4 Letter 5 Letter 9 Letter Countdown Words Containing D

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. 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. 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. 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). BED (6) [noun] A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. | [noun] A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid. | [noun] (heading) A layer or surface. BID (6) [verb] To issue a command; to tell. | [verb] To invite; to summon. | [verb] To utter a greeting or salutation. | [verb] To issue a command; to tell. BOD (6) [noun] The body. | [noun] A person. BUD (6) [noun] A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. | [noun] Something that has begun to develop. | [noun] A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. | [noun] Buddy, friend. 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. COD (6) [noun] A small bag or pouch. | [noun] A husk or integument; a pod. | [noun] The scrotum (also in plural). | [noun] The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua. | [noun] A joke or an imitation. CUD (6) [noun] The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time. | [verb] To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time. 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). DEB (6) [noun] Debutante ball or debut. | [noun] A young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society. | [noun] A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment. DEE (4) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter D. | [noun] Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock. | [noun] Police detective. DEL (4) [noun] The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator. | [noun] The symbol ∂, in the context of a partial differential | [noun] A part, portion | [noun] A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy DEN (4) [noun] A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment. | [noun] A squalid or wretched place; a haunt. | [noun] A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining. | [noun] An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou. | [adverb] (temporal location) At that time. DEV (7) DEW (7) [noun] Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces. | [noun] Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops. | [noun] (but see usage notes) An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc. | [verb] To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten. DEX (11) [noun] An order or factor of ten. | [noun] Dexterity. | [noun] Dextromethorphan. DEY (7) DIB (6) [noun] A dibber (gardening tool) | [noun] One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints. | [verb] To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for the purpose of planting a bulb or seed | [verb] (sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws). DID (5) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DIE (4) [verb] To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | [verb] To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). | [verb] To yearn intensely. | [noun] A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. | [noun] A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied. DIG (5) [noun] An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place. | [noun] A plodding and laborious student. | [noun] A thrust; a poke. | [verb] To understand or show interest in. | [noun] Digoxin. DIM (6) [noun] Dimness. | [verb] To make something less bright. | [verb] To become darker. DIN (4) [noun] A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion. | [verb] To make a din, to resound. | [verb] (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound. DIP (6) [noun] A lower section of a road or geological feature. | [noun] Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch. | [noun] The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. | [noun] A foolish person. | [noun] Initialism of device-independent pixel. | [noun] A diplomat. DIS (4) [noun] An insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect. | [verb] To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour. | [noun] Dissertation. | [noun] Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore. | [pronoun] This. DIT (4) [verb] To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit). | [verb] To close up. | [noun] A ditty, a little melody. | [noun] The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code. | [noun] Decimal digit | [adjective] Indicator of a declared surname originating from Canadian French. DOC (6) [noun] A doctor. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A document, especially (in professional jargon) a piece of technical documentation or legal evidence. | [noun] A documentary. DOE (4) [noun] A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope, (less commonly goat as nanny is also used). | [noun] A female rabbit. | [noun] A female hare. | [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [adverb] Though DOG (5) [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. | [noun] Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid. | [noun] A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen. DOL (4) [noun] The unit of measurement for pain. DOM (6) [noun] A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. | [noun] A title formerly borne by member of the high nobility of Portugal and Brazil DON (4) [noun] A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge. | [noun] An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents. | [noun] A mafia boss. | [verb] (clothing) To put on, to dress in. DOR (4) [noun] A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying | [noun] Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee | [noun] A trick, joke, or deception DOS (4) [noun] A party, celebration, social function. | [noun] A hairdo. | [noun] Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts). | [noun] A party, celebration, social function. DOT (4) [noun] A small, round spot. | [noun] (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period. | [noun] A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ. | [noun] A dowry. DOW (7) DRY (7) [noun] The process by which something is dried. | [noun] A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages). | [noun] (with "the") The dry season. DUB (6) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. | [noun] A blow, thrust, or poke. | [noun] An unskillful, awkward person. | [noun] A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed. | [noun] A pool or puddle. | [noun] A twenty dollar sack of marijuana. | [noun] A lock. DUD (5) [noun] A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile. | [noun] A failure of any kind. | [noun] Clothes, now always used in plural form duds. DUE (4) [noun] Deserved acknowledgment. | [noun] (in plural dues) A membership fee. | [noun] That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty. DUG (5) [verb] To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way. | [verb] To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up. | [verb] To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts. DUI (4) [noun] Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together. | [noun] Any pair of two people. | [noun] Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur. DUN (4) [noun] A brownish grey colour. | [adjective] Of a brownish grey colour. | [noun] A collector of debts. | [noun] A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago. | [noun] An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland. | [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance. | [noun] A mound or small hill. | [interjection] Imitating suspenseful music. DUO (4) [noun] Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together. | [noun] Any pair of two people. | [noun] Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur. DUP (6) DYE (7) [noun] A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied. | [noun] Any hue, color, or blee. | [verb] To colour with dye, or as if with dye. | [noun] A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. EDH (7) [noun] A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language. ELD (4) [noun] One's age, age in years, period of life. | [noun] Old age, senility; an old person. | [noun] Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time. END (4) [noun] The terminal point of something in space or time. | [noun] (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. | [noun] (by extension) Death. FAD (7) [noun] A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time. FED (7) [noun] A federal government officer or official, especially FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, and DEA agents. | [noun] A police officer. | [noun] A “federation” in which powerlifters organize to compete. | [verb] (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat. FID (7) [noun] A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike. | [noun] A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship). | [noun] A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun. FUD (7) 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. GED (5) [noun] The pike or luce. | [noun] A greedy person GID (5) [noun] A disease of sheep caused by tapeworm. | [noun] A fiddle. GOD (5) [noun] A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe. | [proper noun] The single deity of various monotheistic religions, especially the deity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. | [proper noun] The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions. 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. HID (7) [verb] To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. | [verb] To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight. HOD (7) [verb] To bob up and down on horseback; jog. | [noun] A three-sided box for carrying bricks or other construction materials, often mortar. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder. | [noun] A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one designed to facilitate loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox. IDS (4) [noun] The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model. | [noun] Identifier. | [noun] A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus. KID (8) [noun] A young goat. | [noun] Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid. | [noun] Kidskin. | [noun] A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze. 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. LED (4) [verb] (heading) To guide or conduct. | [verb] To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb. | [verb] (heading) To begin, to be ahead. LID (4) [noun] A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye. | [noun] The top or cover of a container. | [noun] A cap or hat. MAD (6) [verb] To be or become mad. | [verb] To madden, to anger, to frustrate. | [adjective] Insane; crazy, mentally deranged. MED (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine. | [adjective] Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal. | [verb] May; might MID (6) [adjective] Denoting the middle part. | [adjective] Occupying a middle position; middle. | [adjective] Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, /e o ɛ ɔ/. | [noun] Middle | [noun] A mid-range. | [preposition] (in representations of German-accented English) With. MOD (6) [noun] An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses. | [noun] A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker. | [noun] A modification. | [noun] A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod. MUD (6) [noun] A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment. | [noun] A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall. | [noun] (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured. | [verb] To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon. NOD (4) [noun] An instance of inclining the head up and down, as to indicate agreement, or as a cursory greeting. | [noun] A reference or allusion to something. | [noun] A nomination. ODD (5) [noun] (diminutive) An odd number. | [noun] Something left over, not forming part of a set. | [adjective] Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected. ODE (4) [noun] A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. ODS (4) [interjection] (used in oaths etc.) God's OLD (4) [noun] (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group. | [noun] (in combination) One of a specified age. | [noun] A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager. OUD (4) [noun] A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin. | [noun] (perfume) Agarwood. 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. PED (6) [noun] (on traffic signs) A pedestrian. | [noun] A pedestal. | [noun] A basket; a hamper; a pannier. | [noun] A soil particle. | [noun] Motorcycle POD (6) [noun] A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod. | [noun] A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations. | [noun] A bag; a pouch. PUD (6) [noun] Pudding (either sweet or savoury). | [noun] Penis. | [noun] Child's hand; child's fist. | [noun] An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds). 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. RED (4) [noun] Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc. | [noun] A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. | [noun] One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours. | [verb] To govern, protect. | [verb] To free from entanglement. RID (4) [verb] To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance. | [verb] To banish. | [verb] To kill. | [verb] To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. ROD (4) [noun] A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff. | [noun] A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent. | [noun] A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod. 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. SOD (4) [noun] That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward. | [noun] Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns. | [verb] To cover with sod. | [noun] Sodomite; bugger. | [verb] To boil. | [noun] The rock dove. TAD (4) [noun] A small amount; a little bit. | [noun] A street boy; an urchin. TED (4) [noun] A teddy boy. | [verb] To spread hay for drying. TOD (4) [noun] A fox. | [noun] Someone like a fox; a crafty person. | [noun] A bush, especially of ivy. UDO (4) URD (4) 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. WED (7) [verb] To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony. | [verb] To take as one's spouse. | [verb] To take a spouse. WUD (7) YID (7) [noun] (among Jews) a Jew | [noun] A Jew | [noun] A supporter or club member of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. YOD (7) [noun] A palatal approximant, /j/. | [noun] The tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | [noun] A tool used to read a torah. | [noun] A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building. ZED (13) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter Z. | [noun] (in combination) Something Z-shaped. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Sleep.

ABED (7) [adverb] In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed. | [adverb] To childbed 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). ACID (7) [noun] A sour substance. | [noun] Any of several classes of compound having the following properties: | [noun] Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) 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. 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. 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. AMID (7) [preposition] In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by. ANDS (5) [noun] In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | [noun] Breath. | [noun] Sea smoke; steam fog. APED (7) [verb] To behave like an ape. | [verb] To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly. APOD (7) 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. AULD (5) [adjective] Old AVID (8) [adjective] Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something AWED (8) [verb] To inspire fear and reverence in. | [verb] To control by inspiring dread. | [adjective] Filled with awe. 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). 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. 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. 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. 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.) 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. 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. BEDS (7) [noun] A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. | [noun] A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid. | [noun] (heading) A layer or surface. BEDU (7) [noun] A member of the nomadic Arab peoples of the desert regions of North Africa and the Middle East, also spelled Bedouin. BEND (7) [noun] A curve. | [noun] Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines. | [noun] (in the plural, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness. BIDE (7) [verb] To bear; to endure; to tolerate. | [verb] To dwell or reside in a location; to abide. | [verb] To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain. BIDS (7) [verb] To issue a command; to tell. | [verb] To invite; to summon. | [verb] To utter a greeting or salutation. BIND (7) [noun] That which binds or ties. | [noun] A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary. | [noun] Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine. BIRD (7) [noun] A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs. | [noun] A man, fellow. | [noun] A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive. | [noun] A prison sentence. | [noun] The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended. BLED (7) [verb] (of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel. | [verb] To let or draw blood from. | [verb] To take large amounts of money from. | [noun] (in parts of French North Africa) Hinterland, field. BODE (7) [noun] An omen; a foreshadowing. | [verb] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell. | [verb] (followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future. | [noun] A bid; an offer. | [noun] A messenger; a herald. | [noun] A stop; a halting; delay. | [verb] To bear; to endure; to tolerate. BODS (7) [noun] The body. | [noun] A person. BODY (10) [noun] Physical frame. | [noun] Main section. | [noun] Coherent group. BOLD (7) [noun] A dwelling; habitation; building. | [adjective] Courageous, daring. | [adjective] Visually striking; conspicuous. | [verb] To make (a font or some text) bold. BOND (7) [noun] Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds. | [noun] A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture. | [noun] A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond. | [noun] A peasant; churl. 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. BRED (7) [verb] To produce offspring sexually; to bear young. | [verb] To give birth to; to be the native place of. | [verb] Of animals, to mate. BUDS (7) [noun] A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. | [noun] Something that has begun to develop. | [noun] A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. BUND (7) [noun] A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states. | [noun] A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks. | [noun] A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding. BURD (7) 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. CAID (7) [noun] A Muslim judge or leader in North Africa and the Middle East. 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.) CEDE (7) [verb] To give up; yield to another. | [verb] To give way. CEDI (7) [noun] The currency of Ghana, divided into 100 pesewas and represented by ₵. 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. CHID (10) [verb] To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily. | [verb] To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. | [verb] To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. 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) CLOD (7) [noun] A lump of something, especially of earth or clay. | [noun] The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf. | [noun] A stupid person; a dolt. 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. CODE (7) [noun] A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents. | [noun] A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest. | [noun] Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject. | [verb] Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest. CODS (7) [noun] A small bag or pouch. | [noun] A husk or integument; a pod. | [noun] The scrotum (also in plural). COED (7) [noun] A young woman who attends college. | [noun] A (generally young) woman, especially on the campus of a college or other educational institute. | [adjective] Of an educational institution, that teaches both males and females. COLD (7) [adjective] (of a thing) Having a low temperature. | [adjective] (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold. | [adjective] (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort. | [noun] A condition of low temperature. | [adverb] While at low temperature. CORD (7) [noun] A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. | [noun] A straight line between two points of a curve. | [noun] A horizontal member of a truss. CRUD (7) [noun] Dirt, filth or refuse. | [noun] (by extension) Something of poor quality. | [noun] A contemptible person. CUDS (7) [noun] Portions of food that a ruminant animal brings back up from its stomach to chew again. | [noun] Plural of cud, the food that returns from a ruminant's stomach to the mouth for further chewing. CUED (7) [verb] Past tense of "cue," meaning to give a signal or prompt to someone. | [verb] To strike a ball with a cue stick in billiards or pool. CURD (7) [noun] The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc. | [noun] The coagulated part of any liquid. | [noun] The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants. 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) 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) 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) 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) DAVY (11) 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. DEBS (7) [noun] Debutante ball or debut. | [noun] A young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society. | [noun] A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment. DEBT (7) [noun] An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another. | [noun] The state or condition of owing something to another. | [noun] Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction. DECK (11) [noun] Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop. | [noun] The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. | [noun] A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane. | [verb] (sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance DECO (7) [noun] (underwater diving) Decompression. | [noun] A friendship book in which people add decorative elements such as drawings, stickers and sequins. DEED (6) [noun] An action or act; something that is done. | [noun] A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit. | [noun] Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation. DEEM (7) [noun] An opinion, a judgment, a surmise. | [verb] To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence. | [verb] To adjudge, to decree. DEEP (7) [noun] (with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc. | [noun] (with "the") A silent time; quiet isolation. | [noun] A deep shade of colour. DEER (5) [noun] A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla | [noun] (in particular) one of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk | [noun] The meat of such an animal; venison. DEES (5) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter D. | [noun] Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock. | [noun] Police detective. DEET (5) DEFI (8) DEFT (8) [adjective] Quick and neat in action; skillful. DEFY (11) [noun] A challenge. | [verb] To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition). | [verb] To refuse to obey. DEIL (5) DEKE (9) [noun] A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman. | [noun] As in hockey, a fake or other move to confuse other players on a team. | [noun] A quick detour. DELE (5) [noun] A sign signifying deletion | [verb] (usually imperative) to delete DELF (8) DELI (5) [noun] A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving. | [noun] Food sold at a delicatessen. DELL (5) [noun] A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep. | [noun] A young woman; a wench. DELS (5) [noun] The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator. | [noun] The symbol ∂, in the context of a partial differential | [noun] A part, portion DEME (7) [noun] A township or other subdivision of ancient Attica. | [noun] A distinct local population of plants or animals. DEMO (7) [noun] A demonstration or visual explanation. | [noun] A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully. | [noun] An example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount. | [verb] To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release. | [verb] To demolish (especially a house or fixture). DEMY (10) [noun] A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches. | [noun] One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford. | [noun] Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford. DENE (5) [noun] A valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet | [noun] A sand dune by the seashore DENS (5) [noun] A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment. | [noun] A squalid or wretched place; a haunt. | [noun] A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining. | [noun] The strong odontoid process of the axis. DENT (5) [noun] A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact. | [noun] A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action | [noun] A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. DENY (8) [verb] To disallow or reject. | [verb] To assert that something is not true. | [verb] (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone. DERE (5) [noun] Hurt; harm; injury. | [verb] To hurt; harm; injure; wound. | [verb] To annoy, trouble, grieve. | [noun] That place. DERM (7) [noun] The integument of animal; the skin. | [noun] The tissue of the skin underlying the epidermis. | [noun] A person who is skilled in, professes or practices dermatology. | [noun] (usually in the plural) guts DESK (9) [noun] A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath. | [noun] A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession. | [noun] A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news. DEVA (8) [noun] A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism. DEVS (8) DEWS (8) [noun] Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces. | [noun] Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops. | [noun] (but see usage notes) An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc. DEWY (11) [adjective] Covered by dew. | [adjective] Having the quality of bearing droplets of water. | [adjective] Fresh and innocent. DEXY (15) DEYS (8) 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. DHOW (11) [noun] A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail. 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. DIBS (7) [noun] The right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else. | [verb] To claim a temporary right to (something); to reserve. | [interjection] Used to claim this right | [noun] A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East. | [noun] A dibber (gardening tool) DICE (7) [noun] Gaming with one or more dice. | [noun] A die. | [noun] That which has been diced. | [noun] A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. DICK (11) [noun] A male person. | [noun] The penis. | [noun] A highly contemptible person; a jerk. | [noun] A detective. | [noun] A declaration. | [numeral] Ten in Cumbrian sheep counting DIDO (6) [noun] A fuss, a row. | [noun] A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper. DIDY (9) DIED (6) [verb] To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | [verb] To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). | [verb] To yearn intensely. DIEL (5) [adjective] Having a 24-hour period regardless of day or night. DIES (5) [verb] To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | [verb] To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). | [verb] To yearn intensely. DIET (5) [noun] The food and beverage a person or animal consumes. | [noun] A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health. | [noun] (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption. | [verb] To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet. | [noun] (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly. DIGS (6) [noun] An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place. | [noun] A plodding and laborious student. | [noun] A thrust; a poke. DIKE (9) [verb] Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior. | [noun] A well-dressed man. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior. DILL (5) [noun] Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed. | [noun] A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring | [noun] A fool. | [verb] To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain. DIME (7) [noun] A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar. | [noun] A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar. | [noun] A small amount of money | [verb] (with "on") To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously. DIMS (7) [verb] To make something less bright. | [verb] To become darker. | [verb] To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct DINE (5) [noun] Dinnertime | [verb] To eat; to eat dinner or supper. | [verb] To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. DING (6) [noun] Very minor damage, a small dent or chip. | [noun] A rejection. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [noun] The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell. | [noun] An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid. DINK (9) [noun] A soft drop shot. | [noun] A light chip; a chipped pass or shot | [verb] To play a soft drop shot. | [noun] A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle. | [noun] A North Vietnamese soldier. | [noun] Double Income No Kids - a childless couple with two jobs. | [noun] Hard work, especially one's share of a task. | [noun] A penis. | [adjective] Finely dressed, elegant; neat. | [adjective] Not making a requisite amount of progress in one's qualifications. DINS (5) [noun] A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion. | [verb] To make a din, to resound. | [verb] (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound. DINT (5) [noun] A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight. | [noun] Force, power; especially in by dint of. | [noun] The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. DIOL (5) [noun] Any organic compound having two hydroxy functional groups DIPS (7) [noun] A lower section of a road or geological feature. | [noun] Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch. | [noun] The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. DIPT (7) DIRE (5) [adjective] Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. | [adjective] Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. | [adjective] Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal DIRK (9) [noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. | [noun] (Midwest US) A penis; dork. | [noun] (Midwest US) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. DIRL (5) DIRT (5) [noun] Soil or earth. | [noun] A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance. | [noun] Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person. DISC (7) [noun] A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. | [noun] An intervertebral disc. | [noun] Something resembling a disc. DISH (8) [noun] A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. | [noun] The contents of such a vessel. | [noun] (metonym) A specific type of prepared food. DISK (9) [noun] A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. | [noun] Something resembling a disk. | [noun] An intervertebral disc DISS (5) [noun] An insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect. | [verb] To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour. | [noun] Dissertation. | [noun] An Algerian reedy grass used for cordage. DITA (5) DITE (5) DITS (5) [noun] A ditty, a little melody. | [noun] A word; a decree. | [noun] The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code. DITZ (14) [noun] A scatterbrained person, especially a woman. 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. DIVE (8) [noun] A jump or plunge into water. | [noun] A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance. | [noun] A downward swooping motion. | [noun] Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress. | [noun] A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature. DJIN (12) DOAT (5) DOBY (10) DOCK (11) [noun] Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash. | [noun] A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant. | [noun] The fleshy root of an animal's tail. | [noun] A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port. | [noun] Part of a courtroom where the accused sits. | [verb] To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven. DOCS (7) [noun] A doctor. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A document, especially (in professional jargon) a piece of technical documentation or legal evidence. | [noun] A documentary. DODO (6) [noun] A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius. | [noun] A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt. | [noun] Fried plantain. DOER (5) [noun] Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent. DOES (5) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). | [noun] A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope, (less commonly goat as nanny is also used). DOFF (11) [verb] (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing. | [verb] To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect. | [verb] To get rid of, to throw off. DOGE (6) [noun] The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa. | [noun] A dog. | [noun] Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme. DOGS (6) [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. | [noun] Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid. | [noun] A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen. DOGY (9) DOIT (5) [noun] A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver. | [noun] A small amount; a bit, a jot. | [noun] In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards. | [verb] To stumble; to blunder. DOJO (12) [noun] The ring, made of compacted clay, in which a sumo wrestling match is held. | [noun] A training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a hall or room used for such training. | [noun] (by extension) A room or other facility used for other activities, such as meditation or software development. | [noun] The dojo loach, Japanese weather loach, or pond loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus), a freshwater fish native to East Asia. DOLE (5) [noun] Money or other goods given as charity. | [noun] Distribution; dealing; apportionment. | [noun] Payment by the state to the unemployed. | [noun] Sorrow or grief; dolour. DOLL (5) [noun] A toy in the form of a human. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman | [noun] A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart. DOLS (5) DOLT (5) [noun] A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard. | [verb] To behave foolishly. DOME (7) [noun] A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola | [noun] Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover | [noun] Head (uppermost part of one's body) DOMS (7) DONA (5) DONE (5) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). | [noun] A synthetic opioid analgesic, used to wean addicts off heroin or other opiate based narcotics, and in chronic pain management. DONG (6) [noun] The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫ | [noun] A penis. | [noun] (by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis. | [noun] Onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch. | [noun] A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea. DONS (5) [noun] A title formerly borne by member of the high nobility of Portugal and Brazil | [noun] A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge. | [noun] An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents. DOOM (7) [noun] Destiny, especially terrible. | [noun] An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable. | [noun] A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair. DOOR (5) [noun] A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key. | [noun] Any flap, etc. that opens like a door. | [noun] (immigration) An entry point. DOPA (7) [noun] The amino acid dihydroxyphenylalanine that is generated in the liver from tyrosine and then converted into dopamine in the brain. DOPE (7) [noun] Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface. | [noun] An absorbent material used to hold a liquid. | [noun] Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc. DOPY (10) [adjective] Stupid, silly. DORE (5) DORK (9) [noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. | [noun] (Midwest US) A penis; dork. | [noun] (Midwest US) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. DORM (7) [verb] To reside in a dorm. | [noun] A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. | [noun] A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities. DORP (7) [noun] A village or small town; a town considered provincial. DORR (5) DORS (5) [noun] A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying | [noun] Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee | [noun] A trick, joke, or deception DORY (8) [noun] A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers. | [noun] Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish. | [adjective] Of a bright yellow or golden color. | [noun] A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand. DOSE (5) DOSS (5) [noun] The avoidance of work. | [noun] An easy piece of work. | [noun] A place to sleep in; a bed. DOST (5) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DOTE (5) [noun] A darling, a cutie. | [noun] An imbecile; a dotard. | [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. DOTH (8) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DOTS (5) [noun] A small, round spot. | [noun] (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period. | [noun] A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ. DOTY (8) DOUM (7) DOUR (5) [adjective] Stern, harsh and forbidding. | [adjective] Unyielding and obstinate. | [adjective] Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy. DOUX (12) DOVE (8) [noun] A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae. | [noun] A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict. | [noun] Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. | [verb] To swim under water. DOWN (8) [noun] A negative aspect; a downer. | [noun] A grudge (on someone). | [noun] An act of swallowing an entire drink at once. | [noun] (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland | [noun] Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets. DOWS (8) DOXY (15) [noun] A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress. | [noun] A defined opinion. | [noun] A broad-spectrum antibiotic, C22H24N2O8, of the tetracycline class. | [noun] A dachshund. DOZE (14) [noun] A light, short sleep or nap. | [verb] To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. | [verb] To make dull; to stupefy. DOZY (17) [adjective] Quite sleepy or tired. | [adjective] Intellectually slow. | [adjective] Decaying, rotten, spongy. 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. DREE (5) [verb] (North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo. | [verb] (North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue. | [adjective] Long; large; ample; great. | [noun] Length; extension; the longest part. DREG (6) DREK (9) [noun] Trash; worthless merchandise. DREW (8) [verb] To move or develop something. | [verb] To exert or experience force. | [verb] (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace. DRIB (7) DRIP (7) [verb] To fall one drop at a time. | [verb] To leak slowly. | [verb] To let fall in drops. | [noun] A drop of a liquid. | [noun] A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing. DROP (7) [noun] A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape via surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. | [noun] A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything. | [noun] (now especially with "the") Alcoholic spirits in general. DRUB (7) [noun] Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal. | [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. DRUG (6) [noun] A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. | [noun] A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. | [noun] Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted. | [verb] To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty. | [noun] A drudge. DRUM (7) [noun] A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone. | [noun] Any similar hollow, cylindrical object. | [noun] A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage. | [noun] A small hill or ridge of hills. | [noun] A social gathering or assembly held in the evening. DRYS (8) [noun] The process by which something is dried. | [noun] A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages). | [noun] (with "the") The dry season. 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. DUBS (7) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. DUCE (7) DUCI (7) DUCK (11) [verb] To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. | [noun] An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet. | [noun] A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth. | [noun] A term of endearment; pet; darling. DUCT (7) [noun] A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another. | [noun] An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs. | [noun] Guidance; direction. DUDE (6) [noun] A man, generally a younger man. | [noun] (used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning him or offering him advice. | [noun] An inexperienced cowboy. DUDS (6) [noun] A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile. | [noun] A failure of any kind. | [noun] Clothes, now always used in plural form duds. DUEL (5) [noun] Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor. | [noun] Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat) | [noun] Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas. DUES (5) [noun] Deserved acknowledgment. | [noun] (in plural dues) A membership fee. | [noun] That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty. DUET (5) [noun] A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble). | [noun] A song composed for and/or performed by a duo. | [noun] A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant. DUFF (11) [noun] Dough. | [noun] A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed. | [noun] A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums. | [noun] Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor. | [noun] The buttocks. | [verb] To disguise something to make it look new. | [noun] A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East. DUGS (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts. DUIT (5) DUKE (9) [noun] The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess). | [noun] The sovereign of a small state. | [noun] A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom. DULL (5) [verb] To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. | [verb] To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy. | [verb] To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. DULY (8) [adverb] In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it ought to be; properly. | [adverb] Regularly; at the proper time. DUMA (7) [noun] A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament). | [noun] A drink mixing wine and vodka. DUMB (9) [adjective] Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind"). | [adjective] Silent; unaccompanied by words. | [adjective] (especially of a person) Extremely stupid. | [verb] To silence. DUMP (9) [noun] A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. | [noun] A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. | [noun] That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. | [noun] A thick, ill-shapen piece. | [noun] A deep hole in a river bed; a pool. DUNE (5) [noun] A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind. DUNG (6) [noun] Manure; animal excrement. | [noun] A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. | [verb] To fertilize with dung. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out. DUNK (9) DUNS (5) [noun] A brownish grey colour. | [noun] A collector of debts. | [noun] An urgent request or demand of payment. DUNT (5) [noun] A stroke; a dull-sounding blow. | [verb] To strike; give a blow to; knock. | [noun] The disease gid or sturdy in sheep. DUOS (5) [noun] Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together. | [noun] Any pair of two people. | [noun] Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur. DUPE (7) [noun] A person who has been deceived. | [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [noun] A duplicate of a photographic image. DUPS (7) 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). DURE (5) DURN (5) [adjective] Darn; damn. | [adverb] Darn; damned; extremely. | [interjection] Darn; damn | [verb] Rhoticized pronunciation of doing. | [noun] A secret; secrecy. DURO (5) DURR (5) DUSK (9) [noun] A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight. | [noun] A darkish colour. | [verb] To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk. DUST (5) [noun] Fine particles | [noun] The act of cleaning by dusting. | [noun] The earth, as the resting place of the dead. DUTY (8) [noun] That which one is morally or legally obligated to do. | [noun] The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task. | [noun] A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff. 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. DYED (9) [verb] To colour with dye, or as if with dye. | [adjective] Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith. DYER (8) [noun] One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation. DYES (8) [noun] A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied. | [noun] Any hue, color, or blee. | [verb] To colour with dye, or as if with dye. DYKE (12) [noun] (usually derogatory) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior. DYNE (8) [noun] A unit of force in the CGS system; the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram by one centimetre per second per second. Symbol: dyn. EDDO (6) [noun] A plant (Colocasia esculenta, but often identified as Colocasia antiquorum, among numerous other synonyms), which is usually considered a variety of C. esculenta, with edible starchy tubers. | [noun] The tubers of this plant. EDDY (9) [noun] A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current. | [noun] A circular current; a whirlpool. | [verb] To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle. EDGE (6) [noun] The boundary line of a surface. | [noun] A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet. | [noun] An advantage. EDGY (9) [adjective] Nervous, apprehensive. | [adjective] (entertainment) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge. | [adjective] (entertainment) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué. EDHS (8) [noun] A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language. EDIT (5) [noun] A change to the text of a document. | [noun] A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software. | [noun] An interruption or change to an improvised scene. EGAD (6) [interjection] A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc. EIDE (5) EKED (9) [verb] Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen. ELDS (5) EMYD (10) ENDS (5) [noun] The terminal point of something in space or time. | [noun] (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. | [noun] (by extension) Death. EYED (8) [verb] To observe carefully or appraisingly. | [verb] To appear; to look. | [adjective] Having eyes. 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. 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. FEDS (8) [noun] A federal government officer or official, especially FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, and DEA agents. | [noun] A police officer. | [noun] A “federation” in which powerlifters organize to compete. FEED (8) [noun] Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals. | [noun] Something supplied continuously. | [noun] The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon. | [verb] To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. FEND (8) [noun] Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being. | [verb] To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being. | [verb] (except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off). | [noun] An enemy; fiend; the Devil. FEOD (8) FEUD (8) [noun] A state of long-standing mutual hostility. | [noun] A staged rivalry between wrestlers. | [noun] A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. | [noun] An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service. FIDO (8) [noun] A coin that is defective, having been incorrectly minted, often prized by collectors. FIDS (8) [noun] A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike. | [noun] A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship). | [noun] A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun. FIND (8) [noun] Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent. | [noun] The act of finding. | [verb] To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. FLED (8) [verb] To run away; to escape. | [verb] To escape from. | [verb] To disappear quickly; to vanish. FOLD (8) [noun] An act of folding. | [noun] A bend or crease. | [noun] Any correct move in origami. | [noun] A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals. | [noun] The Earth; earth; land, country. FOND (8) [verb] To have a foolish affection for, to be fond of. | [verb] To caress; to fondle. | [adjective] (chiefly with of) Having a liking or affection (for). | [noun] The background design in lace-making. FOOD (8) [noun] Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. | [noun] A foodstuff. | [noun] Anything that nourishes or sustains. FORD (8) [noun] A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing. | [noun] A stream; a current. | [verb] To cross a stream using a ford. FUDS (8) FUND (8) [noun] A sum or source of money. | [noun] An organization managing such money. | [noun] A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund. 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) GAUD (6) [noun] A cheap showy trinket | [noun] Trick; jest; sport | [noun] Deceit; fraud; artifice | [verb] To sport or keep festival. GEDS (6) [noun] The pike or luce. | [noun] A greedy person GEED (6) [verb] Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right. | [verb] To cause an animal to move in this way. | [verb] To agree; to harmonize. GELD (6) [noun] Money. | [noun] A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant. | [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). GIDS (6) GIED (6) GILD (6) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. | [noun] A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages. GIRD (6) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. | [noun] A sarcastic remark. GLAD (6) [verb] To make glad | [adjective] Pleased, happy, gratified. | [adjective] Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness. GLED (6) 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. GODS (6) [noun] A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe. | [noun] A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed. | [noun] An idol. | [noun] The occupants of the gallery of a theatre. | [verb] To idolize. GOLD (6) [noun] A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au. | [noun] A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so. | [noun] A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold. | [adjective] (of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing. GOOD (6) [adjective] (of people) | [adjective] (of capabilities) | [adjective] (properties and qualities) | [adverb] Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly. | [noun] The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence. | [verb] To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve. | [verb] To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise. GOWD (9) 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. GRID (6) [noun] A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle. | [noun] A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire. | [noun] A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters). GUDE (6) GUID (6) 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) 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: 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. 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. HEED (8) [noun] Careful attention. | [verb] To guard, protect. | [verb] To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. HELD (8) [verb] To grasp or grip. | [verb] To contain or store. | [verb] (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state. HERD (8) [noun] A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. | [noun] Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. | [noun] (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. | [noun] Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman. HIDE (8) [verb] To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. | [verb] To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight. | [noun] The skin of an animal. | [noun] A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents. HIED (8) [verb] To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. | [verb] To hurry (oneself). HIND (8) [adjective] Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts). | [noun] A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old. | [noun] A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus. | [noun] A servant, especially an agricultural labourer. HODS (8) [noun] A three-sided box for carrying bricks or other construction materials, often mortar. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder. | [noun] A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one designed to facilitate loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox. | [noun] A pewterer's blowpipe. HOED (8) [verb] To care, be anxious, long. | [verb] To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool. | [verb] To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe. HOLD (8) [noun] A grasp or grip. | [noun] An act or instance of holding. | [noun] A place where animals are held for safety | [noun] The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold). | [adjective] Gracious; friendly; faithful; true. HOOD (8) [noun] A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak. | [noun] A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree. | [noun] An enclosure that protects something, especially from above. | [noun] Gangster, thug. | [noun] Neighborhood. | [noun] Person wearing a hoodie. HUED (8) [adjective] Coloured; having a hue. ICED (7) [adjective] With ice added. | [adjective] Very cold, but not necessarily containing ice. | [adjective] Covered with icing. | [verb] To cool with ice, as a beverage. 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. IDEM (7) [pronoun] The same. IDES (5) [noun] (often capitalized) The notional full-moon day of a Roman month, occurring on the 15th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 13th day of all other months. | [noun] A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus. IDLE (5) [noun] An idle animation. | [noun] An idle game. | [verb] To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume. IDLY (8) [adverb] In an idle manner. | [adverb] Without specific purpose, intent or effort. IDOL (5) [noun] A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power. | [noun] A cultural icon, or especially popular person. | [noun] (originally Japan) Popular entertainer; usually young, captivating, attractive; and often female, with an image of being close to fans. IDYL (8) [noun] Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls. | [noun] An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience. | [noun] A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner. IMID (7) IRED (5) IRID (5) 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. JEED (12) JUDO (12) [noun] A Japanese martial art and sport adapted from jujutsu. KADI (9) [noun] A civil judge in certain Islamic countries. KIDS (9) [noun] A young goat. | [noun] Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid. | [noun] Kidskin. KIND (9) [noun] A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together. | [noun] A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen. | [noun] One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition. | [adjective] Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others. KUDO (9) KUDU (9) [noun] A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (the lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (the greater kudu). 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. 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. 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 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. LAUD (5) [noun] Praise or glorification. | [noun] Hymn of praise. | [noun] (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins. 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 LEND (5) [noun] The lumbar region; loin. | [noun] (of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks. | [verb] To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned. LEUD (5) LEWD (8) [verb] To get high on quaalude. | [verb] To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner. | [adjective] Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude. LIDO (5) [noun] Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities. | [noun] An outdoor swimming pool. LIDS (5) [noun] A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye. | [noun] The top or cover of a container. | [noun] A cap or hat. LIED (5) [noun] An art song, sung in German and accompanied on the piano. | [verb] To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive. | [verb] To convey a false image or impression. 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. LODE (5) [noun] A way or path; a road. | [noun] A watercourse. | [noun] A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure. LORD (5) [noun] The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor | [noun] One possessing similar mastery over others; any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron) | [noun] One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~) LOUD (5) [noun] A loud sound or part of a sound. | [noun] High-quality marijuana. | [adjective] (of a sound) Of great intensity. | [adverb] Loudly. LUDE (5) 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. 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. MAUD (7) [noun] A grey plaid once worn by shepherds in Scotland and Northumbria. 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. MEED (7) [noun] A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award. | [noun] A gift; bribe. | [noun] Merit or desert; worth. | [verb] To reward; bribe. MELD (7) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [noun] A combination of cards which is melded. | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. MEND (7) [noun] A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending. | [noun] The act of repairing. | [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. MIDI (7) [noun] A native or inhabitant of Berlin. | [noun] A doughnut with a sweet filling. | [noun] A newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 315 by 470 millimetres (12.4 in × 18.5 inches), slightly taller and wider than a tabloid but narrower and shorter than a broadsheet. MIDS (7) MILD (7) [noun] A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale | [adjective] Gentle and not easily angered. | [adjective] (of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict. MIND (7) [noun] The ability for rational thought. | [noun] The ability to be aware of things. | [noun] The ability to remember things. MODE (7) [noun] One of several ancient Greek scales. | [noun] One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale. | [noun] A particular means of accomplishing something. | [noun] Style or fashion; popular trend. MODI (7) MODS (7) [noun] An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses. | [noun] A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker. | [noun] A modification. MOLD (7) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. | [noun] A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air. | [noun] Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting. MOOD (7) [noun] A mental or emotional state, composure. | [noun] Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art). | [noun] A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood. | [noun] (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality. MUDS (7) [noun] A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment. | [noun] A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall. | [noun] (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured. NADA (5) [pronoun] Nothing. 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. NEED (5) [noun] A requirement for something; something needed. | [noun] Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. | [verb] To have an absolute requirement for. NERD (5) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. | [noun] An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork. NIDE (5) [noun] A nest of pheasants. NIDI (5) [noun] An aggregate of neurons. | [noun] A nest for insects or small animals. | [noun] A place of infection in an organism. NODE (5) [noun] A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling. | [noun] The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋. | [noun] A leaf node. NODI (5) [noun] A difficulty. | [noun] In the Odonata, a prominent crossvein near the centre of the leading edge of a wing. NODS (5) [verb] To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement. | [verb] To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting. | [verb] To sway, move up and down. NUDE (5) [noun] A painting, sculpture, photograph or other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress. | [noun] (with article, "the nude") The state of total nudity. | [noun] A color that resembles or evokes bare flesh; a paint, dye, etc. of such color. NURD (5) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. | [noun] An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork. ODDS (6) [noun] (diminutive) An odd number. | [noun] Something left over, not forming part of a set. | [noun] The ratio of the probability of an event happening to that of it not happening. ODEA (5) [noun] An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry. | [noun] A theatre or concert hall. ODES (5) [noun] A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. ODIC (7) ODOR (5) [noun] Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive. | [noun] A strong, pervasive quality. | [noun] Esteem. ODYL (8) OHED (8) OLDS (5) [noun] Parents | [noun] Information that is no longer new. OLDY (8) OPED (7) [verb] To open. ORAD (5) ORDO (5) OUDS (5) [noun] A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin. | [noun] (perfume) Agarwood. OWED (8) [verb] To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone. | [verb] To have debt; to be in debt. | [adjective] That owes. OXID (12) 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. 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. PARD (7) [noun] A leopard; a panther. | [noun] Partner; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation PEDS (7) [noun] Pediatric medicine, pediatric nursing, and so on; a medical or other specialty dealing with child patients. PEED (7) [verb] To urinate. | [verb] (mildly vulgar) To drizzle. PEND (7) PIED (7) [adjective] Having two or more colors, especially black and white. | [adjective] Decorated or colored in blotches. | [verb] To spill or mix printing type. | [verb] To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing). PLED (7) [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. PLOD (7) [noun] A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity. | [verb] To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over). | [verb] To trudge over or through. | [noun] A puddle. | [noun] (mildly, usually with "the") the police, police officers PODS (7) [noun] A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod. | [noun] A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations. | [noun] A bag; a pouch. POND (7) [noun] An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake. | [noun] An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river. | [noun] The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond. | [verb] To ponder. POOD (7) PROD (7) [noun] A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving. | [noun] A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument. | [noun] A poke. | [noun] A production. PUDS (7) [noun] An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds). | [noun] A Russian unit of mass used for kettlebells, now rounded off to 16 kg (about 35.274 pounds). | [noun] Pudding (either sweet or savoury). QAID (14) 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. QUID (14) [noun] The inherent nature of something. | [noun] A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid). | [noun] A sovereign or guinea. | [noun] A piece of chewing tobacco. QUOD (14) [noun] A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison. | [noun] Confinement in a prison. 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. 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. 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. 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. REDD (6) [verb] To free from entanglement. | [verb] To free from embarrassment. | [verb] To fix boundaries. | [verb] To clean, tidy up, to put in order. | [noun] A spawning nest made by a fish. | [verb] To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. REDE (5) [noun] Help, advice, counsel. | [noun] Decision, a plan. | [verb] To govern, protect. REDO (5) [noun] A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc. | [verb] To do again. REDS (5) [noun] Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc. | [noun] A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. | [noun] One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours. REED (5) [noun] Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water. | [noun] The hollow stem of these plants. | [noun] Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it. | [verb] To thatch. | [verb] To become extremely excited; fly into a rage. | [noun] The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. REND (5) [noun] A violent separation of parts. | [verb] To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst | [verb] To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate. RIDE (5) [noun] An instance of riding. | [noun] A vehicle. | [noun] An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. RIDS (5) [verb] To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance. | [verb] To banish. | [verb] To kill. RIND (5) [noun] Tree bark | [noun] A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc | [noun] (usually "the") The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind" | [noun] An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill. 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. RODE (5) [verb] To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. | [verb] To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. | [verb] (chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. | [noun] The line from a vessel to its anchor. | [noun] A raid; an incursion. RODS (5) [noun] A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff. | [noun] A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent. | [noun] A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod. ROOD (5) [noun] A crucifix, cross, especially in a church. | [noun] A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre. | [noun] A measure of five and a half yards in length. RUDD (6) [noun] Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius RUDE (5) [adjective] Bad-mannered. | [adjective] Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive. | [adjective] Tough, robust. RUED (5) [verb] To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. | [verb] To cause to feel sorrow or pity. | [verb] To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place. RYND (8) SADE (5) SADI (5) SAID (5) [adjective] Mentioned earlier; aforesaid. | [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. 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. 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). SCAD (7) [noun] Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic. | [noun] (in the plural) A large number or quantity. SCUD (7) [noun] The act of scudding. | [noun] Clouds or rain driven by the wind. | [noun] A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer. SEED (5) [noun] A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant. | [noun] Any small seed-like fruit. | [noun] Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. | [verb] (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight. SEND (5) [noun] The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement. | [noun] An operation in which data is transmitted. | [noun] A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride. 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). SHED (8) [verb] To part, separate or divide. | [verb] To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of. | [verb] To pour; to make flow. | [noun] An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven. | [noun] A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut. SHOD (8) [adjective] Wearing shoes. | [adjective] Having tires equipped. | [verb] To put shoes on one's feet. SIDE (5) [noun] A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape. | [noun] A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face. | [noun] One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone. | [verb] To clear, tidy or sort. SILD (5) [noun] Any young herring (other than a sprat), especially if canned and processed in Scandinavia for sale as a sardine. SKID (9) [noun] An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car. | [noun] A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan. | [noun] (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose. | [noun] A stepchild. SLED (5) [noun] A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.) | [noun] A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger) | [noun] A snowmobile. SLID (5) [verb] To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface | [verb] To move on a low-friction surface. | [verb] To drop down and skid into a base. SNED (5) [verb] To lop. SODA (5) [noun] Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda). | [noun] Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda). | [noun] Sodium in chemical combination. SODS (5) [verb] To cover with sod. | [noun] Sodomite; bugger. | [noun] (mildly pejorative, formerly considered vulgar) A person, usually male; often qualified with an adjective. SOLD (5) [verb] (ditransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money. | [verb] To be sold. | [verb] To promote a product or service. | [noun] Salary; military pay SORD (5) [noun] A flock of mallards | [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. | [noun] An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. SPED (7) [verb] To succeed; to prosper, be lucky. | [verb] To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour. | [verb] To go fast. SPUD (7) [noun] A potato. | [noun] A hole in a sock. | [noun] A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends. STUD (5) [noun] A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding. | [noun] A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding. | [noun] (also by extension) A group of such animals. | [noun] A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob. | [noun] A person who studies or learns about a particular subject. SUDD (6) [noun] (Central Africa) A floating mass of plant matter, such as reeds, which obstructs the passage of boats. SUDS (5) [noun] Lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water. | [noun] Beer | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds. SUED (5) [verb] To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action. | [verb] To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. | [verb] (of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.). SURD (5) [noun] An irrational number, especially one expressed using the √ symbol. | [noun] A voiceless consonant. | [adjective] Lacking the sense of hearing; deaf. TADS (5) [noun] A small amount; a little bit. | [noun] A street boy; an urchin. TEDS (5) [noun] A teddy boy. | [verb] To spread hay for drying. TEED (5) [verb] To draw; lead. | [verb] To draw away; go; proceed. | [verb] To place a ball on a tee TEND (5) [verb] (Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender. | [verb] (followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. | [verb] To contribute to or toward some outcome. | [verb] (with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.) | [verb] To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn. THUD (8) [noun] The sound of a dull impact. | [noun] Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter. | [verb] To make the sound of a dull impact. TIDE (5) [noun] The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon. | [noun] A stream, current or flood. | [noun] (chronology, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast. | [verb] To happen, occur. TIDY (8) [noun] A tabletop container for pens and stationery. | [noun] A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc. | [noun] A child's pinafore. TIED (5) [verb] To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely. | [verb] To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like. | [verb] To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like. 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. TODS (5) [noun] A fox. | [noun] Someone like a fox; a crafty person. | [noun] A bush, especially of ivy. TODY (8) [noun] Any of the genus Todus of small insectivorous Caribbean birds. TOED (5) [adjective] (chiefly in combination) Having (a specified number or type of) toes. | [verb] To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe. | [verb] To touch, tap or kick with the toes. TOLD (5) [verb] (archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate. | [verb] To narrate. | [verb] To convey by speech; to say. TRAD (5) [noun] Traditional climbing. | [noun] Irish traditional music | [noun] A traditionalist. TROD (5) [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. | [verb] To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread | [noun] A track or pathway. TURD (5) [noun] (mildly) A piece of solid animal or human feces. | [noun] A worthless person or thing. UDOS (5) UNDE (5) UNDO (5) [noun] An operation that reverses a previous action. | [verb] To reverse the effects of an action. | [verb] To unfasten. UNDY (8) [adjective] Waving or wavy; applied to ordinaries, or division lines. UPDO (7) [noun] A woman's hairdo in which most hair is kept above the neck URDS (5) USED (5) [verb] To utilize or employ. | [verb] To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.) | [verb] (except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.) VELD (8) [noun] The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries. VEND (8) [noun] The act of vending or selling; a sale. | [noun] The total sales of coal from a colliery. | [verb] To hawk or to peddle merchandise. | [noun] The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y. VIDE (8) [verb] Divide (separate into parts, cleave asunder) | [verb] (Parliamentary jargon) Divide (ordering the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups (the ayes and the nays) for the counting of the members’ votes) | [verb] See; consult; refer to. A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis. VIED (8) [verb] To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something. | [verb] To rival (something), etc. | [verb] To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy. VOID (8) [noun] An empty space; a vacuum. | [noun] An extended region of space containing no galaxies | [noun] A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice. | [noun] A voidee. 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. 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. 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. WEDS (8) [verb] To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony. | [verb] To take as one's spouse. | [verb] To take a spouse. WEED (8) [noun] Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing. | [noun] Short for duckweed. | [noun] Underbrush; low shrubs. | [verb] To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area. | [noun] A garment or piece of clothing. | [noun] A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted. | [verb] To urinate. WELD (8) [noun] A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye. | [noun] The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant. | [noun] The joint made by welding. | [verb] To wield. WEND (8) [noun] A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit. | [verb] To turn; change. | [verb] To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way. WHID (11) WIDE (8) [noun] A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score | [adjective] Having a large physical extent from side to side. | [adjective] Large in scope. WILD (8) [noun] The undomesticated state of a wild animal | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) a wilderness | [verb] To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang. | [noun] A wood or forest WIND (8) [noun] Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure. | [noun] Air artificially put in motion by any force or action. | [noun] The ability to breathe easily. | [noun] The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist. WOAD (8) [noun] The plant Isatis tinctoria. | [noun] The blue dye made from the leaves of the plant. | [verb] To plant or cultivate woad. WOLD (8) [noun] An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor. | [noun] A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland. | [adjective] Old. WOOD (8) [noun] The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel. | [noun] The wood of a particular species of tree. | [noun] A forested or wooded area. | [adjective] Mad, insane, crazed. | [noun] (sometimes offensive, of a person) A peckerwood. WORD (8) [noun] The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) | [noun] Something like such a unit of language: | [noun] The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. . | [verb] (except in set phrases) To be, become, betide. WYND (11) [noun] A narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses. | [noun] A stack of hay. YALD (8) 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. YAUD (8) YELD (8) YIDS (8) [noun] (among Jews) a Jew | [noun] A Jew | [noun] A supporter or club member of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. YIRD (8) YODH (11) YODS (8) [noun] A palatal approximant, /j/. | [noun] The tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | [noun] A tool used to read a torah. YOND (8) [adjective] Further; more distant | [adjective] Yonder | [adverb] Yonder | [adjective] Furious; mad; angry; fierce. ZEDS (14) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter Z. | [noun] (in combination) Something Z-shaped. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Sleep.

AAHED (9) 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. 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. 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. 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. ACNED (8) ACOLD (8) [adjective] Chilled or cold; affected by cold. | [adverb] In a cold manner; coldly. ACRED (8) [adjective] Having acres; measured or valued in acres. 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. 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. AEDES (6) [noun] A genus of mosquitoes that includes species responsible for transmitting dengue fever and yellow fever. 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. 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 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. ALAND (6) 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 ALGID (7) 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. ALLOD (6) [noun] Allodium ALMUD (8) ALOUD (6) [adjective] Spoken out loud. | [adverb] With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly. | [adverb] Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly. AMEND (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation. | [verb] To make better; improve. | [verb] To become better. 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. 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. 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. APHID (11) [noun] Sapsucking pest insect of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian. APODS (8) 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. 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. 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. AROID (6) [noun] Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics. 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. 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). 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 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 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. AWNED (9) [adjective] Having awns; furnished with awns (bristle-like appendages on grain or grass). AXLED (13) [adjective] Having an axle or axles; equipped with an axle. 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. BAAED (8) [verb] To make the characteristic cry of a sheep. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. BEDEL (8) [noun] An administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students. BEDEW (11) [verb] To make wet with or as if with dew. BEDIM (10) [verb] To make dim; to obscure or darken. BENDS (8) [noun] A curve. | [noun] Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines. | [noun] (in the plural, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness. BENDY (11) [noun] A field divided diagonally into several bends, varying in metal and colour. | [noun] A bendy bus. | [adjective] Having the ability to be bent easily. BIDDY (12) [noun] A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody. | [noun] An attractive girl. | [noun] An Irish maidservant. | [noun] (often in the plural) bitch, girl, woman, especially one that is promiscuous BIDED (9) [verb] To bear; to endure; to tolerate. | [verb] To dwell or reside in a location; to abide. | [verb] To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain. BIDER (8) [noun] One who bides; a person who waits or remains in a place. | [noun] In Scottish usage, a resident or inhabitant. BIDES (8) [verb] To bear; to endure; to tolerate. | [verb] To dwell or reside in a location; to abide. | [verb] To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain. BIDET (8) [noun] A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus. | [noun] A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. BIELD (8) [noun] Shelter or protection from wind or weather. | [verb] To shelter or protect from the elements. BIFID (11) [adjective] Cleft; divided into two lobes. BIKED (12) [verb] To ride a bike. | [verb] To travel by bike. | [verb] To transport by bicycle BINDI (8) [noun] The “holy dot” traditionally worn on the forehead of married Hindu women. | [noun] Makeup or jewellery worn in imitation of such a dot. | [noun] The common lawn weed, Soliva sessilis, introduced to Australia from South America. BINDS (8) [noun] That which binds or ties. | [noun] A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary. | [noun] Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine. BIPED (10) [noun] An animal, being or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs). BIPOD (10) [noun] A two-legged stand. BIRDS (8) [noun] A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs. | [noun] A man, fellow. | [noun] A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive. 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. 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. BLEED (8) [noun] An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia. | [noun] A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet). | [noun] (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended. BLEND (8) [noun] A mixture of two or more things. | [noun] A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word. | [verb] To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. BLIND (8) [noun] A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass. | [noun] A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc. | [noun] Any device intended to conceal or hide. BLOND (8) [noun] A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color. | [noun] A person with this hair color. | [verb] To color or dye blond BLOOD (8) [noun] A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods. | [noun] A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow. | [noun] A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood). BLUED (8) [verb] To make or become blue. | [verb] To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust. | [verb] (laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid) 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. BODED (9) [verb] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell. | [verb] (followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future. BODES (8) [noun] An omen; a foreshadowing. | [verb] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell. | [verb] (followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future. BOLDS (8) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "bold," meaning to make something bold or to embolden. | [noun] Plural of "bold," referring to typeface styling that is darker and thicker than regular text. BONDS (8) [noun] Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds. | [noun] A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture. | [noun] A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond. BONED (8) [verb] To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. | [verb] To fertilize with bone. | [verb] To put whalebone into. BOOED (8) [verb] To shout extended boos derisively. | [verb] To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision. BORED (8) [verb] To inspire boredom in somebody. | [verb] To make a hole through something. | [verb] To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool. BOUND (8) [verb] To tie; to confine by any ligature. | [verb] To cohere or stick together in a mass. | [verb] To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. | [adjective] Ready, prepared. | [noun] (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory. | [verb] To surround a territory or other geographical entity. | [noun] A sizeable jump, great leap. BOVID (11) [noun] An animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, gazelle, goat, and sheep). BOWED (11) [verb] To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow. | [verb] To become bent or curved. | [verb] To make something bend or curve. | [verb] To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow. BOXED (15) [verb] To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. | [verb] Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in. | [verb] To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical. 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. 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. 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. 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. BREDE (8) [noun] A broad piece of cloth or embroidery. | [noun] Breadth or width. BREED (8) [noun] All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies. | [noun] A race or lineage; offspring or issue. | [noun] A group of people with shared characteristics. BRIDE (8) [noun] A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married. | [noun] An object ardently loved. | [verb] To make a bride of | [noun] An individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework 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. BROOD (8) [noun] The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. | [noun] The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. | [noun] The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony. BUDDY (12) [noun] A friend or casual acquaintance. | [noun] A partner for a particular activity. | [noun] An informal and friendly address to a stranger; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know. | [adjective] Resembling a bud. BUDGE (9) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. | [noun] A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits. BUILD (8) [noun] The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body. | [noun] Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users. | [noun] Any structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, created by the player. BUNDS (8) [verb] To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within. BUNDT (8) [noun] A baking pan with a hollow, circular, raised area in the middle. BURDS (8) BUSED (8) [verb] To transport via a motor bus. | [verb] To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. | [verb] To travel by bus. 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. 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. CAIDS (8) CAIRD (8) [noun] A person of low social status or a beggar, particularly in Scotland. | [noun] A tinker or traveling mender in Scotland. 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. 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. CANID (8) [noun] Any member of the family Canidae, including dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes and jackals. CAPED (10) [adjective] Wearing a cape or capes. | [adjective] (in compounds) Wearing a cape of a specified kind. | [adjective] Cancelled 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. 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. CAULD (8) [noun] A cauldron or large pot, especially one used for cooking or heating water. | [adjective] Cold (Scottish dialect). CAVED (11) [verb] To surrender. | [verb] To collapse. | [verb] To hollow out or undermine. CAWED (11) [verb] To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven. CEBID (10) [noun] Any member of the Cebidae. 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. CEDED (9) [verb] To give up; yield to another. | [verb] To give way. CEDER (8) [noun] One who cedes or yields something, especially territory or rights. CEDES (8) [verb] To give up; yield to another. | [verb] To give way. CEDIS (8) [noun] The currency of Ghana, divided into 100 pesewas and represented by ₵. CERED (8) [verb] Past tense of "cere," meaning to wrap in a cerecloth or to cover with wax. 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. CHARD (11) [noun] An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste. | [noun] Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat. CHIDE (11) [verb] To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily. | [verb] To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. | [verb] To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. CHILD (11) [noun] A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority) | [noun] (specifically) A female child, a girl. | [noun] (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; a son or daughter. | [verb] To give birth; to beget or procreate. CHORD (11) [noun] A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. | [noun] A straight line between two points of a curve. | [noun] A horizontal member of a truss. CIDER (8) [noun] An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples; hard cider; apple cider | [noun] A non-alcoholic still beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; apple cider; sweet cider (without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice). | [noun] A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples. CITED (8) [verb] To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another. | [verb] To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context. | [verb] To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court. 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) CLODS (8) [noun] A lump of something, especially of earth or clay. | [noun] The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf. | [noun] A stupid person; a dolt. CLOUD (8) [noun] A rock; boulder; a hill. | [noun] A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. | [noun] Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass. CLUED (8) [verb] To provide with a clue. | [verb] To provide someone with information which he or she lacks (often used with "in" or "up"). 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. CODEC (10) [noun] A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal. CODED (9) [verb] To write software programs. | [verb] To add codes to a dataset. | [verb] To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes. CODEN (8) CODER (8) [noun] A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses. | [noun] A person who assigns codes or classifications. | [noun] A programmer. CODES (8) [noun] A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents. | [noun] A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest. | [noun] Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject. CODEX (15) [noun] An early manuscript book. | [noun] A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll. | [noun] An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients. CODON (8) [noun] A handbell used for summoning monks. | [noun] The "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet. | [noun] A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation. COEDS (8) [noun] A young woman who attends college. | [noun] A (generally young) woman, especially on the campus of a college or other educational institute. COKED (12) [verb] To produce coke from coal. | [verb] To turn into coke. | [verb] To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion. COLDS (8) [noun] A condition of low temperature. | [noun] (with 'the') A harsh place; a place of abandonment. | [noun] A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever. COLED (8) CONDO (8) [noun] Joint sovereignty over a territory by two or more countries. | [noun] A region or territory under such rule. | [noun] A building in which each unit is owned by an individual but the grounds, structure etc are owned jointly. CONED (8) [verb] To fashion into the shape of a cone. | [verb] To form a cone shape. | [verb] (frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones COOED (8) [verb] To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon. | [verb] To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about. COPED (10) [verb] To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult. | [verb] To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal. | [verb] To clip the beak or talons of a bird. CORDS (8) [noun] A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. | [noun] A straight line between two points of a curve. | [noun] A horizontal member of a truss. | [noun] Corduroys. CORED (8) [verb] To remove the core of an apple or other fruit. | [verb] To extract a sample with a drill. COTED (8) [verb] Past tense of "cote," meaning to pass by or overtake. | [verb] Past tense of "cote," meaning to go along the side of. COUDE (8) [noun] A type of telescope in which light is reflected by mirrors to a fixed eyepiece, allowing the observer to remain stationary while viewing celestial objects. COULD (8) [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. COVED (11) [verb] To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove. | [verb] To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. COWED (11) [verb] (chiefly in the passive voice) To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of. | [adjective] Frightened into submission. COXED (15) [verb] To act as coxswain for. | [adjective] Having a cox COYED (11) CREDO (8) [noun] A belief system. | [noun] The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services. CREED (8) [noun] That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to. | [noun] (specifically) A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive. | [noun] The fact of believing; belief, faith. CRIED (8) [verb] To shed tears; to weep. | [verb] To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly. | [verb] To shout, scream, yell. CROWD (11) [noun] A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. | [noun] Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. | [noun] (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar. | [noun] (now dialectal) A fiddle. CRUDE (8) [noun] Any substance in its natural state. | [noun] Crude oil. | [adjective] In a natural, untreated state. CRUDS (8) [noun] Dirt, filth or refuse. | [noun] (by extension) Something of poor quality. | [noun] A contemptible person. CUBED (10) [verb] To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. | [verb] To form into the shape of a cube. | [verb] To cut into cubes. CUDDY (12) [noun] A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck. | [noun] A small cupboard or closet | [noun] A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer. | [noun] The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius). CUPID (10) [noun] The Roman god of love, typically depicted as a winged boy with a bow and arrows. | [noun] A representation of this god used as a decorative motif. | [noun] A cherub or small angelic figure. CURDS (8) [noun] The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc. | [noun] The coagulated part of any liquid. | [noun] The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants. CURDY (11) [adjective] Resembling or containing curds; having the texture or consistency of curdled milk. CURED (8) [verb] To restore to health. | [verb] To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end. | [verb] To cause to be rid of (a defect). 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. CYDER (11) [noun] An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples; hard cider; apple cider | [noun] A non-alcoholic still beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; apple cider; sweet cider (without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice). | [noun] A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples. DACES (8) 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) 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) DARES (6) [noun] A challenge to prove courage. | [noun] The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. | [noun] Defiance; challenge. DARIC (8) 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) DASHY (12) 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) DATTO (6) 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) 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) 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) 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) DEAIR (6) 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) 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) 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. DEBIT (8) [noun] In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account. | [noun] A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer. | [verb] To make an entry on the debit side of an account. DEBTS (8) [noun] An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another. | [noun] The state or condition of owing something to another. | [noun] Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction. DEBUG (9) [noun] The action, or a session, of reviewing source code to find and eliminate errors. | [verb] To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery. | [verb] To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere). DEBUT (8) [noun] A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area. | [noun] The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece. | [noun] The first appearance of a debutante in society. DEBYE (11) [noun] The CGS unit of electric dipole moment, defined as 1 D = 10-18 statcoulomb-centimetre and computable from the SI unit coulomb-metre by multiplying by the factor 3.33564 × 10-30. 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. DECKS (12) [noun] Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop. | [noun] The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. | [noun] A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane. DECOR (8) [noun] The style of decoration of a room or building. | [noun] A stage setting; scenery; set; backdrop. DECOS (8) DECOY (11) [noun] A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger. | [noun] A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game. | [verb] To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap. DECRY (11) [verb] To denounce as harmful. | [verb] To blame for ills. DEDAL (7) DEEDS (7) [noun] An action or act; something that is done. | [noun] A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit. | [noun] Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation. DEEDY (10) [adjective] Industrious; active. | [adjective] Earnest; serious. DEEMS (8) [noun] An opinion, a judgment, a surmise. | [verb] To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence. | [verb] To adjudge, to decree. DEEPS (8) [noun] (with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc. | [noun] (with "the") A silent time; quiet isolation. | [noun] A deep shade of colour. DEERS (6) DEETS (6) [noun] Details. DEFAT (9) [verb] To remove fat from a material, especially by the use of solvents DEFER (9) [verb] To delay or postpone | [verb] After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half). | [verb] To delay, to wait. | [verb] To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority. DEFIS (9) DEFOG (10) DEGAS (7) [verb] To remove the gas from. DEGUM (9) DEICE (8) DEIFY (12) [verb] To make a god of (something or someone). | [verb] To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity. DEIGN (7) [verb] To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity. | [verb] To condescend to give; to do something. | [verb] To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice. DEILS (6) DEISM (8) [noun] A philosophical belief in the existence of a god (or goddess) knowable through human reason; especially, a belief in a creator god unaccompanied by any belief in supernatural phenomena or specific religious doctrines. | [noun] Belief in a god who ceased to intervene with existence after acting as the cause of the cosmos. DEIST (6) DEITY (9) [noun] A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. | [noun] The state, position, or fact of being a god or God. [from 14th c.] | [noun] A celestial being inferior to a supreme God but superior to man. DEKED (11) [verb] To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery. | [verb] To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports. DEKES (10) [noun] A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman. | [noun] As in hockey, a fake or other move to confuse other players on a team. | [noun] A quick detour. DEKKO (14) [noun] A look; a glance. 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. DELED (7) [verb] (usually imperative) to delete DELES (6) [noun] A sign signifying deletion DELFS (9) DELFT (9) [noun] A style of blue and white earthenware. | [noun] A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch. DELIS (6) [noun] A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving. | [noun] Food sold at a delicatessen. DELLS (6) [noun] A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep. | [noun] A young woman; a wench. DELLY (9) 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. DELVE (9) [verb] To dig the ground, especially with a shovel. | [verb] To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out | [verb] To dig, to excavate. | [noun] A pit or den. DEMES (8) [noun] A township or other subdivision of ancient Attica. | [noun] A distinct local population of plants or animals. DEMIT (8) [noun] The act of demitting. | [noun] A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge. | [verb] To let fall; to depress; to yield. DEMOB (10) [noun] Demobilization; release from military service. | [verb] To demobilize; to release someone from military service. DEMON (8) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. DEMOS (8) [noun] A demonstration or visual explanation. | [noun] A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully. | [noun] An example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount. DEMUR (8) [noun] Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple. | [verb] To linger; to stay; to tarry | [verb] To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. DENES (6) [noun] A valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet | [noun] A sand dune by the seashore DENIM (8) [noun] A textile often made of cotton with a distinct diagonal pattern. DENSE (6) [noun] A thicket. | [adjective] Having relatively high density. | [adjective] Compact; crowded together. DENTS (6) [noun] A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact. | [noun] A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action DEOXY (16) DEPOT (8) [noun] A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse. | [noun] A bus station or railway station. | [noun] A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units. DEPTH (11) [noun] The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep | [noun] The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet | [noun] The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc. DERAT (6) DERAY (9) DERBY (11) [noun] Any of several annual horse races. | [noun] (by extension) Any organized race. | [noun] A bowler hat. DERMA (8) [noun] The inner layer of the skin; the dermis | [noun] A Jewish dish of roast or boiled seasoned meat and flour etc. in a casing, especially kishke DERMS (8) DERRY (9) DESEX (13) [verb] To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often physical sterilization. DESKS (10) [noun] A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath. | [noun] A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession. | [noun] A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news. DETER (6) [verb] To prevent something from happening. | [verb] To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage. | [verb] To distract someone from something. DETOX (13) [noun] Detoxification, especially of the body from alcohol or illegal, addictive drugs. | [noun] A detoxification unit. | [verb] To detoxify, especially from alcohol or recreational drugs. DEUCE (8) [noun] A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards. | [noun] A side of a die with two spots. | [noun] A cast of dice totalling two. | [noun] (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger. DEVAS (9) [noun] A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism. DEVEL (9) DEVIL (9) [noun] An evil creature. | [noun] (with article) The chief devil; Satan. | [noun] A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior. DEVON (9) [noun] (Eastern Australia) A type of processed meat sausage. 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. DEWED (10) [verb] To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten. DEXES (13) [noun] An order or factor of ten. DEXIE (13) DHAKS (13) DHALS (9) DHOBI (11) [noun] A laundryman or washerman, or laundrywoman or washerwoman, in India and Pakistan. DHOLE (9) [noun] An Asian wild dog, Cuon alpinus. DHOTI (9) [noun] A long loincloth worn by Hindu men in India. | [noun] The cotton fabric used for such loincloths. DHOWS (12) [noun] A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail. DHUTI (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. DICED (9) [verb] To play dice. | [verb] To cut into small cubes. | [verb] To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes. DICER (8) DICES (8) [noun] Gaming with one or more dice. | [noun] A die. | [noun] That which has been diced. DICEY (11) [adjective] Fraught with danger. | [adjective] Of uncertain, risky outcome. | [adjective] Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy. DICKS (12) [noun] A male person. | [noun] The penis. | [noun] A highly contemptible person; a jerk. DICKY (15) [noun] A louse. | [noun] Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar. | [noun] A detachable shirt front, collar or bib. | [adjective] Like a dick, foolish or obnoxious DICOT (8) [noun] A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon. 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. DICTY (11) [noun] An upper-class black. | [adjective] Stylish and respectable; high-class | [adjective] Striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious DIDIE (7) DIDOS (7) [noun] A fuss, a row. | [noun] A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper. DIDST (7) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DIENE (6) [noun] An organic compound, especially a hydrocarbon, containing two double bonds. DIETS (6) [noun] The food and beverage a person or animal consumes. | [noun] A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health. | [noun] (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption. DIGHT (10) [verb] To deal with, handle. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To dispose, put (in a given state or condition). DIGIT (7) [noun] A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DIKED (11) [verb] Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc. | [verb] To be well dressed. DIKER (10) DIKES (10) [noun] A well-dressed man. | [noun] Formalwear or other fashionable dress. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior. DIKEY (13) DILDO (7) [noun] An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use. | [noun] An idiot, a bore. | [noun] A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii). | [interjection] A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song. DILLS (6) [noun] Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed. | [noun] A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring | [noun] A fool. DILLY (9) [adjective] Redolent of dill (the herb). | [noun] Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. | [noun] A dilly bag. | [noun] A kind of stagecoach. DIMER (8) [noun] A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two identical molecules, sometimes with a single atom acting as a bridge. DIMES (8) [noun] A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar. | [noun] A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar. | [noun] A small amount of money DIMLY (11) [adverb] In a dim manner. 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. DINED (7) [verb] To eat; to eat dinner or supper. | [verb] To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. | [verb] To dine upon; to have to eat. DINER (6) [noun] One who dines. | [noun] A dining car in a railroad train. | [noun] A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades. DINES (6) [verb] To eat; to eat dinner or supper. | [verb] To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. | [verb] To dine upon; to have to eat. DINGE (7) DINGO (7) [noun] Canis lupus dingo, a wild dog native to Australia. DINGS (7) [noun] Very minor damage, a small dent or chip. | [noun] A rejection. | [verb] To hit or strike. DINGY (10) [adjective] Drab; shabby; dirty; squalid | [noun] A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship. | [noun] An inflatable rubber life raft. DINKS (10) [noun] A soft drop shot. | [noun] A light chip; a chipped pass or shot | [verb] To play a soft drop shot. DINKY (13) [adjective] Tiny and cute; small and attractive. | [adjective] Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable. | [noun] A person in a relationship with double income and no kids DINTS (6) [noun] A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight. | [noun] Force, power; especially in by dint of. | [noun] The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. DIODE (7) [noun] An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier. DIOLS (6) [noun] Any organic compound having two hydroxy functional groups DIPPY (13) [adjective] Lacking common sense. | [adjective] Having romantic feelings for; excited or enthusiastic about. | [adjective] Of an egg: cooked so that the yolk remains runny and can be used for dipping. DIPSO (8) [noun] A dipsomaniac; an alcoholic; a drunk. DIRER (6) [adjective] Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. | [adjective] Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. | [adjective] Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal DIRGE (7) [noun] A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. | [noun] A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring. | [verb] To sing dirges DIRKS (10) [noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. | [noun] (Midwest US) A penis; dork. | [noun] (Midwest US) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. DIRLS (6) DIRTS (6) DIRTY (9) [verb] To make (something) dirty. | [verb] To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor. | [verb] To debase by distorting the real nature of (something). DISCI (8) DISCO (8) [noun] A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights. | [verb] To dance disco-style dances. | [verb] To go to discotheques. DISCS (8) [noun] A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. | [noun] An intervertebral disc. | [noun] Something resembling a disc. DISHY (12) [adjective] Attractive; good-looking; sexy. | [adjective] Tending to relay information and gossip. DISKS (10) [noun] A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. | [noun] Something resembling a disk. | [noun] An intervertebral disc DISME (8) DITAS (6) DITCH (11) [noun] A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. | [verb] To discard or abandon. | [verb] To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. | [noun] Dirt ingrained on the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc. DITES (6) DITSY (9) [adjective] Silly or scatterbrained, usually of a young woman. DITTO (6) [noun] That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise. | [noun] A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator. | [noun] A copy; an imitation. DITTY (9) [noun] A short verse or tune. | [noun] A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated. | [verb] To sing; to warble a little tune. DITZY (18) [adjective] Silly or scatterbrained, usually of a young woman. 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. DIVED (10) [verb] To swim under water. | [verb] To jump into water head-first. | [verb] To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance. DIVER (9) [noun] Someone who dives, especially as a sport. | [noun] Someone who works underwater; a frogman. | [noun] The loon (bird). DIVES (9) [noun] A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature. | [noun] A jump or plunge into water. | [noun] A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance. DIVOT (9) [noun] A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof. | [noun] A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour. DIVVY (15) [noun] A dividend; a share or portion. | [verb] To divide into portions. | [noun] A foolish person. | [adjective] Divine; very pleasant, wonderful. DIWAN (9) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DIXIT (13) DIZEN (15) DIZZY (27) [verb] To make dizzy, to bewilder. | [adjective] Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded. | [adjective] Producing giddiness. DJINN (13) [noun] (Muslim demonology) A genie and descendant of the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form, equivalent to demons in Jewish demonology. DJINS (13) DOATS (6) DOBBY (13) [noun] A device in some looms that allows the weaving of small geometric patterns. | [noun] The patterns so woven, or the fabric containing the patterns. | [noun] An evil or mischievous fairy or ghost sometimes said to haunt a building or household. DOBIE (8) DOBLA (8) DOBRA (8) [noun] The official or principal currency of São Tomé and Príncipe, divided into 100 cêntimos. DOCKS (12) [noun] Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash. | [noun] A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant. | [noun] The fleshy root of an animal's tail. DODGE (8) [noun] An act of dodging. | [noun] A trick, evasion or wile. | [noun] A line of work. DODGY (11) [adjective] Evasive and shifty | [adjective] Unsound and unreliable | [adjective] Dishonest DODOS (7) [noun] A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius. | [noun] A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt. | [noun] Fried plantain. DOERS (6) [noun] Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent. DOEST (6) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DOETH (9) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DOFFS (12) [verb] (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing. | [verb] To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect. | [verb] To get rid of, to throw off. DOGES (7) [noun] The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa. | [noun] A dog. | [noun] Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme. DOGEY (10) DOGGO (8) [noun] A dog. DOGGY (11) [noun] A dog, especially a small one. | [noun] Doggy style | [noun] (armed services) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer. | [adjective] Suggestive of or in the manner of a dog. DOGIE (7) [noun] A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow. 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. DOILY (9) [noun] A small ornamental piece of lace or linen or paper used to protect a surface from scratches by hard objects such as vases or bowls; or to decorate a plate of food. | [noun] An old kind of woollen material. DOING (7) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). | [interjection] The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object. DOITS (6) DOJOS (13) [noun] The ring, made of compacted clay, in which a sumo wrestling match is held. | [noun] A training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a hall or room used for such training. | [noun] (by extension) A room or other facility used for other activities, such as meditation or software development. DOLCE (8) [noun] A soft-toned organ stop. DOLCI (8) DOLED (7) [verb] To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource. DOLES (6) [verb] To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource. DOLLS (6) [noun] A toy in the form of a human. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman | [noun] A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart. DOLLY (9) [noun] A doll. | [noun] A contrivance for stirring: | [noun] A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. | [adjective] Pretty; attractive. | [noun] An offering of fruit or flowers. 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. DOLOR (6) [noun] Sorrow, grief, misery or anguish. | [noun] A unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes. DOLTS (6) [noun] A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard. DOMAL (8) [adjective] Of or relating to a dome. | [adjective] In the shape of a dome. | [adjective] Of or relating to an astrological house. DOMED (9) [adjective] In the form of a dome. DOMES (8) [noun] A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola | [noun] Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover | [noun] Head (uppermost part of one's body) DOMIC (10) DONAS (6) DONEE (6) [noun] Someone who receives a gift from a donor. 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. DONGS (7) [noun] The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫ | [noun] A penis. | [noun] (by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis. DONNA (6) [noun] A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy. DONNE (6) DONOR (6) [noun] One who makes a donation. | [noun] A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor. DONSY (9) DONUT (6) [noun] A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream. | [noun] Anything in the shape of a torus. | [noun] (automobile) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid. DOOLY (9) DOOMS (8) [noun] Destiny, especially terrible. | [noun] An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable. | [noun] A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair. DOOMY (11) [adjective] Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic DOORS (6) [noun] A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key. | [noun] Any flap, etc. that opens like a door. | [noun] (immigration) An entry point. DOOZY (18) [noun] Something that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense. | [adjective] Of high quality; remarkable; excellent. | [adjective] Sporty, ostentatious, flashy. DOPAS (8) DOPED (9) [verb] To affect with drugs. | [verb] To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.). | [verb] To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon). DOPER (8) DOPES (8) [noun] Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface. | [noun] An absorbent material used to hold a liquid. | [noun] Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc. DOPEY (11) [adjective] Stupid, silly. DORKS (10) [noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. | [noun] (Midwest US) A penis; dork. | [noun] (Midwest US) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. DORKY (13) [adjective] Like a dork. DORMS (8) [noun] A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. | [noun] A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities. | [noun] A dormitory town. DORMY (11) [adjective] In match play, leading the match by the same number of holes as remain to be played. DORPS (8) [noun] A village or small town; a town considered provincial. DORRS (6) 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. DORTY (9) DOSED (7) DOSER (6) DOSES (6) DOTAL (6) DOTED (7) [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. | [verb] To act in a foolish manner; to be senile. | [adjective] Stupid; foolish DOTER (6) DOTES (6) [noun] A darling, a cutie. | [noun] An imbecile; a dotard. | [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. DOTTY (9) [adjective] Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile. | [adjective] Having an unsteady gait. | [noun] A shotgun. DOUBT (8) [noun] Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty. | [noun] A point of uncertainty; a query. | [verb] To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question. DOUCE (8) [adjective] Sweet; nice; pleasant. | [adjective] Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober. DOUGH (10) [noun] A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. | [noun] Money. | [verb] To make into dough. DOUMA (8) DOUMS (8) DOURA (6) DOUSE (6) [noun] A sudden plunging into water. | [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [noun] A blow or stroke, especially to the face. DOVEN (9) DOVES (9) [noun] A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae. | [noun] A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict. | [noun] Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. DOWDY (13) [noun] A plain or shabby person | [adjective] Plain and unfashionable in style or dress. | [adjective] Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby. DOWED (10) DOWEL (9) [noun] A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position. | [noun] A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from. | [noun] A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it. DOWER (9) [noun] The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate. | [noun] Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry. | [noun] That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift. DOWIE (9) DOWNS (9) [noun] A negative aspect; a downer. | [noun] A grudge (on someone). | [noun] An act of swallowing an entire drink at once. DOWNY (12) [adjective] Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair. | [adjective] Sharp-witted, perceptive. | [noun] A blanket filled with down; a duvet. DOWRY (12) [noun] Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. | [noun] Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price. | [noun] Dower. DOWSE (9) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. | [noun] A sudden plunging into water. | [verb] To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc. DOXIE (13) DOYEN (9) [noun] A commander in charge of ten men. | [noun] The senior, or eldest male member of a group. | [noun] A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement. DOYLY (12) DOZED (16) [verb] To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. | [verb] To make dull; to stupefy. | [verb] To bulldoze. DOZEN (15) [noun] A set of twelve. | [noun] (as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many. | [noun] An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight. DOZER (15) [noun] One who dozes. | [noun] A bulldozer. DOZES (15) [noun] A light, short sleep or nap. | [verb] To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. | [verb] To make dull; to stupefy. 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. DRECK (12) [noun] Trash; worthless merchandise. DREED (7) [verb] (North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo. | [verb] (North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue. DREES (6) [verb] (North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo. | [verb] (North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue. DREGS (7) [noun] (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine. | [noun] (the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something. DREKS (10) DRESS (6) [noun] An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist. | [noun] Apparel, clothing. | [noun] The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. DREST (6) DRIBS (8) DRIED (7) [adjective] Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been wet or moist; resulting from the process of drying. | [adjective] Usually of foods: cured, preserved by drying. | [adjective] Sold raw and unprocessed. DRIER (6) [noun] One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative. | [noun] A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion. | [noun] An electric hair dryer. | [adjective] Free from or lacking moisture. DRIES (6) [noun] The process by which something is dried. | [noun] A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages). | [noun] (with "the") The dry season. DRIFT (9) [noun] (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved. | [noun] The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. | [noun] A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side. DRILL (6) [noun] A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece. | [noun] The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit. | [noun] An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence. | [noun] An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. | [noun] A small trickling stream; a rill. | [verb] To entice or allure; to decoy; with on. | [noun] An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face. | [noun] A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave. DRILY (9) [adverb] In a dry manner DRINK (10) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. | [noun] A beverage. DRIPS (8) [noun] A drop of a liquid. | [noun] A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. | [noun] An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream. DRIPT (8) DRIVE (9) [noun] Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition. | [noun] Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business. | [noun] An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc. DROIT (6) DROLL (6) [noun] A funny person; a buffoon, a wag. | [verb] To jest, to joke. | [adjective] Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish. DRONE (6) [noun] A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee. | [noun] Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler. | [noun] One who performs menial or tedious work. | [noun] A low-pitched hum or buzz. DROOL (6) [noun] Saliva trickling from the mouth. | [noun] Stupid talk. | [verb] To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food. DROOP (8) [noun] Something which is limp or sagging | [noun] A condition or posture of drooping | [verb] To hang downward; to sag. DROPS (8) [noun] A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape via surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. | [noun] A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything. | [noun] (now especially with "the") Alcoholic spirits in general. DROPT (8) DROSS (6) [noun] Waste or impure matter. | [noun] Residue that forms on the surface of a metal from oxidation. | [noun] The impurities in metal. DROUK (10) DROVE (9) [noun] A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively). | [noun] (collective) A group of hares. | [verb] To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. DROWN (9) [verb] To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. | [verb] To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. | [verb] To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. DRUBS (8) [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. | [verb] To forcefully teach something. DRUGS (7) [noun] A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. | [noun] A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. | [noun] Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted. DRUID (7) [noun] One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions. DRUMS (8) [noun] A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone. | [noun] Any similar hollow, cylindrical object. | [noun] A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage. DRUNK (10) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. DRUPE (8) [noun] A stone fruit. DRUSE (6) [noun] An inner surface with a crust of tiny crystals. | [noun] An aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants. | [noun] A tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye. DRYAD (10) [noun] In Greek myth, a female tree spirit. DRYER (9) [noun] One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative. | [noun] A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion. | [noun] An electric hair dryer. | [adjective] Free from or lacking moisture. DRYLY (12) [adverb] In a dry manner. 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. DUCES (8) [noun] The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline. | [noun] A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion. | [noun] The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes. DUCHY (14) [noun] A dominion or region ruled by a duke or duchess. (A grand duchy may be a self-governing state. A simple duchy tends to be a part of a larger kingdom or empire.) DUCKS (12) [verb] To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. | [noun] An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet. DUCKY (15) [noun] A duck (aquatic bird), especially a toy rubber duck | [noun] An affectionate pet name. | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a duck. DUCTS (8) [noun] A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another. | [noun] An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs. | [noun] Guidance; direction. DUDDY (11) DUDED (8) [verb] To address someone as dude. | [verb] To take a vacation in a dude ranch. | [verb] Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes. DUDES (7) [noun] A man, generally a younger man. | [noun] (used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning him or offering him advice. | [noun] An inexperienced cowboy. DUELS (6) [noun] Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor. | [noun] Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat) | [noun] Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas. DUETS (6) [noun] A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble). | [noun] A song composed for and/or performed by a duo. | [noun] A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant. DUFFS (12) [verb] To disguise something to make it look new. | [verb] To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle. | [verb] (with "up") To beat up. DUITS (6) DUKED (11) DUKES (10) [noun] The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess). | [noun] The sovereign of a small state. | [noun] A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom. DULIA (6) [noun] The veneration of saints, distinguished from latria, the worship of God. DULLS (6) [verb] To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. | [verb] To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy. | [verb] To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. DULLY (9) [adverb] In a dull manner; without liveliness; without lustre. DULSE (6) [noun] A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. DUMAS (8) [noun] A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament). | [noun] A drink mixing wine and vodka. DUMBS (10) [verb] To silence. | [verb] To make stupid. | [verb] To represent as stupid. DUMKA (12) [noun] A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine. | [noun] An individual composition in this genre. DUMKY (15) [noun] A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine. | [noun] An individual composition in this genre. DUMMY (13) [noun] A silent person; a person who does not talk. | [noun] An unintelligent person. | [noun] A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet. DUMPS (10) [noun] A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. | [noun] A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. | [noun] That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. DUMPY (13) [noun] A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens. | [noun] A small bottle of beer. | [adjective] Short and thick; stout or stocky DUNAM (8) [noun] An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre. | [noun] A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma. | [noun] Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2). DUNCE (8) [noun] An unintelligent person. DUNCH (11) DUNES (6) [noun] A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind. DUNGS (7) [noun] Manure; animal excrement. | [noun] A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. | [verb] To fertilize with dung. DUNGY (10) DUNKS (10) DUNTS (6) [noun] A stroke; a dull-sounding blow. DUOMI (8) DUOMO (8) [noun] A cathedral, especially one in Italy. DUPED (9) [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [verb] To duplicate. DUPER (8) [noun] A person who dupes another DUPES (8) [noun] A person who has been deceived. | [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [noun] A duplicate of a photographic image. DUPLE (8) [adjective] Double. | [adjective] Having two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure. | [adjective] Having two beats in each foot. DURAL (6) DURAS (6) DURED (7) DURES (6) DURNS (6) [noun] A secret; secrecy. | [noun] A secret place; hiding. | [noun] An obscure language. DUROC (8) [noun] A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America. DUROS (6) DURRA (6) [noun] A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor). DURRS (6) DURST (6) [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 DURUM (8) [noun] Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum (hard wheat), the flour of which is used to make pasta and bread. DUSKS (10) [noun] A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight. | [noun] A darkish colour. DUSKY (13) [noun] A dusky shark. | [noun] A dusky dolphin. | [noun] A dusky grouse. DUSTS (6) [noun] Fine particles | [noun] The act of cleaning by dusting. | [noun] The earth, as the resting place of the dead. DUSTY (9) [adjective] Covered with dust. | [adjective] Powdery and resembling dust. | [adjective] Grey in parts. DUTCH (11) [noun] Wife | [verb] To treat cocoa beans or powder with an alkali solution to darken the color and lessen the bitterness of the flavor. DUVET (9) [noun] A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets. | [noun] A cover for a quilt or comforter. 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. DWEEB (11) [noun] (originally college slang) A boring, studious, or socially inept person. DWELL (9) [noun] A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state. | [noun] A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed. | [noun] A planned delay in a timed control program. DWELT (9) [verb] To live; to reside. | [verb] To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on). | [verb] To be in a given state. DWINE (9) 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. DYERS (9) [noun] One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation. DYING (10) [verb] To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | [verb] To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). | [verb] To yearn intensely. DYKED (14) [adjective] Containing a dyke (ditch) DYKES (13) [noun] (usually derogatory) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior. DYKEY (16) [adjective] Of a woman, whether actually lesbian or not, having stereotypically lesbian characteristics; that looks like a dyke. DYNEL (9) DYNES (9) [noun] A unit of force in the CGS system; the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram by one centimetre per second per second. Symbol: dyn. EARED (6) EASED (6) [verb] To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc. | [verb] To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain). | [verb] To give respite to (someone). EAVED (9) EBBED (10) [verb] To flow back or recede | [verb] To fall away or decline | [verb] To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb ECHED (11) 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. EDGED (8) [verb] To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin. EDGER (7) EDGES (7) [noun] The boundary line of a surface. | [noun] A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet. | [noun] An advantage. EDICT (8) [noun] A proclamation of law or other authoritative command. EDIFY (12) [verb] To build, construct. | [verb] To instruct or improve morally or intellectually. EDILE (6) EDITS (6) [noun] A change to the text of a document. | [noun] A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software. | [noun] An interruption or change to an improvised scene. EDUCE (8) [noun] An inference. | [verb] To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. | [verb] To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. EDUCT (8) EGADS (7) [interjection] A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc. EGGED (8) [verb] To throw eggs at. | [verb] To dip in or coat with beaten egg. | [verb] To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally. EIDER (6) [noun] Any of the species of the genera Polysticta or Somateria, in the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies). EIDOS (6) [noun] Form; essence; type; species. ELAND (6) [noun] A genus of large South African antelope (Taurotragus), valued both for its hide and flesh. ELDER (6) [noun] An older person or an older member, usually a leader, of some community. | [noun] One who is older than another. | [noun] One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor. | [noun] A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries ELIDE (6) [verb] To leave out or omit (something). | [verb] To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable. | [verb] To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between. ELUDE (6) [verb] To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill | [verb] To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip | [verb] To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to EMBED (10) [noun] An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate. | [noun] An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message. | [noun] An item embedded in another document. EMEND (8) [verb] To correct and revise (text or a document). EMYDE (11) EMYDS (11) ENDED (7) [verb] To come to an end | [verb] To finish, terminate. | [adjective] (in combination) Having (a specified kind or number of) ends. ENDER (6) ENDOW (9) [verb] To provide with a dower or a dowry. | [verb] To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. | [verb] Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. ENDUE (6) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). EPHOD (11) [noun] A priestly apron, or breastplate, described in the Bible in Exodus 28: vi - xxx, which only the chief priest of ancient Israel was allowed to wear. EPODE (8) [noun] The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe. | [noun] A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one. EQUID (15) [noun] Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.) ERODE (6) [verb] To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction. | [verb] To destroy gradually by an ongoing process. ERRED (6) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To sin. | [verb] To stray. | [verb] To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er. ETUDE (6) [noun] A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill. 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. EXUDE (13) [verb] To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. | [verb] To flow out through the pores. 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 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. 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. FAMED (11) [adjective] Having fame; famous or noted. 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 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. FATED (9) [verb] To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable. | [adjective] Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate. FAULD (9) FAXED (16) [adjective] Having a head of hair; hairy. | [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). FEEDS (9) [noun] Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals. | [noun] Something supplied continuously. | [noun] The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon. FELID (9) [noun] Any member of the cat family (Felidae). FENDS (9) [verb] To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being. | [verb] (except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off). FEODS (9) FETED (9) [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). | [adjective] Honoured; celebrated. FETID (9) [noun] The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts. | [adjective] Foul-smelling, stinking. FEUDS (9) [noun] A state of long-standing mutual hostility. | [noun] A staged rivalry between wrestlers. | [noun] A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. FEUED (9) [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FIDGE (10) FIDOS (9) [noun] A coin that is defective, having been incorrectly minted, often prized by collectors. FIELD (9) [noun] A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. | [noun] A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals. | [noun] A place where competitive matches are carried out. FIEND (9) [noun] A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit. | [noun] A very evil person. | [noun] An enemy; a foe. FIFED (12) [verb] To play this instrument. FILED (9) [verb] To commit (official papers) to some office. | [verb] To place in an archive in a logical place and order | [verb] To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer. FINDS (9) [noun] Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent. | [noun] The act of finding. | [verb] To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. FINED (9) [verb] To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify. | [verb] To become finer, purer, or cleaner. | [verb] To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc. FIORD (9) [noun] A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs. FIRED (9) [verb] To set (something, often a building) on fire. | [verb] To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc. | [verb] To drive away by setting a fire. FIXED (16) [verb] To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. | [verb] To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. | [verb] To mend, to repair. FJELD (16) FJORD (16) [noun] A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs. FLIED (9) [verb] To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb). FLOOD (9) [noun] A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water. | [noun] A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with. | [noun] The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb. FLUED (9) FLUID (9) [noun] Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma. | [noun] A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas). | [noun] (specifically, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids. FOLDS (9) [noun] An act of folding. | [noun] A bend or crease. | [noun] Any correct move in origami. FONDS (9) FONDU (9) [noun] The graded shift from one color into another. | [noun] Involving a lowering of the body by bending the knee of the supporting leg. | [noun] A dish made of melted cheese, chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped. FOODS (9) [noun] Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. | [noun] A foodstuff. | [noun] Anything that nourishes or sustains. FORDO (9) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FORDS (9) [noun] A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing. | [noun] A stream; a current. | [verb] To cross a stream using a ford. FOUND (9) [verb] To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. | [verb] To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate. | [verb] (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end. | [verb] To start (an institution or organization). | [verb] To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting. | [noun] A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers. FOXED (16) [verb] To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity. | [verb] To confuse or baffle (someone). | [verb] To act slyly or craftily. 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. FREED (9) [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. | [verb] To rid of something that confines or oppresses. FREMD (11) FRIED (9) [adjective] Cooked by frying. | [adjective] (specifically, of an egg) Fried with the yolk unbroken. | [adjective] Cooked in a deep fryer or pressure fryer or the like after being coated (breaded) in batter; compare deep-fried. FROND (9) [noun] The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf. | [noun] Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf. FUDGE (10) [noun] A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge. | [noun] Light or frothy nonsense. | [noun] A deliberately misleading or vague answer. FUMED (11) [verb] To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. | [verb] To apply or offer incense to. | [verb] To emit fumes. FUNDI (9) [noun] (Zimbabwe) expert, guru, maven | [noun] The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially FUNDS (9) [noun] A sum or source of money. | [noun] An organization managing such money. | [noun] A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund. FUSED (9) [verb] To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. | [verb] To melt together. | [verb] To furnish with or install a fuse. FUZED (18) [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. | [adjective] Being equipped with a fuze GADDI (8) GADID (8) [noun] Any member of the family Gadidae of fish such as cod and pollack. GADIS (7) 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. GAZED (16) [verb] To stare intently or earnestly. | [verb] To stare at. GELDS (7) [noun] Money. | [noun] A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant. | [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). GELID (7) [adjective] Very cold; icy or frosty. GEODE (7) [noun] A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall. GEOID (7) [noun] (geodesy) The shape that the surface of the oceans of the Earth would take under the influence of the Earth's gravity and rotation alone, extending also through the continents, disregarding other factors such as winds and tides; that is, a surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation. GIBED (9) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe GIDDY (11) [verb] To make dizzy or unsteady. | [verb] To reel; to whirl. | [adjective] Dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down. GILDS (7) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. GIRDS (7) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. 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) 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: GLEDE (7) GLEDS (7) GLEED (7) GLIDE (7) [noun] The act of gliding. | [noun] A transitional sound, especially a semivowel. | [noun] An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact. GLUED (7) [verb] To join or attach something using glue. | [verb] To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively. 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. GODET (7) [noun] A drinking cup. | [noun] A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset. | [noun] A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing. GODLY (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a god | [adjective] Devoted to a god or God; devout; righteous. | [adjective] Gloriously good. GOLDS (7) [noun] A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au. | [noun] A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so. | [noun] A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold. GONAD (7) [noun] A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The testicles. GOODS (7) [noun] The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence. | [noun] A result that is positive in the view of the speaker. | [noun] The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc. GOODY (10) [noun] A good character in a story, often a hero. | [noun] A small amount of something good to eat. | [noun] Any small, usually free, item. GORED (7) [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [verb] To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear. | [verb] To cut in a triangular form. GOURD (7) [noun] Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae). | [noun] A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita. | [noun] The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration. GOWDS (10) 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. 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. GREED (7) [noun] A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions. | [verb] To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire. GRIDE (7) GRIDS (7) [noun] A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle. | [noun] A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire. | [noun] A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters). GRIND (7) [noun] The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. | [noun] Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground. | [noun] A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans. | [noun] A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands. 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. GUDES (7) GUIDE (7) [noun] Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation. | [noun] A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. | [noun] A sign that guides people; guidepost. | [verb] To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. GUIDS (7) GUILD (7) [noun] A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages. | [noun] A corporation. | [noun] A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits. GUYED (10) [adjective] Fitted with or attached to a guy. | [adjective] Fitted to serve as a guy. | [verb] To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November. GYBED (12) [verb] To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind. | [verb] Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other. | [verb] Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel. GYRED (10) [verb] To whirl GYVED (13) 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. HALED (9) [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HALID (9) 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. 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. HATED (9) [verb] To dislike intensely or greatly. | [verb] To experience hatred. | [adjective] Disliked; odious; reviled. HAWED (12) HAYED (12) 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. 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. 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. HEDER (9) [noun] An elementary school in which students are taught to read Hebrew texts. HEDGE (10) [noun] A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden. | [noun] A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm. | [noun] A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land. | [verb] To enclose with a hedge or hedges. HEDGY (13) HEEDS (9) [verb] To guard, protect. | [verb] To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. | [verb] To pay attention, care. HERDS (9) [noun] A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. | [noun] Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. | [noun] (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. HEWED (12) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. 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. HEXED (16) [verb] To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch. | [adjective] Cursed; afflicted with bad luck. HIDED (10) HIDER (9) HIDES (9) [verb] To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. | [verb] To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight. | [noun] The skin of an animal. HIKED (13) [verb] To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise. | [verb] To unfairly or suddenly raise a price. | [verb] To snap the ball to start a play. HINDS (9) [noun] A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old. | [noun] A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus. | [noun] A servant, especially an agricultural labourer. HIRED (9) [verb] To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. | [verb] To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job. | [verb] To exchange the services of for remuneration. HIVED (12) [verb] To enter or possess a hive. | [verb] To form a hive-like entity. | [verb] To collect into a hive. 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). HODAD (10) HOKED (13) [verb] To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc. | [verb] To scrounge, to grub. HOLDS (9) [noun] A grasp or grip. | [noun] An act or instance of holding. | [noun] A place where animals are held for safety HOLED (9) [verb] To make holes in (an object or surface). | [verb] (by extension) To destroy. | [verb] To go into a hole. HOMED (11) [verb] (of animals) To return to its owner. | [verb] (always with "in on") To seek or aim for something. HONDA (9) HONED (9) [verb] To sharpen with a hone; to whet. | [verb] To use a hone to produce a precision bore. | [verb] To refine or master (a skill). HOODS (9) [noun] A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak. | [noun] A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree. | [noun] An enclosure that protects something, especially from above. HOODY (12) [noun] A sweatshirt, with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front. | [noun] (often with negative connotation of yobbishness) A young person wearing such a sweatshirt, usually a male. | [noun] Foreskin HOPED (11) [verb] To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might. | [verb] To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes. | [verb] To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in. HORDE (9) [noun] A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. | [noun] A large number of people. | [verb] To travel en masse, to flock HOSED (9) [verb] To water or spray with a hose. | [verb] To deliver using a hose. | [verb] To provide with hose (garment) HOUND (9) [noun] A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. | [noun] Any canine animal. | [noun] (by extension) Someone who seeks something. | [verb] To persistently harass. | [noun] (in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on. HOWDY (15) [noun] A wife, a midwife. | [verb] To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy" | [interjection] An informal greeting used in the South of the USA. HUMID (11) [adjective] Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery. HURDS (9) 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. HYDRO (12) [noun] Hydroelectric power | [noun] Electrical power supply; specifically, electrical power provided by a utility (as a publicly-owned one); payment or bills for this. | [noun] A spa. HYOID (12) [noun] The hyoid bone. | [adjective] Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon; specifically, designating a bone or group of bones supporting the tongue. HYPED (14) [verb] To throw (an opponent) using this technique. | [verb] To promote heavily; to advertise or build up. | [adjective] Having been subject to propaganda and promotion; promoted beyond what is reasonable or appropriate. 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. IDIOM (8) [noun] A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, person, or group of people. | [noun] A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc. | [noun] An established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words, often peculiar to a given language. IDIOT (6) [noun] A person of low general intelligence. | [noun] A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool. | [noun] A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30. IDLED (7) [verb] To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume. | [verb] To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business. | [verb] Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over. IDLER (6) [noun] One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction. | [noun] One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard. | [noun] Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch IDLES (6) [verb] To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume. | [verb] To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business. | [verb] Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over. IDOLS (6) [noun] A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power. | [noun] A cultural icon, or especially popular person. | [noun] (originally Japan) Popular entertainer; usually young, captivating, attractive; and often female, with an image of being close to fans. IDYLL (9) [noun] Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls. | [noun] An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience. | [noun] A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner. IDYLS (9) [noun] Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls. | [noun] An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience. | [noun] A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner. ILIAD (6) IMBED (10) [verb] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. | [verb] (by extension) To include in surrounding matter. | [verb] To encapsulate within another document or data file. IMIDE (8) [noun] A form of amide in which the nitrogen atom is attached to two carbonyl groups - R1CONHCOR2 IMIDO (8) IMIDS (8) IMPED (10) [noun] A creature without feet | [adjective] Engrafted, eked, implanted; supplemented by imping. | [verb] To plant or engraft. INDEX (13) [noun] An alphabetical listing of items and their location. | [noun] The index finger; the forefinger. | [noun] A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc. INDIE (6) [noun] An independent publisher. | [noun] A work released by an independent publisher. | [noun] A type of rock music, generally soft-style without screaming or aggression, mixed with synthesized music and electronic. INDOL (6) INDOW (9) INDRI (6) [noun] One of the largest living lemurs (Indri indri), native to Madagascar. INDUE (6) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). INKED (10) [adjective] Having a tattoo or tattoos. | [verb] To apply ink to; to cover or smear with ink. | [verb] To sign (a contract or similar document). INNED (6) IODIC (8) IODID (7) IODIN (6) IRADE (6) [noun] A decree issued by a Muslim ruler. IRIDS (6) IRKED (10) [verb] To irritate; annoy; bother | [adjective] Annoyed. ISLED (6) IVIED (9) [adjective] Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant. 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. JAPED (15) [verb] To jest; play tricks. | [verb] To mock; deride. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. JAWED (16) [verb] To assail or abuse by scolding. | [verb] To scold; to clamor. | [verb] To talk; to converse. 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. JERID (13) JEWED (16) JIBED (15) [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. 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. JIVED (16) [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. JOKED (17) [verb] To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously. | [verb] (intransitive, followed by with) To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with. | [verb] To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally. JOWED (16) JOYED (16) [verb] To feel joy, to rejoice. | [verb] To enjoy. | [verb] To give joy to; to congratulate. 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. JUDGE (14) [noun] A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice. | [noun] A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question. | [noun] A person officiating at a sports event or similar. | [verb] To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on. JUDOS (13) JUKED (17) [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [verb] To stab KADIS (10) [noun] A civil judge in certain Islamic countries. KEDGE (11) [noun] A small anchor used for warping a vessel; also called a kedge anchor. | [noun] A glutton. | [verb] To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it. KENDO (10) [noun] A Japanese martial art using "swords" of split bamboo. KEYED (13) [verb] To fit (a lock) with a key. | [verb] To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them. | [verb] To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class. KHADI (13) [noun] A coarse homespun cotton cloth from India. KHEDA (13) KIDDO (11) [noun] A close friend; especially used as a form of address. | [noun] A child. KIDDY (14) [noun] A child. | [verb] To kid; to hoax or tease. | [adjective] Alternative spelling of kiddie KINDS (10) [noun] A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together. | [noun] A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen. | [noun] One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition. KITED (10) 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. KNEED (10) [verb] To kneel to. | [verb] To poke or strike with the knee. | [verb] To move on the knees; to use the knees to move. KUDOS (10) [noun] Praise; accolades. | [noun] Credit for one's achievements. | [noun] A compliment or praise. KUDUS (10) [noun] A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (the lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (the greater kudu). KUDZU (19) [noun] An Asian vine (several species in the genus Pueraria, but mostly Pueraria montans var. lobata, syn. Pueraria lobata in the US), grown as a root starch, and which is a notorious invasive weed in the United States. 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. 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. 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). LAKED (10) 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). 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. 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) 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. LATED (6) LAUDS (6) [noun] Praise or glorification. | [noun] Hymn of praise. | [noun] (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins. 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. LAWED (9) LAYED (9) LAZED (15) [verb] To be lazy, waste time. | [verb] To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge. 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) LEDGE (7) [noun] A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery. | [noun] A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks. | [noun] A layer or stratum. | [noun] A lege; a legend. | [noun] A provincial or territorial legislature building. LEDGY (10) LENDS (6) [verb] To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned. | [verb] To make a loan. | [verb] To be suitable or applicable, to fit. LEUDS (6) LIARD (6) [noun] A small French coin, equivalent to a quarter of a sou. LIDAR (6) [noun] The optical analogue of radar, using intense pulses of laser light to measure the composition and structure of the atmosphere. LIDOS (6) [noun] Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities. | [noun] An outdoor swimming pool. LIKED (10) [verb] To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of. | [verb] To please. | [verb] To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something. LIMED (8) [verb] To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime). | [verb] To smear with birdlime. | [verb] To apply limewash. LINDY (9) LINED (6) [verb] To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align. | [verb] To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify. | [verb] To form a line along. LIPID (8) [noun] Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water, and account for most of the fat present in the human body. LIVED (9) [verb] To be alive; to have life. | [verb] To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside. | [verb] To survive; to persevere; to continue. LIVID (9) [adjective] Having a dark, bluish appearance. | [adjective] Pale, pallid. | [adjective] So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious. 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. LOBED (8) LODEN (6) [noun] A thick waterproof cloth used for garments. | [noun] A dark green colour, like that of loden cloth. | [adjective] Of a dark green colour, like that of loden cloth. LODES (6) [noun] A way or path; a road. | [noun] A watercourse. | [noun] A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure. LODGE (7) [noun] A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin. | [noun] Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially as a college mailroom. | [noun] A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons. LOOED (6) LOPED (8) [verb] To travel an easy pace with long strides. | [verb] To jump, leap. LORDS (6) [noun] The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor | [noun] One possessing similar mastery over others; any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron) | [noun] One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~) LOVED (9) [verb] (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something). | [verb] To need, thrive on. | [verb] To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like. LOWED (9) [verb] To depress; to lower. | [verb] To moo. | [verb] To burn; to blaze. LOXED (13) LUCID (8) [noun] A lucid dream. | [adjective] Clear; easily understood | [adjective] Mentally rational; sane LUDES (6) LUDIC (8) [adjective] Of or pertaining to play; playful. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to games of chance. LUGED (7) [verb] To travel by luge; to ride a luge. LURED (6) [verb] To attract by temptation etc.; to entice | [verb] To recall a hawk with a lure LURID (6) [adjective] Shocking, horrifying. | [adjective] Melodramatic. | [adjective] Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance. LUTED (6) [verb] To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. | [verb] To fix or fasten something with lute. LYARD (9) LYSED (9) [verb] To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis. | [verb] To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis. 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. 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) 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. MANED (8) 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. MAUDS (8) [noun] A grey plaid once worn by shepherds in Scotland and Northumbria. 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 MAWED (11) MAYED (11) MAZED (17) [verb] To amaze, astonish, bewilder | [verb] To daze, stupefy, or confuse 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. MEDAL (8) [noun] A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object. | [noun] A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward. | [verb] To win a medal. MEDIA (8) [noun] The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. | [noun] A voiced stop consonant. | [noun] One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus | [noun] Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information. MEDIC (10) [noun] A doctor. | [noun] A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military. | [noun] A medical student. | [noun] Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc. MEDII (8) MEEDS (8) [noun] A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award. | [noun] A gift; bribe. | [noun] Merit or desert; worth. MELDS (8) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. MENAD (8) MENDS (8) [noun] A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending. | [noun] The act of repairing. | [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. MERDE (8) [noun] (quaint) shit METED (8) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). MEWED (11) [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. | [verb] (of a bird) To moult. | [verb] (of a bird) To cause to moult. MIDDY (12) [noun] A midshipman | [noun] A measure of 285 ml (10 fl oz) of beer; a pot. MIDGE (9) [noun] Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera | [noun] Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge MIDIS (8) [noun] A native or inhabitant of Berlin. | [noun] A doughnut with a sweet filling. | [noun] A newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 315 by 470 millimetres (12.4 in × 18.5 inches), slightly taller and wider than a tabloid but narrower and shorter than a broadsheet. MIDST (8) [noun] A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location. | [preposition] Among, in the middle of; amid. MIKED (12) [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. MIMED (10) [verb] To mimic. | [verb] To act without words. | [verb] To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound. MINDS (8) [noun] The ability for rational thought. | [noun] The ability to be aware of things. | [noun] The ability to remember things. MINED (8) [verb] To remove (ore) from the ground. | [verb] To dig into, for ore or metal. | [verb] To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). MIRED (8) [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [verb] To sink into mud. | [verb] To weigh down. | [noun] A unit of measurement for color temperature. MISDO (8) MIXED (15) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. MODAL (8) [noun] A modal proposition. | [noun] A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary. | [noun] (grammar) A modal verb. MODEL (8) [noun] A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing. | [noun] A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show. | [noun] A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature. MODEM (10) [noun] A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line. | [verb] To transmit by modem. MODES (8) [noun] One of several ancient Greek scales. | [noun] One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale. | [noun] A particular means of accomplishing something. MODUS (8) MOLDS (8) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. MOLDY (11) [adjective] Covered with mold. | [adjective] Stale or musty. 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. MONDE (8) MONDO (8) [noun] A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth. | [adjective] Big, large; major, significant. | [adverb] Very, extremely, really. MOODS (8) [noun] A mental or emotional state, composure. | [noun] Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art). | [noun] A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood. MOODY (11) [adjective] Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental. | [adjective] Sulky or depressed. | [adjective] Dour, gloomy or brooding. MOOED (8) [verb] Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound. MOPED (10) [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. | [verb] To make spiritless and stupid. | [adjective] Melancholic, dejected. | [noun] A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit. MOULD (8) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. | [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. MOUND (8) [noun] An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense | [noun] A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. | [noun] Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch. MOVED (11) [verb] To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another. | [verb] To act; to take action; to begin to act | [verb] To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in. MOWED (11) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. | [verb] To make grimaces, mock. MUCID (10) [adjective] Musty; mouldy; slimy; mucous MUDDY (12) [verb] To get mud on (something). | [verb] To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle. | [adjective] Covered with or full of mud or wet soil. MUDRA (8) [noun] Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography. | [noun] Any of the formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation. MULED (8) MURED (8) [verb] To wall in or fortify | [verb] To enclose or imprison within walls. MURID (8) [noun] Any rodent in the family Muridae. MUSED (8) [verb] To become lost in thought, to ponder. | [verb] To say (something) with due consideration or thought. | [verb] To think on; to meditate on. MUTED (8) [verb] To silence, to make quiet. | [verb] To turn off the sound of. | [verb] Of a bird: to defecate. MYOID (11) MYSID (11) [noun] Any crustacean of the family Mysidae. 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. 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. 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 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. NEEDS (6) [adverb] Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; used with an auxiliary verb (often must), and equivalent to "of need". | [noun] A requirement for something; something needed. | [noun] Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. | [verb] To have an absolute requirement for. NEEDY (9) [adjective] In need; poor. | [adjective] Desiring constant affirmation; lacking self-confidence. | [adjective] Needful; necessary. NERDS (6) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. | [noun] An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork. NERDY (9) [adjective] (of a person) Being or like a nerd. | [adjective] (of a quality or interest) Of, pertaining to, in the style of, or appealing to nerds. NICAD (8) [noun] Rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery NIDAL (6) NIDED (7) NIDES (6) [noun] A nest of pheasants. NIDUS (6) [noun] An aggregate of neurons. | [noun] A nest for insects or small animals. | [noun] A place of infection in an organism. NITID (6) [adjective] Bright; lustrous; shining. | [adjective] (of a person) Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine. NIXED (13) [verb] To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. | [verb] To destroy or eradicate. NODAL (6) [adjective] Of the nature of, or relating to, a node. | [adjective] Of or relating to the nodus. NODDY (10) [noun] A stupid or silly person. | [noun] Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera Anous and Procelsterna, found in tropical seas. | [noun] A small two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a single horse. | [noun] A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview. NODES (6) [noun] A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling. | [noun] The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋. | [noun] A leaf node. NODUS (6) [noun] A difficulty. | [noun] In the Odonata, a prominent crossvein near the centre of the leading edge of a wing. 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. NOSED (6) [verb] To move cautiously by advancing its front end. | [verb] To snoop. | [verb] To detect by smell or as if by smell. NOTED (6) [verb] To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed. | [verb] To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. | [verb] To denote; to designate. NUDER (6) NUDES (6) [noun] A painting, sculpture, photograph or other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress. | [noun] (with article, "the nude") The state of total nudity. | [noun] A color that resembles or evokes bare flesh; a paint, dye, etc. of such color. NUDGE (7) [noun] A gentle push. | [noun] A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound. | [noun] The rotation by one step of a fruit machine reel of the player's choice. NUDIE (6) [noun] Entertainment involving naked people, especially women. NUDZH (18) NUKED (10) [verb] To use a nuclear weapon on a target. | [verb] To destroy or erase completely. | [verb] (by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user). NURDS (6) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. | [noun] An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork. OARED (6) [adjective] Having oars. | [verb] To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars. OCTAD (8) [noun] A group of eight things. | [noun] Hundred million = myriad myriad; 100,000,000 = 108 ODDER (7) [adjective] Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected. | [adjective] Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched. | [adjective] Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped. ODDLY (10) [adverb] In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually. | [adverb] In a manner measured by an odd number. ODEON (6) [noun] An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry. | [noun] A theatre or concert hall. ODEUM (8) [noun] An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry. | [noun] A theatre or concert hall. ODIST (6) ODIUM (8) [noun] Hatred; dislike. | [noun] The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness. ODORS (6) [noun] Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive. | [noun] A strong, pervasive quality. | [noun] Esteem. ODOUR (6) [noun] Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive. | [noun] A strong, pervasive quality. | [noun] Esteem. ODYLE (9) ODYLS (9) OFFED (12) [verb] To kill. | [verb] To switch off. OGLED (7) [verb] To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously. OIDIA (6) [noun] A fragile spore produced by some fungi. | [noun] The fungus Erysiphe necator (= Uncinula necator), which produces powdery mildew in grapes. OILED (6) [verb] To lubricate with oil. | [verb] To grease with oil for cooking. | [adjective] Covered in, or supplied with, oil. OLDEN (6) [adjective] From or relating to a previous era. | [adjective] Old; ancient. | [verb] To grow old; age; assume an older appearance or character; become affected by age. OLDER (6) [adjective] Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time. | [adjective] Having been used and thus no longer new or unused. | [adjective] Having existed or lived for the specified time. OLDIE (6) [noun] Something or someone old. | [noun] A song or record from a previous era. | [noun] (in the plural) The genre of music composed of popular music from previous eras. OOHED (9) [verb] To exclaim ooh. OOTID (6) [noun] The haploid cell, produced by meiotic division of a secondary oocyte, that is a nearly mature ovum. OOZED (15) [verb] To be secreted or slowly leak. | [verb] To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude. OPTED (8) [verb] To choose; select. ORBED (8) ORDER (6) [noun] Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | [noun] A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | [noun] The state of being well arranged. ORDOS (6) OREAD (6) [noun] A mountain nymph; an anthropomorphic appearance of the spirit of a mountain. OUTDO (6) [verb] To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass. OUTED (6) [verb] To eject; to expel. | [verb] To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc). | [verb] To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective. OVOID (9) [noun] Something that is oval in shape. | [adjective] Shaped like an oval. | [adjective] Egg-shaped; shaped like an oval, but more tapered at one end; ovate. OWNED (9) [verb] To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to. | [verb] To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. | [verb] To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. OXIDE (13) [noun] A binary chemical compound of oxygen with another chemical element. OXIDS (13) 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. 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) 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. PAGOD (9) PALED (8) [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [verb] To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. 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) 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 PATED (8) 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. PAVID (11) 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. 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. 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. PEDES (8) [noun] The foot of a human | [noun] The hoof of a quadruped | [noun] Clubfoot or talipes PEDRO (8) PENDS (8) PERDU (8) PERDY (11) PIKED (12) [verb] To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike. | [verb] To assume a pike position. | [verb] To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money. PILED (8) [verb] (often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate | [verb] To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. | [verb] To add something to a great number. PINED (8) [verb] To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress. | [verb] To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering. | [verb] To grieve or mourn for. PIPED (10) [verb] To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute. | [verb] To shout loudly and at high pitch. | [verb] To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. 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. 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. PLIED (8) [verb] To bend; to fold; to mould; to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit. | [verb] To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.). | [verb] To work at (something) diligently. PLODS (8) [verb] To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over). | [verb] To trudge over or through. | [verb] To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. PODGY (12) [adjective] Slightly fat. 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. POIND (8) [noun] A seizure of property etc in lieu of a debt; the animal or property so seized | [verb] To seize property in this manner POKED (12) [verb] To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick. | [verb] To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning. | [verb] To rummage; to feel or grope around. POLED (8) [verb] To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole. | [verb] To identify something quite precisely using a telescope. | [verb] To furnish with poles for support. PONDS (8) [noun] An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake. | [noun] An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river. | [noun] The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond. POODS (8) PORED (8) [verb] To study meticulously; to go over again and again. | [verb] To meditate or reflect in a steady way. | [adjective] Having or furnished with pores POSED (8) [verb] To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect. | [verb] To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.). | [verb] To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.). POUND (8) [noun] A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight. | [noun] A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere. | [noun] The symbol # (octothorpe, hash) | [noun] A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. An animal shelter. | [noun] A hard blow. POXED (15) PREED (8) PRIDE (8) [noun] The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others. | [noun] (often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. | [noun] Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris. PRIED (8) [verb] To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy. | [verb] To keep asking about something that does not concern one. | [verb] To look closely and curiously at (something closed or not public). PRODS (8) [verb] To poke, to push, to touch. | [verb] To encourage, to prompt. | [verb] To prick with a goad. PROUD (8) [adjective] Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified. | [adjective] Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth. | [adjective] Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious. PRUDE (8) [noun] A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature. | [adjective] Prudish. PSEUD (8) [noun] An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur | [noun] Pseudomonas bacteria. | [noun] A pseudonym. PUDGY (12) [adjective] Fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby. PUDIC (10) PUKED (12) [verb] To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach. | [verb] To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market. PULED (8) [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. PURDA (8) PYOID (11) QAIDS (15) 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. QUIDS (15) [noun] The inherent nature of something. | [noun] A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid). | [noun] A sovereign or guinea. QUODS (15) 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. 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. 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. 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. RAKED (10) [verb] To walk; to roam, to wander. | [verb] Of animals (especially sheep): to graze. | [verb] To roam or wander through (somewhere). 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 RANID (6) RAPED (8) 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) 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 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. 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. RAXED (13) RAYED (9) [verb] To emit something as if in rays. | [verb] To radiate as if in rays. | [verb] To arrange. RAZED (15) [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. | [verb] To scrape as if with a razor. | [adjective] Slashed or striped in patterns. 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. REBID (8) [noun] A second or subsequent (normally higher) bid. | [verb] To bid again on something. | [verb] To require a new set of bids for. REDAN (6) [noun] A defensive fortification work in the shape of a V. REDDS (7) [verb] To free from entanglement. | [verb] To free from embarrassment. | [verb] To fix boundaries. REDED (7) REDES (6) [verb] To govern, protect. | [verb] To discuss, deliberate. | [verb] To advise. REDIA (6) REDID (7) [verb] To do again. REDIP (8) REDLY (9) REDON (6) REDOS (6) [noun] A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc. REDOX (13) [noun] A reaction in which an oxidation and a reduction occur simultaneously; a reaction in which electrons are transferred. | [verb] To subject to a redox reaction. | [adjective] Of or relating to any reaction in which oxidation and reduction occur simultaneously. REDRY (9) REDUB (8) REDUX (13) [adjective] (of a topic) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited. REDYE (9) REEDS (6) [noun] Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water. | [noun] The hollow stem of these plants. | [noun] Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it. REEDY (9) [adjective] Full of, or edged with, reeds. | [adjective] (of a sound or voice) High and thin in tone. | [adjective] (of a person) Tall and thin. REFED (9) RENDS (6) [verb] To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst | [verb] To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate. | [verb] To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split. RESID (6) RESOD (6) REWED (9) RICED (8) [verb] To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes). | [verb] To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.) | [verb] To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding). RIDER (6) [noun] One who rides, often on a horse or a motorcycle. | [noun] A provision annexed to a bill under the consideration of a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill. | [noun] (by extension) Something extra or burdensome that is imposed. RIDES (6) [noun] An instance of riding. | [noun] A vehicle. | [noun] An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. RIDGE (7) [noun] The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. | [noun] Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip. | [noun] The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground. RIDGY (10) RIGID (7) [noun] A bicycle with no suspension system. | [adjective] Stiff, rather than flexible. | [adjective] Fixed, rather than moving. RILED (6) [verb] To make angry | [verb] To stir or move from a state of calm or order RIMED (8) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. RINDS (6) [noun] Tree bark | [noun] A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc | [noun] (usually "the") The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind" RIPED (8) RIVED (9) [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. 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. ROBED (8) [verb] To clothe; to dress. | [verb] To put on official vestments. | [adjective] Wearing a robe. RODEO (6) [noun] A gathering of cattle to be branded. | [noun] A North American sport involving skills with horses, cows and other livestock. | [noun] An entertainment event associated with the sport. RONDO (6) [noun] A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. | [noun] A small, disk-shaped piece of food, especially a single-serving dessert or small piece of candy. | [noun] A dark-skinned grape, a hybrid of Vitis vinifera with Vitis amurensis and others. ROODS (6) [noun] A crucifix, cross, especially in a church. | [noun] A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre. | [noun] A measure of five and a half yards in length. ROPED (8) [verb] To tie (something) with rope. | [verb] To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something). | [verb] To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread. ROSED (6) [verb] To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush. | [verb] To perfume, as with roses. | [adjective] Having taken on a crimson colour. ROUND (6) [adverb] So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof. | [adverb] So as to surround or be near. | [adverb] Nearly; approximately; about. | [verb] To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel. | [noun] A whisper; whispering. ROVED (9) [verb] To shoot with arrows (at). | [verb] To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area. | [verb] To roam or wander through. ROWDY (12) [noun] A boisterous person; a brawler. | [adjective] Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous. ROWED (9) [verb] To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars. | [verb] To transport in a boat propelled with oars. | [verb] To be moved by oars. | [adjective] Formed into a row, or rows; having a specified number of rows. RUDDS (7) RUDDY (10) [noun] A ruddy duck. | [noun] A ruddy ground dove. | [verb] To make reddish in colour. RUDER (6) [adjective] Bad-mannered. | [adjective] Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive. | [adjective] Tough, robust. RULED (6) [verb] To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over. | [verb] To excel. | [verb] To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines). RYKED (13) RYNDS (9) SABED (8) 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. SAIDS (6) 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. 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) SAPID (8) [adjective] Tasty, flavoursome or savoury 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). SAROD (6) [noun] A fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music. 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. SAVED (9) [verb] To prevent harm or difficulty. | [verb] To put aside, to avoid. | [adjective] Rescued from the consequences of sin. 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. SAYID (9) SCADS (8) [noun] Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic. | [noun] (in the plural) A large number or quantity. 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 SCEND (8) [noun] The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement. | [verb] To heave upward. SCOLD (8) [verb] To burn with hot liquid. | [verb] To heat almost to boiling. | [noun] A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman. SCROD (8) [noun] (sometimes New York) Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish. | [verb] To shred. SCUDI (8) [noun] A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries. | [noun] A former unit of currency in Malta, now the official currency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. | [noun] A unit of currency in 19th-century Bolivia, equal to 16 soles. SCUDO (8) [noun] A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries. | [noun] A former unit of currency in Malta, now the official currency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. | [noun] A unit of currency in 19th-century Bolivia, equal to 16 soles. SCUDS (8) [noun] The act of scudding. | [noun] Clouds or rain driven by the wind. | [noun] A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer. 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. SEDER (6) [noun] The ceremonial meal held on the first night or two nights of Passover. | [noun] One of the 54 parts into which the Torah is divided. SEDGE (7) [noun] Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedge, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species. | [noun] Any plant of the family Cyperaceae. | [noun] Certain other plants resembling sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus. | [noun] A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly. | [noun] Alternative spelling of segge SEDGY (10) SEDUM (8) [noun] Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop SEEDS (6) [noun] A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant. | [noun] Any small seed-like fruit. | [noun] Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. SEEDY (9) [adjective] Full of seeds. | [adjective] Disreputable, run-down. | [adjective] Untidy; unkempt. SENDS (6) [verb] To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another. | [verb] To excite, delight, or thrill (someone). | [verb] To bring to a certain condition. SERED (6) SEWED (9) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. SEXED (13) [verb] To determine the sex of an animal. | [verb] To have sex with. | [adjective] Having a sex; being male or female. 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. 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. SHEDS (9) [verb] To part, separate or divide. | [verb] To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of. | [verb] To pour; to make flow. SHEND (9) SHERD (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. SHIED (9) [verb] To avoid due to timidness or caution. | [verb] To jump back in fear. | [verb] To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling SHOED (9) SHRED (9) [noun] A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip. | [noun] In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount. | [verb] To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips. SIDED (7) [verb] To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with" | [verb] To lean on one side. | [verb] To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward. SIDES (6) [noun] A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape. | [noun] A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face. | [noun] One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone. SIDLE (6) [noun] An act of sidling. | [verb] To (cause something to) move sideways. | [verb] In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner. SILDS (6) SIPED (8) SIRED (6) [verb] (of a male) to procreate; to father, beget, impregnate. SITED (6) [verb] To situate or place a building. SIZED (15) [verb] To adjust the size of; to make a certain size. | [verb] To classify or arrange by size. | [verb] To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of. SKALD (10) [noun] A Nordic poet of the Viking Age SKEED (10) SKIDS (10) [noun] An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car. | [noun] A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan. | [noun] (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose. SKIED (10) [verb] To move on skis | [verb] To travel over (a slope etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport) | [verb] To hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high. SKYED (13) SLEDS (6) [noun] A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.) | [noun] A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger) | [noun] A snowmobile. SLIDE (6) [noun] An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again. | [noun] A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke. | [noun] The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche. SLOID (6) SLOJD (13) SLOYD (9) SLUED (6) [adjective] Somewhat drunk; tipsy. | [verb] To rotate something on an axis. | [verb] To turn something sharply. SNEDS (6) [verb] To lop. SNIDE (6) [noun] An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practise; a sharper; a cheat. | [noun] Counterfeit money | [adjective] Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way. SNOOD (6) [noun] A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women. | [noun] A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place. | [noun] The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey. SODAS (6) [noun] Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda). | [noun] Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda). | [noun] Sodium in chemical combination. SODDY (10) SODIC (8) [adjective] Of, relating to, or containing sodium. SODOM (8) SOLDI (6) [noun] An Italian coin, formerly one-twentieth of a lira. SOLDO (6) [noun] An Italian coin, formerly one-twentieth of a lira. SOLED (6) [verb] To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug. | [verb] To put a sole on (a shoe or boot) | [adjective] (in combination) Having a specified kind of sole. SOLID (6) [noun] A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas). | [noun] A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve). | [noun] A favor. SONDE (6) [noun] Probe; sound. | [noun] (physical sciences) Any of various devices for testing physical conditions, often for remote or underwater locations. SORDS (6) [noun] A flock of mallards | [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. | [noun] An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. SOUND (6) [adjective] Healthy. | [adjective] Complete, solid, or secure. | [adjective] Having the property of soundness. | [noun] A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. | [noun] A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean. | [noun] An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde. SOWED (9) [verb] To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). | [verb] To spread abroad; to propagate. | [verb] To scatter over; to besprinkle. 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 SPEED (8) [noun] The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity. | [noun] The rate of motion or action, specifically / the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time. | [noun] The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor. | [verb] To succeed; to prosper, be lucky. SPEND (8) [noun] Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure. | [noun] (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money. | [noun] Discharged semen. SPIED (8) [verb] To act as a spy. | [verb] To spot; to catch sight of. | [verb] To search narrowly; to scrutinize. SPODE (8) SPUDS (8) [noun] A potato. | [noun] A hole in a sock. | [noun] A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends. SPUED (8) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit 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. SQUID (15) [noun] Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles | [noun] A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid. | [noun] (mildly) A sailor in the Navy. | [noun] A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear. STADE (6) STAID (6) [adjective] Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober. | [adjective] Always fixed in the same location; stationary. 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. 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. STEED (6) [noun] A stallion, especially in the sense of mount. | [noun] A bicycle. STIED (6) [verb] To place in, or as if in, a sty | [verb] To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place | [verb] To ascend, rise up, climb. STOOD (6) [verb] (heading) To position or be positioned physically. | [verb] (heading) To position or be positioned mentally. | [verb] (heading) To position or be positioned socially. STUDS (6) [noun] A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding. | [noun] A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding. | [noun] (also by extension) A group of such animals. STUDY (9) [verb] (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination. | [verb] (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject. | [verb] To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice. | [noun] Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning. STYED (9) SUDDS (7) SUDOR (6) SUDSY (9) SUEDE (6) [noun] A type of soft leather, made from calfskin, with a brushed texture to resemble fabric, often used to make boots, clothing and fashion accessories. | [verb] To make (leather) into suede. | [adjective] Made of suede SURDS (6) [noun] An irrational number, especially one expressed using the √ symbol. | [noun] A voiceless consonant. 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. SWEDE (9) [noun] The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable. | [noun] The plant from which this is obtained. | [noun] The turnip. | [verb] To produce a low-budget remake of a film without the use of professional actors or filming techniques. SWORD (9) [noun] A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack. | [noun] A suit in the minor arcana in tarot. | [noun] A card of this suit. SYNOD (9) [noun] An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters. | [noun] An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | [noun] An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body. TABID (8) TAMED (8) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. TAPED (8) [verb] To bind with adhesive tape. | [verb] To record, particularly onto magnetic tape. | [verb] (passive) To understand, figure out. 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) 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. 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. TEDDY (10) [noun] By extension, any stuffed toy. | [noun] A type of all-in-one piece of women's underwear. | [noun] A plush toy in the shape of a bear. TEIID (6) TEIND (6) TENDS (6) [verb] (Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender. | [verb] (followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. | [verb] To contribute to or toward some outcome. TEPID (8) [adjective] Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool. | [adjective] Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness. TEWED (9) THIRD (9) [noun] The person or thing in the third position. | [noun] One of three equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The third gear of a gearbox. THUDS (9) [noun] The sound of a dull impact. | [noun] Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter. TIDAL (6) [adjective] Relating to tides TIDED (7) [verb] To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream. | [verb] To pour a tide or flood. | [verb] To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse. TIDES (6) [noun] The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon. | [noun] A stream, current or flood. | [noun] (chronology, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast. TILDE (6) [noun] The grapheme of character ~. | [noun] The character used to represent negation, usually ~ or ¬. TILED (6) [verb] To cover with tiles. | [verb] To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface). | [verb] To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique. TIMED (8) [verb] To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. | [verb] To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. | [verb] To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. TIMID (8) [adjective] Lacking in courage or confidence. TINED (6) TIRED (6) [verb] To become sleepy or weary. | [verb] To make sleepy or weary. | [verb] To become bored or impatient (with). 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 TODAY (9) [noun] A current day or date. | [noun] From 6am to 6pm on the current day. | [adverb] On the current day or date. TODDY (10) [noun] A drink made from alcoholic liquor mixed with sugar, spice and hot water. | [noun] The sweet sap from any of several tropical trees fermented to make an alcoholic drink. TOKED (10) [verb] To give a gratuity to. | [verb] To smoke marijuana. | [verb] To inhale a puff of marijuana TOLED (6) TONDI (6) [noun] A round picture or other work of art. TONDO (6) [noun] A round picture or other work of art. TONED (6) [verb] To give a particular tone to | [verb] To change the colour of | [verb] To make (something) firmer TOPED (8) [verb] To drink excessively; to get drunk. TOTED (6) [verb] To carry or bear. | [verb] To add up; to calculate a total. TOWED (9) TOYED (9) [verb] To play (with) in an idle or desultory way. | [verb] To ponder or consider. | [verb] To stimulate with a sex toy. 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. 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. TREED (6) [verb] To chase (an animal or person) up a tree. | [verb] To place in a tree. | [verb] To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree. TREND (6) [noun] An inclination in a particular direction. | [noun] A tendency. | [noun] A fad or fashion style. | [noun] Clean wool. 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. TRIED (6) [adjective] Tested, hence, proven to be firm or reliable. | [adjective] Put on trial, taken before a lawcourt. | [verb] To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive. TRODE (6) TRUED (6) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. TSADE (6) TSADI (6) TSKED (10) TUBED (8) [verb] To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. | [verb] To ride an inner tube. | [verb] To intubate. TUMID (8) [adjective] Swollen, enlarged, bulging | [adjective] Cancerous, unhealthy | [adjective] Pompous, bombastic TUNED (6) [verb] To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches. | [verb] To adjust or modify (esp. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally. | [verb] To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel. TURDS (6) [noun] (mildly) A piece of solid animal or human feces. | [noun] A worthless person or thing. TWEED (9) [noun] A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing. TYNED (9) TYPED (11) [verb] To put text on paper using a typewriter. | [verb] To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard. | [verb] To determine the blood type of. TYRED (9) UDDER (7) [noun] An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer. | [noun] (impolite) A woman's breast. ULNAD (6) UMPED (10) [verb] To act as an umpire. UNBID (8) UNDEE (6) UNDER (6) [adjective] Being lower; being beneath something. | [adjective] Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated. | [adverb] In a way lower or less than. UNDID (7) [verb] To reverse the effects of an action. | [verb] To unfasten. | [verb] To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of. UNDUE (6) [adjective] Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient. | [adjective] That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified. | [adjective] (of a payment etc) Not owing or payable. UNFED (9) [noun] A mosquito that has not had a blood meal. | [adjective] Not fed. | [adjective] Unsupported. UNLED (6) UNWED (9) [noun] One who is not married; a bachelor or a spinster. | [verb] To annul the marriage of. | [verb] To separate. UPDOS (8) [noun] A woman's hairdo in which most hair is kept above the neck UPDRY (11) UPEND (8) [verb] To end up; to set on end. | [verb] To tip or turn over. | [verb] To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat. UPPED (10) [verb] To increase or raise. | [verb] To promote. | [verb] (usually in combination with another verb) To act suddenly. UREDO (6) URGED (7) [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. | [verb] To provoke; to exasperate. 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. VANDA (9) VANED (9) VAPID (11) [adjective] Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging. | [adjective] Lifeless, dull, or banal. | [adjective] Tasteless, bland, or insipid. VELDS (9) [noun] The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries. VELDT (9) [noun] The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries. VENDS (9) [verb] To hawk or to peddle merchandise. | [verb] To sell wares through a vending machine. VEXED (16) [verb] To trouble aggressively, to harass. | [verb] To annoy, irritate. | [verb] To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. VIAND (9) [noun] An item of food eaten with rice. VICED (11) VIDEO (9) [noun] Television, television show, movie. | [noun] A short film clip, with or without audio (as in a music video, or one of the plethora of user-generated short movies on sites such as YouTube). | [noun] Motion picture stored on VHS or some other format. VINED (9) VIRID (9) VISED (9) VIVID (12) [noun] A felt-tipped permanent marker. | [adjective] (of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful. | [adjective] (of an image) Bright, intense or colourful. 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. VODUN (9) [noun] Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana. | [noun] The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo. | [noun] Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem. VOIDS (9) [noun] An empty space; a vacuum. | [noun] An extended region of space containing no galaxies | [noun] A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice. VOLED (9) VOTED (9) [verb] To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election | [verb] To choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent VOWED (12) [verb] To make a vow; to promise. | [verb] To make a vow regarding (something). | [verb] To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation. 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. 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. 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. WALED (9) 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. 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. WAVED (12) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). 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. WEALD (9) WEDEL (9) WEDGE (10) [noun] One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering. | [noun] A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape. | [noun] A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. | [noun] (Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos. WEDGY (13) WEEDS (9) [noun] Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing. | [noun] Short for duckweed. | [noun] Underbrush; low shrubs. | [noun] Clothes. WEEDY (12) [adjective] Abounding with weeds. | [adjective] Of, relating to or resembling weeds. | [adjective] Consisting of weeds. WEIRD (9) [noun] Fate; destiny; luck. | [noun] A prediction. | [noun] A spell or charm. WELDS (9) [noun] The joint made by welding. | [verb] To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination. | [verb] To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately. WENDS (9) [verb] To turn; change. | [verb] To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way. | [verb] To turn; make a turn; go round; veer. WHIDS (12) WIDDY (13) WIDEN (9) [verb] To become wide or wider. | [verb] To make wide or wider. | [verb] To let out clothes to a larger size. WIDER (9) [adjective] Having a large physical extent from side to side. | [adjective] Large in scope. | [adjective] Operating at the side of the playing area. WIDES (9) [noun] A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score WIDOW (12) [noun] A woman whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower. | [noun] A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried). | [noun] (in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc. WIDTH (12) [noun] The state of being wide. | [noun] The measurement of the extent of something from side to side. | [noun] A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric. WIELD (9) [verb] To command, rule over; to possess or own. | [verb] To control, to guide or manage. | [verb] To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool. WIFED (12) WILDS (9) [noun] A wood or forest | [noun] An open country | [noun] The undomesticated state of a wild animal WILED (9) [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. | [verb] To loiter. WINDS (9) [noun] Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure. | [noun] Air artificially put in motion by any force or action. | [noun] The ability to breathe easily. | [verb] To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. WINDY (12) [noun] Fart | [adjective] Accompanied by wind. | [adjective] Unsheltered and open to the wind. | [adjective] (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous. WINED (9) [verb] To entertain with wine. | [verb] To drink wine. WIPED (11) [verb] To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.) | [verb] To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out. | [verb] To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out. WIRED (9) [verb] To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing. | [verb] To string on a wire. | [verb] To equip with wires for use with electricity. WISED (9) [verb] To become wise. | [verb] Usually with "up", to inform or learn. | [verb] To instruct. WITED (9) WIVED (12) [verb] To marry (a woman). | [verb] To provide (someone) with a wife. WOADS (9) WOALD (9) WODGE (10) [noun] A bulk quantity, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad. WOLDS (9) [noun] An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor. | [noun] A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland. WOODS (9) [noun] The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel. | [noun] The wood of a particular species of tree. | [noun] A forested or wooded area. WOODY (12) [noun] An early station wagon or estate car in which the rear portion of the car's bodywork is made of wood, often associated with Southern California surfing culture. | [noun] A wooden rollercoaster; an amusement ride whose rails are overlaid upon a wooden track. | [noun] An erection of the penis. WOOED (9) [verb] To endeavor to gain someone's support. | [verb] (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with | [verb] To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. WORDS (9) [noun] The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) | [noun] Something like such a unit of language: | [noun] The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. . WORDY (12) [adjective] Using an excessive number of words. WORLD (9) [noun] (with "the") Human collective existence; existence in general. | [noun] The Universe. | [noun] (with "the") The Earth. WOULD (9) [noun] Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality. WOUND (9) [noun] An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body. | [noun] A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc. | [noun] An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken. | [verb] To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. WOWED (12) [verb] To amaze or awe. WRIED (9) WYLED (12) WYNDS (12) [noun] A narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses. | [noun] A stack of hay. WYTED (12) YAIRD (9) 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. YAUDS (9) YAULD (9) 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. YIELD (9) [verb] To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite. | [verb] To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. | [verb] To give way; to allow another to pass first. | [noun] Payment; tribute. YIRDS (9) YODEL (9) [noun] A song incorporating yodelling. | [verb] To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto. YODHS (12) YODLE (9) YOKED (13) [verb] To link or to join. | [verb] To unite, to connect. | [verb] To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine. YOWED (12) ZONED (15) [verb] To divide into or assign sections or areas. | [verb] To define the property use classification of an area. | [verb] To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off. ZOOID (15) [noun] An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid. | [noun] An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation. | [noun] One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.

ABASED (9) [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. ABATED (9) [verb] (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease. | [verb] To become null and void. | [verb] To nullify; make void. ABDUCE (11) ABDUCT (11) [verb] To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. | [verb] To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body. ABIDED (10) [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. ABIDER (9) ABIDES (9) [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. ABOARD (9) [adverb] On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. | [adverb] On or onto a horse, a camel, etc. | [adverb] On base. ABODED (10) ABODES (9) [noun] Act of waiting; delay. | [noun] Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. | [noun] A residence, dwelling or habitation. ABOUND (9) [verb] To be full to overflowing. | [verb] To be wealthy. | [verb] To be highly productive. ABRADE (9) [verb] To rub or wear off; erode. | [verb] To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate. | [verb] To irritate by rubbing; chafe. | [verb] To wrench (something) out. ABROAD (9) [noun] Countries or lands abroad. | [adverb] Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. | [adverb] At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space. ABSURD (9) [noun] An absurdity. | [noun] (often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence. | [adjective] Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly. ABUSED (9) [verb] To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert | [verb] To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly. | [verb] To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage. ACARID (9) [noun] A member of the family Acaridae, which includes mites and ticks. | [noun] Any mite or tick belonging to the order Acarina. ACCEDE (11) [verb] To approach; to arrive, to come forward. | [verb] To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of. | [verb] To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way. ACCORD (11) [noun] Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action. | [noun] A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord. | [noun] Agreement or harmony of things in general. ACEDIA (9) [noun] Spiritual or mental sloth. | [noun] Apathy; a lack of care or interest; indifference. | [noun] Boredom. ACIDIC (11) [adjective] Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red. | [adjective] Containing a high percentage of silica; opposed to basic. | [adjective] Of or relating to acid; having the character of an acid. ACIDLY (12) [adverb] Sourly; tartly ACNODE (9) [noun] An isolated point on a curve that is not connected to any other part of the curve. ADAGES (8) [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 ADAGIO (8) [noun] A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully. | [noun] A passage having this mark. | [noun] A male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts. ADAPTS (9) [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 ADDEND (9) [noun] Any one of two or more numbers or other terms that are to be added together. | [noun] A moiety added to another molecule. | [verb] To furnish with an addendum. ADDERS (8) [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. ADDICT (10) [noun] A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug | [noun] An adherent or fan (of something) | [verb] To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision. ADDING (9) [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. ADDLED (9) [verb] (provincial) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living. | [verb] (provincial) To thrive or grow; to ripen. | [verb] To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle ADDLES (8) [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. ADDUCE (10) [verb] To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. ADDUCT (10) [noun] The product of an addition reaction. | [verb] To draw towards a center or a middle line. ADEEMS (9) [verb] To revoke or take away a bequest or gift made in a will. | [verb] To fail to give what was promised or expected. ADENYL (10) [noun] A chemical group or radical derived from adenine, consisting of an adenine base bonded to a ribose sugar, found in adenosine and related nucleotides. ADEPTS (9) [noun] One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient ADHERE (10) [verb] To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united. | [verb] To be attached or devoted by personal union, in belief, on principle, etc. | [verb] To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree. ADIEUS (7) [noun] A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell. ADIEUX (14) [noun] A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell. ADIPIC (11) [adjective] Of or relating to adipic acid, a dicarboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon and other synthetic polymers. ADJOIN (14) [verb] To be in contact or connection with. | [verb] To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element). ADJURE (14) [verb] To issue a formal command. | [verb] To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly. ADJUST (14) [verb] To modify. | [verb] To improve or rectify. | [verb] To settle an insurance claim. ADMASS (9) [noun] That part of society that is influenced by mass media advertising. ADMIRE (9) [verb] To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at. | [verb] To regard with wonder and delight. | [verb] To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence. ADMITS (9) [verb] To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration | [verb] To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise. | [verb] To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny ADMIXT (16) [verb] Past tense and past participle of admix; to mix with something else. ADNATE (7) [adjective] Linked or fused to a structure of a type different from itself; for example, attachment of a stamen to a petal is adnate, while attachment of a stamen to another stamen is connate. | [adjective] Growing with one side adherent to a stem; applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals. in fish, having the eyes fused and unable to rotate independently ADNEXA (14) [noun] The appendages of an organ, such as the fallopian tubes of the uterus. ADNOUN (7) ADOBES (9) [noun] An unburnt brick dried in the sun. | [noun] The earth from which such bricks are made. | [noun] A house made of adobe brick. ADOBOS (9) [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. ADONIS (7) [noun] A handsome young man. | [noun] A type of butterfly or plant of the genus Adonis. ADOPTS (9) [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. ADORED (8) [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. ADORER (7) [noun] One who adores; a person who worships or loves deeply. | [noun] In some contexts, a title or form of address for a revered person. ADORES (7) [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. ADORNS (7) [verb] To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate. ADRIFT (10) [adjective] Floating at random. | [adjective] (of a seaman) Absent from his watch. | [adjective] (often with of) Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position. ADROIT (7) [adjective] Deft, dexterous, or skillful. ADSORB (9) [verb] To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption ADULTS (7) [noun] A fully grown human or animal. | [noun] A person who has reached the legal age of majority. ADVECT (12) [verb] To transport (something) by advection. ADVENT (10) [noun] Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears ADVERB (12) [noun] (grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses. | [verb] To make into or become an adverb. ADVERT (10) [noun] An advertisement, an ad. | [verb] To take notice, to pay attention (to). | [verb] To turn attention to, to take notice of (something). ADVICE (12) [noun] An opinion offered in an effort to be helpful. | [noun] Deliberate consideration; knowledge. | [noun] (commonly in plural) Information or news given; intelligence ADVISE (10) [verb] To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed. | [verb] To recommend; to offer as advice. | [verb] To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated. ADYTUM (12) [noun] The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given. | [noun] (by extension) A private chamber; a sanctum. ADZUKI (20) [noun] Either the plant or the seed of the azuki bean. AEDILE (7) [noun] An elected official who was responsible for the maintenance of public buildings, regulation of festivals, supervision of markets and the supply of grain and water. AEDINE (7) AERIED (7) [verb] Past tense of "aery," meaning to nest or build an aerie (eagle's nest). | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of an aerie; located high up. AFEARD (10) [adjective] Afraid AFFORD (13) [verb] To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. | [verb] To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury. | [verb] To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue. AFIELD (10) [adverb] Away (from the home or starting point, physical or conceptual); usually preceded by far (or farther, further). | [adverb] On the field. | [adverb] Out in the open. AFRAID (10) [adjective] (usually used predicatively, not attributively, be afraid) Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear. | [adjective] Regretful, sorry. | [adjective] (used with for) Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something). AGEDLY (11) [adverb] In a manner characteristic of old age; in an aged way. AGENDA (8) [noun] A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to. | [noun] A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting). | [noun] A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner. AGREED (8) [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. AHOLDS (10) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "ahold," meaning to grasp or obtain a hold of something. AIDERS (7) [noun] People who help or assist others. | [noun] Plural of aider, one who aids. AIDFUL (10) AIDING (8) [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. | [noun] The act of one who aids or assists. AIDMAN (9) [noun] A medical corpsman or soldier trained to provide first aid and emergency medical treatment on the battlefield. AIDMEN (9) [noun] Plural of aidman; military medical personnel who provide first aid on the battlefield. AIKIDO (11) [noun] A Japanese martial art developed from jujitsu and making use of holds and throws. | [noun] A school of the martial art. AIRTED (7) AISLED (7) [adjective] Having an aisle or aisles; arranged with aisles. ALANDS (7) ALATED (7) ALBEDO (9) [noun] The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as a percentage. | [noun] The whitish inner portion of the rind of citrus fruits that is a source of pectin, commonly referred to as the pith. | [noun] One of the four major stages of the magnum opus, involving purification of the prima materia. ALCADE (9) ALCIDS (9) [noun] A bird of the family Alcidae, including auks, auklets, razorbills, dovekies, guillemots, and puffins. ALDERS (7) [noun] Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family. | [noun] An alderman or alderwoman. ALDOLS (7) ALDOSE (7) ALDRIN (7) [noun] An insecticide and persistent organic pollutant containing a naphthalene-derived compound. ALGOID (8) ALIDAD (8) ALINED (7) ALIPED (9) ALKYDS (14) [noun] A synthetic resin derived from a reaction between alcohol and certain acids, used as a base for many laminates, paints and coatings. ALLIED (7) [adjective] Joined as allies. | [adjective] Related. | [verb] To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy. ALLODS (7) [noun] Allodium ALLUDE (7) [verb] To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion. ALMOND (9) [noun] A type of tree nut. | [noun] A small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus dulcis, that produces predominantly sweet almonds. | [noun] Other plants that produce almond-like nuts: ALMUDE (9) ALMUDS (9) ALODIA (7) ALUDEL (7) [noun] A pear-shaped pot with an opening at each end, formerly used, especially by alchemists, for sublimation. AMADOU (9) [noun] A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder. AMAZED (18) [verb] To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex. | [verb] To undergo amazement; to be astounded. | [verb] To stupefy; to knock unconscious. AMBLED (11) [verb] To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely. | [verb] Of a quadruped: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other. AMENDS (9) [noun] (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation. | [verb] To make better; improve. | [verb] To become better. AMIDES (9) [noun] Any derivative of an oxoacid in which the hydroxyl group has been replaced with an amino or substituted amino group; especially such derivatives of a carboxylic acid, the carboxamides or acid amides | [noun] Any ionic derivative of ammonia in which a hydrogen atom has been replaced with a metal cation (R-NH- or R2N-) AMIDIC (11) AMIDIN (9) AMIDOL (9) AMIDST (9) [preposition] In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among. AMUSED (9) [verb] To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions. | [verb] To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny. | [verb] To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude. ANADEM (9) [noun] A wreath or garland, especially one worn on the head as a crown or decoration. ANELED (7) [verb] To anoint; to give extreme unction with oil. ANGLED (8) [verb] (often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle. | [verb] To change direction rapidly. | [verb] To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint. ANKLED (11) [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. | [adjective] (in combination) Having some specific type of ankle. ANODAL (7) [adjective] Of or relating to an anode, the positive electrode in an electrical device. ANODES (7) [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. ANODIC (9) [adjective] Relating to or functioning as an anode, the positive electrode in an electrical device or electrochemical cell. ANTEED (7) [verb] Past tense of "ante," meaning to put up a stake or payment, especially in poker or other games. AOUDAD (8) [noun] The Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia. APHIDS (12) [noun] Sapsucking pest insect of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian. APODAL (9) [adjective] Without feet or fins; lacking limbs or appendages. APPEND (11) [noun] An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file. | [verb] To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended | [verb] To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex ARAMID (9) [noun] Any of a class of strong, heat-resistant synthetic fibres, used in aerospace and military applications. ARCADE (9) [noun] A row of arches. | [noun] A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides. | [noun] An establishment that runs coin-operated games. ARCHED (12) [verb] To form into an arch shape | [verb] To cover with an arch or arches. | [adjective] Curved. ARCKED (13) ARDEBS (9) [noun] A unit of dry measure used in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries, equal to about 5.6 bushels or roughly 198 liters. ARDENT (7) [adjective] Full of ardor; fervent, passionate. | [adjective] Burning; glowing; shining. ARDORS (7) [noun] Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion. | [noun] Spirit; enthusiasm; passion. | [noun] Intense heat. ARDOUR (7) [noun] Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion. | [noun] Spirit; enthusiasm; passion. | [noun] Intense heat. ARGLED (8) [verb] Past tense of "argle," meaning to argue or dispute, particularly in a petty or prolonged manner. ARGUED (8) [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. ARIDER (7) ARIDLY (10) [adverb] In a dry or arid manner; in a way that is dull, uninteresting, or lacking moisture or emotion. ARILED (7) [adjective] Having an aril; equipped with an aril (a seed covering or appendage). ARMADA (9) [noun] A fleet of warships, especially with reference to the Spanish Armada. | [noun] Any large army or fleet of military vessels. | [noun] A large flock of anything. AROIDS (7) [noun] Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics. AROUND (7) [adjective] (with the verb "to be") Present in the vicinity. | [adjective] (with the verb "to be") Alive; existing. | [adverb] So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof. ASCEND (9) [verb] To move upward, to fly, to soar. | [verb] To slope in an upward direction. | [verb] To go up. ASDICS (9) ASIDES (7) [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. ATONED (7) [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. ATTEND (7) [verb] To listen to (something or someone); to pay attention to; regard; heed. | [verb] To listen (to, unto). | [verb] To turn one's consideration (to); to deal with (a task, problem, concern etc.), to look after. | [verb] To set on fire; kindle. AUBADE (9) [noun] A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn. | [noun] A morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning. AUDADS (8) AUDIAL (7) [adjective] Of or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing. AUDILE (7) [noun] A person whose mental imagery consists of sounds. | [adjective] Pertaining to hearing. AUDING (8) [verb] The present participle of "audi," meaning to listen or hear; used in some contexts related to audio or auditory processes. AUDIOS (7) [noun] Plural of audio; recordings or broadcasts of sound. | [noun] Audio equipment or systems. AUDITS (7) [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 AUGEND (8) [noun] A quantity to which another is added. AULDER (7) AUTOED (7) AVIDIN (10) [noun] A tetrameric protein produced in the oviducts of birds, reptiles and amphibians and deposited in the whites of their eggs. AVIDLY (13) [adverb] In an avid manner; greedily; eagerly. AVOIDS (10) [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 AVOWED (13) [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. AWAKED (14) [verb] Past tense of awake; to wake up or become conscious. | [verb] To rouse from sleep or inactivity. AWARDS (10) [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. AXISED (14) AXSEED (14) AZIDES (16) [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^-) AZOTED (16) [adjective] Containing nitrogen or combined with nitrogen. BABIED (11) [adjective] Spoiled or coddled. | [verb] To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant. | [verb] To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over. BACHED (14) [verb] To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress. (Compare bachelor pad.) BACKED (15) [verb] To go in the reverse direction. | [verb] To support. | [verb] (of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere. | [adjective] Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead. BADASS (9) [noun] (negative connotation) A belligerent or mean person; a person with an unpleasantly extreme appearance, attitudes, or behavior. | [noun] (youth slang, positive connotation) A person considered impressive due to courage, skill, and/or toughness. | [adjective] (negative connotation) Belligerent and troublesome. BADDER (10) [adjective] Fantastic. BADDIE (10) [noun] A person of bad character in a work of fiction. BADGED (11) [verb] To mark or distinguish with a badge. | [verb] To show a badge to. | [verb] To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge. BADGER (10) [noun] Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger). | [noun] A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin. | [noun] A brush made of badger hair. | [noun] An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. BADGES (10) [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. BADMAN (11) [noun] A criminal or violent person, especially in Jamaican English or dancehall culture. | [noun] In gaming contexts, a skilled or formidable player or character. BADMEN (11) [noun] Plural of badman; criminals, gangsters, or tough individuals, particularly in Caribbean English and reggae culture. BAFFED (15) [verb] Past tense of baff, to strike a golf ball with the sole of the club. | [verb] Past tense of baff, to strike or hit something. BAGGED (11) [verb] To put into a bag. | [verb] To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting. | [verb] To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something. BAILED (9) [verb] To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail. | [verb] To release a person under such guarantee. | [verb] To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment. BAITED (9) [verb] To attract with bait; to entice. | [verb] To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line. | [verb] To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport. BALDED (10) [verb] Past tense of bald; to make bald or to become bald. | [adjective] Having become bald or made bald. BALDER (9) [adjective] Having no hair, fur or feathers. | [adjective] (by extension) Denuded of any hair- or fur-like covering. | [adjective] Of tyres: whose surface is worn away. BALDLY (12) [adverb] In a bald manner. BALKED (13) [verb] To pass over or by. | [verb] To omit, miss or overlook by chance. | [verb] To miss intentionally; to avoid. BALLAD (9) [noun] A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas. | [noun] A slow romantic song. | [verb] To make mention of in ballads. BALLED (9) [verb] To form or wind into a ball. | [verb] To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. BAMMED (13) BANDED (10) [verb] To fasten with a band. | [verb] To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird). | [verb] To group together for a common purpose; to confederate. BANDER (9) [noun] One who bands together with others. | [verb] Third person singular of "band," meaning to unite or gather together. BANDIT (9) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. BANDOG (10) [noun] A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog. | [noun] (specifically) A type of large, ferocious dog, bred by crossing American pit bull terriers with Neapolitan mastiffs. | [noun] A bailiff or prison guard. BANGED (10) [verb] To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something. | [verb] To hit hard. | [verb] To engage in sexual intercourse. BANKED (13) [verb] To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client. | [verb] To put into a bank. | [verb] To conceal in the rectum for use in prison. BANNED (9) [verb] To summon; to call out. | [verb] To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban. | [verb] To curse; to execrate. BARBED (11) [verb] To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc. | [verb] To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard. | [verb] To cut (hair). BARDED (10) [adjective] (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor | [adjective] Wearing rich caparisons. BARDES (9) [noun] Plural of barde, a piece of armor for a horse. | [verb] Third person singular of barde, to cover a horse with armor. BARDIC (11) [adjective] Of or relating to bards or bardic poetry; characteristic of or suitable for a bard or minstrel. BARFED (12) [verb] To vomit. | [verb] Of a system: to fail. BARGED (10) [verb] To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner. | [verb] To push someone. BARKED (13) [verb] To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). | [verb] To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. | [verb] To speak sharply. BARRED (9) [verb] To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). | [verb] To prohibit. | [verb] To lock or bolt with a bar. BASHED (12) [verb] To strike heavily. | [verb] To collide. | [verb] To criticize harshly. BASKED (13) [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"). BASTED (9) [verb] To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric. | [verb] To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. | [verb] (by extension) To coat over something. BATHED (12) [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. | [verb] To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath. | [verb] To wash a person or animal in a bath BATTED (9) [verb] To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat. | [verb] To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding. | [verb] To strike or swipe as though with a bat. BAWDRY (15) [noun] The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust. | [noun] Illicit intercourse; fornication. | [noun] Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. BAWLED (12) [verb] To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. | [verb] To wail; to give out a blaring cry. BAYARD (12) [noun] A horse, especially a bay-colored horse. | [noun] A man of courage and integrity; a knight or gallant person. BEADED (10) [verb] To form into a bead. | [verb] To apply beads to. | [verb] To form into a bead. BEADLE (9) [noun] A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order | [noun] (ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister | [noun] A warrant officer BEAKED (13) [adjective] Having a beak or beak-like projection. | [verb] Past tense of beak, to strike or peck with a beak. BEAMED (11) [verb] To emit beams of light; shine; radiate. | [verb] To smile broadly or especially cheerfully. | [verb] To furnish or supply with beams BEANED (9) [verb] To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head. BEARDS (9) [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. BECKED (15) BEDAMN (11) [verb] To curse or damn; to condemn or express anger at. BEDAUB (11) [verb] To smear upon; to soil. | [verb] To ornament garishly; to overdecorate. BEDBUG (12) [noun] A small nocturnal insect (Cimex lectularius), of the family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts. BEDDED (11) [verb] Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping. | [verb] Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid. BEDDER (10) [noun] Agent noun of bed; one who beds. | [noun] (Cambridge University) A bedmaker; a maid; a college servant, generally female, cleaning rooms in Cambridge University (compare: college porter and gyp), somewhat similar to an Oxford University scout. BEDECK (15) [verb] To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. BEDELL (9) [noun] A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order | [noun] (ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister | [noun] A warrant officer BEDELS (9) [noun] An administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students. BEDEWS (12) [verb] To make wet with or as if with dew. BEDIMS (11) [verb] To make dim; to obscure or darken. BEDLAM (11) [noun] A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails. | [noun] An insane person; a lunatic; a madman. | [noun] A lunatic asylum; a madhouse. BEDPAN (11) [noun] A pan used for urination and defecation while in bed, now usually for reasons of medical necessity or convenience. BEDRID (10) [adjective] Confined to bed by illness or infirmity; bedridden. BEDRUG (10) [verb] To drug again or excessively. BEDSIT (9) [noun] A form of rented accommodation consisting of a single room for use as both sitting room and bedroom; there may also be a small kitchen area and washing and toilet facilities, but these amenities are more commonly outside the room and shared by several tenants. BEDUIN (9) [noun] A member of a nomadic Arab people of the desert regions of North Africa and Southwest Asia; also spelled Bedouin. BEDUMB (13) BEEFED (12) [verb] To complain. | [verb] To add weight or strength to; to beef up. | [verb] To fart; break wind. BEEPED (11) [verb] To sound (something that makes a beep). | [verb] To have sexual intercourse (with) - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts | [verb] To produce a beep. BEGGED (11) [verb] To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. | [verb] To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. | [verb] In the phrase beg the question: to assume. BEGIRD (10) [verb] To encircle or gird about; to surround or bind with a belt or band. BEGLAD (10) BEHEAD (12) [verb] To remove the head of; to cut someone's head off. BEHELD (12) [verb] To see or look at, esp. appreciatively; to descry, look upon. | [verb] To look. | [verb] To contemplate. BEHIND (12) [noun] The rear, back-end | [noun] Butt, the buttocks, bottom | [noun] A one-point score. BEHOLD (12) [verb] To see or look at, esp. appreciatively; to descry, look upon. | [verb] To look. | [verb] To contemplate. BELADY (12) BELAUD (9) BELDAM (11) [noun] A grandmother. | [noun] An old woman, particularly an ugly one. BELIED (9) [verb] To tell lies about. | [verb] To give a false representation of. | [verb] To contradict, to show (something) to be false. BELLED (9) [verb] To attach a bell to. | [verb] To shape so that it flares out like a bell. | [verb] To telephone. BELTED (9) [verb] To encircle. | [verb] To fasten a belt on. | [verb] To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood. BENDAY (12) [noun] A printing technique using dots or lines to create shading or color effects in illustrations. | [verb] To apply the Benday process to an image. BENDED (10) [verb] Past tense and past participle of bend, meaning to curve or flex something. | [adjective] Curved or formed into a bend. BENDEE (9) BENDER (9) [noun] One who, or that which, bends. | [noun] A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle. | [noun] A bout of heavy drinking. BENDYS (12) [adjective] Flexible; capable of bending without breaking. | [noun] Plural of bendy, referring to flexible objects or articulated buses. BESIDE (9) [adverb] Otherwise; else. | [preposition] Next to; at the side of. | [preposition] Not relevant to. BESTED (9) [verb] To surpass in skill or achievement. | [verb] To beat in a contest BESTUD (9) [verb] To set or decorate with studs; to be studded with something. BETIDE (9) [verb] To happen unto; to befall. | [verb] To happen; to take place; to bechance or befall. BETTED (9) [verb] To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager. | [verb] To be sure of something; to be able to count on something. | [verb] To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round. BEYOND (12) [noun] The unknown. | [noun] The hereafter. | [noun] Something that is far beyond. BIASED (9) [verb] To place bias upon; to influence. | [adjective] Exhibiting bias; prejudiced. | [adjective] Angled at a slant. BIBBED (13) [verb] To dress (somebody) in a bib. | [verb] To drink heartily; to tipple. | [verb] To beep (e.g. a car horn). BIDDEN (10) [verb] To issue a command; to tell. | [verb] To invite; to summon. | [verb] To utter a greeting or salutation. BIDDER (10) [noun] Someone who bids, e.g. at an auction BIDERS (9) [noun] Plural of bider; those who bide or wait. | [noun] In some contexts, those who make bids. BIDETS (9) [noun] A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus. | [noun] A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. BIDING (10) [noun] An awaiting; expectation. | [noun] Residence; habitation. | [verb] To bear; to endure; to tolerate. BIELDS (9) [noun] A shelter or refuge, especially for sheep or cattle. | [verb] To shelter or protect from wind or weather. BIFFED (15) [verb] To punch or hit. | [verb] To discard; to throw out; to throw away. | [verb] To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall. BIFOLD (12) [noun] A door, window, shutter, or divider consisting of two equal panels hinged together so that it opens by folding the panels against each other. | [noun] A sheet of paper or cardboard folded in half along a crease down the center. | [noun] A wallet, billfold, or carrying case with a single fold, so that it opens like a book. BILGED (10) [verb] To spring a leak in the bilge. | [verb] To bulge or swell. | [verb] To break open the bilge(s) of. BILKED (13) [verb] To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage. | [verb] To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone). | [verb] To evade, elude. BILLED (9) [verb] To dig, chop, etc., with a bill. | [verb] To peck | [verb] To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness BINDER (9) [noun] Someone who binds | [noun] A cover or holder for unbound papers, pages etc. | [noun] Something that is used to bind things together, often referring to the mechanism that accomplishes this for a book. BINDIS (9) [noun] The “holy dot” traditionally worn on the forehead of married Hindu women. | [noun] Makeup or jewellery worn in imitation of such a dot. | [noun] The common lawn weed, Soliva sessilis, introduced to Australia from South America. BINDLE (9) [noun] A bundle carried by a hobo, typically containing personal belongings tied in cloth and carried on a stick. BINGED (10) [verb] To go; walk; come; run | [verb] Making the sound of a bounce | [verb] To bounce BINNED (9) [verb] To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin. | [verb] To throw away, reject, give up. | [verb] To convert continuous data into discrete groups. BIPEDS (11) [noun] An animal, being or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs). BIPODS (11) [noun] A two-legged stand. BIRDED (10) [verb] Scored one stroke under par on a golf hole. | [verb] Past tense of bird, meaning to hunt for or observe birds. BIRDER (9) [noun] A birdwatcher. | [noun] A person who hunts birds. BIRDIE (9) [noun] (diminutive) A (little) bird; a birdling; a child's term for a bird. | [noun] The completion of a hole one stroke below par. | [noun] A shuttlecock. BIRLED (9) [verb] To pour a drink (for). | [verb] To drink deeply or excessively; carouse. BIRRED (9) [verb] Past tense of "birr," meaning to make a whirring sound or to move with a whirring noise. BITTED (9) [verb] To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse). | [verb] To put round the bitts. BLADED (10) [verb] To skate on rollerblades. | [verb] To furnish with a blade. | [verb] To put forth or have a blade. BLADES (9) [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. BLAMED (11) [verb] To censure (someone or something); to criticize. | [verb] To bring into disrepute. | [verb] (usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative). BLARED (9) [verb] To make a loud sound. | [verb] To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly. BLAWED (12) [verb] Past tense of "blaw," a Scottish dialect word meaning to blow. BLAZED (18) [verb] To be on fire, especially producing bright flames. | [verb] To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame. | [verb] To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.). BLEEDS (9) [noun] An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia. | [noun] A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet). | [noun] (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended. BLENDE (9) [noun] Sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc) BLENDS (9) [noun] A mixture of two or more things. | [noun] A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word. | [verb] To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. BLINDS (9) [noun] A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass. | [noun] A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc. | [noun] Any device intended to conceal or hide. BLONDE (9) [noun] A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color. | [noun] A person with this hair color. | [adjective] Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour. BLONDS (9) [noun] A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color. | [noun] A person with this hair color. | [verb] To color or dye blond BLOODS (9) [noun] A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods. | [noun] A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow. | [noun] A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood). BLOODY (12) [verb] To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight. | [verb] To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent. | [adjective] Covered in blood. | [noun] (casual) bloody mary BLOWED (12) [verb] Past tense and past participle of blow, used in some dialects or informal speech (non-standard form of "blew"). BLUMED (11) BOARDS (9) [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. | [verb] To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance. BOATED (9) [verb] To travel by boat. | [verb] To transport in a boat. | [verb] To place in a boat. BOBBED (13) [verb] To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium. | [verb] To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water. | [verb] To curtsy. BODEGA (10) [noun] A storehouse for maturing wine, a winery. | [noun] A store specializing in Hispanic groceries. | [noun] Any convenience store. BODICE (11) [noun] A sleeveless shirt for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves. | [noun] Blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or European folk costume. | [noun] The upper portion of a women's one-piece dress, equivalent to a shirt. BODIED (10) [adjective] (in combination) Having a specified form of body. | [adjective] Having a bodily form; corporeal or incarnate. | [verb] To give body or shape to something. BODIES (9) [noun] Physical frame. | [noun] Main section. | [noun] Coherent group. BODILY (12) [adjective] Of, relating to, or concerning the body. | [adjective] Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal. | [adjective] Real; actual; put into execution. BODING (10) [verb] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell. | [verb] (followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future. | [noun] An omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent. BODKIN (13) [noun] A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather. | [noun] A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing. | [noun] A hairpin. BOGGED (11) [verb] (now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland. | [verb] To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress. | [verb] (now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland. BOILED (9) [verb] (of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas. | [verb] To cook in boiling water. | [verb] (of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe. BOLDER (9) [adjective] Courageous, daring. | [adjective] Visually striking; conspicuous. | [adjective] (of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface. BOLDLY (12) [adverb] In a bold manner; with confidence. BOLIDE (9) [noun] An extremely bright meteor. | [noun] Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth. | [noun] A fireball. BOLLED (9) [verb] Past tense of "boll," meaning to form a seed pod or to swell into a rounded shape, as cotton does when it develops its fluffy seed pod. | [adjective] Having formed into a boll or seed pod. BOLTED (9) [verb] To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt. | [verb] To secure a door by locking or barring it. | [verb] To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly. BOMBED (13) [verb] To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard. | [verb] To fail dismally. | [verb] To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs. BONDED (10) [verb] To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind. | [verb] To cause to adhere (one material with another). | [verb] To form a chemical compound with. BONDER (9) [noun] One who bonds; a person or thing that creates or strengthens a bond. | [noun] In construction, a worker who applies bonding agents or works with bonded materials. BONDUC (11) [noun] A tropical climbing plant with prickly seed pods, also known as the nicker nut or fever nut. BONGED (10) [verb] To pull a bell. | [verb] To ring a doorbell. BONKED (13) [verb] To strike or collide with something. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse. | [verb] To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair. BOOBED (11) [verb] To behave stupidly; to act like a boob. | [verb] To make a mistake | [adjective] (in composition) Having boobs (breasts) of a specified kind. BOODLE (9) [noun] Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag. | [noun] The whole collection or lot; caboodle. BOOKED (13) [verb] To reserve (something) for future use. | [verb] To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. | [verb] (law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. BOOMED (11) [verb] To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound. | [verb] (of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder. | [verb] To make something boom. BOOTED (9) [verb] To kick. | [verb] To put boots on, especially for riding. | [verb] To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering). BOOZED (18) [verb] To drink alcohol. BOPPED (13) [verb] To strike gently or playfully. | [verb] To dance to this music, or any sort of popular music with a strong beat. | [verb] To have sex. BORDEL (9) [noun] A brothel or house of prostitution. BORDER (9) [noun] The outer edge of something. | [noun] A decorative strip around the edge of something. | [noun] A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown. BORIDE (9) [noun] The B3− anion | [noun] Any binary compound of boron and a more electropositive element BOSSED (9) [verb] To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly. | [verb] To decorate with bosses; to emboss. BOUNDS (9) [noun] (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory. | [noun] A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values. | [verb] To surround a territory or other geographical entity. BOUSED (9) [verb] Past tense of bouse; to drink heavily or excessively. | [verb] To haul or pull with tackle, especially in nautical contexts. BOVIDS (12) [noun] An animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, gazelle, goat, and sheep). BOWLED (12) [verb] To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports. | [verb] To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports). | [verb] To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels. BOWSED (12) [verb] Past tense of bowse, meaning to haul or pull with a rope, especially in nautical contexts. | [adjective] Drunk or intoxicated (archaic slang). BOYARD (12) [noun] A member of the old Russian aristocracy or landowning class. BRACED (11) [verb] To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow. | [verb] To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly. | [verb] To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind. | [adjective] Having braces or similar supports. BRAIDS (9) [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 BRAKED (13) [verb] To bruise and crush; to knead | [verb] To pulverise with a harrow | [verb] To operate (a) brake(s). BRANDS (9) [noun] A conflagration; a flame. | [noun] A piece of burning wood or peat, or a glowing cinder. | [noun] A torch used for signaling. BRANDY (12) [noun] An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice. | [noun] Any variety of brandy. | [noun] A glass of brandy. BRAVED (12) [verb] To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke. | [verb] To adorn; to make fine or showy. BRAYED (12) [verb] Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry. | [verb] (by extension) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray. | [verb] To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner. BRAZED (18) [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. BREADS (9) [noun] A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. | [noun] Any variety of bread. | [noun] Money. BREADY (12) [adjective] Like bread | [adjective] Full of or containing a large quantity of bread BREDES (9) [noun] Plural of brede, an archaic or poetic term for a broad sword or blade. | [noun] Embroidered designs or patterns, plural of brede in the sense of broidery or needlework. BREEDS (9) [noun] All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies. | [noun] A race or lineage; offspring or issue. | [noun] A group of people with shared characteristics. BREWED (12) [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. | [verb] To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull. | [verb] To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water. BRIARD (9) [noun] A large French sheepdog with a long, shaggy coat, originally bred for herding sheep. BRIBED (11) [verb] To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble. | [verb] To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe. BRIDAL (9) [noun] A wedding feast or festival; a wedding. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial. BRIDES (9) [noun] A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married. | [noun] An object ardently loved. | [verb] To make a bride of BRIDGE (10) [noun] A construction or natural feature that spans a divide. | [noun] An arch or superstructure. | [noun] A connection, real or abstract. | [noun] A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each. BRIDLE (9) [noun] The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins. | [noun] A restraint; a curb; a check. | [noun] A length of line or cable attached to two parts of something to spread the force of a pull, as the rigging on a kite for attaching line. BRINED (9) [verb] To preserve food in a salt solution. | [verb] To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution. BROADS (9) [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. BROMID (11) [noun] A hackneyed or trite saying; a platitude. | [noun] A chemical compound of bromine with another element or radical. BROODS (9) [noun] The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. | [noun] The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. | [noun] The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony. BROODY (12) [noun] A female bird in the condition to incubate eggs; a broody hen, duck, etc. | [adjective] Of birds: sitting persistently and protectively on a nest, in order to hatch eggs. | [adjective] Of any creature or person: showing an interest in raising young. BROWED (12) [adjective] (in combination) Having a brow. BRUTED (9) [verb] Past tense of brute, meaning to shape a diamond by grinding it against another diamond. | [verb] To spread rumors or gossip about someone. BUBOED (11) [adjective] Affected with or having buboes (swollen lymph nodes, especially in the groin, characteristic of bubonic plague). BUCKED (15) [verb] To copulate, as bucks and does. | [verb] To bend; buckle. | [verb] (of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack. BUDDED (11) [verb] To form buds. | [verb] To reproduce by splitting off buds. | [verb] To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. BUDDER (10) [noun] A substance made by churning cream or milk, used as a spread and in cooking. | [noun] Something or someone that butts. BUDDLE (10) [noun] An apparatus on which crushed ore is washed. | [verb] To wash (ore) in a buddle. BUDGED (11) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. BUDGER (10) [noun] One who budges or moves slightly. | [noun] A person or thing that refuses to budge. BUDGES (10) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. BUDGET (10) [noun] The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame. | [noun] An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue. | [noun] A wallet, purse or bag. BUDGIE (10) [noun] A budgerigar. BUFFED (15) [verb] To polish and make shiny by rubbing. | [verb] To make a character or an item stronger. | [verb] To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner. BUGGED (11) [verb] To annoy. | [verb] To install an electronic listening device or devices in. | [adjective] (on one's person or of a telephone line, dwelling, room, etc.) Containing a bug (interceptive listening device). BUGLED (10) [verb] To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle | [adjective] Ornamented with bugles. | [adjective] Played by a bugle. BUILDS (9) [noun] The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body. | [noun] Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users. | [noun] Any structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, created by the player. BULBED (11) [adjective] Having a bulb or bulb-like shape; swollen or rounded at one end. | [verb] Past tense of bulb, meaning to swell or form into a bulb shape. BULGED (10) [verb] To stick out from (a surface). | [verb] To bilge, as a ship; to founder. BULKED (13) [verb] To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent. | [verb] To grow in size; to swell or expand. | [verb] To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc. BULLED (9) [verb] To force oneself (in a particular direction). | [verb] To lie, to tell untruths. | [verb] To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. BUMMED (13) [verb] To sodomize; to engage in anal sex. | [verb] To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something. | [verb] To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter. BUMPED (13) [verb] To knock against or run into with a jolt. | [verb] To move up or down by a step; displace. | [verb] To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads. BUNDLE (9) [noun] A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. | [noun] A package wrapped or tied up for carrying. | [noun] A group of products or services sold together as a unit. BUNDTS (9) [noun] Plural of bundt, referring to a type of ring-shaped cake pan or the cake baked in such a pan. BUNGED (10) [verb] To plug, as with a bung. | [verb] To put or throw somewhere without care; to chuck. | [verb] To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell. BUNKED (13) [verb] To occupy a bunk. | [verb] To provide a bunk. | [verb] To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off'). BUNTED (9) [verb] To push with the horns; to butt. | [verb] To spring or rear up. | [verb] To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance. BUOYED (12) [verb] To keep afloat or aloft; used with up. | [verb] To support or maintain at a high level. | [verb] To mark with a buoy. BURDEN (9) [noun] A heavy load. | [noun] A responsibility, onus. | [noun] A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. | [noun] A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad. BURDIE (9) BURIED (9) [adjective] Placed in a grave at a burial. | [adjective] Concealed, hidden. | [verb] To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. BURKED (13) [verb] To suppress or smother something, especially a scandal or unwanted information. | [verb] To murder someone by suffocation, especially for the purpose of selling the body for dissection. BURLED (9) [verb] Past tense of burl; to remove burls (knotty growths) from cloth or wood. | [verb] To throw or hurl with force. BURNED (9) [verb] To cause to be consumed by fire. | [verb] To be consumed by fire, or in flames. | [verb] To overheat so as to make unusable. BURPED (11) [verb] To emit a burp. | [verb] To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp. BURRED (9) [verb] To pronounce with a uvular "r". | [verb] To make a rough humming sound. BUSHED (12) [adjective] Very tired; exhausted. | [adjective] Mentally unwell due to isolation, especially due to working in a remote mine or camp; experiencing cabin fever. | [adjective] Incorporating a bush, a mechanical part. BUSIED (9) [verb] To make somebody busy or active; to occupy. | [verb] To rush somebody. BUSKED (13) [verb] To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. | [verb] To go; to direct one's course. | [verb] To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport BUSSED (9) [verb] To transport via a motor bus. | [verb] To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. | [verb] To travel by bus. BUSTED (9) [adjective] (often used in combination with an adjective) Having a certain type of bust (breasts; cleavage). | [verb] To break. | [verb] To arrest (someone) for a crime. BUTLED (9) [verb] To serve as or perform the duties of a butler. BUTTED (9) [verb] To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. | [verb] To strike bluntly, particularly with the head. | [verb] To strike bluntly with the head. | [verb] Use the word "but". BUZZED (27) [verb] To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. | [verb] To show a high level of activity and haste (alluding to the common simile "busy as a bee"). Often in the colloquial imperative "Buzz off!" | [verb] To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly. BYRLED (12) BYROAD (12) [noun] A road less frequented than a highway; a byway. BYWORD (15) [noun] A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase. | [noun] A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group. | [noun] Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits. CABBED (13) [verb] To travel by taxicab. CABLED (11) [verb] To provide with cable(s) | [verb] To fasten (as if) with cable(s) | [verb] To wrap wires to form a cable CACHED (14) [verb] To place in a cache. CADDIE (10) [noun] A golfer's assistant and adviser. | [verb] To serve as a golf caddie. | [noun] A Scottish errand boy, porter, or messenger. | [noun] A small tray with a handle and compartments for holding items. CADDIS (10) [noun] The larva of a caddis fly. They generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with debris. | [noun] A rough woolen cloth; caddice. | [noun] A kind of worsted lace or ribbon. CADENT (9) [adjective] Having a rhythmic fall or cadence; falling or sinking. | [adjective] (archaic) Decaying or declining. CADETS (9) [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.) CADGED (11) [verb] To beg. | [verb] To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do. | [verb] To carry hawks and other birds of prey. CADGER (10) [noun] A person who cadges; someone who begs or obtains things by begging or borrowing. CADGES (10) [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. CADMIC (13) CADRES (9) [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. CAIRDS (9) CALKED (13) [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. | [verb] To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight. | [verb] To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials. CALLED (9) [verb] (heading) To use one's voice. | [verb] (heading) To visit. | [verb] (heading) To name, identify or describe. CALMED (11) [verb] To make calm. | [verb] To become calm. CALVED (12) [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) CAMPED (13) [verb] To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation. | [verb] To set up a camp. | [verb] To afford rest or lodging for. CANARD (9) [noun] A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so. | [noun] A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing. | [noun] Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization. CANDID (10) [noun] A spontaneous or unposed photograph. | [adjective] Impartial and free from prejudice. | [adjective] Straightforward, open and sincere. CANDLE (9) [noun] A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin. | [noun] The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter. | [noun] A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela. CANDOR (9) [noun] Whiteness; brilliance; purity. | [noun] The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. | [noun] Impartiality. CANIDS (9) [noun] Any member of the family Canidae, including dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes and jackals. CANNED (9) [verb] To seal in a can. | [verb] To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can. | [verb] To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.). CANOED (9) [verb] To ride or paddle a canoe. CANTED (9) [verb] To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup. | [verb] To speak in set phrases. | [verb] To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner. CAPPED (13) [verb] To cover or seal with a cap. | [verb] To award a cap as a mark of distinction. | [verb] To lie over or on top of something. CAPSID (11) [noun] The outer protein shell of a virus CARDED (10) [verb] To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement. | [verb] To play cards. | [verb] To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card. CARDER (9) [noun] A person or machine that cards fibers such as wool or cotton to prepare them for spinning. | [noun] A person who uses a card, especially a credit card. CARDIA (9) [noun] The area of the stomach which directly receives contents from the esophagus. | [noun] The heart. CARIED (9) CARKED (13) [verb] To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles. | [verb] To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety. | [verb] To labor anxiously. CARPED (11) [verb] To complain about a fault; to harp on. | [verb] To say; to tell. | [verb] To find fault with; to censure. CARTED (9) [verb] To carry goods. | [verb] To carry or convey in a cart. | [verb] To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal. CARVED (12) [verb] To cut. | [verb] To cut meat in order to serve it. | [verb] To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work. CASHED (12) [verb] To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills. | [verb] To obtain a payout from a tournament. | [verb] To disband. To do away with, kill CASKED (13) [verb] Past tense of cask, meaning to put or store in a cask. | [adjective] Confined or stored in a cask. CATTED (9) [verb] To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead. | [verb] To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails. | [verb] To vomit. CAUDAD (10) [adverb] Toward the tail or posterior end of the body. CAUDAL (9) [noun] A caudal vertebra. | [adjective] Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body. CAUDEX (16) [noun] An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water. CAUDLE (9) [noun] A warm drink made of wine or ale mixed with eggs, sugar, spices, and gruel, traditionally served to sick people or during confinement. CAULDS (9) [noun] Plural of cauld, a Scottish word for a cold or chill. | [noun] Plural of cauld, meaning a weir or dam across a river. CAUSED (9) [verb] To set off an event or action. | [verb] (ditransitive) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority. | [verb] To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse. CEASED (9) [verb] To stop. | [verb] To stop doing (something). | [verb] To be wanting; to fail; to pass away. CEBIDS (11) [noun] Any member of the Cebidae. CEBOID (11) [noun] A member of Ceboidea, a family of New World monkeys including capuchins and squirrel monkeys. CEDARN (9) [adjective] Constituted of or covered with cedar trees; made of cedar wood. CEDARS (9) [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. CEDERS (9) CEDING (10) [verb] To give up; yield to another. | [verb] To give way. CEDULA (9) [noun] A certificate or official document, particularly an identification card or pass used in Spanish-speaking countries. CEILED (9) [verb] To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar. | [verb] To set a higher bound. | [adjective] (in combination) Having some specified type of ceiling CELLED (9) [adjective] Having cells or compartments; divided into cells. | [verb] Past tense of "cell," meaning to confine in a cell or to furnish with cells. CENSED (9) [verb] To perfume with incense. CERVID (12) [noun] Any animal (such as the deer) of the family Cervidae. CESSED (9) [verb] Past tense of "cess," meaning to assess or levy a tax or rate. | [verb] Past tense of "cess," meaning to stop or cease (archaic). CHADAR (12) [noun] A loose robe, made from a single cloth, worn as a combination head covering, veil and shawl by Muslim women, especially in Iran. CHADOR (12) [noun] A loose robe, made from a single cloth, worn as a combination head covering, veil and shawl by Muslim women, especially in Iran. CHADRI (12) [noun] A garment worn by some Muslim women that covers the entire body and face, with only the eyes visible through a mesh screen; also spelled chaddar or chador. CHAFED (15) [verb] To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. | [verb] To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate. | [verb] To fret and wear by rubbing. CHARDS (12) [noun] An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste. | [noun] Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat. CHARED (12) [verb] Past tense of "char," meaning to burn or scorch the surface of something. | [verb] To cook food quickly over high heat until the surface is blackened. CHASED (12) [verb] To pursue. | [verb] To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser | [verb] To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings. CHAWED (15) [verb] To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud) | [verb] To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider | [verb] To steal. CHEDER (12) [noun] An elementary school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew. CHEWED (15) [verb] To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed. | [verb] To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth. | [verb] To think about something; to ponder; to chew over. CHIDED (13) [verb] To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily. | [verb] To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. | [verb] To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. CHIDER (12) [noun] One who chides; a person who scolds or rebukes. CHIDES (12) [verb] To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily. | [verb] To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. | [verb] To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. CHIELD (12) [noun] A Scottish or dialectal word for a child or young man. CHILDE (12) [noun] A child of noble birth. | [noun] The cognomen given to the oldest son prior to his taking his father's title. CHIMED (14) [verb] To make the sound of a chime. | [verb] To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. | [verb] To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. CHINED (12) [adjective] Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; used in composition. | [adjective] Broken in the back. CHOKED (16) [verb] To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict). | [verb] To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe. | [verb] To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it. CHORDS (12) [noun] A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. | [noun] A straight line between two points of a curve. | [noun] A horizontal member of a truss. CHORED (12) [verb] Past tense of "chore," meaning to do chores or assign chores to someone. CHOWED (15) [verb] To eat. | [verb] To call a discarded tile to produce a chow. CHUTED (12) [verb] Past tense of chute, meaning to convey or transport through a chute. | [adjective] Equipped with or having a chute or chutes. CICADA (11) [noun] Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings. CIDERS (9) [noun] An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples; hard cider; apple cider | [noun] A non-alcoholic still beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; apple cider; sweet cider (without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice). | [noun] A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples. CINDER (9) [noun] Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc. | [noun] An ember. | [noun] Slag from a metal furnace. CITIED (9) [adjective] Having cities or urban characteristics; characterized by the presence of cities. CLADES (9) [noun] A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species. | [noun] A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup. CLAWED (12) [verb] To scratch or to tear at. | [verb] To use the claws to seize, to grip. | [verb] To use the claws to climb. CLAYED (12) [verb] Past tense of clay, meaning to coat, cover, or treat with clay. CLEPED (11) [verb] To give a call; cry out; appeal. | [verb] To call; call upon; cry out to. | [verb] To call to oneself; invite; summon. CLERID (9) CLEWED (12) [verb] To roll into a ball | [verb] (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail) CLODDY (13) [adjective] Full of or resembling clods; lumpy or heavy, as soil. | [adjective] Stupid or dull-witted. CLONED (9) [verb] To create a clone of. CLOSED (9) [verb] (physical) To remove a gap. | [verb] (social) To finish, to terminate. | [verb] To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine. CLOUDS (9) [noun] A rock; boulder; a hill. | [noun] A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. | [noun] Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass. CLOUDY (12) [adjective] Covered with or characterised by clouds; overcast. | [adjective] Not transparent or clear. | [adjective] Uncertain; unclear. CLOYED (12) [verb] To fill up or choke up; to stop up. | [verb] To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. | [verb] To fill to loathing; to surfeit. COALED (9) [verb] To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships). | [verb] To supply with coal. | [verb] To be converted to charcoal. COATED (9) [verb] To cover with a coating of some material. | [verb] To cover like a coat. | [verb] To clothe. COAXED (16) [verb] To fondle, kid, pet, tease. | [verb] To wheedle, persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something. | [verb] To carefully manipulate into a particular desired state, situation or position. COCCID (13) [noun] A small insect of the family Coccidae, which includes scale insects and mealybugs that feed on plant sap. COCKED (15) [verb] To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired. | [verb] To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted. | [verb] To erect; to turn up. CODDED (11) [verb] To attempt to deceive or confuse. CODDER (10) CODDLE (10) [noun] An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions. | [noun] An effeminate person. | [verb] To treat gently or with great care. CODECS (11) [noun] A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal. CODEIA (9) CODEIN (9) [noun] An alkaloid drug derived from opium, used as a painkiller and cough suppressant. CODENS (9) CODERS (9) [noun] A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses. | [noun] A person who assigns codes or classifications. | [noun] A programmer. CODGER (10) [noun] An amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man. CODIFY (15) [verb] To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code. | [verb] To collect and arrange in a systematic form. CODING (10) [verb] To write software programs. | [verb] To add codes to a dataset. | [verb] To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes. CODLIN (9) [noun] A small or inferior apple. | [noun] A type of moth larva that infests apple trees. CODONS (9) [noun] A handbell used for summoning monks. | [noun] The "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet. | [noun] A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation. COEDIT (9) [verb] To edit jointly with another person or persons. COGGED (11) [verb] To furnish with a cog or cogs. | [verb] To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat. | [verb] To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently. COHEAD (12) COIFED (12) [verb] To style or arrange hair. COILED (9) [verb] To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece. | [verb] To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center. | [verb] To wind cylindrically or spirally. COINED (9) [verb] To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal. | [verb] (by extension) To make or fabricate. | [verb] To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. COLDER (9) [adjective] (of a thing) Having a low temperature. | [adjective] (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold. | [adjective] (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort. COLDLY (12) [adverb] In a cold or uncaring manner; indifferently. COLEAD (9) [verb] To lead jointly with another person; to share leadership responsibilities with a co-leader. COMADE (11) COMBED (13) [verb] (especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb. | [verb] To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. | [verb] To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. | [adjective] Having a comb or crest COMEDO (11) [noun] A blackhead or whitehead. COMEDY (14) [noun] A choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece. | [noun] A light, amusing play with a happy ending. | [noun] (Medieval Europe) A narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy). COMPED (13) [verb] To accompany, in music. | [verb] To compose (a visual design); to make a composite. | [verb] To provide someone with (a complimentary item, such as a ticket). CONDOM (11) [noun] A flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as sheepskin, worn over an erect penis during intercourse as a contraceptive or as a way to prevent the spread of STDs. CONDOR (9) [noun] Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California. | [noun] A gold coin of some South American countries bearing the figure of one of these vultures. | [noun] An Argentinian short range ballistic missile. CONDOS (9) [noun] Joint sovereignty over a territory by two or more countries. | [noun] A region or territory under such rule. | [noun] A building in which each unit is owned by an individual but the grounds, structure etc are owned jointly. CONKED (13) [verb] To hit, especially on the head. | [verb] To chemically straighten tightly curled hair. | [verb] (often with out) To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down, become unconscious. CONNED (9) [verb] To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart. | [verb] To know, understand, acknowledge. | [verb] To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain. CONOID (9) [noun] Anything shaped like a cone. | [noun] A Catalan surface all of whose rulings intersect some fixed line. | [noun] A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis. COOEED (9) [verb] To make such a call. COOKED (13) [verb] To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients. | [verb] To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients. | [verb] To be cooked. COOLED (9) [verb] To lose heat, to get colder. | [verb] To make cooler, less warm. | [verb] To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. COOPED (11) [verb] To keep in a coop. | [verb] To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp. | [verb] To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election. COPIED (11) [verb] To produce an object identical to a given object. | [verb] To give or transmit a copy to (a person). | [verb] To place a copy of an object in memory for later use. COPPED (13) [verb] To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take. | [verb] To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing. | [verb] (trainspotting) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time. CORDED (10) [verb] To furnish with cords | [verb] To tie or fasten with cords | [verb] To flatten a book during binding CORDER (9) CORDON (9) [noun] A ribbon normally worn diagonally across the chest as a decoration or insignia of rank etc. | [noun] A line of people or things placed around an area to enclose or protect it. | [noun] The arc of fielders on the off side, behind the batsman - the slips and gully. CORKED (13) [verb] To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper. | [verb] To blacken (as) with a burnt cork | [verb] To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it. CORNED (9) [verb] To granulate; to form a substance into grains | [verb] To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef | [verb] To provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed CORODY (12) [noun] A grant of food, clothing, or lodging given to someone, typically a clergyman or official, as part of their compensation or as a charitable provision. | [noun] In medieval times, the right to receive such provisions from an estate or institution. COSHED (12) [verb] To strike with a weapon of this kind. COSIED (9) [verb] To become snug and comfortable. | [verb] To become friendly with. COSTED (9) [verb] To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. | [verb] To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. | [verb] To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. COUPED (11) [adjective] Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. COWARD (12) [noun] A person who lacks courage. | [verb] To intimidate. | [adjective] Cowardly. COWLED (12) [adjective] Wearing or covered with a cowl; having a hood-like covering. COYDOG (13) [noun] Any hybrid of a coyote (Canis latrans) and a (usually feral) dog (Canis lupus familiaris). | [noun] A hybrid between a male coyote and a female dog. COZIED (18) [verb] To become snug and comfortable. | [verb] To become friendly with. CRADLE (9) [noun] A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots. | [noun] The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence. | [noun] Infancy, or very early life. CRANED (9) [verb] To extend (one's neck). | [verb] To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane. | [verb] To pull up before a jump. CRAPED (11) [verb] Past tense of crape, meaning to cover or drape with crape fabric, or to form into wrinkles or folds. | [verb] Past tense of crape, meaning to curl or crimp hair. CRATED (9) [verb] To put into a crate. | [verb] To keep in a crate. CRAVED (12) [verb] To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for. | [verb] To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim. | [verb] To call for; to require as a course of action. CRAZED (18) [verb] To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. | [verb] To derange the intellect of; to render insane. | [verb] To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane. CREDAL (9) [adjective] Describes a probability based on belief. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a creed. CREDIT (9) [noun] Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust. | [noun] Recognition and respect. | [noun] Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts. CREDOS (9) [noun] A belief system. | [noun] The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services. CREEDS (9) [noun] That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to. | [noun] (specifically) A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive. | [noun] The fact of believing; belief, faith. CREPED (11) [verb] Past tense of crepe, meaning to make crepe fabric or to cook in the manner of crepes. | [adjective] Having a wrinkled or crinkled texture like crepe fabric. CREWED (12) [adjective] Having a crew; manned; piloted. CROWDS (12) [noun] A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. | [noun] Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. | [noun] (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar. CROWDY (15) [noun] A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water. | [adjective] Crowded CROWED (12) [verb] To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance. | [verb] To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. | [verb] To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it. CRUDDY (13) [adjective] Of poor quality; unpleasant or unwell. | [adjective] Covered with crud or filth; dirty. CRUDER (9) [adjective] In a natural, untreated state. | [adjective] Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made. | [adjective] Lacking concealing elements. CRUDES (9) [noun] Any substance in its natural state. | [noun] Crude oil. CUBOID (11) [noun] The cuboid bone. | [noun] A parallelepiped having six rectangular faces. | [adjective] Of the shape of a cube. CUDDIE (10) [noun] A small cabin or shelter on a boat, typically located in the bow. | [noun] A small room or cuddy cabin on a ship. CUDDLE (10) [noun] A snuggle; an affectionate embrace, often given to family members and close friends. | [verb] To embrace affectionately, lie together snugly. | [verb] To cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth. CUDDLY (13) [adjective] Suitable for cuddling; designed to be cuddled. | [adjective] Fond of, or prone to cuddling CUDGEL (10) [noun] A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon. | [noun] Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another. | [verb] To strike with a cudgel. CUFFED (15) [verb] To furnish with cuffs. | [verb] To handcuff. | [verb] To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap. CULLED (9) [verb] To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group). | [verb] To gather, collect. | [verb] To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner. CULMED (11) CUNDUM (11) CUPIDS (11) [noun] Plural of cupid; representations of cupid, typically depicted as a cherubic figure with wings and bow and arrows, often used as a symbol of love. | [noun] Plural of cupid; mischievous or playful people, especially children. CUPPED (13) [verb] To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands. | [verb] To hold something in cupped hands. | [verb] To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup. CURBED (11) [verb] To check, restrain or control. | [verb] To rein in. | [verb] To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth. CURDED (10) [verb] Past tense of "curd," meaning to form into curds or to cause milk to curdle. CURDLE (9) [verb] To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk) | [verb] To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood) | [verb] To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly CURLED (9) [verb] To cause to move in a curve. | [verb] To make into a curl or spiral. | [verb] To assume the shape of a curl or spiral. CURRED (9) [verb] Past tense of "cur," meaning to behave like a cur (a mongrel dog) or to treat as a cur. | [verb] Past tense of "curr," an archaic or dialectal form meaning to make a purring sound or to growl. CURSED (9) [verb] To place a curse upon (a person or object). | [verb] To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. | [verb] To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet. CURVED (12) [verb] To bend; to crook. | [verb] To cause to swerve from a straight course. | [verb] To bend or turn gradually from a given direction. CUSPED (11) [adjective] Having a cusp or cusps; pointed or peaked. | [verb] Past tense of cusp; to have or form a cusp. CUSPID (11) [noun] A tooth with a single cusp; a canine. CUSSED (9) [verb] To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely. | [adjective] Ill-tempered, nasty, obstinate. | [adverb] (degree) Very, cussedly, accursedly. CYANID (12) [noun] A compound containing the cyano group, particularly potassium cyanide or sodium cyanide, used in metallurgy and other industrial processes. CYCADS (14) [noun] Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves. CYCLED (14) [verb] To ride a bicycle or other cycle. | [verb] To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle. | [verb] To turn power off and back on CYDERS (12) [noun] An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples; hard cider; apple cider | [noun] A non-alcoholic still beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; apple cider; sweet cider (without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice). | [noun] A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples. CYMOID (14) DABBED (12) [verb] To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing. | [verb] To apply a substance in this way. | [verb] To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. DABBER (11) [noun] A thing or person that dabs. | [noun] A cushioned pad used for applying ink. | [noun] A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card. DABBLE (11) [noun] A spattering or sprinkling of a liquid. | [noun] An act of splashing in soft mud, water, etc. | [noun] An act of participation in an activity in a casual or superficial way. DACHAS (12) [noun] A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside. DACKER (13) DACOIT (9) [noun] A bandit or armed robber, especially in India, Pakistan, Myanmar, and the surrounding region. | [verb] To commit armed robbery. DACTYL (12) [noun] A poetical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented. DADDLE (9) DADOED (9) DADOES (8) DAEDAL (8) DAEMON (9) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. | [noun] A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal. DAFFED (14) DAFTER (10) [adjective] Foolish, silly, stupid. | [adjective] Crazy, insane, mad. | [adjective] Gentle, meek, mild. | [noun] One’s female offspring. DAFTLY (13) DAGGAS (9) DAGGER (9) [noun] A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade. | [noun] The text character †; the obelus. | [noun] A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win | [noun] A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame. DAGGLE (9) DAGOBA (10) DAGOES (8) [noun] A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or other Mediterranean descent. | [noun] A person of Italian descent. DAHLIA (10) [noun] Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico. DAHOON (10) DAIKER (11) DAIKON (11) [noun] An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper. | [noun] Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish. DAIMEN (9) DAIMIO (9) [noun] A lord during the Japanese feudal period. DAIMON (9) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. DAIMYO (12) [noun] A lord during the Japanese feudal period. DAINTY (10) [noun] A delicacy (in taste). | [noun] Esteem, honour. | [noun] (Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, typically homemade, served at a social event (usually plural). DAISES (7) [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. DAKOIT (11) DALASI (7) [noun] The currency of the Gambia, divided into 100 bututs. DALEDH (11) DALETH (10) DALLES (7) DALTON (7) [noun] The atomic mass unit DAMAGE (10) [noun] Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact. | [noun] Cost or expense. | [verb] To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction. DAMANS (9) DAMARS (9) DAMASK (13) [noun] An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus. | [noun] Linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of colour. | [noun] A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; made for furniture covering and hangings. DAMMAR (11) [noun] A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis. | [noun] A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea (Dipterocarpaceae family) and Symplocos (Symplocaceae family), used in varnishes and inks | [noun] Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (Araucariaceae family) and Hopea (Dipterocarpaceae family), native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers. DAMMED (12) [verb] To block the flow of water. DAMMER (11) DAMNED (10) [verb] To condemn to hell. | [verb] To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment. | [verb] To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively. DAMNER (9) DAMPED (12) [verb] To dampen; to make moderately wet | [verb] To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull. | [verb] To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy). DAMPEN (11) [verb] To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet. | [verb] To become damp or moist. | [verb] To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen. DAMPER (11) [adjective] In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist. | [adjective] Despondent; dispirited, downcast. | [adjective] Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale. DAMPLY (14) DAMSEL (9) [noun] A young woman (of noble birth). | [noun] A girl; a maiden (without sexual experience). | [noun] A young woman who is not married. DAMSON (9) [noun] A subspecies of plum tree, Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, native to Eurasia. | [noun] The edible fruit of this tree. | [adjective] The color of the fruit of this tree, a very deep purple. DANCED (10) [verb] To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music. | [verb] To leap or move lightly and rapidly. | [verb] To perform the steps to. DANCER (9) [noun] A person who dances, usually as a job or profession. | [noun] A stripper. DANCES (9) [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. DANDER (8) [noun] Dandruff—scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp. | [noun] Hair follicles and dead skin shed from mammals. | [noun] Allergen particles that accumulate on and may be shed from the skin and fur of domestic animals, especially from household pets such as cats and dogs. | [noun] A cinder; (in the plural) the refuse of a furnace | [verb] To wander about. DANDLE (8) [verb] To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant. | [verb] To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet. | [verb] To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle. DANGED (9) [verb] Damn. | [verb] To dash. | [adjective] Damned; accursed; objectionable DANGER (8) [noun] Exposure to likely harm; peril. | [noun] An instance or cause of likely harm. | [noun] Mischief. DANGLE (8) [noun] An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group. | [noun] The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style. | [noun] A dangling ornament or decoration. DANIOS (7) [noun] (chiefly in combination) Any of various fish of the genera Danio and Devario. DANISH (10) [noun] Danish pastry, light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruit or cheese. DANKER (11) [adjective] Dark, damp and humid. | [adjective] (of marijuana) Highly potent. | [adjective] (often ironic) Great, awesome. DANKLY (14) DAPHNE (12) [noun] Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals. DAPPED (12) [verb] To greet with a dap. DAPPER (11) [adjective] Neat, trim. | [adjective] Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy. | [adjective] Quick; little and active. DAPPLE (11) [noun] A mottled marking, usually in clusters. | [noun] An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat. | [verb] To mark or become marked with mottling or spots. DARERS (7) DARICS (9) DARING (8) [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 DARKED (12) DARKEN (11) [verb] To make dark or darker by reducing light. | [verb] To become dark or darker (having less light). | [verb] To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud). DARKER (11) [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. DARKEY (14) DARKIE (11) [noun] A person with dark skin. | [noun] A dark lantern. DARKLE (11) DARKLY (14) [adverb] With a dark appearance. | [adverb] Faintly seen in the dark. | [adverb] In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly. DARNED (8) [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. | [adjective] A minced oath for damned. DARNEL (7) [noun] A species of ryegrass, Lolium temulentum, often found in wheat fields and often host to a fungus intoxicating to humans and animals. | [noun] Various species of Lolium, especially as a weed in wheat fields. DARNER (7) [noun] One who darns. | [noun] Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a hawker. DARTED (8) [verb] To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch. | [verb] To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot | [verb] To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart DARTER (7) [noun] One who darts, or who throws darts; that which darts. | [noun] Any member of the family Anhingidae, waterbirds with long necks. | [noun] Any of various darting freshwater fish of the family Percidae, that are usually small and brightly coloured and are native to North America. DARTLE (7) DASHED (11) [verb] To run quickly or for a short distance. | [verb] To leave or depart. | [verb] To destroy by striking (against). DASHER (10) [noun] A person who dashes; a fast runner. | [noun] That which dashes or agitates. | [noun] A dashboard or splashboard. DASHES (10) [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. DASHIS (10) DASSIE (7) [noun] A small, herbivorous mammal in the order Hyracoidea, the rock hyrax. DATARY (10) DATCHA (12) [noun] A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside. DATERS (7) [noun] One who dates. | [noun] A date-stamping device. DATING (8) [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. DATIVE (10) [noun] (grammar) The dative case. | [adjective] (grammar) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter or indirect object, generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective. | [adjective] In one’s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office or other privilege. DATTOS (7) DATUMS (9) DATURA (7) [noun] A plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties. DAUBED (10) [verb] To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes. | [verb] To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner. | [verb] To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. DAUBER (9) [noun] One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter. | [noun] (copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber. | [noun] A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card. DAUBES (9) [noun] A stew of braised meat, usually beef. DAUBRY (12) DAUNTS (7) [verb] To discourage, intimidate. | [verb] To overwhelm. DAUTED (8) DAUTIE (7) DAVENS (10) [verb] To recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray DAVIES (10) DAVITS (10) [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. DAWDLE (11) [noun] A dawdler. | [noun] A slow walk, journey. | [noun] An easily accomplished task; a doddle. DAWING (11) DAWNED (11) [verb] To begin to brighten with daylight. | [verb] To start to appear or be realized. | [verb] To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. DAWTED (11) DAWTIE (10) DAYBED (13) [noun] A couch that can be used as a sofa by day and a bed by night. | [noun] A long chair for reclining. DAYFLY (16) DAYLIT (10) DAZING (17) [verb] To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear DAZZLE (25) [noun] A light of dazzling brilliancy. | [noun] Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly. | [noun] A herd of zebra. DEACON (9) [noun] (Church history) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6). | [noun] (Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work. | [noun] Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor. DEADEN (8) [verb] To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle. | [verb] To become less lively; to diminish (by itself). | [verb] To make soundproof. DEADER (8) [adjective] No longer living. | [adjective] Figuratively, not alive; lacking life. | [adjective] (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored. DEADLY (11) [adjective] Subject to death; mortal. | [adjective] Causing death; lethal. | [adjective] Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile. DEAFEN (10) [verb] To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently. | [verb] To make soundproof. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To stun, as with noise. DEAFER (10) [adjective] Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear. | [adjective] Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless. | [adjective] Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. DEAFLY (13) DEAIRS (7) DEALER (7) [noun] One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman. | [noun] A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs. | [noun] A particular type of stock broker or trader. DEANED (8) DEARER (7) [adjective] High in price; expensive. | [adjective] Loved; lovable. | [adjective] Loving, affectionate, heartfelt DEARIE (7) [noun] (chiefly as a term of address) A person who is dear; sweetie. DEARLY (10) [adverb] In a dear or precious manner. | [adverb] In a dear or expensive manner. | [adverb] At great expense. DEARTH (10) [noun] A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine. | [noun] (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply. | [noun] Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly. DEASIL (7) [noun] Clockwise motion. | [adverb] Clockwise. DEATHS (10) [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. DEATHY (13) DEAVED (11) DEAVES (10) DEBARK (13) [verb] To unload goods from an aircraft or ship. | [verb] To disembark. | [verb] To remove the bark from a tree, especially one that has been felled. | [verb] To devocalize (a dog). DEBARS (9) [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. DEBASE (9) [verb] To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade. | [verb] To lower in position or rank. | [verb] To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins. DEBATE (9) [noun] An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision. | [noun] An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views. | [noun] Discussion of opposing views. DEBEAK (13) [verb] To remove part of the beak of a chicken or other bird to prevent pecking in chicken farms. DEBITS (9) [noun] In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account. | [noun] A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer. | [verb] To make an entry on the debit side of an account. DEBONE (9) [verb] To remove the bones from. DEBRIS (9) [noun] Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed. | [noun] Litter and discarded refuse. | [noun] The ruins of a broken-down structure. DEBTOR (9) [noun] A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt | [noun] One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding. DEBUGS (10) [verb] To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery. | [verb] To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere). | [verb] To remove insects from (somewhere), especially lice. DEBUNK (13) [verb] To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something. DEBUTS (9) [noun] A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area. | [noun] The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece. | [noun] The first appearance of a debutante in society. DEBYES (12) [noun] The CGS unit of electric dipole moment, defined as 1 D = 10-18 statcoulomb-centimetre and computable from the SI unit coulomb-metre by multiplying by the factor 3.33564 × 10-30. DECADE (10) [noun] A group, set, or series of ten , particularly: | [noun] A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance. | [noun] The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1. DECAFS (12) DECALS (9) [noun] A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily. | [noun] A decorative sticker. DECAMP (13) [verb] To break up camp and move on. | [verb] To disappear suddenly and secretly. DECANE (9) [noun] Any of the seventy-five isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having the chemical formula C10H22 DECANT (9) [verb] To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment. | [verb] To pour from one vessel into another. | [verb] To flow. DECARE (9) DECAYS (12) [verb] To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality. | [verb] (of organic material) To rot, to go bad. | [verb] (of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons. DECEIT (9) [noun] An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick. | [noun] An act of deceiving someone. | [noun] The state of being deceitful or deceptive. DECENT (9) [adjective] Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances. | [adjective] (of a person) Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness. | [adjective] Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen. DECERN (9) DECIDE (10) [verb] To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle | [verb] To make a judgment, especially after deliberation | [verb] To cause someone to come to a decision DECILE (9) [noun] Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into ten groups of equal frequency. | [noun] Any one of the ten subsets or groups so divided. | [noun] An aspect or position of two planets when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac. DECKED (14) [verb] To furnish with a deck, as a vessel. | [verb] To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch. | [verb] To cause a player to run out of cards to draw and usually lose the game as a result. DECKEL (13) DECKER (13) [noun] One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer. | [noun] (used in conjunction with a number) Something having numerous levels. DECKLE (13) [noun] (paper-making) A frame or edge which limits the pulp and, consequently, the size of the resulting paper. | [noun] A membrane covering the outermost side of a brisket of beef, where it was attached to the rib cage | [noun] (Jewish cuisine) The fattier, smaller point-cut portion of a brisket of beef, being the superficial pectoral muscle. DECLAW (12) [verb] To surgically remove a cats claws; onychectomy. | [verb] To make harmless. DECOCT (11) [verb] To make an infusion. | [verb] To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down. | [verb] To heat as if by boiling. DECODE (10) [noun] A product of decoding | [noun] Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols | [verb] To convert from an encrypted form to plain text. DECORS (9) [noun] The style of decoration of a room or building. | [noun] A stage setting; scenery; set; backdrop. DECOYS (12) [noun] A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger. | [noun] A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game. DECREE (9) [noun] An edict or law. | [noun] The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity. | [noun] The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate. DECURY (12) DEDANS (8) [noun] (court tennis) A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators. DEDUCE (10) [verb] To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises. | [verb] To take away; to deduct; to subtract. | [verb] (Latinism) To lead forth. DEDUCT (10) [verb] To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount. DEEDED (9) [verb] To transfer real property by deed. DEEJAY (17) [noun] A disc jockey. | [verb] To perform as a disc jockey. DEEMED (10) [verb] To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence. | [verb] To adjudge, to decree. | [verb] To dispense (justice); to administer (law). DEEPEN (9) [verb] To make deep or deeper | [verb] To make darker or more intense; to darken | [verb] To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree DEEPER (9) [adjective] (of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards. | [adjective] (intellectual, social) Complex, involved. | [adjective] (sound, voice) Low in pitch. DEEPLY (12) [adverb] At depth, in a deep way. | [adverb] To a deep extent. | [adverb] Profoundly. DEEWAN (10) DEFACE (12) [verb] To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner. | [verb] To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of. | [verb] (flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it. DEFAME (12) [noun] Disgrace, dishonour. | [noun] Defamation; slander, libel. | [verb] To disgrace; to bring into disrepute. DEFANG (11) [verb] To remove the fangs from (something). | [verb] To render harmless. DEFATS (10) [verb] To remove fat from a material, especially by the use of solvents DEFEAT (10) [verb] To overcome in battle or contest. | [verb] To reduce, to nothing, the strength of. | [verb] To nullify | [noun] The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss. DEFECT (12) [noun] A fault or malfunction. | [noun] The quantity or amount by which anything falls short. | [noun] A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient. DEFEND (11) [verb] To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard. | [verb] To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of. | [verb] To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused). DEFERS (10) [verb] To delay or postpone | [verb] After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half). | [verb] To delay, to wait. DEFIED (11) [verb] To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition). | [verb] To refuse to obey. | [verb] To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations. DEFIER (10) DEFIES (10) [noun] A challenge. | [verb] To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition). | [verb] To refuse to obey. DEFILE (10) [verb] To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul. | [verb] To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate | [verb] To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape | [noun] A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains. DEFINE (10) [noun] A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs. | [verb] To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly. | [verb] To settle, decide (an argument etc.) DEFLEA (10) DEFOAM (12) DEFOGS (11) DEFORM (12) [verb] To change the form of, usually negatively; to give (something) an unusual or abnormal shape. | [verb] To change the looks of, usually negatively; to give something an unusual or abnormal appearance. | [verb] To mar the character of. DEFRAY (13) [verb] To spend (money). | [verb] To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something). | [verb] To pay for (something). DEFTER (10) [adjective] Quick and neat in action; skillful. | [noun] A type of tax register that was used in the Ottoman Empire. DEFTLY (13) [adverb] In a deft manner; quickly and neatly in action. DEFUND (11) [verb] To cancel funding for. DEFUSE (10) [verb] To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.). | [verb] To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile. | [verb] To disorder; to make shapeless. DEFUZE (19) DEGAGE (9) DEGAME (10) DEGAMI (10) DEGERM (10) DEGREE (8) [noun] A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DEGUMS (10) DEGUST (8) [verb] To taste carefully to fully appreciate it. | [verb] To savour DEHORN (10) [verb] To remove the horns from. DEHORT (10) [verb] To dissuade. DEICED (10) DEICER (9) DEICES (9) DEIFIC (12) [adjective] Divine, of or relating to a deity or deities DEIGNS (8) [verb] To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity. | [verb] To condescend to give; to do something. | [verb] To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice. DEISMS (9) DEISTS (7) DEIXIS (14) [noun] The use of a word, such as a pronoun, to refer to something that must be identified from the wider context; a word used in such a way. DEJECT (16) [verb] Make sad or dispirited. | [verb] To cast down. DEKARE (11) DEKING (12) [verb] To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery. | [verb] To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports. DEKKOS (15) [noun] A look; a glance. DELATE (7) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DELAYS (10) [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. DELEAD (8) DELETE (7) [noun] A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. | [noun] A deletion. | [noun] (recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release. DELFTS (10) DELICT (9) [noun] (Scottish law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law. | [noun] The branch of law dealing in delicts. DELIME (9) DELIST (7) [verb] To remove from an official register or list. DELTAS (7) [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. DELTIC (9) DELUDE (8) [verb] To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe. | [verb] To frustrate or disappoint. DELUGE (8) [noun] A great flood or rain. | [noun] An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction. | [noun] (military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System. DELUXE (14) [adjective] Very fine in quality or luxurious. DELVED (11) [verb] To dig the ground, especially with a shovel. | [verb] To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out | [verb] To dig, to excavate. DELVER (10) DELVES (10) [verb] To dig the ground, especially with a shovel. | [verb] To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out | [verb] To dig, to excavate. DEMAND (10) [noun] The desire to purchase goods and services. | [noun] The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. | [noun] A forceful claim for something. DEMARK (13) [verb] To demarcate. DEMAST (9) DEMEAN (9) [verb] To debase; to lower; to degrade. | [verb] To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. | [verb] To mortify. | [noun] Management; treatment. | [noun] Demesne. | [verb] To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset). DEMENT (9) [noun] An insane person, or one afflicted with dementia | [verb] To drive mad; to craze | [adjective] Insane, demented DEMIES (9) DEMISE (9) [noun] The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. | [noun] Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor. | [noun] Death. DEMITS (9) [verb] To let fall; to depress; to yield. | [verb] To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge. DEMOBS (11) [verb] To demobilize; to release someone from military service. DEMODE (10) DEMONS (9) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. DEMOTE (9) [verb] To lower the rank or status of. | [verb] To relegate. DEMURE (9) [verb] To look demurely. | [adjective] (usually of women) Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious. | [adjective] Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity. DEMURS (9) [noun] Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple. | [verb] To linger; to stay; to tarry | [verb] To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. DENARY (10) [noun] An ancient coin, the denarius. | [adjective] Containing ten parts. | [adjective] Based on the number ten. DENGUE (8) [noun] An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain. DENIAL (7) [noun] The negation in logic. | [noun] A refusal to comply with a request. | [noun] An assertion of untruth. DENIED (8) [verb] To disallow or reject. | [verb] To assert that something is not true. | [verb] (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone. DENIER (7) [noun] An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou. | [noun] A unit of linear density which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery. Originally equal to the weight of a denier coin per 9600 aunes. | [noun] Person who denies something. DENIES (7) [verb] To disallow or reject. | [verb] To assert that something is not true. | [verb] (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone. DENIMS (9) [noun] Jeans made of denim. DENNED (8) [verb] To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den. DENOTE (7) [verb] To indicate; to mark. | [verb] To make overt. | [verb] To refer to literally; to convey as meaning. DENSER (7) [adjective] Having relatively high density. | [adjective] Compact; crowded together. | [adjective] Thick; difficult to penetrate. DENTAL (7) [noun] Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth. | [noun] A dental sound. | [adjective] Of or concerning the teeth, as in dental care. DENTED (8) [verb] To impact something, producing a dent. | [verb] To develop a dent or dents. DENTIL (7) [noun] Any one of a series of small rectangular blocks projecting like teeth from a molding or beneath a cornice. DENTIN (7) [noun] The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth DENUDE (8) [verb] To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip. DEODAR (8) [noun] Cedrus deodara, a type of cedar tree native to the western Himalayas. DEPART (9) [noun] Division; separation, as of compound substances. | [noun] A going away; departure. | [verb] To leave. DEPEND (10) [verb] (followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on. | [verb] (followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely. | [verb] To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. DEPERM (11) DEPICT (11) [verb] To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. | [adjective] Depicted. DEPLOY (12) [noun] Deployment | [verb] To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use. | [verb] To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use. DEPONE (9) [verb] To testify, especially in the form of a deposition. | [verb] To take the deposition of; to depose. | [verb] To lay, as a stake; to wager. DEPORT (9) [verb] To comport (oneself); to behave. | [verb] To evict, especially from a country. DEPOSE (9) [verb] To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away. | [verb] To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent. | [verb] To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition DEPOTS (9) [noun] A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse. | [noun] A bus station or railway station. | [noun] A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units. DEPTHS (12) [noun] The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep | [noun] The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet | [noun] The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc. DEPUTE (9) [noun] Deputy | [verb] To assign (someone or something) to or for something | [verb] To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate DEPUTY (12) [noun] One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office | [noun] A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners. | [noun] (France): A member of the Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif DERAIL (7) [noun] A device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail. | [noun] An instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic. | [verb] To cause to come off the tracks. DERATE (7) [verb] To lower the rated capability of any rated equipment or material. DERATS (7) DERAYS (10) DERIDE (8) [verb] To harshly mock; ridicule. DERIVE (10) [verb] To obtain or receive (something) from something else. | [verb] To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning. | [verb] To find the derivation of (a word or phrase). DERMAL (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to skin or integument (or other forms of tissue) DERMAS (9) DERMIC (11) [adjective] Of or relating to the dermis or skin. DERMIS (9) [noun] The tissue of the skin underlying the epidermis. DERRIS (7) [noun] A climbing leguminous plant of Southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific Islands, Derris elliptica, whose roots are a source of rotenone. DESALT (7) [verb] To remove salt from; to desalinate. DESAND (8) DESCRY (12) [verb] To see. | [verb] To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect. | [verb] To discover: to disclose; to reveal. DESERT (7) [noun] (usually in the plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward | [noun] A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland. | [noun] Any barren place or situation. | [verb] To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake. DESIGN (8) [noun] A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem. | [noun] A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system. | [noun] A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture. DESIRE (7) [noun] Someone or something wished for. | [noun] Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual. | [noun] The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something. DESIST (7) [verb] To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from). DESMAN (9) [noun] Either of two species, Desmana moschata or Galemys pyrenaicus, of aquatic or semi-aquatic insectivore of the mole family, Talpidae, found in Europe. DESMID (10) [noun] Any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order Desmidiales. DESORB (9) [verb] (of a substance) To remove (or be removed) from a surface onto which it was adsorbed or through which it was absorbed DESOXY (17) DESPOT (9) [noun] A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant. | [noun] A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries) DETACH (12) [verb] To take apart from; to take off. | [verb] To separate for a special object or use. | [verb] To come off something. DETAIL (7) [noun] Something small enough to escape casual notice. | [noun] A profusion of details. | [noun] The small things that can escape casual notice. DETAIN (7) [verb] To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention. | [verb] To put under custody. | [verb] To keep back or from; to withhold. DETECT (9) [verb] To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing | [adjective] Detected. DETENT (7) [noun] That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking. | [verb] The action of creating a detent mechanism to lock or unlock movement. DETERS (7) [verb] To prevent something from happening. | [verb] To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage. | [verb] To distract someone from something. DETEST (7) [verb] To dislike intensely; to loathe. | [verb] To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. DETICK (13) DETOUR (7) [noun] A diversion or deviation from one's original route. | [verb] To make a detour. | [verb] To direct or send on a detour. DEUCED (10) [adjective] Damned. | [adverb] (degree) Damned. DEUCES (9) [noun] A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards. | [noun] A side of a die with two spots. | [noun] A cast of dice totalling two. DEVEIN (10) [verb] To remove the vein-like colon from (shrimp). DEVELS (10) DEVEST (10) DEVICE (12) [noun] Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one. | [noun] A peripheral device; an item of hardware. | [noun] A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. DEVILS (10) [noun] An evil creature. | [noun] (with article) The chief devil; Satan. | [noun] A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior. DEVISE (10) [noun] The act of leaving real property in a will. | [noun] Such a will, or a clause in such a will. | [noun] The real property left in such a will. DEVOID (11) [verb] To empty out; to remove. | [adjective] Empty; having none of; completely without DEVOIR (10) [noun] (often in plural) Duty, business; something that one must do. DEVONS (10) [noun] (Eastern Australia) A type of processed meat sausage. DEVOTE (10) [verb] To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter | [verb] To consign over; to doom | [verb] To execrate; to curse DEVOUR (10) [verb] To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously. | [verb] To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste. | [verb] To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze. DEVOUT (10) [noun] A devotee. | [noun] A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion. | [adjective] Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious. DEWANS (10) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DEWARS (10) [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. DEWIER (10) [adjective] Covered by dew. | [adjective] Having the quality of bearing droplets of water. | [adjective] Fresh and innocent. DEWILY (13) DEWING (11) [verb] To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten. | [noun] A contributor to corrosion? DEWLAP (12) [noun] The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, or a similar feature on any other animal. | [noun] The sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person. DEWOOL (10) DEWORM (12) [verb] To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs. DEXIES (14) DEXTER (14) [noun] The right side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the left side to the viewer. | [noun] The right hand. | [adjective] Right; on the right-hand side. DEXTRO (14) [adjective] Dextrorotatory. DEZINC (18) DHARMA (12) [noun] The natural order of the universe; natural law, cosmic order. | [noun] One's obligation in respect to one's position in society, one's duty. | [noun] The teachings of the Buddha as one's personal path to enlightenment. DHARNA (10) [noun] A nonviolent sit-in protest. | [noun] (specifically) A fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor. DHOBIS (12) [noun] A laundryman or washerman, or laundrywoman or washerwoman, in India and Pakistan. DHOLES (10) [noun] An Asian wild dog, Cuon alpinus. DHOOLY (13) DHOORA (10) DHOOTI (10) DHOTIS (10) [noun] A long loincloth worn by Hindu men in India. | [noun] The cotton fabric used for such loincloths. DHURNA (10) DHUTIS (10) DIACID (10) DIADEM (10) [noun] An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty. | [noun] A crown. | [noun] Regal power; sovereignty; empire—considered as symbolized by the crown. DIALED (8) [verb] To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial. | [verb] To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone. | [verb] To use a dial or a telephone. DIALER (7) [noun] A person or device that dials, as using a telephone. DIALOG (8) [noun] A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals. | [noun] In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters. | [noun] A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation. DIAMIN (9) DIAPER (9) [noun] A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread. | [noun] A towel or napkin made from such fabric. | [noun] An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy. DIAPIR (9) [noun] An intrusion of a ductile rock into an overburden. DIATOM (9) [noun] Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta. DIAZIN (16) DIBBED (12) [verb] To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for the purpose of planting a bulb or seed | [verb] To move in a rapid, cautious manner; especially, with movement like a mouse or rat. | [verb] (sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws). DIBBER (11) [noun] A tool with a handle on one end and a point on the other, used in the garden to poke holes in preparation for planting seeds, bulbs, etc. Also known as a dibble or dib. | [noun] One who dibs. DIBBLE (11) [noun] A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds. | [verb] To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble. | [verb] To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil. | [noun] (originally Manchester) A police officer. DIBBUK (15) DICAST (9) DICERS (9) DICIER (9) [adjective] Fraught with danger. | [adjective] Of uncertain, risky outcome. | [adjective] Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy. DICING (10) [verb] To play dice. | [verb] To cut into small cubes. | [verb] To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes. DICKED (14) [verb] To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (often with around or up). | [verb] (of a man) To have sexual intercourse with. | [adjective] Having a specified kind of penis. DICKER (13) [noun] A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins. | [noun] A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares. | [verb] To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale. DICKEY (16) [noun] A louse. | [noun] Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar. | [noun] A detachable shirt front, collar or bib. DICKIE (13) [noun] A louse. | [noun] Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar. | [noun] A detachable shirt front, collar or bib. DICOTS (9) [noun] A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon. DICTUM (11) [noun] An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm. | [noun] A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. | [noun] The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. DIDACT (10) DIDDLE (9) [noun] In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed. | [noun] The penis. | [verb] To cheat; to swindle. DIDDLY (12) [noun] A small amount of no worth. | [interjection] A written representation of a trill sound. | [noun] (sometimes childish) penis DIDIES (8) DIDOES (8) [noun] A fuss, a row. | [noun] A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper. DIEING (8) DIENES (7) [noun] An organic compound, especially a hydrocarbon, containing two double bonds. DIESEL (7) [noun] A fuel derived from petroleum (or other oils) but heavier than gasoline/petrol. Used to power diesel engines which burn this fuel using the heat produced when air is compressed. | [noun] A vehicle powered by a diesel engine. | [noun] A rider who has an even energy output, without bursts of speed. DIESES (7) [noun] Any of several intervals, smaller than a tone, in ancient Greek music. | [noun] The double dagger sign (‡). DIESIS (7) [noun] Any of several intervals, smaller than a tone, in ancient Greek music. | [noun] The double dagger sign (‡). DIETED (8) [verb] To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet. | [verb] To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health. | [verb] To eat; to take one's meals. DIETER (7) DIFFER (13) [verb] Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct. | [verb] (people, groups, etc.) To have diverging opinions, disagree. | [verb] To be separated in quantity. DIGAMY (13) DIGEST (8) [verb] To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. | [verb] To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. | [verb] To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. | [noun] That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles DIGGED (10) DIGGER (9) [noun] A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator. | [noun] A tool for digging. | [noun] A spade (playing card). DIGHTS (11) [verb] To deal with, handle. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To dispose, put (in a given state or condition). DIGITS (8) [noun] A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DIGLOT (8) DIKDIK (16) DIKERS (11) DIKING (12) [noun] The process of building a dike. DIKTAT (11) [noun] A harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor | [noun] A dogmatic decree, especially issued by one who rules without popular consent DILATE (7) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DILDOE (8) DILDOS (8) [noun] An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use. | [noun] An idiot, a bore. | [noun] A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii). DILLED (8) DILUTE (7) [noun] An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual. | [verb] To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water. | [verb] To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. DIMERS (9) [noun] A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two identical molecules, sometimes with a single atom acting as a bridge. DIMITY (12) [noun] A light strong fabric with woven stripes or squares. DIMMED (12) [verb] To make something less bright. | [verb] To become darker. | [verb] To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct DIMMER (11) [adjective] Not bright or colorful. | [adjective] Not smart or intelligent. | [adjective] Indistinct, hazy or unclear. DIMOUT (9) DIMPLE (11) [noun] A small depression or indentation in a surface. | [noun] Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth. | [verb] To create a dimple in. DIMPLY (14) DIMWIT (12) [noun] A person who is deficient in intelligence. DINARS (7) [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. DINDLE (8) DINERO (7) DINERS (7) [noun] One who dines. | [noun] A dining car in a railroad train. | [noun] A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades. DINGED (9) [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To dash; to throw violently. | [verb] To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking. DINGER (8) [noun] A bell or chime. | [noun] The suspended clapper of a bell. | [noun] One who rings a bell. DINGES (8) [noun] A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor. | [noun] A fool or incompetent person. | [noun] Penis DINGEY (11) DINGHY (14) [noun] A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship. | [noun] An inflatable rubber life raft. | [verb] To travel by dinghy. DINGLE (8) [noun] A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley. DINGUS (8) [noun] A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor. | [noun] A fool or incompetent person. | [noun] Penis DINING (8) [verb] To eat; to eat dinner or supper. | [verb] To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. | [verb] To dine upon; to have to eat. DINKED (12) [verb] To play a soft drop shot. | [verb] To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot. | [verb] To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar. DINKEY (14) DINKLY (14) DINKUM (13) [noun] Hard work. | [noun] Truth. | [adjective] Genuine, true, honest, on the level. DINNED (8) [verb] To make a din, to resound. | [verb] (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound. | [verb] To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise. DINNER (7) [noun] A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea). | [noun] The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening. | [noun] An evening meal. DINTED (8) [verb] To dent. DIOBOL (9) DIODES (8) [noun] An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier. DIOECY (12) DIOXAN (14) DIOXID (15) DIOXIN (14) [noun] Any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds that occur as byproducts of herbicides. | [noun] The parent compound, dibenzo-p-dioxin, in which two benzene rings are connected vio two oxygen atoms; oxanthrene. | [noun] The unsaturated six-membered heterocycle having four carbon atoms, two oxygen atoms and two double bonds. DIPLEX (16) DIPLOE (9) DIPNET (9) [verb] To catch (fish) in a hand net. | [noun] A small net that is equipped with a handle and attached to a rim so that the net forms a pouch. This kind of net is used, eg, for trapping butterflies or individual fish. DIPODY (13) DIPOLE (9) [noun] Any object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna) that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles) | [noun] Any molecule or radical that has delocalised positive and negative charges | [noun] A dipole antenna DIPPED (12) [verb] To lower into a liquid. | [verb] To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. | [verb] (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly. DIPPER (11) [noun] One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid). | [noun] Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom. | [noun] A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop. DIPSAS (9) DIPSOS (9) [noun] A dipsomaniac; an alcoholic; a drunk. DIQUAT (16) [noun] A contact herbicide that produces desiccation and defoliation. DIRDUM (10) DIRECT (9) [verb] To manage, control, steer. | [verb] To aim (something) at (something else). | [verb] To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way. DIRELY (10) DIREST (7) [adjective] Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. | [adjective] Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. | [adjective] Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal DIRGES (8) [noun] A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. | [noun] A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring. DIRHAM (12) [noun] A unit of currency used in the Arab world, currently the name of the currency of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. | [noun] A former small Turkish unit of weight, variously reckoned as 1.5–3.5 g (0.05–0.12 oz.). DIRKED (12) DIRLED (8) DIRNDL (8) [noun] A traditional Alpine women's dress having a tight bodice and full skirt DISARM (9) [noun] The act of depriving a person of a weapon they carry. | [verb] To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. | [verb] To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous DISBAR (9) [verb] To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his or her status and privileges as such. | [verb] To exclude (a person) from something. DISBUD (10) [verb] To remove buds from a plant in order to promote growth and health in the remaining buds. | [verb] To remove horn-buds from a young calf, lamb or goat kid, to prevent growth of horns. DISCED (10) DISCOS (9) [noun] A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights. | [noun] (slightly obsolete) A nightclub where dancing takes place. DISCUS (9) [noun] A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport. | [noun] The athletics sport of discus throwing. | [noun] (plural: discus) A discus fish (genus Symphysodon) DISHED (11) [verb] To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food. | [verb] To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another. | [verb] To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish. DISHES (10) [noun] A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. | [noun] The contents of such a vessel. | [noun] (metonym) A specific type of prepared food. DISKED (12) DISMAL (9) [adjective] Disappointingly inadequate. | [adjective] Gloomy and bleak. | [adjective] Depressing. DISMAY (12) [noun] A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits | [noun] Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. | [verb] To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy DISMES (9) DISOWN (10) [verb] To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. | [verb] To repudiate any connection to; to renounce. | [verb] To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session. DISPEL (9) [noun] An act or instance of dispelling. | [verb] To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering. | [verb] To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified. DISSED (8) [verb] To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour. DISSES (7) [noun] An insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect. | [verb] To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour. | [noun] Dissertation. DISTAL (7) [adjective] Remote from the point of attachment or origin. | [adjective] Facing the wisdom tooth or temporomandibular joint on the same side of the jaw. | [adjective] Far or farther from the speaker. DISTIL (7) [verb] To subject to distillation. | [verb] To undergo or be produced by distillation. | [verb] To make by means of distillation, especially whisky. DISUSE (7) [noun] The state of not being used; neglect. | [verb] To cease the use of. | [verb] To disaccustom. DITHER (10) [noun] The state of being undecided. | [verb] To tremble, shake, or shiver with cold. | [verb] To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something. DITTOS (7) [noun] That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise. | [noun] A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator. | [noun] A copy; an imitation. DITZES (16) [noun] A scatterbrained person, especially a woman. DIURON (7) DIVANS (10) [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. DIVERS (10) [noun] Someone who dives, especially as a sport. | [noun] Someone who works underwater; a frogman. | [noun] The loon (bird). | [adjective] Consisting of many different elements; various. DIVERT (10) [verb] To turn aside from a course. | [verb] To distract. | [verb] To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention) DIVEST (10) [verb] To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice). | [verb] To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary. | [verb] To undress. DIVIDE (11) [noun] A thing that divides. | [noun] An act of dividing. | [noun] A distancing between two people or things. DIVINE (10) [noun] One skilled in divinity; a theologian. | [noun] A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. | [noun] (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept. | [verb] To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination. DIVING (11) [verb] To swim under water. | [verb] To jump into water head-first. | [verb] To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance. DIVOTS (10) [noun] A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof. | [noun] A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour. DIWANS (10) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DIXITS (14) DIZENS (16) DJEBEL (16) [noun] A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa). DJINNI (14) DJINNS (14) [noun] (Muslim demonology) A genie and descendant of the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form, equivalent to demons in Jewish demonology. DJINNY (17) DOABLE (9) [noun] Something that can be done; a possible or practical task. | [adjective] Possible to do; feasible. | [adjective] Worthy of sexual conquest. DOATED (8) DOBBER (11) DOBBIN (11) [noun] An old jaded horse. | [noun] Sea gravel mixed with sand. | [noun] Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. DOBIES (9) DOBLAS (9) DOBLON (9) DOBRAS (9) [noun] The official or principal currency of São Tomé and Príncipe, divided into 100 cêntimos. DOBSON (9) DOCENT (9) [noun] A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.) | [noun] A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc. | [adjective] Instructive; that teaches. DOCILE (9) [adjective] Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient. | [adjective] Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management. DOCKED (14) [verb] To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy. | [verb] To reduce (wages); to deduct from. | [verb] To cut off, bar, or destroy. DOCKER (13) [noun] One who performs docking, as of tails. | [noun] A dockworker. DOCKET (13) [noun] A summary; a brief digest. | [noun] A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register. | [noun] A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court. DOCTOR (9) [noun] A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK. | [noun] A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university. | [noun] A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals. DODDER (9) [verb] To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter. | [noun] Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has shown that it is correctly placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. DODGED (10) [verb] To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. | [verb] To avoid; to sidestep. | [verb] To go hither and thither. DODGEM (11) [noun] A bumper car in an amusement park. DODGER (9) [noun] Someone who dodges. | [noun] A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat. | [noun] An advertising leaflet; a flyer. DODGES (9) [verb] To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. | [verb] To avoid; to sidestep. | [verb] To go hither and thither. DODOES (8) [noun] A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius. | [noun] A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt. DOFFED (14) [verb] (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing. | [verb] To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect. | [verb] To get rid of, to throw off. DOFFER (13) DOGDOM (11) [noun] The state or essence of being a dog. DOGEAR (8) DOGEYS (11) DOGGED (10) [verb] To pursue with the intent to catch. | [verb] To follow in an annoying or harassing way. | [verb] To fasten a hatch securely. | [adjective] Stubbornly persevering, steadfast DOGGER (9) [noun] A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch. | [noun] A participant in the sexual activity of dogging. | [noun] A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron. DOGGIE (9) [noun] A dog, especially a small one. | [noun] Doggy style | [noun] (armed services) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer. DOGIES (8) [noun] A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow. DOGLEG (9) [noun] A sharp bend in the fairway (before the hole) | [noun] A configuration of stairs where a flight ascends to a half landing before turning 180 degrees and continuing upwards. | [noun] A sharp bend in a canyon or ravine. DOGMAS (10) [noun] An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it. | [noun] A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader. DOGNAP (10) [verb] To abduct (a dog). DOILED (8) DOINGS (8) [noun] A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it. DOITED (8) [adjective] Afflicted with weak-mindedness, usually caused by senility DOLING (8) [verb] To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource. | [noun] The act of one who doles. DOLLAR (7) [noun] Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $. | [noun] (by extension) Money generally. | [noun] A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more. DOLLED (8) DOLLOP (9) [noun] A considerable lump, scoop, or quantity of something, especially soft food. | [verb] To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops. | [verb] To dole out in a considerable quantity; to drip in a viscous form. DOLMAN (9) [noun] A long, loose garment with narrow sleeves and an opening in the front, generally worn by Turks. | [noun] A short, close-fitting, heavily braided military jacket, usually worn under a pelisse, originally by hussars. | [noun] A woman's garment with wide capelike sleeves. DOLMAS (9) [noun] Any of a family of stuffed vegetable dishes. The filling generally consists of rice, minced meat or grains, together with onion, herbs and spices. DOLMEN (9) [noun] A prehistoric megalithic tomb consisting of a capstone supported by two or more upright stones, most having originally been covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow. | [noun] More generally, any megalithic tomb, including passage graves and wedge tombs. DOLORS (7) DOLOUR (7) [noun] A painful grief or suffering. DOMAIN (9) [noun] A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization. | [noun] A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise. | [noun] A group of related items, topics, or subjects. DOMINE (9) DOMING (10) DOMINO (9) [noun] A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes. | [noun] A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect. | [noun] A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face. DONATE (7) [verb] To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another. DONEES (7) [noun] Someone who receives a gift from a donor. DONGAS (8) [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. DONJON (14) [noun] The fortified tower of a motte or early castle; a keep. DONKEY (14) [noun] A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse | [noun] A stubborn person | [noun] A fool DONNAS (7) DONNED (8) [verb] (clothing) To put on, to dress in. DONNEE (7) DONORS (7) [noun] One who makes a donation. | [noun] A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor. DONSIE (7) DONUTS (7) [noun] A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream. | [noun] Anything in the shape of a torus. | [noun] (automobile) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid. DONZEL (16) DOODAD (9) [noun] A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part. DOODLE (8) [noun] A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person. | [noun] A small mindless sketch, etc. | [noun] (sometimes childish) Penis. | [noun] Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog. DOOFUS (10) [noun] A person with poor judgment and taste. DOOLEE (7) DOOLIE (7) DOOMED (10) [verb] To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn. | [verb] To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of. | [verb] To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. DOOZER (16) DOOZIE (16) [noun] Something that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense. DOPANT (9) [noun] A substance added in small amounts to a pure material, such as semiconductor, to alter its original electrical or optical properties; a doping agent DOPERS (9) DOPIER (9) [adjective] Stupid, silly. DOPING (10) [verb] To affect with drugs. | [verb] To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.). | [verb] To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon). DORADO (8) [noun] Coryphaena hippurus, the mahi-mahi or dolphin, a species of fish with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration. DORBUG (10) DORIES (7) [noun] A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers. | [noun] Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish. | [noun] A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand. DORMER (9) [noun] A room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof | [noun] Dormer-window | [noun] A resident of a dormitory DORMIE (9) DORMIN (9) DORPER (9) DORSAD (8) DORSAL (7) [noun] A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, altar, etc. | [adjective] With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate. | [adjective] (of a knife) Having only one sharp side. DORSEL (7) DORSER (7) DORSUM (9) [noun] The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants. | [noun] The top of the foot or the back of the hand. | [noun] The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal. DOSAGE (8) [noun] The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing. | [noun] The addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something, e.g. sugar to wine. | [noun] The measured amount so administered or added; the dose. DOSERS (7) DOSING (8) [noun] The administration of a dose DOSSAL (7) [noun] A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, altar, etc. DOSSED (8) [verb] To avoid work, shirk, etc. | [verb] To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless DOSSEL (7) DOSSER (7) [noun] Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work. | [noun] A homeless and jobless person. | [noun] One who lodges in a doss-house. | [noun] A pannier or basket. DOSSES (7) [verb] To avoid work, shirk, etc. | [verb] To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless DOSSIL (7) DOTAGE (8) [noun] Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility. | [noun] Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree. | [noun] Foolish utterance(s); drivel. DOTARD (8) [noun] An old person with impaired intellect; one in his or her dotage. | [noun] One who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness. DOTERS (7) DOTIER (7) DOTING (8) [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. | [verb] To act in a foolish manner; to be senile. | [noun] Excessive fondness; reverence. DOTTED (8) [verb] To cover with small spots (of some liquid). | [verb] To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to. | [verb] To mark by means of dots or small spots. DOTTEL (7) DOTTER (7) DOTTLE (7) [noun] A plug or tap of a vessel. | [noun] A small rounded lump or mass. | [noun] The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe. | [noun] A dotard. DOUBLE (9) [noun] Twice the number, amount, size, etc. | [noun] A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes | [noun] A drink with two portions of alcohol. DOUBLY (12) [adverb] (usually of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; twice the severity or degree. | [adverb] In two ways | [adverb] With duplicity DOUBTS (9) [noun] Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty. | [noun] A point of uncertainty; a query. | [verb] To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question. DOUCHE (12) [noun] A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for vaginal irrigation. | [noun] Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe. | [noun] A jet or spray of any liquid. DOUGHS (11) [noun] A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. | [noun] Money. DOUGHT (11) DOUGHY (14) [adjective] Having the characteristics of dough especially in appearance or consistency: as DOUMAS (9) DOURAH (10) DOURAS (7) DOURER (7) DOURLY (10) DOUSED (8) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DOUSER (7) DOUSES (7) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DOVENS (10) DOVISH (13) DOWELS (10) [noun] A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position. | [noun] A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from. | [noun] A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it. DOWERS (10) [noun] The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate. | [noun] Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry. | [noun] That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift. DOWERY (13) DOWING (11) DOWNED (11) [verb] To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell. | [verb] To lower; to put (something) down. | [verb] To defeat; to overpower. DOWNER (10) [noun] A negative drug trip. | [noun] A drug that has depressant qualities. | [noun] Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy. DOWSED (11) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DOWSER (10) DOWSES (10) [noun] A sudden plunging into water. | [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. DOXIES (14) [noun] A dachshund | [noun] A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress. | [noun] A defined opinion. DOYENS (10) [noun] A commander in charge of ten men. | [noun] The senior, or eldest male member of a group. | [noun] A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement. DOYLEY (13) DOZENS (16) [noun] A set of twelve. | [noun] (as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many. | [noun] An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight. DOZERS (16) [noun] One who dozes. | [noun] A bulldozer. DOZIER (16) [adjective] Quite sleepy or tired. | [adjective] Intellectually slow. | [adjective] Decaying, rotten, spongy. DOZILY (19) DOZING (17) [verb] To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. | [verb] To make dull; to stupefy. | [verb] To bulldoze. DRABLY (12) DRACHM (14) [noun] A small unit of weight, variously: | [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. DRAFFS (13) DRAFFY (16) DRAFTS (10) [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. DRAFTY (13) [adjective] Characterized by gusts of wind; windy. | [adjective] (of a building etc.) Not properly sealed against drafts (draughts). DRAGEE (8) [noun] A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc. DRAGGY (12) [adjective] Moving or developing very slowly; tending to drag on; dull. DRAGON (8) [noun] A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature. | [noun] An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance: | [noun] (with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco. | [noun] A transvestite man, or more broadly a male-to-female transgender person. DRAILS (7) [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. DRAINS (7) [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. DRAKES (11) [noun] A male duck. | [noun] A mayfly used as fishing bait. | [noun] A dragon. DRAMAS (9) [noun] A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue | [noun] Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy) | [noun] Theatrical plays in general DRAPED (10) [verb] To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery | [verb] To spread over, cover. | [verb] To rail at; to banter. DRAPER (9) [noun] One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths. DRAPES (9) [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 DRAPEY (12) DRAWEE (10) [noun] The party directed to pay the amount of a draft or cheque. DRAWER (10) [noun] An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles. | [noun] A side panel containing supplementary content. | [noun] Agent noun of draw; one who draws. DRAWLS (10) [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. DRAWLY (13) DRAYED (11) DREADS (8) [noun] A Rastafarian person. | [noun] Dreadlocks | [verb] To fear greatly. DREAMS (9) [noun] Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping. | [noun] A hope or wish. | [noun] A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy. DREAMT (9) [verb] To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping. | [verb] To hope, to wish. | [verb] To daydream. DREAMY (12) [adjective] As in a dream; resembling a dream. | [adjective] Sexy; handsome; attractive | [adjective] Having a pleasant or romantic atmosphere. DREARS (7) DREARY (10) [adjective] Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless. | [adjective] Grievous, dire; appalling. DRECKS (13) DRECKY (16) [adjective] Trashy, worthless DREDGE (9) [noun] Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: | [noun] Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. | [verb] To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge. | [noun] A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation. | [noun] A mixture of oats and barley. DREGGY (12) DREICH (12) [adjective] Bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary. DREIDL (8) [noun] A four-sided spinning top, inscribed with the four Hebrew letters נ, ג, ה, and ש or פ on each side, associated with and often used during Hanukkah. | [noun] A gambling game played using this top. DREIGH (11) DRENCH (12) [noun] A draught administered to an animal. | [noun] A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging. | [verb] To soak, to make very wet. | [noun] A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book. DRESSY (10) [adjective] Elegant, smart or stylish. | [adjective] Fond of dressing up; keen on fashion. DRIEGH (11) DRIERS (7) [noun] One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative. | [noun] A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion. | [noun] An electric hair dryer. DRIEST (7) [adjective] Free from or lacking moisture. | [adjective] Unable to produce a liquid, as water, oil, or (farming) milk. | [adjective] Built without or lacking mortar. DRIFTS (10) [noun] (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved. | [noun] The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. | [noun] A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side. DRIFTY (13) DRILLS (7) [noun] A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece. | [noun] The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit. | [noun] An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence. DRINKS (11) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. DRIPPY (14) [adjective] Dripping or tending to drip. | [adjective] Rainy or wet. | [adjective] Maudlin, tiresome or annoying; DRIVEL (10) [noun] Senseless talk; nonsense | [noun] Saliva, drool | [noun] A fool; an idiot. | [noun] A servant; a drudge. DRIVEN (10) [verb] To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. | [verb] To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind. | [verb] To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force. DRIVER (10) [noun] One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | [noun] Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | [noun] A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus. DRIVES (10) [noun] Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition. | [noun] Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business. | [noun] An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc. DROGUE (8) [noun] (whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving. | [noun] A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to. | [noun] A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute. DROITS (7) DROLLS (7) [noun] A funny person; a buffoon, a wag. DROLLY (10) [adverb] In a droll, odd or humorous manner. DROMON (9) DRONED (8) [verb] To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft. | [verb] To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz. | [verb] To speak in a monotone way. DRONER (7) DRONES (7) [noun] A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee. | [noun] Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler. | [noun] One who performs menial or tedious work. DRONGO (8) [noun] Any bird of the family Dicruridae. | [noun] A fool, an idiot, a stupid fellow. DROOLS (7) [verb] To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food. | [verb] To secrete any substance in a similar way. | [verb] To react to something with uncontrollable desire. DROOPS (9) [verb] To hang downward; to sag. | [verb] To slowly become limp; to bend gradually. | [verb] To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag. DROOPY (12) [adjective] Tending to droop; sagging; wilting. DROPSY (12) [noun] Swelling, edema, often from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DROSKY (14) DROSSY (10) DROUKS (11) DROUTH (10) [noun] A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell. | [noun] (by extension) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport. DROVED (11) [verb] To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance. | [verb] To finish (stone) with a drove chisel. DROVER (10) DROVES (10) [noun] A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively). | [noun] (collective) A group of hares. DROWND (11) DROWNS (10) [verb] To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. | [verb] To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. | [verb] To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. DROWSE (10) [noun] The state of being sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To be sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To nod off; to fall asleep. DROWSY (13) [adjective] Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness | [adjective] Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific. | [adjective] Boring. DRUDGE (9) [noun] A person who works in a low servile job. | [noun] Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else. | [verb] To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. DRUGGY (12) [noun] A drug addict or abuser. | [adjective] Acting as if on drugs; torpid, uncoordinated, etc. DRUIDS (8) [noun] One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions. DRUMLY (12) DRUNKS (11) [noun] One who is intoxicated with alcohol. | [noun] A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated. | [noun] A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness. DRUPES (9) [noun] A stone fruit. DRUSES (7) [noun] An inner surface with a crust of tiny crystals. | [noun] An aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants. | [noun] A tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye. DRYADS (11) [noun] In Greek myth, a female tree spirit. DRYERS (10) [noun] One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative. | [noun] A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion. | [noun] An electric hair dryer. DRYEST (10) DRYING (11) [verb] To lose moisture. | [verb] To remove moisture from. | [verb] To be thirsty. DRYISH (13) DRYLOT (10) DUALLY (10) DUBBED (12) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. DUBBER (11) DUBBIN (11) [noun] A mixture of tallow and oil used to soften leather, and make it waterproof. | [verb] To apply dubbin to DUCATS (9) [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. DUCKED (14) [verb] To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. DUCKER (13) DUCKIE (13) DUCTAL (9) DUCTED (10) [verb] To channel something through a duct (or series of ducts). | [adjective] Fitted with a duct DUDDIE (9) DUDEEN (8) [noun] A short-stemmed Irish pipe made out of clay. DUDING (9) [verb] To address someone as dude. | [verb] To take a vacation in a dude ranch. | [verb] Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes. DUDISH (11) DUELED (8) [verb] To engage in a battle. DUELER (7) [noun] A person who fights a duel DUELLI (7) DUELLO (7) [noun] A duel. DUENDE (8) [noun] A small, mischievous humanoid creature in Iberian (Spanish/Portuguese), Latin American, and Philippine folklore/mythology; an imp. | [noun] Personal charm. DUENNA (7) [noun] A chaperon of a young lady, usually an older woman. | [noun] A governess or nanny. DUFFEL (13) [noun] A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. | [noun] Outfit or supplies, collectively; kit. DUFFER (13) [adjective] Worthless; not working properly, defective. | [noun] An incompetent or clumsy person. | [noun] A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs. DUFFLE (13) [noun] A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. | [noun] Outfit or supplies, collectively; kit. DUGONG (9) [noun] A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus Dugong, found in tropical regions. DUGOUT (8) [noun] A canoe made from a hollowed-out log. | [noun] A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire. | [noun] A sunken shelter at the side of a baseball or football (soccer) field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game. DUIKER (11) [noun] Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily. DUKING (12) [verb] To hit or beat with the fists. | [verb] To give cash to; to give a tip to. DULCET (9) [adjective] Sweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious. | [adjective] Generally pleasing; agreeable. | [adjective] Sweet to the taste. DULIAS (7) DULLED (8) [verb] To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. | [verb] To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy. | [verb] To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. DULLER (7) [adjective] Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp. | [adjective] Boring; not exciting or interesting. | [adjective] Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness. DULSES (7) DUMBED (12) [verb] To silence. | [verb] To make stupid. | [verb] To represent as stupid. DUMBER (11) [adjective] Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind"). | [adjective] Silent; unaccompanied by words. | [adjective] (especially of a person) Extremely stupid. DUMBLY (14) DUMDUM (12) [noun] A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound. | [noun] An ignorant person; an idiot. DUMPED (12) [verb] To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. | [verb] To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore. | [verb] To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping. DUMPER (11) [noun] A small vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites. | [noun] A dropper of refuse, particularly not in landfill sites/recycling sites. | [noun] One who dumps a boyfriend or girlfriend; the one of a romantic couple who terminates the relationship. DUNAMS (9) [noun] An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre. | [noun] A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma. | [noun] Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2). DUNCES (9) [noun] An unintelligent person. DUNGED (9) [verb] To fertilize with dung. | [verb] (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant. | [verb] To release dung: to defecate. DUNITE (7) [noun] A type of igneous rock with a coarse-grained or phaneritic texture. DUNKED (12) DUNKER (11) [noun] Someone who dunks. | [noun] A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks. | [noun] A biscuit that is suitable for dunking in a cup of tea. DUNLIN (7) [noun] A small wading bird, Calidris alpina, found along the coast and having a distinctive black belly patch in its breeding plumage. A type of stint. DUNNED (8) [verb] To ask or beset a debtor for payment. | [verb] To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request. | [verb] To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance. DUNNER (7) DUNTED (8) [verb] To strike; give a blow to; knock. DUOLOG (8) DUOMOS (9) [noun] A cathedral, especially one in Italy. DUPERS (9) [noun] A person who dupes another DUPERY (12) DUPING (10) [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [verb] To duplicate. DUPLEX (16) [noun] A house made up of two dwelling units. | [noun] A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting. | [noun] A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time. DUPPED (12) DURBAR (9) [noun] A ceremonial gathering held by a ruler in India. | [noun] An audience chamber. | [noun] The body of officials at a native court. DURESS (7) [noun] Harsh treatment. | [noun] Constraint by threat. | [noun] Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats. DURIAN (7) [noun] Any of several trees, genus Durio, of Southeast Asia. | [noun] The spiky edible fruit of this tree, known for its strong taste and very strong, unpleasant odor. | [noun] A yellow colour, like that of durian flesh (also called durian yellow). DURING (8) [verb] To last, continue, endure. | [preposition] For all of a given time interval. | [preposition] At any time or period within a given time interval. DURION (7) DURNED (8) [adjective] Darned. DUROCS (9) [noun] A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America. DURRAS (7) DURRIE (7) [noun] A thick, flat-woven cotton Indian rug or carpet. DURUMS (9) DUSKED (12) [verb] To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk. | [verb] To make dusk. DUSTED (8) [verb] To remove dust from. | [verb] To remove dust; to clean by removing dust. | [verb] Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth. DUSTER (7) [noun] An object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc. | [noun] Someone who dusts. | [noun] A light, loose-fitting long coat. DUSTUP (9) [noun] A scuffle or fight. | [noun] (by extension) An argument or dispute. DUTIES (7) [noun] That which one is morally or legally obligated to do. | [noun] The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task. | [noun] A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff. DUVETS (10) [noun] A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets. | [noun] A cover for a quilt or comforter. DWARFS (13) [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. DWEEBS (12) [noun] (originally college slang) A boring, studious, or socially inept person. DWELLS (10) [noun] A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state. | [noun] A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed. | [noun] A planned delay in a timed control program. DWINED (11) DWINES (10) DYABLE (12) DYADIC (13) DYBBUK (18) [noun] A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. DYEING (11) [verb] To colour with dye, or as if with dye. | [noun] The act by which something is dyed. DYINGS (11) DYKING (15) [noun] The process of building a dike. DYNAMO (12) [noun] An electricity generator, a dynamo-electric machine. | [noun] An energetic person. DYNAST (10) [noun] A ruler or governor, especially a hereditary ruler or someone who founded or is part of a dynasty. DYNEIN (10) DYNELS (10) DYNODE (11) [noun] Any of a series of electrodes within a photomultiplier tube. DYVOUR (13) EARNED (7) [verb] To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. ECHARD (12) ECHOED (12) [verb] (of a sound or sound waves) To reflect off a surface and return. | [verb] To reflect back (a sound). | [verb] (by extension) To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.). EDDIED (9) [verb] To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle. EDDIES (8) [noun] A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current. | [noun] A circular current; a whirlpool. | [verb] To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle. EDDOES (8) [noun] A plant (Colocasia esculenta, but often identified as Colocasia antiquorum, among numerous other synonyms), which is usually considered a variety of C. esculenta, with edible starchy tubers. | [noun] The tubers of this plant. EDEMAS (9) EDENIC (9) [adjective] Of or suggesting Eden, the paradise of the Bible. EDGERS (8) EDGIER (8) [adjective] Nervous, apprehensive. | [adjective] (entertainment) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge. | [adjective] (entertainment) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué. EDGILY (11) EDGING (9) [verb] To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin. EDIBLE (9) [noun] Anything edible. | [noun] (marijuana) a foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter etc. | [adjective] That can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption. EDICTS (9) [noun] A proclamation of law or other authoritative command. EDILES (7) EDITED (8) [verb] To change a text, or a document. | [verb] To be the editor of a publication. | [verb] To change the contents of a file, website, etc. EDITOR (7) [noun] A person who edits or makes changes to documents. | [noun] A copy editor. | [noun] A person who edited a specific document. EDUCED (10) [verb] To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. | [verb] To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. | [verb] To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop. EDUCES (9) [verb] To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. | [verb] To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. | [verb] To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop. EDUCTS (9) EIDERS (7) [noun] Any of the species of the genera Polysticta or Somateria, in the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies). EIDOLA (7) [noun] An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality. | [noun] A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity. ELANDS (7) [noun] A genus of large South African antelope (Taurotragus), valued both for its hide and flesh. ELAPID (9) ELATED (7) [verb] To make joyful or proud. | [verb] To lift up; raise; elevate. | [adjective] Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased, euphoric. ELDERS (7) [noun] An older person or an older member, usually a leader, of some community. | [noun] One who is older than another. | [noun] One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor. ELDEST (7) [noun] The eldest child in a family, or individual in a group. | [adjective] (of a player) Receiving cards from the dealer first, before any other players. | [adjective] (of a hand) Having higher, or superior cards. ELIDED (8) [verb] To leave out or omit (something). | [verb] To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable. | [verb] To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between. ELIDES (7) [verb] To leave out or omit (something). | [verb] To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable. | [verb] To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between. ELODEA (7) [noun] Any of several underwater freshwater perennials, of the genus Elodea, that have grasslike leaves; ditchmoss or pondweed. ELOPED (9) [verb] (of a married person) To run away from home with a paramour. | [verb] (of an unmarried person) To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement. | [verb] To run away from home (for any reason). ELUDED (8) [verb] To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill | [verb] To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip | [verb] To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to ELUDER (7) ELUDES (7) [verb] To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill | [verb] To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip | [verb] To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to ELUTED (7) [verb] To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse. EMBEDS (11) [noun] An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate. | [noun] An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message. | [noun] An item embedded in another document. EMBODY (14) [verb] To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify. | [verb] To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws. | [verb] To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of. EMCEED (11) [verb] To act as the master of ceremonies (for). | [verb] To rap as part of a hip-hop performance. EMENDS (9) [verb] To correct and revise (text or a document). EMEROD (9) EMODIN (9) EMOTED (9) [verb] To display emotions openly, especially while acting. | [verb] To induce an emotion in. | [verb] To perform a virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than sending a direct message. EMYDES (12) ENCODE (9) [verb] To convert (plain text) into code. | [verb] (communication) To convert source information into another form. | [verb] To constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix so as to transcribe DNA material. ENDEAR (7) [verb] To make (something) more precious or valuable. | [verb] To make (something) more expensive; to increase the cost of. | [verb] To stress (something) as important; to exaggerate. ENDERS (7) ENDING (8) [noun] A termination or conclusion. | [noun] The last part of something. | [noun] (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending"). | [verb] To come to an end ENDITE (7) [noun] One of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium. | [verb] To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe. | [verb] To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose. ENDIVE (10) [noun] A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus). ENDOWS (10) [verb] To provide with a dower or a dowry. | [verb] To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. | [verb] Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. ENDRIN (7) [noun] A toxic chlorinated polycyclic epoxide previously used as a pesticide and now considered a persistent organic pollutant. ENDUED (8) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). ENDUES (7) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). ENDURE (7) [verb] To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist. | [verb] To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant. | [verb] To last. ENDURO (7) [noun] A motorcycle sport run on predominantly off-road courses, with many obstacles and challenges. | [noun] A particular race or event in the sport of enduro. ENFOLD (10) [verb] To fold something around; to envelop | [verb] To embrace ENGILD (8) ENGIRD (8) [verb] To gird around; to ingirt. ENNEAD (7) [noun] The number nine. | [noun] Any grouping or system containing nine objects. ENSUED (7) [verb] To follow (a leader, inclination etc.). | [verb] To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. | [verb] To occur afterwards, as a result or effect. ENURED (7) [verb] To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative; used with to. ENVIED (10) [adjective] That is the object of envy. | [verb] To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions. | [verb] To have envious feelings (at). ENWIND (10) EPHODS (12) [noun] A priestly apron, or breastplate, described in the Bible in Exodus 28: vi - xxx, which only the chief priest of ancient Israel was allowed to wear. EPODES (9) [noun] The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe. | [noun] A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one. EQUIDS (16) [noun] Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.) ERASED (7) [verb] To remove markings or information | [verb] To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. | [verb] To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite. ERODED (8) [verb] To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction. | [verb] To destroy gradually by an ongoing process. | [adjective] Worn down or worn away. ERODES (7) [verb] To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction. | [verb] To destroy gradually by an ongoing process. ERRAND (7) [noun] A journey undertaken to accomplish some task. | [noun] The purpose of such a journey. | [noun] An oral message trusted to a person for delivery. ESCUDO (9) [noun] The state currency formerly used in Portugal, divided into 100 centavos. The symbol is $ which is positioned between the escudos & centavos, 2$50. | [noun] The currency formerly used in Chile and replaced by the Peso. | [noun] The current currency of Cape Verde. ESPIED (9) [verb] To catch sight of; to see; to spot (said especially of something not easy to see) | [verb] To examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe. | [verb] To look or search narrowly; to look about; to watch; to take notice; to spy. ETCHED (12) [verb] To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards. | [verb] To engrave a surface. | [verb] To make a lasting impression. ETUDES (7) [noun] A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill. EVADED (11) [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. EVADER (10) EVADES (10) [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. EVENED (10) [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To equal. | [verb] To be equal. | [verb] To occur; to happen; to come to pass. EVITED (10) [verb] To avoid. EVOKED (14) [verb] To call out; to draw out or bring forth. | [verb] To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. | [verb] To elicit a response. EXCEED (16) [verb] To be larger, greater than (something). | [verb] To be better than (something). | [verb] To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than. EXCIDE (16) EXEDRA (14) [noun] A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion. | [noun] (by extension) A curved bench with a high back. EXILED (14) [verb] To send into exile. EXITED (14) [verb] To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave. | [verb] To depart from life; to die. | [verb] To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.) EXODOI (14) EXODOS (14) EXODUS (14) [noun] A sudden departure of a large number of people. | [verb] To depart from a place in a large group. EXPAND (16) [verb] To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open. | [verb] To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something). | [verb] To express (something) at length and/or in detail. EXPEND (16) [verb] To consume, exhaust (some resource) | [verb] (of money) to spend, disburse EXTEND (14) [verb] To increase in extent. | [verb] To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space. | [verb] To cause to increase in extent. EXUDED (15) [verb] To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. | [verb] To flow out through the pores. EXUDES (14) [verb] To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. | [verb] To flow out through the pores. EYELID (10) [noun] A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye. FABLED (12) [verb] To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true. | [verb] To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable. | [adjective] Known only in fables; fictitious. FACADE (12) [noun] The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation. | [noun] (by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ. | [noun] A deceptive or insincere outward appearance; a front. FADERS (10) [noun] A device used to control sound volume. | [noun] A program or algorithm for fading out colors. FADGED (12) FADGES (11) [verb] To be suitable (with or to something). | [verb] To agree, to get along (with). | [verb] To get on well; to cope, to thrive. FADING (11) [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. FAGGED (12) [verb] (used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out. | [verb] To droop; to tire. | [verb] For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools. FAILED (10) [verb] To be unsuccessful. | [verb] Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.) | [verb] To neglect. FAIRED (10) [verb] To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface). | [verb] To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members). | [verb] To construct or design a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline or reduce air drag or water resistance. FANDOM (12) [noun] The fans of a sport, activity, work, person etc., taken as a group. | [noun] The subculture of fans. | [noun] The state, quality, or condition of being a fan. FANGED (11) [verb] To strike or attack with the fangs. | [verb] To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs. | [verb] To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of. FANNED (10) [verb] To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise. | [verb] To slap (a behind, especially). | [verb] (usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan. FANTOD (10) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A state of worry or nervous anxiety, irritability. | [noun] An irritable outburst. FARADS (10) [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 FARCED (12) FARDED (11) FARDEL (10) [noun] A fourth part: a quarter of anything. | [noun] An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland. | [noun] A bundle or burden. FARMED (12) [verb] To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops. | [verb] To devote (land) to farming. | [verb] To grow (a particular crop). FARTED (10) [verb] (impolite) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate. | [verb] (usually as "fart around") To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing. | [verb] To emit (fumes, gases, etc.). FASHED (13) [verb] To worry; to bother, annoy. | [verb] To trouble oneself; to take pains. FASTED (10) [verb] To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things, in various manners (totally, temporally, by avoiding particular items), often for religious or medical reasons. FATTED (10) [adjective] Made fat; fattened. FAULDS (10) FAWNED (13) [verb] To give birth to a fawn. | [verb] To exhibit affection or attempt to please. | [verb] To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon). FEARED (10) [verb] To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm. | [verb] To feel fear (about something). | [verb] (used with for) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for. FEASED (10) FEAZED (19) FECUND (12) [adjective] Highly fertile; able to produce offspring. | [adjective] Leading to new ideas or innovation. FEDORA (10) [noun] A felt hat with a fairly low, creased crown with a brim that can be turned up or down. FEEDER (10) [noun] One who feeds, or gives food to another. | [noun] One who feeds, or takes in food. | [noun] One who, or that which, feeds material into something. FEEZED (19) FELIDS (10) [noun] Any member of the cat family (Felidae). FELLED (10) [verb] To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. | [verb] To strike down, kill, destroy. | [verb] To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat. FELTED (10) [verb] To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, felt. | [verb] To cause a player to lose all their chips. FENCED (12) [verb] To enclose, contain or separate by building fence. | [verb] To defend or guard. | [verb] To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods. FENDED (11) [verb] To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being. | [verb] (except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off). FENDER (10) [noun] Panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels | [noun] A shield, usually of plastic or metal, on a bicycle that protects the rider from mud or water | [noun] Any shaped cushion-like object normally made from polymers, rubber or wood that is placed along the sides of a boat to prevent damage when moored alongside another vessel or jetty, or when using a lock, etc. Modern variations are cylindrical although older wooden version and rubbing strips can still be found; old tyres are used as a cheap substitute FERVID (13) [adjective] Intensely hot, emotional, or zealous. FESSED (10) [verb] To confess; to admit. FETTED (10) FEUDAL (10) [adjective] Of, or relating to feudalism. FEUDED (11) [verb] To carry on a feud. FEZZED (28) FIBBED (14) [verb] To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. | [verb] (thieves cant) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike. FIDDLE (11) [noun] Any of various bowed string instruments, often a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin. | [noun] A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument. | [noun] An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw. FIDDLY (14) [adjective] Requiring dexterity to operate. | [adjective] (by extension) Having many small bits or embellishments. | [adjective] Of or relating to fiddling or fidgeting. FIDGED (12) FIDGES (11) FIDGET (11) [noun] A nervous wriggling or twitching motion. | [noun] A person who fidgets, especially habitually. | [noun] A toy intended to be fidgeted with. FIELDS (10) [noun] A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. | [noun] A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals. | [noun] A place where competitive matches are carried out. FIENDS (10) [noun] A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit. | [noun] A very evil person. | [noun] An enemy; a foe. FIGGED (12) [verb] To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. | [verb] To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible. | [verb] (soap-making) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations. FILLED (10) [verb] To occupy fully, to take up all of. | [verb] To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full. | [verb] To enter (something), making it full. FILMED (12) [verb] To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film. | [verb] To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle. | [adjective] Covered with a film. FINDER (10) [noun] One who finds or discovers something. | [noun] An optical device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest FINKED (14) [verb] To betray a trust; to inform on. FINNED (10) [verb] To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc. | [verb] (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water. | [verb] To swim in the manner of a fish. FIORDS (10) [noun] A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs. FIRMED (12) [verb] To make firm or strong; fix securely. | [verb] To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify. | [verb] To become firm; stabilise. FISHED (13) [verb] To hunt fish or other aquatic animals. | [verb] To search (a body of water) for something other than fish. | [verb] To use as bait when fishing. FISTED (10) [verb] To strike with the fist. | [verb] To close (the hand) into a fist. | [verb] To grip with a fist. FITTED (10) [verb] To be suitable for. | [verb] To conform to in size and shape. | [verb] To be of the right size and shape FIZZED (28) [verb] To emit bubbles. | [verb] To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound. | [verb] To shoot or project something moving at great velocity. FJELDS (17) FJORDS (17) [noun] A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs. FLAKED (14) [verb] To break or chip off in a flake. | [verb] To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. | [verb] To store an item such as rope or sail in layers FLAMED (12) [verb] To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze. | [verb] To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour. | [verb] To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody). FLARED (10) [verb] To cause to burn. | [verb] To cause inflammation; to inflame. | [verb] To open outward in shape. FLAWED (13) [adjective] Having a flaw or imperfection. FLAYED (13) [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). | [verb] To frighten; scare; terrify. | [verb] To be fear-stricken. FLEDGE (11) [verb] To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight. | [verb] To grow, cover or be covered with feathers. | [verb] To decorate with feathers. FLEDGY (14) FLEXED (17) [verb] To bend something. | [verb] To repeatedly bend one of one's joints. | [verb] To move part of the body using one's muscles. FLEYED (13) FLITED (10) FLOODS (10) [noun] A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water. | [noun] A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with. | [noun] The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb. FLORID (10) [adjective] Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy. | [adjective] Elaborately ornate; flowery. | [adjective] (of a disorder, especially mental) In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state. FLOWED (13) [verb] To move as a fluid from one position to another. | [verb] To proceed; to issue forth. | [verb] To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. FLUIDS (10) [noun] Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma. | [noun] A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas). | [noun] (specifically, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids. FLUKED (14) [verb] To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance. | [verb] To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way. | [adjective] Having flukes. FLUMED (12) FLUTED (10) [verb] To play on a flute. | [verb] To make a flutelike sound. | [verb] To utter with a flutelike sound. FLUXED (17) [verb] To use flux on. | [verb] To melt. | [verb] To flow as a liquid. FLYTED (13) FOALED (10) [verb] To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring. FOAMED (12) [verb] To form or emit foam. | [verb] To spew saliva as foam, to foam at the mouth. FOBBED (14) [verb] To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone. | [verb] To beat; to maul. FODDER (11) [noun] Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc. | [noun] A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg. | [noun] (drafting) Tracing paper. FODGEL (11) FOETID (10) [adjective] Foul-smelling, stinking. FOGDOG (12) FOGGED (12) [verb] To become covered with or as if with fog. | [verb] To become obscured in condensation or water. | [verb] To become dim or obscure. FOILED (10) [verb] To cover or wrap with foil. | [verb] To prevent (something) from being accomplished. | [verb] To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something. FOINED (10) FOLDED (11) [verb] To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself. | [verb] To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending. | [verb] To become folded; to form folds. FOLDER (10) [noun] An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet. | [noun] A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related. | [noun] A machine or person that folds things. FONDED (11) FONDER (10) [adjective] (chiefly with of) Having a liking or affection (for). | [adjective] Affectionate. | [adjective] Indulgent. FONDLE (10) [verb] To touch or stroke lovingly. | [verb] To grasp. FONDLY (13) [adverb] In a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly. | [adverb] Foolishly. FONDUE (10) [noun] A dish made of melted cheese, chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped. | [verb] To prepare or serve as a fondue. FONDUS (10) FOODIE (10) [noun] A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet. FOOLED (10) [verb] To trick; to deceive | [verb] To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly FOOTED (10) [verb] To use the foot to kick (usually a ball). | [verb] To pay (a bill). | [verb] To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. | [adjective] (in combination) Having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet. FOPPED (14) FORBAD (12) [verb] To disallow; to proscribe. | [verb] (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command. | [verb] To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command. FORBID (12) [verb] To disallow; to proscribe. | [verb] (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command. | [verb] To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command. FORCED (12) [verb] To violate (a woman); to rape. | [verb] To exert oneself, to do one's utmost. | [verb] To compel (someone or something) to do something. FORDED (11) [verb] To cross a stream using a ford. FORDID (11) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FOREDO (10) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FORGED (11) [verb] To shape a metal by heating and hammering. | [verb] To form or create with concerted effort. | [verb] To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully. FORKED (14) [verb] To divide into two or more branches. | [verb] To move with a fork (as hay or food). | [verb] To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process. FORMED (12) [verb] To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). | [verb] To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. | [verb] To take shape. FOULED (10) [verb] To make dirty. | [verb] To besmirch. | [verb] To clog or obstruct. FOUNDS (10) [verb] To start (an institution or organization). | [verb] To begin building. | [verb] To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting. FOWLED (13) FRAMED (12) [verb] To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust. | [verb] To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts. | [verb] To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise. FRAUDS (10) [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. FRAYED (13) [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 FRIDGE (11) [noun] A refrigerator. | [verb] To place inside of a refrigerator. | [verb] To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove a character, usually female, from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character, usually male, and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s). | [verb] To rub, chafe. FRIEND (10) [noun] A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. | [noun] An associate who provides assistance. | [noun] A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted. FRIGID (11) [adjective] Very cold; lacking warmth; icy. | [adjective] Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive. | [adjective] Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman. FRIZED (19) FRONDS (10) [noun] The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf. | [noun] Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf. FUBBED (14) FUCKED (16) [verb] To have sexual intercourse, to copulate. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft. FUCOID (12) [noun] A fucoid seaweed. | [adjective] Resembling or relating to seaweeds of the genus Fucus. | [adjective] Of sandstone: bearing seaweed-like markings. FUDDLE (11) [noun] Intoxication. | [noun] Intoxicating drink; liquor. | [noun] Muddle, confusion. FUDGED (12) [verb] To try to avoid giving a direct answer. | [verb] To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral. | [verb] To botch or bungle something. FUDGES (11) [noun] A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge. | [noun] Light or frothy nonsense. | [noun] A deliberately misleading or vague answer. FUELED (10) [verb] To provide with fuel. | [verb] To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater. FUGGED (12) FUGLED (11) FUGUED (11) FULGID (11) FULLED (10) [verb] (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated. | [verb] To baptise. | [verb] To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk FUNDED (11) [verb] To pay for. | [verb] To place (money) in a fund. | [verb] To form a debt into a stock charged with interest. FUNDIC (12) FUNDUS (10) [noun] The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially FUNKED (14) [verb] To emit an offensive smell; to stink. | [verb] To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. | [verb] To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear. FUNNED (10) [verb] To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of. FURLED (10) [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) FURRED (10) [verb] To cover with fur or a fur-like coating. | [verb] To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating. | [verb] To level a surface by applying furring to it. FUSSED (10) [verb] To be very worried or excited about something, often too much. | [verb] To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust | [verb] (especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured. FUTZED (19) [verb] To be frivolous and waste time | [verb] To experiment by trial and error FUZZED (28) [verb] To make fuzzy. | [verb] To become fuzzy. | [verb] To make drunk. GABBED (12) [verb] To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie. | [verb] To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects. | [verb] To speak or tell falsely. GABLED (10) GADDED (10) [verb] To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. GADDER (9) GADDIS (9) GADFLY (14) [noun] Any dipterous insect of the family Oestridae, commonly known as botflies. | [noun] A horsefly: any of various species of fly, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals and sucking their blood. | [noun] One who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant. GADGET (9) [noun] A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey. | [noun] Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated. | [noun] Any consumer electronics product. GADIDS (9) [noun] Any member of the family Gadidae of fish such as cod and pollack. GADOID (9) [noun] Any fish of the family Gadidae | [adjective] Of or pertaining to cod or to the Gadidae family of related fish. GAFFED (14) [verb] To use a gaff, especially to land a fish. | [verb] To cheat or hoax. | [verb] To gamble. GAGGED (10) [verb] To experience the vomiting reflex. | [verb] To cause to heave with nausea. | [verb] To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth. GAINED (8) [verb] To acquire possession of. | [verb] To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress. | [verb] To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition. GAITED (8) GALLED (8) [verb] To bother or trouble. | [verb] To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury. | [verb] To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin. GAMMED (12) GANDER (8) [noun] A male goose. | [noun] A fool, simpleton. | [noun] (used only with “have”, “get” and “take”) A glance, look. GANGED (9) [verb] To go; walk; proceed. | [verb] To attach similar items together to form a larger unit. | [verb] To participate in a gangbang. GANOID (8) [noun] One of the Ganoidei, a disused taxonomic grouping of fishes, including the bowfin, gars, and sturgeons. | [adjective] Having a smooth, shining surface, as if polished or enameled: specifically applied to those scales or plates of fishes which are generally of an angular form and composed of a bony or hard horny tissue overlaid with enamel. | [adjective] Having ganoid scales or plates, as a fish; specifically, of or pertaining to the Ganoidei. GAOLED (8) [verb] To imprison. GAPPED (12) GARBED (10) [verb] To dress in garb. GARDEN (8) [noun] An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. | [noun] The grounds at the front or back of a house. | [noun] The twentieth Lenormand card. GARRED (8) GASHED (11) [verb] To make a deep, long cut; to slash. | [adjective] Having gashes; slashed. GASPED (10) [verb] To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock. | [verb] To breathe laboriously or convulsively. | [verb] To speak in a breathless manner. GASSED (8) [verb] To kill with poisonous gas. | [verb] To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter. | [verb] To impose upon by talking boastfully. GASTED (8) GAUGED (9) [verb] To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of. | [verb] To estimate. | [verb] To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of. GAUMED (10) GAWKED (15) [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. | [verb] To stare conspicuously. GAWPED (13) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. GEARED (8) [verb] To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio. | [verb] To be in, or come into, gear. | [verb] To dress; to put gear on; to harness. GECKED (14) GELADA (8) [noun] A species of Old World monkey, Theropithecus gelada, distinguished from baboons by the bright patch of skin on their chests. GELDED (9) [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). | [verb] To deprive of anything essential; to weaken. | [adjective] Castrated. GELDER (8) GELLED (8) [verb] To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc). | [verb] To become a gel. | [verb] To develop a rapport. GEMMED (12) [verb] To adorn with, or as if with, gems. GENDER (8) [noun] Class; kind. | [noun] (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate. | [noun] (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species). | [verb] To engender. GEODES (8) [noun] A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall. GEODIC (10) GEOIDS (8) GERUND (8) [noun] (grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language) | [noun] (grammar) In some languages such as Dutch, Italian or Russian, a verbal form similar to a present participle, but functioning as an adverb to form adverbial phrases or continuous tense. These constructions have various names besides gerund, depending on the language, such as conjunctive participles, active participles, adverbial participles, transgressives, etc. GIBBED (12) [verb] To fasten in place with a gib. | [verb] To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs. | [verb] To install plasterboard. GIDDAP (11) [interjection] (directed at a horse) Move on!, go faster! GIFTED (11) [verb] To give as a gift or donation. | [verb] To give away, to concede easily. | [adjective] Endowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities. GIGGED (10) [verb] To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear. | [verb] To engage in musical performances. | [verb] To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending. GILDED (9) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. GILDER (8) GILLED (8) [adjective] Having gills GIMPED (12) [verb] (of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped. | [verb] To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves. | [verb] To limp; to hobble. GINNED (8) [verb] To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin. | [verb] To trap something in a gin. | [adjective] Drunk GIPPED (12) GIRDED (9) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. GIRDER (8) [noun] A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure. | [noun] One who girds; a satirist. GIRDLE (8) [noun] That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference | [noun] A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery. | [noun] The zodiac; also, the equator. | [noun] A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked. GIRNED (8) [verb] To grimace; to snarl. | [verb] To whinge, moan, complain. | [verb] To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition. GIRTED (8) GLADES (8) [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. GLADLY (11) [adverb] In a glad manner; happily. | [adverb] Willingly; certainly. GLANDS (8) [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: GLARED (8) [verb] To stare angrily. | [verb] To shine brightly. | [verb] To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid. GLAZED (17) [verb] To install windows. | [verb] To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating. | [verb] To become glazed or glassy. GLEDES (8) GLEEDS (8) GLEYED (11) GLIDED (9) [verb] To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly. | [verb] To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish. | [verb] To cause to glide. GLIDER (8) [noun] The act of gliding. | [noun] A transitional sound, especially a semivowel. | [noun] An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact. GLIDES (8) [noun] The act of gliding. | [noun] A transitional sound, especially a semivowel. | [noun] An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact. GLIMED (10) GLOBED (10) [verb] To become spherical. | [verb] To make spherical. GLOVED (11) [verb] To catch the ball in a baseball mitt. | [verb] To put a glove or gloves on. | [verb] To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball. GLOWED (11) [verb] To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated. | [verb] To radiate some emotional quality like light. | [verb] To gaze especially passionately at something. GLOZED (17) [verb] To extenuate, explain away, gloss over. | [verb] To use flattering language. | [verb] To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation. GNAWED (11) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GOADED (9) [verb] To prod with a goad. | [verb] To encourage or stimulate. | [verb] To incite or provoke. GOALED (8) GOBBED (12) [verb] To gather into a lump. | [verb] To spit, especially to spit phlegm. | [verb] To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine. GODDAM (11) [noun] (Gallicism, chiefly in the plural) An English person, from the perspective of a French person or in the context of French history. | [interjection] An expression of anger, surprise, intense excitment or frustration. GODDED (10) GODETS (8) [noun] A drinking cup. | [noun] A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset. | [noun] A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing. GODOWN (11) [noun] A warehouse. GODSON (8) [noun] A male child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent. GODWIT (11) [noun] Any of four species of long-billed, migratory wading birds in the genus Limosa, of the family Scolopacidae. GOLDEN (8) [noun] Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia. | [adjective] Made of, or relating to, gold. | [adjective] Having a colour or other richness suggestive of gold. | [verb] To become gold or golden (in colour). GOLDER (8) GOLFED (11) [verb] To play the game of golf. | [verb] To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf) | [adjective] Having had its source code made as short as possible, as in code golf. GONADS (8) [noun] A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The testicles. GONGED (9) [verb] To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong. | [verb] To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device. | [verb] To give an award or medal to. GOODBY (13) [noun] An utterance of goodbye, the wishing of farewell to someone. GOODIE (8) [noun] A good character in a story, often a hero. | [interjection] Expression of pleasure; yippee. GOODLY (11) [adjective] Good; pleasing in appearance; attractive; comely; graceful; pleasant; desirable. | [adjective] Quite large; considerable; sufficient; adequate; more than enough. | [adverb] In a goodly way; courteously, graciously. GOOFED (11) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To engage in mischief. GOOSED (8) [verb] To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters. | [verb] To stimulate, to spur. | [verb] To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator. GORGED (9) [adjective] With a stomach stuffed full of food. | [adjective] With the neck collared or encircled by an object. | [adjective] Having a gorge or throat. GOUGED (9) [verb] To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. | [verb] To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price. | [verb] To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket. GOURDE (8) [noun] The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes. GOURDS (8) [noun] Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae). | [noun] A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita. | [noun] The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration. GOWNED (11) [verb] To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown. GRACED (10) [verb] To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. | [verb] To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour. | [verb] To supply with heavenly grace. GRADED (9) [verb] To assign scores to the components of an academic test. | [verb] To assign a score to overall academic performance. | [verb] To organize in grades. GRADER (8) [noun] A machine used in road maintenance and construction for leveling large surfaces. | [noun] One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated. | [noun] (in combination) One who belongs to a certain grade at school. GRADES (8) [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. GRADIN (8) [noun] Any of a series of terraced steps or seats, as in an arena or an altar. GRADUS (8) [noun] A handbook used as an aid in a difficult art or practice, specifically, a dictionary of Greek or Latin prosody used as a guide in writing of poetry in Greek or Latin. GRANDS (8) [noun] (plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.) | [noun] (plural "grands") A grand piano | [noun] A grandparent or grandchild. GRATED (8) [verb] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars | [verb] To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater | [verb] To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something GRAVED (11) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. GRAVID (11) [adjective] Pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically. GRAYED (11) [verb] To become gray. | [verb] To cause to become gray. | [verb] To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region) GRAZED (17) [verb] To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. | [verb] To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture) | [verb] To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. GREEDS (8) GREEDY (11) [adjective] Having greed; consumed by selfish desires. | [adjective] Prone to overeat. | [adjective] Tending to match as much text as possible. GREYED (11) [verb] To become grey. | [verb] To cause to become grey. | [verb] To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region. GRIDED (9) GRIDES (8) GRIMED (10) [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRINDS (8) [noun] The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. | [noun] Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground. | [noun] A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans. GRIPED (10) [verb] To complain; to whine. | [verb] To annoy or bother. | [verb] To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm. GROPED (10) [verb] To feel with or use the hands; to handle. | [verb] To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see. | [verb] To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually. GROUND (8) [noun] The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground. | [noun] Terrain. | [noun] Soil, earth. | [verb] To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion. GROVED (11) GRUDGE (9) [noun] Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to a past misdeed or mistreatment. | [verb] To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). | [verb] To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. GUARDS (8) [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. GUIDED (9) [verb] To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. | [verb] To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot. | [verb] To exert control or influence over someone or something. GUIDER (8) [noun] One who guides. GUIDES (8) [noun] Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation. | [noun] A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. | [noun] A sign that guides people; guidepost. GUIDON (8) [noun] A small pennant or banner carried by infantry soldiers to direct troop movement. | [noun] A soldier assigned to carry such a banner. GUILDS (8) [noun] A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages. | [noun] A corporation. | [noun] A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits. GUILED (8) GUISED (8) GULDEN (8) [noun] An old currency of the Netherlands (and its overseas territory the Netherlands Antilles). GULFED (11) GULLED (8) [verb] To deceive or cheat. | [verb] To mislead. | [verb] To trick and defraud. GULPED (10) [verb] To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow. | [verb] To react nervously by swallowing. GUMMED (12) [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. | [verb] (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to. GUNDOG (9) [noun] A breed of dog used by hunters to find, flush out and retrieve birds and other game. GUNNED (8) [verb] (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm. | [verb] To speed something up. | [verb] To offer vigorous support to a person or cause. GURGED (9) GUSHED (11) [verb] To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. | [verb] To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. | [verb] (especially of a woman) To ejaculate during orgasm. GUSTED (8) [verb] To blow in gusts. | [verb] To taste. | [verb] To have a relish for. GUTTED (8) [verb] To eviscerate. | [verb] To remove or destroy the most important parts of. | [adjective] Eviscerated. GWEDUC (13) GYPPED (15) [verb] (sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately. HACKED (16) [verb] To chop or cut down in a rough manner. | [verb] To cough noisily. | [verb] To withstand or put up with a difficult situation. HADING (11) [verb] To slope or incline from the vertical. HADITH (13) [noun] An eyewitness account of a saying or action of Muhammad (or sometimes one of his companions) not otherwise found in the Quran. | [noun] A particular accepted collection of such accounts, as from a single source or within a particular branch of Islam or Islamic jurisprudence. HADJEE (17) HADJES (17) HADJIS (17) [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HADRON (10) [noun] A composite particle that comprises two or more quarks held together by the strong force and (consequently) can interact with other particles via said force; a meson or a baryon. HAFTED (13) [verb] To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle HAGDON (11) HAGGED (12) HAILED (10) [verb] Of hail, to fall from the sky. | [verb] To send or release hail. | [verb] To pour down in rapid succession. HAIRDO (10) [noun] A hairstyle. | [noun] A haircut. HAIRED (10) [verb] To remove the hair from. | [verb] To grow hair (where there was a bald spot). | [verb] To cause to have hair; to provide with hair HALIDE (10) [noun] A salt of any halogen acid. HALIDS (10) HALOED (10) [verb] To encircle with a halo. | [adjective] Encircled with a halo HALOID (10) HALTED (10) [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. HALVED (13) [verb] To reduce to half the original amount. | [verb] To divide into two halves. | [verb] To make up half of. HAMADA (12) HAMMED (14) [verb] To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions. HANDED (11) [verb] To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct. | [verb] To manage. HANDLE (10) [noun] The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved. | [noun] An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool, or an opportunity or pretext. | [noun] The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments. | [verb] To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s). HANGED (11) [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. HANKED (14) HANTED (10) HAPPED (14) [verb] To happen; to befall; to chance. | [verb] To happen to. | [verb] To wrap, clothe. HARDEN (10) [verb] To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure). | [verb] To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure). | [verb] To strengthen. | [noun] A coarse kind of linen made from hurds. HARDER (10) [adjective] (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | [adjective] (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | [adjective] Unquestionable. | [noun] Liza haematocheilus, the redlip mullet, a mugilid fish. HARDLY (13) [adverb] (manner) Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion. | [adverb] (manner) Harshly, severely; in a hard manner. | [adverb] With difficulty. HARKED (14) [verb] To listen attentively; often used in the imperative. HARMED (12) [verb] To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something. HARPED (12) [verb] (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject. | [verb] To play on (a harp or similar instrument) | [verb] To play (a tune) on the harp. HASHED (13) [verb] To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash. | [verb] To make a quick, rough version | [verb] To transform according to a hash function. HASPED (12) [verb] To shut or fasten with a hasp. | [adjective] Fitted with a hasp. HASTED (10) [verb] To urge onward; to hasten. | [verb] To move with haste. HATRED (10) [noun] Strong aversion; intense dislike HATTED (10) [verb] To place a hat on. | [verb] To appoint as cardinal. | [adjective] (often in combination) Wearing a hat; wearing a specified type of hat. HAULED (10) [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. HAWKED (17) [verb] To hunt with a hawk. | [verb] To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk. | [verb] To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle. HAZARD (19) [noun] The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. | [noun] An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. | [noun] (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it. HEADED (11) [adjective] Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. pre-printed at the top. | [adjective] (in combination) Having a head with specified characteristics. | [adjective] (in combination) Heading in a certain direction. | [verb] To be in command of. (See also head up.) HEADER (10) [noun] The upper portion of a page (or other) layout. | [noun] Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it. | [noun] Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table. HEALED (10) [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. | [verb] To become better or healthy again. | [verb] To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt. HEAPED (12) [verb] To pile in a heap. | [verb] To form or round into a heap, as in measuring. | [verb] To supply in great quantity. HEATED (10) [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). | [verb] To become hotter. | [verb] To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. HEAVED (13) [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). | [verb] To throw, cast. | [verb] To rise and fall. HEDDLE (11) [noun] A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded. | [noun] One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom. | [verb] To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle. HEDERS (10) [noun] An elementary school in which students are taught to read Hebrew texts. HEDGED (12) [verb] To enclose with a hedge or hedges. | [verb] To obstruct or surround. | [verb] To offset the risk associated with. HEDGER (11) HEDGES (11) [noun] A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden. | [noun] A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm. | [noun] A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land. HEEDED (11) [verb] To guard, protect. | [verb] To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. | [verb] To pay attention, care. HEEDER (10) HEELED (10) [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. | [verb] To become better or healthy again. | [verb] To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt. HEEZED (19) HEFTED (13) [verb] To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy. | [verb] To test the weight of something by lifting it. | [verb] (Northern England and Scotland) To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture. HEILED (10) HEIRED (10) HELLED (10) HELMED (12) [verb] To be a helmsman or a member of the helm; to be in charge of steering the boat. | [verb] (by extension) To lead (a project, etc.). | [adjective] Wearing a helm. HELPED (12) [verb] To provide assistance to (someone or something). | [verb] To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to. | [verb] To contribute in some way to. HELVED (13) HEMMED (14) [verb] To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. | [verb] (in sewing) To make a hem. | [verb] : To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something. HEMOID (12) HENTED (10) HEPTAD (12) [noun] A group of seven things. | [noun] A sequence of seven bases. HERALD (10) [noun] A messenger, especially one bringing important news. | [noun] A harbinger, giving signs of things to come. | [noun] An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms. | [noun] The long-tailed duck, or oldsquaw. HERBED (12) [adjective] Seasoned with herbs | [noun] A Zoroastrian priest of a minor order. HERDED (11) [verb] To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company. | [verb] To unite or associate in a herd | [verb] To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company. HERDER (10) [noun] One who herds. HERDIC (12) HEXADE (17) HEXADS (17) [noun] A group of six. | [noun] An element or radical with the combining power of six units, i.e. six atoms of hydrogen. HEYDAY (16) [noun] A period of success, popularity, or power; prime. | [noun] An exultation of the spirits; gaiety; frolic. | [interjection] A lively greeting. HEYDEY (16) HIDDEN (11) [adjective] Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent. | [adjective] Obscure. | [verb] To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. HIDERS (10) HIDING (11) [verb] To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. | [verb] To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight. | [verb] To beat with a whip made from hide. | [noun] A beating or spanking. HILLED (10) [verb] To form into a heap or mound. | [verb] To heap or draw earth around plants. | [adjective] Having hills. HILTED (10) HINDER (10) [verb] To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate. | [verb] To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent. | [verb] To cause harm. | [adjective] Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts). HINGED (11) [verb] To attach by, or equip with a hinge. | [verb] (with on or upon) To depend on something. | [verb] The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break. HINTED (10) [verb] To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue. | [verb] To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner. | [verb] To develop and add hints to a font. HIPPED (14) [adjective] Having hips or a feature resembling hips. | [verb] To use one's hips to bump into someone. | [verb] To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock"). | [verb] To use one's hips to bump into someone. | [adjective] Depressed. HISPID (12) [adjective] (obsolete outside biology) Covered in short, stiff hairs; bristly. HISSED (10) [verb] To make a hissing sound. | [verb] To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing. | [verb] To utter (something) with a hissing sound. HISTED (10) HOARDS (10) [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. HOAXED (17) [verb] To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. HOBBED (14) HOBOED (12) HOCKED (16) [verb] To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough. | [verb] To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan. | [verb] To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly HODADS (11) HODDEN (11) [noun] A coarse woollen fabric. HODDIN (11) HOGGED (12) [verb] To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others. | [verb] To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly. | [verb] To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom. HOIDEN (10) HOISED (10) HOLARD (10) HOLDEN (10) HOLDER (10) [noun] A thing that holds. | [noun] A person who temporarily or permanently possesses something. | [noun] One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. HOLDUP (12) [noun] A delay or wait. | [noun] A robbery at gunpoint. | [noun] The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later. HOLKED (14) HONDAS (10) HONDLE (10) HONIED (10) [adjective] Sweetened, with, or as if with, honey. | [adjective] Sugary, syrupy. | [adjective] Dulcet or mellifluous. HONKED (14) [verb] To use a car horn. | [verb] To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn. | [verb] To make the vocal sound of a goose. HOODED (11) [verb] To cover something with a hood. | [adjective] Wearing a hood. | [adjective] Covered with a hood. HOODIE (10) [noun] A sweatshirt, with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front. | [noun] (often with negative connotation of yobbishness) A young person wearing such a sweatshirt, usually a male. | [noun] Foreskin HOODOO (10) [noun] A practitioner of voodoo. | [noun] Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck. | [noun] A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands. HOOFED (13) [verb] To trample with hooves. | [verb] To walk. | [verb] To dance, especially as a professional. HOOKED (14) [verb] To attach a hook to. | [verb] To catch with a hook (hook a fish). | [verb] To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet. HOOPED (12) [verb] To bind or fasten using a hoop. | [verb] To clasp; to encircle; to surround. | [verb] To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. HOOTED (10) [verb] To cry out or shout in contempt. | [verb] To make the cry of an owl, a hoo. | [verb] To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts. HOOVED (13) HOPPED (14) [verb] To jump a short distance. | [verb] To jump on one foot. | [verb] To be in state of energetic activity. HORDED (11) HORDES (10) [noun] A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. | [noun] A large number of people. HORNED (10) [adjective] Having horns. | [adjective] Cuckolded | [verb] (of an animal) To assault with the horns. HORRID (10) [adjective] Bristling, rough, rugged. | [adjective] Causing horror or dread. | [adjective] Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable. HORSED (10) [verb] To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".) | [verb] To provide with a horse; supply horses for. | [verb] To get on horseback. | [adjective] Mounted on a horse. HOSTED (10) [verb] To perform the role of a host. | [verb] To lodge at an inn. | [verb] To run software made available to a remote user or process. HOTBED (12) [noun] A low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure, used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants, like a miniature hothouse. | [noun] (by extension) An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable. | [noun] An iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool. HOTDOG (11) [noun] A sandwich consisting of a frankfurter, or wiener, in a bread roll, usually served with ketchup, mustard, relish, etc. | [noun] A sausage of the type used as a general ingredient in this sandwich. | [noun] A show-off or daredevil, especially in such sports as surfing, skateboarding, or skiing. HOTROD (10) [noun] Typically a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster. The term may be used generically to apply to any car, truck, or motorcycle (et al.) modified for increased speed and/or performance. It may also be used to specifically describe and refer to modified cars from the original (or traditional) era of "hot rods", post World War II and prior to 1960. | [noun] (sexuality) The penis. HOTTED (10) [verb] (with up) To heat; to make or become hot. | [verb] (with up) To become lively or exciting. HOUDAH (13) HOUNDS (10) [noun] A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. | [noun] Any canine animal. | [noun] (by extension) Someone who seeks something. HOUSED (10) [verb] To keep within a structure or container. | [verb] To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour. | [verb] To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge. HOWDAH (16) [noun] A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel. | [noun] An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant. HOWDIE (13) HOWKED (17) HOWLED (13) [verb] To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. | [verb] To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail. | [verb] To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast. HOYDEN (13) [noun] A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman. | [verb] To behave in a hoydenish manner. | [adjective] Like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish. HUDDLE (11) [noun] A dense and disorderly crowd. | [noun] A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play. | [noun] A hesitation during play to think about one's next move. HUFFED (16) [verb] To breathe heavily. | [verb] To say in a huffy manner. | [verb] To enlarge; to swell up. HUGGED (12) [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. | [verb] To cling closely together. | [verb] To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms. HULKED (14) HULLED (10) [verb] To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed. | [verb] To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled. | [verb] To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc. HUMMED (14) [verb] To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. | [verb] To express by humming. | [verb] To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly HUMPED (14) [verb] To bend something into a hump. | [verb] To carry (something), especially with some exertion. | [verb] To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse HUNTED (10) [verb] To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport. | [verb] To try to find something; search (for). | [verb] To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc. HURDLE (10) [noun] An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race. | [noun] A perceived obstacle. | [noun] A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes. HURLED (10) [verb] To throw (something) with force. | [verb] To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. | [verb] To participate in the sport of hurling. HUSHED (13) [verb] To become quiet. | [verb] To make quiet. | [verb] To appease; to allay; to soothe. HUSKED (14) [verb] To remove husks from. | [verb] To cough, clear one's throat. | [verb] To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice. HUTTED (10) [verb] To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut. | [verb] To take shelter in a hut. | [verb] To stack (sheaves of grain). HYBRID (15) [noun] Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains. | [noun] Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies. | [adjective] Consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components. HYDRAE (13) HYDRAS (13) [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. HYDRIA (13) [noun] A three-handled clay or metal vessel used in Greek culture to hold and pour water. HYDRIC (15) [adjective] Characterized by, or requiring, moisture. | [adjective] Sufficiently wet to inhibit the survival of many species. | [adjective] Relating to hydrogen. HYDRID (14) HYDROS (13) [noun] Hydroelectric power | [noun] Electrical power supply; specifically, electrical power provided by a utility (as a publicly-owned one); payment or bills for this. | [noun] A spa. HYMNED (15) [verb] To sing a hymn. | [verb] To praise or extol in hymns. HYOIDS (13) [noun] The hyoid bone. HYPOED (15) IBIDEM (11) IDEALS (7) [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). IDEATE (7) [verb] To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize. | [verb] To generate an idea. | [adjective] Produced by an idea. | [noun] The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence. IDIOCY (12) [noun] The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation. | [noun] An act lacking intelligence or sense; an instance of senselessness; extremely foolish behaviour. IDIOMS (9) [noun] A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, person, or group of people. | [noun] A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc. | [noun] An established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words, often peculiar to a given language. IDIOTS (7) [noun] A person of low general intelligence. | [noun] A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool. | [noun] A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30. IDLERS (7) [noun] One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction. | [noun] One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard. | [noun] Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch IDLEST (7) IDLING (8) [verb] To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume. | [verb] To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business. | [verb] Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over. IDYLLS (10) [noun] Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls. | [noun] An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience. | [noun] A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner. ILIADS (7) IMAGED (10) [verb] To represent by an image or symbol; to portray. | [verb] To reflect, mirror. | [verb] To create an image of. IMBEDS (11) [verb] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. | [verb] (by extension) To include in surrounding matter. | [verb] To encapsulate within another document or data file. IMBODY (14) IMBUED (11) [verb] To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | [verb] In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. IMIDES (9) IMIDIC (11) IMPEDE (11) [verb] To get in the way of; to hinder. IMPEND (11) [verb] To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang. | [verb] Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger. | [verb] To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent. INBRED (9) [noun] An inbred individual. | [adjective] Bred within; innate. | [adjective] Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding. INCHED (12) [verb] (followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction). | [verb] To drive by inches, or small degrees. | [verb] To deal out by inches; to give sparingly. INDABA (9) [noun] A tribal conference held by Nguni leaders. | [noun] A problem, a concern. | [noun] An international conference of Scout leaders. INDEED (8) [adverb] (modal) Truly; in fact; actually. | [adverb] (degree, after the adjective modified) In fact. | [interjection] Indicates emphatic agreement. INDENE (7) [noun] The bicyclic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring fused to one of cyclopentadiene INDENT (7) [noun] A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch. | [noun] A stamp; an impression. | [noun] A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt. INDICT (9) [verb] To accuse of wrongdoing; charge. | [verb] To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury. INDIES (7) [noun] An independent publisher. | [noun] A work released by an independent publisher. | [noun] A type of rock music, generally soft-style without screaming or aggression, mixed with synthesized music and electronic. INDIGN (8) INDIGO (8) [noun] A purplish-blue colour | [noun] An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye. | [noun] An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush). INDITE (7) [verb] To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe. | [verb] To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose. | [verb] To dictate; to prompt. | [noun] An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral. INDIUM (9) [noun] A chemical element (symbol In) with an atomic number of 49: a soft silvery-white metal. | [noun] A single atom of this element. INDOLE (7) [noun] An organic compound, C8H7N, found in coal tar, and produced in the gut by the bacterial decomposition of tryptophan; it is an aromatic bicyclic heterocycle having a benzene ring fused with a pyrrole ring; indole and its derivatives occur widely in nature and have many industrial applications. | [noun] Any of the derivatives of indole1. | [adjective] Guileless INDOLS (7) INDOOR (7) [adjective] Situated in, or designed to be used in, or carried on within, the interior of a building. INDOWS (10) INDRIS (7) [noun] One of the largest living lemurs (Indri indri), native to Madagascar. INDUCE (9) [verb] To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon. | [verb] To cause, bring about, lead to. | [verb] To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction. INDUCT (9) [verb] To bring in as a member; to make a part of. | [verb] To formally or ceremoniously install in an office, position, etc. | [verb] To introduce into (particularly if certain knowledge or experience is required, such as ritual adulthood or cults). INDUED (8) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). INDUES (7) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). INDULT (7) [noun] A permission or privilege granted by the church authority that excepts an individual from what is otherwise a norm of church law, such as a release from monastic vows. INFOLD (10) [verb] To fold inwards. | [verb] To wrap up or inwrap; involve; inclose; enfold or envelop. | [verb] To clasp with the arms; embrace. INLAID (7) [adjective] (of a design) Set into a surface in a decorative pattern. | [adjective] (of the surface of an item) Having an inset decorative pattern. | [verb] To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design. INLAND (7) [noun] The interior part of a country. | [adjective] Within the land; relatively remote from the ocean or from open water; interior | [adjective] Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea INROAD (7) [noun] An advance into enemy territory, an incursion, an attempted invasion | [noun] (usually plural) progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem | [verb] To make an inroad into; to invade. INSIDE (7) [noun] The interior or inner part. | [noun] The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right. | [noun] The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference. INTEND (7) [verb] (usually followed by the particle "to") To hope; to wish (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon | [verb] To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard. | [verb] To stretch to extend; distend. INURED (7) [verb] To cause someone to become accustomed to something (usually) unpleasant. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative. | [verb] To commit. INVADE (10) [verb] To move into. | [verb] To enter by force in order to conquer. | [verb] To infest or overrun. INWARD (10) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) That which is inward or within; the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The mental faculties. | [noun] A familiar friend or acquaintance. INWIND (10) IODATE (7) [noun] The anion IO3-; Any salt of iodic acid. | [verb] To treat with iodine. IODIDE (8) [noun] A binary compound of iodine and another element or radical. IODIDS (8) IODINE (7) [noun] A chemical element (symbol: I) with an atomic number of 53; one of the halogens. | [noun] An antiseptic incorporating the element. | [noun] An iodide. IODINS (7) IODISE (7) [verb] To treat or react with iodine. IODISM (9) [noun] Iodine poisoning IODIZE (16) [verb] To treat or react with iodine. IODOUS (7) IRADES (7) [noun] A decree issued by a Muslim ruler. IRIDES (7) IRIDIC (9) IRISED (7) [verb] (of an aperture, lens or door) To open or close in the manner of an iris. | [adjective] Having colors like those of the rainbow; iridescent. IRONED (7) [verb] To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases. | [verb] To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff. | [verb] To furnish or arm with iron. ISLAND (7) [noun] A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water. | [noun] An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself. | [noun] A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck. ISOPOD (9) [noun] Any of very many crustaceans, of the order Isopoda, that have a flattened body and no carapace. ISSUED (7) [verb] To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from. | [verb] To rush out, to sally forth. | [verb] To extend into, to open onto. ITCHED (12) [verb] To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched. | [verb] To have a constant, teasing urge; to feel strongly motivated; to want or desire something. | [verb] To cause to feel an itch. ITEMED (9) IXODID (15) IZZARD (25) JABBED (18) [verb] To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion. | [verb] To deliver a quick punch. | [verb] To give someone an injection JACKED (20) [verb] To raise using a jack. | [verb] To raise or increase. | [verb] To produce by freeze distillation; to distil (an alcoholic beverage) by freezing it and removing the ice (which is water), leaving the alcohol (which remains liquid). JADING (15) JADISH (17) JAGGED (16) [verb] To cut unevenly. | [verb] To tease. | [adjective] Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut. JAILED (14) [verb] To imprison. JAMBED (18) JAMMED (18) [verb] To get something stuck in a confined space. | [verb] To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze. | [verb] To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up" JARRED (14) [verb] To preserve (food) in a jar. | [verb] To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement. | [verb] To harm or injure by such action. JASSID (14) JAUKED (18) JAUPED (16) JAZZED (32) [verb] To destroy. | [verb] To play (jazz music). | [verb] To dance to the tunes of jazz music. JEEPED (16) JEERED (14) [verb] (jeer at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language. JEHADS (17) [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. JELLED (14) [verb] To gel JEREED (14) JERIDS (14) JERKED (18) [verb] To make a sudden uncontrolled movement. | [verb] To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. | [verb] To masturbate. JERRID (14) JESSED (14) [adjective] Having jesses on, as a hawk. JESTED (14) [verb] To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone. JETTED (14) [verb] To spray out of a container. | [verb] To spray with liquid from a container. | [verb] To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion JIBBED (18) [verb] To shift, or swing around, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking. | [verb] To stop and refuse to go forward (usually of a horse). | [verb] To stop doing something, to become reluctant to proceed with an activity. JIGGED (16) [verb] To move briskly, especially as a dance. | [verb] To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks. | [verb] To fish with a jig. JIHADS (17) [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. JILTED (14) [verb] To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love. JINKED (18) [verb] To make a quick evasive turn. | [verb] To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn. | [verb] In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to attempt to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful. JINXED (21) [verb] To cast a spell on. | [verb] To bring bad luck to. | [verb] To cause something to happen by mentioning it, usually sarcastically. JOBBED (18) [verb] To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire. | [verb] To work as a jobber. | [verb] To take the loss. JOCUND (16) [adjective] Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness. JOGGED (16) [verb] To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt. | [verb] To shake, stir or rouse. | [verb] To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along. JOINED (14) [verb] To connect or combine into one; to put together. | [verb] To come together; to meet. | [verb] To come into the company of. JOLTED (14) [verb] To push or shake abruptly and roughly. | [verb] To knock sharply | [verb] To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert JORDAN (14) JOSHED (17) [verb] To tease someone in a kindly or friendly fashion. | [verb] To make or exchange good-natured jokes. JOTTED (14) [verb] (usually with "down") To write quickly. JOUKED (18) [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [verb] To stab JOWLED (17) JUDDER (15) [noun] A spasmodic shaking. | [noun] Jerky playback caused by converting between frame rates; telecine judder | [verb] To spasm or shake violently. JUDGED (16) [verb] To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on. | [verb] To sit in judgment, to act as judge. | [verb] To form an opinion on. JUDGER (15) JUDGES (15) [noun] A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice. | [noun] A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question. | [noun] A person officiating at a sports event or similar. JUDOKA (18) [noun] A practitioner of the Japanese martial art of judo. JUGGED (16) [verb] To stew in an earthenware jug etc. | [verb] To put into jail. | [verb] To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale. JUICED (16) [verb] To extract the juice from something. | [verb] To energize or stimulate something. | [adjective] (of a fruit etc) That has had the juice extracted. JUMPED (18) [verb] To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. | [verb] To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. | [verb] To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap. JUNKED (18) [verb] To throw away. | [verb] To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop) JURIED (14) [adjective] (of a competition) Overseen by a jury JUSTED (14) JUTTED (14) [verb] To stick out. | [verb] To butt. KAYOED (14) [verb] To knock someone out, or render them unconscious or senseless. KECKED (17) [verb] To retch or heave as if to vomit. KEDDAH (15) [noun] An elephant trap; an enclosure constructed to entrap wild elephants. KEDGED (13) [verb] To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it. | [verb] (of a vessel) To move with the help of a kedge, as described above. KEDGES (12) [noun] A small anchor used for warping a vessel; also called a kedge anchor. | [noun] A glutton. KEEKED (15) [verb] To peek; peep. KEELED (11) [verb] To mark with ruddle. | [adjective] Furnished with a keel, especially a keel of a specified type | [verb] To put to death; to extinguish the life of. KEENED (11) [verb] To make cold, to sharpen. | [verb] To utter a keen. | [verb] To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry. KELOID (11) [noun] A hard raised growth of scar tissue at the site of an injury. | [verb] To form a keloid. KELPED (13) KENDOS (11) KENNED (11) [verb] To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life). | [verb] To know, perceive or understand. | [verb] To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry. KEPPED (15) KERBED (13) KERFED (14) KERNED (11) [adjective] Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type. | [verb] (chiefly proportional font printing) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules. KEYPAD (16) [noun] A small board with keys primarily used for tactile input into a machine. KHADIS (14) KHEDAH (17) KHEDAS (14) KICKED (17) [verb] To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg. | [verb] To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something. | [verb] To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg. KIDDED (13) [verb] To make a fool of (someone). | [verb] To dupe or deceive (someone). | [verb] To make a joke with (someone). KIDDER (12) [noun] One who kids, or teases light-heartedly. | [noun] A term of endearment/address for a child or young adult, usually male. | [noun] A forestaller or huckster. | [noun] A kidderminster (carpet) KIDDIE (12) [noun] A child. KIDDOS (12) [noun] A close friend; especially used as a form of address. | [noun] A child. KIDNAP (13) [noun] The crime, or an instance, of kidnapping. | [verb] To seize and detain a person unlawfully; sometimes for ransom. KIDNEY (14) [noun] An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine. | [noun] This organ (of an animal) cooked as food. | [noun] Constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. (usually used of people) KIDVID (15) [noun] Video material produced for children. KILLED (11) [verb] To put to death; to extinguish the life of. | [verb] To render inoperative. | [verb] To stop, cease or render void; to terminate. KILNED (11) KILTED (11) [adjective] Having on a kilt. | [adjective] Plaited after the manner of kilting. | [adjective] Tucked or fastened up; said of petticoats, etc. KINDER (11) [adjective] Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others. | [adjective] Affectionate. | [adjective] Favorable. | [adverb] Kind of; somewhat | [noun] Children. KINDLE (11) [verb] To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.). | [verb] To arouse or inspire (a passion, etc). | [verb] To begin to grow or take hold. | [noun] (collective) A group of kittens. KINDLY (14) [adjective] Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic. | [adjective] Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent. | [adjective] Lawful. | [adverb] In a kind manner, out of kindness. KINGED (12) [verb] To crown king, to make (a person) king. | [verb] To rule over as king. | [verb] To perform the duties of a king. KINKED (15) [verb] To laugh loudly. | [verb] To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing. | [verb] To form a kink or twist. KIPPED (15) [verb] (chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity. | [verb] To snatch; take up hastily; filch | [verb] To hold or keep (together) KIRNED (11) KISSED (11) [verb] To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting. | [verb] To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact. | [verb] Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion. KITHED (14) KITTED (11) [verb] To assemble or collect something into kits or sets or to give somebody a kit. See also kit out and other derived phrases. KLUDGE (12) [noun] (electronics engineering) An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design. | [noun] Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently. | [noun] An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts. KNEADS (11) [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. | [verb] (of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws. KNIFED (14) [verb] To cut with a knife. | [verb] To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon. | [verb] To cut through as if with a knife. KOBOLD (13) [noun] (German mythology) An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite. | [noun] (German folklore) A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household. | [noun] (fantasy literature) One of a diminutive and usually malevolent race of beings. KONKED (15) KOODOO (11) KUDZUS (20) [noun] An Asian vine (several species in the genus Pueraria, but mostly Pueraria montans var. lobata, syn. Pueraria lobata in the US), grown as a root starch, and which is a notorious invasive weed in the United States. KYTHED (17) LACKED (13) [verb] To be without, to need, to require. | [verb] To be short (of or for something). | [verb] To be in want. LADDER (8) [noun] A frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened rungs (cross strips or rounds acting as steps). | [noun] A series of stages by which one progresses to a better position. | [noun] The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the corporate ladder. LADDIE (8) [noun] A small boy. LADENS (7) LADERS (7) LADIES (7) [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] A ladies' room: a lavatory intended for use by women. LADING (8) [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). LADINO (7) [noun] A person in Latin America whose culture or ancestry is a mixture of European Spanish and Native American, especially one who speaks Spanish; a mestizo. | [noun] (Southeastern US) A cunningly vicious, wild or unmanagable horse. | [noun] Trifolium repens (white clover). LADLED (8) [verb] To pour or serve something with a ladle. LADLER (7) LADLES (7) [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. LADRON (7) LAGEND (8) LAGGED (9) [verb] To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind | [verb] To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer) | [verb] To transport as a punishment for crime. LAIRDS (7) [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). LAIRED (7) [verb] To rest; to dwell. | [verb] To lay down. | [verb] To bury. LALLED (7) LAMBDA (11) [noun] The eleventh letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabet, the twelfth of the Old Greek alphabet. | [noun] Unit representation of wavelength. | [noun] The cosmological constant. LAMBED (11) [verb] Of a sheep, to give birth. | [verb] To assist (sheep) to give birth. LAMEDH (12) LAMEDS (9) LAMMED (11) [verb] To beat or thrash. | [verb] To flee or run away. LAMPAD (11) LAMPED (11) [verb] To hit, clout, belt, wallop. | [verb] To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping. | [verb] To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular. LANCED (9) [verb] To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. | [verb] To open with a lancet; to pierce | [verb] To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch. LANDAU (7) [noun] A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other. | [noun] (by extension) A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages. LANDED (8) [verb] To descend to a surface, especially from the air. | [verb] To alight, to descend from a vehicle. | [verb] To come into rest. LANDER (7) [noun] One who lands, or who lands something. | [noun] A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body. | [noun] A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore. LAPDOG (10) [noun] A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner. | [noun] (by extension) A person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning lover. LAPPED (11) [verb] To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish. | [verb] To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap. | [verb] To fold; to bend and lay over or on something. LAPSED (9) [verb] To fall away gradually; to subside. | [verb] To fall into error or heresy. | [verb] To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid. LARDED (8) [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. LARDER (7) [noun] A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored, but larger than a pantry. | [noun] A food supply. LARDON (7) [noun] A meat strip used for larding, especially salted pork. LARKED (11) [verb] To catch larks (type of bird). | [verb] To sport, engage in harmless pranking. | [verb] To frolic, engage in carefree adventure. LASHED (10) [verb] To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one. | [verb] To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash. | [verb] To throw out with a jerk or quickly. LASTED (7) [verb] To perform, carry out. | [verb] To endure, continue over time. | [verb] To hold out, continue undefeated or entire. LATHED (10) [verb] To invite; bid; ask. | [verb] To shape with a lathe. | [verb] To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis. LAUDED (8) [verb] To praise, to glorify LAUDER (7) LAZIED (16) LEADED (8) [verb] To cover, fill, or affect with lead | [verb] To place leads between the lines of. | [adjective] Held in place by strips of lead. LEADEN (7) [verb] To make or become dull or overcast. | [adjective] Made of lead. | [adjective] Pertaining to or resembling lead; grey, heavy, sluggish. LEADER (7) [noun] Any person that leads or directs | [noun] An animal that leads | [noun] Someone or something that leads or conducts LEAFED (10) [verb] To produce leaves; put forth foliage. | [verb] To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves. | [adjective] (chiefly in combination) Having a leaf or leaves (of the specified kind). LEAKED (11) [verb] To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed. | [verb] (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed. | [verb] To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously. LEANED (7) [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. LEAPED (9) [verb] To jump. | [verb] To pass over by a leap or jump. | [verb] To copulate with (a female beast); to cover. LEASED (7) [verb] (chiefly dialectal) To gather. | [verb] (chiefly dialectal) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up. | [verb] (chiefly dialectal) To glean. LEAVED (10) [verb] To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. | [verb] To produce leaves or foliage. | [verb] To raise; to levy. LECHED (12) [verb] To behave lecherously LEDGER (8) [noun] A book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records; a record book, a register. | [noun] A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb. | [noun] A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits. LEDGES (8) [noun] A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery. | [noun] A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks. | [noun] A layer or stratum. LEERED (7) [verb] To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent. | [verb] To entice with a leer or leers. | [verb] To teach. LEGEND (8) [noun] An unrealistic story depicting past events. | [noun] A person related to a legend or legends. | [noun] A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc. LEGGED (9) [noun] (in combinations) Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs | [adjective] Having legs, or a certain type or number of legs | [verb] To remove the legs from an animal carcass. LENDER (7) [noun] One who lends, especially money; specifically, a bank or other entity that specializes in granting loans. LENSED (7) LETTED (7) [verb] To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something). | [verb] To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening. | [verb] To tarry or delay. LEUDES (7) LEVEED (10) LEVIED (10) [verb] To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. | [verb] To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority. | [verb] To draft someone into military service. LEWDER (10) [adjective] Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude. | [adjective] Lay; not clerical. | [adjective] Uneducated. LEWDLY (13) LIARDS (7) [noun] A small French coin, equivalent to a quarter of a sou. LIBIDO (9) [noun] The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as a percentage. | [noun] The whitish inner portion of the rind of citrus fruits that is a source of pectin, commonly referred to as the pith. | [noun] One of the four major stages of the magnum opus, involving purification of the prima materia. LICKED (13) [verb] To stroke with the tongue. | [verb] To lap; to take in with the tongue. | [verb] To beat with repeated blows. LIDARS (7) LIDDED (9) LIEDER (7) [noun] An art song, sung in German and accompanied on the piano. LIFTED (10) [verb] To raise or rise. | [verb] To steal. | [verb] To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise. LIGAND (8) [noun] An ion, molecule, or functional group that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex. | [noun] A letter that orthography requires to be ligated with one or more other letters. LILIED (7) LILTED (7) [verb] To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music. | [verb] To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic. | [verb] To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness. LIMBED (11) LIMNED (9) [verb] To draw or paint; to delineate. | [verb] To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour. | [adjective] Described or represented in a lifelike manner LIMPED (11) [verb] To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg. | [verb] (of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion. | [verb] To move or proceed irregularly. LIMPID (11) [adjective] Clear, transparent or bright. LINDEN (7) [noun] Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia, having heart-shaped leaves. | [noun] The soft wood of such trees. | [adjective] Made of lime-wood. LINKED (11) [verb] To connect two or more things. | [verb] (of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page. | [verb] To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link. LIPIDE (9) LIPIDS (9) [noun] Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water, and account for most of the fat present in the human body. LIPOID (9) [noun] A lipid or other substance resembling fat | [adjective] Of pertaining to fat. LIPPED (11) [verb] To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something). | [verb] (of something inanimate) To touch lightly. | [verb] To wash against a surface, lap. LIQUID (16) [noun] A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid. | [noun] A class of consonant sounds that includes l and r. | [adjective] Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure. LISPED (9) [verb] To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (/θ/). This is a speech impediment common among children. | [verb] To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk. | [verb] To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid. LISTED (7) [verb] To create or recite a list. | [verb] To place in listings. | [verb] To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border. LIZARD (16) [noun] Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail. | [noun] (chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles. | [noun] An unctuous person. LOADED (8) [verb] To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage). | [verb] To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage. | [verb] To put a load on something. LOADER (7) [noun] Agent noun of load; a person or device that loads. | [noun] A program that prepares other programs for execution. | [noun] A tractor with a scoop, for example: bucket loader, front-end loader, wheel loader, etc. LOAFED (10) [verb] To do nothing, to be idle. | [verb] (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread) LOAMED (9) LOANED (7) [verb] To lend (something) to (someone). LOBBED (11) [verb] To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch. | [verb] To throw. | [verb] To put, place LOCKED (13) [verb] To become fastened in place. | [verb] To fasten with a lock. | [verb] To be capable of becoming fastened in place. LOCOED (9) LODENS (7) LODGED (9) [verb] To be firmly fixed in a specified position. | [verb] To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady. | [verb] To stay in any place or shelter. LODGER (8) [noun] A person who lodges in another's house (compare tenant). LODGES (8) [noun] A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin. | [noun] Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially as a college mailroom. | [noun] A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons. LOFTED (10) [verb] To propel high into the air. | [verb] To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled | [verb] To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface. LOGGED (9) [verb] To cut trees into logs. | [verb] To cut down (trees). | [verb] To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood. LOLLED (7) [verb] To laugh out loud. | [verb] To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease. | [verb] To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion. LONGED (8) [verb] To take a long position in. | [verb] To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true) | [verb] To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to. LOOKED (11) LOOMED (9) [verb] To appear indistinctly, eg. when seen on the horizon or through the murk. | [verb] To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; to be imminent. | [verb] To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense. LOOPED (9) [verb] To form something into a loop. | [verb] To fasten or encircle something with a loop. | [verb] To fly an aircraft in a loop. LOOSED (7) [verb] To let loose, to free from restraints. | [verb] To unfasten, to loosen. | [verb] To make less tight, to loosen. LOOTED (7) [verb] To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence. | [verb] To steal from. | [verb] To examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot. LOPPED (11) [verb] (usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone. | [verb] To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side. | [verb] To allow to hang down. LORDED (8) [verb] Domineer or act like a lord. | [verb] To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord. LORDLY (10) [adjective] Of or relating to a lord. | [adjective] Having the qualities of a lord; lordlike; noble | [adjective] Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious. LOTTED (7) [verb] To allot; to sort; to apportion. | [verb] To count or reckon (on or upon). | [adjective] Apportioned or decided by lot; allotted. LOUDEN (7) [verb] To become louder. LOUDER (7) [adjective] (of a sound) Of great intensity. | [adjective] (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy. | [adjective] (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash. LOUDLY (10) [adverb] In a loud manner; at a high volume. LOUPED (9) LOURED (7) [verb] To frown; to look sullen. | [verb] To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. LOUSED (7) [verb] To remove lice from. LOUTED (7) LUCKED (13) [verb] To succeed by chance. | [verb] To rely on luck. | [verb] To carry out relying on luck. LUFFED (13) [verb] (of a sail) To shake due to being trimmed improperly. | [verb] (of a boat) To alter course to windward so that the sails luff. (Alternatively luff up) | [verb] To let out (a sail) so that it luffs. LUGGED (9) [verb] (sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull. | [verb] To run at too slow a speed. | [verb] To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing. LULLED (7) [verb] To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm | [verb] To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate. LUMPED (11) [verb] To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items). | [verb] To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another. | [verb] To hit or strike (a person). LUNGED (8) [verb] To (cause to make) a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging). | [verb] To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing). | [adjective] Having lungs (breathing organs). LUNTED (7) LURDAN (7) [noun] A lazy, stupid person; a sluggard. LURKED (11) [verb] To remain concealed in order to ambush. | [verb] To remain unobserved. | [verb] To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself. LUSHED (10) [verb] To drink (liquor) to excess. LUSTED (7) [verb] (usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature. MACLED (11) MADAME (11) [noun] A polite form of address for a woman or lady. | [noun] The mistress of a household. | [noun] A conceited or quarrelsome girl. MADAMS (11) [noun] A polite form of address for a woman or lady. | [noun] The mistress of a household. | [noun] A conceited or quarrelsome girl. MADCAP (13) [noun] An impulsive, hasty, capricious person. | [noun] An insane person, a lunatic. | [adjective] Impulsive, hasty or reckless; capricious. MADDED (11) [verb] To be or become mad. | [verb] To madden, to anger, to frustrate. MADDEN (10) [verb] To make angry. | [verb] To make insane; to inflame with passion. | [verb] To become furious. MADDER (10) [noun] A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root. | [noun] The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye. | [noun] A dye made from the plant. | [adjective] Insane; crazy, mentally deranged. | [noun] A communal drinking vessel used in Gaelic times for drinking mead. It had squared sides and one drank from a corner. Also, a trophy in this shape. MADMAN (11) [noun] A male who is insane or mentally disturbed. MADMEN (11) [noun] A male who is insane or mentally disturbed. MADRAS (9) [noun] A brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern. | [noun] A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies. MADRES (9) MADURO (9) MAENAD (9) [noun] A female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling. | [noun] An excessively wild or emotional woman. MAIDEN (9) [noun] One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman | [noun] A girl or an unmarried young woman. | [noun] A female virgin. MAILED (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail. | [verb] (ditransitive) To send by electronic mail. | [verb] To contact (a person) by electronic mail. | [verb] (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail. MAIMED (11) [verb] To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body. MALADY (12) [noun] Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. | [noun] A moral or mental defect or disorder. MALFED (12) MALLED (9) MALTED (9) [verb] To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain. | [verb] To become malt. | [verb] To drink malt liquor. MANNED (9) [verb] To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex). | [verb] To take up position in order to operate (something). | [verb] (possibly obsolete) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.) MANTID (9) [noun] Mantis (insect) MAPPED (13) [verb] To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography. | [verb] (followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else. | [verb] (followed by a "to" phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond. MARAUD (9) [verb] To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder. | [verb] To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner. | [verb] To raid and pillage. MARKED (13) [adjective] Having a visible or identifying mark. | [adjective] Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous. | [adjective] (of a word, form, or phoneme) Distinguished by a positive feature. | [verb] To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something). MARLED (9) [adjective] Mottled, streaked, multicoloured. | [verb] To cover with the earthy substance called marl. | [verb] To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. MARRED (9) [verb] To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage. | [adjective] Of a person, perplexed or troubled | [adjective] Of a child, spoilt, cosseted, overly indulged MARTED (9) MASHED (12) [verb] To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure | [verb] In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort. | [verb] To press down hard (on). MASJID (16) [noun] A mosque. MASKED (13) [verb] To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor. | [verb] To disguise; to cover; to hide. | [verb] To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of. MASSED (9) [verb] To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble. | [verb] To have a certain mass. | [verb] To celebrate mass. MASTED (9) [verb] To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). | [verb] (of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit. | [verb] (of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles. MATTED (9) [verb] To cover, protect or decorate with mats. | [verb] To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. | [adjective] Forming a thick tangled mess MAULED (9) [verb] To handle someone or something in a rough way. | [verb] To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal). | [verb] To criticise harshly. MAUNDS (9) [noun] A wicker basket. | [noun] A unit of capacity with various specific local values. | [noun] A handbasket with two lids. MAUNDY (12) [noun] A commandment. | [noun] The sacrament of the Lord's supper. | [noun] The ceremony of washing the feet of poor persons or inferiors, performed as a religious rite on Maundy Thursday in commemoration of Christ's washing the disciples' feet at the Last Supper. MAYDAY (15) [noun] An international distress signal used by shipping and aircraft MAZARD (18) MEADOW (12) [noun] A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay. | [noun] Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea. MEATED (9) MEDAKA (13) [noun] Oryzias latipes, a small Japanese ricefish, popular for use in aquariums. MEDALS (9) [noun] A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object. | [noun] A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward. | [verb] To win a medal. MEDDLE (10) [verb] To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. | [verb] To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense. | [verb] To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. MEDFLY (15) [noun] A small fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, native to the Mediterranean. MEDIAD (10) MEDIAE (9) [noun] The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. | [noun] A voiced stop consonant. | [noun] One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus MEDIAL (9) [noun] Any of various things that occur in the middle. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a mean or average. | [adjective] In or near the middle; not at either end. MEDIAN (9) [noun] A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. | [noun] A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side. | [noun] The number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values. MEDIAS (9) MEDICK (15) [noun] Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to medicines; medical. MEDICO (11) [noun] A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student. MEDICS (11) [noun] A doctor. | [noun] A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military. | [noun] A medical student. MEDINA (9) [noun] The traditional, older or non-European area of a North African town. MEDIUM (11) [noun] (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent. | [noun] (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass. | [noun] (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information. MEDIUS (9) MEDLAR (9) [noun] Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica) | [noun] Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now often Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera. | [noun] Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit MEDLEY (12) [noun] Combat, fighting; a battle. | [noun] A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things. | [noun] A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece. MEDUSA (9) [noun] A jellyfish; specifically , a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. MELDED (10) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. MELDER (9) MELLED (9) MELODY (12) [noun] Tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase MELOID (9) MELTED (9) [verb] To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. | [verb] To dissolve, disperse, vanish. | [verb] To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. MENADS (9) MENDED (10) [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. | [verb] To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace. | [verb] To help, to advance, to further; to add to. MENDER (9) MENSED (9) MEOUED (9) MEOWED (12) [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MERDES (9) MERGED (10) [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To blend gradually into something else. MESHED (12) [verb] To connect together by interlocking, as gears do. | [verb] (by extension) To fit in; to come together harmoniously. | [verb] To catch in a mesh. MESSED (9) [verb] (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty. | [verb] (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin. | [verb] To interfere. METHOD (12) [noun] A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process): | [noun] (often "the method") A technique for acting based on the ideas articulated by Constantin Stanislavski and focusing on authentically experiencing the inner life of the character being portrayed. | [noun] A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object, synonym of member function | [noun] A trick where the boarder grabs the heel edge of the board with their back hand, between their feet, and then pulls the board towards their back, while arching their back and bending knees. METRED (9) MEWLED (12) [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MICHED (14) MIDAIR (9) [noun] A collision between two or more aerospace vehicles in flight. | [adjective] In the act of flight; airborne. MIDDAY (13) [noun] Noon; twelve o'clock during the day MIDDEN (10) [noun] A dungheap. | [noun] A refuse heap usually near a dwelling. | [noun] A prehistoric pile of bones and shells. MIDDLE (10) [noun] A centre, midpoint. | [noun] The part between the beginning and the end. | [noun] The middle stump. MIDGES (10) [noun] Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera | [noun] Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge MIDGET (10) [noun] A little sandfly. | [noun] Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10". MIDGUT (10) [noun] The central loop of the alimentary canal of an embryo between the foregut and the hindgut. MIDLEG (10) MIDRIB (11) [noun] The strengthened vein down the middle of a flower petal or simple leaf or leaflet. | [noun] The continuation of the petiole of a pinnately compound leaf around which the leaflets attach. MIDSTS (9) [noun] A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location. MIDWAY (15) [noun] The middle; the midst. | [noun] A middle way or manner; a mean or middle course between extremes. | [noun] The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated. MIFFED (15) [verb] (usually used in the passive) To offend slightly. | [verb] To become slightly offended. | [adjective] Somewhat indignant, irritated, angry, put out or annoyed. MIKADO (13) [noun] (history) A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period. | [noun] Any emperor of Japan | [noun] A game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack MILADI (9) MILADY (12) [noun] An English noblewoman or gentlewoman; the form of address to such a person; a lady. MILDEN (9) MILDER (9) [adjective] Gentle and not easily angered. | [adjective] (of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict. | [adjective] Not overly felt or seriously intended. MILDEW (12) [noun] A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances. | [verb] To taint with mildew. | [verb] To become tainted with mildew. MILDLY (12) [adverb] In a mild manner. | [adverb] To a mild degree; slightly. MILKED (13) [verb] To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow). | [verb] To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder. | [verb] To express any liquid (from any creature). MILLED (9) [verb] To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine. | [verb] To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine. | [verb] To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin). MILORD (9) [noun] An English nobleman, especially one traveling Europe in grand style; a wealthy British gentleman. | [noun] My Lord (used to address peers temporal, judges, etc). MILTED (9) MINCED (11) [adjective] Finely chopped. | [adjective] Minutely subdivided. | [adjective] Weakened, extenuated. | [verb] To make less; make small. MINDED (10) [verb] (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by. | [verb] To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. | [verb] (chiefly in the imperative) To make sure, to take care (that). MINDER (9) [noun] One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper | [noun] A personal bodyguard. | [noun] A guide assigned by the authorities to foreign visitors so as to exercise control over their contacts with the populace. MINTED (9) [verb] To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence. | [verb] To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion. | [verb] (provincial) To try, attempt; take aim. MISADD (10) MISDID (10) MISLED (9) [verb] To lead astray, in a false direction. | [verb] To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression. | [verb] To deceptively trick into something wrong. | [verb] To rain in fine drops; to mizzle. MISSED (9) [verb] To fail to hit. | [verb] To fail to achieve or attain. | [verb] To avoid; to escape. MISTED (9) [verb] To form mist. | [verb] To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. | [verb] To cover with a mist. MITRED (9) [adjective] Relating to an abbot's or bishop's mitre; wearing a mitre. | [adjective] Having a mitre joint. MOANED (9) [verb] To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. | [verb] To grieve. | [verb] To distress (someone); to sadden. MOATED (9) [adjective] Surrounded with a moat MOBBED (13) [verb] To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility. | [verb] To crowd into or around a place. | [verb] To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. MOBLED (11) MOCKED (15) [verb] To mimic, to simulate. | [verb] To create an artistic representation of. | [verb] To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt. MODELS (9) [noun] A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing. | [noun] A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show. | [noun] A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature. MODEMS (11) [noun] A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line. | [verb] To transmit by modem. MODERN (9) [noun] Someone who lives in modern times. | [adjective] Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient. | [adjective] (history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography. MODEST (9) [adjective] Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble. | [adjective] Small, moderate in size. | [adjective] Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety. MODICA (11) MODIFY (15) [verb] To change part of. | [verb] To be or become modified. | [verb] To set bounds to; to moderate. MODISH (12) [adjective] Conforming with fashion or style. | [adjective] In the current mode. MODULE (9) [noun] A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components. | [noun] A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building. | [noun] A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines. MODULI (9) [noun] The base with respect to which a congruence is computed. | [noun] The absolute value of a complex number. | [noun] A coefficient that expresses how much of a certain property is possessed by a certain substance. MODULO (9) [noun] The operation or function that returns the remainder of one number divided by another. | [preposition] Given a specified modulus of. | [preposition] Except for differences accounted for by. MOGGED (11) MOILED (9) [verb] To toil, to work hard. | [verb] To churn continually; to swirl. | [verb] To defile or dirty. MOLDED (10) [verb] To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to. | [verb] To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence | [verb] To fit closely by following the contours of. MOLDER (9) [noun] One who molds something into shape. | [noun] A person who makes molds. | [noun] A tool for making molds. MOLTED (9) [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To shed in such a manner. MONADS (9) [noun] An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. | [noun] A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group. | [noun] A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category. MONDES (9) MONDOS (9) MONIED (9) [adjective] Affluent; rich | [adjective] Paid for; funded MONODY (12) [noun] An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge. | [noun] Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy. | [noun] A monotonous or mournful noise. MOONED (9) [verb] To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest. | [verb] (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone. | [verb] To spend time idly, absent-mindedly. MOORED (9) [verb] To cast anchor or become fastened. | [verb] To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like | [verb] To secure or fix firmly. MOOTED (9) [verb] To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose. | [verb] To discuss or debate. | [verb] To make or declare irrelevant. MOPEDS (11) [noun] A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit. MOPPED (13) [verb] To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop. | [verb] To make a wry expression with the mouth. MORBID (11) [adjective] Of, or relating to disease. | [adjective] (by extension) Taking an interest in unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. | [adjective] Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish MOSSED (9) [verb] To become covered with moss. | [verb] To cover (something) with moss. MOULDS (9) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. MOULDY (12) [adjective] Covered with mould. | [adjective] Neglected. | [adjective] Worthless; lousy; rotten MOUNDS (9) [noun] An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense | [noun] A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. | [noun] Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch. MOUSED (9) [verb] To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around). | [verb] To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. | [verb] To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. MUCKED (15) [verb] To shovel muck. | [verb] To manure with muck. | [verb] To do a dirty job. MUCOID (11) [adjective] Pertaining to or resembling mucus; mucous. | [noun] Any of a class of mucin-like substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteinaceous matter. MUDCAP (13) MUDCAT (11) MUDDED (11) MUDDER (10) [noun] A racehorse that performs well on muddy or wet tracks. | [noun] A participant in a multi-user dungeon. | [noun] A person (especially an entomologist) or animal that catches moths. MUDDLE (10) [noun] A mixture; a confusion; a garble. | [noun] A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler. | [verb] To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. MUDDLY (13) MUDRAS (9) [noun] Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography. | [noun] Any of the formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation. MUFFED (15) [verb] To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly. | [verb] To mishandle; to bungle. | [adjective] Wearing a muff. MUGGED (11) [verb] To strike in the face. | [verb] To assault for the purpose of robbery. | [verb] To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner. MULLED (9) [verb] (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. | [verb] To powder; to pulverize. | [verb] To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form. MUMMED (13) [verb] To act in a pantomime or dumb show. MUMPED (13) MURDER (9) [noun] The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification. | [noun] The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought. | [noun] (in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human. MURIDS (9) [noun] Any rodent in the family Muridae. MUSCID (11) [noun] Any fly of the family Muscidae of insects. | [adjective] Pertaining to or related to the Muscidae family of insects. MUSHED (12) [verb] To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else. | [verb] To walk, especially across the snow with dogs. | [verb] To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow. MUSJID (16) MUSSED (9) [verb] To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. MUSTED (9) MYRIAD (12) [noun] Ten thousand; 10,000 | [noun] A countless number or multitude (of specified things) | [adjective] (modifying a singular noun) Multifaceted, having innumerable elements MYSIDS (12) [noun] Any crustacean of the family Mysidae. MYXOID (19) NABBED (11) [verb] To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive). | [verb] To grab or snatch something. NACRED (9) NADIRS (7) [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. NAGGED (9) [verb] To continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters. | [verb] To bother with persistent thoughts or memories. | [verb] To bother or disturb persistently in any way. NAIADS (7) [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. NAILED (7) [verb] To fix (an object) to another object using a nail. | [verb] To drive a nail. | [verb] To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails. NALEDS (7) NANDIN (7) NAPPED (11) [verb] To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day. | [verb] To be off one's guard. | [verb] To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather). NARKED (11) [verb] To watch; to observe. | [verb] To serve or behave as a spy or informer. | [verb] To annoy or irritate. NAVAID (10) [noun] Any form of aid to navigation, particularly applying to shipping and aviation. Examples: lighthouse, or ILS (instrument landing system) NEARED (7) [verb] To come closer to; to approach. NECKED (13) [verb] To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate | [verb] To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle. | [verb] To drink rapidly. NEEDED (8) [verb] To have an absolute requirement for. | [verb] To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. | [verb] (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something). NEEDER (7) NEEDLE (7) [noun] A fine, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, etc. | [noun] Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. | [noun] A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle. NEONED (7) NEREID (7) [noun] One of 50 sea nymphs who were attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes in human form and sometimes with the tail of a fish. | [noun] A worm of the genus Nereis, having sharp retractable jaws and an annelid body. NERVED (10) [verb] To give courage. | [verb] To give strength; to supply energy or vigour. | [adjective] Vigorous, strong; courageous. NESTED (7) [verb] (of animals) To build or settle into a nest. | [verb] To settle into a home. | [verb] To successively neatly fit inside another. NETTED (7) [verb] To catch by means of a net. | [verb] To catch in a trap, or by stratagem. | [verb] To enclose or cover with a net. NEVOID (10) NIBBED (11) NICADS (9) [noun] Rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery NICHED (12) [adjective] In a niche. NICKED (13) [verb] To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way. | [verb] To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with. | [verb] To make a cut at the side of the face. NIDGET (8) NIDIFY (13) NIDING (8) NIGHED (11) NILLED (7) NIMMED (11) NIMROD (9) [noun] A foolish person; an idiot. NIPPED (11) [verb] To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon. | [verb] To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. | [verb] To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy. NITRID (7) NOBODY (12) [noun] Someone who is not important or well-known. | [pronoun] Not any person; the logical negation of somebody. NOCKED (13) [verb] To fit an arrow against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow. (See also notch.) | [verb] To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow). NODDED (9) [verb] To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement. | [verb] To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting. | [verb] To sway, move up and down. NODDER (8) NODDLE (8) [noun] The head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. | [noun] The head as the seat of mental capacity or intellect. | [noun] The back of the head; nape. | [verb] To think or ponder. NODOSE (7) [adjective] Knot-like; swollen NODOUS (7) NODULE (7) [noun] A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump. NOGGED (9) NOISED (7) [verb] To make a noise; to sound. | [verb] To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip. NOMADS (9) [noun] A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home. | [noun] A person who changes residence frequently. | [noun] A player who changes teams frequently. NOODGE (8) NOODLE (7) [noun] (usually in the plural) a string or strip of pasta | [noun] A person with poor judgement; a fool | [noun] The brain, the head NOOSED (7) [verb] To tie or catch in a noose; to entrap or ensnare. | [adjective] (of rope) having a noose NORDIC (9) [adjective] Of or relating to the Nordic countries. | [adjective] Of or relating to the light colouring and tall stature of Nordic peoples. | [adjective] Of or relating to the family of North Germanic languages. NORMED (9) [adjective] Of a mathematical structure, endowed with a norm. | [adjective] Of a data set that has been adjusted to a norm. NOSHED (10) [verb] (usually with on) To eat a snack or light meal. | [verb] To perform fellatio (on); to blow. NOYADE (10) [noun] A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror. | [verb] To murder by drowning, especially during the French Reign of Terror. NUDELY (10) NUDEST (7) NUDGED (9) [verb] To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal. | [verb] To near or come close to something. NUDGER (8) NUDGES (8) [verb] To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal. | [verb] To near or come close to something. NUDIES (7) [noun] Entertainment involving naked people, especially women. NUDISM (9) NUDIST (7) [noun] A person who practices nudism. | [adjective] (usually attributive) Relating to nudists and nudism. NUDITY (10) [noun] The state or quality of being without clothing on the body; specifically, the quality of being without clothing on the genitals. | [noun] Something or someone without clothes. NUDNIK (11) [noun] A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk. (Also used attributively.) NULLED (7) [verb] To nullify; to annul. | [verb] To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe. | [verb] To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software). NUMBED (11) [verb] To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally). | [verb] To cause (a feeling) to be less intense. | [verb] To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute. NURLED (7) NURSED (7) [verb] To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle. | [verb] To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast. | [verb] To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to. NUTTED (7) [verb] (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts. | [verb] To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt. | [verb] (mildly) To orgasm; to ejaculate. OBEYED (12) [verb] To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of. | [verb] To do as one is told. | [verb] To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.). OBTUND (9) [verb] To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull. OCHRED (12) OCTADS (9) [noun] A group of eight things. | [noun] Hundred million = myriad myriad; 100,000,000 = 108 ODDEST (8) [adjective] Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected. | [adjective] Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched. | [adjective] Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped. ODDISH (11) [adjective] Somewhat odd. ODDITY (11) [noun] An odd or strange thing or opinion. | [noun] A strange person; an oddball. | [noun] Strangeness. ODEONS (7) [noun] An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry. | [noun] A theatre or concert hall. ODEUMS (9) [noun] An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry. | [noun] A theatre or concert hall. ODIOUS (7) [adjective] Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure. ODISTS (7) ODIUMS (9) ODORED (8) ODOURS (7) [noun] Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive. | [noun] A strong, pervasive quality. | [noun] Esteem. ODYLES (10) OEDEMA (9) [noun] An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity | [noun] A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water OFFEND (13) [verb] To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult. | [verb] To feel or become offended; to take insult. | [verb] To physically harm, pain. OGDOAD (9) [noun] A thing made up of eight parts. OIDIUM (9) [noun] A fragile spore produced by some fungi. | [noun] The fungus Erysiphe necator (= Uncinula necator), which produces powdery mildew in grapes. OINKED (11) [verb] Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound. OKAYED (14) [verb] To approve. | [verb] To confirm by activating a button marked OK. OLDEST (7) [adjective] Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time. | [adjective] Having been used and thus no longer new or unused. | [adjective] Having existed or lived for the specified time. OLDIES (7) [noun] Something or someone old. | [noun] A song or record from a previous era. | [noun] (in the plural) The genre of music composed of popular music from previous eras. OLDISH (10) OMENED (9) ONSIDE (7) [noun] The portion of the playing area where one can legally play the ball, puck, etc. | [noun] The side of a vehicle on which the driver primarily propels it. | [adjective] Not in an offside position; In the part of the playing area where one can legally play the ball, puck, etc. ONWARD (10) [verb] To keep going; to progress or persevere. | [adjective] Moving forward. | [adjective] Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end. OODLES (7) [noun] Lots; an unspecified large number, quantity, or amount. OOTIDS (7) [noun] The haploid cell, produced by meiotic division of a secondary oocyte, that is a nearly mature ovum. OPENED (9) [verb] To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position. | [verb] To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility. | [verb] To bring up, broach. OPINED (9) [verb] To have or express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that). | [verb] To give one's formal opinion (on or upon something). OPIOID (9) [noun] A substance that has effects similar to opium. | [noun] Any of the natural substances, such as an endorphin, released in the body in response to pain. | [noun] Any of a group of synthetic compounds that exhibit similarities to the opium alkaloids that occur in nature. ORATED (7) [verb] To speak formally; to give a speech. | [verb] To speak passionately; to preach for or against something. ORCHID (12) [noun] A plant of the orchid family (Orchidaceae), bearing unusually-shaped flowers of beautiful colours. | [noun] A light bluish-red, violet-red or purple colour. | [adjective] (colour) having a light purple colour. ORDAIN (7) [verb] To prearrange unalterably. | [verb] To decree. | [verb] To admit into the ministry of a religion, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi. ORDEAL (7) [noun] A painful or trying experience. | [noun] A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused. | [noun] The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean ORDERS (7) [noun] Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | [noun] A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | [noun] The state of being well arranged. ORDURE (7) [noun] Dung, excrement. | [noun] (by extension) Dirt, filth. | [noun] (by extension) Something regarded as contaminating or perverting the morals; obscene material. OREADS (7) [noun] A mountain nymph; an anthropomorphic appearance of the spirit of a mountain. OREIDE (7) OROIDE (7) OSMUND (9) OUCHED (12) OUSTED (7) [verb] To expel; to remove. OUTADD (8) OUTBID (9) [verb] To bid more than (somebody else) in an auction. OUTDID (8) [verb] To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass. OVERDO (10) [verb] To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far. | [verb] To cook for too long. | [verb] To give (someone or something) too much work; to require too much effort or strength of (someone); to use up too much of (something). OVERED (10) OVOIDS (10) [noun] Something that is oval in shape. OXFORD (17) [noun] A variety of shoe, typically made of heavy leather. | [noun] (by ellipsis) An Oxford Dictionary. OXIDES (14) [noun] A binary chemical compound of oxygen with another chemical element. OXIDIC (16) PACKED (15) [verb] (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. | [verb] (social) To cheat. | [verb] To load with a pack PADAUK (13) [noun] Any of the trees of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus. | [noun] The valuable timber of these trees. PADDED (11) [verb] To stuff. | [verb] To furnish with a pad or padding. | [verb] To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler. PADDER (10) PADDLE (10) [noun] A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat. | [noun] A double-bladed oar used for kayaking. | [noun] Time spent on paddling. | [verb] To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside. PADLES (9) PADNAG (10) PADOUK (13) [noun] Any of the trees of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus. | [noun] The valuable timber of these trees. PADRES (9) [noun] A military clergyman | [noun] A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest PAGODA (10) [noun] A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple. | [noun] (usually in form pagod) An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol. | [noun] A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India. PAGODS (10) PAIKED (13) PAINED (9) [verb] To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. | [verb] To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. | [verb] To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. PAIRED (9) [verb] To group into one or more sets of two. | [verb] To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating. | [verb] To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions. PALLED (9) [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. | [verb] To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste. | [verb] Be friends with, hang around with. PALLID (9) [adjective] Appearing weak, pale or wan. PALMED (11) [verb] To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something. | [verb] To hold something without bending the fingers significantly. | [verb] To move something with the palm of the hand. PANADA (9) [noun] A thick paste made by mixing breadcrumbs, flour, etc. with water, milk, stock, butter or sometimes egg yolks | [noun] Any of several soups made using this paste PANDAS (9) [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. PANDER (9) [noun] A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer. | [noun] An offer of illicit sex with a third party. | [noun] An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt. PANDIT (9) [noun] (Nepal) An honorary title for a learned man or scholar. PANGED (10) PANNED (9) [verb] To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold). | [verb] To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely. | [verb] With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful. PANTED (9) [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. | [verb] To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. | [verb] To long for (something); to be eager for (something). PARADE (9) [noun] An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd of spectators. | [noun] A procession of people moving down a street, organized to protest something. | [noun] Any succession, series, or display of items. PARDAH (12) PARDEE (9) PARDIE (9) PARDON (9) [noun] Forgiveness for an offence. | [noun] An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed. | [verb] To forgive (a person). PARGED (10) [verb] To apply a parge on to a surface. PARKED (13) [verb] To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place. | [verb] To defer (a matter) until a later date. | [verb] To bring together in a park, or compact body. PARLED (9) PARODY (12) [noun] A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony. | [noun] A popular maxim, adage, or proverb. | [verb] To make a parody of something. PARRED (9) [verb] To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes. PARSED (9) [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. | [verb] To examine closely; to scrutinize. | [verb] To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored. PARTED (9) [verb] To leave the company of. | [verb] To cut hair with a parting; shed. | [verb] To divide in two. PASHED (12) [verb] To snog, to make out, to kiss. | [verb] To throw (or be thrown) and break. | [verb] To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces. PASSED (9) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. PASTED (9) [verb] To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste. | [verb] To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else. | [verb] To strike or beat someone or something. PATTED (9) [verb] To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing. | [verb] To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat | [verb] To stroke or fondle (an animal). PAUSED (9) [verb] To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort. | [verb] To interrupt an activity and wait. | [verb] To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. PAVEED (12) PAWNED (12) [verb] To pledge; to stake or wager. | [verb] To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop. | [verb] (originally leet) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game). PAYDAY (15) [noun] The day of the week or month, or the specific day, on which an employee's wages or salary is paid. PEACED (11) [verb] To make peace; to put at peace; to be at peace. | [verb] To peace out. PEAKED (13) [adjective] Having a peak or peaks. | [adjective] Sickly-looking, peaky. | [verb] To reach a highest degree or maximum. PEALED (9) [verb] To sound with a peal or peals. | [verb] To utter or sound loudly. | [verb] To assail with noise. PECHED (14) [verb] To pant, to struggle for breath. | [adjective] Tired, out of breath, worn out. PECKED (15) [verb] To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). | [verb] To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument. | [verb] To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements. PEDALO (9) [noun] A small boat propelled by pedals that directly turn external paddles, used for recreation. PEDALS (9) [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. PEDANT (9) [noun] A teacher or schoolmaster. | [noun] A person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar. | [noun] A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. PEDATE (9) PEDDLE (10) [verb] To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities. | [verb] To sell illegal narcotics. | [verb] To spread or cause to spread. PEDLAR (9) [noun] An itinerant seller of small goods. | [noun] A drug dealer. PEDLER (9) PEDROS (9) PEEKED (13) [verb] To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. | [verb] To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place. | [verb] To retrieve (a value) from a memory address. PEELED (9) [verb] To remove the skin or outer covering of. | [verb] To remove something from the outer or top layer of. | [verb] To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way. PEENED (9) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. PEEPED (11) [verb] To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird. | [verb] To speak briefly with a quiet voice. | [verb] To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed. PEERED (9) [verb] To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. | [verb] To come in sight; to appear. | [verb] To make equal in rank. PEEVED (12) [verb] To annoy; vex. PEGGED (11) [verb] To fasten using a peg. | [verb] To affix or pin. | [verb] To fix a value or price. PEINED (9) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. PEISED (9) PELTED (9) [verb] To bombard, as with missiles. | [verb] To throw; to use as a missile. | [verb] To rain or hail heavily. PENDED (10) PENNED (9) [verb] To enclose in a pen. | [verb] To write (an article, a book, etc.). | [adjective] Winged; having plumes PENTAD (9) [noun] A group or series of five things. | [noun] A mean average value of temperature, etc., taken every five days. | [noun] Any element, atom, or radical having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad. PEPPED (13) [verb] To inject with energy and enthusiasm. PEPTID (11) PERDIE (9) PERDUE (9) PERDUS (9) PERIOD (9) [noun] A length of time. | [noun] A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era. | [noun] The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation). PERKED (13) [verb] To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker. | [verb] Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds. | [verb] To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of. PERMED (11) [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. | [adjective] That has been given a permanent wave PESADE (9) PETARD (9) [noun] A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to breach a door or wall. | [noun] Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense. | [noun] A loud firecracker. PETTED (9) [verb] To stroke or fondle (an animal). | [verb] To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously. | [verb] Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously. PHASED (12) [adjective] Organized or structured chronologically in phases PHONED (12) [verb] To call (someone) using a telephone. PHYSED (15) PICKED (15) [verb] To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. | [verb] To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground. | [verb] To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck. PIDDLE (10) [verb] To eat with small, quick bites. | [verb] To bite lightly. | [verb] To consume gradually. PIDDLY (13) [adjective] Small, inconsequential, or not worth spending time on. PIDGIN (10) [noun] An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers. | [noun] A person's business, occupation, work, or trade. PIECED (11) [verb] (usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative). | [verb] To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out. | [verb] To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag. PIGGED (11) [verb] (of swine) to give birth. | [verb] To greedily consume (especially food). | [verb] To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed. PILLED (9) [verb] Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber. | [verb] To form into the shape of a pill. | [verb] To medicate with pills. PIMPED (13) [verb] To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. | [verb] To prostitute someone. | [verb] To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out). PINDER (9) PINGED (10) [verb] To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. | [verb] (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects. | [verb] To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility. PINKED (13) [verb] To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe. | [verb] To prick with a sword. | [verb] To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule. PINNED (9) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [verb] (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin. PIPPED (13) [verb] To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin | [verb] To hit with a gunshot | [verb] To peep, to chirp PIQUED (18) [verb] To wound the pride of; to excite to anger. | [verb] To take pride in; to pride oneself on. | [verb] To stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting; to excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy. PISHED (12) PISSED (9) [verb] To urinate. | [verb] To discharge as or with the urine. | [adjective] Drunk. PITHED (12) [verb] To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree). | [verb] To kill (especially cattle or laboratory animals) by cutting or piercing the spinal cord. PITIED (9) [verb] To feel pity for (someone or something). | [verb] To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of. PITTED (9) [verb] To make pits in; to mark with little hollows. | [verb] To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting. | [verb] To bring (something) into opposition with something else. PLACED (11) [verb] To put (an object or person) in a specific location. | [verb] To earn a given spot in a competition. | [verb] To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. PLACID (11) [adjective] Calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil PLAIDS (9) [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. PLANED (9) [verb] To smooth (wood) with a plane. | [verb] To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water. | [verb] To glide or soar. PLATED (9) [verb] To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal. | [verb] To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving. | [verb] To score a run. PLAYED (12) [verb] To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment. | [verb] To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game). | [verb] To take part in amorous activity; to make love. PLEADS (9) [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. PLEDGE (10) [noun] A solemn promise to do something. | [noun] A security to guarantee payment of a debt. | [noun] A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved. PLEIAD (9) [noun] A group of illustrious or talented people, especially one with seven members. PLOIDY (12) [noun] The number of homologous sets of chromosomes in a cell. PLOWED (12) [verb] To use a plough on to prepare for planting. | [verb] To use a plough. | [verb] To have sex with, penetrate. PLOYED (12) PLUMED (11) [verb] To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes. | [verb] Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence , to prepare for (something). | [verb] (by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate. POCKED (15) PODDED (11) [verb] To bear or produce pods | [verb] To remove peas from their case. | [verb] To put into a pod or to enter a pod. PODITE (9) PODIUM (11) [noun] A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit. | [noun] (sometimes proscribed) A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly. | [noun] A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize. PODSOL (9) [noun] The typical soil of coniferous or boreal forests. PODZOL (18) [noun] The typical soil of coniferous or boreal forests. POINDS (9) [noun] A seizure of property etc in lieu of a debt; the animal or property so seized POISED (9) [verb] To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt. | [verb] To counterpoise; to counterbalance. | [verb] To be of a given weight; to weigh. POLDER (9) [noun] An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes. | [verb] To reclaim an area of ground from a sea or lake by means of dikes. POLLED (9) [verb] To take, record the votes of (an electorate). | [verb] To solicit mock votes from (a person or group). | [verb] To vote at an election. POMADE (11) [noun] A greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair, making it look slick and shiny. | [noun] Any medicinal ointment. | [verb] To anoint with pomade; to use pomade to style (hair). PONCED (11) [verb] To act as a pimp. | [verb] Hence, to try to get rid of or proactively sell something. | [verb] To behave in a posh or effeminate manner. PONDED (10) [verb] To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam. | [verb] To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming. | [verb] To form a pond; to pool. PONDER (9) [noun] A period of deep thought. | [verb] To wonder, think of deeply | [verb] To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, mull over PONGED (10) [verb] To stink, to smell bad. | [verb] To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it. PONGID (10) [noun] Any primate once considered to belong in the family Pongidae; the great apes excluding humans PONIED (9) [verb] To lead (a horse) from another horse. | [verb] To use a crib or cheat-sheet in translating. POODLE (9) [noun] A breed of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly coat in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, medium, miniature, or toy. | [noun] A person servile towards someone whom he or she considers his or her superior. POOHED (12) [verb] To defecate. | [verb] To dirty something with feces. | [verb] To say "pooh". POOLED (9) [verb] (of a liquid) To form a pool. | [verb] To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of. | [verb] To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction. POOPED (11) [verb] To make a short blast on a horn | [verb] To break wind. | [verb] To defecate. POPPED (13) [verb] To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound. | [verb] To burst (something) with a popping sound. | [verb] (with in, out, upon, etc.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart. PORTED (9) [verb] To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm. | [verb] To carry, bear, or transport. See porter. | [verb] To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command. POSADA (9) [noun] A traditional Mexican Christmas procession. | [noun] An inn in Spanish-speaking regions. POSTED (9) [verb] To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review. | [verb] To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation. | [verb] To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger. POTTED (9) [verb] To put (something) into a pot. | [verb] To preserve by bottling or canning. | [verb] To cause a ball to fall into a pocket. POUFED (12) POUNDS (9) [noun] A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight. | [noun] A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere. | [noun] The symbol # (octothorpe, hash) POURED (9) [verb] To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it. | [verb] To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape. | [verb] To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly. POUTED (9) [verb] To push out one's lips. | [verb] To thrust itself outward; to be prominent. | [verb] To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk. POWDER (12) [noun] The fine particles which are the result of reducing dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust. | [noun] A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing. | [noun] An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. PRATED (9) [verb] To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly. PRAYED (12) [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. PREMED (11) [noun] An undergraduate college academic program, typically in biochemistry or related sciences, that prepares a student to pursue graduate or post-graduate studies in medicine. | [noun] A premedication. PREYED (12) [verb] To act as a predator. PRICED (11) [verb] To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on. | [verb] To pay the price of; to make reparation for. | [verb] To set a price on; to value; to prize. PRIDED (10) [verb] To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it. PRIDES (9) [noun] The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others. | [noun] (often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. | [noun] Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris. PRIMED (11) [verb] To prepare a mechanism for its main work. | [verb] To apply a coat of primer paint to. | [verb] To be renewed. PRISED (9) [verb] To force (open) with a lever; to pry. PRIZED (18) [verb] To consider highly valuable; to esteem. | [verb] To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate. | [verb] To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry. PROBED (11) [verb] To explore, investigate, or question | [verb] To insert a probe into. PROSED (9) [verb] To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way. PROVED (12) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. PRUDES (9) [noun] A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature. PRUNED (9) [verb] To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water. | [verb] To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. | [verb] To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material). PSEUDO (9) [noun] An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual. | [noun] A poseur; one who is fake. | [noun] (travel industry) pseudo-city code PSEUDS (9) [noun] An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur | [noun] A pseudonym. PSOCID (11) [noun] Any insect of the order Psocoptera. PUDDLE (10) [noun] A small pool of water, usually on a path or road. | [noun] Stagnant or polluted water. | [noun] A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight. PUDDLY (13) PUFFED (15) [verb] To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs. | [verb] To pant. | [verb] To advertise. | [adjective] Panting because of having exercised. PUGGED (11) [verb] To mix and stir when wet. | [verb] To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. PULLED (9) [verb] To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force. | [verb] To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck. | [verb] To attract or net; to pull in. PULPED (11) [verb] To make or be made into pulp. | [verb] To beat to a pulp. | [verb] To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from. PULSED (9) [verb] To beat, to throb, to flash. | [verb] To flow, particularly of blood. | [verb] To emit in discrete quantities. PUMPED (13) [verb] To use a pump to move (liquid or gas). | [verb] (often followed by up) To fill with air. | [verb] To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump. PUNDIT (9) [noun] An expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic. | [noun] A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar. | [noun] A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders. PUNNED (9) [verb] To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize. | [verb] To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words. PUNTED (9) [verb] To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole. | [verb] To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance. | [verb] To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc). PUPPED (13) [verb] To give birth to pups. PURDAH (12) [noun] A curtain, especially as used to conceal and divide women from men and strangers in some Hindu or Muslim traditions. | [noun] A striped cotton cloth which is used to make curtains. | [noun] The state or system of social gender seclusion in some Muslim or Hindu communities. PURDAS (9) PUREED (9) [verb] To crush or grind food into a puree. PURGED (10) [verb] To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities. | [verb] To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds | [verb] To remove by cleansing; to wash away. PURLED (9) [verb] To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge | [verb] An inverted stitch producing ribbing etc | [verb] To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong. PURRED (9) [verb] Of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented. | [verb] To say (something) in a throaty, seductive manner. | [verb] To make a vibrating throaty sound, as from pleasure. PURSED (9) [verb] To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude. | [verb] To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit. | [verb] To put into a purse. PUSHED (12) [verb] To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force. | [verb] To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action. | [verb] To press or urge forward; to drive. PUTRID (9) [adjective] Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh. | [adjective] Vile, disgusting. PUTTED (9) [verb] To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter. | [verb] To make a putting sound. | [verb] To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride. PUTZED (18) [verb] Waste time. | [verb] (Pennsylvania Dutch) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood. QINDAR (16) QUAKED (20) [verb] To tremble or shake. | [verb] To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble. QUEUED (16) [verb] To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line. | [verb] To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue. | [verb] To add to a queue data structure. QUIRED (16) QUOTED (16) [verb] To repeat the exact words of (a person). | [verb] To repeat (the exact words of a person). | [verb] To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price. RACKED (13) [verb] To place in or hang on a rack. | [verb] To torture (someone) on the rack. | [verb] To cause (someone) to suffer pain. RADARS (7) [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. RADDED (9) RADDLE (8) [noun] A red ochre. | [verb] To mark with raddle; to daub something red. | [verb] To interweave or twist together. | [noun] A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence. RADIAL (7) [noun] A radial tire / radial tyre. | [adjective] Arranged like rays that radiate from, or converge to a common centre. | [adjective] Moving along a radius. RADIAN (7) [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 RADIOS (7) [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. RADISH (10) [noun] A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an edible root. | [noun] The root of this plant used as food. Some varieties are pungent and usually eaten raw in salads, etc., while others have a milder taste and are cooked. | [noun] With a distinguishing word: some other plant of the Raphanus genus or Brassicaceae family. RADIUM (9) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Ra) with an atomic number of 88. It is a soft, shiny and silvery radioactive alkaline earth metal. | [noun] A type of cloth woven from silk or synthetic yarn, often with a shiny appearance. | [verb] To treat (a tumour, etc.) with radium. RADIUS (7) [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. RADOME (9) [noun] A radar dome. RADONS (7) RADULA (7) [noun] The rasping tongue of snails and all other mollusks except bivalves. RAFTED (10) [verb] To convey on a raft. | [verb] To make into a raft. | [verb] To travel by raft. RAGGED (9) [adjective] In tatters, having the texture broken. | [adjective] Having rough edges; jagged or uneven | [adjective] Harsh-sounding; having an unpleasant noise | [verb] To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag. RAIDED (8) [verb] To engage in a raid against. | [verb] To lure from another; to entice away from. | [verb] To indulge oneself by taking from. RAIDER (7) [noun] One who engages in a raid; a plunderer. | [noun] A person who takes or attempts to take control of a firm against the will of current management by purchasing a controlling interest of stock and acquiring proxies. | [noun] A special forces operative; a commando. RAILED (7) [verb] To travel by railway. | [verb] To enclose with rails or a railing. | [verb] To range in a line. RAINED (7) [verb] To have rain fall from the sky. | [verb] To fall as or like rain. | [verb] To issue (something) in large quantities. RAISED (7) [verb] (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate. | [verb] To create, increase or develop. | [verb] To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio). RAMMED (11) [verb] To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function. | [verb] To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement. | [verb] To fill or compact by pounding or driving. RAMPED (11) [verb] To behave violently; to rage. | [verb] To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently. | [verb] To climb, like a plant; to creep up. RAMROD (9) [noun] Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant. | [noun] Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done. | [noun] An erect penis. RANCID (9) [adjective] Rank in taste or smell. | [adjective] Offensive. RANDAN (7) [noun] Riotous or disorderly behaviour. | [noun] A rowdy celebration; a spree. | [noun] The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran. RANDOM (9) [noun] A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance. | [noun] Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force. | [noun] The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range. RANGED (8) [verb] To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. | [verb] To rove over or through. | [verb] To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. RANIDS (7) RANKED (11) [verb] To place abreast, or in a line. | [verb] To have a ranking. | [verb] To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify. RANTED (7) [verb] To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger. | [verb] To criticize by ranting. | [verb] To speak extravagantly, as in merriment. RAPIDS (9) [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. RAPPED (11) [verb] To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock. | [verb] To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. | [verb] To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal. RASPED (9) [verb] To use a rasp. | [verb] To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps. | [verb] To work something with a rasp. RATTED (7) [verb] (usually with “on” or “out”) To betray a person or party, especially by telling their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in. | [verb] To work as a scab, going against trade union policies. | [verb] (of a dog, etc.) To kill rats. | [adjective] Intoxicated RAZEED (16) RAZZED (25) [verb] To tease playfully; to heckle. | [verb] To drive an automobile around. | [adjective] Full of energy or enthusiasm. READDS (8) READER (7) [noun] A person who reads | [noun] A person who reads a publication. | [noun] A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience. REAMED (9) [verb] To cream; mantle; foam; froth. | [verb] To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider. | [verb] To shape or form, especially using a reamer. REAPED (9) [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. REARED (7) [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 REAVED (10) REBIDS (9) [noun] A second or subsequent (normally higher) bid. | [verb] To bid again on something. | [verb] To require a new set of bids for. REBIND (9) [verb] To bind again. | [verb] To associate a command with a different key. REBODY (12) REBRED (9) RECEDE (9) [verb] To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. | [verb] To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor. | [verb] To take back. RECKED (13) [verb] To make account of; to care for; to heed, regard, consider. | [verb] To concern, to be important or earnest. | [verb] To think. RECLAD (9) RECODE (9) [verb] To code again or differently. RECORD (9) [noun] A disk, usually made of a polymer, used to record sound for playback on a phonograph. | [noun] An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium. | [noun] Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference. | [verb] To make a record of information. REDACT (9) [verb] To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while releasing the remainder. | [verb] To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process. | [verb] To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit. REDANS (7) [noun] A defensive fortification work in the shape of a V. REDATE (7) REDBAY (12) REDBUD (10) [noun] Any of several small trees, of the genus Cercis, having purple-pink flowers that appear before the leaves; the Judas tree. REDBUG (10) REDCAP (11) [noun] A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army. | [noun] A porter in a US railway station. | [noun] The European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis). REDDED (9) REDDEN (8) [verb] To become red or redder. | [verb] To make red or redder. REDDER (8) [adjective] Having red as its color. | [adjective] (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger. | [adjective] (of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black REDDLE (8) [noun] Red ochre | [verb] To redden. REDEAR (7) REDEEM (9) [verb] To recover ownership of something by buying it back. | [verb] To liberate by payment of a ransom. | [verb] To set free by force. REDEFY (13) REDENY (10) REDEYE (10) [noun] The names of animals that have red eyes. | [noun] Types of beverages. | [noun] (travel) An overnight airplane flight. REDFIN (10) REDIAE (7) REDIAL (7) [verb] To dial again | [adjective] Of or concerning a redia REDIAS (7) REDING (8) [verb] To govern, protect. | [verb] To discuss, deliberate. | [verb] To advise. REDIPS (9) REDIPT (9) REDLEG (8) REDOCK (13) REDOES (7) [verb] To do again. REDONE (7) [verb] To do again. REDONS (7) REDOUT (7) [noun] The situation where the body experiences a negative g-force sufficient to cause a blood flow from the lower parts of the body to the head. | [noun] A small, temporary, military fortification. | [noun] A reinforced refuge; a fort. REDOWA (10) REDRAW (10) [noun] An update to the screen display. | [verb] To draw again. REDREW (10) [verb] To draw again. REDTOP (9) [noun] A tabloid newspaper, particularly one of those considered to have lower journalistic standards than the broadsheets. | [noun] A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle. | [noun] Species of the genus Agrostis, the bentgrasses. REDUBS (9) REDUCE (9) [verb] To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower. | [verb] To lose weight. | [verb] To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote. REDYED (11) REDYES (10) REEDED (8) [adjective] Covered with reeds; reedy. | [adjective] Formed with channels and ridges like reeds, as the edge of a coin. | [verb] To thatch. REEDIT (7) [verb] Edit again REEFED (10) [verb] To take in part of a sail in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind. | [verb] To pull or yank strongly, especially in relation to horse riding. | [verb] (of paddles) To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply. REEKED (11) [verb] To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell. | [verb] To be evidently associated with something unpleasant. | [verb] To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume. REELED (7) [verb] To wind on a reel. | [verb] To spin or revolve repeatedly. | [verb] To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else. REEVED (10) [verb] To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it. | [adjective] Of a rope, passed through a hole, ring or pulley. REFEED (10) REFFED (13) [verb] To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game. REFIND (10) REFOLD (10) [verb] To fold again. REFUND (10) [noun] An amount of money returned. | [verb] To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse. | [verb] To supply again with funds. REGARD (8) [noun] A steady look, a gaze. | [noun] One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. | [noun] (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. | [verb] To look at; to observe. REGILD (8) [verb] To gild again. REINED (7) [verb] To direct or stop a horse by using reins. | [verb] To restrain; to control; to check. | [verb] To obey directions given with the reins. REIVED (10) [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. RELAID (7) [verb] To lay (for example, flooring or railroad track) again. RELEND (7) RELIED (7) [verb] (with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend. RELOAD (7) [noun] The process by which something is reloaded. | [verb] To load (something) again | [verb] To refresh a copy of a program etc. in memory or of a web page etc. on screen REMADE (9) [verb] To make again. | [verb] To make a new, especially updated, version of (a film, video game, etc.). REMAND (9) [noun] The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial. | [noun] The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal. | [verb] To send a prisoner back to custody. REMEDY (12) [noun] Something that corrects or counteracts. | [noun] The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong. | [noun] A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease. REMEND (9) REMIND (9) [verb] To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person). REMOLD (9) [verb] Mold again, apply a new mold to REMUDA (9) [noun] A herd of horses from which the horses to be used for a particular purpose are selected. RENDED (8) RENDER (7) [noun] Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls). | [noun] A digital image produced by rendering a model. | [noun] A surrender. | [noun] One who rends. RENTED (7) [verb] To occupy premises in exchange for rent. | [verb] To grant occupation in return for rent. | [verb] To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money. REPAID (9) [verb] To pay back. REPAND (9) REPLED (9) REPPED (11) [verb] To represent; to act as a representative for. | [verb] Repeat | [adjective] Corded transversely, like the fabric called rep REREAD (7) [noun] The act of reading something again. | [verb] To read again. RESAID (7) RESEDA (7) [noun] Any of various plants of the genus Reseda having small, pale grayish green flowers, such as dyer's rocket (Reseda luteola) and mignonette (Reseda odorata). | [noun] (specifically) Mignonette (Reseda odorata). | [noun] A pale greyish-green colour like the flowers of a reseda plant; mignonette. RESEED (7) [verb] To sow seeds again; to resow or replant. | [verb] Of a non-perennial plant, to produce seeds to ensure the following generation without human intervention; to self-sow. | [verb] To reset the input of an algorithm so as to ensure different results. RESEND (7) [noun] The act of sending again. | [verb] To send again. | [verb] To send back. RESHOD (10) RESIDE (7) [verb] To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time. | [verb] To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element. | [verb] To sink; to settle, as sediment. RESIDS (7) RESODS (7) RESOLD (7) [verb] To sell again. RESTED (7) [verb] To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion. | [verb] To come to a pause or an end; end. | [verb] To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed. RETARD (7) [noun] Retardation; delay. | [noun] A slowing down of the tempo; a ritardando. | [noun] A person with mental retardation. RETIED (7) [verb] To tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied before. RETOLD (7) [verb] To tell again, often differently, what one has read or heard; to paraphrase. RETTED (7) [adjective] Moistened or soaked to soften. REUSED (7) [verb] To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else). | [verb] To use again, or in another place. REVVED (13) [verb] To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed. REWARD (10) [noun] Something of value given in return for an act. | [noun] A prize promised for a certain deed or catch | [noun] The result of an action, whether good or bad. | [verb] To give a reward to or for. REWEDS (10) REWELD (10) REWIND (10) [noun] The act of rewinding. | [noun] A button or other mechanism for rewinding. | [verb] To wind (something) again. REWORD (10) [verb] To change the wording of; to restate using different words. RHODIC (12) RHYMED (15) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. RIBALD (9) [noun] An individual who is filthy or vulgar in nature. | [adjective] Coarsely, vulgarly, or lewdly amusing; referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way. RIBAND (9) [noun] A narrow diminutive of the bend, thinner than a bendlet. | [noun] A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position and give rigidity to the framework. | [noun] A ribbon. RIBBED (11) [verb] To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs. | [verb] To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way. | [verb] To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in. RICKED (13) [verb] To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks. | [verb] To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc. RIDDED (9) [verb] To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance. | [verb] To banish. | [verb] To kill. RIDDEN (8) [adjective] Full of. | [adjective] Oppressed, dominated or plagued by. | [verb] To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. | [verb] To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance. RIDDER (8) RIDDLE (8) [noun] A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature. | [noun] An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning. | [verb] To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. | [noun] A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand. | [noun] A curtain; bed-curtain | [verb] To plait RIDENT (7) RIDERS (7) [noun] One who rides, often on a horse or a motorcycle. | [noun] A provision annexed to a bill under the consideration of a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill. | [noun] (by extension) Something extra or burdensome that is imposed. RIDGED (9) [verb] To form into a ridge | [verb] To extend in ridges | [adjective] Having ridges. RIDGEL (8) RIDGES (8) [noun] The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. | [noun] Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip. | [noun] The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground. RIDGIL (8) RIDING (8) [verb] To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. | [verb] To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. | [verb] (chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. | [noun] Any of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties of England. RIDLEY (10) [noun] Any of the marine turtles of the genus Lepidochelys, found in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. RIFFED (13) [verb] To lay off from work due to a reduction in force. | [verb] To improvise in the performance or practice of an art, especially by expanding on or making novel use of traditional themes. | [verb] To riffle. RIFLED (10) [verb] To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also rifflehttp//verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html) | [verb] To commit robbery or theft. | [verb] To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder. RIFTED (10) [verb] To form a rift; to split open. | [verb] To cleave; to rive; to split. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch. RIGGED (9) [verb] To fit out with a harness or other equipment. | [verb] To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards. | [verb] To dress or clothe in some costume. RILLED (7) [verb] To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream. RIMMED (11) [verb] To form a rim on. | [verb] To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit. | [verb] (of a ball) To roll around a rim. RINDED (8) [verb] To remove the rind from. | [adjective] Having a rind (hard, tough outer layer) RINGED (8) [verb] To enclose or surround. | [verb] To make an incision around; to girdle. | [verb] To attach a ring to, especially for identification. RINSED (7) [verb] To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap. | [verb] To remove soap from (something) using water. | [verb] To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition. RIOTED (7) [verb] To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition. | [verb] To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc. | [verb] To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult. RIPPED (11) [verb] To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence. | [verb] To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts. | [verb] To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing. RISKED (11) [verb] To incur risk of (something). | [verb] To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing. | [verb] To incur risk as a result of (doing something). RITARD (7) ROADEO (7) ROADIE (7) [noun] A biker. | [noun] One of the crew for a musical group or other travelling stage production, especially a stagehand or technician. | [noun] An alcoholic beverage for the ride, for consumption while one is driving. ROAMED (9) [verb] To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination. | [verb] To use a network or service from different locations or devices. | [verb] To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them. ROARED (7) [verb] To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion. | [verb] To laugh in a particularly loud manner. | [verb] Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise. ROBAND (9) ROBBED (11) [verb] To steal from, especially using force or violence. | [verb] To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud. | [verb] (used with "of") To deprive (of). ROCKED (13) [verb] To move gently back and forth. | [verb] To cause to shake or sway violently. | [verb] To sway or tilt violently back and forth. RODDED (9) RODENT (7) [noun] A mammal of the order Rodentia, characterized by long incisors that grow continuously and are worn down by gnawing. | [noun] (bulletin board system slang, leet) A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence; lamer. | [adjective] Gnawing; biting; corroding; applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer. RODEOS (7) [noun] A gathering of cattle to be branded. | [noun] A North American sport involving skills with horses, cows and other livestock. | [noun] An entertainment event associated with the sport. RODMAN (9) RODMEN (9) ROGUED (8) [verb] To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination. | [verb] To cheat. | [verb] To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. ROILED (7) [verb] To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of. | [verb] To annoy; to make someone angry. | [verb] To bubble, seethe. ROLFED (10) [verb] To apply the Rolfing massage technique to. ROLLED (7) [verb] To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface. | [verb] To turn over and over. | [verb] To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault. ROMPED (11) [verb] To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously. | [verb] (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress. | [verb] To win easily. RONDEL (7) [noun] A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two. | [noun] The verse form rondeau. | [noun] A rondelle, (small) circular object. RONDOS (7) [noun] A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. | [noun] A small, disk-shaped piece of food, especially a single-serving dessert or small piece of candy. | [noun] A dark-skinned grape, a hybrid of Vitis vinifera with Vitis amurensis and others. ROOFED (10) [verb] To cover or furnish with a roof. | [verb] To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs. | [verb] To put into prison, to bird. ROOKED (11) [verb] To cheat or swindle. | [verb] To squat; to ruck. | [verb] Pronunciation spelling of look. ROOMED (9) [verb] To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant. | [verb] To assign to a room; to allocate a room to. ROOSED (7) ROOTED (7) [verb] To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. | [verb] To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings | [verb] To be firmly fixed; to be established. ROTTED (7) [verb] To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria. | [verb] To decline in function or utility. | [verb] To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt. ROTUND (7) [adjective] Having a round or spherical shape; circular; orbicular. | [adjective] Having a round body shape; portly or plump; podgy. | [adjective] (of a sound) Full and rich; orotund; sonorous; full-toned. ROUGED (8) [verb] To apply rouge (makeup). ROUNDS (7) [noun] A circular or spherical object or part of an object. | [noun] A circular or repetitious route. | [noun] A general outburst from a group of people at an event. ROUPED (9) [verb] To cry or shout. | [verb] To sell by auction. | [adjective] Affected with roup; roupy. ROUSED (7) [verb] To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy. | [verb] To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.). | [verb] To provoke (someone) to action or anger. ROUTED (7) [verb] To direct or divert along a particular course. | [verb] To connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet. | [verb] To send (information) through a router. | [verb] To make a noise; roar; bellow; snort. RUBBED (11) [verb] To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction. | [verb] To rub something against (a second thing). | [verb] To be rubbed against something. RUBIED (9) RUCHED (12) RUCKED (13) [verb] To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football. | [verb] To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck. | [verb] To crease or fold. RUDDER (8) [noun] An underwater vane used to steer a vessel. The rudder is controlled by means of a wheel, tiller or other apparatus (modern vessels can be controlled even with a joystick or an autopilot). | [noun] A control surface on the vertical stabilizer of a fixed-wing aircraft or an autogyro. On some craft, the entire vertical stabilizer comprises the rudder. The rudder is controlled by foot-operated control pedals. | [noun] A riddle or sieve. RUDDLE (8) [noun] A form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep. | [noun] Ruddiness; red coloration. | [verb] To mark something with red ochre. | [noun] A riddle or sieve. RUDELY (10) [adverb] In a rude manner RUDEST (7) [adjective] Bad-mannered. | [adjective] Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive. | [adjective] Tough, robust. RUFFED (13) [verb] To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff. | [verb] Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it. | [verb] To ruffle; to disorder. RUGGED (9) [adjective] Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough. | [adjective] Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven. | [adjective] Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy. | [verb] To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear. RUINED (7) [verb] To cause the fiscal ruin of. | [verb] To destroy or make something no longer usable. | [verb] To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business. RUNDLE (7) RUSHED (10) [verb] To hurry; to perform a task with great haste. | [verb] To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily. | [verb] To dribble rapidly. RUSTED (7) [verb] To oxidize, especially of iron or steel. | [verb] To cause to oxidize. | [verb] To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust. RUTTED (7) [verb] To be in the annual rut or mating season. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. SABBED (11) [verb] To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports. SABRED (9) [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. | [adjective] Equipped with a sabre or sabres. SACKED (13) [verb] (games) To sacrifice. | [verb] To put in a sack or sacks. | [verb] To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. SACRED (9) [adjective] Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy. | [adjective] Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular | [adjective] Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics. | [verb] To consecrate SADDEN (8) [verb] To make sad or unhappy. | [verb] To become sad or unhappy. | [verb] To darken a color during dyeing. SADDER (8) [adjective] (heading) Emotionally negative. | [adjective] Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary. | [adjective] Steadfast, valiant. SADDHU (11) SADDLE (8) [noun] A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal. | [noun] An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal. | [noun] A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc. | [verb] To put a saddle on (an animal). SADHES (10) SADHUS (10) [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). SADISM (9) [noun] The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity. | [noun] Achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain or humiliation on others, or watching pain or humiliation inflicted on others. | [noun] (in general) Deliberate cruelty, either mental or physical, to other people, or to animals, regardless of whether for (sexual) gratification. SADIST (7) [noun] One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others. SAGGED (9) [verb] To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane. | [verb] (by extension) To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position. | [verb] To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced. SAILED (7) [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. | [verb] To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl. | [verb] To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat. SAINED (7) SAIYID (10) SALADS (7) [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. SALPID (9) SALTED (7) [verb] To add salt to. | [verb] To deposit salt as a saline solution. | [verb] To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber. SALVED (10) [verb] To calm or assuage. | [verb] To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint. | [verb] To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good. SANDAL (7) [noun] A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot | [noun] Sandalwood | [noun] A long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast. SANDED (8) [verb] To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it. | [verb] To cover with sand. | [verb] To blot ink using sand. SANDER (7) [noun] A person employed to sand wood. | [noun] A machine to mechanize the process of sanding. | [noun] A device which spreads sand on the rails in wet, snowy or icy conditions to improve traction. SANDHI (10) [noun] Any of a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries, such as the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words. SAPPED (11) [verb] To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.). | [verb] To exhaust the vitality of. | [verb] To strike with a sap (with a blackjack). SARDAR (7) SARODE (7) SARODS (7) [noun] A fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music. SASHED (10) SASSED (7) [verb] To talk, to talk back. | [verb] To speak insolently to. SAUCED (9) [verb] To add sauce to; to season. | [verb] To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate. | [verb] To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive. SAUTED (7) SAYIDS (10) SAYYID (13) SCALDS (9) [verb] To burn with hot liquid. | [verb] To heat almost to boiling. SCALED (9) [verb] To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product. | [verb] To climb to the top of. | [verb] To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors. SCAPED (11) SCARED (9) [verb] To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. | [adjective] Feeling fear; afraid, frightened. SCENDS (9) [noun] The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement. SCHROD (12) SCOLDS (9) [noun] A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman. SCOPED (11) [verb] To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out. | [verb] To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc. | [verb] To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code. SCORED (9) [verb] To cut a notch or a groove in a surface. | [verb] To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination. | [verb] To obtain something desired. SCOWED (12) SCREED (9) [noun] A piece or narrow strip cut or torn off from a larger whole; a shred. | [noun] A piece of land, especially one that is narrow. | [noun] A rent, a tear. | [verb] To rend, to shred, to tear. | [noun] A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe. | [adjective] Strewn with scree. SCRIED (9) [verb] To predict the future using crystal balls or other objects. | [verb] To descry; to see. | [verb] To proclaim. SCRODS (9) [noun] (sometimes New York) Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish. SEABED (9) [noun] The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean. SEADOG (8) [noun] A sailor accustomed to the sea. | [noun] A pirate. | [noun] A seal. (marine mammal) SEALED (7) [verb] To hunt seals. | [verb] To place a seal on (a document). | [verb] To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality. SEAMED (9) [adjective] Having or furnished with seams. | [verb] To put together with a seam. | [verb] To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting. | [adjective] (of a hawk) Out of condition; not in good condition. SEARED (7) [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. SEATED (7) [verb] To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm. | [verb] To provide with places to sit. | [verb] To request or direct one or more persons to sit. SECEDE (9) [verb] To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. | [verb] To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. SECOND (9) [noun] Something that is number two in a series. | [noun] Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority. | [noun] The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest. | [noun] One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest. | [noun] One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant. SECUND (9) [adjective] Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk; unilateral. SEDANS (7) [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. SEDATE (7) [verb] To calm or put (a person) to sleep using a sedative drug. | [verb] To make tranquil. | [adjective] (of a person or their behaviour) Remaining composed and dignified, and avoiding too much activity or excitement. SEDERS (7) [noun] The ceremonial meal held on the first night or two nights of Passover. | [noun] One of the 54 parts into which the Torah is divided. SEDGES (8) [noun] Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedge, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species. | [noun] Any plant of the family Cyperaceae. | [noun] Certain other plants resembling sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus. SEDILE (7) [noun] One of a row of seats in an Ancient Roman amphitheatre. | [noun] A seat in the chancel of a church near the altar, for the officiating clergyman. SEDUCE (9) [verb] To beguile or lure (someone) away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray. | [verb] To entice or induce (someone) to engage in a sexual relationship. | [verb] (by extension) To have sexual intercourse with. SEDUMS (9) [noun] Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop SEEDED (8) [verb] To plant or sow an area with seeds. | [verb] To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations. | [verb] To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of. SEEDER (7) [noun] A device used to plant seeds; a seed drill | [noun] An implement used to remove the seeds from fruit etc. | [noun] A person who seeds clouds in order to make it rain SEELED (7) [verb] To sew together the eyes of a young hawk. | [verb] (by extension) To blind. | [verb] (of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm. SEEMED (9) [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. SEEPED (9) [verb] To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc. | [verb] To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse. | [verb] To diminish or wane away slowly. SEGUED (8) [verb] To move smoothly from one state or subject to another. | [verb] To make a smooth transition from one theme to another. | [verb] (of a disk jockey) To play a sequence of records with no talk between them. SEIDEL (7) [noun] A large beer mug or tankard, especially one with a lid. SEINED (7) [verb] To use a seine, to fish with a seine. SEISED (7) [verb] To vest ownership of a freehold estate in (someone). | [verb] (with of) To put in possession. | [verb] To seize. SEIZED (16) [verb] To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture. | [verb] To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance). | [verb] To take possession of (by force, law etc.). SELDOM (9) [adjective] Rare; infrequent. | [adverb] Infrequently, rarely. SELFED (10) [adjective] Produced by vegetative propagation | [adjective] Produced by self-pollination SENDAL (7) [noun] A light silk cloth. SENDED (8) SENDER (7) [noun] Someone who sends. | [noun] A device or component that transmits, as in telegraphy or computer networks. SENDUP (9) [noun] A satirical imitation of a work of art or a genre. SENSED (7) [verb] To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel. | [verb] To instinctively be aware. | [verb] To comprehend. SERDAB (9) SERVED (10) [verb] (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). | [verb] To treat (someone) in a given manner. | [verb] To be suitor to; to be the lover of. SHADED (11) [verb] To shield from light. | [verb] To alter slightly. | [verb] To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color. SHADER (10) SHADES (10) [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). SHADOW (13) [noun] A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. | [noun] Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity. | [noun] A area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight). SHADUF (13) SHAIRD (10) SHALED (10) SHAMED (12) [verb] To cause to feel shame. | [verb] To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace. | [verb] To drive or compel by shame. SHANDY (13) [noun] A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade. | [noun] A glass of this drink. | [adjective] Wild, energetic, romping, boisterous, rambunctious SHAPED (12) [verb] To create or make. | [verb] To give something a shape and definition. | [verb] To form or manipulate something into a certain shape. SHARDS (10) [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. SHARED (10) [verb] To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume. | [verb] To have or use in common. | [verb] To divide and distribute. SHAVED (13) [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. SHAWED (13) SHENDS (10) SHERDS (10) [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. SHEWED (13) [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). | [verb] To bestow; to confer. | [verb] To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. SHIELD (10) [noun] Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. | [noun] A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos. | [noun] A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock. | [verb] To protect, to defend. SHINDY (13) [noun] A shindig. | [noun] An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot. | [noun] Hockey; shinney SHINED (10) [verb] To emit light. | [verb] To reflect light. | [verb] To distinguish oneself; to excel. SHODDY (14) [noun] A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool. | [noun] Worthless goods. | [noun] Vulgar pretence or sham. SHOOED (10) [verb] To induce someone or something to leave. | [verb] To leave under inducement. | [verb] To usher someone. SHORED (10) [adjective] Having a shore, often one of a specified type. | [verb] To set on shore. | [verb] (without up) To provide with support. SHOULD (10) [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. SHOVED (13) [verb] To push, especially roughly or with force. | [verb] To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off. | [verb] (by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet. SHOWED (13) [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). | [verb] To bestow; to confer. | [verb] To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. SHREDS (10) [noun] A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip. | [noun] In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount. SHREWD (13) [adjective] Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters. | [adjective] Artful, tricky or cunning. | [adjective] Streetwise. SHROUD (10) [noun] That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. | [noun] Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. | [noun] That which covers or shelters like a shroud. | [verb] To cover with a shroud. | [noun] The branching top of a tree; foliage. SHUTED (10) SIALID (7) SICCED (11) [verb] To mark with a bracketed sic. | [verb] To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs. | [verb] To set upon; to chase; to attack. SICKED (13) [verb] To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs. | [verb] To set upon; to chase; to attack. | [verb] To vomit. SIDDUR (8) [noun] A prayer book containing a set order of daily prayers. SIDING (8) [noun] A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building. | [verb] To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with" | [verb] To lean on one side. | [noun] A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for loading or unloading freight, storing trains or other rail vehicles; or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction) (the latter sense is probably an American definition). SIDLED (8) [verb] To (cause something to) move sideways. | [verb] In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner. SIDLER (7) SIDLES (7) [noun] An act of sidling. | [verb] To (cause something to) move sideways. | [verb] In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner. SIEGED (8) SIEVED (10) [verb] To strain, sift or sort using a sieve. | [verb] To concede; let in | [adjective] Passed through a sieve. SIFTED (10) [adjective] Having undergone sifting. SIGHED (11) [verb] To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like. | [verb] To lament; to grieve. | [verb] To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over. SIGNED (8) [verb] To make a mark | [verb] To make the sign of the cross | [verb] To indicate SILKED (11) SILOED (7) [verb] To store in a silo. | [adjective] Pertaining to silos (stored in silos; separated apart; not connected;) SILTED (7) [verb] To clog or fill with silt. | [verb] To become clogged with silt. | [verb] To flow through crevices; to percolate. SINGED (8) [verb] To burn slightly. | [verb] To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. | [verb] To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame. SINNED (7) [verb] To commit a sin. SIPPED (11) [verb] To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc. | [verb] To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse. | [verb] To diminish or wane away slowly. SIRDAR (7) [noun] A high-ranking person in India and other areas of west-central Asia; a chief, a headman. | [noun] The leader of a group of Sherpa mountain guides. SKALDS (11) [noun] A Nordic poet of the Viking Age SKATED (11) [verb] To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates. | [verb] To skateboard | [verb] To use the skating technique. SKEWED (14) [verb] To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. | [verb] To bias or distort in a particular direction. | [verb] To hurl or throw. SKIDDY (15) SKIDOO (11) [verb] To depart, especially to depart quickly | [verb] A nonsense word, often an expression of disrespect | [verb] A light that flashes on and off to make it more eye-catching. | [noun] A snowmobile. SKITED (11) [verb] To boast. | [verb] To skim or slide along a surface. | [verb] To slip, such as on ice. SKIVED (14) [verb] To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk. | [verb] To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of. SLAKED (11) [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. SLATED (7) [verb] To cover with slate. | [verb] To criticise harshly. | [verb] To schedule. SLAVED (10) [verb] To work as a slaver, to enslave people. | [verb] To work hard. | [verb] To place a device under the control of another. SLAYED (10) [verb] To kill, murder. | [verb] To eradicate or stamp out. | [verb] (by extension) To defeat, overcome (in a competition or contest). SLEDGE (8) [noun] A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc. | [verb] To hit with a sledgehammer. | [noun] A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass. | [verb] To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered unsportsmanlike). SLEWED (10) [verb] To rotate or turn something about its axis. | [verb] To veer a vehicle. | [verb] To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time. SLICED (9) [verb] To cut into slices. | [verb] To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion. | [verb] To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar. SLIDER (7) [noun] An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again. | [noun] A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke. | [noun] The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche. SLIDES (7) [noun] An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again. | [noun] A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke. | [noun] The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche. SLIMED (9) [verb] To coat with slime. | [verb] To besmirch or disparage. | [verb] To carve (fish), removing the offal. SLIPED (9) SLOIDS (7) SLOJDS (14) SLOPED (9) [verb] To tend steadily upward or downward. | [verb] To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant. | [verb] (usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously. SLOWED (10) [verb] To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. | [verb] To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of. | [verb] To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate. SLOYDS (10) SLUDGE (8) [noun] Solids separated from suspension in a liquid. | [noun] A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes. | [noun] A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler. SLUDGY (11) SMIDGE (10) [noun] A very small quantity or amount. SMILED (9) [verb] To have (a smile) on one's face. | [verb] To express by smiling. | [verb] To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness. SMOKED (13) [adjective] Of food, preserved by treatment with smoke. | [adjective] Of glass, tinted. | [verb] To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. SMUDGE (10) [noun] A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. | [noun] Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation. | [noun] A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. | [verb] To obscure by blurring; to smear. SMUDGY (13) [adjective] Marked with smudges. | [adjective] Like a thick smoke (such as is emitted by a smudge pot). SNAKED (11) [verb] To follow or move in a winding route. | [verb] To steal slyly. | [verb] To clean using a plumbing snake. SNARED (7) [verb] To catch or hold, especially with a loop. | [verb] To ensnare. SNAWED (10) SNIDER (7) SNIPED (9) [verb] To hunt snipe. | [verb] To shoot at individuals from a concealed place. | [verb] (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle. SNOODS (7) [noun] A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women. | [noun] A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place. | [noun] The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey. SNORED (7) [verb] To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate. SNOWED (10) [verb] To have snow fall from the sky. | [verb] To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information. | [verb] To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards. SOAKED (11) [verb] To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. | [verb] To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation. | [verb] To penetrate or permeate by saturation. SOAPED (9) [verb] To apply soap to in washing. | [verb] To cover, lather or in any other form treat with soap, often as a prank. | [verb] To be discreet about (a topic). SOARED (7) [verb] To fly high with little effort, like a bird. | [verb] To mount upward on wings, or as on wings. | [verb] To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft. SOBBED (11) [verb] To weep with convulsive gasps. | [verb] To say (something) while sobbing. | [verb] To soak. SOCKED (13) [verb] To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to. | [verb] To throw. SODDED (9) [verb] To cover with sod. | [verb] Bugger; sodomize. | [verb] Damn, curse, confound. SODDEN (8) [verb] To drench, soak or saturate. | [verb] To become soaked. | [adjective] Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated. SODIUM (9) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977. It is a soft, waxy, silvery, reactive alkali metal that is never found unbound in nature. SODOMS (9) SODOMY (12) [noun] Any of several forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural, particularly bestiality or historically homosexuality, but also (sometimes) anal or oral sex. | [noun] (in particular) Anal sex. SOGGED (9) SOILED (7) [verb] To make dirty. | [verb] To become dirty or soiled. | [verb] To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully. SOLAND (7) SOLDAN (7) SOLDER (7) [noun] Any of various easily-melted alloys, commonly of tin and lead, that are used to mend, coat, or join metal objects, usually small. | [noun] Figuratively, circumstances or emotions that strongly bond things or persons together in analogy to solder that joins metals. | [verb] To join items together, or to coat them with solder SOLIDI (7) [noun] A slashing action or motion, particularly: | [noun] A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly: | [noun] Something resembling such a mark, particularly: SOLIDS (7) [noun] A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas). | [noun] A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve). | [noun] A favor. SOLOED (7) [verb] To perform a solo. | [verb] To perform something in the absence of anyone else. | [verb] To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands. SOLVED (10) [verb] To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. | [verb] To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. | [verb] To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions. SONDER (7) SONDES (7) [noun] Probe; sound. | [noun] (physical sciences) Any of various devices for testing physical conditions, often for remote or underwater locations. SOOTED (7) [adjective] Stained or marked with soot SOPPED (11) [verb] To steep or dip in any liquid. | [verb] To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate. SORBED (9) SORDID (8) [adjective] Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible. | [adjective] Dirty or squalid. | [adjective] Morally degrading. SORDOR (7) [noun] Sordidness SORNED (7) SORTED (7) [verb] To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. | [verb] To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically. | [verb] To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. SOTTED (7) [adjective] Stupefied, especially with liquor. SOUDAN (7) SOULED (7) SOUNDS (7) [noun] A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. | [noun] A vibration capable of causing such sensations. | [noun] A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc SOUPED (9) [verb] To feed: to provide with soup or a meal. | [verb] To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution. | [verb] Alternative form of sup SOURED (7) [verb] To make sour. | [verb] To become sour. | [verb] To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted. SOUSED (7) [verb] To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench. | [verb] To steep in brine; to pickle. | [verb] To strike, beat. SPACED (11) [verb] To roam, walk, wander. | [verb] To set some distance apart. | [verb] To insert or utilise spaces in a written text. SPADED (10) [verb] To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting. SPADER (9) SPADES (9) [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. SPADIX (16) [noun] A fleshy spike (inflorescence) with reduced flowers, usually enclosed by a spathe, characteristic of aroids. | [noun] A male sexual organ of certain cephalopods and hydrozoans (especially the nautilus), used to transfer sperm. SPARED (9) [verb] To show mercy. | [verb] To keep. | [verb] To give up To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with. SPARID (9) [noun] Any of several perciform fishes of the family Sparidae SPAYED (12) [verb] To divine; foretell | [verb] To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant. SPEEDO (9) [noun] A speedometer, particularly one in a race car or other automobile. | [noun] A tight-fitting swimsuit, especially commonly worn by competitive swimmers and divers. Usually implies a brief or bikini style swimsuit. SPEEDS (9) [noun] The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity. | [noun] The rate of motion or action, specifically / the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time. | [noun] The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor. SPEEDY (12) [verb] To process in a faster than normal, accelerated way | [verb] (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) to apply the speedy rule in an online community (often the deletion rule); speedy delete | [adjective] Rapid; swift SPENDS (9) [noun] Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure. | [noun] (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money. | [noun] Discharged semen. SPEWED (12) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SPICED (11) [verb] To add spice or spices to; season. | [verb] To spice up. | [adjective] Having spice added, spicy. SPIDER (9) [noun] Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey. | [noun] A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information. | [noun] A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade). SPIKED (13) [verb] To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails. | [verb] To set or furnish with spikes. | [verb] To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people. SPILED (9) [verb] To plug (a hole) with a spile. | [verb] To draw off (a liquid) using a spile. | [verb] To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile. SPINED (9) SPIRED (9) SPITED (9) [verb] To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart. | [verb] To be angry at; to hate. | [verb] To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. SPODES (9) SPOKED (13) SPORED (9) SPREAD (9) [noun] The act of spreading. | [noun] Something that has been spread. | [noun] A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading. SPUMED (11) [verb] To froth. SQUADS (16) [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. SQUIDS (16) [noun] Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles | [noun] A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid. | [noun] (mildly) A sailor in the Navy. SRADHA (10) STADES (7) STADIA (7) [noun] A level staff or graduated rod used by surveyors to measure differences in level, or to measure horizontal distances by sighting the stadia hairs (graduations) through a telescope. | [noun] (historically) A graduated brass triangle used to measure the distance of a target by comparison of the graduations with the heights of soldiers or horses. | [noun] A Greek unit of measurement, equivalent to six plethra or six hundred podes, which, though varying in precise length, is generally accepted to be equivalent to approximately 185·4 metres. STAGED (8) [verb] To produce on a stage, to perform a play. | [verb] To demonstrate in a deceptive manner. | [verb] To orchestrate; to carry out. STAKED (11) [verb] To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes. | [verb] To pierce or wound with a stake. | [verb] To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency. STALED (7) [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. | [verb] To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption. STANDS (7) [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. STANED (7) STARED (7) [verb] (construed with at) To look fixedly (at something). | [verb] To influence in some way by looking fixedly. | [verb] To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy. STATED (7) [verb] To declare to be a fact. | [verb] To make known. | [adjective] Expressed in a statement; uttered or written. STAVED (10) [verb] To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. | [verb] (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. | [verb] (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff. STAYED (10) [verb] To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady. | [verb] To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. | [verb] To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder. STEADS (7) [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. STEADY (10) [noun] A rest or support, as for the hand, a tool, or a piece of work. | [noun] A regular boyfriend or girlfriend. | [noun] A prostitute's regular customer. STEEDS (7) [noun] A stallion, especially in the sense of mount. | [noun] A bicycle. STEWED (10) [verb] To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering. | [verb] To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong. | [verb] To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions. STIPED (9) STODGE (8) [noun] Heavy, dull, often starchy food, such as a steamed pudding | [verb] To stuff; to cram. STODGY (11) [adjective] (of food) Having a thick, semi-solid consistency; glutinous; heavy on the stomach. | [adjective] Dull, old-fashioned. | [adjective] Badly put together. STOKED (11) [verb] To poke, pierce, thrust. | [verb] To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. | [verb] (by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion. STOLED (7) STOLID (7) [adjective] Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; dully or heavily stupid. STONED (7) [verb] To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones. | [verb] To wall with stones. | [verb] To remove a stone from (fruit etc.). STOPED (9) [verb] To excavate in the form of stopes. | [verb] To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out. STORED (7) [verb] To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose. | [verb] To write (something) into memory or registers. STOUND (7) STOWED (10) [verb] To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. | [verb] To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. | [verb] To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely. STRAND (7) [noun] The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach. | [noun] The shore or beach of a lake or river. | [noun] A small brook or rivulet. | [noun] Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord. STRIDE (7) [verb] To walk with long steps. | [verb] To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. | [verb] To pass over at a step; to step over. | [noun] A long step in walking. STRODE (7) [verb] To walk with long steps. | [verb] To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. | [verb] To pass over at a step; to step over. STROUD (7) [noun] A kind of coarse wool used in blankets or for garment by Native Americans. STUDIO (7) [noun] An artist’s or photographer’s workshop or the room in which an artist works. | [noun] An establishment where an art is taught. | [noun] A place where radio or television programs, records or films are made. STUDLY (10) [adjective] Like a stud; being or relating to a sexually attractive male. STUPID (9) [noun] A stupid person; a fool. | [noun] The state or condition of being stupid. | [adjective] Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence. STURDY (10) [noun] A disease in sheep and cattle, caused by a tapeworm and marked by great nervousness or by dullness and stupor. | [adjective] Of firm build; stiff; stout; strong. | [adjective] Solid in structure or person. STYLED (10) [verb] To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style) | [verb] To call or give a name or title to. | [verb] To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy. SUBBED (11) [verb] To substitute for. | [verb] To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education. | [verb] To replace (a player) with a substitute. SUBDEB (11) SUBDUE (9) [verb] To overcome, quieten, or bring under control. | [verb] To bring (a country) under control by force. SUCKED (13) [verb] To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). | [verb] To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat. | [verb] To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk. SUDARY (10) SUDDEN (8) [noun] An unexpected occurrence; a surprise. | [adjective] Happening quickly and with little or no warning. | [adjective] Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid. SUDORS (7) SUDSED (8) [verb] To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds. SUDSER (7) [noun] A foaming agent used in detergents etc. | [noun] (entertainment industry) A soap opera. SUDSES (7) [verb] To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds. SUEDED (8) SUEDES (7) SUGHED (11) SUITED (7) [verb] To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit. | [verb] (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image. | [verb] To be appropriate or apt for. SULDAN (7) SULFID (10) SULKED (11) [verb] To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn. SUMMED (11) [verb] To add together. | [verb] To give a summary of. SUNDAE (7) [noun] A dessert consisting of ice cream with various toppings. | [noun] A Korean dish made of the boiled or steamed intestines of a cow or pig, stuffed with various ingredients. SUNDER (7) [adjective] Sundry; separate; different. | [noun] A separation into parts; a division or severance | [verb] To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force. SUNDEW (10) [noun] Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leafs and grow in boggy ground all over the world. SUNDOG (8) [noun] Either of two bright spots, caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals, sometimes seen on the parhelic circle. SUNDRY (10) [noun] (usually in the plural) A minor miscellaneous item. | [noun] (in the plural) A category for irregular or miscellaneous items not otherwise classified. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An extra. SUNNED (7) [verb] To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun. | [verb] To warm or dry in the sunshine. | [verb] To be exposed to the sun. SUPPED (11) [verb] To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon. | [verb] To take supper. SURFED (10) [verb] To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard. | [verb] To browse the Internet, television, etc. SURGED (8) [verb] To rush, flood, or increase suddenly. | [verb] To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly. | [verb] To slack off a line. SUSSED (7) [verb] To arrest for suspicious behaviour. | [verb] (often with "out") To discover, infer or figure out. | [verb] To study or size up, to check out (examine). SWAGED (11) [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). | [verb] To pacify or soothe (someone). | [verb] To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate. SWARDS (10) [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. SWAYED (13) [verb] To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock. | [verb] To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield. | [verb] To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade. SWEDES (10) [noun] The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable. | [noun] The plant from which this is obtained. | [noun] The turnip. SWIPED (12) [verb] To grab or bat quickly. | [verb] To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion. | [verb] To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader. SWIVED (13) [verb] To copulate with (a woman). | [verb] To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. SWORDS (10) [noun] A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack. | [noun] A suit in the minor arcana in tarot. | [noun] A card of this suit. SWOUND (10) SYNCED (12) [verb] To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video. | [verb] To flush all pending I/O operations to disk. SYNDET (10) SYNDIC (12) [noun] A government official, a magistrate, especially one of the Chief Magistrates of Geneva. | [noun] An agent of a corporation, or of any body of people engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee. SYNODS (10) [noun] An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters. | [noun] An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | [noun] An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body. TABARD (9) [noun] A silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet. | [noun] A woman's or girl's sleeveless jerkin or loose overgarment. | [noun] A sleeveless garment made of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors by the common people. TABBED (11) [verb] To affix with tabs; to label. | [verb] To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage. | [adjective] Having a tab (protruding strip of material). TABLED (9) [verb] To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. | [verb] To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. | [verb] To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. TABUED (9) [adjective] Forbidden; prohibited. TACKED (13) [verb] To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head). | [verb] To sew/stich with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth). | [verb] To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other. TAGGED (9) [verb] To label (something). | [verb] (graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag. | [verb] To remove dung tags from a sheep. TAILED (7) [verb] To follow and observe surreptitiously. | [verb] To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into | [verb] To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor. TALCED (9) [verb] To apply talc to. TALKED (11) [verb] To communicate, usually by means of speech. | [verb] To discuss; to talk about. | [verb] To speak (a certain language). TAMPED (11) [verb] (blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock. | [verb] To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes | [verb] To reduce the intensity of. TANDEM (9) [noun] A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing the pulling power but only the animal in front able to steer. | [noun] (transferred sense) A bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front able to steer. | [noun] A group of two or more people, machines etc. working together; close collaboration. TANGED (8) [verb] To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper. | [verb] To make a ringing sound; to ring. | [adjective] Having a tang. TANKED (11) [verb] To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet. | [verb] To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently. | [verb] To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank. TANNED (7) [verb] To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun. | [verb] To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner. | [verb] To spank or beat. TAPPED (11) [verb] To furnish with taps. | [verb] To draw off liquid from a vessel. | [verb] To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out. TARRED (7) [verb] To coat with tar. | [verb] To besmirch. | [verb] To create a tar archive. TARTED (7) [verb] To practice prostitution | [verb] To practice promiscuous sex | [verb] To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily TASKED (11) [verb] To assign a task to, or impose a task on. | [verb] To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax. | [verb] To charge, as with a fault. TASTED (7) [verb] To sample the flavor of something orally. | [verb] To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished. | [verb] To experience. TATTED (7) [verb] To make (something by) tatting. | [verb] To apply a tattoo. | [adjective] Tattooed. TAUTED (7) TAWDRY (13) [noun] Tawdry lace. | [noun] Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery. | [adjective] (of clothing, appearance, etc.) Cheap and gaudy; showy. TAWSED (10) TAXIED (14) [verb] To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power. | [verb] To travel by taxicab. TEAMED (9) [verb] To form a group, as for sports or work. | [verb] (by extension) To go together well; to harmonize. | [verb] To convey or haul with a team. TEARED (7) [verb] To produce tears. | [verb] To produce tears. TEASED (7) [verb] To separate the fibres of a fibrous material. | [verb] To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction. | [verb] To back-comb. TEATED (7) TECHED (12) TEDDED (9) [verb] To spread hay for drying. TEDDER (8) TEDIUM (9) [noun] Boredom or tediousness; ennui. TEEMED (9) [verb] To be stocked to overflowing. | [verb] To be prolific; to abound; to be rife. | [verb] To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. TEIIDS (7) TEINDS (7) TELEDU (7) [noun] A stink badger, a mammal endemic to the island of Java, Mydaus javanensis. TEMPED (11) [verb] To work as a temporary employee. TENDED (8) [verb] (Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender. | [verb] (followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. | [verb] To contribute to or toward some outcome. TENDER (7) [noun] Care, kind concern, regard. | [noun] The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry. | [adjective] Sensitive or painful to the touch. | [adverb] Tenderly | [verb] To make tender or delicate; to weaken. | [noun] Someone who tends or waits on someone. | [noun] Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply. TENDON (7) [noun] A tough band of inelastic fibrous tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment. | [noun] A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete. TENSED (7) [verb] (grammar) To apply a tense to. | [verb] To make or become tense. TENTED (7) [verb] To go camping. | [verb] To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven. | [verb] To form into a tent-like shape. TEREDO (7) [noun] A shipworm (of genus Teredo). TERMED (9) [verb] To phrase a certain way; to name or call. | [verb] To terminate one's employment TESTED (7) [verb] To challenge. | [verb] To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation. | [verb] To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try. TETRAD (7) [noun] A group of four things. | [noun] Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process. | [noun] A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis. THAWED (13) [verb] To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen | [verb] To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally. | [verb] To grow gentle or genial. THEMED (12) [verb] To give a theme to. | [verb] To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software). | [adjective] (often in combination) Having a particular theme or topic THIRDS (10) [noun] The person or thing in the third position. | [noun] One of three equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The third gear of a gearbox. THOLED (10) [verb] To suffer. | [verb] To endure, to put up with, to tolerate. THOUED (10) THREAD (10) [noun] A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string. | [noun] A continued theme or idea. | [noun] A screw thread. TICKED (13) [verb] To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock. | [verb] To make a tick or checkmark. | [verb] To work or operate, especially mechanically. TIDBIT (9) [noun] A tasty morsel (of food). | [noun] A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits). | [noun] A short mention of news or gossip. TIDDLY (11) [noun] An alcoholic beverage. | [adjective] Somewhat drunk | [adjective] Tiny; little TIDIED (8) [verb] To make tidy; to neaten. TIDIER (7) [noun] One who tidies. | [adjective] Arranged neatly and in order. | [adjective] Not messy; neat and controlled. TIDIES (7) [verb] To make tidy; to neaten. TIDILY (10) TIDING (8) [verb] To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream. | [verb] To pour a tide or flood. | [verb] To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse. TIERED (7) [verb] To arrange in layers. | [verb] To cascade in an overlapping sequence. | [verb] To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed. TIFFED (13) TILDES (7) [noun] The grapheme of character ~. | [noun] The character used to represent negation, usually ~ or ¬. TILLED (7) [verb] To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.). | [verb] To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops. | [verb] To cultivate soil. TILTED (7) [verb] To slope or incline (something); to slant. | [verb] (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance. | [verb] To be at an angle. TINDER (7) [noun] Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire. | [verb] To set fire to; torch. TINEID (7) TINGED (8) [verb] To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing. | [verb] To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing. | [verb] To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing. | [verb] To make a high sharp sound like a small bell being struck. TINNED (7) [verb] To place into a tin in order to preserve. | [verb] To cover with tin. | [verb] To coat with solder in preparation for soldering. TINTED (7) [verb] To shade, to color. | [adjective] Slightly colored, having tint. TIPPED (11) [verb] To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of. | [verb] (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn. | [verb] (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced. TIRADE (7) [noun] A long, angry or violent speech; a diatribe. | [noun] A section of verse concerning a single theme; a laisse. | [verb] To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade. TIRLED (7) TITHED (10) [verb] To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly: | [verb] To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly: | [verb] To compose the tenth part of something. TITLED (7) [verb] To assign a title to; to entitle. | [adjective] Bearing a title. TODAYS (10) TODDLE (8) [noun] A carefree or aimless gait; a stroll. | [verb] To walk unsteadily, as a small child does. | [verb] To walk in a carefree manner. TODIES (7) [noun] Any of the genus Todus of small insectivorous Caribbean birds. TOGAED (8) TOGGED (9) [adjective] Dressed; clothed. TOILED (7) [verb] To labour; work. | [verb] To struggle. | [verb] To work (something); often with out. TOITED (7) TOLEDO (7) TOLLED (7) [verb] To impose a fee for the use of. | [verb] To levy a toll on (someone or something). | [verb] To take as a toll. TOLUID (7) TOMBED (11) TOMCOD (11) [noun] A species of edible cod found in the Atlantic, Microgadus tomcod. | [noun] Microgadus proximus, found in the Pacific. | [noun] A kingfish. TOMMED (11) [verb] (of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority. | [verb] To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability. TONDOS (7) TONGED (8) [verb] To use tongs. | [verb] To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs. TOOLED (7) [verb] To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather. | [verb] To equip with tools. | [verb] To work very hard. TOOTED (7) [verb] To stand out, or be prominent. | [verb] To peep; to look narrowly. | [verb] To see; to spy. TOPPED (11) [verb] To cover on the top or with a top. | [verb] To cut or remove the top (as of a tree) | [verb] To excel, to surpass, to beat. TOROID (7) [noun] A surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane. | [noun] A ring-shaped object whose surface is a torus. TORPID (9) [noun] (Oxford University slang) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat. | [adjective] Unmoving | [adjective] Dormant or hibernating TORRID (7) [adjective] Very hot and dry. | [adjective] Full of intense emotions arising from sexual love; ardent and passionate. | [adjective] Full of difficulty. TOSSED (7) [verb] To throw with an initial upward direction. | [verb] To lift with a sudden or violent motion. | [verb] To agitate; to make restless. TOTTED (7) [verb] To sum or total. | [verb] To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified. TOURED (7) [verb] To make a journey | [verb] To make a circuit of a place | [verb] To toot a horn. TOUSED (7) TOUTED (7) [verb] To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote. | [verb] To look upon or watch. | [verb] To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.). TOWARD (10) [adjective] Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward. | [adjective] Future; to-come. | [adjective] Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand. TOXOID (14) [noun] A toxin that has had its toxic properties removed, but retains its ability to generate an immune response. TRACED (9) [verb] To follow the trail of. | [verb] To follow the history of. | [verb] To draw or sketch lightly or with care. TRADED (8) [verb] To engage in trade. | [verb] To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions. | [verb] To give (something) in exchange for. TRADER (7) [noun] One who earns a living by trading goods or securities. TRADES (7) [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. TREADS (7) [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. TRENDS (7) [noun] An inclination in a particular direction. | [noun] A tendency. | [noun] A fad or fashion style. TRENDY (10) [noun] A trendy person. | [adjective] Of, or in accordance with the latest trend, fashion or hype. TREPID (9) TRIADS (7) [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. TRICED (9) TRIFID (10) [adjective] Divided into three lobes. TRINED (7) [verb] To put in the aspect of a trine. | [verb] To hang; To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck. | [verb] To go. TRIODE (7) [noun] A thermionic valve containing an anode, a cathode, and a control grid; small changes to the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode, which makes amplification possible. TRIPOD (9) [noun] A three-legged stand or mount. | [noun] A man with macrophallism. | [verb] To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress. TROKED (11) TROWED (10) [verb] To trust or believe. | [verb] To have confidence in, or to give credence to. TRUCED (9) TRUDGE (8) [noun] A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk. | [verb] To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps. | [verb] To trudge along or over a route etc. TSADES (7) TSADIS (7) TUBBED (11) [verb] To plant, set, or store in a tub. | [verb] To bathe in a tub. TUCKED (13) [verb] To pull or gather up (an item of fabric). | [verb] To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden. | [verb] (often with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume. TUFTED (10) [verb] To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts. | [verb] To form into tufts. | [verb] To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. TUGGED (9) [verb] To pull or drag with great effort | [verb] To pull hard repeatedly | [verb] To tow by tugboat TULADI (7) TUMPED (11) TUNDRA (7) [noun] A flat and treeless Arctic biome. TUNNED (7) [verb] To put into tuns, or casks. TUPPED (11) [verb] To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe. | [verb] To have sex with, to bonk, etc. | [verb] (regional English) To butt: said of a ram. TURBID (9) [adjective] (of a liquid) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. | [adjective] Smoky or misty. | [adjective] Unclear; confused; obscure. TURFED (10) [verb] To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs. | [verb] (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release. | [verb] To fire from a job or dismiss from a task. TURGID (8) [adjective] Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. | [adjective] (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic. TURNED (7) [verb] (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement. | [verb] (heading) To change condition or attitude. | [verb] To change one's course of action; to take a new approach. TUSHED (10) TUSKED (11) TUTTED (7) [verb] To make a tut tut sound of disapproval. | [verb] To work by the piece; to carry out tut-work. TUXEDO (14) [noun] A typically black formal jacket worn by men. | [noun] The entire suit complementing and including this jacket. TWEEDS (10) [noun] A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing. TWEEDY (13) [adjective] (of clothing) made of tweed, or having a similar rough texture | [adjective] (of a person) wearing tweed clothing | [adjective] (of a person) preppy TWINED (10) [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries). TYTHED (13) UDDERS (8) [noun] An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer. | [noun] (impolite) A woman's breast. UNAGED (8) UNAWED (10) [adjective] Not awed; not afraid, impressed or in awe. UNBEND (9) [verb] To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight | [verb] To release (a load) from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax. | [verb] To unfasten sails from the spars or stays to which are attached for use. UNBIND (9) [verb] To take bindings off. | [verb] To set free from a debt, contract or promise. | [verb] To disable some kind of connection in software, such as a key binding. UNBRED (9) UNCLAD (9) [adjective] Without clothing or other covering. UNDEAD (8) [noun] (horror fiction) A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate. | [noun] (horror fiction) Those creatures which are undead; that is, dead yet still animate. | [adjective] Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life. UNDIES (7) [verb] To come back to life after having died. | [verb] To become undead. | [noun] Underwear, underpants UNDINE (7) [noun] A female water-sprite or nymph. | [noun] The elemental being of water. | [noun] A small flask used to apply lotions to the eye. UNDOCK (13) [verb] To remove (a ship) from a dock. | [verb] To remove from a docking station. | [verb] To drag (a user interface element, such as a toolbar) away from its fixed position so that it floats freely. UNDOER (7) UNDOES (7) [verb] To reverse the effects of an action. | [verb] To unfasten. | [verb] To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of. UNDONE (7) [adjective] Not done. | [verb] To reverse the effects of an action. | [verb] To unfasten. UNDRAW (10) UNDREW (10) UNDULY (10) [adverb] Undeservedly; in a way that is not warranted. UNDYED (11) [verb] To remove dye from. | [adjective] Not dyed; in its natural colour UNFOLD (10) [noun] In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold. | [verb] To undo a folding. | [verb] To turn out; to happen; to develop. UNFOND (10) UNGIRD (8) [verb] To loosen the girdle or band of. | [verb] To unbind or unload. UNHAND (10) [verb] To release from the hand; to let go. UNHOOD (10) [verb] To remove the hood from. UNIPOD (9) [noun] Monopod UNITED (7) [verb] To bring together as one. | [verb] To come together as one. | [adjective] Joined into a single entity. UNKEND (11) UNKIND (11) [adjective] Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful. | [adjective] Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural. | [adjective] Having no race or kindred; childless. UNLADE (7) [verb] To unload. | [verb] To disburden; take the burden from; relieve. | [verb] To discharge the cargo from. UNLAID (7) [adjective] Not laid, not placed | [adjective] Not laid by exorcism | [adjective] (of a person) not having had sexual intercourse UNLEAD (7) UNLOAD (7) [verb] To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.). | [verb] To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc. | [verb] To deposit one's load or cargo. UNMADE (9) [adjective] Not (yet) made | [adjective] Existing without having been made | [verb] To destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature. UNMOLD (9) UNPAID (9) [adjective] Not paid for. | [adjective] Of work: done without agreed payment, usually voluntarily. UNREAD (7) [verb] To undo the process of reading. | [verb] To flag (a previously read e-mail or similar message) as not having been read. | [adjective] Not having been read. UNSAID (7) [adjective] Unspoken. | [verb] To withdraw, retract (something said). | [verb] To not have said (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive). UNSHED (10) [adjective] That has not been shed. UNSHOD (10) [adjective] Not shod; without shoes. | [adjective] Of a vehicle, not fitted with tyres on the wheels. | [verb] To remove a shoe (especially a horseshoe) from. UNSOLD (7) [adjective] Not sold UNTIDY (10) [verb] To make untidy, to make a mess | [adjective] Sloppy. | [adjective] Disorganized. UNTIED (7) [adjective] Not tied; undone | [verb] To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of. | [verb] To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. UNTOLD (7) [adjective] Not told; not related; not revealed; secret. | [adjective] Not numbered or counted. | [adjective] Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible. UNTROD (7) UNUSED (7) [adjective] Not used. | [adjective] Not accustomed (to), unfamiliar with. UNWIND (10) [noun] Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something. | [verb] To separate (something that is wound up) | [verb] To disentangle UPBIND (11) UPDART (9) UPDATE (9) [noun] An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known. | [noun] A change in information, a modification of existing or known data. | [noun] An additional piece of information. An addition to existing information. UPDIVE (12) UPDOVE (12) UPENDS (9) [verb] To end up; to set on end. | [verb] To tip or turn over. | [verb] To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat. UPFOLD (12) [noun] An anticline. | [verb] To fold up. | [verb] To create a raised fold. UPGIRD (10) UPHELD (12) [verb] To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. | [verb] To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling | [verb] To support by approval or encouragement, to confirm (something which has been questioned) UPHOLD (12) [verb] To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. | [verb] To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling | [verb] To support by approval or encouragement, to confirm (something which has been questioned) UPLAND (9) [noun] The area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation; often hilly, but not generally mountainous (compare highlands). | [noun] The country, as against the town. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or situated in the uplands. UPLOAD (9) [noun] Such a file transfer. | [verb] To transfer data to a computer on a network, especially to a server on the Internet. UPSEND (9) UPSIDE (9) [noun] The highest or uppermost side or portion of something | [noun] A favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect | [noun] An upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc UPWARD (12) [noun] The upper part; the top. | [adjective] Directed toward a higher place. | [adverb] In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin UPWIND (12) [adjective] Exposed to the wind | [adverb] In the direction from which the wind is blowing | [verb] To wind upwards. UREDIA (7) UREDOS (7) UREIDE (7) [noun] Any compound, of general formula R-CO-NH-CO-NH2 or R-CO-NH-CO-NH-CO-R', formally derived by the acylation of urea UROPOD (9) [noun] Either of the two posterior abdominal appendages of the lobster, shrimp and some other crustaceans | [noun] The hind part of polarized leukocytes, mostly involved in cell-to-cell interaction, cell activation and apoptosis VADOSE (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to water beneath the surface of the earth which is located above the level of the permanent groundwater. VAILED (10) [verb] To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something). | [verb] To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat. | [verb] To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink. VALUED (10) [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. VALVED (13) VAMPED (14) [verb] To patch, repair, or refurbish. | [verb] Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing. | [verb] To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. VANDAL (10) [noun] A person who needlessly destroys, defaces, or damages other people's property. VANDAS (10) VANNED (10) VARIED (10) [adjective] Diverse or miscellaneous | [adjective] Having been changed or modified | [adjective] Variegated VARVED (13) VATTED (10) [verb] To put into a vat. | [verb] To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits. VAWARD (13) VEALED (10) VEERED (10) [verb] To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out. | [verb] To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve. | [verb] (of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere). VEILED (10) [verb] To dress in, or decorate with, a veil. | [verb] To conceal as with a veil. | [adjective] Covered by a veil. VEINED (10) [verb] To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern. | [adjective] (sometimes in combination) Having veins or veinlike markings. VELDTS (10) [noun] The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries. VENDED (11) [verb] To hawk or to peddle merchandise. | [verb] To sell wares through a vending machine. VENDEE (10) [noun] The person to whom something is sold; a purchaser. VENDER (10) [noun] A person or a company that vends or sells. | [noun] A vending machine. VENDOR (10) [noun] A person or a company that vends or sells. | [noun] A vending machine. | [verb] To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program. VENDUE (10) [noun] A public auction. VENGED (11) VENTED (10) [verb] To allow gases to escape. | [verb] To allow to escape through a vent. | [verb] To express a strong emotion. VERBID (12) VERDIN (10) [noun] A small, yellow-headed passerine bird, Auriparus flaviceps, endemic to desert areas of the southwestern United States, that is the only species of family Remizidae found in the New World. VERGED (11) [verb] To be or come very close; to border; to approach. | [verb] To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope. VERSED (10) [verb] To compose verses. | [verb] To tell in verse, or poetry. | [verb] To educate about, to teach about. VESPID (12) VESTED (10) [verb] To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely. | [verb] To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred. | [verb] To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor. VETOED (10) [verb] To use a veto against. VETTED (10) [verb] To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval. | [adjective] Having undergone an investigation and been approved. VIALED (10) VIANDS (10) [noun] An item of food eaten with rice. VIDEOS (10) [noun] Television, television show, movie. | [noun] A short film clip, with or without audio (as in a music video, or one of the plethora of user-generated short movies on sites such as YouTube). | [noun] Motion picture stored on VHS or some other format. VIEWED (13) [verb] To look at. | [verb] To regard in a stated way. | [adjective] Having been viewed; having been seen, watched or witnessed. VIROID (10) [noun] A short section of RNA but without the protein coat typical of viruses, that are plant pathogens | [noun] Certain defective viruses, such as hepatitis D, a human pathogen. VISAED (10) VISARD (10) VISCID (12) [adjective] Viscous; having a high viscosity. | [adjective] Sticky, slimy, or glutinous. | [adjective] Covered with a viscid layer. VISEED (10) VIZARD (19) [noun] A mask (cover for the face, used for disguise, protection, etc.) | [noun] A visor (part of a helmet covering the face). | [noun] Outward appearance; pretense. VODKAS (14) [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. VODOUN (10) VODUNS (10) VOGUED (11) [verb] To dance in the vogue dance style. | [verb] To light a cigarette. VOICED (12) [verb] To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce | [verb] To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath. | [verb] To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of VOIDED (11) [verb] To make invalid or worthless. | [verb] To empty. | [verb] To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge. VOIDER (10) VOODOO (10) [noun] Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana. | [noun] The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo. | [noun] Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem. WADDED (12) [verb] To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball. | [verb] To wager. | [verb] To insert or force a wad into. WADDER (11) WADDIE (11) WADDLE (11) [noun] A squat, swaying gait. | [verb] To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side. WADDLY (14) WADERS (10) [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. WADIES (10) [noun] A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season. WADING (11) [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 WADMAL (12) WADMEL (12) WADMOL (12) WADSET (10) WAFFED (16) WAFTED (13) [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. WAGGED (12) [verb] To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief. | [verb] To play truant from school. | [verb] To be in action or motion; to move; progress. WAIFED (13) WAILED (10) [verb] To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish. | [verb] To weep, lament persistently or bitterly. | [verb] To make a noise like mourning or crying. WAIRED (10) WAITED (10) [verb] To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.) | [verb] To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness. | [verb] To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment. WAIVED (13) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WALKED (14) [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. WALLED (10) [verb] To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls. | [verb] To boil. | [verb] To well, as water; spring. WANDER (10) [noun] The act or instance of wandering. | [noun] The situation where a value or signal etc. deviates from the correct or normal value. | [verb] To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood. WANDLE (10) WANNED (10) WANTED (10) [verb] To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. | [verb] (in particular) To wish, desire or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with. | [verb] To desire (to experience desire); to wish. WAPPED (14) WARDED (11) [verb] To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard. | [verb] To defend, to protect. | [verb] To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off. WARDEN (10) [noun] A guard or watchman. | [noun] A chief administrative officer of a prison. | [noun] An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden WARDER (10) [noun] A guard, especially in a prison. | [noun] A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands. WARKED (14) WARMED (12) [verb] To make or keep warm. | [verb] To become warm, to heat up. | [verb] To favour increasingly. WARNED (10) [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. WARPED (12) [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. WARRED (10) [verb] To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe). | [verb] To carry on, as a contest; to wage. WARTED (10) WASHED (13) [verb] To clean with water. | [verb] To move or erode by the force of water in motion. | [verb] To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water. WASTED (10) [verb] To devastate, destroy | [verb] To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly. | [verb] To kill; to murder. WAUKED (14) WAULED (10) [verb] To wail, to cry plaintively. WAWLED (13) WEALDS (10) WEANED (10) WEAVED (13) [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To spin a cocoon or a web. | [verb] To unite by close connection or intermixture. WEBBED (14) [verb] To construct or form a web. | [verb] To cover with a web or network. | [verb] To ensnare or entangle. WEBFED (15) WEDDED (12) [verb] To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony. | [verb] To take as one's spouse. | [verb] To take a spouse. WEDDER (11) WEDELN (10) WEDELS (10) WEDGED (12) [verb] To support or secure using a wedge. | [verb] To force into a narrow gap. | [verb] To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles. WEDGES (11) [noun] One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering. | [noun] A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape. | [noun] A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. WEDGIE (11) [noun] A wedge-heeled shoe. | [noun] A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks. | [noun] A situation where a person's underpants are stuck uncomfortably between their buttocks. WEEDED (11) [verb] To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area. WEEDER (10) WEENED (10) [verb] To suppose, imagine; to think, believe. | [verb] To expect, hope or wish. | [verb] To weep or cry. WEETED (10) WEIRDO (10) [noun] A strange, odd, eccentric person. | [noun] An insane, possibly dangerous person. WEIRDS (10) [noun] Fate; destiny; luck. | [noun] A prediction. | [noun] A spell or charm. WEIRDY (13) [adjective] Somewhat weird, quite weird. WELDED (11) [verb] To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination. | [verb] To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately. | [verb] To wield. WELDER (10) [noun] One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding. | [noun] One who welds, or wields. | [noun] An item of equipment for welding with: an electric welder. | [noun] A manager; an actual occupant; a land-tenant holding under the farmer or middleman. WELDOR (10) WELLED (10) [verb] To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. | [verb] To have something seep out of the surface. WELTED (10) [verb] To roll; revolve | [verb] To cause to have welts, to beat. | [verb] To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce. WENDED (11) [verb] To turn; change. | [verb] To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way. | [verb] To turn; make a turn; go round; veer. WETTED (10) [verb] To cover or impregnate with liquid. | [verb] To accidentally urinate in or on. | [verb] To make or become wet. WHALED (13) [verb] To hunt for whales. | [verb] To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly. WHIDAH (16) [noun] Any of various black and white African weaverbirds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds. WHILED (13) [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. | [verb] To loiter. WHINED (13) [verb] To utter a high-pitched cry. | [verb] To make a sound resembling such a cry. | [verb] To complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine. WHITED (13) [verb] To make white; to whiten; to bleach. WHORED (13) [verb] To prostitute oneself. | [verb] To engage the services of a prostitute. | [verb] To pimp; to pander. WHYDAH (19) [noun] Any of various black and white African weaverbirds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds. WICKED (16) [noun] People who are wicked. | [adjective] Evil or mischievous by nature. | [adjective] Excellent; awesome; masterful. | [verb] To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action. | [adjective] Active; brisk. WIDDER (11) WIDDIE (11) WIDDLE (11) [noun] Urine. | [noun] An act of urination. | [verb] To urinate. WIDELY (13) [adverb] In a wide manner; across a wide area. | [adverb] Commonly; generally; to a great degree. WIDENS (10) [verb] To become wide or wider. | [verb] To make wide or wider. | [verb] To let out clothes to a larger size. WIDEST (10) [adjective] Having a large physical extent from side to side. | [adjective] Large in scope. | [adjective] Operating at the side of the playing area. WIDGET (11) [noun] A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product. | [noun] Portable code that can be easily installed and executed by an end user. | [noun] A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened. | [noun] Any one of the components of a computer application's graphical user interface, such as a Cancel button or text input box that a user interacts with. WIDISH (13) WIDOWS (13) [noun] A woman whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower. | [noun] A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried). | [noun] (in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc. WIDTHS (13) [noun] The state of being wide. | [noun] The measurement of the extent of something from side to side. | [noun] A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric. WIELDS (10) [verb] To command, rule over; to possess or own. | [verb] To control, to guide or manage. | [verb] To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool. WIELDY (13) [adjective] (obsolete except Britain) Able to wield one's body well; active, dexterous. | [adjective] Capable of being easily wielded or managed; handy. WIGGED (12) [verb] To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.). | [verb] To upbraid, reprimand. | [verb] To become extremely emotional or excitable; to lose control of one's emotions. WILDER (10) [verb] To bewilder, perplex | [adjective] Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated). | [adjective] From or relating to wild creatures. WILDLY (13) [adverb] In a wild, uncontrolled manner. WILLED (10) [adjective] Having a document specifying inheritance. | [adjective] (chiefly in combination) Having a will (of a specified kind). | [adjective] Brought under the will of another person. | [verb] To wish, desire. WILTED (10) [verb] To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower). | [verb] To fatigue; to lose strength. | [verb] To cause to droop or become limp and flaccid (as a flower). WINCED (12) [verb] To flinch as if in pain or distress. | [verb] To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince. | [verb] To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient. WINDED (11) [verb] To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. | [verb] To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc. | [verb] To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed. WINDER (10) [noun] A winding plant. | [noun] A textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth | [noun] A spool around which something is wound | [noun] A blow that winds somebody, or takes away their breath. | [verb] To fan; to clean grain with a fan. | [noun] The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. WINDLE (10) WINDOW (13) [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. WINDUP (12) [noun] The act of ending or concluding something. | [noun] The last part of something; a conclusion. | [noun] A practical joke or tease. WINGED (11) [adjective] Having wings. | [adjective] Flying or soaring as if on wings. | [adjective] Swift. | [verb] To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm. | [verb] To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner. WINKED (14) [verb] To close one's eyes in sleep. | [verb] To close one's eyes. | [verb] Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye. WINNED (10) WISDOM (12) [noun] An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise. | [noun] A piece of wise advice. | [noun] The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good. WISHED (13) [verb] To desire; to want. | [verb] To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive). | [verb] (followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome). WISPED (12) WISSED (10) [verb] To know; to understand. | [verb] To show, teach, inform, guide, direct. WISTED (10) WITHED (13) WITTED (10) WIZARD (19) [noun] Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices. | [noun] One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field. | [noun] A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user. WOADED (11) WOALDS (10) WODGES (11) [noun] A bulk quantity, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad. WOLFED (13) [verb] To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously. | [verb] To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex. | [verb] To hunt for wolves. WOMBED (14) WONDER (10) [noun] Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel. | [noun] Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable. | [noun] Someone very talented at something, a genius. WONNED (10) WONTED (10) [adjective] Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed. WOODED (11) [adjective] Covered with trees. | [adjective] (of wine) Aged in wooden casks. | [verb] To cover or plant with trees. WOODEN (10) [adjective] Made of wood. | [adjective] As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion. WOODIE (10) [noun] An early station wagon or estate car in which the rear portion of the car's bodywork is made of wood, often associated with Southern California surfing culture. | [noun] A wooden rollercoaster; an amusement ride whose rails are overlaid upon a wooden track. | [noun] An erection of the penis. WOODSY (13) [adjective] Of, relating to, or suggestive of woods. | [adjective] Having many trees. WOOFED (13) [verb] To make a woofing sound. WOOLED (10) WORDED (11) [verb] To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something). | [verb] To flatter with words, to cajole. | [verb] To ply or overpower with words. WORKED (14) [verb] To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. | [verb] To effect by gradual degrees. | [verb] To embroider with thread. WORLDS (10) [noun] (with "the") Human collective existence; existence in general. | [noun] The Universe. | [noun] (with "the") The Earth. WORMED (12) [verb] To make (one's way) with a crawling motion. | [verb] To move with one's body dragging the ground. | [verb] To work one's way by artful or devious means. WOTTED (10) WOUNDS (10) [noun] An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body. | [noun] A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc. | [noun] An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken. XYLOID (17) YACKED (16) [verb] To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle. | [verb] To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption. YAFFED (16) YAIRDS (10) YAKKED (18) [verb] To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle. | [verb] To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption. YANKED (14) [verb] To pull (something) with a quick, strong action. | [verb] To remove from distribution. YAPPED (14) [verb] Of a small dog, to bark. | [verb] To talk, especially excessively; to chatter. | [verb] To rob or steal from (someone). | [adjective] Of a book: having a yapp. YARDED (11) [verb] To confine to a yard. YARNED (10) [verb] To tell a story or stories. YAUPED (12) YAWLED (13) YAWNED (13) [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. | [verb] To say while yawning. | [verb] To present a wide opening. YAWPED (15) [verb] To yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise | [verb] To talk loudly and coarsely | [verb] Clamor, utter loud complaints YEANED (10) [verb] (of goats or sheep) To give birth to. YELLED (10) [verb] Shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice. | [verb] To convey by shouting | [verb] To tell someone off (in a loud and angry manner) YELPED (12) [verb] To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise. YENNED (10) [verb] To have a strong desire for. YERKED (14) [verb] To stab. | [verb] To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk. | [verb] To strike or lash with a whip or stick. YESSED (10) YEUKED (14) YIELDS (10) [verb] To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite. | [verb] To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. | [verb] To give way; to allow another to pass first. YIPPED (14) [verb] To bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice YIRRED (10) YOCKED (16) YODELS (10) [noun] A song incorporating yodelling. | [verb] To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto. YODLED (11) YODLER (10) YODLES (10) YOLKED (14) YONDER (10) [adverb] To that place. | [adverb] To that point, end, or result. | [noun] The vast distance, particularly the sky or trackless forest. YOWLED (13) [verb] Utter a yowl. | [verb] Express by yowling; utter with a yowl. YUCKED (16) [verb] To itch. YUKKED (18) [verb] To laugh exuberantly. ZADDIK (21) [noun] A very righteous person, especially a Hassidic spiritual leader. ZAGGED (18) [verb] To move with a sharp turn or reversal. ZANDER (16) [noun] A European freshwater fish in the family Percidae, closely related to the perch, Sander lucioperca. | [noun] Any fish of the genus Sander that live in freshwater. ZAPPED (20) [verb] To make a zap sound. | [verb] To use a remote control to repeatedly change channels on a television. | [verb] To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting. ZEROED (16) [verb] To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate instrument scale to valid zero. | [verb] To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero. | [verb] To cause or set some value or amount to be zero. ZESTED (16) [verb] To scrape the zest from a fruit. | [verb] To make more zesty. ZIGGED (18) [verb] To make such a turn. ZINCED (18) [verb] To electroplate with zinc. | [verb] To coat with sunblock incorporating zinc oxide. ZINGED (17) [verb] To move very quickly, especially while making a high-pitched hum. ZIPPED (20) [verb] To close with a zip fastener. | [verb] To close as if with a zip fastener. | [verb] To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format. ZODIAC (18) [noun] The belt-like region of the celestial sphere approximately eight degrees north and south of the ecliptic which include the apparent path of the sun, moon, and visible planets. | [noun] The twelve equal divisions of the zodiacal region into signs or houses, each named for a prominent constellation in the region. | [noun] The ecliptic: the belt-like region of the celestial sphere corresponding to the apparent path of the sun over the course of a year. ZONKED (20) [adjective] Extremely fatigued. | [adjective] Deeply asleep. | [adjective] Drunk. ZOOIDS (16) [noun] An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid. | [noun] An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation. | [noun] One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed. ZOOMED (18) [verb] To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software. | [verb] To move fast with a humming noise | [verb] To fly an airplane straight up ZOUNDS (16) [interjection] (minced oath) Expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc. ZYDECO (21) [noun] A form of Louisiana Creole music, characteristically performed by accordion and washboard bands, that combines Cajun and Creole roots music with elements of African American music. ZYGOID (20)