of salt water. | [noun] A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish. | [noun] The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow. SEAT (4) [noun] Something to be sat upon. | [noun] A location or site. | [noun] The starting point of a fire. SERA (4) [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. SETA (4) [noun] A bristle or hair | [noun] The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort. SHAD (8) [noun] Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring. | [noun] The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix). SHAG (8) [noun] Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc. | [noun] Coarse shredded tobacco. | [noun] A type of rough carpet pile. | [noun] Several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially the common shag or European shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, found on European and African coasts. | [noun] A swing dance. | [noun] (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married. | [noun] Friend; mate; buddy. SHAH (10) [noun] A king of Persia or Iran. | [noun] A supreme ruler in some Middle Eastern or South Asian nations. | [noun] A Ukrainian monetary unit. SHAM (9) [noun] A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine. | [noun] Trickery, hoaxing. | [noun] A false front, or removable ornamental covering. SHAT (7) [verb] To defecate. | [verb] To excrete (something) through the anus. | [verb] To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful. | [noun] A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter. | [noun] A fragment of anything shattered. SHAW (10) [noun] A thicket; a small wood or grove. | [noun] The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips. SHAY (10) [noun] A chaise. SHEA (7) [noun] A tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda. | [noun] The fruit of this tree, having a thin, tart, nutritious pulp that surrounds a relatively large, oil-rich seed. SIAL (4) [noun] The rocks rich in silicon and aluminum that form the upper layer of the earth's crust, which lies beneath all continental landmasses. 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. SKAG (9) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SKAS (8) SKAT (8) [noun] A trick-taking card game for three players, popular in Germany. | [noun] A widow of two cards in the game of skat. SKUA (8) [noun] Any of various predatory seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that often chase other seabirds to steal their catches. SLAB (6) [noun] A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat. | [noun] A paving stone; a flagstone. | [noun] A carton containing 24 cans of beer. | [noun] Mud, sludge. | [noun] A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories. SLAG (5) [noun] Waste material from a coal mine | [noun] Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal | [noun] Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders 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. SLAP (6) [noun] A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat. | [noun] The sound of such a blow. | [noun] Makeup; cosmetics. SLAT (4) [noun] A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath) or metal. | [noun] (aeronautical) A movable control surface at the leading edge of a wing that when moved, changes the chord line of the airfoil, affecting the angle of attack. Employed in conjunction with flaps to allow for a lower stall speed in the landing attitude, facilitating slow flight. | [noun] A ski. SLAW (7) [noun] Coleslaw. SLAY (7) [verb] To kill, murder. | [verb] To eradicate or stamp out. | [verb] (by extension) To defeat, overcome (in a competition or contest). SNAG (5) [noun] A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch. | [noun] A dead tree that remains standing. | [noun] A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk. | [noun] A light meal. | [noun] A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons). SNAP (6) [noun] A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound. | [noun] A sudden break. | [noun] An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab. SNAW (7) SOAK (8) [noun] An immersion in water etc. | [noun] A drunkard. | [noun] A carouse; a drinking session. SOAP (6) [noun] A substance able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning, often in the form of a solid bar or in liquid form, derived from fats or made synthetically. | [noun] A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid | [noun] Flattery or excessively complacent conversation. SOAR (4) [noun] The act of soaring. | [noun] An upward flight. | [verb] To fly high with little effort, like a bird. SODA (5) [noun] Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda). | [noun] Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda). | [noun] Sodium in chemical combination. SOFA (7) [noun] A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting. | [noun] (furniture) An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people. | [verb] To furnish with one or more sofas. SOJA (11) SOLA (4) [noun] A wild plant found in Bengal and Assam, Aeschynomene aspera, having a milky-white, spongy pith used for the manufacture of pith helmets and decorative artefacts. 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. SORA (4) [noun] A rail (Porzana carolina) of North, Central, and northern South America. SOYA (7) [noun] A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water. | [noun] Soybeans, or the protein derived from them. SPAE (6) [verb] To divine; foretell SPAN (6) [noun] The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom. | [noun] (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time. | [noun] A portion of something by length; a subsequence. | [verb] To extend through the distance between or across. | [verb] To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction. SPAR (6) [noun] A rafter of a roof. | [noun] A thick pole or piece of wood. | [noun] A bar of wood used to fasten a door. | [noun] A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting. | [noun] Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft. SPAS (6) [noun] A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring. | [noun] A trendy or fashionable resort. | [noun] A health club. SPAT (6) [verb] To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc. | [verb] To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth; specifically, to rain or snow slightly. | [verb] To utter (something) violently. | [noun] The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs. | [noun] (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe. | [noun] A brief argument, falling out, quarrel. | [noun] A light blow with something flat. | [noun] An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres. SPAY (9) [verb] To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant. | [noun] The hart in its third year; a young deer | [verb] To divine; foretell SPAZ (15) [noun] A stupid or incompetent person. | [noun] A hyperactive person. | [noun] A tantrum, a fit. STAB (6) [noun] An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object. | [noun] A wound made by stabbing. | [noun] Pain inflicted on a person's feelings. STAG (5) [noun] An adult male deer. | [noun] A colt, or filly. | [noun] (by extension) A romping girl; a tomboy. STAR (4) [noun] Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots. | [noun] A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included. | [noun] A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points. STAT (4) [adjective] With no delay; at once. | [adverb] Immediately; now. | [verb] To assign statistics to (a monster, etc. in a game). | [noun] A statutory public holiday (also as stat holiday) STAW (7) STAY (7) [noun] Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn. | [noun] A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment. | [noun] A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress. | [noun] A prop; a support. | [noun] A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel. | [adjective] Steep; ascending. STOA (4) [noun] In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; specifically, the Great Hall in Athens. SUBA (6) SURA (4) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. | [noun] The sap of the palmyra or of the coconut palm, palm wine. SWAB (9) [noun] A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWAG (8) [noun] (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric. | [noun] A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects. | [verb] To (cause to) sway. | [noun] Style; fashionable appearance or manner. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods. | [noun] Initialism of scientific/speculative/sophisticated/stupid wild-ass guess. 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. SWAN (7) [noun] Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage. | [noun] One whose grace etc. suggests a swan. | [noun] This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire). | [verb] To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions). SWAP (9) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. | [noun] An exchange of two comparable things. | [noun] A blow; a stroke. SWAT (7) [noun] A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking. | [noun] Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution. | [verb] To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. | [verb] To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone). SWAY (10) [noun] The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon. | [noun] A rocking or swinging motion. | [noun] Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side TABS (6) [noun] A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc. | [noun] An ear. | [noun] (by extension) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls. TABU (6) [noun] An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. | [noun] (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. | [verb] To mark as taboo. TACE (6) TACH (9) [noun] Tachometer | [noun] (costers) A hat. | [noun] Tachycardia. TACK (10) [noun] A small nail with a flat head. | [noun] A thumbtack. | [noun] A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth. | [verb] To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head). | [noun] A stain; a tache. | [noun] That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy. TACO (6) [noun] A Mexican snack food; a small tortilla (soft or hard shelled), with typically some type of meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables (usually tomatoes and lettuce, as served in the United States, and cilantro, onion, and avocado, as served in México) and salsa. | [noun] The vulva. | [noun] A yellow stain on a shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant. TACT (6) [noun] The sense of touch; feeling. | [noun] The stroke in beating time. | [noun] Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing. TADS (5) [noun] A small amount; a little bit. | [noun] A street boy; an urchin. TAEL (4) [noun] Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams. | [noun] Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver. | [noun] Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms TAGS (5) [noun] A small label. | [noun] A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it". | [noun] A skin tag, an excrescence of skin. TAHR (7) [noun] Any of three genera of large Asian ungulates belonging to the subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes). TAIL (4) [noun] The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus. | [noun] An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails. | [noun] The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything. | [noun] Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs. TAIN (4) TAKA (8) [noun] The official currency of Bangladesh, equal to 100 paisas. Symbol: ৳ TAKE (8) [noun] The or an act of taking. | [noun] Something that is taken; a haul. | [noun] An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective. TALA (4) [noun] The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene. | [noun] A rhythmic pattern in Indian music. TALC (6) [noun] Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Mediaeval writers adopted the term from the Arabic. | [noun] A microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium. | [noun] A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses. TALE (4) [noun] An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie. | [noun] A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. | [noun] A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration. | [verb] To speak; discourse; tell tales. | [noun] Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams. TALI (4) [noun] The bone of the ankle. TALK (8) [verb] To communicate, usually by means of speech. | [verb] To discuss; to talk about. | [verb] To speak (a certain language). | [noun] A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal. TALL (4) [noun] (possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall. | [adjective] (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall. | [adjective] (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high. 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. TANG (5) [noun] A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor. | [noun] A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself. | [noun] A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. | [noun] A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang. | [noun] Knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed) | [noun] The vagina. TANK (8) [noun] A closed container for liquids or gases. | [noun] An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids. | [noun] A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial. | [noun] A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight. | [verb] To stand; to tolerate. TANS (4) [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 yellowish-brown colour. | [noun] A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources. TAOS (4) [noun] The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution | [noun] The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area. | [noun] That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. TAPA (6) [noun] A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry. | [noun] Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas. | [noun] Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine. TAPE (6) [noun] Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. | [noun] Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. | [noun] Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race. TAPS (6) [noun] A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask. | [noun] A device used to dispense liquids. | [noun] Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor. TARE (4) [noun] A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa) | [noun] Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel. | [noun] A damaging weed growing in fields of grain. | [noun] The empty weight of a container; the tare weight or unladen weight. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [noun] Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce. TARN (4) [noun] A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England. | [noun] (chiefly Montana) One of many small mountain lakes or ponds. TARO (4) [noun] Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato. | [noun] Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc. | [noun] Food from a taro plant. TARP (6) [noun] A tarpaulin. | [verb] To cover something with a tarpaulin. TARS (4) [noun] (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal. | [noun] Coal tar. | [noun] A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke. TART (4) [adjective] Sharp to the taste; acid; sour. | [adjective] (of wine) high or too high in acidity. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; severe. | [noun] A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie. | [noun] A prostitute. TASK (8) [noun] A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. | [noun] A difficult or tedious undertaking. | [noun] An objective. | [noun] Second sight; the involuntary ability of seeing the future or distant events. TASS (4) [noun] A heap, pile. | [noun] A cup or cupful. | [noun] A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet. Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name. | [noun] An Oriental silk fabric, with gold or silver thread. TATE (4) TATS (4) [noun] Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze. | [noun] Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets. | [noun] Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute). TAUS (4) [noun] The letter Τ/τ in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek. | [noun] A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol. | [noun] A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon. TAUT (4) [verb] To make taut; to tauten, to tighten. | [adjective] Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight. | [adjective] (of a body, muscles, etc.) Not flabby; firm, toned; (of a person) having a lean, strong body. TAVS (7) TAWS (7) [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [verb] To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them. TAXA (11) [noun] A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. TAXI (11) [noun] A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver. | [noun] A share taxi. | [verb] To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power. TEAK (8) [noun] An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.). | [noun] A tree of the species in the genus Tectona | [noun] A yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood. TEAL (4) [noun] Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks. | [noun] A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan. | [adjective] Having a bluish-green colour 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. TEAR (4) [noun] A hole or break caused by tearing. | [noun] A rampage. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [noun] A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation. TEAS (4) [noun] A drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, cannabis. | [noun] The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa. | [noun] Food consumed before going to bed. TEAT (4) [noun] The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted. | [noun] Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle. | [noun] An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants. TELA (4) TEPA (6) THAE (7) THAN (7) [adverb] At that time; then. | [preposition] Introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates. | [conjunction] Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison. THAT (7) [noun] Something being indicated that is there; one of those. | [adverb] (degree) To a given extent or degree. | [adverb] (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions). THAW (10) [noun] The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost | [noun] A warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen | [verb] To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen TOAD (5) [noun] An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae. | [noun] A contemptible or unpleasant person. | [noun] An ugly person. TOEA (4) [noun] A unit of currency, equivalent to one hundredth of a Papua New Guinean kina. TOGA (5) [noun] A loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome. | [noun] A loose wrap gown. | [noun] An academic gown. TOLA (4) TORA (4) TRAD (5) [noun] Traditional climbing. | [noun] Irish traditional music | [noun] A traditionalist. 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. TRAP (6) [noun] A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. | [noun] A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. | [noun] A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor. | [noun] A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock. | [verb] To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses). | [noun] The trapezius muscle. TRAY (7) [noun] A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. | [noun] A flat carrier for items being transported. | [noun] The items on a full tray. | [noun] Trouble; annoyance; anger | [verb] To grieve; to annoy | [verb] To betray | [noun] A playing card or die with the rank of three. TSAR (4) [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. TUBA (6) [noun] A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys. | [noun] A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba. | [noun] A large reed stop in organs. | [noun] A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis. | [noun] A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap. | [noun] A tube or tubular organ. TUFA (7) [noun] Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring. | [noun] A variety of volcanic rock, tuff. TUNA (4) [noun] Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae. | [noun] The edible flesh of the tuna. | [noun] The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia. TWAE (7) TWAS (7) TWAT (7) [noun] The vagina or vulva. | [noun] A contemptible and stupid person, idiot. | [verb] To hit, slap. TZAR (13) [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. ULAN (4) ULNA (4) [noun] The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate. ULVA (7) UNAI (4) UNAU (4) UPAS (6) [noun] (usually countable) A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions. | [noun] A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree. | [noun] A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute. UREA (4) [noun] A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH2)2, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine. | [noun] Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R1R2N)CO(NR3R4). URSA (4) UTAS (4) UVEA (7) [noun] The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris. VACS (9) [noun] A vacation. | [noun] A vacuum cleaner. VAGI (8) VAIL (7) [noun] Profit; return; proceeds. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale. | [noun] Submission. | [noun] Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material. VAIN (7) [adjective] Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason. | [adjective] Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. | [adjective] Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile. VAIR (7) [noun] A type of fur from a squirrel with a black back and white belly, much used on garments in the Middle Ages. | [noun] An heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of bell shapes in two colours, (for example in the image, blue and white). VALE (7) [noun] A valley. | [interjection] (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell. 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. VANE (7) [noun] A weather vane | [noun] Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid | [noun] The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft VANG (8) [verb] To take; undertake for. | [verb] (as a godparent) To undertake for at the baptismal font; be godfather or godmother to. | [noun] A line extended down from the end of a yard or a gaff, used to regulate its position VANS (7) [noun] A covered vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck/lorry. | [noun] An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods. | [noun] A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods. VARA (7) VARS (7) [noun] A unit of electrical power, in an AC circuit, equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere. | [noun] Something that is variable. | [noun] Something whose value may be dictated or discovered. VARY (10) [noun] Alteration; change. | [verb] To change with time or a similar parameter. | [verb] To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify. VASA (7) [noun] A parrot of a variety that is native to Madagascar. VASE (7) [noun] An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers. | [noun] The body of the Corinthian capital. VAST (7) [noun] A vast space. | [adjective] Very large or wide (literally or figuratively). | [adjective] Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent. VATS (7) [noun] A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning. | [noun] A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry. | [noun] A vessel for holding holy water. VATU (7) [noun] The national currency of Vanuatu. VAUS (7) VAVS (10) [noun] The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ו. VAWS (10) VEAL (7) [noun] The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food. VELA (7) [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. VENA (7) VERA (7) VIAL (7) [noun] A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical. | [verb] To put or keep in, or as in, a vial. VIGA (8) [noun] A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village VINA (7) [noun] A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music. VISA (7) [noun] A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited. | [verb] To endorse (a passport, etc.). VITA (7) [noun] A curriculum vitae. VIVA (10) [noun] A shout of applause. | [verb] To cheer, applaud | [interjection] Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support). | [noun] An oral examination, typically for an academic qualification. WABS (9) WACK (13) [noun] An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo. | [adjective] Egregious. | [adjective] Bad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, lame, or strange. WADE (8) [noun] An act of wading. | [noun] A ford; a place to cross a river. | [verb] To walk through water or something that impedes progress. | [noun] The plant Isatis tinctoria. WADI (8) [noun] A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season. WADS (8) [noun] An amorphous, compact mass. | [noun] A substantial pile (normally of money). | [noun] A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon. WADY (11) [noun] A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season. WAES (7) WAFF (13) WAFT (10) [noun] A light breeze. | [noun] Something (such as an odor or scent like a perfume) that is carried through the air. | [noun] A flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal; a waif, a wheft. WAGE (8) [noun] (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour. | [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. WAGS (8) [noun] An oscillating movement. | [noun] A witty person. | [verb] To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief. WAIF (10) [noun] A castaway; a homeless child. | [noun] (of a plant outside its native range) A plant that has been introduced but is not persistently naturalized. | [noun] Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice. WAIL (7) [noun] A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish. | [noun] Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl. | [noun] A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster. | [verb] To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt. WAIN (7) [noun] A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen. | [verb] To carry. | [noun] (Derry) A collective word usually for children. WAIR (7) WAIT (7) [noun] A delay. | [noun] An ambush. | [noun] One who watches; a watchman. WAKE (11) [noun] The act of waking, or state of being awake. | [noun] The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. | [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. | [noun] A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects. | [noun] The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water. WALE (7) [noun] A ridge or low barrier. | [noun] A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course). | [noun] The texture of a piece of fabric. | [noun] Something selected as being the best, preference; choice. WALK (11) [verb] To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run. | [verb] To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty. | [verb] Of an object, to go missing or be stolen. | [noun] A trip made by walking. WALL (7) [noun] A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes. | [noun] A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc. | [noun] Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure. | [verb] To boil. | [noun] A spring of water. | [noun] A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale. | [interjection] Used to acknowledge a statement or situation. WALY (10) WAME (9) WAND (8) [noun] A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority. | [noun] (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand. | [noun] A magic wand. WANE (7) [noun] A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc. | [noun] The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth. | [noun] The end of a period. | [noun] A child. | [noun] A house or dwelling. WANS (7) [noun] The digit or figure 1. | [noun] The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. | [noun] A one-dollar bill. WANT (7) [noun] A desire, wish, longing. | [noun] (often followed by of) Lack, absence. | [noun] Poverty. WANY (10) WAPS (9) WARD (8) [noun] A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman. | [noun] Protection, defence. | [noun] A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision. | [verb] To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard. WARE (7) [noun] The state of being aware; heed. | [adjective] Aware. | [noun] (usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use. | [verb] To be ware or mindful of something. | [noun] Seaweed. | [verb] To wear, or veer. WARK (11) 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. WARN (7) [verb] To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially: | [verb] To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. | [verb] (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away. WARP (9) [noun] The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally: | [noun] A distortion: | [noun] The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft. | [verb] To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally: WARS (7) [noun] Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces. | [noun] A particular conflict of this kind. | [noun] (by extension) Any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict. WART (7) [noun] A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). | [noun] Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads. | [noun] Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation. WARY (10) [adjective] Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent | [adjective] Characterized by caution; guarded; careful; on one's guard | [adjective] Thrifty, provident WASH (10) [noun] The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid. | [noun] A liquid used for washing. | [noun] A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties. WASP (9) [noun] Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet. | [noun] Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila). | [noun] A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish. | [noun] A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. WAST (7) [noun] The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach. | [noun] A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist. | [noun] The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps). WATS (7) [noun] A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia. WATT (7) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W WAUK (11) WAUL (7) [verb] To wail, to cry plaintively. WAUR (7) WAVE (10) [verb] To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely. | [verb] To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure. | [verb] (metonymic) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate. | [noun] A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation. | [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. WAVY (13) [adjective] Rising or swelling in waves. | [adjective] Full of waves. | [adjective] Moving to and fro; undulating. | [noun] The snow goose (Chen caerulescens) WAWL (10) WAWS (10) WAXY (17) [adjective] Resembling wax in texture or appearance. | [adjective] Angry. WAYS (10) [noun] (heading) To do with a place or places. | [noun] A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism. | [noun] A state or condition WEAK (11) [adjective] Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability. | [adjective] Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain. | [adjective] Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable. WEAL (7) [noun] Wealth, riches. | [noun] Welfare, prosperity. | [noun] (by extension) Boon, benefit. | [noun] A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt. WEAN (7) WEAR (7) [noun] (in combination) clothing | [noun] Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time | [noun] Fashion | [verb] To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion. | [noun] An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream. WEKA (11) [noun] The woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand. 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 WHAP (12) [noun] A blow; a hit; a variation of whop. | [noun] The curlew. | [verb] To strike hard and suddenly. WHAT (10) [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. | [noun] Something; thing; stuff. | [noun] The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what. WHOA (10) [verb] To attempt to slow (an animal) by crying "whoa". | [interjection] Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. | [interjection] An expression of surprise. WOAD (8) [noun] The plant Isatis tinctoria. | [noun] The blue dye made from the leaves of the plant. | [verb] To plant or cultivate woad. WRAP (9) [verb] To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper. | [verb] To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping. | [verb] To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide. | [noun] A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm. | [noun] A sharp blow with something hard. YACK (13) [noun] A talk, particular an informal talk; chattering; gossip. | [noun] A laugh. | [noun] Vomit. | [noun] (possibly obsolete) An oak. YAFF (13) YAGI (8) YAKS (11) [noun] An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Burma, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane. | [noun] A talk, particular an informal talk; chattering; gossip. | [noun] A laugh. YALD (8) 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. YANG (8) [noun] A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world. | [noun] The monetary unit of Korea from 1892 to 1902, divided into 100 pun. | [noun] The cry of the wild goose; a honk. YANK (11) [noun] A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force). | [noun] A masturbation session. | [verb] To pull (something) with a quick, strong action. | [noun] A Yankee. YAPS (9) [noun] The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar. | [noun] Casual talk; chatter. | [noun] The mouth, which produces speech. YARD (8) [noun] A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building. | [noun] The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn. | [noun] An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc. | [noun] A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK). | [noun] 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard. YARE (7) [adjective] Ready; prepared. | [adjective] Ready, alert, prepared, prompt. | [adjective] Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble. YARN (7) [noun] A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving. | [noun] Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope. | [noun] A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible. YAUD (8) YAUP (9) YAWL (10) [noun] A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. | [noun] A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post. | [verb] To cry out; to howl. YAWN (10) [noun] The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored. | [noun] A particularly boring event. | [verb] To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation. YAWP (12) [noun] A yelp or bark | [noun] Loud or coarse talk | [verb] To yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise YAWS (10) [noun] A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. | [noun] The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane. | [noun] The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile. YAYS (10) YEAH (10) [interjection] Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc. | [noun] A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference). | [noun] (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star. YEAN (7) [verb] (of goats or sheep) To give birth to. YEAR (7) [noun] A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference). | [noun] (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star. | [noun] A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar. | [noun] (abstract) This place; this location. YEAS (7) [noun] An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken YOGA (8) [noun] Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind. | [noun] The tree Elaeocarpus joga. YUAN (7) [noun] The basic unit of money in China. YUCA (9) [noun] Cassava | [noun] Cassava root YUGA (8) [noun] In Hindu theology, an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years. ZAGS (14) [noun] One of a series of sharp turns or reversals. | [noun] Twist in a storyline ZANY (16) [noun] A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown. | [verb] To mimic foolishly. | [adjective] Unusual and awkward in a funny, comical manner; outlandish; clownish. ZAPS (15) [noun] A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy. | [noun] An electric shock. | [noun] A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism. ZARF (16) ZEAL (13) [noun] The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest. | [noun] A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion. | [noun] The collective noun for a group of zebras. ZETA (13) [noun] The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ, ζ) preceded by epsilon (Ε, ε) and followed by eta, (Η, η); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ, ϝ) | [noun] A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function. ZOEA (13)

AAHED (9) AALII (5) AARGH (9) [interjection] Expressing annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration. ABACA (9) [noun] Musa textilis, a species of banana tree native to the Philippines grown for its textile, rope- and papermaking fibre. | [noun] The fiber of this plant, used in rope. ABACI (9) ABACK (13) [adverb] Towards the back or rear; backwards. | [adverb] In the rear; a distance behind. | [adverb] By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage) | [noun] An abacus. ABAFT (10) [adverb] On the aft side; in the stern. | [adverb] Backwards. | [preposition] Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. ABAKA (11) ABAMP (11) ABASE (7) [verb] To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate. | [verb] To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop. | [verb] To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase. ABASH (10) [verb] To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. | [verb] To lose self-possession; to become ashamed. ABATE (7) [noun] Abatement. | [verb] (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease. | [verb] To become null and void. | [verb] To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession. | [noun] An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy. ABBAS (9) ABBES (9) [noun] A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey. | [noun] An honorific title for a member of the French clergy. ABBEY (12) [noun] The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess. | [noun] A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings. | [noun] The church of a monastery. ABBOT (9) [noun] The superior or head of an abbey or monastery. | [noun] The pastor and/or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter. | [noun] A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries. 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. ABELE (7) [noun] The white poplar (Populus alba). ABETS (7) [noun] Fraud or cunning. | [noun] An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid. | [verb] To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. ABHOR (10) [verb] To regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. | [verb] To fill with horror or disgust. | [verb] To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject. ABIDE (8) [verb] To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere. | [verb] To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand. | [verb] To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for. ABLER (7) [adjective] Easy to use. | [adjective] Suitable; competent. | [adjective] Liable to. ABLES (7) ABMHO (12) ABODE (8) [verb] To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere. | [verb] To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand. | [verb] To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for. | [noun] An omen; a foretelling. ABOHM (12) ABOIL (7) ABOMA (9) ABOON (7) ABORT (7) [noun] A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. | [noun] The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. | [noun] An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission. | [verb] (now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. ABOUT (7) [adjective] Moving around; astir. | [adjective] In existence; being in evidence; apparent. | [adjective] Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood. ABOVE (10) [noun] Heaven. | [noun] Something, especially a person's name in legal documents, that appears higher on the same page or on a preceding page. | [noun] Higher authority. ABRIS (7) ABUSE (7) [noun] Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. | [noun] Misuse; improper use; perversion. | [noun] A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception. | [verb] To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert ABUTS (7) [verb] To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) | [verb] To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to. | [verb] To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. ABUZZ (25) [adjective] Characterized by a high level of activity or gossip; in a buzz, buzzing. ABYES (10) ABYSM (12) [noun] Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos. | [noun] An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole. ABYSS (10) [noun] Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean. | [noun] (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space. | [noun] Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound. ACARI (7) [noun] (acarology) Any member of the subclass Acari (aka Acarina): thus, a mite or a tick; specifically, any mite of the genus Acarus. ACERB (9) [adjective] Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit. | [adjective] Sharp and harsh in expressing oneself. ACETA (7) [noun] Plural of acetum; vinegar or a sour liquid. | [noun] Solutions of medicinal substances in vinegar. ACHED (11) [verb] To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed. | [verb] To cause someone or something to suffer pain. ACHES (10) [noun] Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. | [verb] To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed. | [verb] To cause someone or something to suffer pain. ACHOO (10) [interjection] An exclamation used to represent the sound of a sneeze. ACIDS (8) [noun] A sour substance. | [noun] Any of several classes of compound having the following properties: | [noun] Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) ACIDY (11) [adjective] Resembling or containing acid; sour or acidic in taste or nature. ACING (8) [verb] (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly. | [verb] To win a point by an ace. | [verb] To make an ace (hole in one). ACINI (7) [noun] One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc. | [noun] A grape-stone. | [noun] One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. ACKEE (11) [noun] A tropical evergreen tree, Blighia sapida, related to the lychee and longan. | [noun] The fruit of the tree, of which only the arils are edible, the remainder being poisonous. 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) ACNED (8) ACNES (7) [noun] Plural of acne, a skin condition characterized by pimples and inflammation. ACOCK (13) [adjective] Tilted or turned to one side; awry. ACOLD (8) [adjective] Chilled or cold; affected by cold. | [adverb] In a cold manner; coldly. ACORN (7) [noun] The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule. | [noun] A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head. | [noun] See acorn-shell. ACRED (8) [adjective] Having acres; measured or valued in acres. ACRES (7) [noun] An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters. | [noun] Any of various similar units of area in other systems. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A wide expanse. ACRID (8) [adjective] Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste. | [adjective] Causing heat and irritation. | [adjective] Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating. ACTED (8) [verb] To do something. | [verb] To do (something); to perform. | [verb] To perform a theatrical role. ACTIN (7) [noun] A globular structural protein that polymerizes in a helical fashion to form an actin filament (or microfilament). | [noun] One of the six isoforms of actin. ACTOR (7) [noun] A person who performs, plays a part in a theatrical play or film. | [noun] One who acts; a doer. | [noun] One who takes part in a situation. ACUTE (7) [noun] A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia. | [noun] An accent or tone higher than others. | [noun] An acute accent (´). ACYLS (10) [noun] Plural of acyl, an organic chemical group derived from a carboxylic acid by removal of the hydroxyl group. ADAGE (7) [noun] An old saying which has obtained credit by long use | [noun] An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim ADAPT (8) [verb] To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit | [verb] To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust | [verb] To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character ADDAX (14) [noun] A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus), with long horns, that lives in the desert. ADDED (8) [verb] To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. | [verb] To sum up; to put together mentally. | [verb] To combine elements of (something) into one quantity. ADDER (7) [noun] Any snake. | [noun] A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper. | [noun] Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers. ADDLE (7) [verb] (provincial) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living. | [verb] (provincial) To thrive or grow; to ripen. | [noun] A foolish or dull-witted fellow. 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. ADEPT (8) [noun] One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient | [adjective] Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient ADIEU (6) [noun] A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell. | [interjection] Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye. ADIOS (6) [interjection] (in Spanish contexts) goodbye ADITS (6) [noun] A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes. 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. ADOBE (8) [noun] An unburnt brick dried in the sun. | [noun] The earth from which such bricks are made. | [noun] A house made of adobe brick. ADOBO (8) [noun] A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic. | [noun] A marinade. ADOPT (8) [verb] To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) | [verb] To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally. | [verb] To select and take or approve. ADORE (6) [verb] To worship. | [verb] To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection. | [verb] To be very fond of. ADORN (6) [noun] Adornment | [verb] To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate. | [adjective] Adorned; ornate ADOWN (9) [adverb] Down or in a downward direction; archaic or poetic form of "down." ADOZE (15) [adjective] In a light sleep or dozing state. ADULT (6) [noun] A fully grown human or animal. | [noun] A person who has reached the legal age of majority. | [verb] To (cause to) be or become an adult. ADUNC (8) [adjective] Hooked or curved inward; having a hooked shape. ADUST (6) [adjective] (usually postpositive, of a bodily humour) Abnormally dark or over-concentrated; associated with various states of discomfort or illness (specifically being too hot or dry). | [adjective] (by extension) Hot and dry; thirsty or parched. | [adjective] Burnt or having a scorched color. ADYTA (9) [noun] The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given. | [noun] (by extension) A private chamber; a sanctum. ADZES (15) [noun] A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood. | [verb] To shape a material using an adze. AECIA (7) [noun] The plural of aecium, a fruiting structure in rust fungi that produces aecospores. AEDES (6) [noun] A genus of mosquitoes that includes species responsible for transmitting dengue fever and yellow fever. AEGIS (6) [noun] A mythological shield associated with the Greek deities Zeus and Athena (and their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) shown as a short cloak made of goatskin worn on the shoulders, more as an emblem of power and protection than a military shield. The aegis of Athena or Minerva is usually shown with a border of snakes and with the head of Medusa in the center. | [noun] Usually as under the aegis: guidance, protection; endorsement, sponsorship. AEONS (5) [noun] (preferred spelling, with æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead. | [noun] (Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology. | [noun] Eternity. AERIE (5) [noun] A local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. | [noun] The nest of a bird of prey. | [noun] Any high and remote but commanding place. AFARS (8) [noun] Plural of afar, meaning at or to a distance; from a distance. | [noun] Members of a pastoral people of the Horn of Africa. AFFIX (18) [noun] That which is affixed; an appendage. | [noun] A bound morpheme added to the word’s stem's end. | [noun] (broadly) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; a prefix, suffix etc. AFIRE (8) [adjective] On fire (often metaphorically). | [adverb] On fire (often metaphorically). AFOOT (8) [adjective] (predicative) That is on foot, in motion, in action, in progress. | [adverb] On foot. (means of locomotion, walking) | [adverb] On foot. (support of the body, standing) AFORE (8) [adverb] Before. | [adverb] In the fore part of a ship. | [preposition] Before; in advance of the time of. AFOUL (8) [adverb] (principally nautical) In a state of collision or entanglement. | [adverb] (with of) In a state of entanglement or conflict (with). AFRIT (8) [noun] (Islamic mythology) a kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an. AFTER (8) [adjective] Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent | [adjective] (where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship. | [adverb] Behind; later in time; following. AGAIN (6) [adverb] Another time; once more. | [adverb] Over and above a factor of one. | [adverb] Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion. 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. AGAPE (8) [adjective] In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open. | [adjective] Wide open. | [adverb] In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention. | [noun] The love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others. AGARS (6) [noun] Plural of agar, a gelatinous substance derived from seaweed used in laboratories and cooking as a gelling agent. | [noun] Plural of agar, a culture medium used in microbiology. AGATE (6) [noun] A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds. | [noun] The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5 1/2-point. | [noun] One fourteenth of an inch | [adverb] On the way; agoing. AGAVE (9) [noun] A plant of the genus Agave, which includes the maguey or century plant (Agave americana), which produces a gigantic flower stem at maturity. AGAZE (15) [verb] To gaze at; to look steadily at. AGENE (6) [noun] A chemical compound used in flour bleaching and bread improvement, now largely banned due to health concerns. AGENT (6) [noun] One who exerts power, or has the power to act | [noun] One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him/her; someone entrusted to do the business of another | [noun] A person who looks for work for another person AGERS (6) [noun] Plural of ager, one who ages or something that causes aging. | [noun] Plural of ager, a person or thing that ages something else. AGGER (7) [noun] One who aggers; specifically, a person who operates an agger (a Roman battering ram or siege weapon). | [noun] In geology, a ridge or mound of material deposited by glacial action. AGGIE (7) [noun] A student of or graduate from an agricultural college. | [noun] A marble or small stone used in games. AGGRO (7) [noun] Aggravation; bother. | [noun] Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent. | [noun] A measure of how belligerent a player is – a high value may inspire either avoidance or preemptive hostile action from enemies. AGHAS (9) [noun] Plural of agha; a Turkish or Ottoman military commander or official of high rank. AGILE (6) [adjective] Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move | [adjective] Characterised by quick motion | [adjective] Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams. AGING (7) [verb] To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. | [verb] To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt. | [verb] To categorize by age. AGIOS (6) [noun] The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio. 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. AGIST (6) [verb] To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. | [verb] To charge lands etc. with any public burden. AGLEE (6) [adjective] Awry; askew; in a crooked or slanted position. AGLET (6) [noun] The cover at the tip of a shoelace, to prevent it from fraying. | [noun] A catkin. | [noun] A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice. AGLEY (9) [adjective] Wrong; askew. | [adverb] Wrong, awry, askew, amiss, or distortedly. AGLOW (9) [adjective] (sometimes figurative) glowing; radiant 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. AGONE (6) [adjective] Ago; in the past (archaic or poetic form). AGONS (6) [noun] Plural of agon, meaning a struggle or contest, especially a debate or conflict in ancient Greek drama. | [noun] Plural of agon, referring to the central conflict or dramatic struggle in a literary work. AGONY (9) [noun] Extreme pain. | [noun] The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. | [noun] Violent contest or striving. AGORA (6) [noun] A place for gathering. | [noun] A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece. | [noun] Since 1960, a monetary unit and coin of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel / sheqel. AGREE (6) [verb] To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur. | [verb] To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to. | [verb] To yield assent to; to approve. AGRIA (6) AGUES (6) [verb] To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. AHEAD (9) [adverb] In or to the front; in advance; onward. | [adverb] In the direction one is facing or moving. | [adverb] In or for the future. AHOLD (9) [verb] To grasp or hold onto something. | [noun] A grip or hold on something. AHULL (8) [adverb] On or toward the hull of a ship; in or toward the direction of the hull. AIDED (7) [verb] To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist. | [verb] To climb with the use of aids such as pitons. AIDER (6) [noun] One who aids or helps. | [verb] Third person singular present of "aid," meaning to help or assist. AIDES (6) [noun] An assistant. | [noun] An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp. AILED (6) [verb] To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.) | [verb] To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled. 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). AIOLI (5) [noun] A type of sauce, similar to mayonnaise, made from garlic, egg, lemon juice and olive oil. AIRED (6) [verb] To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it. | [verb] To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate. | [verb] To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic. AIRER (5) [noun] A framework upon which laundry is aired; a clotheshorse. AIRNS (5) [noun] Plural of airn, a Scottish word for direction or point of the compass. | [noun] Plural of airn, a Scots word for an eagle or bird of prey. AIRTH (8) [noun] A direction or point of the compass, specifically the cardinal direction between north and east; also used in Scottish English to mean direction or quarter. | [noun] The earth or ground. AIRTS (5) [noun] Directions or points of the compass, particularly in Scottish usage. | [noun] Plural of airt, meaning directions or quarters. AISLE (5) [noun] A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers. | [noun] A clear path through rows of seating. | [noun] A clear corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale. AITCH (10) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter H. AIVER (8) AJIVA (15) [noun] In Jainism, the term for non-living matter or substances that lack a soul, as opposed to jiva (living beings). AJUGA (13) [noun] Any plant in the genus Ajuga, especially the ornamental ground cover Ajuga reptans. AKEES (9) [noun] A tropical evergreen tree, Blighia sapida, related to the lychee and longan. | [noun] The fruit of the tree, of which only the arils are edible, the remainder being poisonous. AKELA (9) [noun] The leader of a pack of Cub Scouts. AKENE (9) [noun] A type of fruit or seed vessel, especially a dry, one-seeded fruit that does not open naturally at maturity. ALACK (11) [interjection] An expression of sorrow or mourning. ALAMO (7) ALAND (6) ALANE (5) [noun] A chemical compound, aluminum hydride (AlH₃), used as a reducing agent and rocket fuel. | [adjective] Solitary or alone (archaic/poetic usage). ALANG (6) ALANS (5) [noun] Plural of alan, a type of large hunting dog or mastiff, particularly those used in medieval times. | [noun] Members of a nomadic Iranian people who inhabited the Caucasus region. ALANT (5) 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. ALARY (8) [adjective] Relating to or resembling wings. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the axilla (armpit area). ALATE (5) [noun] A winged, reproductive form of several social insects. | [adjective] Having winglike extensions or parts; winged. | [adverb] Recently; lately; of late. ALBAS (7) [noun] A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn. | [noun] A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba. | [noun] A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba. 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 ALCID (8) [noun] A bird of the family Alcidae, including auks, auklets, razorbills, dovekies, guillemots, and puffins. ALDER (6) [noun] Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family. | [noun] An alderman or alderwoman. ALDOL (6) [noun] Any aldehyde or ketone having a hydroxy group in the beta- position ALECS (7) [noun] An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried. | [noun] A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce. ALEFS (8) ALEPH (10) [noun] The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀, Aramaic 𐡀, Syriac ܐ, Hebrew א and Arabic ا. ALERT (5) [noun] An alarm. | [noun] A notification of higher importance than an advisory. | [noun] A state of readiness for potential combat. | [verb] To give warning to. ALFAS (8) [noun] Plural of alfa, a type of grass (esparto) used for making paper and rope. ALGAE (6) [noun] Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic. | [noun] Algal organisms viewed collectively or as a mass; algal growth. | [noun] A particular kind of algae. ALGAL (6) [noun] An alga. | [adjective] Pertaining to, or like, algae ALGAS (6) ALGID (7) ALGIN (6) ALGOR (6) ALGUM (8) ALIAS (5) [noun] Another name; an assumed name. | [noun] A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect. | [noun] An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks. ALIBI (7) [noun] The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed | [verb] To provide an alibi for. | [verb] To provide an excuse for. ALIEN (5) [noun] Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin. | [noun] A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration. | [noun] A foreigner residing in a country. ALIFS (8) ALIGN (6) [verb] To form a line; to fall into line. | [verb] To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line. | [verb] To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by beginning each item at an offset equal to some multiple of the word size. ALIKE (9) [adjective] Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. | [adverb] In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally. ALINE (5) [verb] To form a line; to fall into line. | [verb] To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line. | [verb] To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by beginning each item at an offset equal to some multiple of the word size. | [adverb] In line ALIST (5) ALIVE (8) [adjective] Having life; living; not dead | [adjective] In a state of action; in force or operation; existent | [adjective] Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy. ALIYA (8) ALKYD (13) [noun] A synthetic resin derived from a reaction between alcohol and certain acids, used as a base for many laminates, paints and coatings. ALKYL (12) [noun] Any of a series of univalent radicals of the general formula CnH2n+1 derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons. ALLAY (8) [noun] Alleviation; abatement; check. | [noun] An alloy. | [verb] To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm. ALLEE (5) [noun] A tree-lined avenue, often particularly one that is part of a landscaped garden. ALLEY (8) [noun] A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings. | [noun] The area between the outfielders. | [noun] An establishment where bowling is played. | [noun] A glass marble or taw. ALLOD (6) [noun] Allodium ALLOT (5) [verb] To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot. | [verb] To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose. ALLOW (8) [verb] To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. | [verb] To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. | [verb] To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. ALLOY (8) [noun] A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal. | [noun] A metal of lesser value, mixed with a metal of greater value. | [noun] An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc. | [verb] To mix or combine; often used of metals. ALLYL (8) [noun] (especially in combination) The univalent radical, CH2=CH-CH2-, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard. ALMAH (10) ALMAS (7) ALMEH (10) ALMES (7) ALMUD (8) ALMUG (8) ALOES (5) [noun] (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica. | [noun] A plant of the genus Aloe. | [noun] A strong, bitter drink made from the juice of such plants, used as a purgative. ALOFT (8) [adverb] At, to, or in the air or sky. | [adverb] Above, overhead, in a high place; up. | [adverb] In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging. ALOHA (8) [noun] Good wishes, love. | [noun] An utterance of aloha (see Interjection, below). | [interjection] Expressing good wishes when greeting or parting from someone; hello; goodbye. ALOIN (5) ALONE (5) [adjective] By oneself, solitary. | [adjective] Apart from, or exclusive of, others. | [adjective] Considered separately. ALONG (6) [adverb] In company; together. | [adverb] Onward, forward, with progressive action. | [preposition] By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to. ALOOF (8) [adjective] Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish. | [adverb] At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. | [adverb] Without sympathy; unfavorably. ALOUD (6) [adjective] Spoken out loud. | [adverb] With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly. | [adverb] Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly. ALPHA (10) [noun] The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A. | [noun] Latin alpha | [noun] The name of the symbols Α and α used in science and mathematics, often interchangeable with the symbols when used as a prefix. ALTAR (5) [noun] A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites. | [noun] A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary. | [noun] Anything that is worshipped or sacrificed to. ALTER (5) [verb] To change the form or structure of. | [verb] To become different. | [verb] To tailor clothes to make them fit. | [noun] (especially in the plural) An identity or headmate of a person with dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder). | [noun] A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites. ALTHO (8) ALTOS (5) [noun] A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody. | [noun] A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part. | [noun] An alto saxophone ALULA (5) [noun] A small projection of three or four feathers on the first digit of the wing on some birds. | [noun] A flower, a species of Hawaiian lobelioid 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. ALWAY (11) [adverb] At all times; throughout all time; since the beginning. | [adverb] Constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals (opposed to sometimes or occasionally). | [adverb] In any event. 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. ANCON (7) [noun] The corner of a wall or rafter. | [noun] A console that appears to support a cornice. | [noun] The elbow. ANEAR (5) [preposition] Near or close to. | [verb] To approach or draw near to. ANELE (5) [verb] To anoint; to give extreme unction with oil. ANENT (5) [preposition] Concerning, with regard to, about, in respect to, as to, insofar as, inasmuch as., apropos | [preposition] In the opinion or judgment of. | [preposition] Against, in front of, fronting; before; opposite; over against, on the other side. ANGAS (6) ANGEL (6) [noun] An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes. | [noun] (Abrahamic tradition) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues. | [noun] A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness. | [noun] A person who has Angelman syndrome. ANGER (6) [noun] A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm. | [noun] Pain or stinging. | [verb] To cause such a feeling of antagonism in. ANGLE (6) [noun] A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle). | [noun] The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere. | [noun] A corner where two walls intersect. | [noun] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. ANGRY (9) [adjective] Displaying or feeling anger. | [adjective] (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful. | [adjective] (said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing. ANGST (6) [noun] Emotional turmoil; painful sadness. | [noun] A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety. | [verb] To suffer angst; to fret. ANILE (5) [adjective] Of, relating to, or resembling an old woman; showing the weakness or senility of old age. ANILS (5) [noun] Plural of anil, a West Indian shrub from which indigo dye is obtained. | [noun] The indigo dye itself extracted from the anil plant. 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. ANION (5) [noun] A negatively charged ion. ANISE (5) [noun] An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds, which are used as a spice. It has a licorice scent. | [noun] (often qualified as "sweet anise" or "wild anise") Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare. ANKHS (12) [noun] A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the Egyptian triliteral ꜥnḫ and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept. | [noun] Tau cross ANKLE (9) [noun] The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint. | [verb] To walk. | [verb] To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution. ANKUS (9) [noun] The hooked goad that is used in India to control elephants. ANLAS (5) ANNAL (5) [noun] The record of a single event or item. ANNAS (5) [noun] A unit of currency in former British India equal to 12 pies or 1/16 rupee. ANNEX (12) [noun] An addition, an extension. | [noun] An appendix to a book or document. | [noun] An addition or extension to a building. | [verb] To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate. ANNOY (8) [noun] A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes. | [noun] That which causes such a feeling. | [verb] To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds. ANNUL (5) [verb] To formally revoke the validity of. | [verb] To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid. ANOAS (5) [noun] Any of either Bubalus quarlesi or Bubalus depressicornis, being species of small Indonesian water buffalo similar in appearance to a deer. ANODE (6) [noun] An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows inwards (and thus, electrons flow outwards). It can have either a negative or a positive voltage. | [noun] (by extension) The electrode at which chemical oxidation of anions takes place, usually resulting in the erosion of metal from the electrode. | [noun] The electrode which collects electrons emitted by the cathode in a vacuum tube or gas-filled tube. ANOLE (5) [noun] Any of the Anolis genus of arboreal American lizards (such as the American chameleon) from the iguana family which feature a brightly colored dewlap and color-changing ability. ANOMY (10) [noun] Alienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values. ANSAE (5) [noun] Plural of ansa, a loop-shaped anatomical structure or archaeological artifact. ANTAE (5) [noun] Plural of anta, which are pilasters or square columns at the corners of a building or doorway in classical architecture. ANTAS (5) [noun] Plural of anta, which is a pilaster or pier formed at the corner of a wall in classical architecture. ANTED (6) [verb] To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up. | [verb] To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances. | [verb] To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers. ANTES (5) [noun] A price or cost, as in up the ante. | [noun] In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards. | [verb] To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up. ANTIC (7) [noun] A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle. | [noun] A caricature. | [noun] (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper. | [noun] A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping ANTIS (5) [noun] A person opposed to a concept or principle. ANTRA (5) [noun] A bodily cavity, especially one having bony walls, especially one in the sinuses. ANTRE (5) [noun] A cave or cavern. ANTSY (8) [adjective] Restless, apprehensive and fidgety ANVIL (8) [noun] A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped. | [noun] An incus bone in the middle ear. | [noun] A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails. AORTA (5) [noun] The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system. | [noun] The liveliest part of something. APACE (9) [adverb] Quickly, rapidly, with speed. APART (7) [adjective] (Used after a noun or in the predicate) Exceptional, distinct. | [adjective] Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces. | [adverb] Placed separately (in regard to space or time). APEAK (11) [adjective] On or at the peak; at the highest point or level. APEEK (11) APERS (7) [verb] Third person singular present of "ape," meaning to imitate or mimic someone or something, often in a mocking way. APERY (10) [noun] A place where apes are kept. | [noun] The practice of aping; an apish action. APHID (11) [noun] Sapsucking pest insect of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian. APHIS (10) [noun] An aphid. APIAN (7) [noun] (very rare) A bee. | [adjective] Relating to bees. APING (8) [verb] To behave like an ape. | [verb] To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly. | [noun] Foolish imitation or mimicry. APISH (10) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of an ape APNEA (7) [noun] The cessation of breathing. APODS (8) APORT (7) [adverb] On or toward the port (left side) of a ship. APPAL (9) [verb] To fill with horror; to dismay. | [verb] To make pale; to blanch. | [verb] To weaken; to reduce in strength APPEL (9) [noun] A stamp of the foot in fencing to signal readiness or to distract an opponent. APPLE (9) [noun] A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates. | [noun] Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc. | [noun] The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit. APPLY (12) [verb] To lay or place; to put (one thing to another) | [verb] To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case | [verb] To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative | [adjective] Resembling apples, apple-like. APRES (7) [preposition] After | [noun] Such activities or events that occur after skiing. APRON (7) [noun] An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion. | [noun] The short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops. | [noun] A hard surface bordering a structure or area. APSES (7) [noun] A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar. | [noun] The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches. | [noun] A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept. APSIS (7) [noun] A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church; an apse. | [noun] Either of the points in the elliptical orbit of a planet or comet where it is closest or furthest from the sun; perihelion or aphelion; an apside APTER (7) [adjective] Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited. | [adjective] (of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards. | [adjective] Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn. APTLY (10) [adverb] In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; appropriately AQUAE (14) [noun] Plural of aqua, meaning waters or bodies of water, used in Latin phrases and scientific nomenclature. AQUAS (14) [noun] Plural of aqua, referring to water or water-based solutions. | [noun] Plural of aqua, a light bluish-green color. ARAKS (9) ARBOR (7) [noun] A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation. | [noun] A grove of trees. | [noun] An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe. ARCED (8) [verb] To move following a curved path. | [verb] To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc. | [verb] To form an electrical arc. ARCUS (7) [noun] An arch or bow-shaped anatomical structure. | [noun] A curved line or arc in geometry. ARDEB (8) [noun] An Egyptian unit of dry measure, equal to about 5.6 bushels. ARDOR (6) [noun] Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion. | [noun] Spirit; enthusiasm; passion. | [noun] Intense heat. AREAE (5) [noun] Plural of area; multiple regions or surfaces. AREAL (5) [adjective] Relating to or denoting an area or surface. | [noun] A unit of metric land area equal to 100 square meters. AREAS (5) [noun] A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units. | [noun] A particular geographic region. | [noun] Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent. ARECA (7) [noun] Any member of the genus Areca of about fifty species of single-stemmed palms in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests. AREIC (7) [adjective] Relating to or denoting a region or drainage system that has no outlet to the sea and no permanent streams. ARENA (5) [noun] An enclosed area, often outdoor, for the presentation of sporting events (sports arena) or other spectacular events; earthen area, often oval, specifically for rodeos (North America) or circular area for bullfights (especially Hispanic America). | [noun] The building housing such an area; specifically, a very large, often round building, often topped with a dome, designated for indoor sporting or other major events, such as concerts. | [noun] The sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre where contests were held in Ancient Rome. ARETE (5) [noun] (Classical philosophy) Virtue, excellence. | [noun] (Classical philosophy) The proper state or condition for a human. | [noun] A very thin ridge of rock. ARGAL (6) [noun] A crust of tartar formed during the fermentation of wine. | [adverb] Therefore; consequently (archaic). ARGIL (6) [noun] Potter's clay. ARGLE (6) ARGOL (6) [noun] Potassium tartrate ARGON (6) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Ar) with an atomic number of 18. The third most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, it is a colourless, odourless, inert noble gas. | [noun] A single atom of this element. ARGOT (6) [noun] A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds. | [noun] The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers. ARGUE (6) [verb] To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. | [verb] To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. | [verb] To have an argument, a quarrel. ARGUS (6) [noun] A watchful guardian. | [noun] An alert, observant person. | [noun] Either of two species of pheasant of Southeast Asia having large ocellated tails. ARHAT (8) [noun] One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint. | [noun] One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta. ARIAS (5) [noun] A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata. ARIEL (5) [noun] A kind of mountain gazelle, native to Arabia. ARILS (5) [noun] A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates. ARISE (5) [verb] To come up from a lower to a higher position. | [verb] To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up. | [verb] To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself. ARLES (5) [noun] Earnest money or a deposit given as a pledge to secure a bargain or contract. 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. AROID (6) [noun] Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics. AROMA (7) [noun] A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one. AROSE (5) [verb] To come up from a lower to a higher position. | [verb] To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up. | [verb] To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself. ARPEN (7) ARRAS (5) [noun] A tapestry or wall hanging. ARRAY (8) [noun] Clothing and ornamentation. | [noun] A collection laid out to be viewed in full. | [noun] An orderly series, arrangement or sequence. ARRIS (5) [noun] A sharp edge or ridge formed by the intersection of two surfaces | [noun] A sharp edge or ridge formed by the intersection of two curved surfaces | [noun] A ridge formed on the surface of flaked stone that results from the intersection of two or more flake removals. The arris marks the location of flake scars on the dorsal surface of chipped stone. http//books.google.com/books?id=L6LAsLpx46IC&pg=PA252&lpg=PA252&dq=arris+lithic&source=web&ots=VMpCZX_xc-&sig=sW0DjBW6Lg_NdAGKi8ML875OcfI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA252,M1 | [noun] Buttocks, arse. ARROW (8) [noun] A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow. | [noun] A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. →). | [noun] A directed edge. ARSES (5) [noun] The buttocks or more specifically, the anus. | [noun] A stupid, mean or despicable person. | [verb] To be silly, act stupid or mess around. ARSIS (5) [noun] The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat. | [noun] The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter. | [noun] The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis. ARSON (5) [noun] The crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage. | [verb] To illegally set fire to; to burn down in a criminal manner ARTAL (5) [noun] A unit of weight used in some Muslim countries, typically equal to about 2.8 pounds or roughly 1.3 kilograms. ARTEL (5) [noun] A Russian or Soviet craftsmen's collective. ARTSY (8) [adjective] (sometimes derogatory) Inclined towards the arts; arty. ARUMS (7) [noun] A flower or plant in the genus Arum ARVAL (8) [adjective] Relating to plowed land or fields; of or pertaining to arable land. ARVOS (8) [noun] Afternoon. ARYLS (8) [noun] Plural of aryl; chemical groups derived from aromatic hydrocarbons by removal of one hydrogen atom. ASANA (5) [noun] A body position, typically associated with the practice of yoga. | [noun] Any of certain trees of genus Pterocarpus | [noun] The wood of such trees, sometimes sold as Philippine mahogany. ASCOT (7) [noun] Ascot tie ASCUS (7) [noun] A sac-shaped cell present in ascomycete fungi; it is a reproductive cell in which meiosis and an additional cell division produce eight spores. ASDIC (8) [noun] A sonar system used to detect submarines, employing sound waves to locate objects underwater. ASHED (9) [verb] Past tense of ash, meaning to cover with ash or to reduce to ash. | [verb] To remove ash from something, such as a cigarette. ASHEN (8) [adjective] Made from the wood of the ash-tree. | [adjective] Of or resembling ashes. | [adjective] Ash-colored; pale; anemic, anaemic. | [verb] To turn into ash; make or become ashy ASHES (8) [noun] The solid remains of a fire. | [noun] The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process. | [noun] Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash. ASIDE (6) [noun] An incidental remark made quietly so as to be heard by the person to whom it is said and not by any others in the vicinity. | [noun] A brief comment by a character addressing the audience, unheard by other characters. | [noun] A minor related mention, an afterthought. ASKED (10) [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). | [verb] To put forward (a question) to be answered. | [verb] To interrogate or enquire of (a person). ASKER (9) [noun] One who asks a question or makes a request. ASKEW (12) [adjective] Turned or twisted to one side. | [adjective] Untoward, unfavourable. | [adverb] Tilted to one side. ASKOI (9) [noun] Plural of askos, an ancient Greek jug or vessel with a spout, typically used for pouring liquids. ASKOS (9) [noun] An ancient Greek wineskin or liquid container made from a goat skin or leather. | [noun] In pottery, a type of ancient Greek vessel with a spout and loop handle used for pouring liquids. ASPEN (7) [adjective] Pertaining to the asp or aspen tree. | [adjective] Tremulous, trembling. | [adjective] Of a woman's tongue: wagging, gossiping. | [noun] The asp tree; a kind of poplar tree (genus Populus sect. Populus). A medium-size tree with thin, straight trunks of a greenish-white color. ASPER (7) [noun] A monetary unit formerly used in Turkey and some other Ottoman territories. | [adjective] Rough or harsh to the touch. ASPIC (9) [noun] A dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé. | [noun] An asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt. | [noun] A piece of ordnance carrying a 12-pound shot. ASPIS (7) [noun] A small round shield used by ancient Greek hoplites. | [noun] A venomous snake found in Africa and Asia. ASSAI (5) [adverb] A tempo direction equivalent to "very". ASSAY (8) [noun] Trial, attempt. | [noun] Examination and determination; test. | [noun] The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something. ASSES (5) [noun] Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden. | [noun] A stupid person. | [noun] Buttocks. | [noun] (unit of weight) A libra. ASSET (5) [noun] Something or someone of any value; any portion of one's property or effects so considered. | [noun] Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused. | [noun] An intelligence asset. ASTER (5) [noun] Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers. | [noun] A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell. | [noun] A star. ASTIR (5) [adjective] In motion; characterized by motion. | [adjective] Out of bed; up and about. ASYLA (8) [noun] Plural of asylum, referring to places of refuge or institutions for the care of people with mental illness or other conditions. ATAPS (7) [noun] A type of palm leaf used for thatching roofs, particularly in Southeast Asia. ATAXY (15) [noun] Ataxia | [noun] Disorder; irregularity ATILT (5) [adjective] At an angle from the vertical or horizontal. | [adverb] At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over. | [adverb] Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust). ATLAS (5) [noun] A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text. | [noun] A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc. on any given subject. | [noun] (especially of the human body) A detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its elements splayed so as to be presented in as discrete a manner as possible whilst retaining a realistic view of the whole. | [noun] A rich satin fabric. 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. ATOLL (5) [noun] A type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform. Atolls have a unique geology, so not all islands with a reef and a lagoon are atolls 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. ATONE (5) [verb] To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency. | [verb] To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement. | [verb] To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony. ATONY (8) [noun] Lack of muscle tone or strength; absence of normal tension or responsiveness in a body part or organ. ATOPY (10) [noun] A genetic tendency to develop allergic diseases such as asthma, eczema, or hay fever. ATRIA (5) [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. ATRIP (7) [adjective] (nautical) With the anchor just clear of the bottom of the sea. | [adjective] In a state of readiness or preparation. ATTAR (5) [noun] An essential oil extracted from flowers. | [noun] A perfume made from this oil. ATTIC (7) [noun] The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation. AUDAD (7) AUDIO (6) [noun] A sound, or a sound signal | [adjective] Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight. AUDIT (6) [noun] A judicial examination. | [noun] An examination in general. | [noun] An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures AUGER (6) [noun] A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet. | [noun] A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool). | [noun] A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts AUGHT (9) [pronoun] Anything whatsoever, any part. | [noun] Whit, the smallest part, iota. | [noun] Zero | [noun] Estimation. | [noun] Property; possession | [numeral] A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine. AUGUR (6) [noun] A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences. | [noun] An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events. | [verb] To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events. AULIC (7) [adjective] Relating to a royal court or palace; characteristic of a court. AUNTS (5) [noun] The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The female cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. AUNTY (8) [noun] The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The female cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. AURAE (5) [noun] Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something. | [noun] An invisible force surrounding a living creature. | [noun] Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache. AURAL (5) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the ear. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to sound. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to an aura. AURAR (5) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Icelandic króna AURAS (5) [noun] Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something. | [noun] An invisible force surrounding a living creature. | [noun] Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache. AUREI (5) [noun] A gold coin, minted in the Roman Empire from approximately 100 B.C.E. to 309 C.E., equal to 25 denarii. AURES (5) [noun] Plural of "aura," which refers to distinctive atmospheres or qualities surrounding a person or thing. | [noun] Plural of "auris," a Latin term for ears used in anatomical contexts. AURIC (7) [adjective] Of or pertaining to trivalent gold. | [adjective] Of, or pertaining to the ear; aural | [adjective] Pertaining to an aura. AURIS (5) [noun] The ear, or an ear-shaped anatomical structure. AURUM (7) [noun] The Latin name for the element gold, atomic number 79. AUTOS (5) [noun] An automobile. | [noun] A setting for automatic operation. | [noun] An automatic gearbox / transmission. AUXIN (12) [noun] A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant life cycle. AVAIL (8) [noun] Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions). | [noun] Proceeds; profits from business transactions. | [noun] An advertising slot or package. AVANT (8) [noun] The front of an army; the vanguard. AVAST (8) [interjection] Hold fast!; desist!; stay!. | [interjection] (in imitation of pirates) listen!; pay attention! AVENS (8) [noun] A plant of the genus Geum, especially Geum urbanum, or herb bennet. | [noun] A plant of the genus Dryas. AVERS (8) [verb] To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner. | [verb] To prove or justify a plea. | [verb] To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify. AVERT (8) [verb] To turn aside or away. | [verb] To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. | [verb] To turn away. AVGAS (9) [noun] Gasoline fuel for piston-engined aircraft. AVIAN (8) [noun] A bird. | [noun] A bird-like or flying creature. | [noun] (furry fandom) Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being a bird or bird-like animal character with human characteristics. AVION (8) AVISO (8) [noun] A notice or warning, especially one issued by a government or authority. | [noun] In maritime contexts, a fast sailing ship used for carrying dispatches or messages. AVOID (9) [verb] To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun | [verb] To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from | [verb] To try not to do something or to have something happen AVOWS (11) [verb] To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. | [verb] To bind or devote by a vow. | [verb] To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry. AWAIT (8) [noun] A waiting for; ambush. | [noun] Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation. | [verb] To wait for. AWAKE (12) [adjective] Not asleep; conscious. | [adjective] (by extension) Alert, aware. | [verb] To become conscious after having slept. AWARD (9) [noun] A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted. | [noun] The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded. | [noun] A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit. AWARE (8) [adjective] Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty. | [adjective] Conscious or having knowledge of something. AWASH (11) [adjective] Washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water. | [adjective] (by extension) Covered, overspread (with or in something). AWFUL (11) [adjective] Very bad. | [adjective] Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. | [adjective] Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible. AWING (9) [adverb] On the wing; flying; fluttering. | [verb] To inspire fear and reverence in. | [verb] To control by inspiring dread. AWNED (9) [adjective] Having awns; furnished with awns (bristle-like appendages on grain or grass). AWOKE (12) [verb] To become conscious after having slept. | [verb] To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. | [verb] To excite or to stir up something latent. AWOLS (8) [noun] Plural of AWOL; instances of absence without leave from military duty or obligation. AXELS (12) [noun] A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air. AXIAL (12) [noun] A flight feather that appears between the primaries and secondaries on some birds. | [noun] A plane parallel to the surface of a tooth. | [adjective] Relating to, resembling, or situated on an axis AXILE (12) [adjective] Relating to or situated on an axis. AXILS (12) [noun] The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs. AXING (13) [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). | [verb] To put forward (a question) to be answered. | [verb] To interrogate or enquire of (a person). 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. AXION (12) [noun] A hypothetical subatomic particle postulated to resolve certain symmetry problems concerning the strong nuclear force. AXITE (12) AXLED (13) [adjective] Having an axle or axles; equipped with an axle. AXLES (12) [noun] Shoulder. | [noun] The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel. | [noun] A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree. 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. AXONE (12) [noun] A variant spelling of axon, the long slender projection of a nerve cell that conducts electrical impulses away from the cell body. AXONS (12) [noun] A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse. AYAHS (11) [noun] A South Asian female servant, maid or nanny, historically, often one working for Europeans in South Asia. | [noun] A verse in the Quran. AYINS (8) [noun] The plural of ayin, the sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. AZANS (14) [noun] The call to prayer, which originally consisted of simply four takbirs followed by the statement لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱلله (أَشْهَدُ أَنْ). AZIDE (15) [noun] The univalent N3 radical or functional group or any ester containing this group | [noun] The N3- anion or any salt containing this anion (^-N=\overset{+}N=N^-) AZIDO (15) [adjective] Relating to or containing the azide group, a chemical functional group consisting of three nitrogen atoms bonded together. AZINE (14) [noun] Any of a class of organic compounds, having the general formula R2C=NN=CR2, produced by the action of a carbonyl compound with hydrazine. AZLON (14) [noun] A synthetic fiber made from cellulose, used in textiles and clothing. AZOIC (16) [adjective] Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life | [adjective] Anterior to the existence of animal life | [adjective] Formed when there was no animal life on the globe AZOLE (14) [noun] A five-membered aromatic heterocyclic compound containing nitrogen atoms, used in various organic compounds and fungicides. AZONS (14) AZOTE (14) [noun] An archaic or poetic term for nitrogen. AZOTH (17) [noun] The mercury of the alchemists, regarded as the universal remedy or elixir of life. | [noun] An alchemical term for the first matter or prima materia used in creating the philosopher's stone. AZURE (14) [noun] A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines. | [noun] The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour. | [noun] The unclouded sky; the blue vault above. BAAED (8) [verb] To make the characteristic cry of a sheep. BAALS (7) [noun] Plural of baal, referring to false gods or idols in ancient Semitic religions, or used more broadly to mean any false god or object of worship. BABAS (9) [noun] A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup. | [noun] (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother. | [noun] An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture. BABEL (9) [noun] A confused mixture of sounds and voices, especially in different languages. | [noun] A place or scene of noise and confusion. | [noun] A tall, looming structure. BABES (9) [noun] A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. | [noun] An attractive person, especially a young woman. | [noun] Darling (term of endearment). BABKA (13) [noun] A sweet braided or swirled yeast bread of Jewish origin, typically filled with cinnamon, chocolate, or fruit. BABOO (9) [noun] A Hindu clerk or official; also spelled babu. | [noun] In India, a term of respect for a man, similar to "Mr." BABUL (9) [noun] A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica. BABUS (9) [noun] (Indian English) A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man | [noun] (Indian English) (Originally) a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official. BACCA (11) [noun] A berry or berry-like fruit. | [noun] In anatomy, a small rounded structure or protuberance. BACKS (13) [noun] The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly. | [noun] That which is farthest away from the front. | [noun] Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back. BACON (9) [noun] Cured meat from the sides, belly or back of a pig. | [noun] Thin slices of the above in long strips. | [noun] The police or spies. BADDY (12) [noun] A person of bad character in a work of fiction. BADGE (9) [noun] A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization. | [noun] A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information. | [noun] A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area. BADLY (11) [adjective] Ill, unwell. | [adverb] In a bad manner. | [adverb] Very much; to a great degree. BAFFS (13) [verb] Third person singular of "baff," meaning to strike a golf ball with the sole of the club. | [noun] Plural of "baff," a golf club with a broad sole used for striking the ground. BAFFY (16) [noun] A wooden golf club with a short shaft and steep face, used for short approach shots. | [adjective] Silly or foolish. BAGEL (8) [noun] A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked. | [noun] A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero). | [noun] An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man. BAGGY (12) [adjective] Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body. | [adjective] Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing. | [adjective] Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding. | [noun] A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches. BAHTS (10) [noun] Plural of baht, the basic monetary unit of Thailand. BAILS (7) [noun] Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial. | [noun] Release from imprisonment on payment of such money. | [noun] The person providing such payment. BAIRN (7) [noun] A child or baby. BAITH (10) [noun] A Scottish word meaning both or the two of something. BAITS (7) [noun] Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net. | [noun] Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests. | [noun] Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something BAIZA (16) [noun] A monetary unit of Oman, equal to one thousandth of a rial. BAIZE (16) [noun] A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc. | [noun] A coarse woolen material with a long nap; usually dyed in plain colors. | [verb] To cover or line with baize. BAKED (12) [verb] (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven. | [verb] (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven. | [verb] To be warmed to drying and hardening. BAKER (11) [noun] A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items. | [noun] A portable oven for baking. BAKES (11) [noun] The act of cooking food by baking. | [noun] Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole. | [noun] A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served. BALAS (7) [noun] A type of spinel gemstone, typically red or pink in color, valued as a precious stone. BALDS (8) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "bald," meaning to become bald or to make bald. | [noun] Plural of "bald," referring to bald people or things. BALDY (11) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) Someone who is bald. BALED (8) [verb] To remove water from a boat with buckets etc. BALER (7) [noun] A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton. | [noun] A person who creates bales, either by operating or feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand. BALES (7) [noun] A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire. | [noun] A funeral pyre. | [noun] A beacon-fire. BALKS (11) [noun] An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. | [noun] The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation. | [noun] Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks". BALKY (14) [adjective] Refusing to proceed or cooperate. BALLS (7) [noun] A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. | [noun] A round or ellipsoidal object. | [noun] (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle. BALLY (10) [adjective] Bloody (used as a mild intensifier). | [adverb] Very. | [noun] A balaclava. 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. BALSA (7) [noun] A large tree, Ochroma pyramidale, native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight. | [noun] The wood of this tree. | [noun] A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America. BANAL (7) [adjective] Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh. | [adjective] (history) Relating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service. BANCO (9) [noun] A bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated. | [adjective] Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges. Quite often, the Banco Court is an appeals court. BANDS (8) [noun] A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling. | [noun] A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area. | [noun] A strip of decoration. BANDY (11) [verb] To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. | [verb] To use or pass about casually. | [verb] To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports. | [adjective] Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy-legged. | [noun] A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed. | [noun] A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks. BANED (8) [verb] Past tense of bane, meaning to cause harm, ruin, or distress to something or someone. BANES (7) [noun] A cause of misery or death. | [noun] Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants. | [noun] A killer, murderer, slayer. BANGS (8) [noun] A sudden percussive noise. | [noun] A strike upon an object causing such a noise. | [noun] An explosion. | [noun] Brucellosis, a bacterial disease. BANJO (14) [noun] A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings. | [noun] Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard. | [noun] An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel. BANKS (11) [noun] An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs. | [noun] A branch office of such an institution. | [noun] An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque. BANNS (7) [noun] The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage). | [noun] Historically, any public announcement of a coming event. BANTY (10) [noun] A small domestic chicken or other animal of diminutive size. | [adjective] Small or undersized. BARBE (9) BARBS (9) [noun] The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. | [noun] A hurtful or disparaging remark. | [noun] A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. BARDE (8) [noun] A piece of armor for a horse. | [verb] To cover a horse with armor. BARDS (8) [noun] A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. | [noun] (by extension) A poet. | [noun] A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.) BARED (8) [verb] To uncover; to reveal. BARER (7) [adjective] Minimal; that is or are just sufficient. | [adjective] Naked, uncovered. | [adjective] Having no supplies. BARES (7) [verb] To uncover; to reveal. BARFS (10) [verb] To vomit. | [verb] Of a system: to fail. BARGE (8) [noun] A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo. | [noun] A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions. | [noun] A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel. BARIC (9) [adjective] Relating to or containing barium, or relating to atmospheric pressure. BARKS (11) [noun] The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals. | [noun] An abrupt loud vocal utterance. | [verb] To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). BARKY (14) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of bark; having a rough texture like tree bark. | [adjective] Inclined to bark; prone to making barking sounds (used of dogs). 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. BARNS (7) [noun] A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle. | [noun] A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres. | [noun] An arena. BARNY (10) BARON (7) [noun] The male ruler of a barony. | [noun] A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord). | [noun] A particular cut of beef, made up of a double sirloin. BARRE (7) [noun] A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises. | [noun] Short for barre chord. BARYE (10) [noun] A unit of pressure in the centimeter-gram-second system, equal to one dyne per square centimeter. BASAL (7) [noun] Base, bottom, minimum | [noun] Any basal structure or part | [adjective] Basic, elementary; relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin. BASED (8) [verb] To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of. | [verb] To be located (at a particular place). | [verb] (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer. | [adjective] (of a person) Not caring what others think about one's personality, style, or behavior; focused on maintaining individuality. BASER (7) [adjective] Low in height; short. | [adjective] Low in place or position. | [adjective] Of low value or degree. BASES (7) [noun] Something from which other things extend; a foundation. | [noun] The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis. | [noun] A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material. | [noun] A physical base or foundation. BASIC (9) [noun] A necessary commodity, a staple requirement. | [noun] An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge. | [noun] Basic training. BASIL (7) [noun] A plant (Ocimum basilicum). | [noun] The leaves of this plant used as a herb. | [noun] Any other species in the genus Ocimum. | [noun] The angle to which a joiner's tool is ground away. | [noun] The skin of a sheep tanned with bark. BASIN (7) [noun] A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall | [noun] A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food | [noun] A depression, natural or artificial, containing water BASIS (7) [noun] A physical base or foundation. | [noun] A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis. | [noun] An underlying condition or circumstance. BASKS (11) [verb] To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat. | [verb] To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in"). BASSI (7) [noun] A bass singer, especially in opera. | [noun] An instrumental part written for a bass instrument. | [noun] The double bass, or contrabasso. BASSO (7) [noun] A bass singer, especially in opera. | [noun] An instrumental part written for a bass instrument. | [noun] The double bass, or contrabasso. BASSY (10) [adjective] Containing or resembling bass; having deep, low tones or qualities. | [adjective] Full of or abounding in bass fish. BASTE (7) [verb] To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric. | [noun] A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking. | [verb] To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. | [verb] To beat with a stick; to cudgel. BASTS (7) [verb] Third person singular present of "bast," meaning to sew loosely with long stitches in preparation for final sewing. | [noun] Plural of "bast," the fibrous material from plants used for rope or matting. BATCH (12) [noun] The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time. | [noun] (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation. | [noun] A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business. | [noun] A bank; a sandbank. | [verb] To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married. BATED (8) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. BATES (7) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. BATHE (10) [noun] The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath. | [verb] To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. | [verb] To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. BATHS (10) [noun] A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub. | [noun] A building or area where bathing occurs. | [noun] The act of bathing. BATIK (11) [noun] A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric. | [verb] To dye fabric using the wax-resist method. BATON (7) [noun] A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes | [noun] The stick of a conductor in musical performances. | [noun] An object transferred by runners in a relay race. BATTS (7) [noun] Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation | [noun] (usually in the plural) A shoe. BATTU (7) [adjective] Beaten or struck, used in ballet to describe a movement where the legs are beaten together in the air. | [verb] Past tense of "bat" in some contexts, particularly in ballet terminology. BATTY (10) [adjective] Mad, crazy, silly. | [adjective] Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal). | [noun] (West Indian slang) The buttocks or anus. BAUDS (8) [noun] A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second. | [noun] Bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol. BAULK (11) [noun] An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. | [noun] The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation. | [noun] Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks". BAWDS (11) [noun] A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame. | [noun] A lewd person. BAWDY (14) [adjective] Soiled, dirty. | [adjective] Obscene; filthy; unchaste. | [adjective] (of language) Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude. BAWLS (10) [verb] To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. | [verb] To wail; to give out a blaring cry. BAWTY (13) BAYED (11) [verb] To howl. | [verb] To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay. | [verb] To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds. BAYOU (10) [noun] A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river. | [noun] A swamp, a marshy (stagnant) body of water. BAZAR (16) [noun] A marketplace or shopping area, especially in Middle Eastern countries. | [noun] A sale of goods, typically for charity. BAZOO (16) [noun] A simple wind instrument, such as a kazoo or tin horn. | [noun] A person's mouth. BEACH (12) [noun] The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly. | [noun] A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water. | [noun] The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle. BEADS (8) [noun] Prayer, later especially with a rosary. | [noun] Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. | [noun] A small, round object. BEADY (11) [adjective] Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming. | [adjective] (of eyes or a look) Bright and penetrating. | [adjective] Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads. BEAKS (11) [noun] Anatomical uses. | [noun] Figurative uses. | [noun] Colloquial uses. BEAKY (14) [adjective] Beaked: having a beak. | [adjective] Beak-like: resembling a beak. | [adjective] Having a nose which resembles a beak. 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. BEANO (7) [noun] A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party. | [noun] Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy. BEANS (7) [noun] A reusable software component written in Java. | [noun] Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods. | [noun] The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean or garbanzo bean). BEARD (8) [noun] Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck. | [noun] The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds. | [noun] The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. BEARS (7) [noun] A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae. | [noun] A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. | [noun] An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. BEAST (7) [noun] Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones. | [noun] (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. | [noun] A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner. BEATS (7) [noun] A stroke; a blow. | [noun] A pulsation or throb. | [noun] A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. BEAUS (7) [noun] A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. | [noun] A male lover; a boyfriend. | [noun] A male escort. BEAUT (7) [noun] Something or someone that is physically attractive. | [noun] Something that is a remarkable example of its type. | [adjective] Beautiful, splendid. BEAUX (14) [noun] A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. | [noun] A male lover; a boyfriend. | [noun] A male escort. BECAP (11) BEGAN (8) [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation | [verb] To come into existence. BEGAT (8) [noun] An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible | [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. BELAY (10) [noun] The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection. | [noun] The object to which a rope is secured. | [noun] A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner. BELGA (8) [noun] A monetary unit of Belgium, equal to one hundredth of a franc. 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. BETAS (7) [noun] The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase. | [noun] Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc. | [noun] Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices. BETTA (7) [noun] A small colorful freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia, popular in aquariums. | [noun] A variant spelling of "beta," the second letter of the Greek alphabet. BHANG (11) [noun] Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent. BIALI (7) [noun] A roll of bread similar to a bagel but flatter and with a depression in the center instead of a hole, typically topped with onions and poppy seeds. BIALY (10) [noun] A flat bread roll topped with onion flakes. Instead of a hole like a bagel, it has a depression in the middle. 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. BINAL (7) BIOTA (7) [noun] The living organisms of a region. | [noun] Platycladus orientalis (syn. Biota orientalis, Oriental arborvitae). BLABS (9) [verb] To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion. BLACK (13) [noun] The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed. | [noun] A black dye or pigment. | [noun] A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment. BLADE (8) [noun] The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword. | [noun] The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc. | [noun] The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal. BLAHS (10) [noun] Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk. | [noun] (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc. BLAIN (7) [noun] A skin swelling or sore; a blister; a blotch. 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. BLAND (8) [adjective] Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating. | [adjective] Lacking in taste, flavor, or vigor. | [adjective] Lacking interest; boring; dull. | [verb] To mix; blend; mingle. | [noun] Mixture; union. BLANK (11) [noun] A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence . | [noun] A nonplus . | [noun] The white spot in the centre of a target; hence the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim . BLARE (7) [noun] A loud sound. | [noun] Dazzling, often garish, brilliance. | [verb] To make a loud sound. BLASE (7) [adjective] Unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity. BLAST (7) [noun] A violent gust of wind. | [noun] A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc. | [noun] A hit from a pipe. | [verb] To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din. | [noun] An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast). | [verb] To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool). BLATE (7) [verb] To bleat or cry out like a sheep or goat. | [verb] To expose or reveal something. BLATS (7) [verb] To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat. | [verb] To make a senseless noise. | [verb] To talk inconsiderately. BLAWN (10) [verb] Past participle of blow, especially in Scottish or dialectal English. | [adjective] Blown or swollen. BLAWS (10) [noun] Plural of blaw, a Scottish word meaning to blow or blast. | [verb] Third person singular of blaw, meaning to blow or blast in Scottish dialect. BLAZE (16) [noun] A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light. | [noun] Intense, direct light accompanied with heat. | [noun] The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face. | [verb] To be on fire, especially producing bright flames. | [noun] Publication; the act of spreading widely by report BLEAK (11) [adjective] Without color; pale; pallid. | [adjective] Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. | [adjective] Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate. | [noun] A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae. BLEAR (7) [adjective] (of eyes or vision) Dim, unclear from water or rheum. | [adjective] Causing or caused by dimness of sight. | [verb] To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes. BLEAT (7) [noun] The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat. | [verb] Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound. | [verb] Of a person, to complain. BLOAT (7) [noun] Distention of the abdomen from death. | [noun] Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant. | [noun] Wasteful use of space or other resources. BOARD (8) [noun] A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making. | [noun] A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc. | [noun] A flat surface with markings for playing a board game. | [noun] A rebound. BOARS (7) [noun] A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. | [noun] A male pig. | [noun] A male boar (sense 1). BOART (7) [noun] Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond. BOAST (7) [noun] A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself. | [noun] Something that one brags about. | [noun] A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall. | [verb] To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. BOATS (7) [noun] A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind. | [noun] A full house. | [noun] A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape. BOGAN (8) [noun] (derogatory stereotype) An unsophisticated person from a working class background. | [noun] An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts. | [noun] A petrolhead. | [noun] Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater. BOHEA (10) [noun] A black tea from China. BOLAR (7) [adjective] Of or relating to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey. BOLAS (7) [noun] A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, designed to capture animals by entangling their legs. | [noun] A sticky thread whirled around by certain spiders to catch prey. BORAL (7) BORAS (7) [noun] A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales. BORAX (14) [noun] A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc. | [noun] The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate. | [noun] (sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design. BOTAS (7) [noun] Plural of bota, a leather bottle or wineskin used for holding and dispensing wine or other beverages. | [noun] Plural of bota, a type of soft leather boot. BOYAR (10) [noun] A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania. BOYLA (10) BRACE (9) [noun] Armor for the arm; vambrace. | [noun] A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms. | [noun] A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock. BRACH (12) [noun] A female hunting dog, especially a pointer or setter. | [noun] A woman or girl (archaic or dialectal). BRACT (9) [noun] A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises. BRADS (8) [noun] A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin. | [noun] (elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet. BRAES (7) [noun] The sloping bank of a river valley. | [noun] Any hillside or slope. BRAGS (8) [verb] To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself. | [verb] To boast of. BRAID (8) [noun] A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. | [noun] A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. | [noun] A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together | [adjective] Deceitful. BRAIL (7) [noun] A small rope used to truss up sails. | [noun] A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. | [noun] A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. BRAIN (7) [noun] The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action. | [noun] An intelligent person. | [noun] (in the plural) Intellect. BRAKE (11) [noun] A fern; bracken. | [noun] A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc. | [noun] A tool used for breaking flax or hemp. | [noun] An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. | [noun] A cage. | [verb] To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. BRAKY (14) BRAND (8) [noun] A conflagration; a flame. | [noun] A piece of burning wood or peat, or a glowing cinder. | [noun] A torch used for signaling. BRANK (11) [noun] A scold's bridle; an iron framework fitted over the head as a punishment for gossip or slander. | [verb] To restrain or silence with a brank. BRANS (7) [noun] The hard outer layers of cereal grains that are separated during milling. | [noun] Plural of bran, referring to multiple types or quantities of bran. BRANT (7) [noun] Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla. | [adjective] Steep, precipitous. | [adjective] Smooth; unwrinkled BRASH (10) [noun] A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness. | [noun] A sudden burst of rain. | [noun] An attack or assault. | [noun] Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge. BRASS (7) [noun] A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications. | [noun] A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments | [noun] Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired. | [noun] Brass in pocket; money. BRATS (7) [noun] A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish. | [noun] A son or daughter (at any age) of an active military service member. | [noun] A turbot or flatfish BRAVA (10) [interjection] An exclamation of approval or praise, typically used to express appreciation for a performance. | [noun] A shout of "brava" as an expression of acclaim. BRAVE (10) [noun] A Native American warrior. | [noun] A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. | [noun] A challenge; a defiance; bravado. BRAVI (10) BRAVO (10) [noun] A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado. | [noun] A shout of "bravo!" | [noun] The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet. BRAWL (10) [noun] A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved. | [verb] To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel. | [verb] To create a disturbance; to complain loudly. | [verb] To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake. | [noun] A dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance. BRAWN (10) [noun] Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb. | [noun] Physical strength; muscularity. | [noun] Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat. BRAWS (10) [noun] Plural of braw, a Scottish word meaning fine, good, or excellent. | [noun] Plural of braw, Scottish dialect for braws meaning clothes or trousers. BRAXY (17) [noun] An inflammatory disease of sheep. | [noun] Meat from sheep that have died from this disease, or that have died from accident or disease in general. | [adjective] Sick with braxy BRAYS (10) [noun] The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel. | [noun] (by extension) Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound. BRAZA (16) [noun] A unit of length used in Spanish-speaking countries, approximately equivalent to a fathom or about 1.67 meters. BRAZE (16) [noun] A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore. | [verb] To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness. | [verb] To burn or temper in fire. BREAD (8) [noun] A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. | [noun] Any variety of bread. | [noun] Money. | [noun] Breadth. | [verb] To make broad; spread. | [noun] A piece of embroidery; a braid. BREAK (11) [noun] An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces. | [noun] A physical space that opens up in something or between two things. | [noun] A rest or pause, usually from work. | [noun] A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music. 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. BRIAR (7) [noun] Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera. | [noun] Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. | [noun] The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub. BROAD (8) [noun] A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk. | [noun] A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. | [noun] A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. | [noun] A prostitute, a woman of loose morals. BUBAL (9) [noun] An extinct subspecies of the hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus, which was formerly native to northern Africa. BULLA (7) [noun] A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion. | [noun] A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents. | [noun] In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss. | [noun] A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg. BUNYA (10) [noun] The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland. | [noun] A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste. BURAN (7) [noun] A violent cold northeasterly wind that blows across central Asia and Russia. BURAS (7) BURSA (7) [noun] Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces. BWANA (10) [noun] Big boss, important person. BYLAW (13) [noun] A local custom or law of a settlement or district. | [noun] A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs. | [noun] A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization (e.g., corporation or business). BYWAY (16) [noun] A road that is not frequently travelled | [noun] (by extension) an unpopular or arcane field of study CABAL (9) [noun] # A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose. | [noun] A secret plot. | [noun] An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism. CABBY (14) [noun] A cabdriver; someone who drives a taxi. CABER (9) [noun] A long, thick log held upright at one end and tossed in the Highland games. CABIN (9) [noun] A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it. | [noun] A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people. | [noun] A private room on a ship. CABLE (9) [noun] (material) A long object used to make a physical connection. | [noun] (communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables. | [noun] A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable. CABOB (11) [noun] Pieces of meat and vegetables cooked on a skewer; a kebab. CACAO (9) [noun] A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate. | [noun] This tree's seed, the cocoa bean. CACAS (9) [noun] Plural of caca, a child's word for feces or excrement. CACHE (12) [noun] A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way. | [noun] A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium. | [noun] (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game. CACTI (9) [noun] Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate. | [noun] Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, such as euphorbs. CADDY (12) [noun] One hired to assist another in playing the game of golf. | [verb] To serve as a caddy, carrying golf clubs etc. | [noun] A small box, can, or chest to keep things in. CADES (8) [noun] Plural of cade, a young animal (especially a lamb or calf) abandoned by its mother and raised by hand. | [noun] Plural of cade, a type of juniper tree or its wood. CADET (8) [noun] A student at a military school who is training to be an officer. | [noun] A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would. | [noun] (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.) CADGE (9) [noun] A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale. | [verb] To beg. | [verb] To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do. CADGY (12) CADIS (8) [noun] A civil judge in certain Islamic countries. | [noun] A kind of coarse serge. CADRE (8) [noun] A frame or framework. | [noun] The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. | [noun] The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group. CAECA (9) [noun] A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon. CAFES (10) [noun] A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items. | [noun] A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises. | [noun] A small restaurant of any genre. CAFFS (13) [noun] Café, cafeteria. CAGED (9) [verb] To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage. | [verb] To restrict someone's movement or creativity. | [verb] To track individual responses to direct mail, either to maintain and develop mailing lists or to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses. CAGER (8) [noun] A basketball player. | [noun] One who cages or confines animals. CAGES (8) [noun] An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals. | [noun] The passenger compartment of a lift. | [noun] (water polo) The goal. CAGEY (11) [adjective] Wary, careful, shrewd. | [adjective] Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information. CAHOW (13) [noun] An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel. CAIDS (8) CAINS (7) CAIRD (8) [noun] A person of low social status or a beggar, particularly in Scotland. | [noun] A tinker or traveling mender in Scotland. CAIRN (7) [noun] A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. | [noun] A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. | [noun] A cairn terrier. CAJON (14) [noun] A wooden box-shaped percussion instrument played by striking its front panel with hands, originating from Latin America. CAKED (12) [verb] Coat (something) with a crust of solid material. | [verb] To form into a cake, or mass. | [verb] To cackle like a goose. CAKES (11) [noun] A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. | [noun] A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough. | [noun] A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake. CAKEY (14) [adjective] Having the texture, consistency, or quality of cake. | [adjective] Covered or caked with a thick layer of something. CALFS (10) [noun] Plural of calf, referring to young domestic cattle or the fleshy part of the leg below the knee. CALIF (10) [noun] The political leader of the Muslim world, successor of Muhammad's political authority, not religious or spiritual. CALIX (14) [noun] The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop. | [noun] Any of various cup-like structures. CALKS (11) [noun] A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent it slipping. | [noun] A spike on the sole of a boot to prevent slipping, particularly used in logging | [verb] To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice. CALLA (7) [noun] A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe. | [noun] The calla lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica. CALLS (7) [noun] A telephone conversation. | [noun] A short visit, usually for social purposes. | [noun] A visit by a ship or boat to a port. 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. CALVE (10) [verb] To give birth to a calf | [verb] To assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf | [verb] To give birth to (a calf) CALYX (17) [noun] The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop. | [noun] Any of various cup-like structures. 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. CANAL (7) [noun] An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation. | [noun] A tubular channel within the body. | [noun] One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars. CANDY (11) [noun] Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors. | [noun] A piece of confectionery of this kind. | [noun] (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine. | [noun] A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally. CANED (8) [verb] To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement | [verb] To destroy; to comprehensively defeat | [verb] To do something well, in a competent fashion | [adjective] Filled with white flakes; mothery; said of vinegar when containing mother. CANER (7) [noun] One who canes, or a person who makes or works with canes. | [noun] A tool or implement used for caning. CANES (7) [noun] A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof | [noun] The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool | [noun] A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane CANID (8) [noun] Any member of the family Canidae, including dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes and jackals. CANNA (7) [noun] Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers. | [noun] A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. CANNY (10) [adjective] Careful, prudent, cautious. | [adjective] Knowing, shrewd, astute. | [adjective] Frugal, thrifty. | [adjective] (especially of sound) Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can. CANOE (7) [noun] A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends. | [noun] An oversize, usually older, luxury car. | [noun] Any of the deflectors positioned around a roulette wheel, shaped like upside-down boats. CANON (7) [noun] A generally accepted principle; a rule. | [noun] A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field. | [noun] The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic. | [noun] A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church. | [noun] A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges. CANSO (7) CANST (7) [verb] (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to. | [verb] (modal auxiliary verb, defective) May; to be permitted or enabled to. | [verb] (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible. CANTO (7) [noun] One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book. | [noun] The treble or leading melody. CANTS (7) [noun] An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup. | [noun] A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group. | [noun] A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta. CANTY (10) [adjective] Cheerful, lively, or pleasant in disposition or manner. CAPED (10) [adjective] Wearing a cape or capes. | [adjective] (in compounds) Wearing a cape of a specified kind. | [adjective] Cancelled CAPER (9) [noun] A playful leap or jump. | [noun] A jump while dancing. | [noun] A prank or practical joke. | [noun] A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer. | [noun] The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten. | [noun] The capercaillie. CAPES (9) [noun] A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland. | [noun] A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders. | [noun] A superhero. CAPHS (12) CAPON (9) [noun] A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table. | [verb] To castrate; to make a capon of. CAPOS (9) [noun] A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings. | [noun] A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime. | [noun] A leader and organizer of supporters at a sporting event, particularly association football matches. CAPUT (9) [noun] The head or a head-like structure, especially in anatomy. | [noun] A chapter or section of a book or legal document. CARAT (7) [noun] A unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 200 milligrams. | [noun] Any of several units of weight, varying from 189 to 212 mg, the weight of a carob seed. | [noun] A measure of the purity of gold, pure gold being 24 carats. CARBO (9) [noun] Carbohydrate CARBS (9) [noun] Clipping of carburettor / carburetor. | [noun] (nutrition) A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant. | [noun] (by extension, metonym) Any food rich in starch or other carbohydrates. CARDS (8) [noun] A playing card. | [noun] (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game. | [noun] A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose. CARED (8) [verb] To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about). | [verb] (polite) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards. | [verb] (with for) To look after or look out for. CARER (7) [noun] Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities. CARES (7) [noun] Grief, sorrow. | [noun] Close attention; concern; responsibility. | [noun] Worry. CARET (7) [noun] A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point. | [noun] An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also called a cursor. | [noun] A circumflex, ⟨ ＾ ⟩. | [noun] A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata). CAREX (14) [noun] Any member of the genus Carex of sedges. CARGO (8) [noun] Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle. | [noun] (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods. CARKS (11) [noun] A noxious or corroding worry. | [noun] The state of being filled with worry. CARLE (7) [noun] A man or fellow, especially a peasant or man of low social status; a churl or rustic man. CARLS (7) [noun] A rude, rustic man; a churl. | [noun] A stingy person; a niggard. CARNS (7) CARNY (10) [noun] A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud). | [noun] The jargon used by carnival workers. | [noun] A carnival. | [noun] Flattery. CAROB (9) [noun] An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region. | [noun] The fruit of that tree. | [noun] A sweet chocolate-like confection made with the pulp of the fruit. CAROL (7) [noun] A small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. | [noun] Hence, a partially partitioned space for studying or reading, often in a library. 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 CARPI (9) [noun] The group of bones that make up the wrist. CARPS (9) [noun] Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. | [verb] To complain about a fault; to harp on. | [verb] To say; to tell. CARRS (7) [noun] A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation. | [noun] A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot. | [noun] An unpowered unit in a railroad train. CARRY (10) [noun] A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried. | [noun] A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage. | [noun] The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation. CARSE (7) [noun] Low, fertile land; a river valley. CARTE (7) [noun] A bill of fare; a menu. | [noun] A visiting card. | [noun] A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person). | [noun] The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards. CARTS (7) [noun] A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers. | [noun] A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart. | [noun] A shopping cart. CARVE (10) [noun] A carucate. | [noun] The act of carving | [verb] To cut. CASAS (7) [noun] House CASED (8) [verb] To propose hypothetical cases. | [verb] To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment. | [verb] To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose. CASES (7) [noun] An actual event, situation, or fact. | [noun] A given condition or state. | [noun] A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession. CASKS (11) [noun] A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. | [noun] A casket; a small box for jewels. | [noun] A helmet. CASKY (14) CASTE (7) [noun] Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies. | [noun] A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other. | [noun] A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony. CASTS (7) [noun] An act of throwing. | [noun] An instance of throwing out a fishing line. | [noun] Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc. CASUS (7) [noun] An occurrence or instance of something happening; an event or circumstance. | [noun] In law, a case or legal action. CATCH (12) [noun] The act of seizing or capturing. | [noun] The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball. | [noun] The act of noticing, understanding or hearing. CATER (7) [noun] Caterer | [verb] To provide, particularly: | [noun] A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food. | [verb] To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally. | [noun] Four. CATES (7) [noun] Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. CATTY (10) [adjective] (of a person or remark) With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset, particularly among women. | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a cat. | [noun] A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram. CAULD (8) [noun] A cauldron or large pot, especially one used for cooking or heating water. | [adjective] Cold (Scottish dialect). CAULK (11) [noun] A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent it slipping. | [noun] A spike on the sole of a boot to prevent slipping, particularly used in logging | [noun] Caulking. CAULS (7) [noun] A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen. | [noun] (often capitalized, used on maps) An entry to a mill lead taken from a burn or stream (a mill lead (or mill waterway) is generally smaller than a canal but moves a large volume of water). | [noun] A membrane. CAUSE (7) [noun] (often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result. | [noun] (especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion. | [noun] A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends. CAVED (11) [verb] To surrender. | [verb] To collapse. | [verb] To hollow out or undermine. CAVER (10) [noun] A person who explores caves. | [noun] A person who makes concessions or retreats from a position. CAVES (10) [noun] A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside. | [noun] A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made. | [noun] A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese. CAVIE (10) [noun] A guinea pig, especially as used in laboratory experiments. CAVIL (10) [noun] A petty or trivial objection or criticism. | [verb] To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons. CAWED (11) [verb] To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven. CEASE (7) [noun] Cessation; extinction (see without cease). | [verb] To stop. | [verb] To stop doing (something). CECAL (9) [adjective] Relating to or resembling a cecum, a pouch-like structure at the beginning of the large intestine. | [adjective] Ending in a blind pouch or closed end. CEDAR (8) [noun] A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae. | [noun] A coniferous tree of the family Cupressaceae, especially of the genera Juniperus, Cupressus, Calocedrus, or Thuja. | [noun] A flowering tree of the family Meliaceae, especially of the genera Cedrela or Toona. CEIBA (9) [noun] Any tree of the species in genus Ceiba | [noun] The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba). CELLA (7) [noun] The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos. CERIA (7) [noun] A white powdery oxide of cerium, used in polishing compounds and as a catalyst. CESTA (7) [noun] A basket used in jai alai for catching and throwing a ball. | [noun] A cestus or girdle worn in ancient times. CHADS (11) [noun] (pickup community) A very handsome, usually tall, man whom women find sexually attractive; at times seen as an alpha male of a group. | [noun] Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc. | [noun] One of these pieces of paper. CHAFE (13) [noun] Heat excited by friction. | [noun] Injury or wear caused by friction. | [noun] Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. CHAFF (16) [noun] The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. | [noun] Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. | [noun] Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless. CHAIN (10) [noun] A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal. | [noun] A series of interconnected things. | [noun] A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name. CHAIR (10) [noun] An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench. | [noun] The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra. | [noun] An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices. CHALK (14) [noun] A soft, white, powdery limestone. | [noun] A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard. | [noun] Tailor's chalk. 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. CHANG (11) [noun] A type of beer brewed in Tibet and other Himalayan regions. CHANT (10) [noun] Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony. | [noun] A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music. | [noun] Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. CHAOS (10) [noun] The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony. | [noun] Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration. | [noun] A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time. CHAPE (12) [noun] The piece by which an object is attached to something, such as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap. | [noun] The transverse guard of a sword or dagger. | [noun] The lower metallic cap of a sword's scabbard. CHAPS (12) [noun] (obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow. | [noun] A customer, a buyer. | [noun] A child. | [noun] Protective leather leggings attached at the waist. CHAPT (12) [verb] Past tense and past participle of "chap," meaning to crack or become cracked, especially of skin or lips. | [adjective] Cracked or roughened, typically describing skin. CHARD (11) [noun] An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste. | [noun] Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat. CHARE (10) [verb] To do chores or work as a hired hand. | [noun] A chore or task. CHARK (14) [verb] To char or burn; to reduce to charcoal. | [noun] Charred material or charcoal. 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. CHARR (10) [noun] One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus. CHARS (10) [noun] A charred substance. | [verb] To burn something to charcoal. | [verb] To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour. CHART (10) [noun] A map. | [noun] A systematic non-narrative presentation of data. | [noun] A written deed; a charter. CHARY (13) [adverb] In a chary manner. | [adjective] Careful, cautious, shy, wary. | [adjective] Excessively particular or fussy about details; fastidious. CHASE (10) [noun] The act of one who chases another; a pursuit. | [noun] A hunt. | [noun] A children's game where one player chases another. | [noun] A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making. | [noun] A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow. CHASM (12) [noun] A deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss. | [noun] (by extension) A large difference of opinion. CHATS (10) [noun] Any savory snack, sold from a roadside stall in India, or served as a starter in an Indian restaurant | [noun] Informal conversation. | [noun] A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations. CHAWS (13) [noun] Chewing tobacco. | [noun] A plug or wad of chewing tobacco. | [noun] The jaw. CHAYS (13) [noun] Plural of chay, a type of tea or a vehicle used in India. | [noun] Plural of chai, a spiced tea beverage. CHEAP (12) [noun] Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering. | [noun] A market; marketplace. | [noun] Price. CHEAT (10) [verb] To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation. | [verb] To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner. | [verb] To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely. | [noun] Someone who cheats (informal: cheater). CHELA (10) [noun] A pincer-like claw of a crustacean or arachnid. | [noun] A pupil or disciple, especially in Hinduism. CHIAO (10) [noun] A monetary unit of China equal to one tenth of a yuan. | [noun] A monetary unit of Taiwan equal to one tenth of a dollar. CHIAS (10) [noun] A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica. | [noun] Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico. CHINA (10) [noun] The plant Smilax china, a liana of much of eastern Asia. | [noun] A plant or flower of the repeat-blooming Chinese rose species Rosa chinensis. | [noun] A plant or flower of one of the class of hybrids developed from Rosa chinensis. CHUFA (13) [noun] Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts). CIGAR (8) [noun] Tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked. | [noun] Penis CILIA (7) [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. CIRCA (9) [preposition] Approximately, about, around (typically in relation to time) CLACH (12) [noun] A stone or rock, especially a large one; a boulder or cliff. | [noun] In Scottish, a stone used in the game of curling. CLACK (13) [noun] An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk. | [noun] Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve. | [noun] Chatter; prattle. CLADE (8) [noun] A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species. | [noun] A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup. | [verb] To be part of a clade; to form a clade. CLADS (8) [verb] (past tense clad) To clothe. | [verb] (past tense clad or cladded) To cover (with insulation or another material); to surround, envelop. | [verb] (figuratively) To imbue (with a specified quality) CLAGS (8) [verb] To stick or adhere; to clog or become blocked. | [noun] Plural of clag, a sticky substance or adhesive. 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. CLANG (8) [noun] A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other. | [noun] Quality of tone. | [noun] The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose. CLANK (11) [noun] A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal. | [verb] To make a clanking sound | [verb] To cause to sound with a clank. CLANS (7) [noun] A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief. | [noun] A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain | [noun] Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity. CLAPS (9) [noun] The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together. | [noun] The explosive sound of thunder. | [noun] Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound. CLAPT (9) [verb] Past tense and past participle of "clap," meaning to applaud by striking palms together, or to move or strike suddenly and loudly. CLARO (7) [adjective] Clear or bright, especially in reference to cigars made from light-colored tobacco. | [interjection] Of course; certainly (used in Spanish but sometimes appears in English text). CLARY (10) [noun] Clary sage (Salvia sclarea) CLASH (10) [noun] A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects. | [noun] A skirmish, a hostile encounter. | [noun] A match; a game between two sides. CLASP (9) [noun] A fastener or holder, particularly one that clasps. | [noun] (in the singular) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake. | [verb] To take hold of; to grasp; to grab tightly. CLASS (7) [noun] A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes. | [noun] A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class. | [noun] The division of society into classes. CLAST (7) [noun] A fragment of rock that was broken from a larger rock or rock unit. CLAVE (10) [verb] To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. | [verb] To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces. | [verb] To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting. | [noun] A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave. CLAVI (10) [noun] Plural of clavis, a key or keylike structure, especially in anatomy or biology. CLAWS (10) [noun] A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird. | [noun] A foot equipped with such. | [noun] The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod. CLAYS (10) [noun] A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics. | [noun] An earth material with ductile qualities. | [noun] A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate. CLEAN (7) [noun] Removal of dirt. | [noun] The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders. | [verb] To remove dirt from a place or object. CLEAR (7) [noun] Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls. | [noun] The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game. | [noun] A person who is free from the influence of engrams. CLEAT (7) [noun] A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc. | [noun] A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components. | [noun] A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release. CLOAK (11) [noun] A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood. | [noun] A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical. | [noun] That which conceals; a disguise or pretext. COACH (12) [noun] A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power. | [noun] A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit. | [noun] (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor. COACT (9) [verb] To act together with another or others; to act jointly or in cooperation. COALA (7) COALS (7) [noun] A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel. | [noun] A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English) | [noun] A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof. COALY (10) [adjective] Resembling, containing, or consisting of coal. COAPT (9) [verb] To fit or come together; to join or adapt closely. COAST (7) [noun] The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake. | [noun] The side or edge of something. | [noun] A region of land; a district or country. COATI (7) [noun] Any of several omnivorous mammals, of the genus Nasua or Nasuella, in order Carnivora, that live in the range from southern United States to northern Argentina. COATS (7) [noun] An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp | [noun] A covering of material, such as paint.Wp | [noun] The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.Wp COBIA (9) [noun] Rachycentron canadum, a perciform marine fish. COBRA (9) [noun] Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae. COCAS (9) [noun] Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America. | [noun] The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine. | [noun] A pastry typically made and consumed in the Spanish Mediterranean coast. COCOA (9) [noun] The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. | [noun] An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking. | [noun] A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar. | [noun] Coconut palm. CODAS (8) [noun] A person born hearing to deaf parents. | [noun] A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation. | [noun] The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants. COLAS (7) [noun] The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts. | [noun] A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water. | [noun] A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant. COLZA (16) [noun] Oilseed rape (Brassica napus), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil, valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes. 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. 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. CONGA (8) [noun] A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin | [noun] A march of Cuban origin in four-four time in which people form a chain, each holding the hips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and then kick alternate legs outwards at the beat; the chain weaves around the place and allows new participants to join the back of the chain | [verb] To dance the conga. COPAL (9) [noun] A resinous exudation from various tropical trees, especially Hymenaea courbaril and Schinus terebinthifolia, used chiefly in making varnishes and printing ink. COPRA (9) [noun] The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded. CORAL (7) [noun] A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps. | [noun] A colony of marine polyps. | [noun] A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral. CORIA (7) COSTA (7) [noun] A rib. | [noun] A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing. COTAN (7) [noun] The reciprocal of the tangent function; the ratio of the adjacent side to the opposite side in a right triangle. COTTA (7) [noun] A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none. | [noun] A kind of coarse woollen blanket. COXAE (14) [noun] The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example). COXAL (14) [adjective] Relating to or located near the coxa (hip joint or the basal segment of an arthropod's leg). CRAAL (7) CRABS (9) [noun] A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace. | [noun] The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat | [noun] A bad-tempered person. CRACK (13) [noun] A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. | [noun] A narrow opening. | [noun] A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack. | [adjective] Highly trained and competent. CRAFT (10) [noun] Strength; power; might; force . | [noun] Intellectual power; skill; art. | [noun] (obsolete in the general sense) A work or product of art . CRAGS (8) [noun] A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep rock or cliff. | [noun] A rough broken fragment of rock. | [noun] A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age. CRAKE (11) [noun] Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills. | [verb] To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake. | [noun] A crack; a boast. 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. CRANE (7) [noun] Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight. | [noun] Ardea herodias, the great blue heron. | [noun] A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes. | [noun] The cranium. CRANK (11) [noun] A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. | [noun] The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft. | [noun] Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage. CRAPE (9) [noun] Mourning garments, especially an armband or hatband. | [verb] To form into ringlets; to curl or crimp. | [verb] To clothe in crape. CRAPS (9) [noun] A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap. | [noun] The husk of grain; chaff. | [noun] (mildly) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk. | [verb] To defecate. CRASH (10) [noun] A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals. | [noun] An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident. | [noun] A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable. | [noun] (fibre) A type of rough linen. CRASS (7) [adjective] Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination | [adjective] Materialistic | [adjective] Dense CRATE (7) [noun] A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods. | [noun] (mildly) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable. | [noun] In the Rust programming language, a binary or library. CRAVE (10) [noun] A formal application to a court to make a particular order. | [verb] To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for. | [verb] To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim. CRAWL (10) [noun] The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops. | [noun] A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick. | [noun] A very slow pace. | [noun] A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish. CRAWS (10) [noun] The stomach of an animal. | [noun] The crop of a bird. CRAZE (16) [noun] Craziness; insanity. | [noun] A strong habitual desire or fancy. | [noun] A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad CRAZY (19) [noun] An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot. | [noun] Eccentric behaviour; lunacy. | [adjective] Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle. CREAK (11) [noun] The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking. | [verb] To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances. | [verb] To produce a creaking sound with. 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. CROAK (11) [noun] A faint, harsh sound made in the throat. | [noun] The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit) | [noun] The harsh cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures. CRURA (7) [noun] The shin (tibia and fibula) | [noun] A leglike part; shank CULPA (9) [noun] Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart. CUPPA (11) [noun] (Commonwealth of Nations except Canada) A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink). | [noun] (Commonwealth of Nations except Canada) Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea. | [noun] Pronunciation spelling of cup of. CURIA (7) [noun] A division of the ancient Roman people, or a Roman senate house; also, a court or judicial assembly in medieval times. CYANO (10) [noun] (especially in combination) a univalent functional group, -CN, consisting of a carbon and a nitrogen atom joined with a triple bond; organic compounds containing a cyano group are nitriles CYANS (10) [noun] Plural of cyan, a greenish-blue color that is one of the primary colors in the CMYK color model. CYCAD (13) [noun] Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves. CYCAS (12) [noun] A tropical or subtropical plant of the family Cycadaceae, having a thick trunk and large compound leaves. 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. CZARS (16) [noun] An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area. | [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. DACES (8) [noun] Plural of dace, a small freshwater fish of the carp family. DACHA (11) [noun] A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside. DADAS (7) [noun] Father, dad. DADDY (11) [noun] (usually childish) Father. | [noun] A male lover. | [noun] An informal term of address for a man. DADOS (7) [noun] The section of a pedestal above the base. | [noun] The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion. | [noun] The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain. DAFFS (12) [noun] A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East. | [noun] A fool; an idiot; a blockhead. | [noun] A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales. DAFFY (15) [adjective] Somewhat mad or eccentric. | [noun] A daffodil. DAGGA (8) [noun] (Zimbabwe) Indian hemp, Cannabis sativa indica, or a similar plant of the genus Leonotis. | [noun] Cement. DAGOS (7) [noun] A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or other Mediterranean descent. | [noun] A person of Italian descent. DAHLS (9) [noun] Plural of dahl, a type of lentil dish commonly served in Indian cuisine. | [noun] Plural of dahl, referring to split lentils used in cooking. DAILY (9) [noun] Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day. | [verb] To drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks. | [adjective] That occurs every day, or at least every working day | [adverb] Quotidianly, every day DAIRY (9) [noun] (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk. | [noun] A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese. | [noun] A dairy farm. DAISY (9) [noun] A wild flowering plant Bellis perennis of the Asteraceae family, with a yellow head and white petals | [noun] Many other flowering plants of various species. | [noun] A boot or other footwear. DALES (6) [noun] A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area. | [noun] A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. DALLY (9) [verb] To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle. | [verb] To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet | [verb] To delay unnecessarily; to while away. | [noun] Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping. 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. DANCE (8) [noun] A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction. | [noun] A social gathering where dancing is the main activity. | [noun] A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister. DANDY (10) [noun] A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance. | [noun] A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl. | [noun] A dandy roller. DANGS (7) [verb] Damn. | [verb] To dash. DANIO (6) [noun] (chiefly in combination) Any of various fish of the genera Danio and Devario. DARBS (8) DARED (7) [verb] To have enough courage (to do something). | [verb] To defy or challenge (someone to do something) | [verb] To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to DARER (6) [noun] One who dares; a person who is bold or courageous. | [noun] A challenge or dare issued to someone. DARES (6) [noun] A challenge to prove courage. | [noun] The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. | [noun] Defiance; challenge. DARIC (8) [noun] An ancient Persian gold coin. DARKS (10) [noun] A complete or (more often) partial absence of light. | [noun] Ignorance. | [noun] Nightfall. DARKY (13) [noun] A person with dark skin. | [noun] A dark lantern. DARNS (6) [verb] Euphemism of damn. | [verb] To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric. DARTS (6) [noun] A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin | [noun] Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon. DASHI (9) [noun] A Japanese stock made from kombu seaweed and bonito fish flakes, used as a base for soups and sauces. DASHY (12) [adjective] Stylish, lively, or showy in appearance or manner. DATED (7) [verb] To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution. | [verb] To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of. | [verb] To determine the age of something. DATER (6) [noun] One who dates. | [noun] A date-stamping device. DATES (6) [noun] The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel. | [noun] The date palm. | [noun] The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made. DATOS (6) [noun] Plural of dato, a chief or leader in the Philippines and Malaysia. DATTO (6) [noun] A chief or leader in the Philippines or Malaysia. 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. DAUBE (8) [noun] A stew of braised meat, usually beef. DAUBS (8) [noun] Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. | [noun] A soft coating of mud, plaster etc. | [noun] A crude or amateurish painting. DAUBY (11) DAUNT (6) [verb] To discourage, intimidate. | [verb] To overwhelm. DAUTS (6) [verb] Third person singular of "daut," meaning to fondle, caress, or pet (chiefly Scottish). | [noun] Plural of "daut," a term of endearment or a beloved person (chiefly Scottish). DAVEN (9) [verb] To recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray DAVIT (9) [noun] A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship. | [noun] A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship. DAWED (10) [verb] Past tense of "daw," meaning to dawn or to jackdaw (to behave like a jackdaw). | [verb] To fondle or caress. DAWEN (9) DAWKS (13) DAWNS (9) [noun] The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise. | [noun] The rising of the sun. | [noun] The time when the sun rises. DAWTS (9) [verb] Third person singular of "dawt," an archaic or dialectal spelling of "daut," meaning to fondle, caress, or pet. DAZED (16) [verb] To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear | [adjective] In a state of shock or confusion. | [adjective] Stunned. DAZES (15) [noun] The state of being dazed | [noun] A glittering stone. | [verb] To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear DEADS (7) [noun] Plural of dead, referring to deceased people or those who have died. | [noun] In printing, the areas of a page that are blank or contain no printed material. DEAIR (6) [verb] To remove air from something. | [verb] To expel air or gas from a container or system. DEALS (6) [noun] A division, a portion, a share. | [noun] (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good). | [noun] An act of dealing or sharing out. DEALT (6) [verb] To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share. | [verb] To administer or give out, as in small portions. | [verb] To distribute cards to the players in a game. DEANS (6) [noun] A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students). | [noun] A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons. | [noun] The senior member of some group of people. DEARS (6) [noun] A very kind, loving person. | [noun] A beloved person. | [noun] An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife. DEARY (9) [noun] A person who is dear or beloved; used as a term of endearment. | [adjective] Variant spelling of "dearie," expressing affection or used as a form of address. DEASH (9) DEATH (9) [noun] The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state. | [noun] (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English dēaþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male θᾰ́νᾰτος (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics. | [noun] (the death) The collapse or end of something. DEAVE (9) [verb] To deafen or stun with noise. | [verb] To bewilder or confuse. DEBAR (8) [verb] To exclude or shut out; to bar. | [verb] To hinder or prevent. | [verb] To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program. DECAF (11) [noun] A decaffeinated coffee, tea, or soft drink. DECAL (8) [noun] A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily. | [noun] A decorative sticker. | [verb] To apply decals to. DECAY (11) [noun] The process or result of being gradually decomposed. | [noun] A deterioration of condition; loss of status or fortune. | [verb] To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality. DEDAL (7) DEFAT (9) [verb] To remove fat from a material, especially by the use of solvents DEGAS (7) [verb] To remove the gas from. DELAY (9) [noun] A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. | [noun] An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay. | [verb] To put off until a later time; to defer. | [verb] To dilute, temper. DELTA (6) [noun] The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ. | [noun] A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water. | [noun] The letter D in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet. DERAT (6) DERAY (9) 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 DEVAS (9) [noun] A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism. DEWAN (9) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DEWAR (9) [noun] A vacuum flask; a vessel which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than their environment without the need to modify the pressure, by interposing an evacuated region to provide thermal insulation between the contents and the environment. DEWAX (16) [verb] To remove wax from a material or from a surface. DHAKS (13) DHALS (9) DIALS (6) [noun] A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed). | [noun] A clock face. | [noun] A sundial. DIARY (9) [noun] A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer. | [noun] A personal organizer or appointment diary. | [verb] To keep a diary or journal. DIAZO (15) [noun] Any compound of this type. | [adjective] Containing a pair of double bonded nitrogen atoms, typically directly attached to an aryl group. DICTA (8) [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. DINAR (6) [noun] The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia and Tunisia. | [noun] An ancient Arab gold coin of 65 grains in weight. DITAS (6) DIVAN (9) [noun] A Muslim council of state, specifically that of viziers of the Ottoman Empire that discussed and recommended new laws and law changes to a higher authority (the sultan). | [noun] The council chamber where this court is held; (by extension), any court of justice. | [noun] Any council or assembly. DIVAS (9) [noun] Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress. | [noun] A person who may be considered or who considers herself (or by extension himself) much more important than others, has high expectations of others and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges. DIWAN (9) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DOATS (6) DOBLA (8) DOBRA (8) [noun] The official or principal currency of São Tomé and Príncipe, divided into 100 cêntimos. 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. DONAS (6) DONGA (7) [noun] A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain. | [noun] A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation. DONNA (6) [noun] A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy. DOPAS (8) DORSA (6) [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. DOTAL (6) DOUMA (8) DOURA (6) DRABS (8) DRAFF (12) [noun] Dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash or waste matter. DRAFT (9) [noun] A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle. | [noun] Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process. | [noun] An act of drinking. DRAGS (7) [noun] Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it. | [noun] (foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold. | [noun] A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing. DRAIL (6) [noun] A hook with a lead shank. | [noun] The piece of lead around the shank of such a hook. | [noun] The iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw. DRAIN (6) [noun] A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK) | [noun] An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods. | [noun] Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return. DRAKE (10) [noun] A male duck. | [noun] A mayfly used as fishing bait. | [noun] A dragon. 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. DRANK (10) [noun] Dextromethorphan | [noun] A drink, usually alcoholic | [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [noun] Wild oats, or darnel grass. DRAPE (8) [noun] A curtain; a drapery. | [noun] The way in which fabric falls or hangs. | [noun] A member of a youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square DRATS (6) DRAVE (9) DRAWL (9) [noun] A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots. | [verb] To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently. | [verb] To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. DRAWN (9) [verb] To move or develop something. | [verb] To exert or experience force. | [verb] (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace. DRAWS (9) [noun] The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie. | [noun] The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined. | [noun] Something that attracts e.g. a crowd. DRAYS (9) [noun] A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads. | [noun] A kind of sledge or sled. | [noun] A squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree. DREAD (7) [noun] Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. | [noun] Reverential or respectful fear; awe. | [noun] Somebody or something dreaded. 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. DREAR (6) [adjective] Dreary. | [noun] Gloom; sadness. DRYAD (10) [noun] In Greek myth, a female tree spirit. DUADS (7) [noun] A pair or couple. | [noun] Dwadasama. | [noun] An unordered pair. DUALS (6) [noun] Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair. | [noun] Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces. | [noun] (grammar) dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything (a couple of, exactly two of), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number. DUCAL (8) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold. DUCAT (8) [noun] A gold coin minted by various European nations. | [noun] A coin of the major denomination (dollar, euro, etc.); money in general. | [noun] A ticket. DULIA (6) [noun] The veneration of saints, distinguished from latria, the worship of God. 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. DUMKA (12) [noun] A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine. | [noun] An individual composition in this genre. 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). DURAL (6) DURAS (6) DURRA (6) [noun] A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor). DWARF (12) [noun] Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves. | [noun] A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with normal adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition. | [noun] An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort. DYADS (10) [noun] A set of two elements treated as one; a pair. | [noun] Any set of two different pitch classes. | [noun] A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation. EAGER (6) [adjective] Sharp; sour; acid. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. | [adjective] Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. | [noun] A tidal bore EAGLE (6) [noun] Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision. | [noun] A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I. EAGRE (6) [adjective] Sharp; sour; acid. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. | [adjective] Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. | [noun] A tidal bore EARED (6) EARLS (5) [noun] (nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts. EARLY (8) [noun] A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day. | [adjective] At a time in advance of the usual or expected event. | [adjective] Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time. EARNS (5) [verb] To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. EARTH (8) [proper noun] The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live. | [proper noun] The personification of the Earth or earth, as a fertile woman or goddess. | [noun] Soil. EASED (6) [verb] To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc. | [verb] To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain). | [verb] To give respite to (someone). EASEL (5) [noun] An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas. EASES (5) [verb] To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc. | [verb] To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain). | [verb] To give respite to (someone). EASTS (5) EATEN (5) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. EATER (5) [noun] One who eats. | [noun] An eating apple. | [noun] One who performs fellatio or cunnilingus. EAVED (9) EAVES (8) [noun] The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building. ECLAT (7) [noun] A brilliant or successful effect; brilliance of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown. 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. EGADS (7) [interjection] A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc. EGGAR (7) [noun] Any moth of the family Lasiocampidae. ELAIN (5) ELAND (6) [noun] A genus of large South African antelope (Taurotragus), valued both for its hide and flesh. ELANS (5) ELATE (5) [verb] To make joyful or proud. | [verb] To lift up; raise; elevate. | [adjective] Elated; exultant EMBAR (9) EMBAY (12) [verb] To bathe; to steep. | [verb] To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. ENACT (7) [noun] Purpose; determination | [verb] To make (a bill) into law | [verb] To act the part of; to play ENATE (5) 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. ENTIA (5) EPACT (9) [noun] The time (number of days) by which a solar year exceeds twelve lunar months; it is used in the calculation of the date of Easter EPHAH (13) [noun] A former Hebrew unit of dry volume (about 23 L). EPHAS (10) EQUAL (14) [noun] A person or thing of equal status to others. | [noun] State of being equal; equality. | [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. ERASE (5) [noun] The operation of deleting data. | [verb] To remove markings or information | [verb] To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. ERICA (7) [noun] Any of many heathers, of the genus Erica, used as garden plants ESCAR (7) ESKAR (9) ESSAY (8) [noun] (authorship) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject. | [noun] A test, experiment; an assay. | [noun] An attempt. | [verb] To try. ETAPE (7) ETNAS (5) ETYMA (10) [noun] The source word, or words, of a given word or expression. EVADE (9) [verb] To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from | [verb] To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. | [verb] To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. EXACT (14) [verb] To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way. | [verb] To make desirable or necessary. | [verb] To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce. EXALT (12) [verb] To honor; to hold in high esteem. | [verb] To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate. | [verb] To elate, or fill with the joy of success. 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. EXPAT (14) [noun] An expatriate; a person who lives outside their own country. EXTRA (12) [noun] Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill. | [noun] An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle. | [noun] A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball. EYRAS (8) [noun] A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. FABLE (10) [noun] A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables. | [noun] Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. | [noun] Fiction; untruth; falsehood. FACED (11) [verb] (of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something). | [verb] (of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else). | [verb] To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. | [adjective] Drunk FACER (10) [noun] An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat. | [noun] One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. | [noun] A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy. FACES (10) [noun] The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose and mouth, and the surrounding area. | [noun] One's facial expression. | [noun] (in expressions such as 'make a face') A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc. FACET (10) [noun] Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem. | [noun] One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things. | [noun] One of a series of things, such as steps in a project. FACIA (10) [noun] A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing. | [noun] A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone. | [noun] A dashboard. FACTS (10) [noun] Something actual as opposed to invented. | [noun] Something which is real. | [noun] Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation. FADDY (13) [adjective] Having characteristics of a fad. | [adjective] Fussy, having particular tastes or whims FADED (10) [verb] To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant. | [verb] To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. | [verb] To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. FADER (9) [adjective] Weak; insipid; tasteless. | [adjective] Strong; bold; doughty. | [noun] A device used to control sound volume. FADES (9) [noun] A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw. | [noun] A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade. | [noun] A fight. FADGE (10) [verb] To be suitable (with or to something). | [verb] To agree, to get along (with). | [verb] To get on well; to cope, to thrive. | [noun] Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried. FADOS (9) [noun] A Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in nature; the structure of the song is of greater importance. FAENA (8) FAERY (11) [noun] The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion. | [noun] A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism. | [noun] An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm. FAGGY (13) [adjective] Effeminate; homosexual; gay. FAGIN (9) FAGOT (9) [noun] (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.) | [noun] Burdensome baggage. | [noun] A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding. FAILS (8) [noun] Poor quality; substandard workmanship. | [noun] A failure (condition of being unsuccessful) | [noun] A failure (something incapable of success) FAINT (8) [noun] The act of fainting, syncope. | [noun] The state of one who has fainted; a swoon. | [adjective] (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness | [verb] To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions). FAIRS (8) [noun] A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements. | [noun] An event for public entertainment and trade, a market. | [noun] An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair. FAIRY (11) [noun] The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion. | [noun] A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism. | [noun] An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm. FAITH (11) [noun] A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence. | [noun] The process of forming or understanding abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience or observation. | [noun] A religious or spiritual belief system. FAKED (13) [verb] To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob. | [verb] To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is | [verb] To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify. FAKER (12) [noun] One who fakes something. | [noun] An impostor or impersonator. | [noun] A thief. FAKES (12) [noun] Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently. | [noun] A trick; a swindle. | [noun] A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent. FAKEY (15) FAKIR (12) [noun] A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms. | [noun] (Hindu) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. | [noun] Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. FALLS (8) [noun] The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity. | [noun] A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc. | [noun] The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. FALSE (8) [noun] One of two options on a true-or-false test. | [adjective] Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect. | [adjective] Based on factually incorrect premises. FAMED (11) [adjective] Having fame; famous or noted. FAMES (10) FANCY (13) [noun] The imagination. | [noun] An image or representation of anything formed in the mind. | [noun] An opinion or notion formed without much reflection. | [verb] To appreciate without jealousy or greed. FANES (8) [noun] A weathercock, a weather vane. | [noun] A banner, especially a military banner. | [noun] A temple or sacred place. FANGA (9) FANGS (9) [noun] A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh | [noun] (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom | [verb] To strike or attack with the fangs. FANNY (11) [noun] The female genitalia. | [noun] The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms. | [noun] Sexual intercourse with a woman. | [noun] (naval slang) Mess kettle or cooking pot. FANON (8) FANOS (8) FANUM (10) FAQIR (17) [noun] A religious mendicant who owns no personal property. FARAD (9) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical capacitance; the capacitance of a capacitor in which one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt across the capacitor. Symbol: F FARCE (10) [noun] A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method. | [noun] A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor. | [noun] A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents. | [noun] Forcemeat, stuffing. FARCI (10) FARCY (13) [noun] A contagious disease of horses, resembling glanders FARDS (9) [noun] Force of movement, impetus, rush; hence, a violent onset. | [noun] Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint. | [verb] To paint, as the cheeks or face. FARED (9) [verb] To go, travel. | [verb] To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events. | [verb] To eat, dine. FARER (8) FARES (8) [noun] A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage. | [noun] Money paid for a transport ticket. | [noun] A paying passenger, especially in a taxi. FARLE (8) FARLS (8) [noun] A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake. | [noun] Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls. 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 FAROS (8) FARTS (8) [noun] An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. | [noun] (impolite) An irritating person; a fool. | [noun] (impolite, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views. FASTS (8) [noun] A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations | [noun] The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food. | [noun] The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food. FATAL (8) [noun] A fatality; an event that leads to death. | [noun] A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate. | [adjective] Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny. FATED (9) [verb] To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable. | [adjective] Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate. FATES (8) [noun] The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. | [noun] The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. | [noun] An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time. FATLY (11) FATSO (8) [noun] Someone who is overweight. FATTY (11) [adjective] Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat. | [adjective] Like fat; greasy. | [adjective] Literally or figuratively large. | [noun] An obese person. FATWA (11) [noun] A legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic lawyer. | [verb] To make somebody the subject of a fatwa, especially a ban or death sentence. FAUGH (12) [interjection] An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell. FAULD (9) FAULT (8) [noun] A defect; something that detracts from perfection. | [noun] A mistake or error. | [noun] A weakness of character; a failing. FAUNA (8) [noun] Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. | [noun] A book, cataloguing the animals of a country. FAUNS (8) [noun] A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis. FAUVE (11) FAVAS (11) [noun] A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself. FAVES (11) [noun] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) | [verb] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) FAVOR (11) [noun] A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). | [noun] Goodwill; benevolent regard. | [noun] A small gift; a party favor. FAVUS (11) FAWNS (11) [noun] A young deer. | [noun] A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn. | [noun] The young of an animal; a whelp. FAWNY (14) FAXED (16) [adjective] Having a head of hair; hairy. | [verb] To send a document via a fax machine. FAXES (15) [noun] The hair of the head. | [noun] A fax machine or a document received and printed by one. | [verb] To send a document via a fax machine. FAYED (12) FAZED (18) [verb] To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. | [adjective] Hesitant, frightened; daunted, disconcerted; perturbed, put off (usually used in the negative). FAZES (17) [verb] To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. FEARS (8) [noun] A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. | [noun] A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. | [noun] Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. FEASE (8) FEAST (8) [noun] A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature. | [noun] Something delightful | [noun] A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. | [verb] To partake in a feast, or large meal. FEATS (8) [noun] A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment. | [verb] To form; to fashion. | [verb] To feature. I FEAZE (17) FECAL (10) [adjective] Of or relating to feces. FELLA (8) [noun] (chiefly South US) used to address a male | [noun] A colleague or partner. | [noun] A companion; a comrade. FERAL (8) [noun] A domesticated animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans. | [noun] A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly. | [noun] A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle. FERIA (8) [noun] A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed. FETAL (8) [adjective] Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus. FETAS (8) FEUAR (8) FIARS (8) FIATS (8) [noun] An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree. | [noun] Authorization, permission or (official) sanction. | [noun] (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes. FILAR (8) FINAL (8) [noun] A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class. | [noun] The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined. | [noun] A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place/prize, 2nd place/prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.). FLABS (10) FLACK (14) [verb] To flutter; palpitate. | [verb] To hang loosely; flag. | [verb] To beat by flapping. | [noun] A publicist, a publicity agent. | [noun] Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells. FLAGS (9) [noun] A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol. | [noun] An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites). | [noun] A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship. FLAIL (8) [noun] A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material. | [noun] A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain. | [verb] To beat using a flail or similar implement. FLAIR (8) [noun] A natural or innate talent or aptitude. | [noun] Distinctive style or elegance. | [noun] Smell; odor. FLAKE (12) [noun] A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything | [noun] A scale of a fish or similar animal | [noun] A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone. | [noun] Dogfish. | [noun] Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently. FLAKY (15) [adjective] Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. | [adjective] (of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans. | [adjective] (of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely to malfunction. 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) FLANK (12) [noun] The flesh between the last rib and the hip; the side. | [noun] A cut of meat from the flank of an animal. | [noun] The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc. FLANS (8) [noun] Baked tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case. (Compare quiche.) | [noun] (Belize) A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries. | [noun] A coin die. (Compare planchet.) FLAPS (10) FLARE (8) [noun] A sudden bright light. | [noun] A source of brightly burning light or intense heat. | [noun] A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up. FLASH (11) [noun] A device that produces a short flash of light to help illuminate a scene, mostly for night-time or indoors photography. | [noun] A sudden, short, temporary burst of light. | [noun] A very short amount of time. | [noun] A pool. FLASK (12) [noun] A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc. | [noun] A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask. | [noun] Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base. FLATS (8) [noun] An area of level ground. | [noun] A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪). | [noun] A flat tyre/tire. FLAWS (11) [noun] A flake, fragment, or shiver. | [noun] A thin cake, as of ice. | [noun] A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion. FLAWY (14) FLAXY (18) FLAYS (11) [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). | [verb] To frighten; scare; terrify. | [verb] To be fear-stricken. FLEAM (10) FLEAS (8) [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). | [verb] To frighten; scare; terrify. | [verb] To be fear-stricken. FLOAT (8) [noun] A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid. | [noun] A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. | [noun] A float board. FLORA (8) [noun] Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc. | [noun] A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc. | [noun] The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body FLOTA (8) FOALS (8) [noun] A young horse or related animal, especially just after birth or less than a year old. | [noun] A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub. | [verb] To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring. 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. FOCAL (10) [adjective] Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus | [adjective] Limited to a small area FOLIA (8) [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. FORAM (10) FORAY (11) [noun] A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. | [noun] A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere. | [verb] To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc. FOSSA (8) [noun] A pit, groove, cavity, or depression. | [noun] A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon. | [noun] A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, Cryptoprocta ferox. FOVEA (11) [noun] A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ. | [noun] The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision. FRAGS (9) [noun] A fragmentation grenade. | [noun] A successful kill in a deathmatch game. | [verb] To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade. FRAIL (8) [noun] A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins. | [noun] The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail. | [noun] A rush for weaving baskets. 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. FRANC (10) [noun] A former unit of currency of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, replaced by the euro. | [noun] Any of several units of currency, some of which are multi-national (West African CFA Franc (XOF), Central African CFA Franc (XAF), the Swiss franc (CHF)) while others are national currencies. FRANK (12) [noun] Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article). | [noun] The notice on an envelope where a stamp would normally be found. | [verb] To place a frank on an envelope. | [noun] A hot dog or sausage. | [noun] The grey heron. | [noun] A pigsty. FRAPS (10) [verb] To draw together tightly; to secure by many turns of a lashing. | [verb] To strike. | [noun] An iced cappuccino. FRASS (8) [noun] The droppings or excrement of insects. | [adjective] Under the influence of marijuana, stoned FRATS (8) [noun] Shortened form for fraternity, college organization. (Often used as a noun modifier.) FRAUD (9) [noun] The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. | [noun] Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain. | [noun] The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end. FRAYS (11) [verb] To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope. | [verb] To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength). | [verb] Frighten; alarm FREAK (12) [noun] A sudden change of mind | [noun] Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable. | [noun] A hippie. | [noun] A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man. FRENA (8) FRIAR (8) [noun] A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars). | [noun] A white or pale patch on a printed page. | [noun] An American fish, the silverside. FUGAL (9) [adjective] Relating to a fugue | [adjective] Relating to flight (fleeing) FURAN (8) [noun] Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom; especially the simplest one, C4H4O. GABBY (13) [adjective] Inclined to talk too much, especially about trivia. GABLE (8) [noun] The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches). | [noun] A cable. GADDI (8) GADID (8) [noun] Any member of the family Gadidae of fish such as cod and pollack. GADIS (7) GAFFE (12) [noun] A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public. GAFFS (12) [noun] A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat. | [noun] A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe. | [noun] A trick or con. GAGED (8) [verb] To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn. | [verb] To wager, to bet. | [verb] To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. GAGER (7) GAGES (7) [noun] Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). | [noun] Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom. | [noun] A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica. GAILY (9) [adverb] Merrily. | [adverb] Showily. GAINS (6) [noun] The act of gaining; acquisition. | [noun] What is gained. | [noun] The factor by which a signal is multiplied. GAITS (6) [noun] Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. | [noun] One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training. | [verb] To teach a specific gait to a horse. GALAH (9) [noun] A pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla, native to Australia. | [noun] A fool, an idiot. GALAS (6) [noun] Pomp, show, or festivity. | [noun] A showy and festive party. | [noun] A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. GALAX (13) GALEA (6) [noun] A Roman helmet. | [noun] An organ or a part of a plant that is shaped like a galea (helmet). | [noun] A mouthpart found in some species of chewing insect, which is shaped like a galea (helmet). GALES (6) [noun] A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale. | [noun] An outburst, especially of laughter. | [noun] A light breeze. GALLS (6) [noun] Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver. | [noun] The gall bladder. | [noun] Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances. GALLY (9) GALOP (8) [noun] A lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time. | [noun] The music for a dance of this kind. 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. GANEF (9) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GANEV (9) GANGS (7) [verb] To go; walk; proceed. | [noun] A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose. | [noun] A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad. GANJA (13) [noun] Marijuana, as used for smoking. GANOF (9) GAOLS (6) [noun] A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. | [noun] Confinement in a jail. | [noun] The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). GAPED (9) [verb] To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise. | [verb] To stare in wonder. | [verb] To open wide; to display a gap. GAPER (8) [noun] One who gapes; a starer. | [noun] Any of several species of burrowing clams. | [noun] The comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla. GAPES (8) [noun] An act of gaping; a yawn. | [noun] A large opening. | [noun] A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping. GAPPY (13) GARBS (8) [noun] Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. | [noun] A type of dress or clothing. | [noun] A guise, external appearance. GARNI (6) GARTH (9) [noun] A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters | [noun] A close; a yard; a croft; a garden. | [noun] A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England GASES (6) [noun] Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly. | [noun] A chemical element or compound in such a state. | [noun] A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles. GASPS (8) [noun] A short, sudden intake of breath. | [noun] : A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper). | [verb] To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock. GASSY (9) [adjective] Having the nature of, or containing, gas. | [adjective] Of food or drink: tending to cause flatulence. | [adjective] Tending to be long-winded or wordy, especially in a boastful and vain manner. GASTS (6) GATED (7) [verb] To keep something inside by means of a closed gate. | [verb] To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out. | [verb] To open a closed ion channel. GATES (6) [noun] A doorlike structure outside a house. | [noun] Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. | [noun] Movable barrier. GATOR (6) [noun] Alligator. GAUDS (7) [noun] A cheap showy trinket | [noun] Trick; jest; sport | [noun] Deceit; fraud; artifice GAUDY (10) [noun] One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. | [adjective] Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner | [adjective] Fun; merry; festive | [noun] A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations. GAUGE (7) [noun] A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard | [noun] An act of measuring. | [noun] An estimate. GAULT (6) [noun] A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks. GAUMS (8) GAUNT (6) [adjective] Lean, angular and bony | [adjective] Haggard, drawn and emaciated | [adjective] Bleak, barren and desolate GAURS (6) [noun] An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition. GAUSS (6) [noun] The unit of magnetic field strength in CGS systems of units, equal to 0.0001 tesla. GAUZE (15) [noun] A thin fabric with a loose, open weave. | [noun] A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing. | [noun] A thin woven metal or plastic mesh. GAUZY (18) [adjective] Having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy. | [adjective] Light; giving the effect of haze. GAVEL (9) [noun] Rent. | [noun] Usury; interest on money. | [noun] An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally. | [noun] A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction. | [noun] A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. | [noun] A gable. GAVOT (9) GAWKS (13) [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. | [verb] To stare conspicuously. GAWKY (16) [noun] An awkward, ungainly person. | [adjective] Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement GAWPS (11) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. GAWSY (12) GAYAL (9) [noun] Bos frontalis, a Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle. GAYER (9) [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Happy, joyful, and lively. | [adjective] Quick, fast. | [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Festive, bright, or colourful. GAYLY (12) GAZAR (15) [noun] A silk organza, a lightweight fabric with a plain weave. GAZED (16) [verb] To stare intently or earnestly. | [verb] To stare at. GAZER (15) GAZES (15) [noun] A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. | [noun] The object gazed on. | [noun] In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed. GEARS (6) [noun] Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. | [noun] Clothing; garments. | [noun] Goods; property; household items. 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. GENOA (6) [noun] A staysail that resembles a jib but extends aft beyond the mast. | [noun] Genoa cake GENUA (6) [noun] Knee | [noun] A knee-like bend. GERAH (9) GETAS (6) GHAST (9) GHATS (9) [noun] A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place. | [noun] A mountain range. | [noun] A mountain pass. GHAUT (9) GHAZI (18) [noun] A hero or champion, especially as a Muslim against non-Muslims; often used as a title. GIANT (6) [noun] A mythical human of very great size. | [noun] Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology. | [noun] A very tall and large person. GIGAS (7) GLACE (8) GLADE (7) [noun] An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. | [noun] An everglade. | [noun] An open space in the ice on a river or lake. GLADS (7) [verb] To make glad GLADY (10) GLAIR (6) [noun] Egg-white, especially as used in various industrial preparations. | [noun] Any viscous, slimy substance. | [noun] A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd. GLAND (7) [noun] An organ that synthesizes a substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland). | [noun] A secretory structure on the surface of an organ. | [noun] A compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier, such as: GLANS (6) [noun] The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis. | [noun] The vascular body which forms the extremity of the clitoris. | [noun] The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits. GLARE (6) [noun] An intense, blinding light. | [noun] Showy brilliance; gaudiness. | [noun] An angry or fierce stare. GLARY (9) GLASS (6) [verb] To apply fibreglass to. | [noun] An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime. | [noun] A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material. GLAZE (15) [noun] The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb). | [noun] A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint. | [noun] A smooth edible coating applied to food. GLAZY (18) 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. GLEAN (6) [noun] A collection made by gleaning. | [verb] To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering. | [verb] To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard). | [noun] Cleaning; afterbirth GLEBA (8) GLIAL (6) GLIAS (6) GLOAM (8) GLOAT (6) [noun] An act or instance of gloating. | [verb] To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune. | [verb] To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel. GNARL (6) [noun] A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree. | [noun] Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs. | [verb] To knot or twist something. | [verb] To snarl or growl; to gnar. GNARR (6) GNARS (6) GNASH (9) [noun] A sudden snapping of the teeth. | [verb] To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger. | [verb] To grind between the teeth. GNATS (6) [noun] Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera. GNAWN (9) GNAWS (9) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GOADS (7) [noun] A long, pointed stick used to prod animals. | [noun] That which goads or incites; a stimulus. | [verb] To prod with a goad. GOALS (6) [noun] A result that one is attempting to achieve. | [noun] In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object. | [noun] The act of placing the object into the goal. GOATS (6) [noun] A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra. | [noun] A lecherous man. | [noun] A scapegoat. GOBAN (8) GONAD (7) [noun] A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The testicles. GONIA (6) GORAL (6) [noun] A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus. GOWAN (9) [noun] The common daisy. | [noun] Decomposed granite. GRAAL (6) GRABS (8) [noun] A sudden snatch at something. | [noun] An acquisition by violent or unjust means. | [noun] A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. GRACE (8) [noun] Charming, pleasing qualities. | [noun] A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal. | [noun] In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules. GRADE (7) [noun] A rating. | [noun] The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score. | [noun] A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality. GRADS (7) [noun] A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this. | [noun] A unit of angle equal to 0.9 degrees, so that there are 100 gradians in a right angle. | [noun] A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. GRAFT (9) [noun] A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. | [noun] A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. | [noun] A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty. | [noun] A ditch, a canal. | [noun] Corruption in official life. GRAIL (6) [noun] The Holy Grail. | [noun] The object of an extended or difficult quest.http//www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grail | [noun] A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. | [noun] Small particles of earth; gravel. | [noun] One of the small feathers of a hawk. GRAIN (6) [noun] The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley. | [noun] Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa. | [noun] A single seed of grass food crops. | [noun] A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant. 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 GRANA (6) [noun] A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis. GRAND (7) [noun] (plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.) | [noun] (plural "grands") A grand piano | [adjective] Of a large size or extent; great. | [noun] A grandparent or grandchild. GRANS (6) [noun] (usually affectionate) a grandmother | [noun] A grandfather GRANT (6) [noun] The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission. | [noun] The yielding or admission of something in dispute. | [noun] The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. GRAPE (8) [noun] A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis. | [noun] A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis. | [noun] A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes. GRAPH (11) [noun] (applied mathematics) A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers. | [noun] A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m, y)\in\R^{m+1}, where y=f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m) for a given function f: \R^m\rightarrow\R. | [noun] (formally) An ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V; (less formally) a set of vertices (or nodes) together with a set of edges that connect (some of) the vertices. GRAPY (11) GRASP (8) [noun] (sometimes figurative) Grip. | [noun] Understanding. | [noun] That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability. GRASS (6) [noun] Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. | [noun] Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses. | [noun] A lawn. GRATE (6) [noun] A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot | [noun] A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning | [verb] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars | [verb] To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater | [adjective] Serving to gratify; agreeable. | [adjective] Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big. GRAVE (9) [noun] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial | [noun] Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. | [noun] (by extension) Death, destruction. | [verb] To dig. | [noun] A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`). | [noun] A count, prefect, or person holding office. | [verb] To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose. GRAVY (12) [noun] A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked. | [noun] A type of gravy. | [noun] (Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta. GRAYS (9) [noun] An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. | [noun] An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. | [noun] An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head. GRAZE (15) [noun] The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. | [noun] A light abrasion; a slight scratch. | [noun] The act of animals feeding from pasture. GREAT (6) [noun] A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | [noun] The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | [noun] (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships. GROAN (6) [noun] A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief. | [noun] A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration, disapproval, or ecstasy. | [noun] (of an object) A low creaking sound from applied pressure or weight. GROAT (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain. | [noun] Any of various old coins of England and Scotland. | [noun] A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins. GUACO (8) GUANO (6) [noun] Dung from a sea bird or from a bat. | [noun] A variety of seabird. GUANS (6) [noun] Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas. GUARD (7) [noun] A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something. | [noun] A garda; a police officer. | [noun] A squad responsible for protecting something. GUARS (6) [noun] An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans. GUAVA (9) [noun] A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava. | [noun] Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color. | [noun] A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink). GULAG (7) [noun] A prison camp. | [noun] The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period. | [verb] To force into this prison or a similar system. GULAR (6) [noun] A plate or scale in the throat region of the body of a fish or reptile (especially a snake). | [adjective] Particularly of an animal: of, pertaining to, or located at the gula or the throat. | [noun] Ficus racemosa, a species of plant native to India, southeast Asia, and Australia. GUMMA (10) [noun] A soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis. GUTTA (6) GYRAL (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a gyrus | [adjective] Moving circularly or spirally; gyratory; whirling. HAAFS (11) HAARS (8) [noun] Coastal fog along the coast of North East England and Scotland bordering the North Sea. HABIT (10) [noun] An action performed on a regular basis. | [noun] An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness. | [noun] A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns. | [verb] To clothe. HABUS (10) HACEK (14) [noun] A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling a prime (′) instead. HACKS (14) [noun] A tool for chopping. | [noun] A hacking blow. | [noun] A gouge or notch made by such a blow. HADAL (9) [adjective] Of or relating to the deepest parts of the ocean. HADED (10) [verb] To slope or incline from the vertical. HADES (9) [noun] State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality. | [noun] A slope; the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip. | [verb] To slope or incline from the vertical. HADJI (16) [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HADST (9) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAEMS (10) HAETS (8) HAFIS (11) HAFIZ (20) [noun] A Muslim who has memorized the whole Qur'an HAFTS (11) [noun] The handle of a tool or weapon. | [verb] To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle | [noun] A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted. HAHAS (11) HAIKA (12) HAIKS (12) [noun] A covering for the head and body worn by Arabs. HAIKU (12) [noun] A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme. | [noun] A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme. HAILS (8) [verb] Of hail, to fall from the sky. | [verb] To send or release hail. | [verb] To pour down in rapid succession. HAIRS (8) [noun] A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals. | [noun] The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body. | [noun] A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. HAIRY (11) [adjective] Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body. | [adjective] Of an animal, having a lot of fur. | [adjective] Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it. HAJES (15) HAJIS (15) [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HAJJI (22) [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HAKES (12) [verb] To loiter; to sneak. HAKIM (14) [noun] A doctor, usually practicing traditional medicine. | [noun] A judge or governor in Islamic India. HALED (9) [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HALER (8) [adjective] Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired. | [noun] A German coin equivalent to half a pfennig, later used widely as a small coin in Central Europe and the German Empire. | [noun] A subdivision of the Czech, Slovakian and Czechoslovakian koruna. 100 hellers make up one koruna. HALES (8) [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HALID (9) HALLO (8) [noun] The cry "hallo!" | [noun] A shout of exultation. | [verb] To shout, or to call with a loud voice. HALLS (8) [noun] A corridor; a hallway. | [noun] A meeting room. | [noun] A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion). 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) HALOS (8) [noun] A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere. | [noun] A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies. | [noun] Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs. HALTS (8) [verb] To limp; move with a limping gait. | [verb] To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. | [verb] To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. HALVA (11) [noun] A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. HALVE (11) [verb] To reduce to half the original amount. | [verb] To divide into two halves. | [verb] To make up half of. 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". HANCE (10) HANDS (9) [noun] The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals. | [noun] That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand. | [noun] In linear measurement: HANDY (12) [adjective] Easy to use, useful. | [adjective] Nearby, within reach. | [adjective] Of a person: dexterous, skilful. | [noun] A hand job. | [noun] A handgun. HANGS (9) [verb] To be or remain suspended. | [verb] To float, as if suspended. | [verb] (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. HANKS (12) [noun] A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope. | [noun] A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down. | [noun] Doubt, difficulty. HANKY (15) [noun] A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands. | [noun] A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief or neckcloth. HANSA (8) HANSE (8) [noun] A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I. | [noun] The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies. | [noun] A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages. | [noun] That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost. HANTS (8) [noun] A ghost; a supernatural being. HAOLE (8) [noun] A non-Hawaiian, usually specifically a Caucasian. HAPAX (17) HAPLY (13) [adverb] By accident or luck. | [adverb] Perhaps. HAPPY (15) [noun] A happy event, thing, person, etc. | [noun] Preceded by the: happy people as a group. | [verb] Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up. HARDS (9) [noun] A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water. | [noun] A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums. | [noun] Crack cocaine. | [noun] The short coarser fibers of flax or hemp; tow. HARDY (12) [noun] (usually in the plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy. | [noun] A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole. | [adjective] Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. HARED (9) [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. 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. HARES (8) [noun] Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears. | [noun] The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed. | [verb] To move swiftly. HARKS (12) [verb] To listen attentively; often used in the imperative. HARLS (8) HARMS (10) [noun] Physical injury; hurt; damage | [noun] Emotional or figurative hurt | [noun] Detriment; misfortune. HARPS (10) [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body | [noun] A harmonica. | [noun] A grain sieve. HARPY (13) [noun] A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture. | [noun] A shrewish woman. | [noun] One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. HARRY (11) [verb] To plunder, pillage, assault. | [verb] To make repeated attacks on an enemy. | [verb] To strip, lay waste, ravage. HARSH (11) [verb] To negatively criticize. | [verb] To put a damper on (a mood). | [adjective] Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses. HARTS (8) [noun] A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year. | [noun] A red deer or one of related species. | [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. HASPS (10) [noun] A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door. | [noun] A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on. | [noun] An instrument for cutting the surface of grassland; a scarifier. HASTE (8) [noun] Speed; swiftness; dispatch. | [noun] Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence. | [verb] To urge onward; to hasten. HASTY (11) [adjective] Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick HATCH (13) [noun] A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling. | [noun] A trapdoor. | [noun] An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through. | [noun] The act of hatching. | [verb] To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch). HATED (9) [verb] To dislike intensely or greatly. | [verb] To experience hatred. | [adjective] Disliked; odious; reviled. HATER (8) [noun] One who hates. | [noun] One who expresses unfounded or inappropriate hatred or dislike, particularly if motivated by envy. HATES (8) [noun] An object of hatred. | [noun] Hatred. | [noun] Negative feedback, abusive behaviour. HAUGH (12) [noun] A low-lying meadow by the side of a river. 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. HAULS (8) [verb] To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle. | [verb] To draw or pull something heavy. | [verb] To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move. HAUNT (8) [noun] A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout. | [noun] A ghost. | [noun] A feeding place for animals. HAUTE (8) HAVEN (11) [noun] A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea. | [noun] (by extension) A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary. | [noun] (by extension) A peaceful place. HAVER (11) [verb] To hem and haw | [verb] To talk foolishly; to chatter. | [noun] Oats (the cereal). | [noun] One who has something; a possessor. HAVES (11) [noun] The wealthy or privileged, contrasted to those who are poor or deprived: the have nots. HAVOC (13) [noun] Widespread devastation, destruction | [noun] Mayhem | [verb] To pillage. HAWED (12) HAWKS (15) [noun] A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle. | [noun] Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon | [noun] An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions. HAWSE (11) [noun] The part of the bow containing the hawseholes. | [noun] A hawsehole or hawsepipe. | [noun] The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s). HAYED (12) HAYER (11) HAZAN (17) HAZED (18) [verb] To be or become hazy, or thick with haze. | [verb] To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit. | [verb] To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work. HAZEL (17) [noun] A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts. | [noun] The nut of the hazel tree. | [noun] The wood of a hazelnut tree. HAZER (17) [noun] One who administers acts of hazing, or abusive initiation. | [noun] The rodeo performer who hazes the steer. HAZES (17) [noun] Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. | [noun] A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid. | [noun] An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent. HEADS (9) [noun] The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. | [noun] The topmost, foremost, or leading part. | [noun] (social, metonymy) A leader or expert. | [verb] To be in command of. (See also head up.) | [noun] High-grade marijuana. HEADY (12) [adjective] Intoxicating or stupefying. | [adjective] Tending to upset the mind or senses. | [adjective] Exhilarating. HEALS (8) [noun] A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment. | [noun] Health | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. HEAPS (10) [noun] A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people. | [noun] A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation. | [noun] A great number or large quantity of things. HEARD (9) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEARS (8) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEART (8) [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. | [noun] Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general. | [noun] The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality. HEATH (11) [noun] A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland. | [noun] Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. | [noun] Certain butterflies and moths HEATS (8) [noun] Thermal energy. | [noun] The condition or quality of being hot. | [noun] An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. HEAVE (11) [noun] An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy. | [noun] An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc. | [noun] A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. HEAVY (14) [noun] A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts. | [noun] A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard. | [noun] A large multi-engined aircraft. (The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.) | [adjective] Having the heaves. HEMAL (10) [adjective] Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels. | [adjective] Ventral rather than neural. HENNA (8) [noun] A shrub, Lawsonia inermis, having fragrant reddish flowers | [noun] A reddish plant substance, prepared from the dried leaves of this plant, used for temporary tattoos and hair coloring. Hair colorings range from bright red to earth brown to near black. | [noun] A rich reddish-brown colour. HERMA (10) HEXAD (16) [noun] A group of six. | [noun] An element or radical with the combining power of six units, i.e. six atoms of hydrogen. HILAR (8) [adjective] Relating to or near a hilum. HOAGY (12) [noun] A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll; a submarine sandwich. HOARD (9) [noun] A hidden supply or fund. | [noun] A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove. | [verb] To amass, usually for one's own private collection. | [noun] A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction). HOARS (8) HOARY (11) [adjective] White, whitish, or greyish-white. | [adjective] White or grey with age. | [adjective] Of a pale silvery grey. HODAD (10) HOGAN (9) [noun] A one-room Navajo dwelling or ceremonial lodge, constructed of wood and earth and covered with mud. HOLLA (8) [verb] To cry "hollo" | [interjection] Hey, hello | [verb] To shout out or greet casually. HONAN (8) HONDA (9) HOOKA (12) HORAH (11) [noun] A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide. | [noun] A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods. HORAL (8) [adjective] Of or relating to an hour, or to hours. HORAS (8) [noun] A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide. HOSTA (8) [noun] Any of several herbaceous Asiatic plants of the genus Hosta. HOYAS (11) [noun] Any plant of the genus Hoya HULAS (8) [noun] A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. | [verb] To dance the hula. 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. HUZZA (26) [noun] A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event. | [verb] To cheer with a huzzah sound. | [interjection] Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting. HYDRA (12) [noun] Any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera, having a naked cylindrical body and an oral opening surrounded by tentacles. | [noun] A dragon-like creature with many heads and the ability to regrow them when maimed. | [noun] A complex, multifarious problem or situation that cannot be solved easily and rapidly. HYENA (11) [noun] Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaeninae (genera Hyaena and Crocuta), native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited. | [noun] (Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls. HYLAS (11) HYPHA (16) [noun] Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus. HYRAX (18) [noun] Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors, native to Africa and the Middle East. IAMBI (9) [noun] An iamb IAMBS (9) [noun] A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. IDEAL (6) [noun] A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at. | [noun] A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring. | [noun] (lattice theory) A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins). IDEAS (6) [noun] An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples. | [noun] The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal. | [noun] The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic. IHRAM (10) IKATS (9) [noun] A style of weaving that uses a process similar to tie-dye to dye the threads. | [noun] A work woven in this style. ILEAC (7) ILEAL (5) ILIAC (7) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the ilium. ILIAD (6) ILIAL (5) 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) INANE (5) [noun] That which is void or empty. | [adjective] Lacking sense or meaning (often to the point of boredom or annoyance) | [adjective] Purposeless; pointless INAPT (7) [adjective] Unapt INARM (7) INFRA (8) [adverb] Discussed later. | [noun] Infrastructure. INLAY (8) [noun] The material placed within a different material in the form of a decoration. | [noun] A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place. | [noun] The piece of paper or the booklet inside the case of a CD or DVD INVAR (8) [noun] An alloy of iron containing 35.5% nickel, and having a very low coefficient of expansion. IOTAS (5) [noun] The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. | [noun] A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity. IRADE (6) [noun] A decree issued by a Muslim ruler. IRATE (5) [adjective] Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged. ISBAS (7) IXIAS (12) [noun] Any of the genus Ixia of cormous plants native to South Africa. IXORA (12) IZARS (14) JABOT (14) [noun] A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc. JACAL (14) [noun] A wattle-and-mud hut common in Mexico and the south-western US. JACKS (18) [noun] A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather. | [noun] A man. | [noun] A device or utensil. JACKY (21) [noun] A sailor. | [noun] English gin. JADED (14) [verb] To tire, weary or fatigue | [verb] To treat like a jade; to spurn. | [verb] To make ridiculous and contemptible. JADES (13) [noun] A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines. | [noun] A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones. | [noun] A succulent plant, Crassula ovata. JAGER (13) JAGGS (14) JAGGY (17) [adjective] Jagged, toothed or serrated JAGRA (13) JAILS (12) [noun] A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. | [noun] Confinement in a jail. | [noun] The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). JAKES (16) JALAP (14) [noun] A cathartic drug consisting of the tuberous roots of Ipomoea purga, a convolvulaceous plant found in Mexico. | [noun] A jalapeño. JALOP (14) 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. JANES (12) [noun] A woman, often specifically a girlfriend. | [noun] A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century. | [noun] A female client of a prostitute. JANTY (15) JAPAN (14) [noun] A hard black enamel varnish containing asphalt. | [noun] Lacquerware. | [verb] To varnish with japan. JAPED (15) [verb] To jest; play tricks. | [verb] To mock; deride. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. JAPER (14) JAPES (14) [noun] A joke or quip. | [noun] A prank or trick. | [verb] To jest; play tricks. JARLS (12) [noun] A medieval Scandinavian nobleman, especially in Norway and Denmark. JATOS (12) [noun] An auxiliary jet engine in a detachable unit that provides extra power for the takeoff of an aircraft | [noun] A takeoff assisted by such a unit | [noun] A RATO unit or RATO takeoff - a rocket assisted take-off JAUKS (16) JAUNT (12) [noun] A wearisome journey. | [noun] A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey. | [verb] To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion. JAUPS (14) JAVAS (15) JAWAN (15) [noun] An infantryman; a soldier. JAWED (16) [verb] To assail or abuse by scolding. | [verb] To scold; to clamor. | [verb] To talk; to converse. JAZZY (33) [adjective] In the style of jazz. | [adjective] Flashy or showy. | [adjective] Lacking focus; jittery or jangly. JEANS (12) [noun] Denim. | [noun] A pair of trousers made from denim cotton. JEHAD (16) [noun] A holy war undertaken by Muslims. | [noun] An aggressive campaign for an idea. | [noun] A personal spiritual struggle for self-improvement and/or against evil. JIHAD (16) [noun] A holy war undertaken by Muslims. | [noun] An aggressive campaign for an idea. | [noun] A personal spiritual struggle for self-improvement and/or against evil. JNANA (12) JORAM (14) JOTAS (12) [noun] A traditional popular dance of the Iberian peninsula with regional variations. | [noun] The music to which this dance is set, normally of 3/4 or 6/8 time. JOUAL (12) [noun] The dialect of working-class Quebecers. JOWAR (15) [noun] Sorghum JUBAS (14) JUDAS (13) [noun] A traitor; a person not to be trusted. | [noun] A small hole in a door through which a person can spy without being seen from the other side, used especially in prisons; a Judas-hole. JUGAL (13) [noun] A bone found in the skull of most reptiles, amphibians and birds; the equivalent of a malar in mammals. | [adjective] Relating to a yoke or marriage. | [adjective] Pertaining to the jugal bone. JUNTA (12) [noun] A council, convention, tribunal or assembly; especially, the grand council of state in Spain. | [noun] The ruling council of a military dictatorship. JURAL (12) [adjective] Of or pertaining to law. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to moral rights and obligations. JURAT (12) [noun] A sworn statement concerning where, when, and before whom an oath has been made. | [noun] A sworn person, particularly: KABAB (13) KABAR (11) KABOB (13) [noun] A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab. | [noun] A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer. | [noun] The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure. KADIS (10) [noun] A civil judge in certain Islamic countries. KAFIR (12) [noun] A disbeliever, a denier: someone who denies the truths from Allah; or more broadly any non-Muslim. KAGUS (10) [noun] A New Caledonian endemic bird species, Rhynochetos jubatus, the only surviving member of the family Rhynochetidae. KAIAK (13) KAIFS (12) KAILS (9) KAINS (9) KAKAS (13) [noun] Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands. KAKIS (13) [noun] A persimmon, more specifically the Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki). KALAM (11) KALES (9) KALIF (12) KALPA (11) [noun] A period of 4.32 billion years (1000 yugas). KAMES (11) [noun] A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier. KAMIK (15) KANAS (9) KANES (9) KANJI (16) [noun] The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters. | [noun] Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language. KAONS (9) [noun] Any of four unstable subatomic particles, mesons, they are a combination of a strange quark or antiquark and either an up or down quark or antiquark KAPAS (11) KAPHS (14) KAPOK (15) [noun] A silky fibre obtained from the silk-cotton tree used for insulation and stuffing for pillows, mattresses, etc. KAPPA (13) [noun] The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet. | [noun] A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset. | [noun] A tortoise-like creature in the Japanese mythology. KAPUT (11) [adjective] Out of order; not working. KARAT (9) [noun] A unit of fineness or concentration of gold equalling 1/24 part of gold in an alloy. 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. KARNS (9) KAROO (9) KARST (9) [noun] A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage. KARTS (9) [noun] A go-cart. KASHA (12) [noun] A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats. KATAS (9) [noun] A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries. | [noun] Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts. | [noun] (in combination) A drop (in temperature). KAURI (9) [noun] A conifer of the genus Agathis, family Araucariaceae, found in Australasia and Melanesia. | [noun] Agathis australis, a large conifer of the family Araucariaceae. | [noun] A resinous product of the kauri tree, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber. KAURY (12) KAVAS (12) [noun] A plant from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum. | [noun] An intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant. KAYAK (16) [noun] A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck | [verb] To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak. | [verb] To traverse (a body of water) by kayak. KAYOS (12) [noun] A knockout (in boxing). KAZOO (18) [noun] A simple musical instrument (membranophone) consisting of a pipe with a hole in it, producing a buzzing sound when the player hums into it. | [verb] To play the kazoo. KBARS (11) KEBAB (13) [noun] A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab. | [noun] A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer. | [noun] The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure. KEBAR (11) KENAF (12) [noun] Hibiscus cannabinus, an annual or biennial herbaceous plant found mainly in Asia. | [noun] The fibre obtained from this plant, similar to jute. KHADI (13) [noun] A coarse homespun cotton cloth from India. KHAFS (15) KHAKI (16) [noun] A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust. | [noun] Khaki green, a dull green colour. | [noun] A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms. KHANS (12) [noun] A ruler over various Turkish, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages. | [noun] An Ottoman sultan. | [noun] A noble or man of rank in various Muslim countries of Central Asia, including Afghanistan. KHAPH (17) KHATS (12) [noun] A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant. KHEDA (13) KIANG (10) [noun] A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau. KIBLA (11) [noun] The direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined as the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca. KINAS (9) KIVAS (12) [noun] A ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village. KNACK (15) [noun] A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something. | [noun] A petty contrivance; a toy. | [noun] Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity. KNAPS (11) [verb] To shape a brittle material having conchoidal fracture, usually a mineral (flint, obsidian, chert etc.), by breaking away flakes, often forming a sharp edge or point. | [verb] To rap or strike sharply. | [verb] To bite; to bite off; to break short. KNARS (9) [noun] A knot or burl in a tree; a knurl, a gnarl. KNAUR (9) KNAVE (12) [noun] A boy; especially, a boy servant. | [noun] Any male servant; a menial. | [noun] A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person. KNEAD (10) [noun] The act of kneading something. | [verb] To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc. | [verb] To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat. KOALA (9) [noun] A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia. KOANS (9) [noun] A story about a Zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of Zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the Zen student’s mind leading to satori. | [noun] A riddle with no solution, used to provoke reflection on the inadequacy of logical reasoning, and to lead to enlightenment. KOLAS (9) [noun] The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts. | [noun] A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water. | [noun] A tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown seeds ("nuts") that are the source of cola extract. KOPPA (13) KORAI (9) [noun] An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle. KORAT (9) KRAAL (9) [noun] In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community. | [noun] In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade. | [noun] An enclosure for livestock. KRAFT (12) [noun] A kind of strong, smooth brown wrapping paper. KRAIT (9) [noun] Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia. KRAUT (9) [noun] A dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage. | [noun] A German person. | [noun] A German. KRONA (9) [noun] The official currency of Sweden. KULAK (13) [noun] A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers. KURTA (9) [noun] A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women. KVASS (12) [noun] A type of traditional fermented Russian beverage with little or no alcohol, made from bread, often flavored with fruit. KYACK (18) KYAKS (16) KYARS (12) KYATS (12) [noun] The official currency of Myanmar. LAARI (5) LABEL (7) [noun] A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached. | [noun] A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group. | [noun] A company that sells records. LABIA (7) [noun] The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina. | [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. LABOR (7) [noun] Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work. | [noun] That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. | [noun] Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour. LABRA (7) [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. LACED (8) [verb] To fasten (something) with laces. | [verb] To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink). | [verb] To interweave items. LACER (7) LACES (7) [noun] A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. Wp | [noun] A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. Wp | [noun] A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. LACEY (10) LACKS (11) [noun] A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy. | [noun] A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want. | [verb] To be without, to need, to require. LADED (7) [verb] To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment). | [verb] To weigh down, oppress, or burden. | [verb] To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water). LADEN (6) [verb] To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment). | [verb] To weigh down, oppress, or burden. | [verb] To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water). LADER (6) LADES (6) [verb] To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment). | [verb] To weigh down, oppress, or burden. | [verb] To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water). LADLE (6) [noun] A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle. | [noun] A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal. | [noun] The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board. LAEVO (8) LAGAN (6) [noun] Goods or materials found or left on the sea floor, attached to a floating marker that indicates ownership. LAGER (6) [noun] A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast. | [verb] To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification. | [noun] A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers. LAHAR (8) [noun] A volcanic mudflow. LAICH (10) LAICS (7) [noun] A layperson, as opposed to a member of the clergy. LAIGH (9) LAIRD (6) [noun] The owner of a Scottish estate; a member of the landed gentry, a landowner. | [noun] Often in the form Laird of, followed by a patronymic: a Scottish clan chief. | [verb] Chiefly as laird it over: to behave like a laird, particularly to act haughtily or to domineer; to lord (it over). LAIRS (5) [noun] A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground. | [noun] A shed or shelter for domestic animals. | [noun] A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway. LAITH (8) LAITY (8) [noun] People of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics. | [noun] The common man or woman. | [noun] The unlearned, untrained or ignorant. LAKED (10) LAKER (9) [noun] One engaged in sport; a player; an actor. | [noun] A wharfman who resides near a lake. | [noun] A ship used on the Great Lakes. LAKES (9) [noun] A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain. | [noun] A large, landlocked stretch of water. | [noun] A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake. LAKHS (12) LALLS (5) 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. LANAI (5) [noun] (Florida) A Hawaiian-style roofed patio. LANCE (7) [noun] A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen. | [noun] A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour. | [noun] A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. LANDS (6) [noun] The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water. | [noun] Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected. | [noun] A country or region. LANES (5) [noun] (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare. | [noun] A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees. | [noun] A narrow road, as in the country. LANKY (12) [adjective] Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward. LAPEL (7) [noun] Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on the front of a jacket or coat that are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between. LAPIN (7) LAPIS (7) [noun] Lapis lazuli. LAPSE (7) [noun] A temporary failure; a slip. | [noun] A decline or fall in standards. | [noun] A pause in continuity. LARCH (10) [noun] A coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles. | [noun] The wood of the larch. LARDS (6) [verb] To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking. | [verb] To smear with fat or lard. | [verb] To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing. LARDY (9) LAREE (5) LARES (5) LARGE (6) [noun] An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves. | [noun] Liberality, generosity. | [noun] (plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds. LARGO (6) [noun] A very slow tempo | [noun] A musical piece or movement in such a tempo | [adjective] Strong and stately LARIS (5) [noun] The national currency of Georgia, divided into 100 tetri. LARKS (9) [verb] To catch larks (type of bird). | [verb] To sport, engage in harmless pranking. | [verb] To frolic, engage in carefree adventure. LARKY (12) LARUM (7) LARVA (8) [noun] An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish. | [noun] An animal in the aforementioned stage. | [noun] A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage. LASED (6) [verb] To use a laser beam on, as for cutting. | [verb] To operate as a laser, to release coherent light due to stimulation. LASER (5) [noun] A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light. | [noun] A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam. | [noun] A laser printer. | [noun] A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants. LASES (5) [verb] To use a laser beam on, as for cutting. | [verb] To operate as a laser, to release coherent light due to stimulation. LASSO (5) [noun] A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses. | [noun] An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline. | [verb] To catch with a lasso. LASTS (5) [verb] To perform, carry out. | [verb] To endure, continue over time. | [verb] To hold out, continue undefeated or entire. LATCH (10) [verb] To close or lock as if with a latch. | [verb] To catch; lay hold of. | [noun] A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side. | [verb] To smear; to anoint. LATED (6) LATEN (5) LATER (5) [adjective] Near the end of a period of time. | [adjective] Specifically, near the end of the day. | [adjective] (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period. LATEX (12) [noun] A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph) | [noun] The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber. | [noun] An emulsion of rubber in water, used in adhesives and the like. LATHE (8) [verb] To invite; bid; ask. | [noun] An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century. | [noun] A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool. LATHI (8) [noun] A heavy stick or club, usually used by policemen. | [noun] A martial art based on stick fighting originally practiced in India. LATHS (8) [noun] A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc. LATHY (11) LATKE (9) [noun] A pancake fried in oil, usually made from potatoes and sometimes also onions, traditionally served on Hanukkah. LATTE (5) [noun] A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam. | [noun] A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea). | [noun] A pillar capped by a hemispherical stone capital with the flat side facing up, used as building supports by the ancient Chamorro people and now used as a sign of Chamorro identity. LAUAN (5) LAUDS (6) [noun] Praise or glorification. | [noun] Hymn of praise. | [noun] (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins. LAUGH (9) [noun] An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. | [noun] Something that provokes mirth or scorn. | [noun] A fun person. LAURA (5) LAVAS (8) [noun] The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides. | [noun] Magma. | [noun] A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava. LAVED (9) [verb] To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. | [verb] To draw, as water; drink in. | [verb] To give bountifully; lavish. LAVER (8) [noun] A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable. | [noun] Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially: | [noun] One who laves: a washer. LAVES (8) [verb] To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. | [verb] To draw, as water; drink in. | [verb] To give bountifully; lavish. LAWED (9) LAWNS (8) [noun] An open space between woods. | [noun] Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. | [noun] An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists. LAWNY (11) LAXER (12) [adjective] Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict. | [adjective] Loose; not tight or taut. | [adjective] Lacking care; neglectful, negligent. | [noun] Lacrosse player LAXLY (15) LAYED (9) LAYER (8) [noun] A single thickness of some material covering a surface. | [noun] A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum. | [noun] One of the items in a hierarchy. | [noun] A person who lays things, such as tiles. LAYUP (10) [noun] A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away. | [noun] A relatively easy task. | [noun] The state of being laid up. LAZAR (14) [noun] A sufferer of an infectious disease, especially leprosy. LAZED (15) [verb] To be lazy, waste time. | [verb] To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge. LAZES (14) [noun] An instance of lazing. | [noun] Laziness. | [verb] To be lazy, waste time. LEACH (10) [noun] A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. | [noun] A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. | [noun] A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century. | [verb] To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid. LEADS (6) [noun] A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum). | [noun] A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots. | [noun] A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. LEADY (9) LEAFS (8) [verb] To produce leaves; put forth foliage. | [verb] To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves. LEAFY (11) [adjective] Covered with leaves | [adjective] Containing much foliage | [adjective] In the form of leaves (of some material) LEAKS (9) [noun] A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape. | [noun] The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture. | [noun] A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret. LEAKY (12) [adjective] Having leaks; not fully sealed. LEANS (5) [noun] (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical. | [verb] To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. | [verb] To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. LEANT (5) [verb] To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. | [verb] To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. | [verb] Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc. LEAPS (7) [noun] The act of leaping or jumping. | [noun] The distance traversed by a leap or jump. | [noun] A group of leopards. LEAPT (7) [verb] To jump. | [verb] To pass over by a leap or jump. | [verb] To copulate with (a female beast); to cover. LEARN (5) [noun] The act of learning something | [verb] To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something. | [verb] To attend a course or other educational activity. | [verb] To teach. LEARS (5) LEARY (8) LEASE (5) [verb] (chiefly dialectal) To gather. | [verb] (chiefly dialectal) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up. | [verb] (chiefly dialectal) To glean. | [verb] To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate. | [noun] An open pasture or common. | [verb] To release; let go; unloose. | [noun] A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent. | [noun] The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom. LEASH (8) [noun] A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog. | [noun] A brace and a half; a tierce. | [noun] A set of three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general. LEAST (5) [noun] Something of the smallest possible extent; an indivisible unit. | [adverb] Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est. | [adverb] In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others. LEAVE (8) [verb] To have a consequence or remnant. | [verb] To depart; to separate from. | [verb] To transfer something. | [noun] The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball. | [noun] Permission to be absent; time away from one's work. | [verb] To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. | [verb] To produce leaves or foliage. | [verb] To raise; to levy. LEAVY (11) LEGAL (6) [noun] The legal department of a company. | [noun] Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm). | [noun] A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc. LEHUA (8) 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. LEPTA (7) [noun] A coin used since ancient times in Greece, serving in modern times as one hundredth of a phoenix, a drachma, and a euro (as the Greek form of the Eurocent). | [noun] A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century B.C.E., considered by some to be the widow's mite. | [noun] An elementary particle that has a spin of 1/2 (i.e., is a fermion) and does not interact via the strong nuclear force; examples include the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon. LIANA (5) [noun] A climbing woody vine, usually tropical. LIANE (5) [noun] A climbing woody vine, usually tropical. LIANG (6) LIARD (6) [noun] A small French coin, equivalent to a quarter of a sou. LIARS (5) [noun] One who tells lies. | [noun] A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week. LIBRA (7) [noun] A Roman unit of weight equal to about 327 grams. | [noun] Any of various units of weight in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries approximately equal to 460 grams or a little more than a US or UK pound. | [noun] Alternative spelling of libbra, an Italian unit of weight. LIDAR (6) [noun] The optical analogue of radar, using intense pulses of laser light to measure the composition and structure of the atmosphere. LIGAN (6) LILAC (7) [noun] A large shrub of the genus Syringa, especially Syringa vulgaris, bearing white, pale-pink or purple flowers. | [noun] A flower of the lilac shrub. | [noun] (color) A pale purple color, the color of some lilac flowers. 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. LIMPA (9) LINAC (7) [noun] A linear particle accelerator. LINGA (6) [noun] (Shaivism) The aniconic representation traditionally worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva. LIRAS (5) LITAI (5) LITAS (5) [noun] The former currency or money of Lithuania, divided into 100 centai. 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. LLANO (5) [noun] A plain or steppe in parts of Latin America. LOACH (10) [noun] A bottom-feeding freshwater fish in the superfamily or suborder Cobitoidea. | [noun] Acronym of light observation helicopter. LOADS (6) [noun] A burden; a weight to be carried. | [noun] A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind. | [noun] A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time. LOAFS (8) [verb] To do nothing, to be idle. | [verb] (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread) LOAMS (7) LOAMY (10) [adjective] Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam. LOANS (5) [noun] An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use. | [noun] A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest). | [noun] The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan. LOATH (8) [adjective] Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling. | [adjective] Angry, hostile. | [adjective] Loathsome, unpleasant. | [verb] To detest, hate, revile. LOBAR (7) [adjective] Of or relating to a lobe. LOCAL (7) [noun] A person who lives near a given place. | [noun] A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. | [noun] A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones. LOGAN (6) [noun] A rocking or balanced stone. | [noun] A marsh. LOGIA (6) [noun] A traditional saying of a religious leader. | [noun] (specifically) A saying that is attributed to Jesus in ancient or reconstructed texts that was (originally) handed down without narrative context. LOOFA (8) [noun] A tropical vine, of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd | [noun] The dried fibrous interior used as a sponge for bathing | [noun] Any bathing sponge LORAL (5) LORAN (5) LOTAH (8) LOTAS (5) [noun] A spherical pot, specifically a water pot used for washing and ablution, typically made of brass. | [noun] A person who switches loyalties, especially from one political party to another. LOVAT (8) [noun] A dusty blue-green colour. | [adjective] Of a dusty blue-green colour. LOYAL (8) [adjective] Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something. | [adjective] Firm in allegiance to a person or institution. | [adjective] Faithful to a person or cause. LUAUS (5) [noun] An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment. LUFFA (11) [noun] A tropical vine, of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd | [noun] The dried fibrous interior used as a sponge for bathing | [noun] Any bathing sponge LUNAR (5) [noun] The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus in the wrist, which is shaped like a half-moon. | [noun] An observation of a lunar distance, especially for establishing the longitude of a ship at sea. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon); Lunar. LUNAS (5) LUTEA (5) LYARD (9) LYART (8) LYASE (8) [noun] Any of many classes of enzyme that catalyze the breaking of a specific form of bond LYCEA (10) LYSSA (8) LYTTA (8) 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. MENAD (8) MENSA (7) MENTA (7) MESAS (7) [noun] Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges. 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. 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) MICRA (9) MIKRA (11) MILIA (7) [noun] A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth. MILPA (9) MINAE (7) MINAS (7) MIRZA (16) 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. MODAL (8) [noun] A modal proposition. | [noun] A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary. | [noun] (grammar) A modal verb. MOIRA (7) 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. MOMMA (11) [noun] Mother | [noun] A voluptuous woman. | [noun] One's wife or girlfriend. 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) MOOLA (7) [noun] Money, cash. 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. MOXAS (14) 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. MULLA (7) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. 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) MURRA (7) MUSCA (9) 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. MYOMA (12) NAANS (5) [noun] A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine. NABES (7) [noun] Neighborhood. | [noun] (frequently plural) Neighborhood theater, neighborhood cinema. NABIS (7) NABOB (9) [noun] An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire. | [noun] (by extension) Someone of great wealth or importance. | [noun] (by extension) A person with a grandiose style or manner. NACHO (10) [noun] A single tortilla chip from a dish of nachos. NACRE (7) [noun] A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl. | [noun] A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl. NADAS (6) NADIR (6) [noun] The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation. | [noun] The lowest point; time of greatest depression. | [noun] The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down. NAEVI (8) [noun] A pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal area on the skin. Naevi may be congenital or acquired, and are always benign. NAGGY (10) NAIAD (6) [noun] A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water. | [noun] The aquatic larva (nymph) of a dragonfly or damselfly. | [noun] Any of various aquatic plants of the genus Najas. NAIFS (8) [noun] One who is naive. NAILS (5) [noun] The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals. | [noun] The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera. | [noun] The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds. NAIRA (5) [noun] The official currency of Nigeria, which replaced the pound in 1973; the principal denomination of the currency, equal to 100 kobo. NAIVE (8) [noun] A naive person; a greenhorn. | [adjective] Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated. | [adjective] Not having been exposed to something. NAKED (10) [adjective] Bare, not covered by clothing. | [adjective] Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear. | [adjective] Glib, without decoration, put bluntly. | [verb] To make naked; to bare. NALED (6) 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. NANAS (5) [noun] A banana | [noun] A fool | [noun] (term of endearment) one's grandmother NANCE (7) [verb] To move in a prissy or stereotypically gay way. | [noun] An effeminate man, especially a homosexual. | [noun] A large shrub or small tree of subtropical and tropical areas of the Americas, Byrsonima crassifolia, bearing a small, sweet, yellow fruit. NANCY (10) [noun] An effeminate man, especially a homosexual. NANNY (8) [noun] A child's nurse. | [noun] A grandmother. | [noun] A godmother. NAPES (7) [noun] The back part of the neck. | [noun] The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head. | [noun] A tablecloth. NAPPE (9) [noun] The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop. | [noun] Either of the two parts of a double cone. | [noun] A sheet-like mass of rock that has been folded over adjacent strata. NAPPY (12) [noun] An absorbent garment worn by a baby who does not yet have voluntary control of his or her bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent; a diaper. | [verb] To put a nappy on. | [adjective] Having a nap (of cloth etc.); downy; shaggy. | [noun] A shallow, flat-bottomed earthenware or glass bowl with sloping sides. | [noun] A kind of strong ale; nappy ale. | [adjective] Brittle NARCO (7) [noun] Narcotics. | [noun] A South American drug baron. | [noun] A police officer specializing in drug crimes | [noun] Someone suffering from narcolepsy NARCS (7) [noun] A narcotics squad police officer. | [verb] (underwater diving) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (for example, while scuba diving). | [noun] A narcissist. NARDS (6) [noun] Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine. | [noun] A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized. | [noun] American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root. NARES (5) [noun] A nostril | [noun] A nostril NARIC (7) NARIS (5) [noun] A nostril NARKS (9) [noun] A narcotics squad police officer. | [noun] A narcissist. | [noun] A police spy or informer. NARKY (12) [adjective] Irritated, in a bad mood; disparaging. NASAL (5) [noun] A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine. | [noun] A vowel or consonant (such as [m] or [n]) articulated with air flowing through the nose. | [noun] Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard. NASTY (8) [noun] Something nasty. | [noun] (preceded by "the") Sexual intercourse. | [noun] A video nasty. NATAL (5) [adjective] Of or relating to birth. | [adjective] Of or relating to the buttocks. NATCH (10) [adverb] Naturally; of course. | [noun] The rump of beef, especially the lower and back part of the rump. | [noun] A notch. NATES (5) [noun] The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes. | [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] The umbones of a bivalve shell. NATTY (8) [adjective] Smart and fashionable. | [adjective] Knotty. | [noun] Someone whose muscle gains are natural and not aided by the use of steroids. NAVAL (8) [adjective] Of or relating to a navy. | [adjective] Of or relating to ships in general. NAVAR (8) NAVEL (8) [noun] The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth. | [noun] The central part or point of anything; the middle. | [noun] A navel orange. NAVES (8) [noun] The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances. | [noun] A hub of a wheel. | [noun] The navel. NAVVY (14) [noun] A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad. | [verb] To carry out physical labor on a civil engineering project. NAWAB (10) [noun] A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura. NAZIS (14) [noun] A member of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly called the NSDAP or Nazi Party). | [noun] One who subscribes to or advocates (neo-)Nazism or a similarly fascist, racist (especially anti-Semitic), xenophobic, ethnic supremacist, or ultranationalist ideology; a neo-Nazi. | [noun] (usually derogatory, sometimes offensive, see usage notes below) One who imposes one’s views on others; one who is considered unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict. (also frequently uncapitalised: nazi) NEAPS (7) [noun] The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals. | [noun] A neap tide. | [verb] To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides. NEARS (5) [noun] The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc. | [verb] To come closer to; to approach. NEATH (8) [preposition] Beneath. NEATS (5) [noun] An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy. NEMAS (7) NICAD (8) [noun] Rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery NIDAL (6) NINJA (12) [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.) NIPAS (7) [noun] A palm tree of the species Nypa fruticans. | [noun] A liquor made from the sap of nipa palm. | [noun] The leaves of the nipa palm, when used as a material for thatching, basketry or other uses. NIVAL (8) [adjective] Abounding with snow; snowy; snow-covered (now especially in reference to plant habitats). | [adjective] Found or thriving in snowy conditions. NIZAM (16) [noun] The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India. | [noun] The Turkish regular army; a soldier in the Turkish army. NODAL (6) [adjective] Of the nature of, or relating to, a node. | [adjective] Of or relating to the nodus. 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) NONAS (5) NOPAL (7) [noun] A prickly pear cactus from the genus Opuntia, especially Opuntia cochinellifera; the edible pads (fleshy leaves) of the cactus, considered as food. NORIA (5) [noun] A water wheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water. | [noun] Any machine using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct. NOTAL (5) NOVAE (8) [noun] Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star. NOVAS (8) [noun] Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star. NOWAY (11) [adverb] In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise; no way. NUBIA (7) NUCHA (10) NYALA (8) [noun] A southern African antelope, Tragelaphus angasii (syn. Nyala angasii), with thin white stripes in the grey or brown coat, a ridge of tufted hair running all along the spine, and long horns with a spiral twist. OAKEN (9) [adjective] Made from the wood of the oak tree. Also in metaphorical uses, suggesting robustness. 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. OARED (6) [adjective] Having oars. | [verb] To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars. OASES (5) [noun] A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert. | [noun] A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle. OASIS (5) [noun] A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert. | [noun] A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle. OASTS (5) [noun] A kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops. OATEN (5) [adjective] Made of oats OATER (5) [noun] (entertainment) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie. OATHS (8) [noun] A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise. | [noun] A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge. | [noun] A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity. OAVES (8) OBEAH (10) [noun] A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean. | [noun] A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft. | [noun] A spell performed in the practice of the magic craft; an item associated with such a spell. OBIAS (7) OCEAN (7) [noun] One of the large bodies of water separating the continents. | [noun] Water belonging to an ocean. | [noun] An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits. OCREA (7) [noun] A sheath around a plant stem forming from the stipule of a leaf and extending above the point of insertion of the leaf. OCTAD (8) [noun] A group of eight things. | [noun] Hundred million = myriad myriad; 100,000,000 = 108 OCTAL (7) [noun] The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. | [noun] A digit or value in the octal number system. | [adjective] Concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematical calculations performed using octal. OCTAN (7) OFAYS (11) [noun] A white person. OFFAL (11) [noun] The internal organs of an animal, used as animal food. | [noun] A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc. | [noun] A dead body; carrion. 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. OHIAS (8) OIDIA (6) [noun] A fragile spore produced by some fungi. | [noun] The fungus Erysiphe necator (= Uncinula necator), which produces powdery mildew in grapes. OKAPI (11) [noun] A large ruminant mammal, Okapia johnstoni, found in the rainforests of the Congo, related to the giraffe, but with a much shorter neck, a reddish brown coat and zebra-like stripes on its hindquarters. OKAYS (12) [noun] Endorsement; approval. | [verb] To approve. | [verb] To confirm by activating a button marked OK. OKRAS (9) OLLAS (5) OMASA (7) [noun] The third part of the stomach of a ruminant. 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. OPAHS (10) [noun] Any of various large, colourful, deep-bodied pelagic fish of the family Lamprididae. OPALS (7) [noun] A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity, of the chemical formula SiO2·nH2O. | [noun] A colloquial name used in molecular biology referring to a particular stop codon sequence, "UGA." | [noun] Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Nesolycaena. OPERA (7) [noun] A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance. | [noun] The score for such a work. | [noun] A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house. | [noun] A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works. ORACH (10) [noun] The saltbush: any of several plants, of the genus Atriplex, especially Atriplex hortensis or Atriplex patula, found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach. ORALS (5) [noun] A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class. | [noun] A physical examination of the mouth. | [noun] Oral sex. ORANG (6) [noun] An orangutan. ORATE (5) [verb] To speak formally; to give a speech. | [verb] To speak passionately; to preach for or against something. | [adjective] Competent in oracy; having good speaking skills. ORCAS (7) [noun] A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale. OREAD (6) [noun] A mountain nymph; an anthropomorphic appearance of the spirit of a mountain. ORGAN (6) [noun] A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions. | [noun] (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions. | [noun] A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such. OSSIA (5) OSTIA (5) [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. OTTAR (5) OVALS (8) [noun] An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse. | [noun] A thing having such a shape, such as an arena. | [noun] In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point. OVARY (11) [noun] A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone. | [noun] The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit. OVATE (8) [adjective] Shaped like an egg. | [adjective] (of leaves) With the broadest extremity near the base. | [noun] An Irish bard. PACAS (9) [noun] Any of the large rodents of the genus Cuniculus (but see also its synonyms), native to Central America and South America, which have dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides. PACED (10) [verb] To walk back and forth in a small distance. | [verb] To set the speed in a race. | [verb] To measure by walking. PACER (9) [noun] One who paces. | [noun] In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter. | [noun] A pacemaker. | [noun] A mechanical pencil. PACES (9) [noun] Step. | [noun] Way of stepping. | [noun] Speed or velocity in general. PACHA (12) [noun] A high-ranking Turkish military officer, especially as a commander or regional governor; the highest honorary title during the Ottoman Empire. | [noun] The Indian butterfly Herona marathus, family Nymphalidae. PACKS (13) [noun] A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale. | [noun] A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack | [noun] A multitude. PACTS (9) [noun] An agreement; a compact; a covenant. | [noun] An agreement between two or more nations | [verb] To form a pact; to agree formally. PADDY (12) [noun] Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested. | [noun] A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown. | [adjective] Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. | [noun] A fit of temper; a tantrum PADIS (8) PADLE (8) PADRE (8) [noun] A military clergyman | [noun] A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest PADRI (8) PAEAN (7) [noun] A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle. | [noun] (by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph. | [noun] (by extension) An enthusiastic expression of praise. PAEON (7) [noun] A foot containing any pattern of three short syllables and one long syllable. PAGAN (8) [noun] A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion. | [noun] (by extension) An uncivilized or unsocialized person. | [noun] (by extension) An unruly, badly educated child. PAGED (9) [verb] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript. | [verb] (often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication. | [verb] To furnish with folios. PAGER (8) [noun] A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages. | [noun] A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time. | [noun] (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages. PAGES (8) [noun] One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. | [noun] One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed. | [noun] Any record or writing; a collective memory. PAGOD (9) PAIKS (11) PAILS (7) [noun] A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover). | [noun] (In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container. PAINS (7) [noun] An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. | [noun] The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress | [noun] (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing. PAINT (7) [noun] A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied. | [noun] (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures. | [noun] The free-throw lane, construed with the. PAIRS (7) [noun] Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of. | [noun] Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship. | [noun] Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts) PAISA (7) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in various Asian countries. | [noun] (British India) A subdivision of currency equivalent to 1/64 of a rupee or three pies. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka. | [noun] A Mexican national, especially a rural or rustic one. PAISE (7) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in various Asian countries. | [noun] (British India) A subdivision of currency equivalent to 1/64 of a rupee or three pies. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka. | [noun] A state of balance, equilibrium or stability. PALEA (7) [noun] The interior chaff or husk of grasses. | [noun] One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower. | [noun] A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap. PALED (8) [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [verb] To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. PALER (7) [adjective] Light in color. | [adjective] (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.). | [adjective] Feeble, faint. PALES (7) [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [verb] To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. | [noun] A wooden stake; a picket. PALET (7) PALLS (7) [noun] Senses relating to cloth. | [noun] Senses relating to clothing. | [verb] To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. PALLY (10) [noun] An affectionate term of address. | [noun] A slightly derogatory and insulting term of address. | [adjective] Like a pal; friendly. | [noun] A paladin. 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. PALPI (9) [noun] Palp (invertebrate appendage) PALPS (9) [noun] A pedipalp, an appendage found near the mouth in invertebrates; has a variety of functions but is often primarily used for predating. | [noun] A fleshy part of a fingertip. | [noun] Short for palpation. PALSY (10) [noun] Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking. | [verb] To paralyse, either completely or partially. | [adjective] Chummy, friendly. PAMPA (11) PANDA (8) [noun] The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail. | [noun] Short for giant panda. | [noun] (law enforcement) Short for panda car. | [noun] A brahmin who acts as the hereditary superintendent of a particular ghat or temple, and is regarded as knowledgeable in matters of genealogy and ritual. PANDY (11) PANED (8) PANEL (7) [noun] A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc. | [noun] A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example. | [noun] An individual frame or drawing in a comic. PANES (7) [noun] An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc. | [noun] A layer in the build-up of a GUI. | [noun] A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface. PANGA (8) [noun] A large broad-bladed knife. | [noun] Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus. | [noun] A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia. | [noun] A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America. PANGS (8) [noun] (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. | [noun] (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. | [verb] To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. PANIC (9) [noun] Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals. | [noun] Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices. | [noun] A kernel panic or system crash. | [noun] A plant of the genus Panicum. PANNE (7) [noun] A lustrous finish applied to velvet and satin. | [noun] A fabric resembling velvet, but having the nap flat and less close. | [noun] A wetland consisting of a small depression, with or without standing water, often in a salt marsh or other coastal wetland. PANSY (10) [noun] A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor. | [noun] A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia. Also called arguses. PANTO (7) [noun] A mechanical linkage based on parallelograms causing two objects to move in parallel; notably as a drawing aid. | [noun] By extension, a structure of crosswise bars linked in such a way that it can extend and compress like an accordion, such as in a pantograph mirror or a scissor lift. | [noun] A pattern printed on a document to reduce the ease of photocopying. PANTS (7) [noun] (Manchester) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. | [noun] An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants. | [noun] Rubbish; something worthless. | [verb] To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants. | [noun] A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. | [verb] To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. PANTY (10) [noun] (in the plural) Short trousers for men, or more usually boys. | [noun] (usually in the plural, or in compounds) An article of clothing worn as underpants by women. | [noun] A helmet cover. PAPAL (9) [adjective] Having to do with the pope or the papacy. PAPAS (9) [noun] Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father. | [noun] A pet name for one's grandfather. | [noun] A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church. PAPAW (12) [noun] A tree, Carica papaya, of tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, and producing dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit. | [noun] (less commonly) A father. | [noun] Grandfather. PAPER (9) [noun] A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water. | [noun] A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine). | [noun] Wallpaper. PAPPI (11) [noun] The markedly reduced sepals of an Asteraceae floret that take the form of trichomes or scale attached to the ovary or seed. | [noun] The first hair on the chin. PAPPY (14) [adjective] Like pap; soft; mushy. | [noun] Father | [noun] Grandfather PARAS (7) [noun] A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions. | [noun] A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word. | [noun] A paratrooper. PARCH (12) [noun] The condition of being parched. | [verb] To burn the surface of, to scorch. | [verb] To roast, as dry grain. PARDI (8) PARDS (8) [noun] A leopard; a panther. | [noun] Partner; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation PARDY (11) PARED (8) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PAREO (7) [noun] A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong. PARER (7) PARES (7) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PAREU (7) PARGE (8) [noun] A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls. | [verb] To apply a parge on to a surface. PARGO (8) PARIS (7) PARKA (11) [noun] A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind. PARKS (11) [noun] An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation. | [noun] A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region. | [noun] An area used for specific purposes. PARLE (7) PAROL (7) [noun] A word; an oral utterance. | [noun] Oral declaration; word of mouth. | [noun] A writing not under seal. | [noun] An ornamental star-like Christmas lantern from the Philippines. PARRS (7) PARRY (10) [noun] A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying. | [noun] A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade. | [noun] (combat sports and martial arts) A defensive move intended to change the direction of an incoming strike to make it miss its intended target, rather than block and absorb it; and typically performed with an open hand in a downward or sideways slapping motion. PARSE (7) [noun] An act of parsing. | [noun] The result of such an act. | [verb] To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically. PARTS (7) [noun] A portion; a component. | [noun] Duty; responsibility. | [noun] The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. PARTY (10) [noun] A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action. | [noun] A person. | [noun] A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc. | [adjective] (except in compounds) Divided; in part. PARVE (10) [adjective] Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient. | [adjective] (by extension) Neutral, bland, inoffensive. PARVO (10) PASEO (7) [noun] A public path or avenue designed for walking, sometimes for dining or recreation. PASES (7) PASHA (10) [noun] A high-ranking Turkish military officer, especially as a commander or regional governor; the highest honorary title during the Ottoman Empire. | [noun] The Indian butterfly Herona marathus, family Nymphalidae. PASSE (7) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. PASTA (7) [noun] Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating. | [noun] A dish or serving of pasta. | [noun] A type of pasta. PASTE (7) [noun] A soft moist mixture, in particular: | [noun] A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid | [noun] A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass. PASTS (7) [noun] The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future. | [noun] (grammar) The past tense. PASTY (10) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers. | [adjective] Like paste, sticky. | [adjective] Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor | [noun] A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape. PATCH (12) [noun] A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole. | [noun] A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc. | [noun] A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future. | [noun] A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. PATED (8) PATEN (7) [noun] The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist. | [noun] Any shallow dish found in an archaeological site. PATER (7) [noun] Father PATES (7) [noun] (somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown. | [noun] Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities. | [noun] The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color. PATHS (10) [noun] A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians. | [noun] A course taken. | [noun] A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry. PATIN (7) PATIO (7) [noun] A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation. | [noun] An inner courtyard typical of traditional houses in some regions of Spain. PATLY (10) PATSY (10) [noun] A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something. PATTY (10) [noun] (US, Australia, New Zealand) A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape. | [noun] A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric. PAUSE (7) [noun] A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer. | [noun] A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. | [noun] A short time for relaxing and doing something else. PAVAN (10) [noun] A native or inhabitant of Padua. | [noun] An imitation coin resembling old Roman bronze coins, made at Padua in the 16th century. | [noun] A stately Spanish dance. PAVED (11) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAVER (10) [noun] A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home. | [noun] One who paves; one who lays pavement. PAVES (10) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAVID (11) PAVIN (10) PAVIS (10) PAWED (11) [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. | [verb] (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw. | [verb] (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. PAWER (10) PAWKY (17) [adjective] Shrewd, sly; often also characterised by a sarcastic sense of humour. PAWLS (10) [noun] A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction. | [noun] A similar device to prevent motion in other mechanisms besides ratchets. PAWNS (10) [noun] A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf. | [noun] The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant. | [noun] Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end. PAXES (14) PAYED (11) [verb] To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | [verb] To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. | [verb] To be profitable for. PAYEE (10) [noun] One to whom money is paid. PAYER (10) [noun] One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid. | [noun] A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg. PAYOR (10) PEACE (9) [noun] A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance. | [noun] A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions. | [noun] Harmony in personal relations. PEACH (12) [noun] A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. | [noun] The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed. | [noun] A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color. | [verb] To inform on someone; turn informer. | [noun] A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite. PEAGE (8) PEAGS (8) PEAKS (11) [noun] A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. | [noun] The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period. | [noun] The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point. PEAKY (14) [adjective] Sickly; peaked. | [adjective] Characterised by peaks. PEALS (7) [noun] A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc. | [noun] A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale. | [noun] The changes rung on a set of bells. PEANS (7) PEARL (7) [noun] A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery. | [noun] Something precious. | [noun] A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application. PEARS (7) [noun] An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem. | [noun] A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis). | [noun] The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood). PEART (7) [adjective] Lively; active. PEASE (7) [noun] A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family. | [noun] The edible seed of some of these plants. | [noun] A ball travelling at high velocity. | [verb] To make peace between (conflicting people, states etc.); to reconcile. PEATS (7) [noun] Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. | [noun] A pet, a darling; a woman. PEATY (10) PEAVY (13) [noun] A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end. PECAN (9) [noun] A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts. | [noun] A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree. | [noun] A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut. PEDAL (8) [noun] A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano | [noun] A foot or footlike part. | [noun] An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on. PEKAN (11) [noun] The fisher cat, the fisher (Martes pennanti), or the marten (Martes americana). PENAL (7) [adjective] Of or relating to punishment. | [adjective] Subject to punishment; punishable. | [adjective] Serving as a place of punishment. PENNA (7) [noun] A contour feather PEPLA (9) PEREA (7) PETAL (7) [noun] One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored. | [noun] Term of endearment. PHAGE (11) [noun] A virus that is parasitic on bacteria. PHASE (10) PHIAL (10) [noun] A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines. | [verb] To put or keep in, or as in, a phial. PHYLA (13) [noun] A tribe. | [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. PIANO (7) [noun] A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings | [adjective] Soft, quiet | [adjective] In extended use; quiet, subdued | [adverb] Softly, as a musical direction (abbreviated to p. in sheet music) PIANS (7) PIBAL (9) PICAL (9) PICAS (9) [noun] A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand. | [noun] A size of type between small pica and English, standardized as 12-point. | [noun] (usually with qualifier) A font of this size. PIETA (7) [noun] A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus. PIKAS (11) [noun] Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia. PILAF (10) [noun] A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added. PILAR (7) PILAU (7) [noun] A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added. | [adjective] Filthy PILAW (10) PILEA (7) [noun] The top of a bird's head, from the base of the bill to the nape. PIMAS (9) PINAS (7) [noun] Cloth woven from pineapple fiber | [noun] A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting. | [noun] The residual cone of spongy silver left after the retorting. PINNA (7) [noun] The visible part of the ear that resides outside of the head, the auricle; outer ear excluding the ear canal. | [noun] A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf. | [noun] A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage. PINTA (7) [noun] A pint of milk. | [noun] A human skin disease endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America, caused by infection with a spirochete, Treponema pallidum carateum, which is morphologically and serologically indistinguishable from the organism that causes syphilis. | [noun] (Chicano) prison PIPAL (9) [noun] The sacred fig, Ficus religiosa. PITAS (7) [noun] A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels. | [noun] A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper. | [noun] The plant which yields the fiber. PIZZA (25) [noun] A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit | [noun] A single instance of this dish PLACE (9) [noun] (physical) An area; somewhere within an area. | [noun] A location or position in space. | [noun] A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader. | [verb] To put (an object or person) in a specific location. PLACK (13) PLAGE (8) [noun] A region; country | [noun] A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun PLAID (8) [noun] A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern. | [noun] A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands. | [noun] The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan. | [verb] To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment. PLAIN (7) [adjective] Flat, level. | [adjective] Simple. | [adjective] Obvious. | [noun] A lamentation. | [noun] A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. PLAIT (7) [noun] A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat. | [noun] A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. | [verb] To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat PLANE (7) [noun] A level or flat surface. | [noun] A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane). | [noun] A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane) | [noun] A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface. | [noun] An airplane; an aeroplane. | [noun] A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus. PLANK (11) [noun] A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick. | [noun] A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue. | [noun] Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time. PLANS (7) [noun] A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc. | [noun] A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal. | [noun] A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation. PLANT (7) [noun] An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree. | [noun] An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism. | [noun] Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall. PLASH (10) [noun] A small pool of standing water; a puddle. | [noun] A splash, or the sound made by a splash. | [noun] A sudden downpour. | [noun] The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches. PLASM (9) [noun] A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape. | [noun] Protoplasm PLATE (7) [noun] A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten. | [noun] Such dishes collectively. | [noun] The contents of such a dish. | [noun] Precious metal, especially silver. PLATS (7) [noun] A plot of land; a lot. | [noun] A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document. | [noun] A plot, a scheme. PLATY (10) [adjective] Resembling plates. | [adjective] Of a field semy of plates. | [adjective] Composed of thin plate-like pieces of rock or mineral. | [noun] Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails). PLAYA (10) [noun] A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely. | [noun] A dude (an informal term of address or general term to describe a person, typically male). | [noun] A player (someone who plays the field, or has prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships). PLAYS (10) [noun] Activity for amusement only, especially among the young. | [noun] Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills. | [noun] The conduct, or course, of a game. PLAZA (16) [noun] A town's public square. | [noun] An open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches. | [noun] A strip mall. PLEAD (8) [verb] To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case. | [verb] To beg, beseech, or implore. | [verb] To offer by way of excuse. PLEAS (7) [noun] An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty. | [noun] An excuse; an apology. | [noun] That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification. PLEAT (7) [noun] A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance. | [noun] A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness. | [noun] A plait. PLENA (7) PLICA (9) [noun] A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue. | [noun] Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together. | [noun] A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches. POACH (12) [noun] The act of cooking in simmering liquid. | [verb] To cook something in simmering liquid. | [verb] To be cooked in simmering liquid | [noun] The act of taking something unfairly, as in tennis doubles where one player returns a shot that their partner was better placed to return. PODIA (8) [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. POLAR (7) [noun] The line joining the points of contact of tangents drawn to meet a curve from a point called the pole of the line. | [adjective] Of or having a pole or polarity. | [adjective] Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles. POLKA (11) [noun] A lively dance originating in Bohemia. | [noun] The music for this dance. | [noun] A polka jacket. POPPA (11) [noun] (sometimes childish) father, papa. 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. PRAHU (10) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. 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. PRANG (8) [noun] An aeroplane crash. | [noun] A bombing raid. | [noun] An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties. | [noun] A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Thailand and Cambodia. PRANK (11) [noun] A practical joke or mischievous trick. | [noun] An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception. | [verb] To perform a practical joke on; to trick. PRAOS (7) PRASE (7) [noun] A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green colour. PRATE (7) [noun] Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity. | [verb] To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly. PRATS (7) [noun] A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. | [noun] A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. | [noun] A fool. PRAUS (7) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PRAWN (10) [noun] A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata. | [noun] A crustacean sometimes confused with shrimp. | [noun] A woman with a very toned body, but an unattractive face. | [noun] Pornography. PRAYS (10) [verb] To direct words and/or thoughts to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc. | [verb] To humbly beg a person for aid or their time. | [verb] To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. PRESA (7) PRIMA (9) PROAS (7) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PRUTA (7) 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 PSHAW (13) [verb] To express disgust or contempt. | [interjection] Indicating disapproval, scoffery, irritation, impatience or disbelief. PSOAE (7) PSOAI (7) PSOAS (7) [noun] Either of two muscles, the psoas major and psoas minor, involved in flexion of the trunk. PUCKA (13) [adjective] (originally South Asia) Genuine or authentic; hence of behaviour: correct, socially acceptable or proper. | [adjective] Superior or of high quality; first-class. | [adjective] Excellent, fantastic, great. PUJAH (17) PUJAS (14) [noun] A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship. PUKKA (15) [adjective] (originally South Asia) Genuine or authentic; hence of behaviour: correct, socially acceptable or proper. | [adjective] Superior or of high quality; first-class. | [adjective] Excellent, fantastic, great. 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. PUNAS (7) [noun] An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population. PUNKA (11) PUPAE (9) [noun] An insect in the development stage between larva and adult. PUPAL (9) PUPAS (9) PURDA (8) PYRAN (10) QAIDS (15) QANAT (14) [noun] An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley QUACK (20) [noun] The sound made by a duck. | [verb] To make a noise like a duck. | [noun] A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional; especially, a doctor of medicine who makes false diagnoses or inappropriate treatment; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine. QUADS (15) [noun] Four shots of espresso. | [noun] A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once. | [noun] The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume. QUAFF (20) [noun] The act of quaffing; a deep draught. | [verb] To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts. QUAGS (15) [noun] Quagmire; marsh; bog. QUAIL (14) [verb] To waste away; to fade, to wither | [verb] To daunt or frighten (someone) | [verb] To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. | [noun] Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae. | [verb] To curdle or coagulate, as milk does. QUAIS (14) QUAKE (18) [noun] A trembling or shaking. | [noun] An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force. | [verb] To tremble or shake. QUAKY (21) QUALE (14) [noun] An instance of subjective, conscious experience. 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.) QUANT (14) [noun] A quantitative analyst. | [noun] Short for quantity. | [noun] Short for quantifier. | [noun] A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole. QUARE (14) [adjective] Queer, strange (suggesting an Irish accent) | [adjective] (used to suggest emphasis such as "a lot of" or "very" (suggesting an Irish accent).) QUARK (18) [noun] In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons. | [noun] (X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string. | [noun] A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, and eastern Europe, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet. | [noun] (Falkland Islands) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax. QUART (14) [noun] A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S. | [noun] Four successive cards of the same suit. | [noun] A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. QUASH (17) [verb] To defeat decisively. | [verb] To crush or dash to pieces. | [verb] To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.). QUASI (14) [adjective] Resembling or having a likeness to something QUASS (14) QUATE (14) QUAYS (17) [noun] A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf. QUEAN (14) [noun] A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute. | [noun] A young woman, a girl; a daughter. QUOTA (14) [noun] A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. | [noun] A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal. | [noun] A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity. RABAT (7) RABBI (9) [noun] A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions. | [noun] A Jew who is or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation. | [noun] (police) A senior officer who acts as a mentor. RABIC (9) RABID (8) [noun] A human or animal infected with rabies. | [noun] Someone who is fanatical in opinion. | [adjective] Affected with rabies. RACED (8) [verb] To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest). | [verb] To compete against in such a race. | [verb] To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed. RACER (7) [noun] Someone who takes part in a race. | [noun] A racehorse. | [noun] An animal known for its fast speed, or suitable for racing; applied especially to a number of North American snakes, certain kinds of lake trout, etc. RACES (7) [noun] A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins | [noun] Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed. | [noun] A race condition. RACKS (11) [noun] A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other | [noun] Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel. | [noun] A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits. RACON (7) [noun] A beacon that, on detecting a radar signal, responds by transmitting a coded navigation signal. RADAR (6) [noun] A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces | [noun] A type of system using such method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes. | [noun] An installation of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus. RADII (6) [noun] The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb. | [noun] The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal. | [noun] One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell. RADIO (6) [noun] The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves. | [noun] A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound. | [noun] On-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media. RADIX (13) [noun] A root. | [noun] A primitive word, from which other words may be derived. | [noun] The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal. RADON (6) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Rn, formerly Ro) with atomic number 86. It is an odorless, colorless, chemically inert but radioactive noble gas. RAFFS (11) RAFTS (8) [noun] A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform. | [noun] (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion. | [noun] A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water. RAGAS (6) [noun] Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form. | [noun] Passion, love, lust. RAGED (7) [verb] To act or speak in heightened anger. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc. | [verb] To enrage. RAGEE (6) RAGES (6) [noun] Violent uncontrolled anger. | [noun] A current fashion or fad. | [noun] Any vehement passion. RAGGY (10) [adjective] Raglike; like a rag. | [adjective] Scruffy; tending to dress in rags. | [adjective] Similar in style to ragtime music. RAGIS (6) RAIAS (5) RAIDS (6) [noun] A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle. | [noun] An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering | [noun] An attacking movement. RAILS (5) [noun] A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing. | [noun] The metal bar that makes the track for a railroad. | [noun] A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation. RAINS (5) [noun] Condensed water falling from a cloud. | [noun] Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops. | [noun] An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air. RAINY (8) [adjective] Pouring with rain; wet; showery RAISE (5) [noun] An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK). | [noun] A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance. | [noun] A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward. | [noun] A cairn or pile of stones. RAJAH (15) [noun] A Hindu prince or ruler in India. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Charaxes. RAJAS (12) [noun] A Hindu prince or ruler in India. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Charaxes. | [noun] One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are active, excitable, or passionate. RAJES (12) RAKED (10) [verb] To walk; to roam, to wander. | [verb] Of animals (especially sheep): to graze. | [verb] To roam or wander through (somewhere). RAKEE (9) RAKER (9) RAKES (9) [noun] A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey. | [noun] The movement of animals while grazing. | [noun] The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray. RAKIS (9) RALES (5) [noun] (now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema. | [noun] Abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound heard from the lungs, often audible only with a stethoscope. RALLY (8) [noun] A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause. | [noun] A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America. | [noun] A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point. | [noun] Good-humoured raillery. RALPH (10) [verb] To vomit. | [noun] A raven. 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. RANCE (7) RANCH (10) [noun] A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock. | [noun] A small farm that cultivates vegetables and/or livestock, especially one in the Southwestern United States. | [noun] A house or property on a plot of ranch land. RANDS (6) [noun] The border of an area of land, especially marshland. | [noun] A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak. | [noun] A border, edge or rim. RANDY (9) [noun] Impudent beggar | [noun] Boisterous, coarse, loose woman | [noun] Virago RANEE (5) [noun] The wife of a rajah. | [noun] A Hindu princess or female ruler in India. RANGE (6) [noun] A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc. | [noun] A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates. | [noun] Selection, array. RANGY (9) [adjective] Slender and long of limb; lanky | [adjective] Prone to roaming around. | [adjective] Having or permitting range or scope; roomy; commodious. RANID (6) RANIS (5) [noun] The wife of a rajah. | [noun] A Hindu princess or female ruler in India. RANKS (9) [noun] A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"]. | [noun] In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal. | [noun] One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality RANTS (5) [noun] A criticism done by ranting. | [noun] A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation. | [noun] A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop. RAPED (8) RAPER (7) [noun] A person who has raped someone; a rapist. RAPES (7) RAPHE (10) [noun] A ridge or seam on an organ, bodily tissue, or other structure, especially at the join between two halves or sections. RAPID (8) [noun] (often in the plural) a rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water. | [noun] A burst of rapid fire. | [adjective] Very swift or quick. RARED (6) RARER (5) [adjective] Very uncommon; scarce. | [adjective] (of a gas) Thin; of low density. | [adjective] Good; enjoyable. RARES (5) RASED (6) [verb] To rub along the surface of; to graze | [verb] To rub or scratch out; to erase | [verb] To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze RASER (5) RASES (5) [noun] A scratching out, or erasure | [noun] A slight wound; a scratch | [noun] A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it RASPS (7) [noun] A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file. | [noun] The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound. | [verb] To use a rasp. RASPY (10) [adjective] (of sound) Rough, raw, especially used to describe vocal quality. | [adjective] Irritable. RATAL (5) RATAN (5) RATCH (10) RATED (6) [verb] To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level. | [verb] To evaluate or estimate the value of. | [verb] To consider or regard. RATEL (5) [noun] A carnivorous mammal, Mellivora capensis, found in Africa and some parts of Asia; the honey badger. RATER (5) RATES (5) [noun] The worth of something; value. | [noun] The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. | [noun] Speed. RATHE (8) [adjective] Ripening or blooming early. | [adverb] Quickly. | [adverb] Early in the morning. RATIO (5) [noun] A number representing a comparison between two named things. | [noun] The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient). | [noun] Short for ratio decidendi. RATOS (5) RATTY (8) [adjective] Similar to a rat; ratlike. | [adjective] Infested with rats. | [adjective] In poor condition or repair RAVED (9) [verb] To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. | [verb] To speak or write wildly or incoherently. | [verb] To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on. RAVEL (8) [noun] A snarl; a complication. | [noun] A ravelled thread. | [verb] To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse. RAVEN (8) [noun] Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax. | [noun] A jet-black colour. | [adjective] Of the color of the raven; jet-black | [noun] Rapine; rapacity. RAVER (8) [noun] A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture. | [noun] A person who raves or rants. RAVES (8) [noun] An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). | [noun] An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use. | [noun] The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties. RAVIN (8) [noun] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. | [verb] To dine or feast upon plunder or goods seized by violence. | [adjective] Ravenous. RAWER (8) [adjective] (of food) Not cooked. | [adjective] (of materials, products, etc.) Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. | [adjective] Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. RAWIN (8) RAWLY (11) RAXED (13) RAXES (12) RAYAH (11) RAYAS (8) RAYED (9) [verb] To emit something as if in rays. | [verb] To radiate as if in rays. | [verb] To arrange. RAYON (8) [noun] A manufactured regenerated cellulosic fiber. | [noun] An administrative unit of some Eastern European and Asian states. | [noun] A ray or beam. RAZED (15) [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. | [verb] To scrape as if with a razor. | [adjective] Slashed or striped in patterns. RAZEE (14) RAZER (14) RAZES (14) [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. | [verb] To scrape as if with a razor. RAZOR (14) [noun] A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body. | [noun] Any tool or instrument designed for shaving. | [noun] The sharp tusk of a wild boar. REACH (10) [noun] The act of stretching or extending; extension. | [noun] The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown. | [noun] The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. REACT (7) [noun] An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media. | [verb] To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact. | [verb] To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force READD (7) READS (6) [noun] A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play. | [noun] (in combination) Something to be read; a written work. | [noun] A person's interpretation or impression of something. READY (9) [noun] Ready money; cash | [verb] To prepare; to make ready for action. | [adjective] Prepared for immediate action or use. 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. REALS (5) [noun] A commodity; see realty. | [noun] (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages. | [noun] A real number. 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. REAPS (7) [verb] To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine | [verb] To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting. | [verb] To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense. REARM (7) [verb] To replace or restore the weapons or arms of a previously defeated, or disarmed army, country, person or other body. REARS (5) [verb] To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. | [verb] (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. | [verb] To rise up on the hind legs REATA (5) REAVE (8) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. REBAR (7) [noun] A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure. | [noun] A grid-shaped system of such bars. | [verb] To reinforce with bars of this kind. | [verb] To bar again. RECAP (9) [noun] A tire that has had new tread glued on. | [verb] To seal (something) again with a cap. | [verb] To replace the worn tread on a tire by gluing a new outer portion. (US English only - Retread in UK English) | [noun] A recapitulation. | [noun] A leveraged recapitalization accomplished by increasing the debt to equity ratio. | [verb] To replace capacitors in electronic equipment. RECTA (7) [noun] The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon. REDAN (6) [noun] A defensive fortification work in the shape of a V. REDIA (6) REGAL (6) [adjective] Of or relating to royalty. | [adjective] Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress. | [noun] A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; today it has been revived for the performance of music from those times. REGMA (8) REGNA (6) REHAB (10) [noun] Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs. | [noun] An institution for rehabilitation. | [verb] To rehabilitate. RELAX (12) [verb] To calm down. | [verb] To make something loose. | [verb] To become loose. RELAY (8) [noun] A new set of hounds. | [noun] A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired. | [noun] (by extension) A new set of anything. | [verb] To lay (for example, flooring or railroad track) again. 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. RENAL (5) [adjective] Pertaining to the kidneys. REPAY (10) [verb] To pay back. RERAN (5) [verb] To run (a previously broadcast television program) again. | [verb] To run (a race) again. | [verb] To run (a computer program) again. RESAW (8) RESAY (8) RETAG (6) RETAX (12) RETIA (5) [noun] A network of blood vessels or nerves. | [noun] An anatomical part resembling or including a network. | [noun] A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features. REWAN (8) REWAX (15) RHEAS (8) [noun] A large flightless bird of the genus Rhea, native to South America. RHYTA (11) [noun] A container from which fluids are intended to be drunk, having one handle and usually a base in the form of a head. | [noun] A Thracian drinking horn. RIALS (5) [noun] The official currencies of Iran, Oman, and Yemen. | [noun] An old gold coin of England. RIANT (5) RIATA (5) RIOJA (12) [noun] The wine (mostly red) of that region RIVAL (8) [noun] A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor. | [noun] Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another. | [noun] One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. RIYAL (8) [noun] The official currency of Qatar and Saudi Arabia. ROACH (10) [noun] Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including: | [noun] A cockroach. | [noun] An extra curve of material added to the leech (aft edge) of a sail to increase the sail area. | [noun] (smoking) Marijuana; cannabis used as a drug. | [noun] A bed or stratum of some mineral. ROADS (6) [noun] A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane. | [noun] A road; or particularly a car, as a means of transportation. | [noun] A path chosen in life or career. 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. ROANS (5) [noun] An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in. | [noun] The color of such an animal. | [noun] A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco. ROARS (5) [noun] A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open. | [noun] The cry of the lion. | [noun] The deep cry of the bull. ROAST (5) [noun] A cut of meat suited to roasting | [noun] A meal consisting of roast foods. | [noun] The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted. 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 ROTAS (5) [noun] A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar. | [noun] A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music. ROWAN (8) [noun] Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan. | [noun] Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus Sorbus, belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries. | [noun] A second crop of hay; aftermath. ROYAL (8) [noun] A royal person; a member of a royal family. | [noun] A standard size of printing paper, measuring 25 by 20 inches. | [noun] A standard size of writing paper, measuring 24 by 19 inches. RUANA (5) RUGAE (6) RUGAL (6) RUMBA (9) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba RURAL (5) [noun] A person from the countryside; a rustic. | [adjective] Relating to the countryside or to agriculture. SABED (8) SABER (7) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. | [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SABES (7) SABIN (7) SABIR (7) SABLE (7) [noun] A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur (Wikipedia). | [noun] The marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana). | [noun] The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur. SABOT (7) [noun] A wooden shoe. | [noun] A carrier around projectile(s) in firearms, cannons and artillery which holds the projectile in precision within the barrel SABRA (7) [noun] A native-born Israeli. SABRE (7) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. | [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SACKS (11) [noun] A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid. | [noun] (games) A sacrifice. | [verb] (games) To sacrifice. SACRA (7) [noun] Sacral artery | [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. SADES (6) SADHE (9) SADHU (9) [noun] An ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (enjoyment), artha (practical objectives) and even dharma (duty). SADIS (6) SADLY (9) [adverb] In a sad manner; sorrowfully. | [adverb] Unfortunately, sad to say. | [adverb] Very much (of a desire etc.); dearly; urgently. SAFER (8) [adjective] Not in danger; out of harm's reach. | [adjective] Free from risk. | [adjective] Providing protection from danger; providing shelter. SAFES (8) [noun] A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping. | [noun] A condom. | [noun] A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects. SAGAS (6) [noun] An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends. | [noun] Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story. SAGER (6) SAGES (6) [noun] A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher. SAGGY (10) [adjective] Baggy or loose-fitting. | [adjective] That sinks or droops from wear or its own weight. SAGOS (6) [noun] A powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener. | [noun] A similar starch obtained from a palm-like cycad, Cycas revoluta | [noun] Any of the palms from which sago is extracted. SAGUM (8) SAHIB (10) [noun] A term of respect for a white European or other person of rank in colonial India. SAICE (7) SAIDS (6) SAIGA (6) [noun] Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia. SAILS (5) [noun] A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes. | [noun] (nautical,uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance. | [noun] The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport. SAINS (5) SAINT (5) [noun] A person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue. | [noun] (by extension) A person with positive qualities; one who does good. | [noun] One of the blessed in heaven. | [verb] To canonize, to formally recognize someone as a saint. SAITH (8) [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. | [verb] To tell, either verbally or in writing. | [noun] The pollock or coalfish or coley (Pollachius virens). SAJOU (12) SAKER (9) [noun] A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia. | [noun] A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century. SAKES (9) [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. | [noun] Cause, interest or account | [noun] Purpose or end; reason | [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. SAKIS (9) [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. | [noun] A class of Japanese rice wines made from polished rice and typically about 20% alcohol by volume. | [noun] Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia. with large ears and a long hairy tail that is not prehensile. SALAD (6) [noun] A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise. | [noun] A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads. SALAL (5) [noun] A leathery-leaved North American shrub, Gaultheria shallon, with edible sepals and leaves. SALEP (7) [noun] A starch or jelly made out of plants in the Orchidaceae family, such as the early-purple orchid (Orchis mascula). SALES (5) [noun] A hall. | [noun] An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit. | [noun] (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices. SALIC (7) SALLY (8) [noun] A willow | [noun] Any tree that looks like a willow | [noun] An object made from the above trees' wood | [noun] A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy. | [noun] A member of the Salvation Army. | [noun] A kind of stonefly. SALMI (7) [noun] A rich stew or ragout, especially of game. SALOL (5) SALON (5) [noun] A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests. | [noun] A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting. | [noun] An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon. SALPA (7) SALPS (7) [noun] Any of the free-swimming tunicates of the order Salpida and its single family Salpidae. SALSA (5) [noun] A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and hot peppers. | [noun] A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock. | [noun] Any of several dances performed to salsa music. SALTS (5) [noun] A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative. | [noun] One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid. | [noun] A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea. SALTY (8) [adjective] Tasting of salt. | [adjective] Containing salt. | [adjective] Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language. SALVE (8) [noun] An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects. | [noun] Any remedy or action that soothes or heals. | [verb] To calm or assuage. | [verb] To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies). | [interjection] Hail; a greeting. | [verb] To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute. SALVO (8) [noun] An exception; a reservation; an excuse. | [noun] A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley. | [noun] A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon. 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) SANDS (6) [noun] Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction. | [noun] (often in the plural) A beach or other expanse of sand. | [noun] (circa 1920) Personal courage. SANDY (9) [adjective] Covered with sand. | [adjective] Sprinkled with sand. | [adjective] Containing sand. SANED (6) SANER (5) [adjective] Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally. | [adjective] Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner. | [adjective] Rational; reasonable; sensible. SANES (5) SANGA (6) [noun] Sandwich. SANGH (9) SANTO (5) SAPID (8) [adjective] Tasty, flavoursome or savoury SAPOR (7) SAPPY (12) [adjective] Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy) | [adjective] Having (a particularly large amount of) sap. | [adjective] Juicy. | [adjective] Musty; tainted; rancid. SARAN (5) [noun] A plastic resin used to make packaging films. SARDS (6) [noun] A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. | [noun] Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with (a woman). SAREE (5) [noun] The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head. SARGE (6) [noun] Sergeant | [verb] (pickup community) to go out and engage women in order to pick them up SARIN (5) [noun] The neurotoxin O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical weapon. SARIS (5) [noun] The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head. SARKS (9) [noun] A shirt. SARKY (12) [adjective] Sarcastic SAROD (6) [noun] A fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music. SAROS (5) [noun] (history, Babylon) A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years. | [noun] A period of 223 synodic months (approximately 18 years 11 days 8 hours), after which the relative positions of the earth, sun and moon recur, used to predict eclipses. SASIN (5) [noun] Indian antelope; blackbuck SASSY (8) [adjective] Bold and spirited, cheeky, impudent, saucy. | [adjective] Somewhat sexy and provocative. | [adjective] Lively, vigorous. SATAY (8) [noun] A dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and served with a spicy peanut sauce, originating from Indonesia and Malaysia. SATED (6) [verb] To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up. | [adjective] In a state of complete and thorough satisfaction; having ones appetite fully satisfied, by having enough of something. | [adjective] Quelled of thirst or hunger. SATEM (7) SATES (5) SATIN (5) [noun] A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen). | [verb] To make (paper, silver, etc.) smooth and glossy like satin. | [adjective] Semigloss. SATIS (5) [adjective] In a state of satisfaction. | [verb] To do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of. | [verb] To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe. SATYR (8) [noun] A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis. | [noun] A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection. SAUCE (7) [noun] A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food. | [noun] Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in: | [noun] (usually “the”) Alcohol, booze. SAUCH (10) SAUCY (10) [adjective] Similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce. | [adjective] Impertinent or disrespectful, often in a manner that is regarded as entertaining or amusing; smart. | [adjective] Impudently bold; pert. SAUGH (9) SAULS (5) SAULT (5) SAUNA (5) [noun] A room or a house designed for heat sessions. | [noun] The act of using a sauna. | [noun] A public sauna; a front for a brothel in some countries. SAURY (8) [noun] A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins. SAUTE (5) [verb] To cook (food) using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat, allowing the food to brown and form a crust stopping it from sticking to the pan as it cooks. SAVED (9) [verb] To prevent harm or difficulty. | [verb] To put aside, to avoid. | [adjective] Rescued from the consequences of sin. SAVER (8) [noun] One who saves. | [noun] One who keeps savings more than usual. SAVES (8) [noun] In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring. | [noun] When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead. | [noun] A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten. SAVIN (8) [noun] The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. | [noun] The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug. | [noun] The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America. SAVOR (8) [noun] The specific taste or smell of something. | [noun] A distinctive sensation. | [noun] Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. | [verb] To possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality. SAVOY (11) [noun] Savoy cabbage | [noun] An Italian noble family, which became the ruling (hereditary) dynasty of Sardinia and later of Italy | [noun] A member of the Savoy noble family SAVVY (14) [noun] Shrewdness. | [verb] To understand. | [adjective] Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive. SAWED (9) [verb] To cut (something) with a saw. | [verb] To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. | [verb] To be cut with a saw. SAWER (8) SAXES (12) [noun] A slate-cutter's hammer; slate-ax. | [noun] A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length. | [noun] A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards. SAYER (8) SAYID (9) SAYST (8) SCABS (9) [noun] An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. | [noun] The scabies. | [noun] The mange, especially when it appears on sheep. SCADS (8) [noun] Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic. | [noun] (in the plural) A large number or quantity. SCAGS (8) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SCALD (8) [noun] A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam. | [verb] To burn with hot liquid. | [verb] To heat almost to boiling. | [noun] Scaliness; a scabby skin disease. | [noun] A Nordic poet of the Viking Age SCALE (7) [noun] A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. | [noun] An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude. | [noun] Size; scope. | [noun] Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile. | [noun] A device to measure mass or weight. SCALL (7) SCALP (9) [noun] The top of the head; the skull. | [noun] The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. | [noun] A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory. SCALY (10) [noun] The scaly yellowfish, Labeobarbus natalensis. | [adjective] Covered or abounding with scales. | [adjective] Composed of scales lying over each other. 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. SCANS (7) [noun] Close investigation. | [noun] An instance of scanning. | [noun] The result or output of a scanning process. SCANT (7) [adjective] Very little, very few. | [adjective] Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough. | [adjective] Sparing; parsimonious; chary. | [verb] To limit in amount or share; to stint. | [noun] A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. | [noun] Scarcity; lack. SCAPE (9) [noun] A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root. | [noun] The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body). | [noun] The basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape. | [noun] Escape | [noun] The cry of the snipe when flushed. SCARE (7) [noun] A minor fright. | [noun] A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread. | [noun] A device or object used to frighten. | [verb] To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. | [adjective] Lean; scanty SCARF (10) [noun] A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck. | [noun] A headscarf. | [noun] A neckcloth or cravat. | [noun] A type of joint in woodworking. | [verb] To eat very quickly. | [noun] A cormorant. SCARP (9) [noun] The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet | [noun] A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment | [verb] (earth science) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment SCARS (7) [noun] A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound. | [noun] (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience. | [noun] Any permanent mark resulting from damage. SCART (7) [noun] A slight wound. | [noun] A dash or stroke. | [noun] A niggard. SCARY (10) [adjective] Causing or able to cause fright. | [adjective] Uncannily striking or surprising. | [adjective] Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened. | [noun] Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. SCATS (7) [noun] A tax; tribute. | [noun] A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands. | [noun] Scat singing. SCATT (7) SCAUP (9) [noun] The top of the head; the skull. | [noun] The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. | [noun] A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory. SCAUR (7) [noun] A steep cliff or bank. SCENA (7) [noun] A scene in an opera. | [noun] An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria. | [noun] The stage of an ancient theatre. SCHAV (13) SCHWA (13) [noun] An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA. | [noun] The character ə. SCRAG (8) [noun] A thin or scrawny person or animal. | [noun] The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. | [noun] The neck, especially of a sheep. 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. SCRAP (9) [noun] A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Leftover food. | [noun] The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat. | [noun] A fight, tussle, skirmish. SCUBA (9) [noun] (underwater diving) An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater. | [verb] To perform scuba diving. SCUTA (7) [noun] A scutum. SEALS (5) [noun] A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal. | [noun] A bearing representing a creature something like a walrus. | [verb] To hunt seals. 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. SEARS (5) [verb] To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument. | [verb] To wither; to dry up. | [verb] To make callous or insensible. SEATS (5) [noun] Something to be sat upon. | [noun] A location or site. | [noun] The starting point of a fire. SEDAN (6) [noun] An enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by at least two porters, in equal numbers in front and behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal brackets on the sides of the chair. | [noun] An automobile designed in a configuration with separate compartments for engine space, driver/passenger space and luggage space. | [noun] A handbarrow for transporting fish. SELAH (8) [noun] A pause or rest of a contemplative nature. | [interjection] A word occurring between verses or paragraphs in parts of the Hebrew Bible, namely in Habakkuk and the Psalms; perhaps indicating a pause, either for contemplation or for the singer to clear his or her throat. SELVA (8) [noun] Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin. SENNA (5) [noun] Any of several plants of the tribe Cassieae, especially those of the genera Cassia and Senna, whose leaves and pods are used as a purgative and laxative. | [noun] The dried leaves or pods of these plants (especially of Senna alexandrina, syn. Cassia angustifolia or Cassia acutifolia), used medicinally. | [noun] Senna glycoside, a laxative. SENSA (5) SEPAL (7) [noun] One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when the sepals in a plant's calyx are not fused into a single structure. SEPIA (7) [noun] A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. | [noun] A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour. | [noun] (by extension) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph. SEPTA (7) [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. SERAC (7) [noun] Often sérac: a hard, cone-shaped, pale green, strongly flavoured cheese from Switzerland made from skimmed cowmilk and blue fenugreek (Trigonella caerulea); Schabziger, Sapsago. It is usually eaten grated, mixed with butter, or in a fondue. | [noun] (glaciology) A sharp tower of ice formed by intersecting crevasses of a glacier. SERAI (5) [noun] (In Turkish or Muslim Asian contexts) A palace. | [noun] A seraglio. | [noun] A caravanserai; an inn. SERAL (5) SETAE (5) [noun] A bristle or hair | [noun] The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort. SETAL (5) SEWAN (8) SEWAR (8) SHACK (14) [noun] A crude, roughly built hut or cabin. | [noun] Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building. | [noun] The room from which a ham radio operator transmits. | [noun] Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest. SHADE (9) [noun] Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked. | [noun] Something that blocks light, particularly in a window. | [noun] A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint). | [verb] To shield from light. SHADS (9) [noun] Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring. | [noun] The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix). SHADY (12) [adjective] Abounding in shades. | [adjective] Causing shade. | [adjective] Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. SHAFT (11) [noun] The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin. | [noun] (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin. SHAGS (9) [noun] Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc. | [noun] Coarse shredded tobacco. | [noun] A type of rough carpet pile. SHAHS (11) [noun] A king of Persia or Iran. | [noun] A supreme ruler in some Middle Eastern or South Asian nations. | [noun] A Ukrainian monetary unit. SHAKE (12) [noun] The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion. | [noun] A milkshake. | [noun] A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float. SHAKO (12) [noun] A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume. | [noun] A bearskin or busby. | [noun] The squilla or mantis shrimp. SHAKY (15) [adjective] Shaking or trembling. | [adjective] Nervous, anxious. | [adjective] (of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked. SHALE (8) [noun] A shell or husk; a cod or pod. | [noun] A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. | [verb] To take off the shell or coat of. SHALL (8) [verb] (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural. | [verb] Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural. | [verb] Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action. SHALT (8) [verb] (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural. | [verb] Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural. | [verb] Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action. SHALY (11) 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. SHANK (12) [noun] The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle. | [noun] Meat from that part of an animal. | [noun] A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs. SHAPE (10) [noun] The status or condition of something | [noun] Condition of personal health, especially muscular health. | [noun] The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure. SHARD (9) [noun] A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. | [noun] (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. | [noun] A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle. | [noun] The plant chard. SHARE (8) [noun] A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone. | [noun] A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability. | [noun] A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network. | [noun] The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine. SHARK (12) [noun] A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head. | [verb] To fish for sharks. | [noun] Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion. | [verb] To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly. SHARN (8) SHARP (10) [noun] The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher. | [noun] A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯. | [noun] A note that is sharp in a particular key. SHAUL (8) SHAVE (11) [verb] To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. | [verb] To cut anything in this fashion. | [verb] To remove hair from one's face by this means. | [noun] An instance of shaving. SHAWL (11) [noun] A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women. | [noun] A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting. | [verb] To wrap in a shawl. SHAWM (13) [noun] A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body. SHAWN (11) SHAWS (11) [noun] A thicket; a small wood or grove. | [noun] The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips. SHAYS (11) [noun] A chaise. SHEAF (11) [noun] A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. | [noun] Any collection of things bound together; a bundle. | [noun] A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer. SHEAL (8) SHEAR (8) [noun] A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger. | [noun] The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing. | [noun] Forces that push in opposite directions. SHEAS (8) SHIVA (11) [noun] A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative. SHOAL (8) [noun] A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow. | [noun] A shallow in a body of water. | [verb] To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area. | [noun] Any large number of persons or things. SHOAT (8) [noun] A young, newly-weaned pig. | [noun] A geep, a sheep-goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating). SIALS (5) 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. SILVA (8) SIMAR (7) SIMAS (7) SIRRA (5) SISAL (5) [noun] A Central American plant, Agave sisalana, cultivated for its sword-shaped leaves that yield fibers used for rope. | [noun] The fibre of the plant. | [noun] A sisal mat. SITAR (5) [noun] A Hindustani/Indian classical stringed instrument, typically having a gourd as its resonating chamber. SIZAR (14) [noun] At certain universities, e.g. Cambridge and Dublin, a student who receives an allowance for his college expenses (a study grant), originally in return for serving other (paying) students. SKAGS (10) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SKALD (10) [noun] A Nordic poet of the Viking Age SKATE (9) [noun] A light boot, fitted with a blade, used for ice skating. | [noun] A boot having small wheels or casters attached to its sole; used for roller skating | [noun] A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice. | [noun] A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body. | [noun] A worn-out horse. SKATS (9) SKEAN (9) [noun] A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel. | [noun] A web, a weave, a tangle. | [noun] The membrane of a fish ovary. | [noun] A double-edged, leaf-shaped, typically bronze dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland. SKOAL (9) [verb] To make such a toast. | [interjection] A toast when drinking, roughly equivalent to cheers. SKUAS (9) [noun] Any of various predatory seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that often chase other seabirds to steal their catches. SLABS (7) [noun] A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat. | [noun] A paving stone; a flagstone. | [noun] A carton containing 24 cans of beer. SLACK (11) [noun] The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it. | [noun] A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains. | [adjective] (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended. | [verb] To slacken. | [noun] A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place. | [noun] A valley, or small, shallow dell. | [noun] Small coal; coal dust. SLAGS (6) [noun] Waste material from a coal mine | [noun] Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal | [noun] Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders SLAIN (5) [noun] (with "the") Those who have been killed. | [verb] To kill, murder. | [verb] To eradicate or stamp out. SLAKE (9) [verb] To satisfy (thirst, or other desires). | [verb] To cool (something) with water or another liquid. | [verb] To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place. | [noun] A sloppy mess. 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. SLANG (6) [noun] Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register. | [noun] Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon. | [noun] The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant. | [verb] To throw with a circular or arcing motion. | [noun] Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. | [noun] A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. | [verb] To sell (especially illegal drugs). SLANK (9) SLANT (5) [noun] A slope; an incline, inclination. | [noun] A sloped surface or line. | [noun] A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam. SLAPS (7) [noun] A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat. | [noun] The sound of such a blow. | [noun] Makeup; cosmetics. SLASH (8) [noun] A slashing action or motion, particularly: | [noun] A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly: | [noun] Something resembling such a mark, particularly: | [noun] A drink of something; a draft. | [noun] A swampy area; a swamp. | [noun] The period of a transitory breeze. SLATE (5) [noun] A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers. | [noun] The bluish-grey colour of most slate. | [noun] A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools | [verb] To cover with slate. SLATS (5) [noun] A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath) or metal. | [noun] (aeronautical) A movable control surface at the leading edge of a wing that when moved, changes the chord line of the airfoil, affecting the angle of attack. Employed in conjunction with flaps to allow for a lower stall speed in the landing attitude, facilitating slow flight. | [noun] A ski. SLATY (8) SLAVE (8) [noun] A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control. | [noun] A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant. | [noun] An abject person. SLAWS (8) SLAYS (8) [verb] To kill, murder. | [verb] To eradicate or stamp out. | [verb] (by extension) To defeat, overcome (in a competition or contest). 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. SNACK (11) [noun] A light meal. | [noun] An item of food eaten between meals. | [noun] A very sexy and attractive person. | [noun] A share; a part or portion. SNAFU (8) [noun] A ridiculously chaotic situation. | [noun] A major glitch or breakdown. | [verb] To screw up or foul up. SNAGS (6) [noun] A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch. | [noun] A dead tree that remains standing. | [noun] A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk. SNAIL (5) [noun] Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell. | [noun] (by extension) A slow person; a sluggard. | [noun] A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock. SNAKE (9) [noun] A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue. | [noun] A treacherous person. | [noun] Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain. SNAKY (12) [adjective] Resembling or relating to snakes. | [adjective] Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy. | [adjective] Sly; cunning; deceitful. SNAPS (7) [noun] A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound. | [noun] A sudden break. | [noun] An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab. SNARE (5) [noun] A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather). | [noun] A mental or psychological trap. | [noun] A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal. SNARK (9) [noun] Snide remarks. | [verb] To express oneself in a snarky fashion. | [verb] To snort. | [noun] A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point. SNARL (5) [noun] A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle. | [noun] An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation. | [noun] A slow-moving traffic jam. | [noun] The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention. SNASH (8) [noun] Verbal abuse; insolence; guff. | [verb] To talk impudently. SNATH (8) SNAWS (8) SNEAK (9) [noun] One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information. | [noun] A cheat; a con artist. | [noun] An informer; a tell-tale. SNEAP (7) SOAKS (9) [noun] An immersion in water etc. | [noun] A drunkard. | [noun] A carouse; a drinking session. SOAPS (7) [noun] A substance able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning, often in the form of a solid bar or in liquid form, derived from fats or made synthetically. | [noun] A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid | [noun] Flattery or excessively complacent conversation. SOAPY (10) [adjective] Resembling soap. | [adjective] Resembling a soap opera. | [adjective] Full of soap. SOARS (5) [noun] The act of soaring. | [noun] An upward flight. | [verb] To fly high with little effort, like a bird. SOAVE (8) SODAS (6) [noun] Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda). | [noun] Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda). | [noun] Sodium in chemical combination. SOFAR (8) [noun] A system for determining the position of vessels lost at sea by means of explosive sounds. SOFAS (8) [noun] A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting. | [noun] (furniture) An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people. | [verb] To furnish with one or more sofas. SOFTA (8) [noun] A religious student, especially in Turkey | [noun] (by extension) A fanatic adherent, blind follower SOJAS (12) SOLAN (5) [noun] Solan goose SOLAR (5) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun | [adjective] Born under the predominant influence of the sun. | [adjective] Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year. | [noun] A loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room. 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. SONAR (5) [noun] Echolocation | [noun] A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater. SORAS (5) [noun] A rail (Porzana carolina) of North, Central, and northern South America. SOWAR (8) SOYAS (8) SPACE (9) [noun] (heading) Of time. | [noun] (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise. | [noun] (heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise. SPACY (12) [adjective] Spaced-out | [adjective] Eccentric | [adjective] Having much space SPADE (8) [noun] A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials. | [noun] A playing card marked with the symbol ♠. | [noun] A black person. | [noun] A hart or stag three years old. SPADO (8) SPAED (8) [verb] To divine; foretell SPAES (7) [verb] To divine; foretell SPAHI (10) [noun] (history) An Ottoman (Turkish empire) cavalryman, especially as recruited under a land-based system. | [noun] (history) A soldier in a mainly Arab-recruited cavalry (originally horse, later light armored) regiment in French colonial service in (former/ in name still) Ottoman North African provinces SPAIL (7) SPAIT (7) SPAKE (11) [adjective] Quiet; tame. | [adjective] Ready; prompt. | [verb] To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud. SPALE (7) SPALL (7) [noun] A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone. | [verb] To break into fragments or small pieces. | [verb] To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering. | [noun] The shoulder. SPANG (8) [noun] A shiny ornament or object; a spangle | [verb] To set with bright points: star or spangle. | [verb] To hitch; fasten. | [verb] (of a flying object such as a bullet) To strike or ricochet with a loud report | [noun] A bound or spring; a leap. | [noun] A span. SPANK (11) [noun] An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap. | [noun] A slapping sound, as produced by spanking. | [verb] To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture, or form of sexual interaction. SPANS (7) [noun] The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom. | [noun] (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time. | [noun] A portion of something by length; a subsequence. SPARE (7) [noun] The act of sparing; moderation; restraint. | [noun] Parsimony; frugal use. | [noun] An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket. | [verb] To show mercy. SPARK (11) [noun] A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire. | [noun] A short or small burst of electrical discharge. | [noun] A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle. | [noun] A gallant; a foppish young man. SPARS (7) [noun] A rafter of a roof. | [noun] A thick pole or piece of wood. | [noun] A bar of wood used to fasten a door. 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. SPATE (7) [noun] A river flood; an overflow or inundation. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden rush or increase. SPATS (7) [noun] (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe. | [noun] A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car. | [noun] A brief argument, falling out, quarrel. SPAWN (10) [verb] To produce or deposit (eggs) in water. | [verb] To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers. | [verb] To bring forth in general. | [noun] The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism. SPAYS (10) [verb] To divine; foretell | [verb] To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant. SPEAK (11) [noun] A low class bar, a speakeasy. | [noun] Language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group. | [noun] Speech, conversation. SPEAN (7) SPEAR (7) [noun] A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion. | [noun] A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman. | [noun] A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish. SPICA (9) [noun] A spike. | [noun] A spur. | [noun] A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns. SPLAT (7) [noun] The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back. | [noun] The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface. | [noun] The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface. SPLAY (10) [noun] A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them. | [verb] To spread; spread out. | [verb] To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. SPRAG (8) [adjective] Lively, full of energy | [noun] A billet of wood; a piece of timber, a similar solid object or constructed unit used as a prop. | [verb] To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep slope, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel. | [noun] A young salmon. SPRAT (7) [noun] Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae. SPRAY (10) [noun] A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. | [noun] A pressurized container; an atomizer. | [noun] Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner. | [noun] A small branch of flowers or berries. SPUTA (7) SQUAB (16) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken. | [noun] The meat of such a baby bird used as food. | [noun] A baby rook. SQUAD (15) [noun] A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members. | [noun] One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps. | [verb] To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad. | [noun] Sloppy mud. SQUAT (14) [noun] Nothing; nothing whatsoever. | [noun] A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet. | [noun] (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee. | [noun] The angel shark (genus Squatina). SQUAW (17) [noun] A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman. STABS (7) [noun] An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object. | [noun] A wound made by stabbing. | [noun] Pain inflicted on a person's feelings. STACK (11) [noun] (heading) A pile. | [noun] A smokestack. | [noun] (heading) In computing. STADE (6) STAFF (11) [noun] (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking. | [noun] (plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave. | [noun] (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business. STAGE (6) [noun] A phase. | [noun] A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given. | [noun] A floor or storey of a house. STAGS (6) [noun] An adult male deer. | [noun] A colt, or filly. | [noun] (by extension) A romping girl; a tomboy. STAGY (9) [adjective] Theatrical | [adjective] Unnaturally showy | [adjective] Melodramatic; sensationalized STAID (6) [adjective] Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober. | [adjective] Always fixed in the same location; stationary. STAIG (6) STAIN (5) [noun] A discoloured spot or area. | [noun] A blemish on one's character or reputation. | [noun] A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it. STAIR (5) [noun] A single step in a staircase. | [noun] A series of steps; a staircase. STAKE (9) [noun] A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay. | [noun] A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet. | [noun] A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off. STALE (5) [noun] Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh. | [verb] (of alcohol) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer). | [verb] To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption. | [noun] A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) | [noun] A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line. | [noun] (livestock) Urine, especially used of horses and cattle. | [noun] A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap. STALK (9) [noun] The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts. | [noun] The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant. | [noun] Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill. | [noun] A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone. | [noun] A haughty style of walking. STALL (5) [noun] A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed. | [noun] A stable; a place for cattle. | [noun] A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale. | [noun] An action that is intended to cause or actually causes delay. 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. STAND (6) [noun] The act of standing. | [noun] A defensive position or effort. | [noun] A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition. STANE (5) STANG (6) STANK (9) [verb] To have a strong bad smell. | [verb] To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. | [verb] To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth. | [adjective] Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean. | [noun] Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water. | [adjective] Weak; worn out | [verb] To sigh. STAPH (10) [noun] Staphylococcus bacteria and the infection it causes. STARE (5) [noun] A persistent gaze. | [verb] (construed with at) To look fixedly (at something). | [verb] To influence in some way by looking fixedly. | [noun] A starling. STARK (9) [adjective] Hard, firm; obdurate. | [adjective] Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather). | [adjective] Strong; vigorous; powerful. | [verb] To stiffen. STARS (5) [noun] Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots. | [noun] A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included. | [noun] A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points. START (5) [noun] The beginning of an activity. | [noun] A sudden involuntary movement. | [noun] The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc. | [verb] To begin, commence, initiate. | [noun] A tail, or anything projecting like a tail. STASH (8) [noun] A collection, sometimes hidden; a reserve. | [noun] A place where drugs are stored. | [verb] To hide or store away for later use. | [noun] Mustache STATE (5) [noun] A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. | [noun] High social standing or circumstance. | [noun] A polity. STATS (5) [noun] A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation. | [noun] A systematic collection of data on measurements or observations, often related to demographic information such as population counts, incomes, population counts at different ages, etc. | [noun] Attributes of a unit in a game (e.g. health, damage output) STAVE (8) [noun] One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc. | [noun] One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel | [noun] A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. STAYS (8) [noun] Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn. | [noun] A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment. | [noun] A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress. STEAD (6) [noun] A place, or spot, in general. | [noun] A place where a person normally rests; a seat. | [noun] An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc. | [noun] One's partner in a romantic relationship. STEAK (9) [noun] Beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling. | [noun] (by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc. | [noun] (seafood) A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish. STEAL (5) [noun] The act of stealing. | [noun] A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price. | [noun] A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team. 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. STELA (5) [noun] An obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone STOAE (5) STOAI (5) STOAS (5) [noun] In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; specifically, the Great Hall in Athens. STOAT (5) [noun] Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip. 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. STRAP (7) [noun] A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like. | [noun] A strip of thick leather used in flogging. | [noun] Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use. STRAW (8) [noun] A dried stalk of a cereal plant. | [noun] Such dried stalks considered collectively. | [noun] A drinking straw. STRAY (8) [noun] Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. | [noun] One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically. | [noun] The act of wandering or going astray. | [verb] To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. | [adjective] Having gone astray; strayed; wandering STRIA (5) [noun] A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes. | [noun] One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc. | [noun] A stretch mark. STUPA (7) [noun] A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha. | [noun] A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge). SUAVE (8) [noun] Sweet talk. | [adjective] Charming, confident and elegant. SUBAH (10) SUBAS (7) SUGAR (6) [noun] Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink. | [noun] A specific variety of sugar. | [noun] Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy. SULFA (8) [noun] A sulfonamide or sulfanilamide. | [adjective] Of or containing sulfonamide or sulfanilamide. 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. SUNNA (5) SUPRA (7) [adverb] Used to indicate that the current citation is from the same source as the previous one. | [noun] A traditional Georgian feast. SURAH (8) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. | [noun] Soft twilled silk SURAL (5) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg. SURAS (5) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. SURRA (5) [noun] A disease of vertebrate animals caused by protozoan trypanosomes, involving fever, weakness, and lethargy. SUTRA (5) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SUTTA (5) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SWABS (10) [noun] A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWAGE (9) [noun] A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for cold shaping of a metal item. | [verb] To bend or shape through use of a swage. | [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). SWAGS (9) [noun] Initialism of scientific/speculative/sophisticated/stupid wild-ass guess. | [noun] (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric. | [noun] A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects. SWAIL (8) SWAIN (8) [noun] A young man or boy in service; a servant. | [noun] A knight's servant; an attendant. | [noun] A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic. SWALE (8) [noun] A low tract of moist or marshy land. | [noun] A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline. | [noun] A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch. | [noun] A gutter in a candle. 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) SWANG (9) SWANK (12) [noun] A fashionably elegant person. | [noun] Ostentation; bravado. | [verb] To swagger, to show off. SWANS (8) [noun] Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage. | [noun] One whose grace etc. suggests a swan. | [noun] This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire). SWAPS (10) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. SWARD (9) [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. | [noun] An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. | [noun] Skin; covering. | [noun] A homosexual man. SWARE (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [noun] A swear word. SWARF (11) [noun] The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone. | [noun] A particular waste chip or shaving. | [verb] To grind down. | [noun] A faint or swoon. 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. SWART (8) [noun] Black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker. | [adjective] Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. | [adjective] Black. | [verb] To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan. | [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. SWASH (11) [noun] The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken | [noun] A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy. | [noun] A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes. SWATH (11) [noun] The track cut out by a scythe in mowing. | [noun] A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people. SWATS (8) [noun] A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking. | [noun] Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution. | [verb] To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. SWAYS (11) [noun] The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon. | [noun] A rocking or swinging motion. | [noun] Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side SWEAR (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [noun] A swear word. | [verb] To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours. SWEAT (8) [noun] Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation. | [noun] The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis. | [noun] (especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced). | [verb] To emit sweat. SYLVA (11) TABBY (12) [noun] A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering. | [noun] A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock. | [noun] A brindled cat. TABER (7) TABES (7) [noun] A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease. TABID (8) TABLA (7) [noun] A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos. TABLE (7) [noun] Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. | [noun] A two-dimensional presentation of data. | [noun] The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate. TABOO (7) [noun] An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. | [noun] (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. | [verb] To mark as taboo. TABOR (7) [noun] A small drum. | [verb] To make (a sound) with a tabor. | [verb] To strike lightly and frequently. | [noun] A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources. TABUN (7) [noun] An extremely toxic nerve agent; a clear, tasteless liquid, molecular formula C5H11N2O2P. | [noun] A clay oven, shaped like a truncated cone, with an opening at the bottom for stoking the fire. TABUS (7) [noun] An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. | [noun] (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. TACES (7) TACET (7) TACHE (10) [noun] Moustache, mustache. | [noun] A spot, stain, or blemish. | [noun] Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button. TACHS (10) [noun] Tachometer TACIT (7) [adjective] Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent. | [adjective] Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction. TACKS (11) [noun] A small nail with a flat head. | [noun] A thumbtack. | [noun] A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth. TACKY (14) [adjective] Of a substance, slightly sticky. | [noun] A scrubby, neglected horse. | [noun] A person in a similar condition. TACOS (7) [noun] A Mexican snack food; a small tortilla (soft or hard shelled), with typically some type of meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables (usually tomatoes and lettuce, as served in the United States, and cilantro, onion, and avocado, as served in México) and salsa. | [noun] The vulva. | [noun] A yellow stain on a shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant. TACTS (7) TAELS (5) [noun] Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams. | [noun] Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver. | [noun] Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms TAFFY (14) [noun] A soft, chewy candy made from boiled molasses or brown sugar. | [noun] Flattery. TAFIA (8) [noun] A variety of rum. TAHRS (8) [noun] Any of three genera of large Asian ungulates belonging to the subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes). TAIGA (6) [noun] A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere. TAILS (5) [noun] The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus. | [noun] An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails. | [noun] The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything. TAINS (5) TAINT (5) [noun] A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food | [noun] A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish | [noun] Tincture; hue; colour | [noun] A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. | [noun] The perineum. TAJES (12) [noun] A tall brimless hat, usually conical or curved on top, worn in Muslim countries as a sign of distinction and prestige. | [noun] A crown worn by Indian princes as a sign of high rank. TAKEN (9) [verb] To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force. | [verb] To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc). | [verb] To remove. TAKER (9) [noun] One who takes something. | [noun] A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives. | [noun] One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something. TAKES (9) [noun] The or an act of taking. | [noun] Something that is taken; a haul. | [noun] An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective. TAKIN (9) [noun] A goat-antelope, species Budorcas taxicolor. TALAR (5) TALAS (5) [noun] The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene. | [noun] A rhythmic pattern in Indian music. TALCS (7) [noun] Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Mediaeval writers adopted the term from the Arabic. | [noun] A microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium. | [noun] A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses. TALER (5) TALES (5) [noun] Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams. | [noun] Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver. | [noun] Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms | [noun] A person available to fill vacancies in a jury. TALKS (9) [verb] To communicate, usually by means of speech. | [verb] To discuss; to talk about. | [verb] To speak (a certain language). TALKY (12) [adjective] (of a person) Talkative or loquacious | [adjective] (of a book etc.) Containing a great deal of dialogue or talking in general TALLY (8) [interjection] Target sighted. | [noun] (by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept. | [noun] (by extension) Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate. | [verb] To count something. | [adverb] In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit. TALON (5) [noun] A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal. | [noun] One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth. | [noun] A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.) TALUK (9) [noun] A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district. TALUS (5) [noun] The bone of the ankle. | [noun] A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice. | [noun] The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top. 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. TANGO (6) [noun] A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango. | [noun] A piece of music suited to such a dance. | [noun] The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet. TANGS (6) [noun] A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor. | [noun] A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself. | [noun] A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. TANGY (9) [adjective] Having a sharp, pungent flavor TANKA (9) [noun] A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 morae. | [noun] A strong, forceful expression | [noun] A Tibetan painting of the Buddha on fabric. | [noun] An ethnic group of boat people in the Canton area. | [noun] A coin and unit of currency of varying value, formerly used in parts of India and Central Asia. TANKS (9) [noun] A closed container for liquids or gases. | [noun] An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids. | [noun] A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial. | [interjection] Thanks TANSY (8) [noun] A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare. | [noun] A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish. "Originally flavoured with tansy, but by Pepys's time generally having spinach as its predominant flavouring." TANTO (5) [noun] A common type of Japanese dagger or knife. Alternative spelling of tantō | [adverb] So much; too much. TAPAS (7) [noun] A variety of Spanish small food items or snacks, originally served with sherry. | [noun] (by extension) Small food items generally. TAPED (8) [verb] To bind with adhesive tape. | [verb] To record, particularly onto magnetic tape. | [verb] (passive) To understand, figure out. TAPER (7) [noun] A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle | [noun] (by extension) a small light. | [noun] A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object | [noun] One who operates a tape machine. TAPES (7) [noun] Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. | [noun] Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. | [noun] Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race. TAPIR (7) [noun] Any one of the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus. TAPIS (7) [noun] A tapestry. | [noun] Carpeting. | [noun] The cover of a council table. TARDO (6) TARDY (9) [noun] A piece of paper given to students who are late to class. | [noun] An instance of a student being marked as tardy by a teacher in his or her attendance sheet. | [verb] To make tardy. TARED (6) TARES (5) [noun] A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa) | [noun] Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel. | [noun] A damaging weed growing in fields of grain. TARGE (6) [noun] A small shield | [noun] A tassel or pendant TARNS (5) [noun] A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England. | [noun] (chiefly Montana) One of many small mountain lakes or ponds. TAROC (7) TAROK (9) TAROS (5) [noun] Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato. | [noun] Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc. | [noun] Food from a taro plant. TAROT (5) [noun] (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations. | [noun] Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination. TARPS (7) [noun] A tarpaulin. TARRE (5) TARRY (8) [noun] A sojourn. | [verb] To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything. | [verb] To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens. | [adjective] Resembling tar. TARSI (5) [noun] The part of the foot between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus. | [noun] Any of the seven bones in this part of the foot. | [noun] A plate of dense connective tissue found in each eyelid, attached to either the superior tarsal muscle (in the upper eyelid) or inferior tarsal muscle (lower eyelid), which aid with sympathetic control. TARTS (5) [noun] A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie. | [noun] A prostitute. | [noun] By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals. TARTY (8) [adjective] Like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish. TASKS (9) [noun] A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. | [noun] A difficult or tedious undertaking. | [noun] An objective. TASSE (5) TASTE (5) [noun] One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation. | [noun] The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation. | [noun] A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs. TASTY (8) [adjective] Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor; delicious. | [adjective] Having or showing good taste; tasteful. | [adjective] Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing. TATAR (5) TATER (5) [noun] A potato. | [noun] A home run TATES (5) TATTY (8) [noun] Potato | [adjective] Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn | [noun] A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters. TAUNT (5) [noun] A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery | [verb] To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner. | [adjective] Very high or tall. TAUPE (7) [noun] A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin. | [adjective] Of a dark brownish-grey colour. TAUTS (5) TAWED (9) [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [verb] To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them. TAWER (8) TAWIE (8) TAWNY (11) [noun] A light brown to brownish orange colour. | [adjective] Of a light brown to brownish orange color. | [adjective] A sweet, fortified wine which is blended and matured in wood. TAWSE (8) [noun] A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically three) tails, used for corporal punishment in schools, applied to the palm of the hands or buttocks. | [verb] To beat with a tawse. TAXED (13) [verb] To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company). | [verb] To impose and collect a tax on (something). | [verb] To make excessive demands on. TAXER (12) TAXES (12) [noun] Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services. | [noun] A burdensome demand. | [noun] A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. | [noun] The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus. TAXIS (12) [noun] The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus. | [noun] The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury. | [noun] The arrangement of the parts of a topic. | [noun] A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver. TAXON (12) [noun] A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. TAXUS (12) TAZZA (23) [noun] A shallow saucer-like dish, mounted either on a stem and foot or on a foot alone. TAZZE (23) TEACH (10) [verb] To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate. | [verb] (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to. | [verb] To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher. | [noun] (usually as a term of address) teacher TEAKS (9) [noun] An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.). | [noun] A tree of the species in the genus Tectona | [noun] A yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood. TEALS (5) [noun] Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks. | [noun] A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan. 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. TEARS (5) [noun] A hole or break caused by tearing. | [noun] A rampage. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. TEARY (8) [adjective] Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry. | [adjective] Of eyes, filled with tears. TEASE (5) [noun] One who teases. | [noun] A single act of teasing. | [noun] One who deliberately arouses others (usually men) sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal. TEATS (5) [noun] The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted. | [noun] Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle. | [noun] An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants. TECTA (7) [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. TEGUA (6) TELAE (5) TELIA (5) TENIA (5) [noun] A ribbon worn in the hair in ancient Greece. | [noun] (Doric architecture) A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order. | [noun] Any of several ribbon-like bands of tissue. TEPAL (7) [noun] Any component of the perianth (outermost whorls of flower parts, not involved in reproduction), especially when the components are not distinguished into sepals and petals. TEPAS (7) TERAI (5) [noun] A belt of marshy land, which lies between the foothills of the Himalayas and the plains. | [noun] A terai hat. TERGA (6) [noun] The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod. TERRA (5) [noun] (astrogeology) A rough upland or mountainous region of the Moon with a relatively high albedo. TESLA (5) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity. Symbol: T TESTA (5) [noun] A seed coat. | [noun] The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test. TETRA (5) [noun] Any of numerous species of small South American freshwater fish of the family Characidae, popular in home aquariums. TEXAS (12) THACK (14) THANE (8) [noun] A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron. THANK (12) [noun] An expression of appreciation; a thought. | [verb] To express gratitude or appreciation toward. | [verb] To feel gratitude or appreciation toward. THARM (10) THAWS (11) [noun] The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost | [noun] A warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen | [verb] To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen THECA (10) [noun] Any external case or sheath. | [noun] The pollen-producing organ usually found in pairs and forming an anther. | [noun] The twin layers of cells surrounding the basal lamina of an ovarian follicle. THETA (8) [noun] The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ. | [noun] The measure of an angle. | [noun] The sensitivity of the value of a derivative with respect to time; the "time decay". THRAW (11) THUJA (15) [noun] A tree of the genus Thuja. THUYA (11) [noun] Any member of the genus Thuya. TIARA (5) [noun] The papal crown. | [noun] An ornamental coronet. TIBIA (7) [noun] The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone | [noun] The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus. | [noun] The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus. TICAL (7) TIDAL (6) [adjective] Relating to tides TILAK (9) [noun] A mark or symbol worn on the forehead by Hindus, ornamentally or as an indication of status. TINEA (5) [noun] A fungal infection of the skin, known generally as ringworm. TITAN (5) [noun] Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness. TOADS (6) [noun] An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae. | [noun] A contemptible or unpleasant person. | [noun] An ugly person. TOADY (9) [noun] A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage or an obsequious lackey or minion | [noun] A coarse, rustic woman. | [verb] (construed with to) To behave like a toady (to someone). | [adjective] Toadlike TOAST (5) [noun] Toasted bread. | [noun] A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol. | [noun] A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem. | [verb] To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source. TODAY (9) [noun] A current day or date. | [noun] From 6am to 6pm on the current day. | [adverb] On the current day or date. TOGAE (6) TOGAS (6) [noun] A loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome. | [noun] A loose wrap gown. | [noun] An academic gown. TOKAY (12) [noun] A variety of grape grown in eastern Hungary and in eastern Slovakia. | [noun] Any of a variety of white wines made from this grape. | [noun] The tokay gecko, a spotted lizard native to Asia and some Pacific islands. TOLAN (5) TOLAS (5) TOMAN (7) TONAL (5) [adjective] Of or relating to tones or tonality. | [adjective] Of or relating to the general character, mood, or trend of something. | [adjective] Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic. | [noun] An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death. TONGA (6) [noun] A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. | [noun] A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum. TOPAZ (16) [noun] A silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine, usually tinted by impurities. | [noun] An often clear, yellowish-brown gemstone cut from this. | [noun] A yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone. TORAH (8) TORAS (5) TOTAL (5) [noun] An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts. | [noun] Sum. | [verb] To add up; to calculate the sum of. TRACE (7) [noun] An act of tracing. | [noun] An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package. | [noun] A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal. | [verb] To follow the trail of. TRACK (11) [noun] A mark left by something that has passed along. | [noun] A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal. | [noun] The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc. TRACT (7) [noun] An area or expanse. | [noun] A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract. | [noun] A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses. | [verb] To pursue, follow; to track. TRADE (6) [noun] Buying and selling of goods and services on a market. | [noun] A particular instance of buying or selling. | [noun] An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another. TRAGI (6) [noun] The small piece of thick cartilage of the external ear that is immediately in front of the ear canal. TRAIK (9) TRAIL (5) [noun] The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky. | [noun] A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc. | [noun] A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme. TRAIN (5) [noun] Elongated portion. | [noun] Connected sequence of people or things. | [verb] To practice an ability. | [noun] Treachery; deceit. TRAIT (5) [noun] An identifying characteristic, habit or trend. | [noun] An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface. 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. TRANK (9) [noun] An oblong piece of skin from which the pieces for a glove are cut. | [noun] A tranquilizer. | [verb] To tranquilize. TRANQ (14) [noun] A tranquilizer. | [verb] To tranquilize. TRANS (5) [verb] To cross from one side to another of (gender, sex or something in that vein). | [adjective] In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond. | [adjective] Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum. | [noun] (sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person. | [noun] The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans). | [noun] (sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person. TRAPS (7) [noun] A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. | [noun] A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. | [noun] A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor. TRAPT (7) TRASH (8) [noun] Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. | [noun] A container into which things are discarded. | [noun] Something worthless or of poor quality. TRASS (5) [noun] A white to grey volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders, sometimes used as a cement. | [noun] A coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water. TRAVE (8) TRAWL (8) [noun] A net or dragnet used for trawling. | [noun] A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline. | [verb] To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl. TRAYS (8) [noun] A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. | [noun] A flat carrier for items being transported. | [noun] The items on a full tray. TREAD (6) [verb] To step or walk (on or over something); to trample. | [verb] To step or walk upon. | [verb] To beat or press with the feet. | [noun] A step taken with the foot. TREAT (5) [noun] An entertainment, outing, food, drink, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others. | [noun] An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure. | [noun] A snack food item designed to be given to pets. TRIAC (7) [noun] A three-terminal electronic component that conducts current in either direction when triggered; a bidirectional triode thyristor. TRIAD (6) [noun] A grouping of three. | [noun] A word of three syllables. | [noun] A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong. TRIAL (5) [noun] An opportunity to test something out; a test. | [noun] Appearance at judicial court in order to be examined. | [noun] A difficult or annoying experience. | [adjective] Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components. TROAK (9) TRONA (5) [noun] A saline evaporite, consisting of mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, Na3HCO3CO3·2H2O. TRYMA (10) TSADE (6) TSADI (6) TSARS (5) [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. TSUBA (7) [noun] The guard at the end of the grip of a sword. TUBAE (7) TUBAL (7) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a tube, especially an anatomical one TUBAS (7) [noun] A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys. | [noun] A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba. | [noun] A large reed stop in organs. TUFAS (8) TUNAS (5) [noun] Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae. | [noun] The edible flesh of the tuna. | [noun] The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia. TWAES (8) TWAIN (8) [noun] Pair, couple | [adjective] Twofold | [numeral] Two | [verb] To part in twain; divide; sunder. TWANG (9) [noun] The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument. | [noun] A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars. | [noun] A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice. TWATS (8) [noun] The vagina or vulva. | [noun] A contemptible and stupid person, idiot. | [verb] To hit, slap. TWEAK (12) [noun] A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch. | [noun] A slight adjustment or modification. | [noun] Trouble; distress; tweag. TYPAL (10) TZARS (14) [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. UHLAN (8) [noun] A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian/German, Austrian, and Russian armies. UKASE (9) [noun] An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor. | [noun] Any absolutist order or arrogant proclamation ULAMA (7) [noun] A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli. | [noun] The devil bird (an avian cryptid of Sri Lanka) ULANS (5) ULEMA (7) [noun] An educated scholar of Islamic law; a member of the ulema class ULNAD (6) ULNAE (5) [noun] The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate. ULNAR (5) ULNAS (5) [noun] The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate. ULPAN (7) ULTRA (5) [noun] An ultraroyalist in France. | [noun] An extremist, especially an ultranationalist. | [noun] An especially devoted football fan, typically associated with the intimidating use of extremist slogans, pyrotechnics and sometimes hooligan violence. ULVAS (8) 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) UNAIS (5) UNAPT (7) [adjective] Not apt, inappropriate, unsuited. | [adjective] Unaccustomed. UNARM (7) [verb] To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from. | [verb] To remove one's armour. UNARY (8) [noun] The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system. | [noun] Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers. | [adjective] Consisting of or involving a single element or component. UNAUS (5) UNBAN (7) [verb] To lift a ban against. UNBAR (7) [verb] To remove an impediment that obstructs the passage of (someone or something). | [verb] To remove a prohibition. | [verb] To unlock or unbolt a door that had been locked or bolted with a bar. UNCAP (9) [verb] To remove a cap or cover from. | [verb] To take off one's cap. UNCIA (7) UNHAT (8) UNLAY (8) [verb] To untwist. 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. UNSAY (8) [verb] To withdraw, retract (something said). | [verb] To not have said (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive). URAEI (5) [noun] A representation of the sacred asp, symbolising supreme power in ancient Egypt. URARE (5) URARI (5) URASE (5) URATE (5) [noun] Any salt of uric acid. URBAN (7) [adjective] Related to the (or any) city. | [adjective] Characteristic of city life. | [adjective] Relating to contemporary African American culture. URBIA (7) UREAL (5) UREAS (5) URIAL (5) [noun] A bearded reddish sheep, subspecies of Ovis orientalis (including Ovis orientalis vignei), previously classified as Ovis vignei, being endemic to southern Asia and believed to be a wild ancestor of domestic sheep. URSAE (5) USAGE (6) [noun] The manner or the amount of using; use. | [noun] Habit or accepted practice. | [noun] The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis. USNEA (5) USUAL (5) [noun] The typical state of something, or something that is typical. | [noun] A specific good or service (e.g. a drink) that someone typically orders. | [adjective] Most commonly occurring; typical. UVEAL (8) UVEAS (8) [noun] The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris. UVULA (8) [noun] The fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing. | [noun] The slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate. | [noun] An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper. VACUA (10) [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. VAGAL (9) [adjective] Of or relating to the vagus nerve. VAGUE (9) [noun] A wandering; a vagary. | [noun] An indefinite expanse. | [verb] To wander; to roam; to stray. VAGUS (9) VAILS (8) [noun] Profit; return; proceeds. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale. | [noun] Submission. VAIRS (8) VAKIL (12) [noun] A lawyer or advocate mainly a representative in the court of law and a vakil can be a representative, especially of a political figure; an official or ambassador. VALES (8) [noun] A valley. VALET (8) [noun] A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance. | [noun] A hotel employee performing such duties for guests. | [noun] (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience. VALID (9) [adjective] Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent. | [adjective] Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules. | [adjective] Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant. VALOR (8) [noun] Value; worth. | [noun] Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a person to encounter danger with firmness VALSE (8) [noun] A waltz. VALUE (8) [noun] The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. | [noun] The degree of importance given to something. | [noun] That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system. VALVE (11) [noun] A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe. | [noun] A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit. | [noun] One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction 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. VANDA (9) VANED (9) VANES (8) [noun] A weather vane | [noun] Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid | [noun] The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft VANGS (9) [noun] A line extended down from the end of a yard or a gaff, used to regulate its position VAPID (11) [adjective] Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging. | [adjective] Lifeless, dull, or banal. | [adjective] Tasteless, bland, or insipid. VAPOR (10) [noun] Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. | [noun] The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid. | [noun] Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. VARAS (8) VARIA (8) VARIX (15) [noun] A varicose, i.e. swollen and knotted, vein | [noun] In mollusks, a particular ridge on the shell, corresponding to a former position of the aperture. VARNA (8) [noun] Any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes VARUS (8) [noun] A deformity in which the foot is turned inward. | [noun] Acne. VARVE (11) [noun] An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock. VASAL (8) VASES (8) [noun] An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers. | [noun] The body of the Corinthian capital. VASTS (8) [noun] A vast space. VASTY (11) VATIC (10) [adjective] Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular. VATUS (8) VAULT (8) [noun] An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building. | [noun] Any arched ceiling or roof. | [noun] Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves. | [noun] An act of vaulting, formerly by deer; a leap or jump. VAUNT (8) [noun] A boast; an instance of vaunting. | [verb] To speak boastfully. | [verb] To speak boastfully about. | [noun] The first part. VEALS (8) VEALY (11) VEENA (8) [noun] A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music. VEGAN (9) [noun] A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products | [noun] A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism. | [adjective] (of a product or practice, especially food) Not containing animal products (meat, eggs, milk, leather, etc) or inherently involving animal use. VELAR (8) [noun] A sound articulated at the soft palate | [adjective] Articulated at the velum or soft palate. | [adjective] Referring to a veil or velum. VENAE (8) VENAL (8) [adjective] Venous; pertaining to veins. | [adjective] For sale; available for purchase. | [adjective] Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit. VESTA (8) [noun] A short match, made of wood or wax VIALS (8) [noun] A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical. | [verb] To put or keep in, or as in, a vial. VIAND (9) [noun] An item of food eaten with rice. VICAR (10) [noun] In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes. | [noun] In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy. | [noun] A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person. VIGAS (9) [noun] A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village VILLA (8) [noun] (plural "villas") A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat. | [noun] (plural "villas") A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street. | [noun] (plural "villae") A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard. VINAL (8) VINAS (8) [noun] A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music. VINCA (10) [noun] Any of several evergreen shrubs, of the genus Vinca, including the periwinkle VIOLA (8) [noun] A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone. | [noun] An organ stop having a similar tone. | [noun] A 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music. | [noun] (botany) Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies. | [interjection] Lo, there it is; see here; ta-da; presto; behold! VIRAL (8) [noun] A video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humorous, political or marketing purposes. | [adjective] Of or relating to a biological virus. | [adjective] Caused by a virus. VIRGA (9) [noun] A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone. | [noun] A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer. | [noun] (measurement) A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch. VISAS (8) [noun] A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited. | [verb] To endorse (a passport, etc.). VISTA (8) [noun] A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage. | [noun] A site offering such a view. | [noun] A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination. VITAE (8) VITAL (8) [adjective] Relating to, or characteristic of life. | [adjective] Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends. | [adjective] Invigorating or life-giving. VITTA (8) [noun] A fillet, or garland for the head. | [noun] A longitudinal stripe. | [noun] An oil tube in the fruit of some plants. VIVAS (11) [noun] A shout of applause. | [noun] An oral examination, typically for an academic qualification. VOCAL (10) [noun] A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal | [noun] (Roman Catholic Church) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the voice or speech VODKA (13) [noun] A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash. | [noun] A serving of the above beverage. | [noun] Neutral spirits distilled (or treated after distillation) so as to have no distinctive character, aroma, taste or color. VOILA (8) [interjection] Lo, there it is; see here; ta-da; presto; behold! VOLAR (8) [adjective] Pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot. VOLTA (8) VOLVA (11) [noun] A cup-shaped mass at the base of various fungi. | [noun] In Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy. | [noun] (by extension) Any prophetess, sooth-sayer, or witch. VULVA (11) [noun] The external female sexual organs, collectively. WACKE (14) [noun] A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt. WACKO (14) [noun] An amusingly eccentric or irrational person. | [adjective] Amusingly eccentric or irrational. | [interjection] Hurrah! WACKS (14) [noun] An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo. WACKY (17) [adjective] Zany; eccentric | [noun] A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt. WADDY (13) [noun] A cowboy. | [noun] A war club used by Aboriginal Australians; a nulla nulla. | [noun] A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick. WADED (10) [verb] To walk through water or something that impedes progress. | [verb] To progress with difficulty | [verb] To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading WADER (9) [noun] One who wades. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A waterproof boot that comes up to the hip, used by fishermen, etc. | [noun] A long-legged bird associated with wetland or coastal environments. WADES (9) [noun] An act of wading. | [noun] A ford; a place to cross a river. | [verb] To walk through water or something that impedes progress. WADIS (9) [noun] A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season. WAFER (11) [noun] A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie. | [noun] (christianity) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion. | [noun] A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc. WAFFS (14) WAFTS (11) [verb] To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air. | [verb] To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float. | [verb] To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. WAGED (10) [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. | [verb] To employ for wages; to hire. WAGER (9) [noun] Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. | [noun] That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. | [noun] A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. | [noun] Agent noun of wage; one who wages. WAGES (9) [noun] (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour. | [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. WAGON (9) [noun] A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. | [noun] A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front. | [noun] An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck. WAHOO (11) [noun] Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish. | [noun] The winged elm, Ulmus alata. | [noun] Euonymus atropurpureus, an eastern burning bush. WAIFS (11) [noun] A castaway; a homeless child. | [noun] (of a plant outside its native range) A plant that has been introduced but is not persistently naturalized. | [noun] Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice. WAILS (8) [noun] A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish. | [noun] Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl. | [noun] A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster. WAINS (8) [noun] A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen. | [noun] (Derry) A collective word usually for children. WAIRS (8) WAIST (8) [noun] The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach. | [noun] A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist. | [noun] The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps). WAITS (8) [noun] A delay. | [noun] An ambush. | [noun] One who watches; a watchman. WAIVE (11) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). | [verb] To move from side to side; to sway. | [noun] A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman. WAKED (13) [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. | [verb] (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep. | [verb] To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. WAKEN (12) [verb] To wake or rouse from sleep. | [verb] To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir. WAKER (12) WAKES (12) [noun] The act of waking, or state of being awake. | [noun] The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. | [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. WALED (9) WALER (8) [noun] A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse. | [noun] (structural engineering) A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress. WALES (8) [noun] A ridge or low barrier. | [noun] A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course). | [noun] The texture of a piece of fabric. WALKS (12) [verb] To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run. | [verb] To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty. | [verb] Of an object, to go missing or be stolen. WALLA (8) WALLS (8) [noun] A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes. | [noun] A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc. | [noun] Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure. WALLY (11) [verb] To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something. | [verb] To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work. | [verb] To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon. WALTZ (17) [noun] A ballroom dance in 3/4 time. | [noun] A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time). | [noun] A simple task. WAMES (10) WAMUS (10) WANDS (9) [noun] A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority. | [noun] (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand. | [noun] A magic wand. WANED (9) [verb] To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline. | [verb] Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength. | [verb] Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible. WANES (8) [noun] A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc. | [noun] The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth. | [noun] The end of a period. WANEY (11) WANLY (11) WANTS (8) [noun] A desire, wish, longing. | [noun] (often followed by of) Lack, absence. | [noun] Poverty. WARDS (9) [noun] A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman. | [noun] Protection, defence. | [noun] A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision. WARED (9) [verb] To be ware or mindful of something. | [verb] To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary. | [verb] To wear, or veer. WARES (8) [noun] (usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use. | [noun] (in the plural) See wares. | [noun] Pottery or metal goods. WARKS (12) [noun] Pain; ache. | [noun] A building. 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. WARNS (8) [verb] To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially: | [verb] To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. | [verb] (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away. WARPS (10) [verb] To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally: | [verb] (ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred. | [verb] To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving. WARTS (8) [noun] A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). | [noun] Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads. | [noun] Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation. WARTY (11) WASHY (14) [noun] A wash, an act of washing. | [adjective] Watery; damp; soft. | [adjective] Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble. WASPS (10) [noun] A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. | [noun] A member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots. | [noun] Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet. WASPY (13) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a wasp; wasplike. | [adjective] Infested with wasps. | [adjective] Like a wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant), a member of the dominant American upper-class culture. WASTE (8) [noun] Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish. | [noun] Excrement or urine. | [noun] A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert. | [adjective] Uncultivated, uninhabited. | [verb] To devastate, destroy WASTS (8) WATAP (10) WATCH (13) [noun] A portable or wearable timepiece. | [noun] The act of guarding and observing someone or something. | [noun] A particular time period when guarding is kept. | [verb] To look at, see, or view for a period of time. WATER (8) [noun] A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam. | [noun] The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy. | [noun] Water in a body; an area of open water. | [verb] To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants). WATTS (8) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W WAUGH (12) WAUKS (12) WAULS (8) [verb] To wail, to cry plaintively. WAVED (12) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAVER (11) [noun] An act of wavering, vacillating, etc. | [noun] Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc. | [noun] Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment). WAVES (11) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAVEY (14) WAWLS (11) WAXED (16) [verb] To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. | [verb] To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply. | [verb] To defeat utterly. WAXEN (15) [adjective] Grown. | [verb] To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. | [verb] To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply. | [adjective] Made of wax; covered with wax. WAXER (15) WAXES (15) [noun] Beeswax. | [noun] Earwax. | [noun] Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters. WEALD (9) WEALS (8) [noun] A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt. WEANS (8) WEARS (8) [verb] To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc. | [verb] To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. | [verb] To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. WEARY (11) [verb] To make or to become weary. | [adjective] Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued. | [adjective] Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick. WEAVE (11) [noun] A type or way of weaving. | [noun] Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair. | [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To move by turning and twisting. WEKAS (12) [noun] The woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand. WHACK (17) [adjective] Egregious. | [adjective] Bad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, lame, or strange. | [adjective] Crazy, mad, insane. WHALE (11) [noun] Any of several species of large sea mammals of the infraorder Cetacea. | [noun] Something, or someone, that is very large. | [noun] Something, or someone, that is excellent. | [verb] To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly. 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 WHANG (12) [noun] A blow; a whack. | [noun] A large piece or slice; a chunk. | [noun] A house-cleaning party. WHAPS (13) [noun] A blow; a hit; a variation of whop. | [noun] The curlew. WHARF (14) [noun] A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank. | [noun] The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea. | [verb] To secure by a wharf. WHATS (11) WHAUP (13) [noun] Curlew WHEAL (11) [verb] To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt. | [verb] To give a surface a texture of wales or welts. | [verb] To choose, select. | [noun] A mine. WHEAT (11) [noun] Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery. | [noun] A light brown colour, like that of wheat. | [adjective] Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat. WIGAN (9) WIRRA (8) [interjection] Exclamation of dismay. WISHA (11) WITAN (8) [noun] The Anglo-Saxon national council or witenagemot. WOADS (9) WOALD (9) 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. WRACK (14) [noun] Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble. | [noun] (except in dialects) Ruin; destruction. | [noun] The remains; a wreck. | [verb] To place in or hang on a rack. WRANG (9) WRAPS (10) [noun] A sharp blow with something hard. | [noun] Blame for something. | [noun] A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction. WRAPT (10) [verb] To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper. | [verb] To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping. | [verb] To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide. WRATH (11) [noun] Great anger. | [noun] Punishment. | [verb] To anger; to enrage. WREAK (12) [verb] To cause something harmful; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injury; to let out something harmful; . | [verb] To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite. | [verb] To inflict or take vengeance on. | [noun] Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. XENIA (12) XYLAN (15) YACHT (13) [noun] A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock. | [noun] Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes. | [verb] To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht. YACKS (14) [noun] (possibly obsolete) An oak. | [noun] A talk, particular an informal talk; chattering; gossip. | [noun] A laugh. YAFFS (14) YAGER (9) YAGIS (9) YAHOO (11) [noun] A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person; yokel; lout. | [noun] A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas. | [verb] To give a cry of "yahoo". YAIRD (9) YAMEN (10) YAMUN (10) YANGS (9) YANKS (12) [noun] A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force). | [noun] A masturbation session. | [verb] To pull (something) with a quick, strong action. YAPOK (14) [noun] The water opossum (Chironectes minimus) YAPON (10) YARDS (9) [noun] A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building. | [noun] The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn. | [noun] An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc. YARER (8) YARNS (8) [noun] A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving. | [noun] Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope. | [noun] A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible. YAUDS (9) YAULD (9) YAUPS (10) YAWED (12) [verb] To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course. | [verb] To swerve off course to port or starboard. | [verb] To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course. YAWLS (11) [noun] A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. | [noun] A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post. YAWNS (11) [noun] The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored. | [noun] A particularly boring event. | [verb] To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation. YAWPS (13) [noun] A yelp or bark | [noun] Loud or coarse talk | [verb] To yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise YEANS (8) [verb] (of goats or sheep) To give birth to. YEARN (8) [verb] To long, have a strong desire (for something). | [verb] To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically. | [verb] To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone). | [verb] To curdle, as milk. | [noun] Yearning; yen. YEARS (8) [noun] A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference). | [noun] (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star. | [noun] A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar. YEAST (8) [noun] An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines. | [noun] A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families. | [noun] A frothy foam. YENTA (8) [noun] A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger. | [noun] (Jewish) A matchmaker; a woman who specializes in finding spouses. YERBA (10) [noun] Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage mate. YOGAS (9) YUANS (8) YUCAS (10) [noun] Cassava | [noun] Cassava root YUCCA (12) [noun] Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms. | [noun] The yuca (cassava). YUGAS (9) [noun] In Hindu theology, an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years. YULAN (8) [noun] Magnolia denudata, a species of magnolia with large white blossoms that open before the leaves. YURTA (8) ZAIRE (14) [noun] The unit of currency of Zaire. ZAMIA (16) [noun] Any of various cycads of the genera Zamia and Macrozamia ZANZA (23) ZAPPY (21) [adjective] Lively or energetic. ZARFS (17) ZAXES (21) [noun] A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing. ZAYIN (17) [noun] The seventh letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). ZAZEN (23) [noun] A form of seated meditation in Zen Buddhism. ZEALS (14) ZEBRA (16) [noun] Any of three species of genus Equus: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa. | [noun] A referee. | [noun] An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".) ZETAS (14) [noun] The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ, ζ) preceded by epsilon (Ε, ε) and followed by eta, (Η, η); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ, ϝ) | [noun] A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function. ZIRAM (16) ZOEAE (14) ZOEAL (14) ZOEAS (14) ZONAL (14) [adjective] Divided into zones. | [adjective] Related to, associated with, or similar to zones. | [adjective] (of air or ocean currents) roughly longitudinal (east to west, or west to east)