5 Letter 12 Letter Dordle Words Containing E

ACE (5) [noun] A single point or spot on a playing card or die. | [noun] A card or die face so marked. | [noun] The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games. | [noun] A person who is asexual. AGE (4) [noun] The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive. | [noun] The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive. | [noun] One of the stages of life. ALE (3) [noun] A beer made without hops. | [noun] A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized. | [noun] A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk. ANE (3) [noun] A Scottish word for "one." | [noun] A hydrocarbon suffix used in chemistry to denote saturated compounds. APE (5) [noun] A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail. | [noun] Any such primate other than a human. | [noun] An uncivilised person. | [adjective] Wild; crazy. ARE (3) [noun] An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a. ATE (3) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. AVE (6) [noun] An Ave Maria. | [noun] A reverential salutation. | [noun] A broad street, especially one bordered by trees. AWE (6) [noun] A feeling of fear and reverence. | [noun] A feeling of amazement. | [noun] Power to inspire awe. AXE (10) [noun] A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it. | [noun] An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle. | [noun] A dismissal or rejection. | [noun] The axle of a wheel. | [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). AYE (6) [adverb] Ever, always | [noun] An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative. | [interjection] Yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. | [interjection] An attention grabber 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. BEE (5) [noun] A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey. | [noun] A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee. | [noun] A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee. | [noun] A ring or torque; a bracelet. | [verb] Obsolete spelling of be | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter B. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through. BEG (6) [noun] The act of begging; an imploring request. | [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. | [noun] A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey. | [noun] The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. BEL (5) [noun] A measure of relative power, defined as log10(P 1/P 2), where P1 and P2 are the measured and reference power respectively. | [noun] A tropical fruit tree from India, Aegle marmelos. | [noun] The fruit of the tree, also called the wood apple. BEN (5) [noun] A prayer; a petition. | [noun] Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but). | [adjective] Inner, interior. | [noun] A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben. | [noun] (usually capitalised) Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames). | [noun] A Scottish or Irish mountain or high peak. | [adjective] Good. BET (5) [noun] A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event). | [noun] A degree of certainty. | [verb] To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager. | [noun] The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁 | [preposition] Between BEY (8) [noun] A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions | [noun] In various other places, a prince or nobleman BYE (8) [noun] The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team. | [noun] An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman. | [noun] A dwelling. | [interjection] Goodbye. | [noun] A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey. CEE (5) [noun] The letter C or the sound it represents. | [noun] A shape or object formed like the letter C. CEL (5) [noun] A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film. | [noun] Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried. | [noun] (by extension) Abstinence from sexual relations. CEP (7) [noun] An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis). CUE (5) [noun] A signal or prompt that cues an action or response. | [noun] A stick used to strike the ball in billiards or pool. | [verb] To give a signal or prompt to someone. 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) [noun] A title for rulers of the Ottoman Empire, particularly the governors of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli during the 16th-19th centuries. 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. 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 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. 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. EAR (3) [noun] The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. | [noun] The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle. | [noun] A police informant. | [noun] The fruiting body of a grain plant. | [verb] To plough. EAT (3) [noun] Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item. | [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. EAU (3) [proper noun] Misspelling of Eau EBB (7) [noun] The receding movement of the tide. | [noun] A gradual decline. | [noun] A low state; a state of depression. ECU (5) [noun] The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European Community before the euro. 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. EEL (3) [noun] Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes. | [noun] The European eel, Anguilla anguilla. | [verb] To fish for eels. EFF (9) [verb] Fuck (the taboo swear word, but not in the sense "to copulate") EFS (6) EFT (6) [noun] A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus). | [adverb] Again; afterwards EGG (5) [noun] An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development. | [noun] The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food. | [noun] The female primary cell, the ovum. | [verb] To encourage, incite. EGO (4) [noun] The self, especially with a sense of self-importance. | [noun] (Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings. EKE (7) [noun] (obsolete except Britain) An addition. | [noun] A small stand on which a beehive is placed. | [noun] A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space: see http//www.dave-cushman.net/bee/eke.html | [adverb] Also; in addition to. 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. ELF (6) [noun] A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy. | [noun] Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature. | [noun] Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar). ELK (7) [noun] Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes). | [noun] The European wild, whistling, or common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus). ELL (3) [noun] A measure for cloth. An English ell was 1 1/4 yards (45 inches), whereas a Scottish ell measured only about 37 inches and a Flemish ell was 3/4 yard (27 inches). | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter L. | [noun] An extension usually at right angles to one end of a building. ELM (5) [noun] A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers. | [noun] (usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree. ELS (3) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter L. | [noun] An elevated railway, especially for specific systems such as the metro in Chicago. | [noun] The | [adjective] (used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items. EME (5) [noun] (obsolete outside Scotland) An uncle. | [noun] Friend. EMF (8) EMS (5) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter M. | [noun] A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use. EMU (5) [noun] A cassowary (genus Casuarius). | [noun] A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae. | [noun] Any of the various units to measure electricity and magnetism in the CGS (now replaced by SI) system of units; abbreviated emu or EMU. | [noun] A person or thing that emulates. 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. ENG (4) [adjective] Narrow. | [noun] Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink. ENS (3) [noun] An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute. | [noun] Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle. | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter N. EON (3) [noun] Eternity. | [noun] A period of 1,000,000,000 years. | [noun] The longest time period used in geology. ERA (3) [noun] A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year. | [noun] A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods. ERE (3) [adverb] At an earlier time. | [preposition] Before; sooner than. | [conjunction] Before | [noun] The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. ERG (4) [noun] The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10−7 joules. | [noun] A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara. | [noun] An ergometer. ERN (3) [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) | [noun] An eagle. | [verb] To run; flow. | [verb] To stir with strong emotion; grieve; mourn. ERR (3) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To sin. | [verb] To stray. ERS (3) [verb] To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er. ESS (3) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter S. | [noun] Something shaped like the letter S. | [verb] To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S. ETA (3) [noun] The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek. | [noun] A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin. | [noun] A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people. ETH (6) [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. EVE (6) [noun] The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve. | [noun] Evening, night. | [noun] The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced EWE (6) [noun] A female sheep, as opposed to a ram. EYE (6) [noun] An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light). | [noun] The visual sense. | [noun] The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour. | [noun] A brood. 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. FEE (6) [noun] (feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief. | [noun] An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services. | [noun] An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail). FEH (9) [interjection] An expression of disgust or contempt. FEM (8) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person. | [adjective] Feminine, effeminate. | [noun] A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl. FEN (6) [noun] A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline. | [noun] Unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan | [noun] Fans; a plural form used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc. | [noun] A kind of mildew that grows on hops. FER (6) FET (6) [verb] To fetch | [noun] A piece | [noun] Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. FEU (6) [noun] Land held in feudal tenure. | [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FEW (9) [pronoun] Few people, few things. FEY (9) [adjective] About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death. | [adjective] Dying; dead. | [adjective] Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience. | [noun] Fairy folk collectively. FEZ (15) [noun] A felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached. FIE (6) [interjection] Often followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage. FOE (6) [noun] An enemy. | [adjective] Hostile. | [noun] A unit of energy equal to 1044 joules. GAE (4) GED (5) [noun] The pike or luce. | [noun] A greedy person GEE (4) [interjection] A general exclamation of surprise or frustration. | [noun] A gee-gee, a horse. | [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. | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter G. | [noun] Vagina, vulva | [verb] To suit or fit GEL (4) [noun] A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal. | [noun] Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair. | [verb] To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc). | [noun] A girl. GEM (6) [noun] A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine. | [noun] Any precious or highly valued thing or person. | [noun] Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram. GEN (4) [noun] Information | [noun] Information about the location of a bird. | [noun] Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex. | [noun] A member of the Gen Movement, a youth expression of the international Focolare Movement. | [noun] A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy). | [verb] To genetically engineer. | [noun] A shilling. | [noun] A specific version of something in a chronological sequence. GET (4) [noun] Offspring. | [noun] Lineage. | [noun] A difficult return or block of a shot. | [noun] A git. | [noun] A Jewish writ of divorce. GEY (7) [adjective] Fairly good; considerable. | [adverb] Very. GIE (4) HAE (6) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HEH (9) HEM (8) [noun] An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention. | [verb] To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. | [interjection] Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound. | [noun] The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying. | [pronoun] Them (now only in unstressed position following a consonant). HEN (6) [noun] A female chicken (Gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for its eggs. | [noun] A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl. | [noun] A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean. | [adverb] Hence. | [verb] To throw. HEP (8) [noun] Hepatitis. | [noun] Abbreviation of high-energy physics. | [noun] A hip of a rose; a rosehip. | [verb] (US slang) To make aware of. | [noun] (usually reduplicated) An instance of crying hep!, especially as a call to attack Jewish people. HER (6) [noun] A female person or animal. | [pronoun] The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc. HES (6) [noun] The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he". | [noun] The player attempting to catch the others in this game. | [noun] A male. | [pronoun] Honorific alternative letter-case form of his, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context. HET (6) [noun] A heterosexual person. | [noun] Fan fiction based on celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship. | [adjective] Heterosexual. | [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). | [noun] Heterozygote | [noun] The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). HEW (9) [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. | [noun] Hue; colour HEX (13) [noun] An evil spell or curse. | [noun] A witch. | [noun] A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft). | [noun] A number system with base sixteen, using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F, most used in computing as a hexadecimal digit can represent four bits, half a standard byte. | [noun] A hexagonal space on a game board. HEY (9) [interjection] An exclamation to get attention. | [interjection] A protest or reprimand. | [interjection] An expression of surprise. | [noun] (country dancing) A choreographic figure in which three or more dancers weave between one another, passing by left and right shoulder alternately. | [noun] The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). HIE (6) [noun] Haste; diligence. | [verb] To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. | [verb] To hurry (oneself). HOE (6) [noun] An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows. | [noun] The horned or piked dogfish. | [verb] To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool. | [noun] A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality. | [noun] A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory. HUE (6) [noun] A color, or shade of color; tint; dye. | [noun] The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta. | [noun] A character; aspect. | [noun] A shout or cry. ICE (5) [noun] Water in frozen (solid) form. | [noun] Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide. | [noun] Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form. IRE (3) [noun] Iron. | [noun] Great anger; wrath; keen resentment. | [verb] To anger; to fret; to irritate. JEE (10) JET (10) [noun] A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc. | [noun] A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid. | [noun] A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers. | [noun] A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery. JEU (10) JEW (13) [noun] The jewfish. | [verb] To bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud. JOE (10) [noun] A male; a guy; a fellow. | [noun] Coffee. | [noun] Darling, sweetheart. KAE (7) KEA (7) [noun] Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand. KEF (10) [noun] A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for narcotic or intoxicating effect. | [noun] The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis. | [noun] The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds. KEG (8) [noun] A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer. | [verb] To store in a keg. KEN (7) [verb] To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life). | [noun] Knowledge, perception, or sight. | [noun] Range of sight. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A house, especially a den of thieves. | [noun] A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus KEP (9) KEX (14) KEY (10) [noun] An object designed to open and close a lock. | [noun] An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation. | [noun] A crucial step or requirement. | [noun] One of a string of small islands. | [noun] A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf. | [noun] In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10-34 when expressed in units of kg⋅m2⋅s−1. Symbol: kg KUE (7) LEA (3) [noun] An open field, meadow. | [noun] Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards. | [noun] A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle. 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. LEE (3) [noun] A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind. | [noun] The side of the ship away from the wind. | [noun] A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection. | [noun] Lees; dregs. LEG (4) [noun] A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion. | [noun] In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. | [noun] The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. | [adjective] Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking LEI (3) [noun] A garland of flowers in Hawaii. | [noun] The unit of currency of Romania, equal to one hundred bani. | [noun] The unit of currency of Moldova, equal to one hundred bani. LEK (7) [noun] An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display | [verb] To take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek | [verb] To play | [noun] The currency unit of Albania, divided into 100 qindarka LET (3) [noun] The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent. | [verb] To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). | [verb] To leave. | [verb] To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). LEU (3) [noun] The unit of currency of Romania, equal to one hundred bani. | [noun] The unit of currency of Moldova, equal to one hundred bani. LEV (6) [noun] The currency of Bulgaria, divided into 100 stotinki LEX (10) LEY (6) [noun] An open field, meadow. | [noun] A ley line. | [adjective] Fallow; unseeded. | [noun] An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes). | [noun] Law. LEZ (12) [noun] (sometimes vulgar) Lesbian. LIE (3) [noun] The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck. | [noun] The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown. | [noun] The position of a fetus in the womb. | [verb] To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive. | [noun] An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood. LYE (6) [noun] An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes). | [noun] Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda). | [verb] To rest in a horizontal position on a surface. MAE (5) MED (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine. | [adjective] Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal. | [verb] May; might MEL (5) MEM (7) MEN (5) [noun] An adult male human. | [noun] (collective) All human males collectively: mankind. | [noun] A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.) MET (5) [verb] To make contact (with) while in proximity. | [verb] (Of groups) To come together. | [verb] To make physical or perceptual contact. | [verb] To measure. | [verb] To dream. MEW (8) [noun] A gull, seagull. | [noun] A prison, or other place of confinement. | [noun] A hiding place; a secret store or den. | [noun] The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten. | [verb] To flatten the tongue against the roof of the mouth for supposed health benefits. NAE (3) NEB (5) [noun] A bird's beak or bill. | [noun] A person's mouth. | [noun] A person's nose. NEE (3) [adjective] Used when giving the maiden name of a woman. | [adjective] Used when giving a former name. Originally known as. | [interjection] No, used to express no as a quantity, i.e. not any, like German kein/Dutch geen/French rien. Compare with na. NET (3) NEW (6) [noun] Things that are new. | [noun] A kind of light beer. | [noun] A naval cadet who has just embarked on training. OBE (5) [noun] A particular subdivision of ancient Laconia. | [noun] A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean. | [noun] A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft. 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. OES (3) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter O. | [noun] A zero (used in reading out numbers). OKE (7) [verb] To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed. | [verb] To cause someone or something to suffer pain. | [noun] A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram. | [noun] Man; guy; bloke. | [noun] A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus. OLE (3) [interjection] An interjection used to stir up excitement. | [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. ONE (3) [noun] The digit or figure 1. | [noun] The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. | [noun] A one-dollar bill. OPE (5) [interjection] (Midwest) an exclamation of surprise; oops | [interjection] (Midwest) an exclamation of surprise; oops | [verb] To open. ORE (3) [noun] Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed. OSE (3) OWE (6) [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. PEA (5) [noun] A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family. | [noun] The edible seed of some of these plants. | [noun] A ball travelling at high velocity. | [noun] A peafowl | [noun] Wampum. PEC (7) [noun] (usually in the plural) The pectoralis major muscle. PED (6) [noun] (on traffic signs) A pedestrian. | [noun] A pedestal. | [noun] A basket; a hamper; a pannier. | [noun] A soil particle. | [noun] Motorcycle PEE (5) [noun] Urine. | [verb] To urinate. | [verb] (mildly vulgar) To drizzle. | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter P. | [noun] Pence; penny (a quantity of money) | [noun] The bill of an anchor. | [noun] The sliding weight on a steelyard. PEG (6) [noun] A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects. | [noun] Measurement between the pegs: after killing an animal hunters used the distance between a peg near the animal's nose and one near the end of its tail to measure its body length. | [noun] A protrusion used to hang things on. PEH (8) PEN (5) [noun] An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle. | [noun] A prison cell. | [noun] The bullpen. | [verb] To enclose in a pen. | [noun] A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks. | [noun] A female swan. | [noun] Penalty. PEP (7) [noun] Energy, high spirits. | [verb] To inject with energy and enthusiasm. PER (5) [preposition] For each. | [preposition] To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units). | [preposition] By the, by means of the, via the, through the. | [adjective] Belonging to per, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her. PES (5) [noun] The foot of a human | [noun] The hoof of a quadruped | [noun] Clubfoot or talipes PET (5) [noun] An animal kept as a companion. | [noun] (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.) | [noun] One who is excessively loyal to a superior. | [noun] A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted. | [noun] A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures. | [noun] A term of endearment usually applied to women and children. PEW (8) [noun] One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel. | [noun] An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family. | [noun] Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold. | [interjection] An expression of disgust in response to an unpleasant odor. | [interjection] Representative of the sound made by the firing of a gun. PIE (5) [noun] A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. | [noun] Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling. | [noun] (Northeastern US) A pizza. | [noun] Magpie. | [noun] The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a rupee or 1/12 of an anna. PYE (8) REB (5) [noun] A Confederate soldier. | [noun] Shortened form of Rebbe. | [noun] An honorific used by traditional Jews, much like sir and mister/Mr. REC (5) [noun] A recommendation or suggestion. | [noun] A recreation ground. | [verb] To recommend. 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. REE (3) REF (6) [noun] A referee. | [noun] A refrigerator. | [verb] To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game. REG (4) [noun] A regular. | [noun] A regulation. | [noun] Registrar | [noun] A hard surface of rock fragments set in a sandy matrix, found in some hot deserts; regolith, stony desert. REI (3) REM (5) [noun] Rapid movement of the eyes, characterising REM sleep | [noun] A dose of absorbed radiation equivalent to one roentgen of X-rays or gamma rays | [noun] A remark; a programming language statement used for documentation (in BASIC for example); also used in DOS batch files. | [adjective] Remaining | [noun] A unit relative to the declared font size of the root element in a HTML document. REP (5) [verb] To represent; to act as a representative for. | [verb] Repeat | [noun] A repertoire | [noun] A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface. RES (3) [noun] The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back. | [noun] Something that is withheld or kept back. | [noun] (often in the plural) A limiting qualification; a doubt. RET (3) [verb] To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem. | [adjective] Retired REV (6) [verb] To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed. | [noun] Revolution | [noun] A member of the Christian clergy; a minister. REX (10) [noun] An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking. ROE (3) [noun] The eggs of fish. | [noun] The sperm of certain fish. | [noun] The ovaries of certain crustaceans. | [noun] Short for roe deer. RUE (3) [noun] Sorrow; repentance; regret. | [noun] Pity; compassion. | [verb] To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. | [noun] Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines. RYE (6) [noun] A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. | [noun] The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. | [noun] Rye bread. SAE (3) SEA (3) [noun] A large body of salt water. | [noun] A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish. | [noun] The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow. SEC (5) [noun] Second, 1/60 of a minute. | [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] A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree. SEE (3) [verb] (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight. | [verb] To form a mental picture of. | [verb] (social) To meet, to visit. | [noun] A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop. SEG (4) SEI (3) [noun] A sei whale. SEL (3) SEN (3) [noun] A unit of Japanese currency, worth one hundredth of a yen. | [noun] A coin of this value. | [noun] Self | [noun] A unit of length equal 20 wa, 40 meters SER (3) SET (3) [verb] To put (something) down, to rest. | [verb] To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. | [verb] To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be. | [noun] A punch for setting nails in wood. | [adjective] Fixed in position. | [noun] A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot. | [verb] To divide a class group in a subject according to ability SEW (6) [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. | [verb] To drain the water from. SEX (10) [noun] A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species. | [noun] Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles. | [noun] The members of such a category, taken collectively. | [noun] An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs. SHE (6) [noun] A female. | [pronoun] (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied. | [pronoun] (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat. SUE (3) [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.). TAE (3) TEA (3) [noun] A drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, cannabis. | [noun] The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa. | [noun] Food consumed before going to bed. | [noun] A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea. It is now found in Chinese-language historical fiction. TED (4) [noun] A teddy boy. | [verb] To spread hay for drying. TEE (3) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter T. | [noun] Something shaped like the letter T. | [noun] (clothing) T-shirt. | [verb] To draw; lead. | [noun] A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole. | [noun] A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries. TEG (4) [noun] A sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old | [noun] A doe in its second year TEL (3) [noun] A message transmitted by telegraph. | [noun] An apparatus, or a process, for communicating rapidly between distant points, especially by means of established visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical means. | [noun] A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take. | [noun] A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold. TEN (3) [noun] A set or group with ten elements. | [noun] A card in a given suit with a value of ten. | [noun] A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units. See also tenner. TET (3) TEW (6) THE (6) [adverb] With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives. | [adverb] With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the. | [preposition] For each; per. TIE (3) [noun] A knot; a fastening. | [noun] A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig. | [noun] A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie. | [verb] To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely. TOE (3) [noun] Each of the five digits on the end of the foot. | [noun] An equivalent part in an animal. | [noun] That part of a shoe or sock covering the toe. TYE (6) UKE (7) [noun] A small four-stringed guitar. | [noun] The training partner against whom tori performs a move. | [noun] (Japanese fiction) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom. USE (3) [noun] The act of using. | [noun] The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics. | [noun] (followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit. VEE (6) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter V. | [noun] Something with the shape of the letter V. | [noun] The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played VEG (7) [noun] Vegetable. | [verb] To vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest | [adjective] Vegetarian | [noun] A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams. VET (6) [noun] A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon. | [noun] A veteran (a former soldier or other member of an armed forces). | [verb] To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval. VEX (13) [noun] A trouble. | [verb] To trouble aggressively, to harass. | [verb] To annoy, irritate. VIE (6) [noun] A contest. | [verb] To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something. | [verb] To rival (something), etc. VOE (6) [noun] A narrow sea inlet, particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to a fjord. WAE (6) WEB (8) [proper noun] The World Wide Web. | [noun] The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb. | [noun] (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web. 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. WEE (6) [noun] A short time or short distance. | [adjective] Small, little. | [noun] Urine. | [pronoun] (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) WEN (6) [noun] A cyst on the skin. | [noun] A runic letter later replaced by w | [noun] The time at which something happens. WET (6) [noun] Liquid or moisture. | [noun] Rainy weather. | [noun] Rainy season. (often capitalized) WOE (6) [noun] Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness. | [noun] Calamity, trouble. | [noun] A curse; a malediction. WYE (9) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter Y. | [noun] A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track. | [noun] A warrior or fighter. YEA (6) [noun] An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken | [adverb] Yes. | [adverb] Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture). | [interjection] Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc. YEH (9) [interjection] Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc. | [pronoun] (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. | [pronoun] (reflexive pronoun) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. YEN (6) [noun] The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen. | [noun] A coin or note worth one yen. | [noun] A strong desire, urge, or yearning. | [noun] Opium. YEP (8) [noun] Yes. | [adverb] Yes. YES (6) [noun] An affirmative expression; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance. | [noun] A vote of support or in favor/favour of something. | [verb] To agree with, affirm, approve. YET (6) [adverb] (usually with negative) Thus far; up to the present; up to some specified time; still | [adverb] Continuously up to the current time; still. | [adverb] At some future time; eventually; still. | [noun] A metal pan or boiler; yetling. | [verb] To get. YEW (9) [noun] A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. | [noun] (by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus. | [noun] Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus ZED (13) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter Z. | [noun] (in combination) Something Z-shaped. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Sleep. ZEE (12) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter Z. | [noun] Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Sleep. ZEK (16)

ABBE (8) [noun] A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey. | [noun] An honorific title for a member of the French clergy. ABED (7) [adverb] In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed. | [adverb] To childbed ABET (6) [noun] Fraud or cunning. | [noun] An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid. | [verb] To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. ABLE (6) [adjective] Easy to use. | [adjective] Suitable; competent. | [adjective] Liable to. | [verb] To make ready. | [noun] The letter "A" in Navy Phonetic Alphabet. ABYE (9) [verb] To pay the penalty for; to suffer for; to atone for (archaic past tense: abode or abought). ACED (7) [verb] (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly. | [verb] To win a point by an ace. | [verb] To make an ace (hole in one). ACES (6) [noun] A single point or spot on a playing card or die. | [noun] A card or die face so marked. | [noun] The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games. ACHE (9) [noun] Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. | [verb] To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed. | [verb] To cause someone or something to suffer pain. | [noun] Parsley | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter H. ACME (8) [noun] The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination. | [noun] The crisis or height of a disease. | [noun] Mature age; full bloom of life. ACNE (6) [noun] A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection. | [noun] A pattern of blemishes in an area of skin resulting from the skin condition. ACRE (6) [noun] An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters. | [noun] Any of various similar units of area in other systems. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A wide expanse. ADZE (14) [noun] A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood. | [verb] To shape a material using an adze. AEON (4) [noun] (preferred spelling, with æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead. | [noun] (Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology. | [noun] Eternity. AERO (4) [noun] Aerodynamics. | [noun] An airplane or airship. | [noun] Aerospace. AERY (7) [noun] An eagle's nest, typically built high in a tree or on a cliff. | [noun] A high, secluded place or dwelling. AGED (6) [verb] To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. | [verb] To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt. | [verb] To categorize by age. AGEE (5) AGER (5) [noun] One who ages something. | [noun] A substance used to accelerate aging or maturation processes. AGES (5) [noun] The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive. | [noun] The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive. | [noun] One of the stages of life. AGUE (5) [noun] An acute fever. | [noun] An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. | [noun] The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever AHEM (9) [noun] A use of the interjection, ahem. | [interjection] The sound of a quiet cough or of clearing one's throat | [interjection] An exclamation or cough to get attention AIDE (5) [noun] An assistant. | [noun] An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp. AJEE (11) [adverb] Awry or askew; in a wrong or improper manner. AKEE (8) [noun] A tropical evergreen tree, Blighia sapida, related to the lychee and longan. | [noun] The fruit of the tree, of which only the arils are edible, the remainder being poisonous. ALAE (4) [noun] Plural of ala, meaning wing-like structures or appendages in anatomy and biology. ALEC (6) [noun] An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried. | [noun] A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce. ALEE (4) [adverb] On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather) ALEF (7) ALES (4) [noun] A beer made without hops. | [noun] A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized. | [noun] A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk. ALME (6) ALOE (4) [noun] (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica. | [noun] A plant of the genus Aloe. | [noun] A strong, bitter drink made from the juice of such plants, used as a purgative. AMEN (6) [noun] An instance of saying ‘amen’. | [noun] A title of Christ; the Faithful One (especially with reference to Revelation 3:14) | [verb] To say amen. AMIE (6) [noun] A female friend (French origin, used in English). ANES (4) [noun] Plural of "ane," a hydrocarbon suffix used in chemistry, or plural of "an," a Scottish word for "one." ANEW (7) [adverb] Again, once more; afresh, in a new way, newly. ANTE (4) [noun] A price or cost, as in up the ante. | [noun] In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards. | [verb] To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up. APED (7) [verb] To behave like an ape. | [verb] To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly. APER (6) [noun] One who apes or mimics. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of "ape," meaning to imitate or mimic. APES (6) [noun] A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail. | [noun] Any such primate other than a human. | [noun] An uncivilised person. APEX (13) [noun] Conical priest cap | [noun] The highest or the greatest point of something. | [noun] The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc. APSE (6) [noun] A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar. | [noun] The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches. | [noun] A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept. | [noun] An aspen tree. AREA (4) [noun] A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units. | [noun] A particular geographic region. | [noun] Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent. ARES (4) [noun] An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a. ARSE (4) [noun] The buttocks or more specifically, the anus. | [noun] A stupid, mean or despicable person. | [verb] To be silly, act stupid or mess around. ASEA (4) [adjective] On the sea; at sea. ATES (4) [verb] Third person singular simple present tense of "ate," meaning to consume food. | [noun] Plural of "ate," the Greek goddess of mischief and ruin. AVER (7) [verb] To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner. | [verb] To prove or justify a plea. | [verb] To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify. | [noun] Possessions, property, belongings, wealth. | [noun] A work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden. AVES (7) [noun] An Ave Maria. | [noun] A reverential salutation. AWED (8) [verb] To inspire fear and reverence in. | [verb] To control by inspiring dread. | [adjective] Filled with awe. AWEE (7) AWES (7) [verb] To inspire fear and reverence in. | [verb] To control by inspiring dread. AXED (12) [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). | [verb] To put forward (a question) to be answered. | [verb] To interrogate or enquire of (a person). AXEL (11) [noun] A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air. AXES (11) [noun] A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it. | [noun] An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle. | [noun] A dismissal or rejection. | [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). | [noun] An imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or is symmetrically arranged (an axis of symmetry). AXLE (11) [noun] Shoulder. | [noun] The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel. | [noun] A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree. AYES (7) [noun] An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative. BABE (8) [noun] A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. | [noun] An attractive person, especially a young woman. | [noun] Darling (term of endearment). BADE (7) [verb] To issue a command; to tell. | [verb] To invite; to summon. | [verb] To utter a greeting or salutation. BAKE (10) [noun] The act of cooking food by baking. | [noun] Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole. | [noun] A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served. BALE (6) [noun] Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death. | [noun] Suffering, woe, torment. | [noun] A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire. | [noun] A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation. | [verb] To remove water from a boat with buckets etc. BANE (6) [noun] A cause of misery or death. | [noun] Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants. | [noun] A killer, murderer, slayer. | [noun] Bone BARE (6) [noun] (‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin. | [noun] Surface; body; substance. | [noun] That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather. | [verb] To uncover; to reveal. | [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. BASE (6) [noun] Something from which other things extend; a foundation. | [noun] The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis. | [noun] A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material. | [adjective] Low in height; short. | [noun] The game of prisoners' bars. | [noun] Acronym of building, antenna-tower, span, earth. BATE (6) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. | [noun] Strife; contention. | [noun] An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning. | [verb] To hit; strike | [verb] To masturbate. BEAD (7) [noun] Prayer, later especially with a rosary. | [noun] Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. | [noun] A small, round object. BEAK (10) [noun] Anatomical uses. | [noun] Figurative uses. | [noun] Colloquial uses. BEAM (8) [noun] Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. | [noun] One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones. | [noun] The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam) BEAN (6) [noun] A reusable software component written in Java. | [noun] Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods. | [noun] The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean or garbanzo bean). BEAR (6) [noun] A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae. | [noun] A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. | [noun] An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. | [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. | [noun] Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley. | [noun] A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow. BEAT (6) [noun] A stroke; a blow. | [noun] A pulsation or throb. | [noun] A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. | [noun] A beatnik. BEAU (6) [noun] A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. | [noun] A male lover; a boyfriend. | [noun] A male escort. BECK (12) [noun] A stream or small river. | [noun] A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command. | [verb] To nod or motion with the head. | [noun] A vat. | [noun] Anatomical uses. 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. BEEF (9) [noun] The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine. | [noun] (plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with) | [verb] To complain. BEEN (6) [noun] A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey. BEEP (8) [noun] The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound. | [noun] A short, electronically produced tone. | [verb] To sound (something that makes a beep). BEER (6) [noun] An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor. | [noun] A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. | [noun] A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid. | [noun] One who is or exists. BEES (6) [noun] A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey. | [noun] A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee. | [noun] A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee. BEET (6) [noun] Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar. | [noun] A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant. | [verb] To improve; to mend. BEGS (7) [noun] The act of begging; an imploring request. | [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. BELL (6) [noun] A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck. | [noun] The sounding of a bell as a signal. | [noun] A telephone call. | [noun] The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut. BELS (6) [noun] A tropical fruit tree from India, Aegle marmelos. | [noun] The fruit of the tree, also called the wood apple. | [noun] A measure of relative power, defined as log10(P 1/P 2), where P1 and P2 are the measured and reference power respectively. BELT (6) [noun] A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. | [noun] A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt. | [noun] A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power. BEMA (8) [noun] A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. | [noun] Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah. 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. BENE (6) BENS (6) [noun] A prayer; a petition. | [noun] Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but). | [noun] A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben. | [noun] (job advertisements) benefits BENT (6) [verb] To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means. | [verb] To become curved. | [verb] To cause to change direction. | [noun] Any of various stiff or reedy grasses. BERG (7) [noun] An iceberg. | [noun] Mountain BERM (8) [noun] A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope | [noun] A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath | [noun] A terrace formed by wave action along a beach BEST (6) [noun] The supreme effort one can make, or has made. | [noun] One's best behavior. | [noun] The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent. BETA (6) [noun] The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase. | [noun] Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc. | [noun] Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices. BETH (9) [noun] The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁 | [noun] The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב | [noun] The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ BETS (6) [noun] A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event). | [noun] A degree of certainty. | [verb] To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager. BEVY (12) [noun] (collective) A group of animals, in particular quail. | [noun] (collective) A group of women. | [noun] (collective) A large group or collection. BEYS (9) [noun] A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions | [noun] In various other places, a prince or nobleman BICE (8) [noun] A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt. | [noun] A cobalt blue pigment. 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. BIER (6) [noun] A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person. | [noun] A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed. | [noun] A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth. BIKE (10) [noun] A vehicle that has two wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s feet upon pedals. | [noun] A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs. | [noun] The best possible hand in lowball. | [noun] A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants. BILE (6) [noun] A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion. | [noun] Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility. | [noun] Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology. | [noun] A boil (kind of swelling). BINE (6) [noun] A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers). | [noun] Cigarette BISE (6) [noun] A cold northerly wind that blows down from the Alps and across Switzerland and neighboring regions. BITE (6) [noun] The act of biting. | [noun] The wound left behind after having been bitten. | [noun] The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. BIZE (15) [noun] A cold northwesterly wind that blows across Switzerland and neighboring regions. | [noun] A variant spelling of "bise," a similar cold wind in Alpine regions. BLAE (6) [noun] A dark blue or blue-black color, particularly used in Scottish dialect to describe the color of blackberries or bilberries. BLEB (8) [noun] A bubble, such as in paint or glass. | [noun] A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid. | [noun] An irregular bulge in the plasma membrane of a cell undergoing apoptosis. 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. BLET (6) [verb] To overripen or decay, as fruit does when it becomes soft and brown. | [noun] The process of fruit becoming overripe. BLEW (9) [verb] To produce an air current. | [verb] To propel by an air current. | [verb] To be propelled by an air current. BLUE (6) [noun] The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this. | [noun] A blue dye or pigment. | [noun] Any of several processes to protect metal against rust. | [adjective] (entertainment) Pornographic or profane. 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. BOLE (6) [noun] The trunk or stem of a tree. | [noun] Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. | [noun] (colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay. | [noun] The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant. | [noun] An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light. BONE (6) [noun] A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. | [noun] Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone. | [noun] A bone of a fish; a fishbone. | [verb] To apprehend, steal. | [verb] To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line. | [noun] A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭). BORE (6) [noun] A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter. | [noun] The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter. | [noun] A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring. | [noun] A sudden and rapid flow of tide occuring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave. | [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. BRAE (6) [noun] The sloping bank of a river valley. | [noun] Any hillside or slope. 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. BREE (6) [noun] A type of soft cheese, typically French, with a white rind and creamy interior. | [noun] The sound of wind or a breeze (Scottish/archaic). BREN (6) [verb] To burn (to set ablaze). BREW (9) [noun] The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as a cup of tea or a brewed beer. | [noun] A beer. | [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. | [noun] A hill or overhanging cliff. BRIE (6) [noun] A variety of soft, mild French cheese made from cow's milk. BUTE (6) [noun] Phenylbutazone. BYES (9) [noun] The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team. | [noun] An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman. | [noun] A dwelling. BYRE (9) [noun] A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in. BYTE (9) [noun] A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word. | [noun] (most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values. 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. CAFE (9) [noun] A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items. | [noun] A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises. | [noun] A small restaurant of any genre. CAGE (7) [noun] An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals. | [noun] The passenger compartment of a lift. | [noun] (water polo) The goal. CAKE (10) [noun] A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. | [noun] A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough. | [noun] A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake. | [verb] To cackle like a goose. CAME (8) [preposition] Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation | [verb] To move from further away to nearer to. | [verb] To arrive. | [noun] A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together. CANE (6) [noun] A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof | [noun] The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool | [noun] A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane CAPE (8) [noun] A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland. | [noun] A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders. | [noun] A superhero. | [verb] To look for, search after. CARE (6) [noun] Grief, sorrow. | [noun] Close attention; concern; responsibility. | [noun] Worry. | [verb] To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about). CASE (6) [noun] An actual event, situation, or fact. | [noun] A given condition or state. | [noun] A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession. | [noun] A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture. CATE (6) [noun] (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food. CAVE (9) [noun] A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside. | [noun] A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made. | [noun] A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese. | [interjection] (public school slang) look out!; beware! CECA (8) [noun] A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon. 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 ₵. CEES (6) [noun] Plural of the letter C. | [noun] Things shaped like the letter C. CEIL (6) [verb] To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar. | [verb] To set a higher bound. | [noun] A ceiling | [noun] The overhead closure of a room. CELL (6) [noun] A single-room dwelling for a hermit. | [noun] A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment. | [noun] A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. | [noun] A cellular phone. CELS (6) [noun] A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film. CELT (6) [noun] A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool. CENT (6) [noun] (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢. | [noun] A small sum of money. | [noun] (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro. CEPE (8) [noun] An edible fungus with a brown cap and white pores, also known as a porcini mushroom. CEPS (8) [noun] An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis). CERE (6) [noun] A waxy protuberance at the base of the upper beak in certain birds. | [verb] To wax; to cover or close with wax. CERO (6) [noun] A large scombroid food fish (Scomberomorus regalis) found chiefly in the West Indies. CESS (6) [noun] An assessed tax, duty, or levy. | [noun] Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success. | [noun] Bound; measure. | [noun] The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage. | [verb] To cease; to neglect. CETE (6) [noun] A group of badgers. CHEF (12) [noun] The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household. | [noun] The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment. | [noun] Any cook. CHEW (12) [noun] The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth. | [noun] Level of chewiness. | [noun] A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing. CHEZ (18) [preposition] At the home of CINE (6) [noun] Cinefilm | [noun] Images of the heart taken by fluoroscopy. CIRE (6) [noun] A fabric with a glazed finish. CITE (6) [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. | [noun] A citation CLEF (9) [noun] A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff CLEW (9) [noun] A roughly spherical mass or body. | [noun] A ball of thread or yarn. | [noun] Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue. CLUE (6) [noun] A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide. | [noun] Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion. | [noun] An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence. 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. 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. COKE (10) [noun] Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel. | [verb] To produce coke from coal. | [verb] To turn into coke. | [noun] Cocaine. | [noun] Cola-based soft drink. COLE (6) [noun] Cabbage. | [noun] Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed). | [noun] A stack or stook of hay. COME (8) [noun] Coming, arrival; approach. | [noun] Semen | [noun] Female ejaculatory discharge. | [noun] The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. CONE (6) [noun] A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line. | [noun] A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes. | [noun] A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point. COPE (8) [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. | [noun] A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass. | [verb] To bargain for; to buy. CORE (6) [noun] The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds. | [noun] The heart or inner part of a physical thing | [noun] The center or inner part of a space or area | [noun] A body of individuals; an assemblage. | [noun] A miner's underground working time or shift. | [noun] Various former units of volume, particularly: | [noun] (machinery, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself. COTE (6) [noun] A cottage or hut. | [noun] A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons. | [verb] To quote. | [verb] To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before. COVE (9) [noun] A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern. | [noun] A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling. | [noun] A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A fellow; a man. | [verb] To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. CREW (9) [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. | [noun] A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs | [noun] The Manx shearwater. CUBE (8) [noun] A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces. | [noun] Any object more or less in the form of a cube. | [noun] The third power of a number, value, term or expression. | [noun] A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices. 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. CUES (6) [noun] Plural of cue; sticks used in billiards or pool. | [noun] Signals or prompts that indicate what to do or say. | [verb] Third person singular of cue; to give a signal or prompt to someone. CUKE (10) [noun] A cucumber. | [noun] A cucoloris. CURE (6) [noun] A method, device or medication that restores good health. | [noun] Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury. | [noun] A solution to a problem. | [verb] To restore to health. CUTE (6) [adjective] Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior. | [adjective] Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way. | [adjective] Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy. CYME (11) [noun] (spelt cime) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud. | [noun] A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it. Contrast raceme. | [noun] = cyma 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. DALE (5) [noun] A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area. | [noun] A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. 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. 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. 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. 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) [noun] A colorless liquid chemical compound used as an insect repellent in lotions and sprays. 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) [noun] A Scottish word for devil. 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) [noun] Glazed earthenware or pottery, typically blue and white, originally made in Delft, Netherlands. | [noun] Objects made from this type of pottery. 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) [noun] Plural of dev, informal term for developers or development. | [noun] Plural of dev, a colloquial abbreviation for devices. 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) [noun] A tablet of dexamphetamine, a stimulant drug. | [adjective] Relating to or affected by the use of dexamphetamine. DEYS (8) [noun] Plural of dey, a former title for rulers of the Regency of Algiers and other Ottoman provinces. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 DITE (5) 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. 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). 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. 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. 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) 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. 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. DORE (5) DOSE (5) DOTE (5) [noun] A darling, a cutie. | [noun] An imbecile; a dotard. | [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. 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. DOZE (14) [noun] A light, short sleep or nap. | [verb] To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. | [verb] To make dull; to stupefy. 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. DUCE (7) 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. 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. 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. DUNE (5) [noun] A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind. DUPE (7) [noun] A person who has been deceived. | [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [noun] A duplicate of a photographic image. DURE (5) 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. EACH (9) [noun] (operations) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping. | [adverb] For one; apiece; per. | [pronoun] Every one; every thing. EARL (4) [noun] (nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts. EARN (4) [verb] To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To curdle, as milk. | [verb] To long; to yearn. | [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) EARS (4) [noun] The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. | [noun] The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle. | [noun] A police informant. EASE (4) [noun] Ability, the means to do something, particularly: | [noun] Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness, particularly: | [noun] Relief, an end to discomfort, particularly: EAST (4) [noun] One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox. Abbreviated as E. | [adjective] Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward. | [adjective] Wind from the east EASY (7) [noun] Something that is easy | [adjective] Comfortable; at ease. | [adjective] Requiring little skill or effort. EATH (7) EATS (4) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. EAUX (11) EAVE (7) [noun] Eaves: the underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building. EBBS (8) [noun] The receding movement of the tide. | [noun] A gradual decline. | [noun] A low state; a state of depression. EBON (6) [noun] (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree. | [adjective] Made of ebony. | [adjective] Black in colour. ECHE (9) ECHO (9) [noun] A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer. | [noun] An utterance repeating what has just been said. | [noun] A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line. ECRU (6) [noun] A beige colour. | [adjective] Of a beige colour. ECUS (6) [noun] The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European Community before the euro. 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. EELS (4) [noun] Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes. | [noun] The European eel, Anguilla anguilla. | [verb] To fish for eels. EELY (7) EERY (7) EFFS (10) [verb] Fuck (the taboo swear word, but not in the sense "to copulate") EFTS (7) [noun] A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus). EGAD (6) [interjection] A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc. EGAL (5) EGER (5) EGGS (6) [noun] An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development. | [noun] The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food. | [noun] The female primary cell, the ovum. EGGY (9) [adjective] Covered with or dipped in egg. | [adjective] Resembling eggs in some way. | [adjective] Of or relating to an egg or eggs. | [adjective] Slightly annoyed. EGIS (5) EGOS (5) [noun] The self, especially with a sense of self-importance. | [noun] (Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings. EIDE (5) EKED (9) [verb] Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen. EKES (8) [verb] Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen. ELAN (4) [noun] Ardor or zeal inspired by passion or enthusiasm. ELDS (5) ELHI (7) ELKS (8) [noun] Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes). | [noun] The European wild, whistling, or common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus). ELLS (4) [noun] A measure for cloth. An English ell was 1 1/4 yards (45 inches), whereas a Scottish ell measured only about 37 inches and a Flemish ell was 3/4 yard (27 inches). | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter L. | [noun] An extension usually at right angles to one end of a building. ELMS (6) [noun] A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers. | [noun] (usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree. ELMY (9) ELSE (4) [adjective] (used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items. | [adverb] (follows interrogative adverbs) Otherwise, if not. | [conjunction] For otherwise; or else. EMES (6) EMEU (6) EMFS (9) EMIC (8) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture. EMIR (6) [noun] A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. | [noun] A descendant of the prophet Muhammad. EMIT (6) [verb] To send out or give off EMUS (6) [noun] A cassowary (genus Casuarius). | [noun] A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae. | [noun] A person or thing that emulates. EMYD (10) 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. ENGS (5) ENOL (4) ENOW (7) ENVY (10) [noun] Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions). | [noun] An object of envious notice or feeling. | [noun] Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling. EONS (4) [noun] Eternity. | [noun] A period of 1,000,000,000 years. | [noun] The longest time period used in geology. EPEE (6) [noun] A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing. EPHA (9) EPIC (8) [noun] An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero. | [noun] A series of events considered appropriate to an epic. | [noun] In software development, a large or extended user story. | [adjective] (of a morphism) That is an epimorphism. EPOS (6) [noun] An epic. ERAS (4) [noun] A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year. | [noun] A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods. ERGO (5) [adverb] Consequently, therefore, thus. | [conjunction] Therefore (especially in syllogisms). | [noun] An ergometer (rowing machine). ERGS (5) [noun] The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10−7 joules. | [noun] A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara. | [noun] An ergometer. ERNE (4) [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) | [noun] An eagle. | [verb] To long; to yearn. ERNS (4) EROS (4) ERRS (4) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To sin. | [verb] To stray. ERST (4) [adjective] First. | [adverb] First of all, before (some other specified thing). | [adverb] Sooner (than); before. ESES (4) [noun] Dude, man. (Usually used vocatively.) ESPY (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. ETAS (4) [noun] The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek. | [noun] A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin. | [noun] A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people. ETCH (9) [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. | [noun] An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been been mowed; also, a field of such growth. ETHS (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. ETIC (6) [adjective] Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures. ETNA (4) ETUI (4) [noun] A small, ornamental bag or rigid container used for holding articles such as needles. EURO (4) [noun] Person living or originating from Europe | [noun] Person who resides within the European Union | [noun] The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: € | [noun] Macropus robustus, a wallaroo (macropod species). EVEN (7) [noun] (diminutive) An even number. | [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To equal. | [noun] Evening. EVER (7) [adjective] Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan. | [adverb] Always, frequently, forever. | [adverb] Continuously, constantly, all the time (for the complete duration). EVES (7) [noun] The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve. | [noun] Evening, night. | [noun] The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced EVIL (7) [noun] Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. | [noun] Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief. | [noun] A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula). | [adverb] Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously EWER (7) [noun] A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle. EWES (7) [noun] A female sheep, as opposed to a ram. EXAM (13) [noun] The act of examining. | [noun] Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury. | [noun] A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks. EXEC (13) [noun] Executive, executive officer | [verb] To execute; to run. EXES (11) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter X. | [noun] A former partner or spouse, usually short for ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend, ex-wife or ex-husband. | [verb] To delete; to cross out | [noun] (costers) The number six. EXIT (11) [noun] An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. | [noun] A way out. | [noun] The act of departing from life; death. EXON (11) [noun] An officer of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard. | [noun] A region of a transcribed gene present in the final functional RNA molecule. EXPO (13) [noun] An exposition. | [noun] An expediter; a restaurant worker who prepares food to be taken to tables. EYAS (7) [noun] A young hawk or falcon in the nest, or that has not yet fledged, especially one that will be trained for falconry. EYED (8) [verb] To observe carefully or appraisingly. | [verb] To appear; to look. | [adjective] Having eyes. EYEN (7) EYER (7) EYES (7) [noun] An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light). | [noun] The visual sense. | [noun] The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour. EYNE (7) EYRA (7) [noun] A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. EYRE (7) [noun] A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere). EYRY (10) FACE (9) [noun] The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose and mouth, and the surrounding area. | [noun] One's facial expression. | [noun] (in expressions such as 'make a face') A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc. 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. FAKE (11) [noun] Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently. | [noun] A trick; a swindle. | [noun] A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent. | [noun] One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil. FAME (9) [noun] What is said or reported; gossip, rumour. | [noun] One's reputation. | [noun] The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of. FANE (7) [noun] A weathercock, a weather vane. | [noun] A banner, especially a military banner. | [noun] A temple or sacred place. FARE (7) [noun] A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage. | [noun] Money paid for a transport ticket. | [noun] A paying passenger, especially in a taxi. | [verb] To go, travel. FATE (7) [noun] The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. | [noun] The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. | [noun] An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time. FAVE (10) [noun] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) | [verb] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) | [adjective] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK). FAZE (16) [verb] To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. FEAL (7) FEAR (7) [noun] A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. | [noun] A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. | [noun] Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. | [adjective] Able; capable; stout; strong; sound. FEAT (7) [noun] A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment. | [verb] To form; to fashion. | [adjective] Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty. | [verb] To feature. I FECK (13) [noun] Effect, value; vigor. | [noun] The greater or larger part. | [verb] To throw. | [verb] Fuck. 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. FEEL (7) [noun] A quality of an object experienced by touch. | [noun] A vague mental impression. | [noun] An act of fondling. | [adjective] Much; many. FEES (7) [noun] (feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief. | [noun] An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services. | [noun] An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail). FEET (7) [noun] A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. | [noun] Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. | [noun] (often used attributively) Travel by walking. | [noun] Fact; performance; feat. FEHS (10) FELL (7) [noun] A cutting-down of timber. | [noun] The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down. | [noun] The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft. | [noun] An animal skin, hide, pelt. | [noun] (obsolete outside Britain) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains. | [adjective] Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage. | [noun] Anger; gall; melancholy. | [noun] The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting. | [verb] (heading) To be moved downwards. FELT (7) [noun] A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. | [noun] A hat made of felt. | [noun] A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. | [verb] (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch. FEME (9) FEMS (9) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person. | [noun] A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl. | [noun] A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch. 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. FENS (7) [noun] A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline. | [noun] Unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan FEOD (8) FERE (7) FERN (7) [noun] Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations. FESS (7) [verb] To confess; to admit. | [noun] A horizontal band across the middle of the shield. | [adjective] (British dialect) Proud; conceited. FETA (7) [noun] A variety of curd cheese made from sheep’s or goat’s milk and originating from Greece. FETE (7) [noun] A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity. | [noun] A feast, celebration or carnival. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). FETS (7) [verb] To fetch 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. FEUS (7) [noun] Land held in feudal tenure. | [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FICE (9) FIEF (10) [noun] An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior. | [noun] Something over which one has rights or exercises control. | [noun] An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy. FIFE (10) [noun] A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music | [verb] To play this instrument. | [numeral] Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion. FILE (7) [noun] A collection of papers collated and archived together. | [noun] A roll or list. | [noun] Course of thought; thread of narration. | [noun] A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a large group with many files side by side. | [noun] A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal. | [verb] To defile FINE (7) [noun] Fine champagne; French brandy. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles. | [verb] To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify. | [noun] A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law. | [noun] The end of a musical composition. | [noun] End; conclusion; termination; extinction. FIRE (7) [noun] A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering. | [noun] An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire). | [noun] The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger. | [verb] To set (something, often a building) on fire. | [adjective] Amazing; excellent. FIVE (10) [noun] The digit/figure 5. | [noun] A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver. | [noun] Anything measuring five units, as length. FLEA (7) [noun] A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities. | [noun] A thing of no significance. | [verb] To remove fleas from (an animal). | [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). FLED (8) [verb] To run away; to escape. | [verb] To escape from. | [verb] To disappear quickly; to vanish. FLEE (7) [verb] To run away; to escape. | [verb] To escape from. | [verb] To disappear quickly; to vanish. FLEW (10) [noun] (chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip. | [verb] To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface. | [verb] To flee, to escape (from). | [adjective] Shallow; flat FLEX (14) [noun] Flexibility, pliancy. | [noun] The or an act of flexing. | [noun] Any flexible insulated electrical wiring. FLEY (10) FLOE (7) [noun] A low, flat mass of floating ice. FLUE (7) [noun] A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace). | [noun] An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along. | [noun] A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this. | [adjective] Shallow; flat FOES (7) [noun] An enemy. | [noun] A unit of energy equal to 1044 joules. FORE (7) [noun] The front; the forward part of something; the foreground. | [adjective] Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous. | [adjective] Forward; situated towards the front (of something). | [verb] To go, travel. FRAE (7) FREE (7) [noun] Free transfer | [noun] The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed. | [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. FRET (7) [noun] Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. | [noun] Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation. | [noun] Herpes; tetter. | [noun] An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief. | [noun] A ferrule, a ring. | [noun] A channel, a strait; a fretum. | [noun] A channel or passage created by the sea. | [noun] A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea. FROE (7) [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [noun] A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. FUEL (7) [noun] Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction. | [noun] Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food. | [noun] Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action. FUME (9) [noun] A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale. | [noun] A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state. | [noun] Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control. FUSE (7) [noun] A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device. | [noun] The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device. | [noun] A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it. | [verb] To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. FUZE (16) [noun] (professional usage) An auxiliary device with explosive components, used to detonate a munition. | [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. FYCE (12) FYKE (14) [noun] A type of fish-trap consisting of tubular nets that are supported by hoops. GAED (6) GAEN (5) GAES (5) GAGE (6) [noun] Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). | [noun] Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom. | [verb] To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn. | [noun] A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard | [noun] A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica. | [noun] A quart pot. GALE (5) [verb] To sing; charm; enchant. | [verb] To cry; groan; croak. | [verb] (of a person) To talk. | [noun] A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale. | [noun] A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens. | [noun] A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity. GAME (7) [noun] A playful or competitive activity. | [noun] A video game. | [noun] (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession. GANE (5) GAPE (7) [noun] An act of gaping; a yawn. | [noun] A large opening. | [noun] A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping. GATE (5) [noun] A doorlike structure outside a house. | [noun] Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. | [noun] Movable barrier. | [noun] A way, path. GAVE (8) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GAZE (14) [noun] A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. | [noun] The object gazed on. | [noun] In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed. GEAR (5) [noun] Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. | [noun] Clothing; garments. | [noun] Goods; property; household items. GECK (11) 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. GEEK (9) [noun] A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior. | [noun] A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun. | [noun] (by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers. | [noun] A look. GEES (5) [noun] A gee-gee, a horse. | [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. GEEZ (14) [interjection] An exclamation denoting surprise or frustration. | [noun] Informal address to a male. 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). GELS (5) [noun] A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal. | [noun] Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair. | [verb] To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc). GELT (5) [noun] A lunatic. | [noun] Gilding; gilt. | [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). | [noun] Money. | [noun] Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel. GEMS (7) [noun] A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine. | [noun] Any precious or highly valued thing or person. | [noun] Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram. GENE (5) [noun] A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color. | [noun] A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus. GENS (5) [noun] A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium. | [noun] A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line. | [noun] A member of the Gen Movement, a youth expression of the international Focolare Movement. GENT (5) [noun] A gentleman. | [adjective] Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful. | [adjective] Neat; pretty; elegant | [noun] Short for gentamicin. GENU (5) [noun] Knee | [noun] A knee-like bend. GERM (7) [noun] The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore. | [noun] A pathogenic microorganism. | [noun] The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. GEST (5) GETA (5) GETS (5) [noun] Offspring. | [noun] Lineage. | [noun] A difficult return or block of a shot. GEUM (7) [noun] Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants. GHEE (8) [noun] A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee. | [noun] Vegetable oil for cooking. GIBE (7) [noun] Alternative spelling of gybe | [noun] Alternative spelling of jibe | [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe GIED (6) GIEN (5) GIES (5) GIVE (8) [noun] The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilence. | [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. GLED (6) GLEE (5) [noun] Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune. | [noun] Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. | [noun] An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry. GLEG (6) GLEN (5) [noun] A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills. GLEY (8) [noun] A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen. | [verb] To be converted into this kind of soil. | [verb] To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things. GLUE (5) [noun] A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance. | [noun] Anything that binds two things or people together. | [noun] Birdlime. GOER (5) [noun] One who, or that which, goes. | [noun] Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully. | [noun] A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity. GOES (5) [noun] The act of going. | [noun] A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game). | [noun] An attempt, a try. GONE (5) [verb] To move: | [verb] (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). | [verb] To start; to begin (an action or process). GORE (5) [noun] Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. | [noun] Murder, bloodshed, violence. | [noun] Dirt; mud; filth. | [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [noun] A triangular piece of land where roads meet. GREE (5) GREW (8) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. | [verb] To be frightened; to shudder with fear. GREY (8) [adjective] Having a color. | [adjective] Having a particular color or kind of color. | [adjective] Having prominent colors; colorful. GRUE (5) GUDE (6) GYBE (10) [noun] The act of gybing. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation. | [verb] To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind. | [noun] Alternative spelling of jibe GYRE (8) [noun] A swirling vortex. | [noun] A circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current. | [noun] A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. GYVE (11) [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. | [verb] To shackle, fetter, chain. 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. HAED (8) HAEM (9) [noun] The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen. HAEN (7) HAES (7) HAET (7) HAKE (11) [noun] A hook; a pot-hook. | [noun] A kind of weapon; a pike. | [noun] (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough. | [noun] One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies. | [noun] A drying shed, as for unburned tile. | [verb] To loiter; to sneak. HALE (7) [noun] Health, welfare. | [adjective] Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired. | [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HAME (9) [noun] A covering, skin, membrane. | [noun] Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through. | [noun] A dwelling. | [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. HARE (7) [noun] Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears. | [noun] The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed. | [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. | [adjective] Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people). HATE (7) [noun] An object of hatred. | [noun] Hatred. | [noun] Negative feedback, abusive behaviour. HAVE (10) [noun] A wealthy or privileged person. | [noun] One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | [verb] To possess, own. | [noun] A fraud or deception; something misleading. HAZE (16) [noun] Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. | [noun] A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid. | [noun] An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent. | [verb] To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit. HEAD (8) [noun] The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. | [noun] The topmost, foremost, or leading part. | [noun] (social, metonymy) A leader or expert. | [adjective] Foremost in rank or importance. HEAL (7) [noun] A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment. | [noun] Health | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. HEAP (9) [noun] A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people. | [noun] A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation. | [noun] A great number or large quantity of things. HEAR (7) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEAT (7) [noun] Thermal energy. | [noun] The condition or quality of being hot. | [noun] An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. | [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). HEBE (9) [noun] A Jew. HECK (13) [noun] Hell. | [interjection] Hell. | [noun] The bolt or latch of a door. 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. HEEL (7) [noun] The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg. | [noun] The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel. | [noun] The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot. | [noun] The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant. | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. HEFT (10) [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). | [verb] To throw, cast. | [verb] To rise and fall. | [noun] A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed). | [noun] A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook. HEHS (10) HEIL (7) HEIR (7) [noun] Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another. | [noun] One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office. | [noun] A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor. HELD (8) [verb] To grasp or grip. | [verb] To contain or store. | [verb] (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state. HELL (7) HELM (9) [noun] The steering apparatus of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel. | [noun] (maritime) The member of the crew in charge of steering the boat. | [noun] A position of leadership or control. | [noun] A helmet. | [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. HELO (7) [noun] Helicopter HELP (9) [noun] Action given to provide assistance; aid. | [noun] (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task. | [noun] Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer. | [verb] To provide assistance to (someone or something). HEME (9) [noun] The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen. HEMP (11) [noun] A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia. | [noun] Various products of this plant, including fibres and the drug cannabis. HEMS (9) [noun] An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention. | [verb] To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. | [noun] The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying. HENS (7) [noun] A female chicken (Gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for its eggs. | [noun] A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl. | [noun] A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean. HENT (7) HERB (9) [noun] Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food. | [noun] A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine. | [noun] Marijuana. 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. HERE (7) [noun] (abstract) This place; this location. | [noun] (abstract) This time, the present situation. | [adjective] Filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis. HERL (7) [noun] A strand of hair | [noun] The fibrous shaft or barb of a feather (especially that of the ostrich or peacock) used to make artificial flies for angling | [noun] An artificial fly made with this barb HERM (9) [noun] A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A hermaphrodite. | [adjective] (of an individual organism) Having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads. HERN (7) HERO (7) [noun] Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary or noble deeds. | [noun] A role model. | [noun] The protagonist in a work of fiction. HERS (7) [noun] A female person or animal. | [pronoun] That which belongs to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. HEST (7) [noun] Command, injunction. HETH (10) HETS (7) [noun] A heterosexual person. | [noun] Fan fiction based on celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship. | [noun] Heterozygote HEWN (10) [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. HEWS (10) [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. 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). HIES (7) [verb] To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. | [verb] To hurry (oneself). HIKE (11) [noun] A long walk. | [noun] An abrupt increase. | [noun] The snap of the ball to start a play. HIRE (7) [noun] Payment for the temporary use of something. | [noun] Reward, payment. | [noun] The state of being hired, or having a job; employment. | [verb] To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. HIVE (10) [noun] A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees. | [noun] The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees. | [noun] A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd. 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. HOER (7) HOES (7) [noun] A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality. | [noun] Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow. | [verb] To care, be anxious, long. HOKE (11) [noun] A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment. | [noun] A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook. | [noun] Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook. | [noun] Something contrived or artificial. | [verb] To scrounge, to grub. HOLE (7) [noun] A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. | [noun] (heading) In games. | [noun] An excavation pit or trench. | [adjective] Entire, undivided. HOME (9) [noun] A dwelling. | [noun] One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. | [noun] The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat. HONE (7) [noun] A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool. | [noun] A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores. | [verb] To sharpen with a hone; to whet. | [noun] A kind of swelling in the cheek. | [verb] To grumble. HOPE (9) [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. | [noun] The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen. | [noun] A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb. | [noun] A sloping plain between mountain ridges. HOSE (7) [noun] A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid. | [noun] A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights. | [noun] Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee. HOVE (10) [verb] To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover. | [verb] To wait, linger. | [verb] To move on or by. | [verb] To raise; lift; hold up. | [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). HOWE (10) [noun] The means by which something is accomplished. | [noun] An artificial barrow or tumulus. | [noun] A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.) HUED (8) [adjective] Coloured; having a hue. HUES (7) [noun] A color, or shade of color; tint; dye. | [noun] The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta. | [noun] A character; aspect. HUGE (8) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. HYPE (12) [noun] Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims. | [verb] To promote heavily; to advertise or build up. | [adjective] Hyped. | [noun] A drug addict. | [noun] A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back. HYTE (10) IBEX (13) [noun] A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex. 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. ICES (6) [noun] Water in frozen (solid) form. | [noun] Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide. | [noun] Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form. 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. ILEA (4) [noun] The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine. ILEX (11) [noun] Holm oak (Quercus ilex). | [noun] Any of the numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex. IRED (5) IRES (4) ISLE (4) [noun] A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers. | [noun] A clear path through rows of seating. | [noun] A clear corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale. ITEM (6) [noun] A distinct physical object. | [noun] (by extension) An object that can be picked up for later use. | [noun] A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account. 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. JAKE (15) [noun] A juvenile male turkey. | [noun] Police, a federal government officer. | [noun] A police officer (on foot, rather than in a patrol car) JANE (11) [noun] A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century. | [noun] A woman, often specifically a girlfriend. | [noun] A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century. JAPE (13) [noun] A joke or quip. | [noun] A prank or trick. | [verb] To jest; play tricks. JEAN (11) [noun] Denim. JEED (12) JEEP (13) [noun] A small, blocky, military-style vehicle with four-wheel drive, suited to rough terrain. | [noun] A light utility truck from WWII used by the U.S. Army, and subsequently turned into the trademark Jeep when civilianized by originating manufacturer Willys-Overland. | [noun] (genericized trademark) A sport utility vehicle or similar four-wheel-drive vehicle. | [noun] (corrosion) A device for detecting discontinuity in a protective coating, also called a "holiday detector" JEER (11) [noun] A mocking remark or reflection. | [verb] (jeer at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language. | [noun] A gear; a tackle. JEES (11) JEEZ (20) [interjection] An exclamation denoting surprise or frustration. JEFE (14) [noun] An officer with political influence; a head or chief in government, such as a sheriff, particularly where that person is Hispanic or of Mexican descent. | [noun] A boss in a business, company or other organization. JEHU (14) JELL (11) [noun] A jelly or gel | [verb] To gel JEON (11) [noun] A fried, filled pancake-like food eaten in Korea | [noun] A monetary unit of North Korea and formerly of South Korea, equal to one hundredth of a won. JERK (15) [noun] A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body. | [noun] A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. | [noun] A dull or stupid person. | [noun] A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade. JESS (11) [noun] A short strap fastened around the leg of a bird used in falconry, to which a leash may be fastened. | [verb] To fasten a strap around the leg of a hawk. | [noun] A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc. | [adverb] Only, simply, merely. JEST (11) [noun] An act performed for amusement; a joke. | [noun] Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke. | [noun] A deed; an action; a gest. | [adverb] Only, simply, merely. JETE (11) [noun] A leap from one foot to the other in which one leg appears to be "thrown" in the direction of the movement. JETS (11) [noun] A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc. | [noun] A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid. | [noun] A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers. JEUX (18) JEWS (14) [noun] The jewfish. | [verb] To bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud. JIBE (13) [noun] A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt. | [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To accord or agree. | [noun] Alternative spelling of gybe JIVE (14) [noun] A dance style popular in the 1940–50s. | [noun] Swing, a style of jazz music. | [noun] A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon. | [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. JOES (11) [noun] Darling, sweetheart. | [noun] A male; a guy; a fellow. | [noun] Coffee. JOEY (14) [noun] The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc. | [noun] The shorter word whose letters can be found within a kangaroo word. | [noun] A parcel smuggled in to an inmate. | [noun] (circus) A kind of clown. | [noun] A member of the Royal Marines. | [noun] A person with cerebal palsy. JOKE (15) [noun] An amusing story. | [noun] Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness. | [noun] The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one JOLE (11) JUBE (13) [noun] A type of gelatine-based confection; its ingredients and consistency vary between countries. | [noun] A rood screen. | [noun] An open drainage channel of a type common in Tehran. JUKE (15) [noun] A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution. | [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [noun] A feint. JUPE (13) JUTE (11) [noun] The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc. | [noun] The plants from which this fibre is obtained. KAES (8) KALE (8) [noun] An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) | [noun] Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea. | [noun] Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient. KAME (10) [noun] A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier. KANE (8) KEAS (8) [noun] Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand. KECK (14) [verb] To retch or heave as if to vomit. | [noun] The cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris). | [noun] (Manx) animal dung KEEF (11) KEEK (12) [noun] A look, especially a quick one; a peek. | [verb] To peek; peep. KEEL (8) [noun] Red chalk; ruddle. | [verb] To mark with ruddle. | [verb] To put to death; to extinguish the life of. KEEN (8) [verb] To make cold, to sharpen. | [adjective] Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested. | [adjective] Fierce, intense, vehement. | [noun] A prolonged wail for a deceased person. KEEP (10) [noun] The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. | [noun] The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance. | [noun] The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice. KEET (8) KEFS (11) KEGS (9) [noun] A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer. | [noun] Underpants. | [noun] Trousers (pants). KEIR (8) KELP (10) [noun] Any of several large brown seaweeds (order Laminariales). | [noun] The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture. KEMP (12) [noun] Coarse, rough hair, wool, or fur; (in the plural) knotty hairs that will not felt. | [adjective] Shaggy; rough. | [noun] A contest in work, etc. | [noun] A champion; a knight. KENO (8) [noun] A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered. KENS (8) [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. KENT (8) [verb] To know, perceive or understand. | [verb] To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry. | [noun] A shepherd's staff. KEPI (10) [noun] A cap with a flat circular top and a visor, particularly associated with French uniforms. KEPS (10) KEPT (10) [verb] To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain. | [verb] (heading) To hold the status of something. | [verb] (heading) To hold or be held in a state. KERB (10) [noun] The edge between the pavement and the roadway, consisting of a line of kerbstones. | [noun] A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb. | [verb] To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb. KERF (11) [noun] The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice. | [noun] The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision. | [noun] The distance between diverging saw teeth. KERN (8) [noun] A corn; grain; kernel. | [noun] The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest. | [noun] The harvest home. | [noun] Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter. | [noun] A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt. | [noun] A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones. | [noun] A churn. KETO (8) KEYS (11) [noun] An object designed to open and close a lock. | [noun] An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation. | [noun] A crucial step or requirement. KHET (11) KIBE (10) [noun] A chilblain or ulcer, especially on the heel of the foot. KIEF (11) KIER (8) [noun] A bleaching vat. KIKE (12) [noun] A Jew. | [noun] A contemptible person, especially one who is stingy. KINE (8) [noun] (properly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved. | [noun] (formerly inexact but now common) Any member of the species Bos taurus regardless of sex or age, including bulls and calves. | [noun] Beef: the meat of cattle as food. | [noun] The unit velocity in the CGS system, equal to one centimeter per second. KITE (8) KNEE (8) [noun] In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank. | [noun] In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans. | [noun] The part of a garment that covers the knee. KNEW (11) [verb] To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that. | [verb] To be aware of; to be cognizant of. | [verb] To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered. KOEL (8) [noun] A cuckoo of the genus Eudynamys, native to Asia, Australia and the Pacific. KORE (8) [noun] An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle. KUES (8) KYTE (11) [noun] Obsolete form of kite. | [noun] Alternative spelling of kite LACE (6) [noun] A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. Wp | [noun] A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. Wp | [noun] A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. | [verb] To fasten (something) with laces. 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. LAKE (8) [noun] A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain. | [noun] A large, landlocked stretch of water. | [noun] A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake. | [noun] An offering, sacrifice, gift. | [noun] A kind of fine, white linen. | [noun] In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant. LAME (6) [noun] A stupid or undesirable person. | [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to become lame. | [adjective] Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs. | [noun] A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor. | [verb] To shine. LANE (4) [noun] (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare. | [noun] A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees. | [noun] A narrow road, as in the country. LASE (4) [verb] To use a laser beam on, as for cutting. | [verb] To operate as a laser, to release coherent light due to stimulation. LATE (4) [noun] A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night. | [adjective] Near the end of a period of time. | [adjective] Specifically, near the end of the day. LAVE (7) [verb] To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. | [verb] To draw, as water; drink in. | [verb] To give bountifully; lavish. | [noun] (archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others. LAZE (13) [noun] An instance of lazing. | [noun] Laziness. | [verb] To be lazy, waste time. | [noun] Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water. LEAD (5) [noun] A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum). | [noun] A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots. | [noun] A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. | [noun] The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course LEAF (7) [noun] The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. | [noun] Anything resembling the leaf of a plant. | [noun] A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin. LEAK (8) [noun] A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape. | [noun] The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture. | [noun] A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret. LEAL (4) [adjective] Loyal, honest. | [adjective] True, genuine. LEAN (4) [noun] (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical. | [verb] To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. | [verb] To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. | [noun] Meat with no fat on it. | [verb] To conceal. | [noun] A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States. LEAP (6) [noun] The act of leaping or jumping. | [noun] The distance traversed by a leap or jump. | [noun] A group of leopards. | [noun] A basket. LEAR (4) LEAS (4) [noun] An open field, meadow. | [noun] Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards. | [noun] A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle. LECH (9) [noun] A strong, lecherous desire or craving. | [noun] A lecher. | [verb] To behave lecherously | [noun] The capstone of a cromlech. LEEK (8) [noun] The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion. | [noun] Any of several species of Allium, broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild. LEER (4) [noun] A significant side glance; a glance expressive of some passion, as malignity, amorousness, etc.; a sly or lecherous look. | [noun] An arch or affected glance or cast of countenance. | [verb] To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent. | [noun] The cheek. | [adjective] Empty; unoccupied; clear. | [verb] To teach. | [noun] A long oven or kiln, often having a moving belt, used for annealing glass. LEES (4) [noun] The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit. | [noun] A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind. | [noun] The side of the ship away from the wind. LEET (4) [noun] A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves. | [verb] To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). | [verb] To leave. | [noun] A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction. | [noun] The European pollock. | [noun] An artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace | [noun] Abbreviation of leetspeak. LEFT (7) [noun] The left side or direction. | [noun] The ensemble of left-wing political parties. Those holding left-wing views as a group. | [noun] The left hand or fist. | [verb] To have a consequence or remnant. | [verb] To have a consequence or remnant. LEGS (5) [noun] A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion. | [noun] In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. | [noun] The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. LEHR (7) [noun] A long oven or kiln, often having a moving belt, used for annealing glass. LEIS (4) [noun] A garland of flowers in Hawaii. LEKE (8) LEKS (8) [noun] An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display | [noun] The currency unit of Albania, divided into 100 qindarka LEKU (8) 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. LENO (4) [noun] A type of weave used to make light, open cotton fabric used for window curtains. LENS (4) [noun] An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it. | [noun] A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams. | [noun] A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune. LENT (4) [noun] A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures. | [noun] The second term of the academic year at some British schools. | [verb] To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned. LEPT (6) LESS (4) [noun] A smaller amount or quantity. | [verb] To make less; to lessen. | [adverb] To a smaller extent or degree. | [conjunction] Unless LEST (4) [conjunction] For fear that; that not; in order to prevent something from happening; in case. | [conjunction] (after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension) that (without the negative particle; introduces the reason for an emotion.) LETS (4) [noun] The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent. | [verb] To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). | [verb] To leave. LEUD (5) LEVA (7) [noun] The currency of Bulgaria, divided into 100 stotinki LEVO (7) [adjective] (of an optically active compound or crystal) That rotates the plane of polarized light to the left, or anticlockwise. LEVY (10) [noun] The act of levying. | [noun] The tax, property or people so levied. | [verb] To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. | [noun] The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence. LEWD (8) [verb] To get high on quaalude. | [verb] To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner. | [adjective] Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude. LEYS (7) [noun] An open field, meadow. | [noun] A ley line. LICE (6) [noun] A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Psocodea. | [noun] (not usually used in plural form) A contemptible person; one who is deceitful or causes harm. 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. LIEF (7) [adjective] Beloved, dear, agreeable. | [adjective] Ready, willing. | [adverb] Readily, willingly, rather. | [noun] The fibre by which the petioles of the date palm are bound together, from which various kinds of cordage are made. LIEN (4) [noun] A tendon. | [noun] A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged. | [noun] (possibly obsolete) The spleen. LIER (4) LIES (4) [noun] The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck. | [noun] The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown. | [noun] The position of a fetus in the womb. LIEU (4) [noun] Place, stead; See in lieu or in lieu of LIFE (7) [noun] The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living. | [noun] The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc. | [noun] Lifeforms, generally or collectively. LIKE (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) Something that a person likes (prefers). | [noun] An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet. | [verb] To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of. | [noun] (sometimes as the likes of') Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort. | [verb] To be likely. LIME (6) [noun] Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime). | [noun] Any gluey or adhesive substance; something which traps or captures someone; sometimes a synonym for birdlime. | [verb] To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime). | [noun] A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree, or its wood. | [noun] Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon. | [verb] To hang out/socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach. | [noun] A leash. LINE (4) [noun] A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight. | [noun] A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness. | [noun] A hose or pipe, of any size. | [noun] Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax. | [verb] (of a dog) To copulate with, to impregnate. LIRE (4) [noun] Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin. | [noun] The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint. | [noun] The cheek. | [noun] The Manx shearwater (bird). | [noun] The basic unit of currency in Turkey. LITE (4) [noun] Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light. | [noun] A source of illumination. | [noun] Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information. | [noun] A little, bit. | [noun] The act of waiting; a wait. LIVE (7) [verb] To be alive; to have life. | [verb] To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside. | [verb] To survive; to persevere; to continue. | [noun] Life LOBE (6) [noun] Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. | [noun] A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung. | [noun] A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it. 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. LOGE (5) [noun] A booth or stall. | [noun] The lodge of a concierge. | [noun] An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine. LONE (4) [adjective] Solitary; having no companion. | [adjective] Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship. | [adjective] Sole; being the only one of a type. LOPE (6) [noun] An easy pace with long strides. | [verb] To travel an easy pace with long strides. | [verb] To jump, leap. LORE (4) [noun] All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience. | [noun] The backstory created around a fictional universe. | [noun] Workmanship. | [noun] The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians. | [verb] To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons. LOSE (4) [verb] To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons. | [verb] To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from. | [verb] To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc). | [noun] Fame, renown; praise. LOVE (7) [noun] Strong affection. | [noun] A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved. | [noun] A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings. | [verb] To praise; commend. | [noun] (racquet sports) Zero, no score. LOWE (7) [noun] A flame; fire; blaze. LUBE (6) [noun] Lubricant | [verb] To lubricate LUCE (6) [noun] The pike, Esox lucius, when fully grown. LUDE (5) LUES (4) [verb] To sift using a sieve, particularly in mining tin or silver. LUGE (5) [noun] A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back. | [noun] The sport of racing on luges. | [noun] A piece of ice, bone or other material with a channel down which a (usually alcoholic) drink can be poured into someone's mouth. LUNE (4) [noun] A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. | [noun] A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles. | [noun] Anything crescent-shaped. | [noun] (hawking) A leash for a hawk. LURE (4) [noun] Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure | [noun] An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish | [noun] A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk | [noun] A trumpet with long curved tube, used for calling cattle, etc. LUTE (4) [noun] A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. | [verb] To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. | [noun] Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight. LUXE (11) [noun] Luxury LWEI (7) [noun] A monetary unit of Angola used from 1975-1990, one hundredth of a kwanza. LYES (7) LYRE (7) [noun] An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke. | [noun] A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical. | [noun] A composer of lyric poetry. LYSE (7) [verb] To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis. | [verb] To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis. MABE (8) MACE (8) [noun] A heavy fighting club. | [noun] A ceremonial form of this weapon. | [noun] A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked. | [noun] An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael. | [noun] A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg. | [noun] Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use. MADE (7) [noun] A grub or maggot. | [verb] To create. | [verb] To behave, to act. MAES (6) MAGE (7) [noun] A magician, wizard or sorcerer. MAKE (10) [noun] Brand or kind; model. | [noun] Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form. | [noun] Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production. | [noun] Mate; a spouse or companion; a match. | [noun] A halfpenny. | [noun] An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares. MALE (6) [noun] One of the male (masculine) sex or gender. | [adjective] Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it. | [adjective] Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.) MANE (6) [noun] Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion | [noun] Long or thick hair of a person's head. MARE (6) [noun] An adult female horse. | [noun] A foolish woman. | [noun] A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit. | [noun] A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea. MATE (6) [noun] A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate. | [noun] (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner. | [noun] A friend, usually of the same sex. | [noun] The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture. | [noun] The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea MAZE (15) [noun] A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way. | [noun] Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle. | [noun] Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment. MEAD (7) [noun] An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water. | [noun] A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide. | [noun] A meadow. MEAL (6) [noun] Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack). | [noun] Food served or eaten as a repast. | [noun] A time or an occasion. | [noun] The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour. | [noun] A speck or spot. MEAN (6) [verb] To lament. | [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). | [adjective] Common; general. | [noun] (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result. MEAT (6) [noun] The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. | [noun] A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. | [noun] Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. MEED (7) [noun] A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award. | [noun] A gift; bribe. | [noun] Merit or desert; worth. | [verb] To reward; bribe. MEEK (10) [verb] (of horses) To tame; to break. | [adjective] Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing. | [adjective] Submissive, dispirited. MEET (6) [noun] A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet). | [noun] A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. | [noun] A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. | [adjective] Suitable; right; proper. MELD (7) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [noun] A combination of cards which is melded. | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. MELL (6) MELS (6) MELT (6) [noun] Molten material, the product of melting. | [noun] The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. | [noun] The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. MEMO (8) [noun] A short note; a memorandum. | [noun] A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation. | [verb] To record something; to make a note of something. MEMS (8) [noun] The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | [noun] A memory access as part of processing. MEND (7) [noun] A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending. | [noun] The act of repairing. | [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. MENO (6) MENU (6) [noun] The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. | [noun] A list of dishes offered in a restaurant. | [noun] A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface MEOU (6) MEOW (9) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MERE (6) [noun] A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere. | [noun] Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line. | [verb] To limit; bound; divide or cause division in. | [adjective] Famous. | [adjective] Pure, unalloyed . | [noun] A Maori war-club. MERK (10) MERL (6) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MESA (6) [noun] Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges. MESH (9) [noun] A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them. | [noun] The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space. | [noun] The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack. MESS (6) [noun] A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; disorder. | [noun] A large quantity or number. | [noun] Excrement. | [noun] Mass; a church service. META (6) [adjective] Self-referential; structured analogously, but at a higher level. | [noun] Boundary marker. | [noun] Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus. | [noun] Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game. | [noun] Metoidioplasty. METE (6) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). | [noun] A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere. | [adjective] Suitable; right; proper. METH (9) [noun] Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride. | [noun] Methadone. | [noun] (Mancunian) A tramp. | [noun] A spiced mead, originally from Wales. MEWL (9) [noun] A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling. | [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MEWS (9) [noun] An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. | [noun] A place where birds of prey are housed. | [noun] A gull, seagull. | [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. MEZE (15) [noun] Small portions of starters typical of Turkish and Greek cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita. MICE (8) [noun] Any small rodent of the genus Mus. | [noun] A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent. | [noun] A quiet or shy person. MIEN (6) [noun] Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. | [noun] A specific facial expression. MIKE (10) [noun] A microphone. | [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. | [noun] A minute. MILE (6) [noun] The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards. | [noun] Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values. | [noun] Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet. MIME (8) [noun] A form of acting without words; pantomime. | [noun] A pantomime actor. | [noun] A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce. MINE (6) [pronoun] My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me. | [noun] An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. | [noun] Any source of wealth or resources. | [noun] Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. MIRE (6) [noun] Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. | [noun] An undesirable situation, a predicament. | [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [noun] An ant. MISE (6) MITE (6) [noun] Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari). | [noun] A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. | [noun] A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. 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. MOKE (10) [noun] A donkey. | [noun] A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net. | [noun] A black person. MOLE (6) [noun] A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy. | [noun] Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae. | [noun] Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats. | [noun] A moll, a bitch, a slut. | [noun] A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water. | [noun] In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. | [noun] A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum. | [noun] One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially the sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts. MOME (8) MOPE (8) [noun] A dull, spiritless person. | [noun] (pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay. | [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. MORE (6) [adverb] To a greater degree or extent. | [adverb] Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. | [adverb] In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. | [noun] A carrot; a parsnip. | [verb] To root up. MOTE (6) [noun] A small particle; a speck. | [verb] May or might. | [verb] Must. | [noun] A meeting for discussion. | [noun] A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust. MOUE (6) [noun] A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness. MOVE (9) [noun] The act of moving; a movement. | [noun] An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. | [noun] A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc. MULE (6) [noun] The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. | [noun] The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals. | [noun] A hybrid plant. | [noun] A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot. MURE (6) [noun] Wall | [noun] Husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh | [verb] To wall in or fortify MUSE (6) [noun] A source of inspiration. | [noun] A poet; a bard. | [noun] An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness. | [noun] A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset. MUTE (6) [noun] A stopped consonant; a stop. | [noun] An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. | [noun] A person who does not have the power of speech. | [noun] The faeces of a hawk or falcon. | [verb] To cast off; to moult. NABE (6) [noun] Neighborhood. | [noun] (frequently plural) Neighborhood theater, neighborhood cinema. NAME (6) [noun] Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing. | [noun] Reputation. | [noun] An abusive or insulting epithet. | [verb] (ditransitive) To give a name to. | [noun] Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking. NAPE (6) [noun] The back part of the neck. | [noun] The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head. | [noun] A tablecloth. | [noun] Napalm. NAVE (7) [noun] The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances. | [noun] A hub of a wheel. | [noun] The navel. NEAP (6) [noun] The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals. | [noun] A neap tide. | [verb] To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides. | [noun] The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland. NEAR (4) [noun] The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc. | [verb] To come closer to; to approach. | [adjective] Physically close. NEAT (4) [noun] An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy. | [adjective] Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities. | [adjective] Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below. | [noun] A bull or cow. NEBS (6) [noun] A bird's beak or bill. | [noun] A person's mouth. | [noun] A person's nose. NECK (10) [noun] The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals. | [noun] The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts. | [noun] The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck. 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. NEEM (6) [noun] Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield the insecticide azadirachtin. NEEP (6) [noun] The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland. NEIF (7) NEMA (6) NENE (4) [noun] The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957. NEON (4) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The lightest of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas. | [noun] A form or sample of the element. | [noun] Neon signs or lights, collectively. 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. NESS (4) [noun] A promontory; a cape or headland. (Frequently used as a suffix in placenames.) NEST (4) [noun] A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. | [noun] A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young. | [noun] A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation. NETS (4) [noun] A mesh of string, cord or rope. | [noun] A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc. | [noun] A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something. NETT (4) [noun] The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit. | [adjective] Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear. | [adjective] Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat. NEUK (8) NEUM (6) [noun] Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation. | [noun] A sequence of notes to be sung to one syllable. NEVE (7) [noun] Nephew. | [noun] A male cousin. | [noun] A grandson. NEVI (7) [noun] Any of a number of different, usually benign, pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal lesions of the skin. NEWS (7) [noun] New information of interest. | [noun] Information about current events disseminated via media. | [noun] Posts published on newsgroups NEWT (7) [noun] A small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult. NEXT (11) [noun] The one that follows after this one. | [adjective] Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining. | [adjective] Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order. NICE (6) [noun] Niceness. | [adjective] Pleasant, satisfactory. | [adjective] Of a person: friendly, attractive. | [verb] To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority. NIDE (5) [noun] A nest of pheasants. NINE (4) [noun] The digit or figure 9. | [noun] A playing card with nine pips. | [noun] A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol. NITE (4) [noun] The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark. | [noun] (Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight. | [noun] (Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise. NIXE (11) 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. NOEL (4) [noun] Christmas | [noun] A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol. NOES (4) [noun] A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval | [noun] A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition NOME (6) [noun] A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece. | [noun] A territorial division of ancient Egypt. | [noun] A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece. | [interjection] Contraction of no ma'am | [noun] A special function with which elliptic functions and modular forms can be described. NONE (4) [noun] A person without religious affiliation. | [adverb] To no extent, in no way. | [adverb] Not at all, not very. | [noun] Those without any religious affiliation: atheists and others outside any organized religion. NOPE (6) [noun] A negative reply, no. | [noun] An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration. | [noun] (except near Staffordshire) A bullfinch | [noun] A blow to the head. NOSE (4) [noun] A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell. | [noun] A snout, the nose of an animal. | [noun] The tip of an object. NOTE (4) [noun] (heading) A symbol or annotation. | [noun] (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment. | [noun] (heading) A sound. | [noun] That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work. 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. NUKE (8) [noun] A nuclear weapon. | [noun] (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale. | [noun] A nuclear power station. | [noun] A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony. | [noun] The spinal cord. | [noun] A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove. OBES (6) OBEY (9) [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.). OBOE (6) [noun] A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family. 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. OGEE (5) [noun] A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape | [noun] A pointed arch made from two ogees | [noun] An inflection point. OGLE (5) [noun] An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An eye. | [verb] To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously. OGRE (5) [noun] A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh. | [noun] A brutish man reminiscent of the mythical ogre. OHED (8) OKEH (11) OKES (8) [noun] A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus. | [noun] The wood of the oak. | [noun] A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood. OLEA (4) OLEO (4) [noun] The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine. | [noun] Margarine OLES (4) OMEN (6) [noun] Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury. | [noun] A thing of prophetic significance. | [verb] To be an omen of. OMER (6) [noun] A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts. | [noun] A vessel of one omer. | [noun] The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover. | [noun] The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot. ONCE (6) [adverb] (frequency) One and only one time. | [adverb] (temporal location) Formerly; during some period in the past. | [adverb] Multiplied by one: indicating that a number is multiplied by one. ONES (4) [noun] The digit or figure 1. | [noun] The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. | [noun] A one-dollar bill. OOZE (13) [noun] Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather. | [noun] An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth. | [noun] Secretion, humour. | [noun] Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary. OPED (7) [verb] To open. OPEN (6) [adjective] Not closed | [adjective] Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended | [adjective] Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business. | [verb] To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position. | [noun] (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location. OPES (6) [verb] To open. ORES (4) [noun] Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed. ORLE (4) [noun] A bordure that runs around the outline of a shield without touching the edge | [noun] The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest; a torse | [noun] A fillet under the ovolo of a capital OSES (4) OVEN (7) [noun] A chamber used for baking or heating. OVER (7) [noun] A set of six legal balls bowled. | [noun] Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc. | [verb] To go over, or jump over. | [noun] A shore, riverbank. 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. OWES (7) [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. OWSE (7) OXEN (11) [noun] An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus). | [noun] Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or resembling an ox; oxlike OXES (11) OYER (7) OYES (7) OYEZ (16) [noun] A cry of "oyez". | [verb] To proclaim with a cry of "oyez". | [interjection] Hear ye. Attend. (Called by public criers or in court usually three times to secure silence and/or attentiveness). PACE (8) [noun] Step. | [noun] Way of stepping. | [noun] Speed or velocity in general. | [preposition] With all due respect to. | [noun] Easter. PAGE (7) [noun] One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. | [noun] One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed. | [noun] Any record or writing; a collective memory. | [noun] A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education. PALE (6) [noun] Paleness; pallor. | [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [noun] A wooden stake; a picket. PANE (6) [noun] An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc. | [noun] A layer in the build-up of a GUI. | [noun] A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface. PARE (6) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PASE (6) PATE (6) [noun] (somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown. | [noun] Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities. | [noun] The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color. PAVE (9) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PEAG (7) PEAK (10) [noun] A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. | [noun] The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period. | [noun] The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point. | [verb] To become sick or wan. | [noun] Wampum. PEAL (6) [noun] A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc. | [noun] A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale. | [noun] The changes rung on a set of bells. | [noun] A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. PEAN (6) [noun] A heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field. | [adjective] : In blazon, a heraldic fur of a black field. with gold spots | [noun] A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle. | [noun] The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end. PEAR (6) [noun] An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem. | [noun] A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis). | [noun] The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood). PEAS (6) [noun] A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family. | [noun] The edible seed of some of these plants. | [noun] A ball travelling at high velocity. PEAT (6) [noun] Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. | [noun] A pet, a darling; a woman. PECH (11) [verb] To pant, to struggle for breath. PECK (12) [noun] An act of striking with a beak. | [noun] A small kiss. | [verb] To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). | [noun] One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts. | [verb] To throw. | [noun] Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects. PECS (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) The pectoralis major muscle. 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. PEEK (10) [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. PEEL (6) [noun] (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc. | [noun] The action of peeling away from a formation. | [noun] A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate. | [noun] A stake. | [noun] A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven. | [noun] An equal or match; a draw. | [verb] To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own). | [verb] To plunder; to pillage, rob. | [noun] A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. PEEN (6) [noun] The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end. | [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [noun] Penis. PEEP (8) [noun] A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird. | [noun] A feeble utterance or complaint. | [noun] The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill. | [noun] A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one. | [noun] A spot on a die or domino. | [noun] Person. PEER (6) [noun] A look; a glance. | [verb] To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. | [verb] To come in sight; to appear. | [noun] Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else). | [noun] Someone who pees, someone who urinates. PEES (6) [noun] Urine. | [verb] To urinate. | [verb] (mildly vulgar) To drizzle. PEGS (7) [noun] A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects. | [noun] Measurement between the pegs: after killing an animal hunters used the distance between a peg near the animal's nose and one near the end of its tail to measure its body length. | [noun] A protrusion used to hang things on. PEHS (9) PEIN (6) [noun] The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end. | [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. PEKE (10) [noun] A Pekingese dog. PELE (6) PELF (9) [noun] Money; riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired (compare lucre). PELT (6) [noun] A blow or stroke from something thrown. | [verb] To bombard, as with missiles. | [verb] To throw; to use as a missile. PEND (7) PENS (6) [noun] An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle. | [noun] A prison cell. | [noun] The bullpen. PENT (6) [verb] To enclose in a pen. | [noun] Confinement; concealment. | [adjective] Confined in a pen, imprisoned. | [noun] A pentatonic scale. | [noun] A pentacle or pentagram. PEON (6) [noun] A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work. | [noun] A person of low rank or importance. | [noun] A messenger, foot soldier, or native policeman. PEPO (8) [noun] A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber. | [noun] A plant producing such a fruit. PEPS (8) [noun] Energy, high spirits. | [verb] To inject with energy and enthusiasm. PERI (6) [noun] (Persian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being. PERK (10) [noun] Perquisite. | [noun] A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up. | [noun] A percolator, particularly of coffee. | [verb] To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of. | [verb] To peer; to look inquisitively. | [verb] To perch. PERM (8) [noun] A permanent. | [noun] A permanent wave. | [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. | [noun] A permutation. PERT (6) [noun] An impudent person. | [verb] To behave with pertness. | [adjective] (of a person) Attractive. PESO (6) [noun] A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar. | [noun] The currency of various countries, including but not limited to Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines. PEST (6) [noun] A plague, pestilence, epidemic | [noun] Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest. | [noun] An annoying person, a nuisance. PETS (6) [noun] An animal kept as a companion. | [noun] (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.) | [noun] One who is excessively loyal to a superior. PEWS (9) [noun] One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel. | [noun] An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family. | [noun] Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold. PHEW (12) [interjection] Used to express relief of tension, fatigue, or surprise. | [interjection] Used to show disgust. PICE (8) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in various Asian countries. | [noun] (British India) A subdivision of currency equivalent to 1/64 of a rupee or three pies. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka. 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). PIER (6) [noun] A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty. | [noun] A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment. | [noun] A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided. PIES (6) [verb] To spill or mix printing type. | [noun] A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. | [noun] Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling. PIKE (10) [noun] A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults. | [noun] A sharp point, such as that of the weapon. | [noun] A large haycock. | [noun] Short for turnpike. PILE (6) [noun] A mass of things heaped together; a heap. | [noun] A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process. | [noun] A mass formed in layers. | [noun] A dart; an arrow. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid. | [noun] Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.) PINE (6) [noun] Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus. | [noun] Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect. | [noun] The wood of this tree. | [noun] A painful longing. | [verb] To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress. PIPE (8) [noun] Meanings relating to a wind instrument. | [noun] Meanings relating to a hollow conduit. | [noun] Meanings relating to a container. PLEA (6) [noun] An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty. | [noun] An excuse; an apology. | [noun] That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification. PLEB (8) [noun] A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society. | [noun] A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy. 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. PLEW (9) [noun] Beaver pelt PLIE (6) [noun] A smooth and continuous bending of the knees POEM (8) [noun] A literary piece written in verse. | [noun] A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry. | [noun] A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose. POET (6) [noun] A person who writes poems. | [noun] A person with a creative or romantic imagination. POKE (10) [noun] A prod, jab, or thrust. | [noun] A lazy person; a dawdler. | [noun] A stupid or uninteresting person. | [noun] A sack or bag. | [noun] Pokeweed | [noun] Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients. POLE (6) [noun] Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes. | [noun] A type of basic fishing rod. | [noun] A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used. | [noun] Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object. POME (8) [noun] A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels. | [noun] A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service. | [verb] To grow to a head, or form a head in growing. PONE (6) [noun] A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts. | [noun] A writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities. | [noun] A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs. | [noun] The last player to bet or play in turn. POPE (8) [noun] An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state. | [noun] (Coptic Church) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church. | [noun] An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church. | [noun] (alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop. | [noun] (Russian Orthodoxy) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson. | [noun] The whippoorwill (Caprimulgus vociferus). PORE (6) [noun] A tiny opening in the skin. | [noun] By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid. | [verb] To study meticulously; to go over again and again. POSE (6) [noun] Common cold, head cold; catarrh. | [noun] Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body). | [noun] Affectation. | [verb] To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate. PREE (6) PREP (8) [noun] A preventative medical regiment of HIV medicines used to protect against HIV seroconversion after an exposure. | [noun] Preparation. | [noun] A prep school. PREX (13) [noun] (college slang) A president, especially of a university. | [noun] Prefix. PREY (9) [noun] Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war | [noun] That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim. | [noun] A living thing that is eaten by another living thing. PREZ (15) [noun] President. PUCE (8) [noun] A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish. | [adjective] Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish. PUKE (10) [noun] Vomit. | [noun] A drug that induces vomiting. | [noun] A worthless, despicable person. | [adjective] A fine grade of woolen cloth. PULE (6) [noun] A plaintive melancholy whine. | [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. | [noun] A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk. PURE (6) [noun] One who, or that which, is pure. | [verb] To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately | [verb] To cleanse; to refine. | [noun] Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins. PYES (9) PYRE (9) [noun] A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned. | [noun] Any heap or pile of combustibles. QUEY (16) RACE (6) [noun] A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins | [noun] Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed. | [noun] A race condition. | [noun] A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics: | [noun] A rhizome or root, especially of ginger. | [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. RAGE (5) [noun] Violent uncontrolled anger. | [noun] A current fashion or fad. | [noun] Any vehement passion. RAKE (8) [noun] A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor. | [noun] (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes. | [noun] The act of raking. | [noun] A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey. | [noun] Rate of progress; pace, speed. | [noun] A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope. | [noun] A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct. RALE (4) [noun] (now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema. RAPE (6) RARE (4) [noun] A scarce or uncommon item. | [adjective] Very uncommon; scarce. | [adjective] (of a gas) Thin; of low density. | [adjective] (particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense). | [verb] To rear, rise up, start backwards. | [adjective] Early RASE (4) [noun] A scratching out, or erasure | [noun] A slight wound; a scratch | [noun] A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it RATE (4) [noun] The worth of something; value. | [noun] The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. | [noun] Speed. | [verb] To berate, scold. RAVE (7) [noun] An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). | [noun] An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use. | [noun] The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties. | [noun] One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh. | [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. RAZE (13) [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. | [verb] To scrape as if with a razor. | [noun] A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins | [noun] A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through. READ (5) [noun] A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play. | [noun] (in combination) Something to be read; a written work. | [noun] A person's interpretation or impression of something. | [verb] To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. REAL (4) [noun] A commodity; see realty. | [noun] (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages. | [noun] A real number. | [noun] Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies. | [noun] A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942. REAM (6) [noun] Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general. | [verb] To cream; mantle; foam; froth. | [verb] To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider. | [noun] A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets. REAP (6) [noun] A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. | [verb] To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine | [verb] To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting. REAR (4) [verb] To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. | [verb] (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. | [verb] To rise up on the hind legs | [verb] To move; stir. | [adjective] (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw. | [noun] The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front. REBS (6) [noun] A Confederate soldier. RECK (10) [verb] To make account of; to care for; to heed, regard, consider. | [verb] To concern, to be important or earnest. | [verb] To think. RECS (6) [noun] A recommendation or suggestion. | [noun] A recreation ground. | [noun] Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates. 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. REEF (7) [noun] A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water. | [noun] A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore. | [noun] A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind. | [noun] The itch; any eruptive skin disorder. REEK (8) [noun] A strong unpleasant smell. | [noun] Vapour; steam; smoke; fume. | [verb] To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell. | [noun] A hill; a mountain. REEL (4) [noun] A shaky or unsteady gait. | [noun] A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel. | [noun] A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound. REES (4) REFS (7) [noun] A referee. | [noun] A refrigerator. | [verb] To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game. REFT (7) [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. REGS (5) [noun] A regular. | [noun] A regulation. | [noun] Registrar | [noun] Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana. REIF (7) REIN (4) [noun] A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child. | [noun] An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing. | [verb] To direct or stop a horse by using reins. | [noun] (chiefly in plural) A kidney. REIS (4) RELY (7) [verb] (with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend. REMS (6) 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. RENT (4) [noun] A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property. | [noun] A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service. | [noun] A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business. | [verb] To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst REPO (6) [noun] Repossession | [noun] A repurchase agreement: a type of derivative which allows a borrower to use a financial security as collateral for a cash loan at a fixed interest rate | [noun] A repository usually containing software, in either source code or precompiled form. REPP (8) [noun] A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface. REPS (6) [noun] Rep. | [verb] To represent; to act as a representative for. | [verb] Repeat RESH (7) REST (4) [noun] (of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep. | [noun] Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation. | [noun] Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility. | [verb] To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion. | [noun] That which remains. | [verb] To arrest. RETE (4) [noun] A network of blood vessels or nerves. | [noun] An anatomical part resembling or including a network. | [noun] A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features. RETS (4) [verb] To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem. REVS (7) [noun] Revolution | [noun] A member of the Christian clergy; a minister. RHEA (7) [noun] A large flightless bird of the genus Rhea, native to South America. | [noun] Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a fiber-yielding plant. RICE (6) [noun] Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food. | [noun] A specific variety of this plant. | [noun] The seeds of this plant used as food. | [noun] (now chiefly) A twig or stick. RIDE (5) [noun] An instance of riding. | [noun] A vehicle. | [noun] An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. RIEL (4) [noun] The monetary unit of Cambodia, equivalent to 100 sen or 10 kak. Symbol: ៛ RIFE (7) [adjective] Widespread, common, prevalent, current (mainly of unpleasant or harmful things). | [adjective] Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful. | [adjective] Full of (mostly unpleasant or harmful things). RILE (4) [verb] To make angry | [verb] To stir or move from a state of calm or order RIME (6) [noun] Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface. | [noun] A coating or sheet of ice so formed. | [noun] A film or slimy coating. | [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [noun] A step of a ladder; a rung. | [noun] A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. RIPE (6) [noun] A fruit or vegetable which has ripened. | [verb] To ripen or mature | [adjective] (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature | [noun] The bank of a river. | [verb] To search; to rummage. RISE (4) [verb] To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. | [verb] To increase in value or standing. | [verb] To begin; to develop. | [noun] The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater. | [noun] (now chiefly) A twig or stick. RITE (4) [noun] A religious custom. | [noun] (by extension) A prescribed behavior. | [adjective] Straight, not bent. RIVE (7) [noun] A place torn; a rent; a rift. | [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. | [noun] A bank or shore. ROBE (6) [noun] A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature. | [noun] The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap. | [noun] A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom. 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. ROES (4) [noun] The eggs of fish. | [noun] The sperm of certain fish. | [noun] The ovaries of certain crustaceans. ROLE (4) [noun] A character or part played by a performer or actor. | [noun] The expected behaviour of an individual in a society. | [noun] The function or position of something. | [noun] An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment. ROPE (6) [noun] Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. | [noun] An individual length of such material. | [noun] A cohesive strand of something. ROSE (4) [noun] A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers. | [noun] A flower of the rose plant. | [noun] A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae) | [verb] To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. | [noun] A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation. ROTE (4) [noun] Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure. | [verb] To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate. | [verb] To learn or repeat by rote. | [noun] The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore. | [noun] A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. ROUE (4) ROVE (7) [noun] A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding. | [noun] A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving. | [noun] The act of wandering; a ramble. | [verb] To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it. RUBE (6) [noun] A person of rural heritage; a yokel. | [noun] An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person. 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. RUER (4) RUES (4) [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. RULE (4) [noun] A regulation, law, guideline. | [noun] A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure. | [noun] A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing. | [verb] To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over. | [noun] Revelry. RUNE (4) [noun] A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons. | [noun] A Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala. | [noun] A letter or mark used as mystical or magic symbol. RUSE (4) [noun] A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs. | [noun] (by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick. | [noun] Cunning, guile, trickery. RYES (7) [noun] A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. | [noun] The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. | [noun] Rye bread. RYKE (11) SABE (6) SADE (5) SAFE (7) [noun] A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping. | [noun] A condom. | [noun] A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects. SAGE (5) [noun] A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher. | [adjective] Wise. | [adjective] Grave; serious; solemn | [noun] The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes. | [verb] The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply. SAKE (8) [noun] Cause, interest or account | [noun] Purpose or end; reason | [noun] The benefit or regard of someone or something | [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. SALE (4) [noun] A hall. | [noun] An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit. | [noun] (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices. SAME (6) [adjective] Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical. | [adjective] Lacking variety from; indistinguishable. | [adjective] Similar, alike. | [adverb] Together. SANE (4) [adjective] Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally. | [adjective] Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner. | [adjective] Rational; reasonable; sensible. SATE (4) [verb] To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up. | [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | [verb] (of a person) To move oneself into such a position. | [noun] Satay SAVE (7) [noun] In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring. | [noun] When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead. | [noun] A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten. SEAL (4) [noun] A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal. | [noun] A bearing representing a creature something like a walrus. | [verb] To hunt seals. | [noun] A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax. | [verb] To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls. SEAM (6) [noun] A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. | [noun] A suture. | [noun] A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. | [verb] To put together with a seam. | [noun] An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels. | [noun] Grease; tallow; lard SEAR (4) [adjective] Dry; withered, especially of vegetation. | [noun] A scar produced by searing | [noun] Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled. SEAS (4) [noun] A large body of salt water. | [noun] A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish. | [noun] The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow. SEAT (4) [noun] Something to be sat upon. | [noun] A location or site. | [noun] The starting point of a fire. SECS (6) [noun] Second, 1/60 of a minute. | [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] A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree. SECT (6) [noun] An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs. | [noun] A group following a specific ideal or a leader. | [noun] A cutting; a scion. 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. SEEK (8) [noun] The operation of navigating through a stream. | [verb] To try to find; to look for; to search for. | [verb] To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. SEEL (4) [adjective] Good; fortunate; opportune; happy. | [noun] Good fortune; happiness; bliss. | [noun] Opportunity; time; season. | [verb] To sew together the eyes of a young hawk. | [noun] The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. SEEM (6) [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. SEEN (4) [verb] (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight. | [verb] To form a mental picture of. | [verb] (social) To meet, to visit. | [noun] The letter س in the Arabic script. SEEP (6) [noun] A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping. | [noun] Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage. | [noun] The seeping away of a liquid, etc. SEER (4) [noun] One who sees something; an eyewitness. | [noun] One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner. | [noun] Unit of mass or volume in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent. SEES (4) [verb] (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight. | [verb] To form a mental picture of. | [verb] (social) To meet, to visit. SEGO (5) [noun] A perennial bulb lily found in Western North America, the Calochortus nuttallii, which has trumpet-shaped flowers. SEGS (5) SEIF (7) [noun] A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind. SEIS (4) [noun] A sei whale. SELF (7) [noun] One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition. | [noun] The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. | [noun] An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves). SELL (4) [noun] An act of selling. | [noun] An easy task. | [noun] An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity. | [noun] A seat or stool. | [noun] A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope). SELS (4) SEME (6) [noun] Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign. | [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. | [noun] A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. | [adjective] Sprinkled, sown, strewn: said of a field or charge when strewn with small (identical) charges. | [noun] (Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top. SEMI (6) [noun] A semi-detached house. | [noun] A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic. | [noun] A semifinal. 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. SENE (4) [noun] Senna. | [noun] A unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a Samoan tala. SENT (4) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Estonian kroon. | [noun] A distinctive odour or smell. | [noun] An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing. SEPT (6) [noun] A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland). | [noun] An enclosure; a railing. SERA (4) [noun] The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. | [noun] Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum. | [noun] A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. SERE (4) [adjective] Without moisture; dry. | [adjective] Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out. | [noun] A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved. | [noun] A claw, a talon. | [adjective] Individual, separate, set apart. SERF (7) [noun] A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights | [noun] A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe | [noun] (strategy games) a worker unit SERS (4) SETA (4) [noun] A bristle or hair | [noun] The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort. SETS (4) [verb] To put (something) down, to rest. | [verb] To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. | [verb] To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be. SETT (4) [verb] To put (something) down, to rest. | [verb] To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. | [verb] To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be. SEWN (7) [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. SEWS (7) [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. SEXT (11) [noun] Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight. | [noun] The service appointed for this hour. | [noun] A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees. | [noun] An electronic message involving sexual language or images. SEXY (14) [adjective] (of a person) Having sex appeal; suggestive of sex. | [adjective] That can sexually attract or arouse. | [adjective] (of a thing or concept) interesting, attractive, intriguing, or appealing. | [adjective] Used to describe prime numbers that differ from each other by six. SHEA (7) [noun] A tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda. | [noun] The fruit of this tree, having a thin, tart, nutritious pulp that surrounds a relatively large, oil-rich seed. 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. SHES (7) [noun] A female. SHEW (10) [noun] A play, dance, or other entertainment. | [noun] An exhibition of items. | [noun] A broadcast program/programme. | [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). SHOE (7) [noun] A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do. | [noun] A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe. | [noun] A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles. SICE (6) [noun] A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses. | [noun] (Malaya) usually syce: chauffeur, driver. | [noun] The number six in a game of dice. 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. SIKE (8) [noun] A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer. | [noun] A sigh. | [verb] To sigh or sob. | [interjection] Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor. Also sike. SINE (4) [noun] In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse. SIPE (6) [noun] Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction. | [noun] A drain. | [verb] To cut grooves in tires. SIRE (4) [noun] A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign. | [noun] A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another. | [noun] A father; the head of a family; the husband. SITE (4) [noun] Sorrow, grief. | [noun] The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position | [noun] A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation SIZE (13) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) An assize. | [noun] A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc. | [noun] A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink. | [noun] A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon. SKEE (8) SKEG (9) [noun] A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller. | [noun] A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel. | [noun] A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard. SKEP (10) [noun] A basket. | [noun] A beehive made of straw or wicker. SKEW (11) [noun] Something that has an oblique or slanted position. | [noun] An oblique or sideways movement. | [noun] A bias or distortion in a particular direction. | [noun] A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel. 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. SLEW (7) [noun] The act, or process of slewing. | [noun] A device used for slewing. | [noun] A change of position. | [noun] A wet place; a river inlet. | [verb] To kill, murder. | [noun] A large amount. SLOE (4) [noun] The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa). | [noun] The tree Prunus spinosa. | [noun] Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit. SLUE (4) [noun] The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued. | [noun] A slough; a run or wet place. | [verb] To rotate something on an axis. SMEW (9) [noun] A small compact diving duck, Mergus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes. SNED (5) [verb] To lop. SNYE (7) SOKE (8) [noun] Any of several medieval rights, either to hold a court, or to receive fines. | [noun] A district under a particular jurisdiction. SOLE (4) [noun] A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall. | [noun] A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water. | [verb] To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug. | [adjective] Only | [noun] The bottom or plantar surface of the foot. SOME (6) [adverb] Of a measurement: approximately, roughly. | [pronoun] A certain number, at least two. | [pronoun] An indefinite quantity. SONE (4) [noun] (acoustics) a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing SORE (4) [noun] An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin. | [noun] Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. | [verb] To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait. | [noun] A group of ducks on land. | [noun] A young hawk or falcon in its first year. SPAE (6) [verb] To divine; foretell SPEC (8) [noun] A special place (for hiding or viewing) | [noun] A spectacular mark (catch) in Australian rules football. | [verb] To specify, especially in a formal specification document. 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. SPEW (9) [noun] Vomit | [noun] Ejaculate or ejaculation. | [noun] Nonsense or lies. SPUE (6) [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 STEM (6) [noun] The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. | [noun] A branch of a family. | [noun] An advanced or leading position; the lookout. | [verb] To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood). | [noun] A gleam of light; a flame. | [noun] Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics. STEP (6) [noun] An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace. | [noun] A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder. | [noun] A distinct part of a process; stage; phase. STET (4) [noun] A symbol used by proofreaders and typesetters to indicate that a word or phrase that was crossed out should still remain. | [verb] To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was. STEW (7) [noun] A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron. | [noun] A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. | [noun] A brothel. | [noun] A steward or stewardess on an airplane. STEY (7) STYE (7) [noun] A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid. | [noun] A ladder. | [noun] An inflammation of the eyelid. 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.). SUER (4) SUES (4) [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.). SUET (4) [noun] The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow. SUPE (6) SURE (4) [adjective] Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable. | [adjective] Certain in one's knowledge or belief. | [adjective] Certain to act or be a specified way. SYCE (9) [noun] A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses. | [noun] (Malaya) usually syce: chauffeur, driver. SYKE (11) SYNE (7) [adverb] Subsequently; then. | [adverb] Before now; ago. | [adverb] Late TACE (6) TAEL (4) [noun] Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams. | [noun] Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver. | [noun] Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms TAKE (8) [noun] The or an act of taking. | [noun] Something that is taken; a haul. | [noun] An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective. TALE (4) [noun] An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie. | [noun] A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. | [noun] A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration. | [verb] To speak; discourse; tell tales. | [noun] Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams. TAME (6) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. | [verb] To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. TAPE (6) [noun] Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. | [noun] Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. | [noun] Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race. TARE (4) [noun] A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa) | [noun] Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel. | [noun] A damaging weed growing in fields of grain. | [noun] The empty weight of a container; the tare weight or unladen weight. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [noun] Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce. TATE (4) TEAK (8) [noun] An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.). | [noun] A tree of the species in the genus Tectona | [noun] A yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood. TEAL (4) [noun] Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks. | [noun] A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan. | [adjective] Having a bluish-green colour TEAM (6) [noun] A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. | [noun] Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work. | [noun] A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks. TEAR (4) [noun] A hole or break caused by tearing. | [noun] A rampage. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [noun] A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation. TEAS (4) [noun] A drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, cannabis. | [noun] The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa. | [noun] Food consumed before going to bed. TEAT (4) [noun] The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted. | [noun] Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle. | [noun] An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants. 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 TEEL (4) TEEM (6) [verb] To be stocked to overflowing. | [verb] To be prolific; to abound; to be rife. | [verb] To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. | [verb] To empty. | [verb] To think fit. TEEN (4) [noun] A teenager. | [adjective] Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage | [noun] Grief; sorrow; trouble. | [verb] To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure. | [verb] (provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose. TEES (4) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter T. | [noun] Something shaped like the letter T. | [noun] (clothing) T-shirt. TEFF (10) [noun] A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia. | [noun] The fine grain of this plant. TEGS (5) [noun] A sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old | [noun] A doe in its second year TELA (4) TELE (4) [noun] Television. | [noun] A television set. | [noun] A hotel or motel. TELL (4) [noun] A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold. | [noun] That which is told; a tale or account. | [noun] A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper. | [noun] A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements. TELS (4) TEMP (8) [noun] Abbreviation of tempore. | [noun] A temporary employee, usually in an office. | [noun] A temporary storage location. 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. TENS (4) [noun] A set or group with ten elements. | [noun] A card in a given suit with a value of ten. | [noun] A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units. See also tenner. TENT (4) [noun] A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather. | [noun] The representation of a tent used as a bearing. | [noun] A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church. | [noun] Attention; regard, care. | [noun] A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges. | [noun] A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta. TEPA (6) TERM (6) [noun] That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary. | [noun] A chronological limitation or restriction. | [noun] Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. | [noun] A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. | [noun] One whose employment has been terminated TERN (4) [noun] Any of various sea birds of the family Sternidae that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail. | [noun] That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together. | [noun] A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw. TEST (4) [noun] A challenge, trial. | [noun] A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. | [noun] (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term. | [noun] A witness. | [noun] (body building) testosterone TETH (7) TETS (4) TEWS (7) TEXT (11) [noun] A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences. | [noun] A book, tome or other set of writings. | [noun] A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones. THAE (7) THEE (7) [verb] To address (a person) using the pronoun thee. | [verb] To use the word thee. | [pronoun] Objective and reflexive case of thou. | [verb] To thrive; prosper. | [noun] The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand. THEM (9) [pronoun] (plural) Those ones. | [pronoun] (singular) Him, her, or it; that one. THEN (7) [conjunction] Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison. | [conjunction] (obsolete outside dialectal, usually used with for) Because; for. | [noun] That time THEW (10) [noun] A bondman; a slave. | [adjective] Bond; servile. | [verb] To oppress; enslave. | [noun] Muscle or sinew. THEY (10) [pronoun] (the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants or objects previously mentioned. | [pronoun] (the third-person singular, sometimes proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but typically not if previously named and identified as male or female. | [pronoun] (indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker. | [pronoun] There (especially as an expletive subject of be). 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. 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. TIER (4) [noun] One who ties (knots, etc). | [noun] Something that ties. | [noun] A child's apron. | [noun] A layer or rank, especially of seats or a wedding cake. TIES (4) [noun] A knot; a fastening. | [noun] A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig. | [noun] A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie. TIKE (8) [noun] A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida. | [noun] A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery. | [noun] A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement. TILE (4) [noun] A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile etc. | [noun] A rectangular graphic. | [noun] Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong. | [verb] To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated. TIME (6) [noun] The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. | [noun] A duration of time. | [noun] An instant of time. TINE (4) [noun] A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb. | [noun] A small branch, especially on an antler or horn. | [noun] A wild vetch or tare. | [adjective] Small, diminutive | [noun] Trouble; distress; teen. | [verb] To kindle; to set on fire. | [verb] To shut in, or enclose. TIRE (4) [verb] To become sleepy or weary. | [verb] To make sleepy or weary. | [verb] To become bored or impatient (with). | [noun] Accoutrements, accessories. | [verb] To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. | [noun] A tier, row, or rank. TOEA (4) [noun] A unit of currency, equivalent to one hundredth of a Papua New Guinean kina. 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. TOES (4) [noun] Each of the five digits on the end of the foot. | [noun] An equivalent part in an animal. | [noun] That part of a shoe or sock covering the toe. TOKE (8) [noun] (casinos) A gratuity. | [verb] To give a gratuity to. | [noun] A puff of marijuana. | [noun] A piece of bread. TOLE (4) [noun] A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded | [noun] Tola (unit of mass) | [verb] To entice; to allure or attract. | [noun] A portion of grain paid to the miller who grinds it. TOME (6) [noun] One in a series of volumes. | [noun] A large or scholarly book. TONE (4) [noun] A specific pitch. | [noun] (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second. | [noun] (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody. | [pronoun] The one (of two) TOPE (6) [verb] To drink excessively; to get drunk. | [noun] A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout. | [noun] A grove of trees. | [noun] A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa. TORE (4) [adjective] Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious. | [adjective] Strong, sturdy; great, massive. | [adjective] Full; rich. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [noun] The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane. | [noun] The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. TOTE (4) [noun] A tote bag. | [noun] A heavy burden. | [noun] (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods. | [verb] To add up; to calculate a total. | [noun] A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator. TREE (4) [noun] Fast growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem. | [noun] A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage. | [noun] Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense). TREF (7) TREK (8) [noun] A journey by ox wagon. | [noun] The Boer migration of 1835-1837. | [noun] A slow or difficult journey. TRET (4) [noun] An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare is deducted. TREY (7) [noun] A playing card or die with the rank of three. | [noun] A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes. | [noun] A three-pointer. TRUE (4) [noun] The state of being in alignment. | [noun] Truth. | [noun] A pledge or truce. TUBE (6) [noun] Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. | [noun] An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances. | [noun] (often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.) TULE (4) [noun] Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus | [noun] A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin TUNE (4) [noun] A melody. | [noun] A song, or short musical composition. | [noun] The act of tuning or maintenance. TWAE (7) TWEE (7) [adjective] Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice. TYEE (7) TYER (7) TYES (7) TYKE (11) [noun] A mongrel dog. | [noun] A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one | [noun] A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement TYNE (7) TYPE (9) [noun] A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. | [noun] An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc. | [noun] An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment. TYRE (7) [noun] The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid. | [noun] The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railway vehicle. | [verb] To fit tyres to (a vehicle). | [noun] Curdled milk. | [noun] Attire. UKES (8) [noun] The training partner against whom tori performs a move. | [noun] (Japanese fiction) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom. | [noun] A small four-stringed guitar. UNBE (6) UNDE (5) UREA (4) [noun] A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH2)2, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine. | [noun] Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R1R2N)CO(NR3R4). URGE (5) [noun] A strong desire; an itch to do something. | [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. 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.) USER (4) [noun] One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser. | [noun] A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs. | [noun] A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account. USES (4) [noun] The act of using. | [noun] The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics. | [noun] (followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit. UVEA (7) [noun] The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris. VALE (7) [noun] A valley. | [interjection] (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell. VANE (7) [noun] A weather vane | [noun] Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid | [noun] The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft VASE (7) [noun] An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers. | [noun] The body of the Corinthian capital. VEAL (7) [noun] The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food. VEEP (9) [noun] (US politics) The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination. | [noun] Any vice president (in a corporation, organization, etc.) VEER (7) [verb] To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out. | [noun] A turn or swerve; an instance of veering. | [verb] To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve. VEES (7) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter V. | [noun] Something with the shape of the letter V. | [noun] The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played VEIL (7) [noun] Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material. | [noun] A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense. | [noun] The calyptra of mosses. VEIN (7) [noun] A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart. | [noun] (in plural) The entrails of a shrimp. | [noun] In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle. VELA (7) [noun] A thin membrane, resembling a veil, such as: | [noun] An accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance. Normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus. VELD (8) [noun] The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries. VENA (7) 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. VENT (7) [noun] An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. | [noun] A small aperture. | [noun] The opening of a volcano from which lava flows. | [noun] Ventriloquism. | [noun] Sale; opportunity to sell; market | [noun] A baiting place; an inn. | [noun] Ventilation or ventilator. VERA (7) VERB (9) [noun] (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state. | [noun] Any word; a vocable. | [noun] An action as opposed to a trait or thing. VERT (7) [noun] A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise. | [noun] Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer. | [noun] The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest. | [noun] In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition. | [noun] Vertebrate VERY (10) [adjective] True, real, actual. | [adjective] The same; identical. | [adjective] With limiting effect: mere. VEST (7) [noun] A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries. | [noun] A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat. | [noun] A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse. VETO (7) [noun] A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc. | [noun] An invocation of that right. | [noun] An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. VETS (7) [noun] A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon. | [noun] A veteran (a former soldier or other member of an armed forces). | [verb] To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval. VEXT (14) VIBE (9) [noun] A vibraphone. | [noun] Vibration. | [noun] A vibrator (sex toy). VICE (9) [noun] A bad habit. | [noun] Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs. | [noun] A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness. | [noun] A mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping or holding (also spelled vise). | [noun] One who acts in place of a superior. 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. VIER (7) VIES (7) [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. VIEW (10) [noun] (physical) Visual perception. | [noun] A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch. | [noun] (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination. VILE (7) [adjective] Morally low; base; despicable. | [adjective] Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid. VINE (7) [noun] The climbing plant that produces grapes. | [noun] Any plant of the genus Vitis. | [noun] (by extension) Any similar climbing or trailing plant. VISE (7) [noun] An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing. | [verb] To clamp with or as with a vise. | [verb] To examine and endorse (a passport, etc.); to visa. VIVE (10) VOES (7) [noun] A narrow sea inlet, particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to a fjord. VOLE (7) [noun] Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats. | [noun] A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks. | [verb] To win all the tricks by a vole. VOTE (7) [noun] A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities | [noun] An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot | [noun] An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer 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. WAES (7) WAGE (8) [noun] (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour. | [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. WAKE (11) [noun] The act of waking, or state of being awake. | [noun] The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. | [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. | [noun] A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects. | [noun] The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water. WALE (7) [noun] A ridge or low barrier. | [noun] A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course). | [noun] The texture of a piece of fabric. | [noun] Something selected as being the best, preference; choice. WAME (9) WANE (7) [noun] A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc. | [noun] The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth. | [noun] The end of a period. | [noun] A child. | [noun] A house or dwelling. WARE (7) [noun] The state of being aware; heed. | [adjective] Aware. | [noun] (usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use. | [verb] To be ware or mindful of something. | [noun] Seaweed. | [verb] To wear, or veer. WAVE (10) [verb] To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely. | [verb] To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure. | [verb] (metonymic) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate. | [noun] A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation. | [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. WEAK (11) [adjective] Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability. | [adjective] Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain. | [adjective] Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable. WEAL (7) [noun] Wealth, riches. | [noun] Welfare, prosperity. | [noun] (by extension) Boon, benefit. | [noun] A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt. WEAN (7) WEAR (7) [noun] (in combination) clothing | [noun] Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time | [noun] Fashion | [verb] To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion. | [noun] An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream. WEBS (9) [noun] The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb. | [noun] (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web. | [noun] (sometimes capitalized) Specifically, the World Wide Web. 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. WEEK (11) [noun] Any period of seven consecutive days. | [noun] A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday. | [noun] A period of five days beginning with Monday. WEEL (7) [noun] A whirlpool. | [noun] A kind of trap for catching fish; a weely. | [verb] (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something). WEEN (7) [noun] Doubt; conjecture. | [verb] To suppose, imagine; to think, believe. | [verb] To expect, hope or wish. | [verb] To weep or cry. WEEP (9) [noun] A session of crying. | [verb] To cry; shed tears. | [verb] To lament; to complain. | [noun] A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus). WEER (7) [adjective] Small, little. WEES (7) [verb] To urinate. WEET (7) WEFT (10) [noun] The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric. | [noun] The yarn used for the weft; the fill. | [noun] (hairdressing) A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair. | [noun] Something cast away; a waif. WEIR (7) [noun] An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream. | [noun] A fence placed across a river to catch fish. WEKA (11) [noun] The woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand. 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. WELL (7) [adjective] In good health. | [adjective] Good, content. | [adjective] Prudent; good; well-advised. | [noun] A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. | [verb] To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. WELT (7) [verb] To roll; revolve | [noun] A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow; a wheal or weal. | [noun] (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling. | [verb] To decay. 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. WENS (7) [noun] A cyst on the skin. | [noun] A runic letter later replaced by w WENT (7) [verb] To move: | [verb] (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). | [verb] To start; to begin (an action or process). WEPT (9) [verb] To cry; shed tears. | [verb] To lament; to complain. | [verb] (of a wound or sore) To produce secretions. WERE (7) [noun] A man, a husband | [noun] A fine for slaying a man; weregild. | [noun] The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf. WERT (7) WEST (7) [noun] One of the four principal compass points, specifically 270°, conventionally directed to the left on maps; the direction of the setting sun at an equinox, abbreviated as W. | [verb] To move to the west; (of the sun) to set. | [adjective] Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward. WETS (7) [noun] Liquid or moisture. | [noun] Rainy weather. | [noun] Rainy season. (often capitalized) WHEE (10) [interjection] An expression of pleasure or enjoyment, mostly from rapid physical motion. WHEN (10) [noun] The time at which something happens. | [adverb] (interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time. | [adverb] At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances. WHET (10) [noun] The act of whetting something. | [noun] That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer. | [verb] To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone. WHEW (13) [verb] To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover. | [interjection] An expressive sound made indicating the release of one's inner tension; the release of breath; an expression of relief. | [interjection] An expression of amazement or surprise. | [verb] To bustle about. WHEY (13) [noun] The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained in the process of making cheese. 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. WIFE (10) [noun] A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse. | [noun] The female of a pair of mated animals. | [verb] (said of men) to marry WILE (7) [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. | [verb] To loiter. WINE (7) [noun] An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes. | [noun] An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine". | [noun] A serving of wine. | [noun] Wind. WIPE (9) [noun] The act of wiping something. | [noun] A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping. | [noun] A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape. | [noun] A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus). | [noun] An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout. WIRE (7) [noun] Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die. | [noun] A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable. | [noun] A metal conductor that carries electricity. WISE (7) [verb] To become wise. | [verb] Usually with "up", to inform or learn. | [adjective] Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience. | [noun] Way, manner, method. | [verb] To instruct. WITE (7) WIVE (10) [verb] To marry (a woman). | [verb] To provide (someone) with a wife. WOES (7) [noun] Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness. | [noun] Calamity, trouble. | [noun] A curse; a malediction. WOKE (11) [adjective] Awake: conscious and not asleep. | [adjective] Alert and aware of what is going on, especially in social justice contexts. Well-informed. | [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. WORE (7) [verb] To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc. | [verb] To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. | [verb] To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. WOVE (10) [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. WREN (7) [noun] Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; true wren. | [noun] Small bird of similar appearance to a true wren. WYES (10) [noun] The name of the letter Y. | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter Y. | [noun] A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track. WYLE (10) WYTE (10) YARE (7) [adjective] Ready; prepared. | [adjective] Ready, alert, prepared, prompt. | [adjective] Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble. YEAH (10) [interjection] Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc. | [noun] A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference). | [noun] (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star. YEAN (7) [verb] (of goats or sheep) To give birth to. YEAR (7) [noun] A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference). | [noun] (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star. | [noun] A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar. | [noun] (abstract) This place; this location. YEAS (7) [noun] An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken YECH (12) [noun] An exclamation of disgust. | [interjection] An exclamation of disgust. YEGG (9) [noun] A person who breaks open safes; a burglar. YELD (8) YELK (11) YELL (7) [noun] A shout. | [noun] A phrase to be shouted. | [verb] Shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice. | [adjective] Dry (of cow) YELP (9) [noun] An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance. | [noun] A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail. | [verb] To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise. YENS (7) [noun] A strong desire, urge, or yearning. | [verb] To have a strong desire for. | [noun] Opium. | [pronoun] You, you all; used in referring to a group that includes one's audience. YERK (11) [noun] A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk. | [verb] To stab. | [verb] To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk. YETI (7) [noun] An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas YETT (7) YEUK (11) YEWS (10) [noun] A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. | [noun] (by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus. | [noun] Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus YIPE (9) [interjection] Used to express surprise, fear, or dismay. YLEM (9) [noun] In the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma which made up the cosmos at the time of recombination in an early stage of its expansion and cooling, when the first atoms formed and photons decoupled. The ylem is regarded as the source of the cosmic microwave background. YOKE (11) [noun] Frame around the neck, and related senses. | [noun] Pair of harnessed draught animals, and related senses. | [noun] Extended uses and quantities. YORE (7) [noun] A time long past. | [adverb] In time long past; long ago. YOWE (10) YULE (7) [noun] Alternative letter-case form of Yule ZEAL (13) [noun] The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest. | [noun] A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion. | [noun] The collective noun for a group of zebras. ZEBU (15) [noun] A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos primigenius indicus). ZEDS (14) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter Z. | [noun] (in combination) Something Z-shaped. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Sleep. ZEES (13) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter Z. | [noun] Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Sleep. | [pronoun] The thing, item, etc. being indicated. ZEIN (13) [noun] A protein derived from corn/maize, having many industrial applications. ZEKS (17) ZERK (17) ZERO (13) [noun] The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero. | [noun] The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems. | [noun] Nothing, or none. ZEST (13) [noun] The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish. | [noun] General vibrance of flavour. | [noun] (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto. ZETA (13) [noun] The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ, ζ) preceded by epsilon (Ε, ε) and followed by eta, (Η, η); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ, ϝ) | [noun] A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function. ZOEA (13) ZONE (13) [noun] Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles). | [noun] Any given region or area of the world. | [noun] A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc. ZYME (18)

AAHED (9) ABASE (7) [verb] To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate. | [verb] To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop. | [verb] To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase. ABATE (7) [noun] Abatement. | [verb] (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease. | [verb] To become null and void. | [verb] To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession. | [noun] An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy. ABBES (9) [noun] A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey. | [noun] An honorific title for a member of the French clergy. ABBEY (12) [noun] The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess. | [noun] A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings. | [noun] The church of a monastery. ABEAM (9) [adjective] Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft. | [adverb] On the beam; at a right angle to the centerline or keel of a vessel or aircraft; being at a bearing approximately 090 Degrees or 270 Degrees relative. | [adverb] Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft. ABELE (7) [noun] The white poplar (Populus alba). ABETS (7) [noun] Fraud or cunning. | [noun] An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid. | [verb] To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. ABIDE (8) [verb] To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere. | [verb] To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand. | [verb] To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for. ABLER (7) [adjective] Easy to use. | [adjective] Suitable; competent. | [adjective] Liable to. ABLES (7) 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. ABOVE (10) [noun] Heaven. | [noun] Something, especially a person's name in legal documents, that appears higher on the same page or on a preceding page. | [noun] Higher authority. ABUSE (7) [noun] Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. | [noun] Misuse; improper use; perversion. | [noun] A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception. | [verb] To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert ABYES (10) ACERB (9) [adjective] Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit. | [adjective] Sharp and harsh in expressing oneself. ACETA (7) [noun] Plural of acetum; vinegar or a sour liquid. | [noun] Solutions of medicinal substances in vinegar. ACHED (11) [verb] To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed. | [verb] To cause someone or something to suffer pain. ACHES (10) [noun] Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. | [verb] To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed. | [verb] To cause someone or something to suffer pain. ACKEE (11) [noun] A tropical evergreen tree, Blighia sapida, related to the lychee and longan. | [noun] The fruit of the tree, of which only the arils are edible, the remainder being poisonous. ACMES (9) [noun] The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination. | [noun] The crisis or height of a disease. | [noun] Mature age; full bloom of life. ACNED (8) ACNES (7) [noun] Plural of acne, a skin condition characterized by pimples and inflammation. ACRED (8) [adjective] Having acres; measured or valued in acres. ACRES (7) [noun] An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters. | [noun] Any of various similar units of area in other systems. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A wide expanse. ACTED (8) [verb] To do something. | [verb] To do (something); to perform. | [verb] To perform a theatrical role. ACUTE (7) [noun] A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia. | [noun] An accent or tone higher than others. | [noun] An acute accent (´). 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 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. ADMEN (8) [noun] A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements. 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. 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. ADOZE (15) [adjective] In a light sleep or dozing state. ADZES (15) [noun] A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood. | [verb] To shape a material using an adze. AECIA (7) [noun] The plural of aecium, a fruiting structure in rust fungi that produces aecospores. AEDES (6) [noun] A genus of mosquitoes that includes species responsible for transmitting dengue fever and yellow fever. AEGIS (6) [noun] A mythological shield associated with the Greek deities Zeus and Athena (and their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) shown as a short cloak made of goatskin worn on the shoulders, more as an emblem of power and protection than a military shield. The aegis of Athena or Minerva is usually shown with a border of snakes and with the head of Medusa in the center. | [noun] Usually as under the aegis: guidance, protection; endorsement, sponsorship. AEONS (5) [noun] (preferred spelling, with æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead. | [noun] (Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology. | [noun] Eternity. AERIE (5) [noun] A local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. | [noun] The nest of a bird of prey. | [noun] Any high and remote but commanding place. AFIRE (8) [adjective] On fire (often metaphorically). | [adverb] On fire (often metaphorically). AFORE (8) [adverb] Before. | [adverb] In the fore part of a ship. | [preposition] Before; in advance of the time of. AFTER (8) [adjective] Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent | [adjective] (where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship. | [adverb] Behind; later in time; following. AGAPE (8) [adjective] In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open. | [adjective] Wide open. | [adverb] In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention. | [noun] The love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others. AGATE (6) [noun] A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds. | [noun] The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5 1/2-point. | [noun] One fourteenth of an inch | [adverb] On the way; agoing. AGAVE (9) [noun] A plant of the genus Agave, which includes the maguey or century plant (Agave americana), which produces a gigantic flower stem at maturity. AGAZE (15) [verb] To gaze at; to look steadily at. AGENE (6) [noun] A chemical compound used in flour bleaching and bread improvement, now largely banned due to health concerns. AGENT (6) [noun] One who exerts power, or has the power to act | [noun] One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him/her; someone entrusted to do the business of another | [noun] A person who looks for work for another person AGERS (6) [noun] Plural of ager, one who ages or something that causes aging. | [noun] Plural of ager, a person or thing that ages something else. AGGER (7) [noun] One who aggers; specifically, a person who operates an agger (a Roman battering ram or siege weapon). | [noun] In geology, a ridge or mound of material deposited by glacial action. AGGIE (7) [noun] A student of or graduate from an agricultural college. | [noun] A marble or small stone used in games. AGILE (6) [adjective] Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move | [adjective] Characterised by quick motion | [adjective] Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams. AGLEE (6) [adjective] Awry; askew; in a crooked or slanted position. AGLET (6) [noun] The cover at the tip of a shoelace, to prevent it from fraying. | [noun] A catkin. | [noun] A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice. AGLEY (9) [adjective] Wrong; askew. | [adverb] Wrong, awry, askew, amiss, or distortedly. AGONE (6) [adjective] Ago; in the past (archaic or poetic form). AGREE (6) [verb] To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur. | [verb] To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to. | [verb] To yield assent to; to approve. AGUES (6) [verb] To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. AHEAD (9) [adverb] In or to the front; in advance; onward. | [adverb] In the direction one is facing or moving. | [adverb] In or for the future. AIDED (7) [verb] To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist. | [verb] To climb with the use of aids such as pitons. AIDER (6) [noun] One who aids or helps. | [verb] Third person singular present of "aid," meaning to help or assist. AIDES (6) [noun] An assistant. | [noun] An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp. AILED (6) [verb] To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.) | [verb] To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled. AIMED (8) [verb] To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it | [verb] To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive | [verb] To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object AIMER (7) [noun] One who aims; a person who takes aim. | [verb] Third person singular present of "aim" (archaic/dialectal form). AIRED (6) [verb] To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it. | [verb] To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate. | [verb] To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic. AIRER (5) [noun] A framework upon which laundry is aired; a clotheshorse. AISLE (5) [noun] A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers. | [noun] A clear path through rows of seating. | [noun] A clear corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale. AIVER (8) AKEES (9) [noun] A tropical evergreen tree, Blighia sapida, related to the lychee and longan. | [noun] The fruit of the tree, of which only the arils are edible, the remainder being poisonous. AKELA (9) [noun] The leader of a pack of Cub Scouts. AKENE (9) [noun] A type of fruit or seed vessel, especially a dry, one-seeded fruit that does not open naturally at maturity. ALANE (5) [noun] A chemical compound, aluminum hydride (AlH₃), used as a reducing agent and rocket fuel. | [adjective] Solitary or alone (archaic/poetic usage). ALATE (5) [noun] A winged, reproductive form of several social insects. | [adjective] Having winglike extensions or parts; winged. | [adverb] Recently; lately; of late. ALDER (6) [noun] Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family. | [noun] An alderman or alderwoman. ALECS (7) [noun] An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried. | [noun] A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce. ALEFS (8) ALEPH (10) [noun] The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀, Aramaic 𐡀, Syriac ܐ, Hebrew א and Arabic ا. ALERT (5) [noun] An alarm. | [noun] A notification of higher importance than an advisory. | [noun] A state of readiness for potential combat. | [verb] To give warning to. ALGAE (6) [noun] Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic. | [noun] Algal organisms viewed collectively or as a mass; algal growth. | [noun] A particular kind of algae. ALIEN (5) [noun] Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin. | [noun] A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration. | [noun] A foreigner residing in a country. ALIKE (9) [adjective] Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. | [adverb] In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally. ALINE (5) [verb] To form a line; to fall into line. | [verb] To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line. | [verb] To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by beginning each item at an offset equal to some multiple of the word size. | [adverb] In line ALIVE (8) [adjective] Having life; living; not dead | [adjective] In a state of action; in force or operation; existent | [adjective] Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy. ALLEE (5) [noun] A tree-lined avenue, often particularly one that is part of a landscaped garden. ALLEY (8) [noun] A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings. | [noun] The area between the outfielders. | [noun] An establishment where bowling is played. | [noun] A glass marble or taw. ALMEH (10) ALMES (7) ALOES (5) [noun] (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica. | [noun] A plant of the genus Aloe. | [noun] A strong, bitter drink made from the juice of such plants, used as a purgative. ALONE (5) [adjective] By oneself, solitary. | [adjective] Apart from, or exclusive of, others. | [adjective] Considered separately. ALTER (5) [verb] To change the form or structure of. | [verb] To become different. | [verb] To tailor clothes to make them fit. | [noun] (especially in the plural) An identity or headmate of a person with dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder). | [noun] A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites. AMAZE (16) [noun] Amazement, astonishment. | [verb] To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex. | [verb] To undergo amazement; to be astounded. AMBER (9) [noun] Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. | [noun] A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. | [noun] A yellow-orange colour. AMBLE (9) [noun] An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll. | [noun] An easy gait, especially that of a horse. | [verb] To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely. AMEBA (9) [noun] A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. | [noun] The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. | [noun] An asexual. AMEER (7) AMEND (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation. | [verb] To make better; improve. | [verb] To become better. AMENS (7) [noun] An instance of saying ‘amen’. | [noun] A title of Christ; the Faithful One (especially with reference to Revelation 3:14) | [verb] To say amen. AMENT (7) [noun] A catkin or amentum. | [noun] A congenital idiot. AMICE (9) [noun] A hood, or cape with a hood, made of or lined with grey fur, formerly worn by the clergy. 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-) AMIES (7) [noun] Plural of amie, a female friend (from French). AMINE (7) [noun] A functional group formally derived from ammonia by replacing one, two or three hydrogen atoms with hydrocarbon or other radicals. | [noun] Any organic compound containing an amine functional group. AMOLE (7) [noun] Any of various parts of the Agave (or similar) plants, when used as soap | [noun] Other Mexican and North American plants used as soap AMPLE (9) [adjective] Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended. | [adjective] Fully sufficient; abundant; plenty | [adjective] Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive AMUSE (7) [verb] To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions. | [verb] To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny. | [verb] To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude. ANEAR (5) [preposition] Near or close to. | [verb] To approach or draw near to. ANELE (5) [verb] To anoint; to give extreme unction with oil. ANENT (5) [preposition] Concerning, with regard to, about, in respect to, as to, insofar as, inasmuch as., apropos | [preposition] In the opinion or judgment of. | [preposition] Against, in front of, fronting; before; opposite; over against, on the other side. ANGEL (6) [noun] An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes. | [noun] (Abrahamic tradition) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues. | [noun] A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness. | [noun] A person who has Angelman syndrome. ANGER (6) [noun] A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm. | [noun] Pain or stinging. | [verb] To cause such a feeling of antagonism in. ANGLE (6) [noun] A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle). | [noun] The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere. | [noun] A corner where two walls intersect. | [noun] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. ANILE (5) [adjective] Of, relating to, or resembling an old woman; showing the weakness or senility of old age. ANIME (7) [noun] An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries. | [noun] An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style. | [noun] An animated work, regardless of the country of origin. | [noun] The resin of the courbaril (Hymenaea courbaril), used in varnishes. ANISE (5) [noun] An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds, which are used as a spice. It has a licorice scent. | [noun] (often qualified as "sweet anise" or "wild anise") Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare. ANKLE (9) [noun] The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint. | [verb] To walk. | [verb] To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution. ANNEX (12) [noun] An addition, an extension. | [noun] An appendix to a book or document. | [noun] An addition or extension to a building. | [verb] To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate. ANODE (6) [noun] An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows inwards (and thus, electrons flow outwards). It can have either a negative or a positive voltage. | [noun] (by extension) The electrode at which chemical oxidation of anions takes place, usually resulting in the erosion of metal from the electrode. | [noun] The electrode which collects electrons emitted by the cathode in a vacuum tube or gas-filled tube. ANOLE (5) [noun] Any of the Anolis genus of arboreal American lizards (such as the American chameleon) from the iguana family which feature a brightly colored dewlap and color-changing ability. ANSAE (5) [noun] Plural of ansa, a loop-shaped anatomical structure or archaeological artifact. ANTAE (5) [noun] Plural of anta, which are pilasters or square columns at the corners of a building or doorway in classical architecture. ANTED (6) [verb] To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up. | [verb] To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances. | [verb] To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers. ANTES (5) [noun] A price or cost, as in up the ante. | [noun] In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards. | [verb] To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up. ANTRE (5) [noun] A cave or cavern. APACE (9) [adverb] Quickly, rapidly, with speed. APEAK (11) [adjective] On or at the peak; at the highest point or level. APEEK (11) APERS (7) [verb] Third person singular present of "ape," meaning to imitate or mimic someone or something, often in a mocking way. APERY (10) [noun] A place where apes are kept. | [noun] The practice of aping; an apish action. APNEA (7) [noun] The cessation of breathing. APPEL (9) [noun] A stamp of the foot in fencing to signal readiness or to distract an opponent. APPLE (9) [noun] A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates. | [noun] Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc. | [noun] The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit. APRES (7) [preposition] After | [noun] Such activities or events that occur after skiing. APSES (7) [noun] A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar. | [noun] The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches. | [noun] A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept. APTER (7) [adjective] Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited. | [adjective] (of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards. | [adjective] Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn. AQUAE (14) [noun] Plural of aqua, meaning waters or bodies of water, used in Latin phrases and scientific nomenclature. 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. AREAE (5) [noun] Plural of area; multiple regions or surfaces. AREAL (5) [adjective] Relating to or denoting an area or surface. | [noun] A unit of metric land area equal to 100 square meters. AREAS (5) [noun] A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units. | [noun] A particular geographic region. | [noun] Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent. ARECA (7) [noun] Any member of the genus Areca of about fifty species of single-stemmed palms in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests. AREIC (7) [adjective] Relating to or denoting a region or drainage system that has no outlet to the sea and no permanent streams. ARENA (5) [noun] An enclosed area, often outdoor, for the presentation of sporting events (sports arena) or other spectacular events; earthen area, often oval, specifically for rodeos (North America) or circular area for bullfights (especially Hispanic America). | [noun] The building housing such an area; specifically, a very large, often round building, often topped with a dome, designated for indoor sporting or other major events, such as concerts. | [noun] The sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre where contests were held in Ancient Rome. ARETE (5) [noun] (Classical philosophy) Virtue, excellence. | [noun] (Classical philosophy) The proper state or condition for a human. | [noun] A very thin ridge of rock. ARGLE (6) ARGUE (6) [verb] To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. | [verb] To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. | [verb] To have an argument, a quarrel. ARIEL (5) [noun] A kind of mountain gazelle, native to Arabia. ARISE (5) [verb] To come up from a lower to a higher position. | [verb] To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up. | [verb] To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself. ARLES (5) [noun] Earnest money or a deposit given as a pledge to secure a bargain or contract. ARMED (8) [verb] To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. | [verb] To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons. | [verb] To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate. | [adjective] (chiefly in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type. ARMER (7) [noun] One who arms or equips with weapons. | [noun] A person who makes or sells arms/weapons. ARMET (7) [noun] A close-fitting helmet with a visor and beaver, used in the 15th and 16th centuries. AROSE (5) [verb] To come up from a lower to a higher position. | [verb] To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up. | [verb] To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself. ARPEN (7) ARSES (5) [noun] The buttocks or more specifically, the anus. | [noun] A stupid, mean or despicable person. | [verb] To be silly, act stupid or mess around. ARTEL (5) [noun] A Russian or Soviet craftsmen's collective. ASHED (9) [verb] Past tense of ash, meaning to cover with ash or to reduce to ash. | [verb] To remove ash from something, such as a cigarette. ASHEN (8) [adjective] Made from the wood of the ash-tree. | [adjective] Of or resembling ashes. | [adjective] Ash-colored; pale; anemic, anaemic. | [verb] To turn into ash; make or become ashy ASHES (8) [noun] The solid remains of a fire. | [noun] The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process. | [noun] Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash. ASIDE (6) [noun] An incidental remark made quietly so as to be heard by the person to whom it is said and not by any others in the vicinity. | [noun] A brief comment by a character addressing the audience, unheard by other characters. | [noun] A minor related mention, an afterthought. ASKED (10) [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). | [verb] To put forward (a question) to be answered. | [verb] To interrogate or enquire of (a person). ASKER (9) [noun] One who asks a question or makes a request. ASKEW (12) [adjective] Turned or twisted to one side. | [adjective] Untoward, unfavourable. | [adverb] Tilted to one side. ASPEN (7) [adjective] Pertaining to the asp or aspen tree. | [adjective] Tremulous, trembling. | [adjective] Of a woman's tongue: wagging, gossiping. | [noun] The asp tree; a kind of poplar tree (genus Populus sect. Populus). A medium-size tree with thin, straight trunks of a greenish-white color. ASPER (7) [noun] A monetary unit formerly used in Turkey and some other Ottoman territories. | [adjective] Rough or harsh to the touch. ASSES (5) [noun] Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden. | [noun] A stupid person. | [noun] Buttocks. | [noun] (unit of weight) A libra. ASSET (5) [noun] Something or someone of any value; any portion of one's property or effects so considered. | [noun] Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused. | [noun] An intelligence asset. ASTER (5) [noun] Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers. | [noun] A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell. | [noun] A star. ATONE (5) [verb] To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency. | [verb] To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement. | [verb] To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony. AUGER (6) [noun] A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet. | [noun] A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool). | [noun] A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts AURAE (5) [noun] Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something. | [noun] An invisible force surrounding a living creature. | [noun] Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache. AUREI (5) [noun] A gold coin, minted in the Roman Empire from approximately 100 B.C.E. to 309 C.E., equal to 25 denarii. AURES (5) [noun] Plural of "aura," which refers to distinctive atmospheres or qualities surrounding a person or thing. | [noun] Plural of "auris," a Latin term for ears used in anatomical contexts. AVENS (8) [noun] A plant of the genus Geum, especially Geum urbanum, or herb bennet. | [noun] A plant of the genus Dryas. AVERS (8) [verb] To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner. | [verb] To prove or justify a plea. | [verb] To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify. AVERT (8) [verb] To turn aside or away. | [verb] To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. | [verb] To turn away. AWAKE (12) [adjective] Not asleep; conscious. | [adjective] (by extension) Alert, aware. | [verb] To become conscious after having slept. AWARE (8) [adjective] Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty. | [adjective] Conscious or having knowledge of something. AWNED (9) [adjective] Having awns; furnished with awns (bristle-like appendages on grain or grass). AWOKE (12) [verb] To become conscious after having slept. | [verb] To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. | [verb] To excite or to stir up something latent. AXELS (12) [noun] A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air. AXILE (12) [adjective] Relating to or situated on an axis. AXITE (12) AXLED (13) [adjective] Having an axle or axles; equipped with an axle. AXLES (12) [noun] Shoulder. | [noun] The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel. | [noun] A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree. AXMEN (14) [noun] A man who wields an axe. | [noun] A musician who plays a guitar or saxophone. AXONE (12) [noun] A variant spelling of axon, the long slender projection of a nerve cell that conducts electrical impulses away from the cell body. 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^-) AZINE (14) [noun] Any of a class of organic compounds, having the general formula R2C=NN=CR2, produced by the action of a carbonyl compound with hydrazine. AZOLE (14) [noun] A five-membered aromatic heterocyclic compound containing nitrogen atoms, used in various organic compounds and fungicides. AZOTE (14) [noun] An archaic or poetic term for nitrogen. AZURE (14) [noun] A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines. | [noun] The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour. | [noun] The unclouded sky; the blue vault above. BAAED (8) [verb] To make the characteristic cry of a sheep. BABEL (9) [noun] A confused mixture of sounds and voices, especially in different languages. | [noun] A place or scene of noise and confusion. | [noun] A tall, looming structure. BABES (9) [noun] A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. | [noun] An attractive person, especially a young woman. | [noun] Darling (term of endearment). 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. BAGEL (8) [noun] A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked. | [noun] A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero). | [noun] An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man. BAIZE (16) [noun] A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc. | [noun] A coarse woolen material with a long nap; usually dyed in plain colors. | [verb] To cover or line with baize. BAKED (12) [verb] (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven. | [verb] (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven. | [verb] To be warmed to drying and hardening. BAKER (11) [noun] A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items. | [noun] A portable oven for baking. BAKES (11) [noun] The act of cooking food by baking. | [noun] Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole. | [noun] A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served. BALED (8) [verb] To remove water from a boat with buckets etc. BALER (7) [noun] A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton. | [noun] A person who creates bales, either by operating or feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand. BALES (7) [noun] A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire. | [noun] A funeral pyre. | [noun] A beacon-fire. BANED (8) [verb] Past tense of bane, meaning to cause harm, ruin, or distress to something or someone. BANES (7) [noun] A cause of misery or death. | [noun] Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants. | [noun] A killer, murderer, slayer. BARBE (9) BARDE (8) [noun] A piece of armor for a horse. | [verb] To cover a horse with armor. BARED (8) [verb] To uncover; to reveal. BARER (7) [adjective] Minimal; that is or are just sufficient. | [adjective] Naked, uncovered. | [adjective] Having no supplies. BARES (7) [verb] To uncover; to reveal. BARGE (8) [noun] A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo. | [noun] A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions. | [noun] A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel. BARRE (7) [noun] A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises. | [noun] Short for barre chord. BARYE (10) [noun] A unit of pressure in the centimeter-gram-second system, equal to one dyne per square centimeter. BASED (8) [verb] To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of. | [verb] To be located (at a particular place). | [verb] (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer. | [adjective] (of a person) Not caring what others think about one's personality, style, or behavior; focused on maintaining individuality. BASER (7) [adjective] Low in height; short. | [adjective] Low in place or position. | [adjective] Of low value or degree. BASES (7) [noun] Something from which other things extend; a foundation. | [noun] The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis. | [noun] A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material. | [noun] A physical base or foundation. BASTE (7) [verb] To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric. | [noun] A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking. | [verb] To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. | [verb] To beat with a stick; to cudgel. BATED (8) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. BATES (7) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. BATHE (10) [noun] The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath. | [verb] To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. | [verb] To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. 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. BEACH (12) [noun] The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly. | [noun] A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water. | [noun] The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle. BEADS (8) [noun] Prayer, later especially with a rosary. | [noun] Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. | [noun] A small, round object. BEADY (11) [adjective] Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming. | [adjective] (of eyes or a look) Bright and penetrating. | [adjective] Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads. BEAKS (11) [noun] Anatomical uses. | [noun] Figurative uses. | [noun] Colloquial uses. BEAKY (14) [adjective] Beaked: having a beak. | [adjective] Beak-like: resembling a beak. | [adjective] Having a nose which resembles a beak. BEAMS (9) [noun] Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. | [noun] One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones. | [noun] The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam) BEAMY (12) [adjective] Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. | [adjective] Having horns or antlers. | [adjective] Having much beam or breadth; wide. BEANO (7) [noun] A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party. | [noun] Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy. BEANS (7) [noun] A reusable software component written in Java. | [noun] Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods. | [noun] The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean or garbanzo bean). BEARD (8) [noun] Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck. | [noun] The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds. | [noun] The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. BEARS (7) [noun] A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae. | [noun] A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. | [noun] An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. BEAST (7) [noun] Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones. | [noun] (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. | [noun] A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner. BEATS (7) [noun] A stroke; a blow. | [noun] A pulsation or throb. | [noun] A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. BEAUS (7) [noun] A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. | [noun] A male lover; a boyfriend. | [noun] A male escort. BEAUT (7) [noun] Something or someone that is physically attractive. | [noun] Something that is a remarkable example of its type. | [adjective] Beautiful, splendid. BEAUX (14) [noun] A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. | [noun] A male lover; a boyfriend. | [noun] A male escort. BEBOP (11) [noun] An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies. | [verb] To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre. | [verb] (usually with a directional preposition) To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner. BECAP (11) BECKS (13) [noun] Anatomical uses. | [noun] Figurative uses. | [noun] Colloquial uses. 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. BEECH (12) [noun] A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves and many branches. | [noun] The wood of the beech tree. BEEFS (10) [noun] The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine. | [noun] (plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with) | [verb] To complain. BEEFY (13) [adjective] Similar to, or tasting like beef. | [adjective] Containing beef. | [adjective] Strong or muscular. BEEPS (9) [noun] The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound. | [noun] A short, electronically produced tone. | [verb] To sound (something that makes a beep). BEERS (7) [noun] An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor. | [noun] A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. | [noun] A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid. BEERY (10) [adjective] Smelling or tasting of beer. | [adjective] Under the influence of beer. BEETS (7) [noun] Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar. | [noun] A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant. BEFIT (10) [verb] To be fit for BEFOG (11) [verb] To envelop in fog or smoke. | [verb] To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties). | [verb] To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.). BEGAN (8) [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation | [verb] To come into existence. BEGAT (8) [noun] An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible | [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. BEGET (8) [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. | [verb] To bring forth. BEGIN (8) [noun] Beginning; start. | [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation BEGOT (8) [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. | [verb] To bring forth. BEGUM (10) [verb] To daub or cover with gum. | [noun] A high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in India and Pakistan | [noun] The form of address for such a woman BEGUN (8) [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation | [verb] To come into existence. BEIGE (8) [noun] A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. | [noun] Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods. | [adjective] Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. BEIGY (11) BEING (8) [noun] A living creature. | [noun] The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state. | [noun] That which has actuality (materially or in concept). BELAY (10) [noun] The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection. | [noun] The object to which a rope is secured. | [noun] A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner. BELCH (12) [noun] The sound one makes when belching. | [noun] Malt liquor. | [verb] To expel (gas) loudly from the stomach through the mouth. BELGA (8) [noun] A monetary unit of Belgium, equal to one hundredth of a franc. BELIE (7) [verb] To lie around; encompass. | [verb] (of an army) To surround; beleaguer. | [verb] To tell lies about. BELLE (7) [noun] An attractive woman. BELLS (7) [noun] A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck. | [noun] The sounding of a bell as a signal. | [noun] A telephone call. BELLY (10) [noun] The abdomen, especially a fat one. | [noun] The stomach. | [noun] The womb. BELOW (10) [adverb] In a lower place. | [adverb] On a lower storey. | [adverb] Further down. BELTS (7) [noun] A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. | [noun] A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt. | [noun] A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power. BEMAS (9) [noun] A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. | [noun] Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah. BEMIX (16) BENCH (12) [noun] A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools. | [noun] The people who decide on the verdict; the judiciary. | [noun] The place where the judges sit. | [noun] The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed. | [verb] To recite the Birkat Hamazon. 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. BENES (7) BENNE (7) [noun] Sesame. BENNI (7) BENNY (10) [noun] An amphetamine tablet. | [noun] A tantrum; a fit of furious or erratic behaviour. | [verb] (usually with "up") To take amphetamines. | [noun] A benefit. | [noun] An overcoat. | [noun] (originally United States) A dish consisting of slices of English muffins with poached eggs, ham or bacon and hollandaise sauce. BENTS (7) [noun] An inclination or talent. | [noun] A predisposition to act or react in a particular way. | [noun] The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity. BERET (7) [noun] A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France. BERGS (8) [noun] An iceberg. | [noun] Mountain BERME (9) BERMS (9) [noun] A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope | [noun] A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath | [noun] A terrace formed by wave action along a beach BERRY (10) [noun] A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties. | [noun] A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits. | [noun] A coffee bean. | [noun] A mound; a barrow. | [noun] A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow. | [verb] To beat; give a beating to; thrash. BERTH (10) [noun] A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc). | [noun] Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.) | [noun] A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park. BERYL (10) [noun] A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone. | [noun] An example (a stone) of the mineral beryl. | [noun] A dull blueish green colour. BESET (7) [verb] To surround or hem in. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To attack or assail, especially from all sides. | [verb] To decorate something with jewels etc. BESOM (9) [noun] A broom made from a bundle of twigs tied onto a shaft. | [noun] A troublesome woman. | [noun] Any cleansing or purifying agent. BESOT (7) [verb] To make drunk or foolish; to stupefy or infatuate. | [verb] To soil or stain. BESTS (7) [noun] The supreme effort one can make, or has made. | [noun] One's best behavior. | [noun] The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent. BETAS (7) [noun] The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase. | [noun] Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc. | [noun] Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices. BETEL (7) [noun] Either of two plants often used in combination: | [noun] A quid (chewing preparation) containing these and other plant materials; paan. BETHS (10) [noun] The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁 | [noun] The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב | [noun] The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ BETON (7) [noun] Concrete, especially reinforced concrete used in construction. BETTA (7) [noun] A small colorful freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia, popular in aquariums. | [noun] A variant spelling of "beta," the second letter of the Greek alphabet. BEVEL (10) [noun] An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer. | [noun] An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; a bevel square. | [verb] To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer. BEVOR (10) [noun] A piece of armor that protects the lower face and chin, often hinged to the visor of a helmet. BEWIG (11) [verb] To put a wig on; to cover with a wig. BEZEL (16) [noun] The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool. | [noun] The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting. | [noun] The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set; the collet. BEZIL (16) [noun] The slanted edge or face of a gem or precious stone, typically at the sides or back of a stone in a setting. | [noun] A groove or channel cut into a surface at an angle. BIBLE (9) [noun] An exemplar of the Bible. | [noun] A comprehensive manual that describes something. (e.g., handyman’s bible). | [noun] (at certain US universities) A compilation of problems and solutions from previous years of a given course, used by some students to cheat on tests or assignments. BICES (9) 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. BIERS (7) [noun] A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person. | [noun] A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed. | [noun] A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth. BIKED (12) [verb] To ride a bike. | [verb] To travel by bike. | [verb] To transport by bicycle BIKER (11) [noun] A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club. | [noun] Cyclist BIKES (11) [noun] A vehicle that has two wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s feet upon pedals. | [noun] A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs. | [noun] The best possible hand in lowball. BIKIE (11) [noun] A motorcyclist who is a member of a club; a biker. BILES (7) [noun] Plural of bile, a bitter yellowish-green fluid secreted by the liver. | [verb] Third person singular of "bile," though rarely used as a verb in standard English. BILGE (8) [noun] The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides. | [noun] The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates. | [noun] The water accumulated in the bilge, the bilge water. BINES (7) [noun] A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers). | [noun] Cigarette BINGE (8) [noun] A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc. | [noun] (by extension) A short period of an activity done in excess, such as watching a television show. | [verb] To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption. BIOME (9) [noun] Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert | [noun] All the genomes of such a community BIPED (10) [noun] An animal, being or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs). BIRLE (7) [verb] To spin or rotate a log in water. | [verb] To pour drinks, especially whiskey. BIRSE (7) [noun] A bristle or stiff hair, especially on an animal or plant. BISES (7) [noun] Plural of bise, a cold northerly wind that blows down from the mountains in Switzerland and adjacent regions. | [noun] Plural of bis, meaning plural of an encore or repetition. BITER (7) [noun] The act of biting. | [noun] The wound left behind after having been bitten. | [noun] The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. | [noun] (in combination) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits. BITES (7) [noun] The act of biting. | [noun] The wound left behind after having been bitten. | [noun] The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. BIZES (16) [noun] Plural of bize, a cold northwesterly wind that blows down from the Alps into Switzerland and nearby regions. 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. BLAME (9) [noun] Censure. | [noun] Culpability for something negative or undesirable. | [noun] Responsibility for something meriting censure. | [verb] To censure (someone or something); to criticize. BLARE (7) [noun] A loud sound. | [noun] Dazzling, often garish, brilliance. | [verb] To make a loud sound. BLASE (7) [adjective] Unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity. BLATE (7) [verb] To bleat or cry out like a sheep or goat. | [verb] To expose or reveal something. BLAZE (16) [noun] A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light. | [noun] Intense, direct light accompanied with heat. | [noun] The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face. | [verb] To be on fire, especially producing bright flames. | [noun] Publication; the act of spreading widely by report BLEAK (11) [adjective] Without color; pale; pallid. | [adjective] Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. | [adjective] Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate. | [noun] A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae. BLEAR (7) [adjective] (of eyes or vision) Dim, unclear from water or rheum. | [adjective] Causing or caused by dimness of sight. | [verb] To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes. BLEAT (7) [noun] The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat. | [verb] Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound. | [verb] Of a person, to complain. BLEBS (9) [noun] A bubble, such as in paint or glass. | [noun] A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid. | [noun] An irregular bulge in the plasma membrane of a cell undergoing apoptosis. 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. BLEEP (9) [noun] A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device. | [noun] Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence. | [noun] A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock. 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. BLENT (7) [verb] To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. | [verb] To be mingled or mixed. | [verb] To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. BLESS (7) [verb] To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify. | [verb] To make the sign of the cross upon, so as to sanctify. | [verb] To invoke divine favor upon. | [interjection] Used as an expression of endearment, gratitude, or (ironically) belittlement. BLEST (7) [adjective] Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing. | [adjective] A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs. | [adjective] Held in veneration; revered. BLETS (7) [verb] To undergo the process of overripening or decay, especially of fruit like medlars, to become soft and edible. BLITE (7) [noun] A plant of the amaranth family, also called strawberry blite, having small red berries. | [noun] Any of various plants with edible leaves, such as orache or spinach. BLOKE (11) [noun] A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street. | [noun] A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner. | [noun] (A lower deck term for) the Captain or Executive Officer of a warship, with particular reference to discipline and punishment. 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) BLUER (7) [adjective] Of the colour blue. | [adjective] Depressed, melancholic, sad. | [adjective] Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame. | [noun] A blue blazer, part of the school uniform at Harrow School. | [noun] The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this. BLUES (7) [noun] The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this. | [noun] A blue dye or pigment. | [noun] Any of several processes to protect metal against rust. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A feeling of sadness or depression. | [verb] To make or become blue. BLUET (7) [noun] Any of several different plants having blue flowers from several genera. | [noun] Common name for several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma. BLUEY (10) [noun] The metal lead. | [noun] A bushman's blanket. | [noun] A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag. BLUME (9) BLYPE (12) [noun] A thin layer or shred of skin that peels off, especially from sunburn. | [verb] To peel off in thin layers or shreds. BOCCE (11) [noun] A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court | [noun] One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce. BOCHE (12) [noun] A German. 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. BOGEY (11) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. | [noun] A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production. | [noun] A swim or bathe; a bath. BOGIE (8) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. | [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog. BOGLE (8) [noun] A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear. BOHEA (10) [noun] A black tea from China. BOITE (7) [noun] A nightclub or small theater, especially in France; a box or case. BOLES (7) [noun] The trunk or stem of a tree. | [noun] Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. | [noun] (colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay. BOMBE (11) [noun] A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold. | [noun] (chiefly in German cooking) A small, cylindrical or spherical chocolate-covered confection. (Compare truffle.) | [noun] An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis. BONED (8) [verb] To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. | [verb] To fertilize with bone. | [verb] To put whalebone into. BONER (7) [noun] An erect penis. | [noun] One who or that which bones (removes bones). | [noun] A blunder; a silly mistake. BONES (7) [noun] A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. | [noun] Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone. | [noun] A bone of a fish; a fishbone. BONEY (10) [adjective] Resembling or containing bones; having prominent bones. | [adjective] Thin or skinny in appearance. BONNE (7) [noun] A French nursemaid. BONZE (16) [noun] A Buddhist monk or priest in East Asia. BOOED (8) [verb] To shout extended boos derisively. | [verb] To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision. BOOZE (16) [noun] Any alcoholic beverage. | [noun] A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party. | [verb] To drink alcohol. 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. BORER (7) [noun] A tedious person. | [noun] A person who bores, who drills. | [noun] A tool used for drilling. BORES (7) [noun] A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter. | [noun] The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter. | [noun] A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring. BORNE (7) [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To support, sustain, or endure. | [verb] To support, keep up, or maintain. BOTEL (7) [noun] A floating hotel; a boat that acts as a hotel BOULE (7) [noun] One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. | [noun] A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. | [noun] A round loaf of bread. | [noun] A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works. | [noun] A council of citizens in Ancient Greece BOUSE (7) [verb] To drink heavily or excessively. | [verb] To haul or pull with a rope, especially in nautical contexts. 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. BOWEL (10) [noun] A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine. | [noun] (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach. | [noun] (in the plural) The (deep) interior of something. BOWER (10) [noun] A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle. | [noun] A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat. | [noun] A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods. | [noun] A peasant; a farmer. | [noun] Either of the two highest trumps in euchre. | [noun] A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow. | [noun] One who bows or bends. | [noun] One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow. | [noun] A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. BOWSE (10) [verb] To haul or pull with a rope, especially in nautical contexts. | [verb] To drink heavily or carouse. 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. BOXER (14) [noun] A participant (fighter) in a boxing match. | [noun] A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle. | [noun] A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft. BOXES (14) [noun] Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space. | [noun] Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space | [verb] To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. BRACE (9) [noun] Armor for the arm; vambrace. | [noun] A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms. | [noun] A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock. BRAES (7) [noun] The sloping bank of a river valley. | [noun] Any hillside or slope. BRAKE (11) [noun] A fern; bracken. | [noun] A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc. | [noun] A tool used for breaking flax or hemp. | [noun] An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. | [noun] A cage. | [verb] To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. BRAVE (10) [noun] A Native American warrior. | [noun] A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. | [noun] A challenge; a defiance; bravado. BRAZE (16) [noun] A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore. | [verb] To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness. | [verb] To burn or temper in fire. BREAD (8) [noun] A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. | [noun] Any variety of bread. | [noun] Money. | [noun] Breadth. | [verb] To make broad; spread. | [noun] A piece of embroidery; a braid. BREAK (11) [noun] An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces. | [noun] A physical space that opens up in something or between two things. | [noun] A rest or pause, usually from work. | [noun] A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music. BREAM (9) [noun] A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. | [noun] A species in that genus, Abramis brama. | [noun] An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. | [verb] To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping. 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. BREES (7) [noun] Plural of bree, a Scottish word for broth or soup. | [verb] Third person singular of bree, meaning to brew or ferment. BRENS (7) [verb] To burn (to set ablaze). BRENT (7) [noun] A type of goose with a dark plumage, found in northern regions. | [noun] A crude oil variety from the North Sea. BREVE (10) [noun] A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short. | [noun] A double whole note. | [noun] Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court. BREWS (10) [noun] The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as a cup of tea or a brewed beer. | [noun] A beer. | [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. BRIBE (9) [noun] Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty. | [noun] That which seduces; seduction; allurement. | [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. 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 BRIEF (10) [noun] A writ summoning one to answer to any action. | [noun] An answer to any action. | [noun] A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case. BRIER (7) [noun] Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera. | [noun] Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. | [noun] The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub. BRIES (7) [noun] Plural of brie, a soft creamy cheese with a white rind. BRINE (7) [noun] Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. | [noun] The sea or ocean; the water of the sea. | [verb] To preserve food in a salt solution. BROKE (11) [verb] To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. | [verb] To divide (something, often money) into smaller units. | [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of. | [noun] (papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process. | [verb] To act as a broker; to transact business for another. | [adjective] Broke off, rich, wealthy BROME (9) [noun] Any grass of the genus Bromus. | [noun] Bromine BROSE (7) [noun] Oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk. BRUME (9) [noun] Mist, fog, vapour. BRUTE (7) [noun] An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. | [noun] A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. | [noun] (Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated. | [verb] To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc. 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. BUGLE (8) [noun] A horn used by hunters. | [noun] A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series | [noun] A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga. | [noun] A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim | [noun] A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. BULGE (8) [noun] Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure. | [noun] The bilge or protuberant part of a cask. | [noun] The bilge of a vessel. BURET (7) [noun] A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration. | [noun] An altar cruet. BURKE (11) [noun] (sometimes affectionate) A fool, prat, twit. | [noun] Cunt. | [verb] To murder by suffocation BURSE (7) [noun] A purse. | [noun] A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies. | [noun] An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use. 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. BUSES (7) [noun] A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads. | [noun] An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components. | [noun] (medical industry) An ambulance. BUTEO (7) [noun] Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo. BUTLE (7) [verb] To serve as or perform the duties of a butler. BUTTE (7) [noun] An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top. BUYER (10) [noun] A person who makes one or more purchases. | [noun] (retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment. | [noun] A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products. BYRES (10) [noun] A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in. BYTES (10) [noun] A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word. | [noun] (most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values. CABER (9) [noun] A long, thick log held upright at one end and tossed in the Highland games. CABLE (9) [noun] (material) A long object used to make a physical connection. | [noun] (communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables. | [noun] A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable. CACHE (12) [noun] A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way. | [noun] A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium. | [noun] (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game. 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. CADRE (8) [noun] A frame or framework. | [noun] The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. | [noun] The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group. CAECA (9) [noun] A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon. CAFES (10) [noun] A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items. | [noun] A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises. | [noun] A small restaurant of any genre. CAGED (9) [verb] To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage. | [verb] To restrict someone's movement or creativity. | [verb] To track individual responses to direct mail, either to maintain and develop mailing lists or to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses. CAGER (8) [noun] A basketball player. | [noun] One who cages or confines animals. CAGES (8) [noun] An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals. | [noun] The passenger compartment of a lift. | [noun] (water polo) The goal. CAGEY (11) [adjective] Wary, careful, shrewd. | [adjective] Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information. CAKED (12) [verb] Coat (something) with a crust of solid material. | [verb] To form into a cake, or mass. | [verb] To cackle like a goose. CAKES (11) [noun] A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. | [noun] A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough. | [noun] A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake. CAKEY (14) [adjective] Having the texture, consistency, or quality of cake. | [adjective] Covered or caked with a thick layer of something. CALVE (10) [verb] To give birth to a calf | [verb] To assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf | [verb] To give birth to (a calf) CAMEL (9) [noun] A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus. | [noun] A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown). | [noun] Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle. | [noun] A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones. CAMEO (9) [noun] A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief. | [noun] A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song. | [verb] To appear in a cameo role. CAMES (9) [noun] A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together. CANED (8) [verb] To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement | [verb] To destroy; to comprehensively defeat | [verb] To do something well, in a competent fashion | [adjective] Filled with white flakes; mothery; said of vinegar when containing mother. CANER (7) [noun] One who canes, or a person who makes or works with canes. | [noun] A tool or implement used for caning. CANES (7) [noun] A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof | [noun] The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool | [noun] A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane CANOE (7) [noun] A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends. | [noun] An oversize, usually older, luxury car. | [noun] Any of the deflectors positioned around a roulette wheel, shaped like upside-down boats. CAPED (10) [adjective] Wearing a cape or capes. | [adjective] (in compounds) Wearing a cape of a specified kind. | [adjective] Cancelled CAPER (9) [noun] A playful leap or jump. | [noun] A jump while dancing. | [noun] A prank or practical joke. | [noun] A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer. | [noun] The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten. | [noun] The capercaillie. CAPES (9) [noun] A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland. | [noun] A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders. | [noun] A superhero. CARED (8) [verb] To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about). | [verb] (polite) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards. | [verb] (with for) To look after or look out for. CARER (7) [noun] Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities. CARES (7) [noun] Grief, sorrow. | [noun] Close attention; concern; responsibility. | [noun] Worry. CARET (7) [noun] A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point. | [noun] An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also called a cursor. | [noun] A circumflex, ⟨ ＾ ⟩. | [noun] A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata). CAREX (14) [noun] Any member of the genus Carex of sedges. CARLE (7) [noun] A man or fellow, especially a peasant or man of low social status; a churl or rustic man. CARSE (7) [noun] Low, fertile land; a river valley. CARTE (7) [noun] A bill of fare; a menu. | [noun] A visiting card. | [noun] A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person). | [noun] The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards. CARVE (10) [noun] A carucate. | [noun] The act of carving | [verb] To cut. CASED (8) [verb] To propose hypothetical cases. | [verb] To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment. | [verb] To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose. CASES (7) [noun] An actual event, situation, or fact. | [noun] A given condition or state. | [noun] A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession. CASTE (7) [noun] Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies. | [noun] A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other. | [noun] A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony. CATER (7) [noun] Caterer | [verb] To provide, particularly: | [noun] A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food. | [verb] To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally. | [noun] Four. CATES (7) [noun] Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. CAUSE (7) [noun] (often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result. | [noun] (especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion. | [noun] A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends. CAVED (11) [verb] To surrender. | [verb] To collapse. | [verb] To hollow out or undermine. CAVER (10) [noun] A person who explores caves. | [noun] A person who makes concessions or retreats from a position. CAVES (10) [noun] A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside. | [noun] A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made. | [noun] A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese. CAVIE (10) [noun] A guinea pig, especially as used in laboratory experiments. CAWED (11) [verb] To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven. CEASE (7) [noun] Cessation; extinction (see without cease). | [verb] To stop. | [verb] To stop doing (something). CEBID (10) [noun] Any member of the Cebidae. CECAL (9) [adjective] Relating to or resembling a cecum, a pouch-like structure at the beginning of the large intestine. | [adjective] Ending in a blind pouch or closed end. CECUM (11) [noun] A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon. 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 ₵. CEIBA (9) [noun] Any tree of the species in genus Ceiba | [noun] The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba). CEILS (7) [verb] To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar. | [verb] To set a higher bound. CELEB (9) [noun] A celebrity; a famous person. CELLA (7) [noun] The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos. CELLI (7) [noun] Plural of cello, a stringed musical instrument of the violin family. CELLO (7) [noun] A large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings, tuned from lowest to highest C-G-D-A, and played with a bow, also possessing an endpin to support the instrument's weight. | [noun] Cellophane CELLS (7) [noun] A single-room dwelling for a hermit. | [noun] A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment. | [noun] A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. CELOM (9) [noun] A fluid-filled cavity within the body of an animal. The digestive system is suspended within the cavity, which is lined by a tissue called the peritoneum. CELTS (7) [noun] A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool. CENSE (7) [verb] To perfume with incense. | [noun] A census. | [noun] A public rate or tax. CENTO (7) [noun] A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems. CENTS (7) [noun] (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢. | [noun] A small sum of money. | [noun] (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro. CEORL (7) [noun] An Anglo-Saxon churl. CEPES (9) [noun] Plural of cepe, an edible fungus also known as a porcini mushroom. CERCI (9) [noun] Structures on the end of on the end of the abdomen of most insects, sometimes long, hairlike sensory organs and sometimes smaller and rigid. CERED (8) [verb] Past tense of "cere," meaning to wrap in a cerecloth or to cover with wax. CERES (7) [noun] A waxy protuberance at the base of the upper beak in certain birds. CERIA (7) [noun] A white powdery oxide of cerium, used in polishing compounds and as a catalyst. CERIC (9) [adjective] Of or relating to cerium, a chemical element. | [adjective] Relating to or containing cerium in the trivalent state. CEROS (7) [noun] A large scombroid food fish (Scomberomorus regalis) found chiefly in the West Indies. CESTA (7) [noun] A basket used in jai alai for catching and throwing a ball. | [noun] A cestus or girdle worn in ancient times. CESTI (7) [noun] A leather fighting glove, frequently weighted with metal. | [noun] A girdle, especially that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power to excite love. CETES (7) [noun] Plural of cete, which is a group or collective noun for badgers. CHAFE (13) [noun] Heat excited by friction. | [noun] Injury or wear caused by friction. | [noun] Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. CHAPE (12) [noun] The piece by which an object is attached to something, such as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap. | [noun] The transverse guard of a sword or dagger. | [noun] The lower metallic cap of a sword's scabbard. CHARE (10) [verb] To do chores or work as a hired hand. | [noun] A chore or task. CHASE (10) [noun] The act of one who chases another; a pursuit. | [noun] A hunt. | [noun] A children's game where one player chases another. | [noun] A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making. | [noun] A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow. CHEAP (12) [noun] Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering. | [noun] A market; marketplace. | [noun] Price. CHEAT (10) [verb] To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation. | [verb] To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner. | [verb] To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely. | [noun] Someone who cheats (informal: cheater). CHECK (16) [noun] A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece. | [noun] An inspection or examination. | [noun] A control; a limit or stop. | [verb] To inspect; to examine. | [noun] (usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern. CHEEK (14) [noun] The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity. | [noun] (usually in the plural) The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts. | [noun] Impudence. CHEEP (12) [noun] A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird. | [verb] Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds sounding like "cheep". | [verb] To express in a chirping tone. CHEER (10) [noun] A cheerful attitude; happiness; a good, happy, or positive mood. | [noun] That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment. | [noun] A cry expressing joy, approval or support such as "hurray". | [noun] Cheerleading. CHEFS (13) [noun] The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household. | [noun] The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment. | [noun] Any cook. CHELA (10) [noun] A pincer-like claw of a crustacean or arachnid. | [noun] A pupil or disciple, especially in Hinduism. CHEMO (12) [noun] Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state. | [noun] (most common usage) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient. CHERT (10) [noun] Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral. | [noun] A flint-like tool made from chert. CHESS (10) [noun] A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king. | [noun] Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge. CHEST (10) [noun] A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid. | [noun] A coffin. | [noun] The place in which public money is kept; a treasury. | [noun] Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity. CHETH (13) [noun] The eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. | [noun] A fence or hedge. CHEVY (16) [noun] A hunt or pursuit; a chase. | [noun] A cry used in hunting. | [noun] The game of prisoners' bars. CHEWS (13) [noun] The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth. | [noun] Level of chewiness. | [noun] A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing. CHEWY (16) [noun] Chewing gum. | [adjective] Having a pliable or springy texture when chewed. 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. CHIEF (13) [noun] A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc. | [noun] The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third. | [noun] The principal part or top of anything. CHIEL (10) [noun] A Scottish word for a child or young man. | [noun] A fellow or guy. CHILE (10) [noun] The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking. | [noun] Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking. | [noun] (Indian Chinese cuisine) a spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer. | [noun] A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority) CHIME (12) [noun] A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes. | [noun] An individual ringing component of such a set. | [noun] A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device. | [noun] The top of a ridge. CHINE (10) [noun] The top of a ridge. | [noun] The spine of an animal. | [noun] A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. | [noun] (Southern England) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea. | [verb] To crack, split, fissure, break. CHIVE (13) [noun] A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion. | [noun] (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb. | [noun] The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A knife. CHOKE (14) [noun] A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold. | [noun] In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation. | [noun] A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot. CHORE (10) [noun] A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one. | [verb] To do chores. | [verb] To steal. | [noun] A choir or chorus. CHOSE (10) [verb] To pick; to make the choice of; to select. | [verb] To elect. | [verb] To decide to act in a certain way. | [noun] A thing; personal property. CHUTE (10) [noun] A framework, trough or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel. | [noun] A waterfall or rapid. | [noun] The pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo. | [noun] A parachute. CHYLE (13) [noun] A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine. CHYME (15) [noun] The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum. 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. CIMEX (16) [noun] A genus of parasitic insects that includes bedbugs, characterized by flat bodies and piercing mouthparts used to feed on blood. CINES (7) [noun] Plural of cine, relating to cinematography or motion pictures; movie theaters or cinemas. CIRES (7) 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. CITER (7) [noun] One who cites or quotes. | [noun] One who summons or calls upon. CITES (7) [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. CIVET (10) [noun] A carnivorous catlike animal, Civettictis civetta, that produces a musky secretion. It is two to three feet long, with black bands and spots on the body and tail. | [noun] The musky perfume produced by the animal. | [noun] Any animal in the family Viverridae or the similar family Nandiniidae CIVIE (10) [noun] A civilian, especially a person not in the military or armed forces. 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. CLAVE (10) [verb] To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. | [verb] To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces. | [verb] To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting. | [noun] A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave. CLEAN (7) [noun] Removal of dirt. | [noun] The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders. | [verb] To remove dirt from a place or object. CLEAR (7) [noun] Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls. | [noun] The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game. | [noun] A person who is free from the influence of engrams. CLEAT (7) [noun] A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc. | [noun] A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components. | [noun] A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release. CLEEK (11) [noun] A golf club with an iron head and a long shaft, used for long-distance shots. | [noun] A large hook or crook. CLEFS (10) [noun] A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff CLEFT (10) [noun] An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting. | [noun] A piece made by splitting. | [noun] A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. | [verb] To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. CLEPE (9) [noun] A cry; an appeal; a call. | [verb] To give a call; cry out; appeal. | [verb] To call; call upon; cry out to. CLEPT (9) [verb] To give a call; cry out; appeal. | [verb] To call; call upon; cry out to. | [verb] To call to oneself; invite; summon. CLERK (11) [noun] One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker. | [noun] A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs. | [noun] In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk). CLEWS (10) [noun] A roughly spherical mass or body. | [noun] A ball of thread or yarn. | [noun] Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue. CLIME (9) [noun] A particular region defined by its weather or climate. | [noun] Climate. CLINE (7) [noun] A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group. | [noun] Any graduated continuum. | [noun] (inversive geometry) A generalized circle. CLONE (7) [noun] A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical. | [noun] A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.http//www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2754 | [noun] A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it. CLOSE (7) [noun] An end or conclusion. | [noun] The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction. | [noun] A grapple in wrestling. | [noun] (chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field. CLOVE (10) [noun] A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree. | [noun] A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice. | [noun] An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone. | [noun] Any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic. | [verb] To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. | [noun] A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch CLOZE (16) [noun] A test or exercise in which words are removed from a text and must be filled in by the reader. | [verb] To create or complete a cloze test. 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"). CLUES (7) [noun] A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide. | [noun] Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion. | [noun] An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence. COBLE (9) [noun] Small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland. 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. 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. COKES (11) [noun] Cola-based soft drink. | [noun] A bottle, glass or can of a cola-based soft drink. | [noun] Any soft drink, regardless of type. | [noun] A simpleton; a dupe. COLED (8) COLES (7) [noun] Cabbage. | [noun] Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed). | [noun] A stack or stook of hay. COMAE (9) [noun] A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet. | [noun] A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points. | [noun] A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. COMBE (11) [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. COMER (9) [noun] One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning. | [noun] One who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory. | [noun] One who arrives. COMES (9) [verb] To move from further away to nearer to. | [verb] To arrive. | [verb] To appear, to manifest itself. | [noun] The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue. COMET (9) [noun] A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun. | [noun] A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body. | [noun] Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes. COMTE (9) [noun] A French nobleman or count. 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 CONES (7) [noun] A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line. | [noun] A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes. | [noun] A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point. CONEY (10) [noun] A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus). | [noun] Rabbit fur. | [noun] Locally for other rabbit-like or hyrax-like animals, such as the Cape hyrax (das, dassie) or the pika (Ochotona princeps, formerly Lagomys princeps). CONGE (8) [noun] An ancient Roman unit of volume in liquid measure consisting of six sextarii or one-eighth amphora (about 118 fluid ounces). | [noun] An ancient Roman unit of weight under Vespasian equal to the weight of a congius of water. | [noun] A curvature found on the top or bottom of certain columns. CONTE (7) [noun] A short story or tale, especially one that is fictional or imaginative. COOED (8) [verb] To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon. | [verb] To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about. COOEE (7) [noun] A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush. | [noun] (with "within") A short distance; hailing distance. | [verb] To make such a call. COOER (7) [noun] One who coos, especially a person or animal that makes soft murmuring sounds. | [noun] A device or container used for cooling. COOEY (10) [verb] To make a soft murmuring sound, as a dove or pigeon. 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. COPEN (9) COPER (9) [noun] One who copes. | [noun] A floating grog shop supplying the North Sea fishing industry. COPES (9) [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. COPSE (9) [noun] A thicket of small trees or shrubs. | [verb] To trim or cut. | [verb] To plant and preserve. CORED (8) [verb] To remove the core of an apple or other fruit. | [verb] To extract a sample with a drill. CORER (7) [noun] A tool or device used to remove the core from fruits or vegetables. | [noun] A person or thing that cores. CORES (7) [noun] Various former units of volume, particularly: | [noun] The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds. | [noun] The heart or inner part of a physical thing CORSE (7) [noun] A (living) body. | [noun] A dead body, a corpse. COSEC (9) [noun] The reciprocal of the sine function in trigonometry, equal to the hypotenuse divided by the opposite side in a right triangle. COSES (7) [noun] A variety of lettuce with long, crisp leaves. | [verb] To make oneself cosy; to be snug. COSET (7) [noun] The set that results from applying a group's binary operation with a given fixed element of the group on each element of a given subgroup. COSEY (10) [noun] A padded or knitted covering for a teapot, egg, or other object to keep it warm. | [adjective] Variant spelling of cozy; warm and comfortable. COSIE (7) [noun] A variant spelling of "cosy," a padded cover for a teapot or egg to keep it warm. | [adjective] Warm and comfortable; snug. 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. COTES (7) [noun] A cottage or hut. | [noun] A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons. 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. COUPE (9) [noun] An ice cream dessert; the glass it is served in. | [noun] A car with two doors (variant of coupé). | [noun] An area of forest where harvesting of wood is planned or has taken place. 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. COVEN (10) [noun] A formal group or assembly of witches. | [noun] A family, group or assembly of vampires. | [noun] A clique that shares common interests or activities. COVER (10) [noun] A lid. | [noun] Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view. | [noun] The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc. COVES (10) [noun] A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern. | [noun] A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling. | [noun] A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds. COVET (10) [verb] To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously. | [verb] To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden). | [verb] To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession. COVEY (13) [noun] A group of 8–12 (or more) quail. | [noun] A brood of partridges, grouse, etc. | [noun] A party or group (of persons or things). | [noun] A man. COWED (11) [verb] (chiefly in the passive voice) To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of. | [adjective] Frightened into submission. COWER (10) [verb] To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear. | [verb] To crouch in general. | [verb] To cause to cower; to frighten into submission. | [verb] To cherish with care. COXAE (14) [noun] The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example). COXED (15) [verb] To act as coxswain for. | [adjective] Having a cox COXES (14) [noun] A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew. COYED (11) COYER (10) [adjective] Bashful, shy, retiring. | [adjective] Quiet, reserved, modest. | [adjective] Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish. COZEN (16) [verb] To become cozy; (by extension) to become acquainted, comfortable, or familiar with. | [verb] To cheat; to defraud; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way. COZES (16) [verb] Third person singular of "coze," meaning to chat or converse casually. COZEY (19) COZIE (16) [noun] A padded or knitted cover for a teapot, egg, or other object to keep it warm. | [adjective] Warm and comfortable; cozy. CRAKE (11) [noun] Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills. | [verb] To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake. | [noun] A crack; a boast. CRANE (7) [noun] Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight. | [noun] Ardea herodias, the great blue heron. | [noun] A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes. | [noun] The cranium. CRAPE (9) [noun] Mourning garments, especially an armband or hatband. | [verb] To form into ringlets; to curl or crimp. | [verb] To clothe in crape. CRATE (7) [noun] A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods. | [noun] (mildly) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable. | [noun] In the Rust programming language, a binary or library. CRAVE (10) [noun] A formal application to a court to make a particular order. | [verb] To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for. | [verb] To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim. CRAZE (16) [noun] Craziness; insanity. | [noun] A strong habitual desire or fancy. | [noun] A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad CREAK (11) [noun] The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking. | [verb] To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances. | [verb] To produce a creaking sound with. CREAM (9) [noun] The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. | [noun] A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream. | [noun] Frosting, custard, creamer or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream. 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. CREEK (11) [noun] A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats. | [noun] A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook. | [noun] Any turn or winding. CREEL (7) [noun] An osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish. | [noun] A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule. | [verb] To place (fish) in a creel. CREEP (9) [verb] To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. | [verb] Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards. | [verb] To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction. | [noun] The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails) CREME (9) [noun] A very sugary, fluffy white cream derivative. | [noun] Cream CREPE (9) [noun] A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat. | [noun] A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface. | [noun] Crepe paper; thin, crinkled tissue paper. CREPT (9) [verb] To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. | [verb] Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards. | [verb] To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction. CREPY (12) [adjective] Having a crepe-like texture; wrinkled or crinkled. | [adjective] Resembling or made of crepe fabric. CRESS (7) [noun] (plants) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. CREST (7) [noun] The summit of a hill or mountain ridge. | [noun] A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. | [noun] The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet. CREWS (10) [noun] A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs | [noun] The Manx shearwater. CRIED (8) [verb] To shed tears; to weep. | [verb] To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly. | [verb] To shout, scream, yell. CRIER (7) [noun] One who cries. | [noun] An officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation, such as a town crier. CRIES (7) [noun] A shedding of tears; the act of crying. | [noun] A shout or scream. | [noun] Words shouted or screamed. CRIME (9) [noun] A specific act committed in violation of the law. | [noun] Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity. | [noun] That which occasions crime. CRIPE (9) CRONE (7) [noun] An old woman. | [noun] An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman. | [noun] An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag. CRORE (7) [noun] Ten million; 10,000,000. Often used with units of money. CROZE (16) [noun] A groove at the ends of the staves of a barrel into which the edge of the head is fitted. | [noun] A cooper's tool for making these grooves. CRUDE (8) [noun] Any substance in its natural state. | [noun] Crude oil. | [adjective] In a natural, untreated state. CRUEL (7) [verb] To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success) | [verb] To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive. | [adjective] Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless. | [noun] Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery. CRUET (7) [noun] A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as salt, pepper, oil, or vinegar, for use at a dining table. | [noun] A stand for these containers. | [noun] A small vessel used to hold wine or water for the Eucharist. CRUSE (7) [noun] A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water. | [noun] An oil lamp or similar emblem. CUBEB (11) [noun] The tailed pepper, Piper cubeba; an Indonesian plant cultivated for its berries and essential oil. 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. CUBER (9) [noun] A person who solves Rubik's cubes or other cube puzzles. | [noun] A device or tool used for cutting food into cubes. CUBES (9) [noun] A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces. | [noun] Any object more or less in the form of a cube. | [noun] The third power of a number, value, term or expression. CUKES (11) [noun] A cucumber. | [noun] A cucoloris. CULET (7) [noun] The small flat facet at the bottom of a cut gemstone, especially a diamond. CULEX (14) [noun] Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease. CUPEL (9) [noun] A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead. | [verb] To refine by means of a cupel. 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). CURER (7) [noun] One who cures, such as a person who preserves food or treats diseases. | [noun] A clergyman or member of the clergy responsible for spiritual care in a parish. CURES (7) [noun] A method, device or medication that restores good health. | [noun] Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury. | [noun] A solution to a problem. CURET (7) [noun] A surgical instrument with a scoop or loop at the end, used for scraping or removing tissue from body cavities. | [verb] To scrape or clean with a curet. CURIE (7) [noun] 3.7×1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci. CURSE (7) [noun] A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane. | [noun] A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone. | [noun] The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment. | [verb] To place a curse upon (a person or object). CURVE (10) [noun] A gentle bend, such as in a road. | [noun] A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line. | [noun] A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject. CUSEC (9) [noun] A measure of the rate of flow of fluid, especially through a pipeline, equal to one cubic foot per second. CUTER (7) [adjective] Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior. | [adjective] Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way. | [adjective] Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy. CUTES (7) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "cute," meaning to make cute or to behave in a cute manner. | [noun] Plural of "cute," used informally to refer to cute people or things. CUTEY (10) [noun] A cute person or animal. | [noun] A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand. | [noun] (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma. CUTIE (7) [noun] A cute person or animal. | [noun] A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand. | [noun] (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma. CYCLE (12) [noun] An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed. | [noun] A complete rotation of anything. | [noun] A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence. 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. CYMAE (12) [noun] A moulding of the cornice, wavelike in form, whose outline consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee. | [noun] A cyme. CYMES (12) [noun] (spelt cime) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud. | [noun] A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it. Contrast raceme. | [noun] = cyma DACES (8) [noun] Plural of dace, a small freshwater fish of the carp family. DALES (6) [noun] A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area. | [noun] A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. 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. 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. DARED (7) [verb] To have enough courage (to do something). | [verb] To defy or challenge (someone to do something) | [verb] To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to DARER (6) [noun] One who dares; a person who is bold or courageous. | [noun] A challenge or dare issued to someone. DARES (6) [noun] A challenge to prove courage. | [noun] The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. | [noun] Defiance; challenge. 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. DAUBE (8) [noun] A stew of braised meat, usually beef. DAVEN (9) [verb] To recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray DAWED (10) [verb] Past tense of "daw," meaning to dawn or to jackdaw (to behave like a jackdaw). | [verb] To fondle or caress. DAWEN (9) DAZED (16) [verb] To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear | [adjective] In a state of shock or confusion. | [adjective] Stunned. DAZES (15) [noun] The state of being dazed | [noun] A glittering stone. | [verb] To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear DEADS (7) [noun] Plural of dead, referring to deceased people or those who have died. | [noun] In printing, the areas of a page that are blank or contain no printed material. DEAIR (6) [verb] To remove air from something. | [verb] To expel air or gas from a container or system. DEALS (6) [noun] A division, a portion, a share. | [noun] (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good). | [noun] An act of dealing or sharing out. DEALT (6) [verb] To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share. | [verb] To administer or give out, as in small portions. | [verb] To distribute cards to the players in a game. DEANS (6) [noun] A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students). | [noun] A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons. | [noun] The senior member of some group of people. DEARS (6) [noun] A very kind, loving person. | [noun] A beloved person. | [noun] An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife. DEARY (9) [noun] A person who is dear or beloved; used as a term of endearment. | [adjective] Variant spelling of "dearie," expressing affection or used as a form of address. DEASH (9) DEATH (9) [noun] The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state. | [noun] (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English dēaþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male θᾰ́νᾰτος (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics. | [noun] (the death) The collapse or end of something. DEAVE (9) [verb] To deafen or stun with noise. | [verb] To bewilder or confuse. DEBAR (8) [verb] To exclude or shut out; to bar. | [verb] To hinder or prevent. | [verb] To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program. 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) [noun] Plural of deer, referring to multiple hoofed mammals of the family Cervidae. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of the verb "deer," meaning to veer or move suddenly to avoid something. 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) [noun] Plural of defi, a challenge or dare. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of defy in some contexts. DEFOG (10) [verb] To remove fog from; to make clear or transparent by removing condensation or obscuring vapor. DEGAS (7) [verb] To remove the gas from. DEGUM (9) [verb] To remove gum from something, such as fabric or fiber. DEICE (8) [verb] To remove ice from a surface, such as a windshield or road. 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) [noun] A person who believes in the existence of a supreme being but denies revealed religion, instead relying on reason and observation of nature. 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) [noun] Plural of delf; glazed earthenware or pottery, typically blue and white Dutch or English ware. | [noun] Earthenware or crockery in general. 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) [noun] A delicatessen or deli counter where food items are sold. | [noun] Food or products sold at a delicatessen. 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) [adjective] Relating to or denoting a chemical compound that lacks one oxygen atom, as in deoxyribose or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). 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) [verb] To rid of rats. DERAY (9) [noun] Disorder or disarray; a state of confusion or disturbance. 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) [noun] Plural of derm, informal term for dermatologists or relating to skin. DERRY (9) [verb] To mock or ridicule someone. | [adjective] Worthless or contemptible. 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) [noun] A tablet of dexamphetamine, especially one used as a stimulant drug. DHOLE (9) [noun] An Asian wild dog, Cuon alpinus. 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. DIDIE (7) 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. 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) 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 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) DIODE (7) [noun] An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier. 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 DISME (8) DITES (6) 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. DIZEN (15) DOBIE (8) DODGE (8) [noun] An act of dodging. | [noun] A trick, evasion or wile. | [noun] A line of work. 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). 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) DOGIE (7) [noun] A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow. DOLCE (8) [noun] A soft-toned organ stop. 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. 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) DONEE (6) [noun] Someone who receives a gift from a donor. DONNE (6) 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. DOSED (7) DOSER (6) DOSES (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. DOUCE (8) [adjective] Sweet; nice; pleasant. | [adjective] Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober. 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. 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) 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. 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. DRAKE (10) [noun] A male duck. | [noun] A mayfly used as fishing bait. | [noun] A dragon. 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 DRAVE (9) 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) 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. DULSE (6) [noun] A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. DUNCE (8) [noun] An unintelligent person. DUNES (6) [noun] A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind. 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. DURED (7) DURES (6) DUVET (9) [noun] A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets. | [noun] A cover for a quilt or comforter. 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) DYERS (9) [noun] One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation. 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. EAGER (6) [adjective] Sharp; sour; acid. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. | [adjective] Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. | [noun] A tidal bore EAGLE (6) [noun] Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision. | [noun] A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I. EAGRE (6) [adjective] Sharp; sour; acid. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. | [adjective] Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. | [noun] A tidal bore EARED (6) EARLS (5) [noun] (nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts. EARLY (8) [noun] A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day. | [adjective] At a time in advance of the usual or expected event. | [adjective] Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time. EARNS (5) [verb] To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. EARTH (8) [proper noun] The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live. | [proper noun] The personification of the Earth or earth, as a fertile woman or goddess. | [noun] Soil. EASED (6) [verb] To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc. | [verb] To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain). | [verb] To give respite to (someone). EASEL (5) [noun] An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas. EASES (5) [verb] To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc. | [verb] To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain). | [verb] To give respite to (someone). EASTS (5) EATEN (5) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. EATER (5) [noun] One who eats. | [noun] An eating apple. | [noun] One who performs fellatio or cunnilingus. EAVED (9) EAVES (8) [noun] The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building. 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 EBBET (9) EBONS (7) EBONY (10) [noun] A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros. | [noun] A tree that yields such wood. | [noun] A deep, dark black colour. ECHED (11) ECHES (10) ECHOS (10) ECLAT (7) [noun] A brilliant or successful effect; brilliance of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown. ECRUS (7) 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) EERIE (5) [adjective] Strange, weird, fear-inspiring. | [adjective] Frightened, timid. EGADS (7) [interjection] A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc. EGERS (6) EGEST (6) [verb] To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces). EGGAR (7) [noun] Any moth of the family Lasiocampidae. 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. EGGER (7) [noun] One who gathers eggs. | [noun] Any of various species of moth, especially the oak egger-moth, Lasiocampa quercus. | [noun] One who eggs or incites. EGRET (6) [noun] Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season. | [noun] A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament. | [noun] The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle. 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. EIGHT (9) [noun] The digit/figure 8. | [noun] Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight. | [noun] A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars. | [noun] An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. EIKON (9) EJECT (14) [verb] To compel (a person or persons) to leave. | [verb] To throw out or remove forcefully. | [verb] To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour. | [noun] An inferred object of someone else's consciousness EKING (10) [noun] The act or process of adding. | [noun] That which is added. | [noun] A supplementary piece of timber used to lengthen another. | [verb] Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen. ELAIN (5) ELAND (6) [noun] A genus of large South African antelope (Taurotragus), valued both for its hide and flesh. ELANS (5) ELATE (5) [verb] To make joyful or proud. | [verb] To lift up; raise; elevate. | [adjective] Elated; exultant ELBOW (10) [noun] The joint between the upper arm and the forearm. | [noun] (by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent. | [noun] A detective. 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 ELECT (7) [noun] One chosen or set apart. | [noun] In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation. | [verb] To choose or make a decision (to do something) ELEGY (9) [noun] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. | [noun] A composition of mournful character. ELEMI (7) [noun] A tree, Canarium luzonicum, native to the Philippines. | [noun] A resin harvested from the elemi tree. ELFIN (8) [noun] An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land. | [noun] A little urchin or child. | [noun] Any of the butterflies in the subgenus Incisalia of the North American lycaenid genus Callophrys. | [adjective] Relating to or resembling an elf or elves, especially in its tiny size or features. 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. ELINT (5) ELITE (5) [noun] A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society. | [noun] Someone who is among the best at a certain task. | [adjective] Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician. ELOIN (5) ELOPE (7) [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). 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 ELUTE (5) [verb] To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse. ELVER (8) [noun] A young eel. ELVES (8) [noun] A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy. | [noun] Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature. | [noun] Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar). EMBAR (9) EMBAY (12) [verb] To bathe; to steep. | [verb] To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. EMBED (10) [noun] An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate. | [noun] An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message. | [noun] An item embedded in another document. EMBER (9) [noun] A glowing piece of coal or wood. | [noun] Smoldering ash. | [adjective] Making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer. EMBOW (12) EMCEE (9) [noun] A rapper. | [noun] Initialism of main colour. | [noun] Initialism of matching colour. EMEER (7) EMEND (8) [verb] To correct and revise (text or a document). EMERY (10) [noun] An impure type of corundum, often used for sanding or polishing. | [verb] To sand or polish with emery. | [verb] To coat with emery. EMEUS (7) EMIRS (7) [noun] A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. | [noun] A descendant of the prophet Muhammad. EMITS (7) [verb] To send out or give off EMMER (9) [noun] A species of wheat, Triticum dicoccon, one of a group of hulled wheats that are important food grains. EMMET (9) [noun] An ant. | [noun] (Cornish dialect) A tourist. EMOTE (7) [noun] A virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than a direct message. | [noun] (Twitch-speak) Short for emoticon. | [verb] To display emotions openly, especially while acting. EMPTY (12) [noun] (usually plural) A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty. | [verb] To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of. | [verb] Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination. EMYDE (11) EMYDS (11) ENACT (7) [noun] Purpose; determination | [verb] To make (a bill) into law | [verb] To act the part of; to play ENATE (5) 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). ENEMA (7) [noun] An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes. | [noun] The fluid so injected. | [noun] A device for administering such an injection. ENEMY (10) [noun] Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else. | [noun] A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation. | [noun] Something harmful or threatening to another ENJOY (15) [verb] To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something | [verb] To have the use or benefit of something. | [verb] To be satisfied or receive pleasure. ENNUI (5) [noun] A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression. | [verb] To make bored or listless; to weary. ENOKI (9) [noun] An enoki mushroom, Flammulina velutipes. ENOLS (5) ENORM (7) ENOWS (8) ENROL (5) [verb] To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list | [verb] To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of | [verb] To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something) ENSKY (12) ENSUE (5) [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. ENTER (5) [noun] The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard. | [noun] A stroke of the Enter key. | [verb] To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space. ENTIA (5) ENTRY (8) [noun] The act of entering. | [noun] Permission to enter. | [noun] A doorway that provides a means of entering a building. ENURE (5) [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. ENVOI (8) [noun] A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. ENVOY (11) [noun] A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. | [noun] A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador. | [noun] A representative. ENZYM (19) EOSIN (5) [noun] A red, acidic dye commonly used in histological stains. EPACT (9) [noun] The time (number of days) by which a solar year exceeds twelve lunar months; it is used in the calculation of the date of Easter EPEES (7) [noun] A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing. EPHAH (13) [noun] A former Hebrew unit of dry volume (about 23 L). EPHAS (10) 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. EPHOR (10) [noun] One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings. | [noun] (in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator. EPICS (9) [noun] An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero. | [noun] A series of events considered appropriate to an epic. | [noun] In software development, a large or extended user story. EPOCH (12) [noun] A particular period of history, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable. | [noun] A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period. | [noun] A precise instant of time that is used as a point of reference. 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. EPOXY (17) [noun] A thermosetting polyepoxide resin used chiefly in strong adhesives, coatings and laminates; epoxy resin. | [verb] To glue with epoxy. | [adjective] Derived from an epoxide. EQUAL (14) [noun] A person or thing of equal status to others. | [noun] State of being equal; equality. | [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. EQUID (15) [noun] Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.) EQUIP (16) [verb] To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging) | [verb] To dress up; to array; to clothe. | [verb] To prepare (someone) with a skill. ERASE (5) [noun] The operation of deleting data. | [verb] To remove markings or information | [verb] To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. ERECT (7) [adjective] Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards. | [adjective] (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation. | [adjective] (of a man) Having an erect penis | [verb] To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. ERGOT (6) [noun] Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses. | [noun] The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi. ERICA (7) [noun] Any of many heathers, of the genus Erica, used as garden plants ERNES (5) [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) | [noun] An eagle. ERODE (6) [verb] To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction. | [verb] To destroy gradually by an ongoing process. EROSE (5) 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. ERROR (5) [noun] The state, quality, or condition of being wrong. | [noun] A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately. | [noun] Sin; transgression. ERSES (5) ERUCT (7) [verb] To burp or belch. ERUGO (6) ERUPT (7) [verb] To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser). | [verb] To burst forth; to break out. | [verb] To spontaneously release pressure or tension. ERVIL (8) ESCAR (7) ESCOT (7) ESKAR (9) ESKER (9) [noun] A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier. ESSAY (8) [noun] (authorship) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject. | [noun] A test, experiment; an assay. | [noun] An attempt. | [verb] To try. ESSES (5) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter S. | [noun] Something shaped like the letter S. | [verb] To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S. ESTER (5) [noun] A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond joined via carbon to another oxygen atom. ESTOP (7) [verb] To impede or bar by estoppel. | [verb] To stop up, to plug ETAPE (7) ETHER (8) [noun] The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities. | [noun] Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955). | [noun] The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace. | [verb] To viciously humiliate or insult. ETHIC (10) [noun] A set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual. | [noun] The morality of an action. | [adjective] Moral, relating to morals. ETHOS (8) [noun] The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement. | [noun] A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct. | [noun] (aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos. ETHYL (11) [noun] The univalent hydrocarbon radical, C2H5, formally derived from ethane by the loss of a hydrogen atom. ETNAS (5) ETUDE (6) [noun] A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill. ETUIS (5) [noun] A small, ornamental bag or rigid container used for holding articles such as needles. ETWEE (8) ETYMA (10) [noun] The source word, or words, of a given word or expression. EUROS (5) [noun] Person living or originating from Europe | [noun] Person who resides within the European Union | [noun] The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: € 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. EVENS (8) [noun] (diminutive) An even number. | [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To equal. EVENT (8) [noun] An occurrence; something that happens. | [noun] A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) | [noun] One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. | [verb] To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate. EVERT (8) [verb] To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. | [verb] To move (someone or something) out of the way. | [verb] To turn upside down; to overturn. EVERY (11) EVICT (10) [verb] To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out. EVILS (8) [noun] Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. | [noun] Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief. | [noun] A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula). EVITE (8) [verb] To avoid. EVOKE (12) [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. EWERS (8) [noun] A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle. EXACT (14) [verb] To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way. | [verb] To make desirable or necessary. | [verb] To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce. EXALT (12) [verb] To honor; to hold in high esteem. | [verb] To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate. | [verb] To elate, or fill with the joy of success. EXAMS (14) [noun] The act of examining. | [noun] Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury. | [noun] A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks. EXCEL (14) [verb] To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something. | [verb] To be much better than others. | [verb] To exceed, to go beyond EXECS (14) [noun] Executive, executive officer EXERT (12) [verb] To put in vigorous action. | [verb] To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material. EXILE (12) [noun] The state of being banished from one's home or country. | [noun] Someone who is banished from their home or country. | [verb] To send into exile. EXINE (12) [noun] The outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exosporium EXIST (12) [verb] (stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality EXITS (12) [noun] An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. | [noun] A way out. | [noun] The act of departing from life; death. EXONS (12) [noun] An officer of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard. | [noun] A region of a transcribed gene present in the final functional RNA molecule. EXPAT (14) [noun] An expatriate; a person who lives outside their own country. EXPEL (14) [verb] To eject or erupt. | [verb] To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.). | [verb] To remove from membership. EXPOS (14) [noun] An exposition. | [noun] An expediter; a restaurant worker who prepares food to be taken to tables. EXTOL (12) [verb] To praise; to make high. EXTRA (12) [noun] Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill. | [noun] An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle. | [noun] A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball. 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. EXULT (12) [verb] To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph. EXURB (14) [noun] A residential area beyond the suburbs. EYERS (8) EYING (9) [verb] To observe carefully or appraisingly. | [verb] To appear; to look. EYRAS (8) [noun] A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. EYRES (8) [noun] A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere). EYRIE (8) [noun] The nest of a bird of prey. | [noun] Any high and remote but commanding place. EYRIR (8) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Icelandic króna FABLE (10) [noun] A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables. | [noun] Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. | [noun] Fiction; untruth; falsehood. FACED (11) [verb] (of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something). | [verb] (of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else). | [verb] To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. | [adjective] Drunk FACER (10) [noun] An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat. | [noun] One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. | [noun] A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy. FACES (10) [noun] The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose and mouth, and the surrounding area. | [noun] One's facial expression. | [noun] (in expressions such as 'make a face') A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc. FACET (10) [noun] Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem. | [noun] One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things. | [noun] One of a series of things, such as steps in a project. 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. FAENA (8) FAERY (11) [noun] The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion. | [noun] A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism. | [noun] An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm. FAKED (13) [verb] To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob. | [verb] To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is | [verb] To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify. FAKER (12) [noun] One who fakes something. | [noun] An impostor or impersonator. | [noun] A thief. FAKES (12) [noun] Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently. | [noun] A trick; a swindle. | [noun] A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent. FAKEY (15) FALSE (8) [noun] One of two options on a true-or-false test. | [adjective] Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect. | [adjective] Based on factually incorrect premises. FAMED (11) [adjective] Having fame; famous or noted. FAMES (10) FANES (8) [noun] A weathercock, a weather vane. | [noun] A banner, especially a military banner. | [noun] A temple or sacred place. FARCE (10) [noun] A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method. | [noun] A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor. | [noun] A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents. | [noun] Forcemeat, stuffing. FARED (9) [verb] To go, travel. | [verb] To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events. | [verb] To eat, dine. FARER (8) FARES (8) [noun] A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage. | [noun] Money paid for a transport ticket. | [noun] A paying passenger, especially in a taxi. FARLE (8) FATED (9) [verb] To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable. | [adjective] Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate. FATES (8) [noun] The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. | [noun] The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. | [noun] An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time. FAUVE (11) FAVES (11) [noun] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) | [verb] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) FAXED (16) [adjective] Having a head of hair; hairy. | [verb] To send a document via a fax machine. FAXES (15) [noun] The hair of the head. | [noun] A fax machine or a document received and printed by one. | [verb] To send a document via a fax machine. FAYED (12) FAZED (18) [verb] To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. | [adjective] Hesitant, frightened; daunted, disconcerted; perturbed, put off (usually used in the negative). FAZES (17) [verb] To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. FEARS (8) [noun] A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. | [noun] A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. | [noun] Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. FEASE (8) FEAST (8) [noun] A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature. | [noun] Something delightful | [noun] A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. | [verb] To partake in a feast, or large meal. FEATS (8) [noun] A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment. | [verb] To form; to fashion. | [verb] To feature. I FEAZE (17) FECAL (10) [adjective] Of or relating to feces. FECES (10) [noun] Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from the bowels; excrement. FECKS (14) [verb] To throw. | [verb] To steal. | [verb] To leave hastily. | [noun] (in minced oaths) Faith. 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. FEELS (8) [adjective] Of or relating to the emotions. | [adjective] Characterised by emotion. | [adjective] Determined by emotion rather than reason. FEEZE (17) FEIGN (9) [verb] To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate. | [verb] To imagine; to invent; to pretend. | [verb] To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent. FEINT (8) [noun] A movement made to confuse the opponent; a dummy. | [noun] That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense or stratagem. | [noun] (war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance | [noun] The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper. FEIST (8) FELID (9) [noun] Any member of the cat family (Felidae). FELLA (8) [noun] (chiefly South US) used to address a male | [noun] A colleague or partner. | [noun] A companion; a comrade. FELLS (8) [noun] A cutting-down of timber. | [noun] The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down. | [noun] The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft. FELLY (11) [noun] The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes. | [adverb] Fiercely, harshly. FELON (8) [noun] A person who has committed a felony. | [noun] A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony. | [noun] A wicked person. | [noun] A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe. FELTS (8) [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. FEMES (10) FEMME (12) [noun] A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl. | [noun] A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch. | [noun] A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person. FEMUR (10) [noun] A thighbone. | [noun] The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia. | [noun] A segment of the leg of an arachnid. FENCE (10) [noun] A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter. | [noun] Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods. | [noun] Skill in oral debate. 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). FENNY (11) FEODS (9) FEOFF (14) FERAL (8) [noun] A domesticated animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans. | [noun] A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly. | [noun] A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle. FERES (8) FERIA (8) [noun] A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed. FERLY (11) FERMI (10) [noun] An obsolete unit of length equal to one femtometer or femtometre (10−15 m). FERNS (8) [noun] Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations. FERNY (11) FERRY (11) [noun] A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule. | [noun] A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship. | [noun] The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service. FESSE (8) [noun] A horizontal band across the middle of the shield. FETAL (8) [adjective] Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus. FETAS (8) FETCH (13) [noun] An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance. | [noun] The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts. | [noun] A stratagem or trick; an artifice. | [noun] (originally Ireland) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith. FETED (9) [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). | [adjective] Honoured; celebrated. FETES (8) [noun] A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity. | [noun] A feast, celebration or carnival. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). FETID (9) [noun] The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts. | [adjective] Foul-smelling, stinking. FETOR (8) [noun] An unpleasant smell. FETUS (8) [noun] An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. | [noun] A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation. FEUAR (8) 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. FEVER (11) [noun] A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease. | [noun] (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases. | [noun] A state of excitement or anxiety. FEWER (11) FEYER (11) FEYLY (14) FEZES (17) FIBER (10) [noun] A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread. | [noun] A material in the form of fibers. | [noun] A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width. FIBRE (10) [noun] A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread. | [noun] Material in the form of fibres. | [noun] Dietary fibre. FICES (10) FICHE (13) [noun] A microfiche FIDGE (10) FIEFS (11) [noun] An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior. | [noun] Something over which one has rights or exercises control. | [noun] An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy. 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. FIERY (11) [adjective] Of or relating to fire. | [adjective] Burning or glowing. | [adjective] Inflammable or easily ignited. FIFED (12) [verb] To play this instrument. FIFER (11) FIFES (11) [noun] A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music 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. FILER (8) FILES (8) [noun] A collection of papers collated and archived together. | [noun] A roll or list. | [noun] Course of thought; thread of narration. FILET (8) [noun] A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration. | [noun] A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses. | [noun] A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet. FILLE (8) 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. FINER (8) [adjective] Senses referring to subjective quality. | [adjective] Senses referring to objective quality. | [adjective] Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets. FINES (8) [noun] Fine champagne; French brandy. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles. | [verb] To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify. FIQUE (17) 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. FIRER (8) FIRES (8) [noun] A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering. | [noun] An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire). | [noun] The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger. FIVER (11) [noun] A banknote with a value of five units of currency. | [noun] (by extension) The value in money that this represents. | [noun] A clenched fist. FIVES (11) [noun] The digit/figure 5. | [noun] A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver. | [noun] Anything measuring five units, as length. 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. FIXER (15) [noun] Agent noun of fix; one who, or that which, fixes. | [noun] A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions. | [noun] (criminal justice) A person who arranges immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion, especially as a business endeavor for profit. FIXES (15) [noun] A repair or corrective action. | [noun] A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament. | [noun] A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user. FJELD (16) FLAKE (12) [noun] A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything | [noun] A scale of a fish or similar animal | [noun] A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone. | [noun] Dogfish. | [noun] Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently. FLAME (10) [noun] The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat. | [noun] A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair. | [noun] Intentionally insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger. FLARE (8) [noun] A sudden bright light. | [noun] A source of brightly burning light or intense heat. | [noun] A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up. FLEAM (10) FLEAS (8) [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). | [verb] To frighten; scare; terrify. | [verb] To be fear-stricken. FLECK (14) [noun] A flake | [noun] A lock, as of wool. | [noun] A small spot or streak; a speckle. FLEER (8) [noun] Mockery; derision | [verb] To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn | [verb] To grin with an air of civility; to leer. | [noun] One who flees FLEES (8) [verb] To run away; to escape. | [verb] To escape from. | [verb] To disappear quickly; to vanish. FLEET (8) [noun] A group of vessels or vehicles. | [noun] Any group of associated items. | [noun] A large, coordinated group of people. | [noun] An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek. | [verb] To float. | [noun] Floor; bottom; lower surface. FLESH (11) [noun] The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat. | [noun] The skin of a human or animal. | [noun] (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso. FLEWS (11) [noun] (chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip. FLEYS (11) 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). FLIER (8) [noun] That which flies, as a bird or insect. | [noun] A machine that flies. | [noun] An airplane pilot. FLIES (8) [noun] The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung. | [noun] Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies. | [noun] (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges). FLITE (8) FLOES (8) [noun] A low, flat mass of floating ice. FLUED (9) FLUES (8) [noun] A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace). | [noun] An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along. | [noun] A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this. FLUKE (12) [noun] A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated. | [verb] To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance. | [verb] To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way. | [noun] A flounder. | [noun] Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail. FLUME (10) [noun] A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through. | [noun] An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids. | [verb] To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough. FLUTE (8) [noun] A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin. | [noun] A recorder, also a woodwind instrument. | [noun] A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne. | [noun] A kind of flyboat; a storeship. FLYER (11) [noun] That which flies, as a bird or insect. | [noun] A machine that flies. | [noun] An airplane pilot. FLYTE (11) FOEHN (11) [noun] A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland. | [noun] A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain. FOGEY (12) [noun] A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow. FOGIE (9) FORCE (10) [noun] Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect. | [noun] Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. | [noun] Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing. | [noun] A waterfall or cascade. | [verb] To stuff; to lard; to farce. FORES (8) FORGE (9) [noun] Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape. | [noun] Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them. | [noun] The act of beating or working iron or steel. | [verb] To shape a metal by heating and hammering. | [verb] (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty. FORME (10) [noun] (heading, physical) To do with shape. | [noun] (social) To do with structure or procedure. | [noun] A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. FORTE (8) [noun] A strength or talent. | [noun] The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt. | [noun] A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music. FOSSE (8) [noun] A pit, groove, cavity, or depression. | [noun] A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon. | [noun] A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, Cryptoprocta ferox. FOVEA (11) [noun] A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ. | [noun] The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision. 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. FOXES (15) [noun] A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail. | [noun] Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox). | [noun] The fur of a fox. FOYER (11) [noun] A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc. | [noun] The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal. | [noun] A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people. FRAME (10) [noun] The structural elements of a building or other constructed object. | [noun] Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure. | [noun] The structure of a person's body; the human body. FREAK (12) [noun] A sudden change of mind | [noun] Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable. | [noun] A hippie. | [noun] A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man. FREED (9) [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. | [verb] To rid of something that confines or oppresses. FREER (8) [adjective] (social) Unconstrained. | [adjective] Obtainable without any payment. | [adjective] (abstract) Unconstrained. FREES (8) [noun] Free transfer | [noun] The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed. | [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. FREMD (11) FRENA (8) FRERE (8) FRESH (11) [noun] A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood. | [noun] A stream or spring of fresh water. | [noun] The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea. | [adjective] Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward. FRETS (8) [noun] Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. | [noun] Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation. | [noun] Herpes; tetter. 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. FRIER (8) [noun] A container for frying food. | [noun] A young chicken suitable for frying; a pullet | [noun] A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars). FRIES (8) [noun] (usually in the plural, fries) A fried strip of potato. | [noun] A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc. | [noun] A state of excitement. FRISE (8) FROES (8) [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [noun] A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. FRORE (8) [verb] Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. | [verb] To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. | [verb] To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. FROZE (17) [verb] Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. | [verb] To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. | [verb] To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. FRYER (11) [noun] A container for frying food. | [noun] A young chicken suitable for frying; a pullet 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. FUELS (8) [noun] Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction. | [noun] Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food. | [noun] Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action. FUGLE (9) FUGUE (9) [noun] A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody. | [noun] Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality. | [noun] A fugue state. FUMED (11) [verb] To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. | [verb] To apply or offer incense to. | [verb] To emit fumes. FUMER (10) FUMES (10) [noun] A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale. | [noun] A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state. | [noun] Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control. FUMET (10) [noun] A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet. | [noun] A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine. | [noun] The stench or high flavour of game or other meat when kept long. | [noun] The dung of deer, hares, etc. FURZE (17) [noun] A thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of which Ulex europaeus is particularly common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland. FUSED (9) [verb] To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. | [verb] To melt together. | [verb] To furnish with or install a fuse. FUSEE (8) [noun] A light musket or firelock. | [noun] A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks. | [noun] A large friction match. | [noun] The track of a buck. | [noun] One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion. FUSEL (8) FUSES (8) [noun] A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device. | [noun] The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device. | [noun] A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it. FUZED (18) [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. | [adjective] Being equipped with a fuze FUZEE (17) [noun] A light musket or firelock. | [noun] A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks. | [noun] A large friction match. FUZES (17) [noun] (professional usage) An auxiliary device with explosive components, used to detonate a munition. | [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. FYCES (13) FYKES (15) [noun] A type of fish-trap consisting of tubular nets that are supported by hoops. FYTTE (11) [noun] The degree to which something fits. | [noun] Conformity of elements one to another. | [noun] The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly. GABLE (8) [noun] The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches). | [noun] A cable. GAFFE (12) [noun] A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public. GAGED (8) [verb] To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn. | [verb] To wager, to bet. | [verb] To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. GAGER (7) GAGES (7) [noun] Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). | [noun] Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom. | [noun] A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica. GALEA (6) [noun] A Roman helmet. | [noun] An organ or a part of a plant that is shaped like a galea (helmet). | [noun] A mouthpart found in some species of chewing insect, which is shaped like a galea (helmet). GALES (6) [noun] A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale. | [noun] An outburst, especially of laughter. | [noun] A light breeze. GAMBE (10) GAMED (9) [verb] To gamble. | [verb] To play card games, board games, or video games. | [verb] To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable. GAMER (8) [noun] A person who plays any kind of game. | [noun] A person whose hobby is video games. | [noun] A person who games the system. | [adjective] Willing to participate. GAMES (8) [noun] A playful or competitive activity. | [noun] A video game. | [noun] (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession. GAMEY (11) [adjective] Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat). | [adjective] Plucky, spirited or gritty | [adjective] Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive GANEF (9) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GANEV (9) GAPED (9) [verb] To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise. | [verb] To stare in wonder. | [verb] To open wide; to display a gap. GAPER (8) [noun] One who gapes; a starer. | [noun] Any of several species of burrowing clams. | [noun] The comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla. GAPES (8) [noun] An act of gaping; a yawn. | [noun] A large opening. | [noun] A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping. GASES (6) [noun] Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly. | [noun] A chemical element or compound in such a state. | [noun] A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles. GATED (7) [verb] To keep something inside by means of a closed gate. | [verb] To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out. | [verb] To open a closed ion channel. GATES (6) [noun] A doorlike structure outside a house. | [noun] Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. | [noun] Movable barrier. GAUGE (7) [noun] A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard | [noun] An act of measuring. | [noun] An estimate. GAUZE (15) [noun] A thin fabric with a loose, open weave. | [noun] A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing. | [noun] A thin woven metal or plastic mesh. GAVEL (9) [noun] Rent. | [noun] Usury; interest on money. | [noun] An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally. | [noun] A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction. | [noun] A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. | [noun] A gable. GAYER (9) [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Happy, joyful, and lively. | [adjective] Quick, fast. | [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Festive, bright, or colourful. GAZED (16) [verb] To stare intently or earnestly. | [verb] To stare at. GAZER (15) GAZES (15) [noun] A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. | [noun] The object gazed on. | [noun] In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed. GEARS (6) [noun] Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. | [noun] Clothing; garments. | [noun] Goods; property; household items. GECKO (12) [noun] Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces. | [verb] To move in the manner of a gecko; to attach to a vertical or upside-down surface. GECKS (12) GEEKS (10) [noun] A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior. | [noun] A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun. | [noun] (by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers. GEEKY (13) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a geek. GEESE (6) [noun] Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks. | [noun] A female goose (sense 1). | [noun] The flesh of the goose used as food. GEEST (6) 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). GELEE (6) GELID (7) [adjective] Very cold; icy or frosty. GELTS (6) GEMMA (10) [noun] A bud; an asexual reproductive structure, as found in liverworts and hydra, able to produce new individuals from a cluster of cells. GEMMY (13) GEMOT (8) GENES (6) [noun] A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color. | [noun] A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus. GENET (6) [noun] Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail. | [noun] The fur of this mammal, or any skin dressed in imitation of it. | [noun] A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi, bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor; a group of ramets. | [noun] A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet. GENIC (8) [adjective] Of, relating to, produced by, or being a gene GENIE (6) [noun] A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form. | [noun] A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container. GENII (6) [noun] Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc. | [noun] Extraordinary mental capacity. | [noun] Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process. | [noun] A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form. GENIP (8) [noun] A succulent berry with a thick rind, the fruit of plants in the genus Genipa. GENOA (6) [noun] A staysail that resembles a jib but extends aft beyond the mast. | [noun] Genoa cake GENOM (8) GENRE (6) [noun] A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks. GENRO (6) GENTS (6) [noun] A gentleman. | [noun] A men's room: a lavatory intended for use by men. | [adjective] Men's: intended for use by men. GENUA (6) [noun] Knee | [noun] A knee-like bend. GENUS (6) [noun] A rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank. | [noun] A group with common attributes. | [noun] A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph. 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. GERAH (9) GERMS (8) [noun] The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore. | [noun] A pathogenic microorganism. | [noun] The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. GERMY (11) [adjective] That carries germs. GESSO (6) [noun] A mixture of plaster of Paris and glue used to prepare a surface for painting. | [noun] A work of art done in gesso. GESTE (6) GESTS (6) GETAS (6) GETUP (8) [noun] Enthusiastic and energetic drive or ambition | [noun] A costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual. | [noun] A fight or altercation. GEUMS (8) [noun] Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants. GHEES (9) [noun] A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee. | [noun] Vegetable oil for cooking. GIBED (9) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe GIBER (8) GIBES (8) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe GIGHE (10) GIGUE (7) [noun] An Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period). GIMEL (8) GIMME (10) [noun] That which is easily obtained, or certain to occur. GIVEN (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GIVER (9) [noun] One who gives; a donor or contributor. GIVES (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. | [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. GLACE (8) GLADE (7) [noun] An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. | [noun] An everglade. | [noun] An open space in the ice on a river or lake. GLARE (6) [noun] An intense, blinding light. | [noun] Showy brilliance; gaudiness. | [noun] An angry or fierce stare. GLAZE (15) [noun] The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb). | [noun] A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint. | [noun] A smooth edible coating applied to food. GLEAM (8) [noun] A small or indistinct shaft or stream of light. | [noun] A glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something. | [noun] Brightness or shininess; splendor. GLEAN (6) [noun] A collection made by gleaning. | [verb] To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering. | [verb] To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard). | [noun] Cleaning; afterbirth GLEBA (8) GLEBE (8) [noun] Turf; soil; ground; sod. | [noun] In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. | [noun] A meadow, land or fields GLEDE (7) GLEDS (7) GLEED (7) GLEEK (10) GLEES (6) [noun] Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune. | [noun] Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. | [noun] An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry. GLEET (6) [noun] (except Scots) Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk. | [noun] (except Scots) Any slimy, viscous substance. | [noun] A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhoea. GLENS (6) [noun] A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills. GLEYS (9) [noun] A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen. 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. GLIME (8) GLOBE (8) [noun] Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object. | [noun] The planet Earth. | [noun] A spherical model of Earth or any planet. GLOVE (9) [noun] An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers. | [noun] A baseball mitt. | [noun] The ability to catch a hit ball. GLOZE (15) [noun] A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary. | [noun] Flattery. | [noun] (False) appearance. GLUED (7) [verb] To join or attach something using glue. | [verb] To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively. GLUER (6) GLUES (6) [noun] A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance. | [noun] Anything that binds two things or people together. | [noun] Birdlime. GLUEY (9) [adjective] Viscous and adhesive, as glue. GLUME (8) [noun] A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae). GNOME (8) [noun] A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying. | [noun] (magic, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth. | [noun] (fantasy literature) One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually even smaller than dwarves and more focussed on engineering than mining. 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. GOERS (6) [noun] One who, or that which, goes. | [noun] Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully. | [noun] A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity. GOFER (9) [noun] A worker who runs errands; an errand boy. GOLEM (8) [noun] A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic. | [noun] (by extension) A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic. GONEF (9) GONER (6) [noun] Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case. GOOEY (9) [adjective] Of or relating to goo | [adjective] Soft, sticky and viscous GOOSE (6) [noun] Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks. | [noun] A female goose (sense 1). | [noun] The flesh of the goose used as food. 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. GORES (6) [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [verb] To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear. | [noun] A triangular piece of land where roads meet. GORGE (7) GORSE (6) [noun] Evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having spiny leaves and yellow flowers. GOUGE (7) [noun] Senses relating to cutting tools. | [noun] A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp. | [noun] (originally United States) An act of gouging. GOXES (13) GRACE (8) [noun] Charming, pleasing qualities. | [noun] A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal. | [noun] In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules. GRADE (7) [noun] A rating. | [noun] The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score. | [noun] A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality. GRAPE (8) [noun] A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis. | [noun] A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis. | [noun] A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes. GRATE (6) [noun] A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot | [noun] A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning | [verb] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars | [verb] To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater | [adjective] Serving to gratify; agreeable. | [adjective] Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big. GRAVE (9) [noun] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial | [noun] Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. | [noun] (by extension) Death, destruction. | [verb] To dig. | [noun] A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`). | [noun] A count, prefect, or person holding office. | [verb] To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose. GRAZE (15) [noun] The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. | [noun] A light abrasion; a slight scratch. | [noun] The act of animals feeding from pasture. GREAT (6) [noun] A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | [noun] The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | [noun] (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships. GREBE (8) [noun] Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes. 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. GREEK (10) [noun] An inhabitant, resident, or person of descent from Greece. | [noun] Unintelligible speech or text, such as foreign speech or text, or regarding subjects the listener is not familiar with, such as mathematics or technical jargon; or statements that the listener does not understand or agree with. | [noun] A member of a college fraternity or sorority, which are characterised by being named after Greek letters. (See also Greek system.) GREEN (6) [adjective] Having green as its color. | [adjective] (of people) Sickly, unwell. | [adjective] Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. | [noun] The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. | [verb] To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. GREES (6) GREET (6) [verb] To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or over the phone/internet | [verb] To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy) | [verb] To accost; to address. | [adjective] (obsolete outside Scotland) Great. | [noun] Mourning, weeping, lamentation. GREGO (7) GREYS (9) [noun] An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. | [noun] An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. | [noun] An extraterrestrial humanoid with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head. GRIDE (7) GRIEF (9) [noun] Suffering, hardship. | [noun] Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. | [noun] Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial. GRIME (8) [noun] Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove. | [noun] A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop. | [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIPE (8) [noun] A complaint, often a petty or trivial one. | [noun] A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems. | [noun] Grasp; clutch; grip GROPE (8) [noun] An act of groping, especially sexually. | [noun] An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel | [verb] To feel with or use the hands; to handle. GROVE (9) [noun] A small forest. | [noun] An orchard of fruit trees. | [noun] (Druidism) A place of worship. GRUEL (6) [noun] A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill. | [verb] To exhaust; use up; disable; to punish. GRUES (6) GRUME (8) [noun] A thick semisolid | [noun] A clot (of blood) GUDES (7) GUESS (6) [verb] To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion. | [verb] To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. | [verb] To suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility). | [noun] A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support. GUEST (6) [noun] A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another. | [noun] A patron or customer in a hotel etc. | [noun] An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast. 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. GUILE (6) [noun] Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception. | [noun] Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty. | [verb] To deceive, beguile, bewile. GUISE (6) [noun] Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.) | [noun] External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape. | [noun] Misleading appearance; cover, cloak. GULES (6) [noun] The throat; the gullet. | [noun] Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines. | [adjective] In blazon, of the colour red. GURGE (7) 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. GYBES (11) [noun] The act of gybing. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation. | [noun] Alternative spelling of jibe GYRED (10) [verb] To whirl GYRES (9) [noun] A swirling vortex. | [noun] A circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current. | [noun] A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. GYVED (13) GYVES (12) [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. HACEK (14) [noun] A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling a prime (′) instead. 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. HAEMS (10) HAETS (8) HAJES (15) HAKES (12) [verb] To loiter; to sneak. HALED (9) [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HALER (8) [adjective] Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired. | [noun] A German coin equivalent to half a pfennig, later used widely as a small coin in Central Europe and the German Empire. | [noun] A subdivision of the Czech, Slovakian and Czechoslovakian koruna. 100 hellers make up one koruna. HALES (8) [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HALVE (11) [verb] To reduce to half the original amount. | [verb] To divide into two halves. | [verb] To make up half of. HAMES (10) [noun] A covering, skin, membrane. | [noun] Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through. | [noun] A mess. HANCE (10) HANSE (8) [noun] A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I. | [noun] The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies. | [noun] A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages. | [noun] That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost. HAOLE (8) [noun] A non-Hawaiian, usually specifically a Caucasian. HARED (9) [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. HAREM (10) [noun] The private part of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers. | [noun] A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household. | [noun] A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals. HARES (8) [noun] Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears. | [noun] The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed. | [verb] To move swiftly. HASTE (8) [noun] Speed; swiftness; dispatch. | [noun] Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence. | [verb] To urge onward; to hasten. HATED (9) [verb] To dislike intensely or greatly. | [verb] To experience hatred. | [adjective] Disliked; odious; reviled. HATER (8) [noun] One who hates. | [noun] One who expresses unfounded or inappropriate hatred or dislike, particularly if motivated by envy. HATES (8) [noun] An object of hatred. | [noun] Hatred. | [noun] Negative feedback, abusive behaviour. HAUTE (8) HAVEN (11) [noun] A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea. | [noun] (by extension) A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary. | [noun] (by extension) A peaceful place. HAVER (11) [verb] To hem and haw | [verb] To talk foolishly; to chatter. | [noun] Oats (the cereal). | [noun] One who has something; a possessor. HAVES (11) [noun] The wealthy or privileged, contrasted to those who are poor or deprived: the have nots. HAWED (12) HAWSE (11) [noun] The part of the bow containing the hawseholes. | [noun] A hawsehole or hawsepipe. | [noun] The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s). HAYED (12) HAYER (11) HAZED (18) [verb] To be or become hazy, or thick with haze. | [verb] To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit. | [verb] To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work. HAZEL (17) [noun] A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts. | [noun] The nut of the hazel tree. | [noun] The wood of a hazelnut tree. HAZER (17) [noun] One who administers acts of hazing, or abusive initiation. | [noun] The rodeo performer who hazes the steer. HAZES (17) [noun] Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. | [noun] A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid. | [noun] An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent. HEADS (9) [noun] The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. | [noun] The topmost, foremost, or leading part. | [noun] (social, metonymy) A leader or expert. | [verb] To be in command of. (See also head up.) | [noun] High-grade marijuana. HEADY (12) [adjective] Intoxicating or stupefying. | [adjective] Tending to upset the mind or senses. | [adjective] Exhilarating. HEALS (8) [noun] A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment. | [noun] Health | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. HEAPS (10) [noun] A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people. | [noun] A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation. | [noun] A great number or large quantity of things. HEARD (9) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEARS (8) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEART (8) [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. | [noun] Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general. | [noun] The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality. HEATH (11) [noun] A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland. | [noun] Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. | [noun] Certain butterflies and moths HEATS (8) [noun] Thermal energy. | [noun] The condition or quality of being hot. | [noun] An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. HEAVE (11) [noun] An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy. | [noun] An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc. | [noun] A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. HEAVY (14) [noun] A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts. | [noun] A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard. | [noun] A large multi-engined aircraft. (The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.) | [adjective] Having the heaves. HEBES (10) [noun] A Jew. HECKS (14) 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. HEELS (8) [noun] The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg. | [noun] The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel. | [noun] The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot. HEEZE (17) HEFTS (11) [noun] Weight. | [noun] Heaviness, the feel of weight. | [noun] The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion. HEFTY (14) [adjective] Heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive. | [adjective] Strong; bulky. | [adjective] (of a person) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built. HEIGH (12) [interjection] An exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc. HEILS (8) HEIRS (8) [noun] Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another. | [noun] One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office. | [noun] A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor. HEIST (8) [noun] A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum. | [noun] A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot. | [verb] To steal, rob or hold up (something). HELIO (8) [noun] A heliotrope (surveying instrument). HELIX (15) [noun] A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular to the axis is constant; the three-dimensional curve seen in a screw or a spiral staircase. | [noun] A small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital. | [noun] The incurved rim of the external ear. HELLO (8) [noun] "Hello!" or an equivalent greeting. | [verb] To greet with "hello". | [interjection] A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence. HELLS (8) HELMS (10) [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. | [noun] An individual plant stem. | [noun] Part of a harness; a hame. HELOS (8) [noun] Helicopter HELOT (8) [noun] A member of the ancient Spartan class of serfs. | [noun] A serf; a slave. HELPS (10) [noun] Action given to provide assistance; aid. | [noun] (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task. | [noun] Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer. HELVE (11) [noun] The handle or haft of a tool or weapon. | [noun] A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head. | [verb] To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve. HEMAL (10) [adjective] Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels. | [adjective] Ventral rather than neural. HEMES (10) HEMIC (12) HEMIN (10) HEMPS (12) HEMPY (15) HENCE (10) [adverb] From here, from this place, away | [adverb] From the living or from this world | [adverb] (of a length of time) in the future from now HENNA (8) [noun] A shrub, Lawsonia inermis, having fragrant reddish flowers | [noun] A reddish plant substance, prepared from the dried leaves of this plant, used for temporary tattoos and hair coloring. Hair colorings range from bright red to earth brown to near black. | [noun] A rich reddish-brown colour. HENRY (11) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical inductance; the inductance induced in a circuit by a rate of change of current of one ampere per second and a resulting electromotive force of one volt. Symbol: H | [noun] A turd. | [noun] A quantity of marijuana weighing one-eighth of an ounce. HENTS (8) HERBS (10) [noun] Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food. | [noun] A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine. | [noun] Marijuana. HERBY (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to herbs 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. HERES (8) HERLS (8) [noun] A strand of hair | [noun] The fibrous shaft or barb of a feather (especially that of the ostrich or peacock) used to make artificial flies for angling | [noun] An artificial fly made with this barb HERMA (10) HERMS (10) [noun] A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A hermaphrodite. HERNS (8) HERON (8) [noun] A long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae. HEROS (8) HERRY (11) HERTZ (17) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of frequency; one (period or cycle of any periodic event) per second. Symbol: Hz HESTS (8) [noun] Command, injunction. HETHS (11) HEUCH (13) HEUGH (12) [noun] A steep crag or cliff, especially one with overhanging sides | [noun] A glen with steep, overhanging sides | [noun] A steep excavation, especially a coal pit 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. HEWER (11) [noun] One who hews. 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. HEXER (15) HEXES (15) [noun] An evil spell or curse. | [noun] A witch. | [noun] A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft). HEXYL (18) [noun] Any of many isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C6H13, formally derived from hexane by the loss of a hydrogen atom 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. HIKER (12) [noun] One who hikes, especially frequently. HIKES (12) [noun] A long walk. | [noun] An abrupt increase. | [noun] The snap of the ball to start a play. HINGE (9) [noun] A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. | [noun] A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve. | [noun] A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album. 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. HIRER (8) HIRES (8) [noun] Payment for the temporary use of something. | [noun] Reward, payment. | [noun] The state of being hired, or having a job; employment. HIVED (12) [verb] To enter or possess a hive. | [verb] To form a hive-like entity. | [verb] To collect into a hive. HIVES (11) [noun] Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to other conditions. | [noun] A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees. | [noun] The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees. HOERS (8) HOISE (8) 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. HOKES (12) [noun] Something contrived or artificial. | [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. HOKEY (15) [adjective] Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality | [adjective] Corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental HOLED (9) [verb] To make holes in (an object or surface). | [verb] (by extension) To destroy. | [verb] To go into a hole. HOLES (8) [noun] A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. | [noun] (heading) In games. | [noun] An excavation pit or trench. HOLEY (11) HOMED (11) [verb] (of animals) To return to its owner. | [verb] (always with "in on") To seek or aim for something. HOMER (10) [noun] Various former units of volume, particularly: | [noun] A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6 1/2 US bushels. | [noun] A four-base hit; a home run HOMES (10) [noun] An informal term of address, like man or dude. | [noun] A dwelling. | [noun] One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. HOMEY (13) [noun] Someone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown. | [noun] A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang. | [noun] An inner-city youth. | [adjective] Befitting a home; cozy, intimate. 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). HONER (8) HONES (8) [noun] A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool. | [noun] A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores. | [verb] To sharpen with a hone; to whet. HONEY (11) [noun] A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods. | [noun] A variety of this substance. | [noun] Nectar. HOOEY (11) [noun] Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s). | [noun] A hog-tie performed in a rodeo show. 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. HOPER (10) HOPES (10) [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 HORSE (8) [noun] Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. | [noun] Equipment with legs. | [noun] Type of equipment. | [verb] To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".) | [noun] Heroin (drug). HOSED (9) [verb] To water or spray with a hose. | [verb] To deliver using a hose. | [verb] To provide with hose (garment) HOSEL (8) [noun] The portion of the head of a golf club to which the shaft of the club attaches. | [noun] (slang) A semester, in the context of a course of study which should be enjoyable as opposed to required work. HOSEN (8) HOSES (8) [noun] A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid. | [noun] A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights. | [noun] Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee. HOTEL (8) [noun] A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France. | [noun] An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain. | [noun] A restaurant; any dining establishment. HOUSE (8) [noun] A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. | [noun] The people who live in a house; a household. | [noun] A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). | [verb] To keep within a structure or container. | [noun] House music. HOVEL (11) [noun] An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. | [noun] A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut. | [noun] In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. HOVER (11) [noun] The act of hovering | [verb] To float in the air. | [verb] To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner. | [noun] A cover; a shelter; a protection. HOWES (11) [noun] The means by which something is accomplished. | [noun] An artificial barrow or tumulus. | [noun] A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.) HOYLE (11) HUGER (9) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. HYENA (11) [noun] Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaeninae (genera Hyaena and Crocuta), native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited. | [noun] (Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls. HYMEN (13) [noun] A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females. | [noun] Marriage. 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. HYPER (13) [noun] Hyperextension exercise | [noun] Hyperspace | [adjective] Hyperactive | [noun] A wrestler who uses the hipe technique. HYPES (13) [noun] A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back. | [verb] To throw (an opponent) using this technique. | [noun] Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims. ICIER (7) [adjective] Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty. | [adjective] Covered with ice, wholly or partially. | [adjective] Characterized by coldness of manner; frigid; cold. ICKER (11) 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. 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. ILEAC (7) ILEAL (5) ILEUM (7) [noun] The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine. ILEUS (5) [noun] (modern usage) Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract, due to failure of peristalsis. | [noun] (broad definition, now rare) Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract from any cause. ILLER (5) [adjective] Evil; wicked (of people). | [adjective] Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy. | [adjective] Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. IMAGE (8) [noun] An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture. | [noun] A mental picture of something not real or not present. | [noun] A statue or idol. IMBED (10) [verb] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. | [verb] (by extension) To include in surrounding matter. | [verb] To encapsulate within another document or data file. IMBUE (9) [verb] To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | [verb] In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. IMIDE (8) [noun] A form of amide in which the nitrogen atom is attached to two carbonyl groups - R1CONHCOR2 IMINE (7) [noun] Any of a class of organic nitrogen compounds having the general formula R2C=NR; they are tautomeric with enamines. IMPED (10) [noun] A creature without feet | [adjective] Engrafted, eked, implanted; supplemented by imping. | [verb] To plant or engraft. IMPEL (9) [verb] To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation. | [verb] To drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action. INANE (5) [noun] That which is void or empty. | [adjective] Lacking sense or meaning (often to the point of boredom or annoyance) | [adjective] Purposeless; pointless INBYE (10) 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. 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). INEPT (7) [adjective] Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence. | [adjective] Unfit; unsuitable. INERT (5) [noun] A substance that does not react chemically. | [verb] To fill with an inert gas to reduce the risk of explosion. | [adjective] Unable to move or act; inanimate. INFER (8) [verb] To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence. | [verb] To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply. (Now often considered incorrect, especially with a person as subject.) | [verb] To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone. INGLE (6) [noun] An open fireplace. | [noun] A catamite. | [noun] A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart. | [noun] A male lover. 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). INKER (9) INKLE (9) [verb] To hint at; disclose. | [verb] To have a hint or inkling of; divine. | [noun] Narrow linen tape, used for trimmings or to make shoelaces INLET (5) [verb] To let in; admit. | [verb] To insert; inlay. | [noun] A body of water let into a coast, such as a bay, cove, fjord or estuary. INNED (6) INNER (5) [noun] An inner part. | [noun] A duvet, excluding the cover. | [noun] A forward who plays in or near the center of the field. INSET (5) [noun] A smaller thing set into a larger thing, such as a small picture inside a larger one. | [noun] Anything inserted. | [noun] A small piece of material used to strengthen a garment. INTER (5) [verb] To bury in a grave. | [verb] To confine, as in a prison. INURE (5) [verb] To cause someone to become accustomed to something (usually) unpleasant. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative. | [verb] To commit. IRADE (6) [noun] A decree issued by a Muslim ruler. IRATE (5) [adjective] Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged. IRKED (10) [verb] To irritate; annoy; bother | [adjective] Annoyed. IRONE (5) ISLED (6) ISLES (5) [noun] A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers. | [noun] A clear path through rows of seating. | [noun] A clear corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale. ISLET (5) [noun] A small island | [noun] An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function ISSEI (5) [noun] A member of the first generation of Japanese immigrants to North America, South America or Australia. ISSUE (5) [noun] The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly: | [noun] Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly: | [noun] The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly: ISTLE (5) [noun] A variety of Agave angustifolia var. angustifolia (syn. Agave rigida), furnishing a strong coarse fiber. | [noun] The fiber itself; pita, or Tampico fiber. ITEMS (7) [noun] A distinct physical object. | [noun] (by extension) An object that can be picked up for later use. | [noun] A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account. ITHER (8) IVIED (9) [adjective] Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant. IVIES (8) [noun] Any of several woody, climbing or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera. | [noun] Any similar plant of any genus. IXTLE (12) [noun] A variety of Agave angustifolia var. angustifolia (syn. Agave rigida), furnishing a strong coarse fiber. | [noun] The fiber itself; pita, or Tampico fiber. JADED (14) [verb] To tire, weary or fatigue | [verb] To treat like a jade; to spurn. | [verb] To make ridiculous and contemptible. JADES (13) [noun] A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines. | [noun] A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones. | [noun] A succulent plant, Crassula ovata. JAGER (13) JAKES (16) JAMBE (16) JANES (12) [noun] A woman, often specifically a girlfriend. | [noun] A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century. | [noun] A female client of a prostitute. JAPED (15) [verb] To jest; play tricks. | [verb] To mock; deride. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. JAPER (14) JAPES (14) [noun] A joke or quip. | [noun] A prank or trick. | [verb] To jest; play tricks. JAWED (16) [verb] To assail or abuse by scolding. | [verb] To scold; to clamor. | [verb] To talk; to converse. JEANS (12) [noun] Denim. | [noun] A pair of trousers made from denim cotton. JEBEL (14) [noun] A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa). JEEPS (14) [noun] A small, blocky, military-style vehicle with four-wheel drive, suited to rough terrain. | [noun] A light utility truck from WWII used by the U.S. Army, and subsequently turned into the trademark Jeep when civilianized by originating manufacturer Willys-Overland. | [noun] (genericized trademark) A sport utility vehicle or similar four-wheel-drive vehicle. JEERS (12) [noun] A mocking remark or reflection. | [verb] (jeer at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language. | [noun] A gear; a tackle. JEFES (15) [noun] An officer with political influence; a head or chief in government, such as a sheriff, particularly where that person is Hispanic or of Mexican descent. | [noun] A boss in a business, company or other organization. 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. JEHUS (15) JELLS (12) [noun] A jelly or gel JELLY (15) [noun] An explosive mixture of nitroglycerine and nitrate absorbed onto a base of wood pulp. | [noun] A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set, known as "jello" in North America. | [noun] A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. Known as "jam" in Commonwealth English. | [adjective] Jealous. JEMMY (19) [noun] A baked sheep's head. | [noun] An immigrant. | [noun] A greatcoat. JENNY (15) [noun] A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny). | [noun] A female creature of certain kinds, such as wren and donkey. | [noun] A catmill. JERID (13) JERKS (16) [noun] A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body. | [noun] A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. | [noun] A dull or stupid person. JERKY (19) [adjective] Characterized by physical jerking. | [adjective] Having the behavior of a jerk (unpleasant person). | [noun] Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun. JERRY (15) [noun] A chamber pot. | [adjective] Jerry-built. | [noun] A German, particularly a male German. JESSE (12) JESTS (12) [noun] An act performed for amusement; a joke. | [noun] Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke. | [noun] A deed; an action; a gest. JETES (12) [noun] A leap from one foot to the other in which one leg appears to be "thrown" in the direction of the movement. JETON (12) JETTY (15) [noun] A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach. | [noun] A wharf or dock extending from the shore. | [noun] A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below. | [adjective] Made of jet, or like jet in color. JEWED (16) JEWEL (15) [noun] A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone. | [noun] A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery. | [noun] Anything precious or valuable. 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. JIBER (14) JIBES (14) [noun] A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt. | [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. 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. JIVER (15) JIVES (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. JIVEY (18) JOEYS (15) [noun] The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc. | [noun] The shorter word whose letters can be found within a kangaroo word. | [noun] A parcel smuggled in to an inmate. 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. JOKER (16) [noun] A person who makes jokes. | [noun] A funny person. | [noun] A jester. JOKES (16) [noun] An amusing story. | [noun] Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness. | [noun] The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one JOKEY (19) [adjective] In the nature of a joke; jocular JOLES (12) JONES (12) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] An addiction or intense craving. | [verb] Have an intense craving. JOULE (12) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of energy, work and heat; the work required to exert a force of one newton for a distance of one metre. Also equal to the energy of one watt of power for a duration of one second. Symbol: J JOWED (16) JOYED (16) [verb] To feel joy, to rejoice. | [verb] To enjoy. | [verb] To give joy to; to congratulate. JUBES (14) [noun] A type of gelatine-based confection; its ingredients and consistency vary between countries. | [noun] An open drainage channel of a type common in Tehran. | [noun] A rood screen. 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. JUICE (14) [noun] A liquid from a plant, especially fruit. | [noun] A beverage made of juice. | [noun] Any liquid resembling juice. | [adjective] Alternative spelling of Jew's (used in certain set phrases like juice harp) JUKED (17) [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [verb] To stab JUKES (16) [noun] A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution. | [noun] A feint. | [noun] The neck of a bird. JULEP (14) [noun] A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs, especially mint, and sometimes alcohol. | [noun] A pleasant-tasting liquid medicine in which other nauseous medicines are taken. JUPES (14) JUREL (12) JUTES (12) [noun] The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc. | [noun] The plants from which this fibre is obtained. KALES (9) KAMES (11) [noun] A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier. KANES (9) KEBAB (13) [noun] A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab. | [noun] A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer. | [noun] The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure. KEBAR (11) KEBOB (13) KECKS (15) [noun] Trousers | [noun] Underpants 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. KEEFS (12) KEEKS (13) [noun] A look, especially a quick one; a peek. | [verb] To peek; peep. KEELS (9) [verb] To mark with ruddle. | [verb] To put to death; to extinguish the life of. | [verb] To render inoperative. KEENS (9) [verb] To make cold, to sharpen. | [noun] A prolonged wail for a deceased person. | [verb] To utter a keen. KEEPS (11) [noun] The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. | [noun] The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance. | [noun] The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice. KEETS (9) KEEVE (12) [noun] A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub. | [noun] (bleaching) A bleaching vat; a kier. | [noun] A large vat used in dressing ores. KEFIR (12) [noun] A fermented milk drink from the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, similar to yogurt but more liquidy. | [noun] A disbeliever, a denier: someone who denies the truths from Allah; or more broadly any non-Muslim. KEIRS (9) KELEP (11) KELIM (11) [noun] A flat tapestry-woven carpet or rug. KELLY (12) KELPS (11) [noun] Any of several large brown seaweeds (order Laminariales). | [noun] The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture. KELPY (14) KEMPS (13) [noun] Coarse, rough hair, wool, or fur; (in the plural) knotty hairs that will not felt. | [noun] A contest in work, etc. | [noun] A champion; a knight. KEMPT (13) [adjective] Neat and tidy; especially used of hair KENAF (12) [noun] Hibiscus cannabinus, an annual or biennial herbaceous plant found mainly in Asia. | [noun] The fibre obtained from this plant, similar to jute. KENCH (14) KENDO (10) [noun] A Japanese martial art using "swords" of split bamboo. KENOS (9) KEPIS (11) [noun] A cap with a flat circular top and a visor, particularly associated with French uniforms. KERBS (11) [noun] The edge between the pavement and the roadway, consisting of a line of kerbstones. | [noun] A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb. KERFS (12) [noun] The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice. | [noun] The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision. | [noun] The distance between diverging saw teeth. KERNE (9) [noun] Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter. | [noun] A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt. | [noun] A boor; a low person. KERNS (9) [noun] A corn; grain; kernel. | [noun] The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest. | [noun] The harvest home. KERRY (12) KETCH (14) [noun] A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post. | [verb] (heading) To capture, overtake. | [verb] (heading) To seize hold of. | [noun] A hangman. KETOL (9) KEVEL (12) [noun] A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed. | [noun] A stonemason's hammer. | [noun] A gazelle. KEVIL (12) KEXES (16) 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. KHEDA (13) KHETH (15) KHETS (12) KIBBE (13) KIBEI (11) KIBES (11) [noun] A chilblain or ulcer, especially on the heel of the foot. KIEFS (12) KIERS (9) [noun] A bleaching vat. KIKES (13) [noun] A Jew. | [noun] A contemptible person, especially one who is stingy. KINES (9) KITED (10) KITER (9) KITES (9) KITHE (12) KLUGE (10) [verb] To build or use a kludge. | [noun] Something that should not work, but does. | [noun] A device assembled from components intended for disparate purposes. KNAVE (12) [noun] A boy; especially, a boy servant. | [noun] Any male servant; a menial. | [noun] A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person. KNEAD (10) [noun] The act of kneading something. | [verb] To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc. | [verb] To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat. 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. KNEEL (9) [verb] To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position. | [verb] To cause to kneel. | [verb] To rest on (one's) knees KNEES (9) [noun] In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank. | [noun] In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans. | [noun] The part of a garment that covers the knee. KNELL (9) [noun] The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death). | [noun] A sign of the end or demise of something or someone. | [verb] To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll. KNELT (9) [verb] To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position. | [verb] To cause to kneel. | [verb] To rest on (one's) knees KNIFE (12) [noun] A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing. | [noun] A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger. | [noun] Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper. KOELS (9) [noun] A cuckoo of the genus Eudynamys, native to Asia, Australia and the Pacific. KOINE (9) [noun] A lingua franca. | [noun] A regional language that becomes standard over time. KOPEK (15) [noun] A Russian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a ruble. | [noun] A kopiyka: a Ukrainian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a hryvnia. KOPJE (18) [noun] A small hill or mound (especially on the African veld). KREEP (11) KRONE (9) [noun] The currency of Iceland, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and Norway, divided into 100 øre, except in Iceland where 1 króna = 100 aurar. KUGEL (10) [noun] A traditional Jewish dish consisting of baked pudding of rice, pasta, or potatoes with vegetables or raisins and spices | [noun] Traditional house ornament made of glass | [noun] Overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish woman KYRIE (12) [noun] A short prayer or petition including the phrase kyrie eleison, meaning “Lord, have mercy”. | [noun] A setting of the traditional kyrie text to music for a Mass. KYTES (12) [noun] Obsolete form of kite. | [noun] Alternative spelling of kite KYTHE (15) LABEL (7) [noun] A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached. | [noun] A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group. | [noun] A company that sells records. LACED (8) [verb] To fasten (something) with laces. | [verb] To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink). | [verb] To interweave items. LACER (7) LACES (7) [noun] A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. Wp | [noun] A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. Wp | [noun] A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. LACEY (10) LADED (7) [verb] To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment). | [verb] To weigh down, oppress, or burden. | [verb] To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water). LADEN (6) [verb] To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment). | [verb] To weigh down, oppress, or burden. | [verb] To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water). LADER (6) LADES (6) [verb] To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment). | [verb] To weigh down, oppress, or burden. | [verb] To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water). LADLE (6) [noun] A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle. | [noun] A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal. | [noun] The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board. LAEVO (8) LAGER (6) [noun] A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast. | [verb] To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification. | [noun] A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers. LAKED (10) LAKER (9) [noun] One engaged in sport; a player; an actor. | [noun] A wharfman who resides near a lake. | [noun] A ship used on the Great Lakes. LAKES (9) [noun] A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain. | [noun] A large, landlocked stretch of water. | [noun] A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake. LAMED (8) [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to become lame. | [verb] To shine. | [noun] The twelfth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). LAMER (7) [adjective] Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs. | [adjective] Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function. | [adjective] (by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. LAMES (7) [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to become lame. | [verb] To shine. | [noun] Small steel plates combined so as to slide one upon other and form a piece of armour. LANCE (7) [noun] A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen. | [noun] A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour. | [noun] A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. LANES (5) [noun] (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare. | [noun] A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees. | [noun] A narrow road, as in the country. LAPEL (7) [noun] Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on the front of a jacket or coat that are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between. LAPSE (7) [noun] A temporary failure; a slip. | [noun] A decline or fall in standards. | [noun] A pause in continuity. LAREE (5) LARES (5) LARGE (6) [noun] An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves. | [noun] Liberality, generosity. | [noun] (plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds. LASED (6) [verb] To use a laser beam on, as for cutting. | [verb] To operate as a laser, to release coherent light due to stimulation. LASER (5) [noun] A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light. | [noun] A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam. | [noun] A laser printer. | [noun] A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants. LASES (5) [verb] To use a laser beam on, as for cutting. | [verb] To operate as a laser, to release coherent light due to stimulation. LATED (6) LATEN (5) LATER (5) [adjective] Near the end of a period of time. | [adjective] Specifically, near the end of the day. | [adjective] (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period. LATEX (12) [noun] A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph) | [noun] The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber. | [noun] An emulsion of rubber in water, used in adhesives and the like. LATHE (8) [verb] To invite; bid; ask. | [noun] An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century. | [noun] A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool. LATKE (9) [noun] A pancake fried in oil, usually made from potatoes and sometimes also onions, traditionally served on Hanukkah. LATTE (5) [noun] A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam. | [noun] A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea). | [noun] A pillar capped by a hemispherical stone capital with the flat side facing up, used as building supports by the ancient Chamorro people and now used as a sign of Chamorro identity. LAVED (9) [verb] To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. | [verb] To draw, as water; drink in. | [verb] To give bountifully; lavish. LAVER (8) [noun] A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable. | [noun] Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially: | [noun] One who laves: a washer. LAVES (8) [verb] To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. | [verb] To draw, as water; drink in. | [verb] To give bountifully; lavish. LAWED (9) LAXER (12) [adjective] Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict. | [adjective] Loose; not tight or taut. | [adjective] Lacking care; neglectful, negligent. | [noun] Lacrosse player LAYED (9) LAYER (8) [noun] A single thickness of some material covering a surface. | [noun] A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum. | [noun] One of the items in a hierarchy. | [noun] A person who lays things, such as tiles. LAZED (15) [verb] To be lazy, waste time. | [verb] To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge. LAZES (14) [noun] An instance of lazing. | [noun] Laziness. | [verb] To be lazy, waste time. LEACH (10) [noun] A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. | [noun] A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. | [noun] A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century. | [verb] To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid. LEADS (6) [noun] A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum). | [noun] A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots. | [noun] A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. LEADY (9) LEAFS (8) [verb] To produce leaves; put forth foliage. | [verb] To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves. LEAFY (11) [adjective] Covered with leaves | [adjective] Containing much foliage | [adjective] In the form of leaves (of some material) LEAKS (9) [noun] A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape. | [noun] The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture. | [noun] A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret. LEAKY (12) [adjective] Having leaks; not fully sealed. LEANS (5) [noun] (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical. | [verb] To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. | [verb] To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. LEANT (5) [verb] To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. | [verb] To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. | [verb] Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc. LEAPS (7) [noun] The act of leaping or jumping. | [noun] The distance traversed by a leap or jump. | [noun] A group of leopards. LEAPT (7) [verb] To jump. | [verb] To pass over by a leap or jump. | [verb] To copulate with (a female beast); to cover. LEARN (5) [noun] The act of learning something | [verb] To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something. | [verb] To attend a course or other educational activity. | [verb] To teach. LEARS (5) LEARY (8) LEASE (5) [verb] (chiefly dialectal) To gather. | [verb] (chiefly dialectal) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up. | [verb] (chiefly dialectal) To glean. | [verb] To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate. | [noun] An open pasture or common. | [verb] To release; let go; unloose. | [noun] A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent. | [noun] The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom. LEASH (8) [noun] A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog. | [noun] A brace and a half; a tierce. | [noun] A set of three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general. LEAST (5) [noun] Something of the smallest possible extent; an indivisible unit. | [adverb] Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est. | [adverb] In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others. LEAVE (8) [verb] To have a consequence or remnant. | [verb] To depart; to separate from. | [verb] To transfer something. | [noun] The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball. | [noun] Permission to be absent; time away from one's work. | [verb] To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. | [verb] To produce leaves or foliage. | [verb] To raise; to levy. LEAVY (11) LEBEN (7) 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) LEECH (10) [noun] An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis. | [noun] A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion. | [noun] A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum. | [noun] A physician. | [verb] To treat, cure or heal. | [noun] The vertical edge of a square sail. LEEKS (9) [noun] The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion. | [noun] Any of several species of Allium, broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild. LEERS (5) [noun] A significant side glance; a glance expressive of some passion, as malignity, amorousness, etc.; a sly or lecherous look. | [noun] An arch or affected glance or cast of countenance. | [verb] To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent. LEERY (8) [adjective] Cautious, suspicious, wary, hesitant, or nervous about something; having reservations or concerns. LEETS (5) [noun] An artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace | [noun] A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves. | [noun] A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction. LEFTS (8) [noun] The left side or direction. | [noun] The ensemble of left-wing political parties. Those holding left-wing views as a group. | [noun] The left hand or fist. LEFTY (11) [noun] One who is left-handed. | [noun] One who has left-wing political views. | [noun] One's left testicle. LEGAL (6) [noun] The legal department of a company. | [noun] Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm). | [noun] A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc. LEGER (6) LEGES (6) LEGGY (10) [adjective] (chiefly of a woman) Having long, attractive legs; long-legged. | [adjective] (chiefly of a woman) Exposing the bare or pantyhose-clad legs, especially the thighs. | [adjective] Taller or longer than usual. LEGIT (6) [noun] A legitimate; a legitimate actor. | [noun] A legitimate child. | [adjective] Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid. LEHRS (8) [noun] A long oven or kiln, often having a moving belt, used for annealing glass. LEHUA (8) LEMAN (7) [noun] One beloved; a lover, a sweetheart of either sex (especially a secret lover, gallant, or mistress). | [noun] (often negative) A paramour. LEMMA (9) [noun] A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition. | [noun] The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc. | [noun] (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word. | [noun] The outer shell of a fruit or similar body. LEMON (7) [noun] A yellowish citrus fruit. | [noun] A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits. | [noun] A taste or flavour/flavor of lemons. LEMUR (7) [noun] Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands. | [noun] Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta). | [noun] A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ. 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. LENES (5) LENIS (5) [noun] A lenis consonant. | [adjective] Weakly articulated (of a consonant), hence voiced; especially as compared to the others of a group of homorganic consonants. LENOS (5) [noun] A trough used in ancient winemaking. LENSE (5) LENTO (5) [noun] A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played very slowly. | [adjective] Very slow. | [adverb] Very slowly. LEONE (5) [noun] A unit of currency of Sierra Leone, divided into 100 cents. LEPER (7) [noun] A person who has leprosy. | [noun] A person who is shunned; a pariah. LEPTA (7) [noun] A coin used since ancient times in Greece, serving in modern times as one hundredth of a phoenix, a drachma, and a euro (as the Greek form of the Eurocent). | [noun] A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century B.C.E., considered by some to be the widow's mite. | [noun] An elementary particle that has a spin of 1/2 (i.e., is a fermion) and does not interact via the strong nuclear force; examples include the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon. LETCH (10) [noun] Strong desire; passion. | [noun] A lecher. | [noun] A stream or pool in boggy land. | [noun] A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. LETHE (8) LETUP (7) [noun] A pause or period of slackening. LEUDS (6) LEVEE (8) [noun] An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi. | [noun] The steep bank of a river. | [noun] The border of an irrigated field. | [noun] The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest. LEVEL (8) [noun] A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference. | [noun] A distance relative to a given reference elevation. | [noun] Degree or amount. LEVER (8) [noun] (except in generalized senses below) A crowbar. | [noun] A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. | [noun] A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button). | [adverb] Rather. | [noun] A levee. LEVIN (8) [noun] Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light. LEWIS (8) [noun] A cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones; used as a symbol of strength in Freemasonry. | [noun] (by extension) The son of a Freemason, envisaged as assisting his father in heavy work or in old age. | [noun] A kind of shears used in cropping woollen cloth. LEXES (12) LEXIS (12) [noun] The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language. | [noun] (pedagogy, TEFL) Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations. | [noun] The vocabulary used by a writer LEZZY (26) [noun] A lesbian. LIANE (5) [noun] A climbing woody vine, usually tropical. LIBEL (7) [noun] A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation. | [noun] The act or crime of displaying such a statement publicly. | [noun] Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire. LIBER (7) LIEGE (6) [noun] A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign. | [noun] (in full liege lord) A king or lord. | [noun] The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman. LIENS (5) [noun] A tendon. | [noun] A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged. LIERS (5) LIEUS (5) LIEVE (8) LIFER (8) [noun] A prisoner sentenced to life in prison. | [noun] A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life. | [noun] A person with a singular career path, especially in the military. LIGER (6) [noun] An animal born to a male lion and a tigress. 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. LIKEN (9) [verb] (followed by to or unto) To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else). LIKER (9) LIKES (9) [noun] (usually in the plural) Something that a person likes (prefers). | [noun] An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet. | [verb] To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of. LIMED (8) [verb] To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime). | [verb] To smear with birdlime. | [verb] To apply limewash. LIMEN (7) [noun] A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response. LIMES (7) [noun] A boundary or border, especially of the Roman Empire. | [noun] Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime). | [noun] Any gluey or adhesive substance; something which traps or captures someone; sometimes a synonym for birdlime. LIMEY (10) [noun] An Englishman or other Briton, or a person of British descent. | [adjective] Resembling limes (the fruit); lime-like. | [adjective] Of, or pertaining to, limes (the fruit). 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. LINEN (5) [noun] Thread or cloth made from flax fiber. | [noun] Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, underclothes, etc., that are made of linen or linen-like fabrics of cotton or other fibers; linens. | [noun] A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed. LINER (5) [noun] Someone who fits a lining to something. | [noun] A removable cover or lining | [noun] The pamphlet which is contained inside an album of music or movie | [noun] A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner. LINES (5) [noun] A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight. | [noun] A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness. | [noun] A hose or pipe, of any size. LINEY (8) LISLE (5) [noun] A type of strong cotton thread, or a cloth woven from such thread. LITER (5) [noun] The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ℓ | [noun] A measure of volume equivalent to a litre. LITHE (8) [verb] To go. | [adjective] Mild; calm. | [adjective] Slim but not skinny. | [verb] To become calm. | [verb] To attend; listen, hearken. | [noun] Shelter. LITRE (5) [noun] The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ℓ | [noun] A measure of volume equivalent to a litre. 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. LIVEN (8) [verb] To cause to be more lively, or to become more lively. | [verb] To be alive; to have life. | [verb] To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside. LIVER (8) [noun] A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions. | [noun] This organ, as taken from animals used as food. | [noun] A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver. | [noun] Someone who lives (usually in a specified way). LIVES (8) LIVRE (8) LOBED (8) LOBES (7) [noun] Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. | [noun] A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung. | [noun] A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it. 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. LOESS (5) [noun] Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin LOGES (6) [noun] A booth or stall. | [noun] The lodge of a concierge. | [noun] An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine. LONER (5) [noun] One who is alone, lacking or avoiding the company of others. LONGE (6) [noun] A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing. | [noun] A lunge; a thrust. | [noun] The training ground for a horse. | [noun] A musical note equal to two or three breves, i.e. four or six whole notes. LOOED (6) LOOEY (8) [noun] Lieutenant LOOIE (5) [noun] Lieutenant. LOOSE (5) [noun] The release of an arrow. | [noun] A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment. | [noun] All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs). LOPED (8) [verb] To travel an easy pace with long strides. | [verb] To jump, leap. LOPER (7) LOPES (7) [noun] An easy pace with long strides. | [verb] To travel an easy pace with long strides. | [verb] To jump, leap. LORES (5) [noun] All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience. | [noun] The backstory created around a fictional universe. | [noun] Workmanship. LOSEL (5) [noun] A worthless or despicable person. | [adjective] Worthless; wasteful. LOSER (5) [noun] A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive. | [noun] Something of poor quality. | [noun] A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life. LOSES (5) [verb] To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons. | [verb] To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from. | [verb] To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc). LOTTE (5) LOUIE (5) LOUPE (7) [noun] A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers. | [noun] A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists. LOUSE (5) [noun] A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Psocodea. | [noun] (not usually used in plural form) A contemptible person; one who is deceitful or causes harm. | [verb] To remove lice from. 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. LOVER (8) [noun] One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse. | [noun] A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair. | [noun] A person who loves something. | [noun] A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. LOVES (8) [noun] Strong affection. | [noun] A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved. | [noun] A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings. LOWED (9) [verb] To depress; to lower. | [verb] To moo. | [verb] To burn; to blaze. LOWER (8) [adjective] Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty. | [adjective] Of less than normal height; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. | [adjective] Not high in status, esteem or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.) | [verb] To frown; to look sullen. LOWES (8) [noun] A flame; fire; blaze. LOWSE (8) LOXED (13) LOXES (12) LUBES (7) [verb] To lubricate LUCES (7) LUCRE (7) [noun] Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner. LUDES (6) LUGED (7) [verb] To travel by luge; to ride a luge. LUGER (6) [noun] Someone who competes in the luge. LUGES (6) [noun] A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back. | [noun] The sport of racing on luges. | [noun] A piece of ice, bone or other material with a channel down which a (usually alcoholic) drink can be poured into someone's mouth. LUMEN (7) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm. | [noun] The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ. | [noun] The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall. LUNES (5) [noun] A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. | [noun] A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles. | [noun] Anything crescent-shaped. LUNET (5) LUNGE (6) [noun] A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword. | [noun] A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing. | [noun] An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position. LURED (6) [verb] To attract by temptation etc.; to entice | [verb] To recall a hawk with a lure LURER (5) LURES (5) [noun] Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure | [noun] An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish | [noun] A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk LUTEA (5) LUTED (6) [verb] To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. | [verb] To fix or fasten something with lute. LUTES (5) [noun] A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. | [verb] To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. | [noun] Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight. LUXES (12) LWEIS (8) LYASE (8) [noun] Any of many classes of enzyme that catalyze the breaking of a specific form of bond LYCEA (10) LYCEE (10) [noun] A public secondary school in France. LYRES (8) [noun] An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke. | [noun] A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical. | [noun] A composer of lyric poetry. 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. LYSES (8) [verb] To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis. | [verb] To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis. MABES (9) MACED (10) [verb] To hit someone or something with a mace. | [verb] To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device. | [verb] To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can. MACER (9) [noun] A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland. MACES (9) [noun] A heavy fighting club. | [noun] A ceremonial form of this weapon. | [noun] A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked. MACHE (12) [noun] Valerianella locusta, a small dicot annual plant of the family Caprifoliaceae often cultivated as a salad green or herb. | [noun] A former unit of volumic radioactivity: the quantity of radon (ignoring its daughters) per litre of air which ionizes a sustained current of 0.001 esu. | [noun] Glutinous rice balls flavoured with coconut and pandan. MACLE (9) [noun] Chiastolite; so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross-section. | [noun] A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance. | [noun] A twin crystal. MADRE (8) MAGES (8) [noun] A magician, wizard or sorcerer. MAHOE (10) [noun] Any of certain trees in the mallow family, native to the Caribbean. | [noun] Either of two different trees, usually found around the tropics. MAILE (7) MAIZE (16) [noun] Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays. MAKER (11) [noun] Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something. | [noun] (usually capitalized and preceded by the) God. | [noun] A poet. MAKES (11) [noun] Brand or kind; model. | [noun] Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form. | [noun] Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production. MALES (7) [noun] One of the male (masculine) sex or gender. MAMEY (12) [noun] The evergreen tree Mammea americana, or its edible fruit | [noun] The flowering plant Magnolia guatemalensis | [noun] The tree Pouteria sapota, or its fruit. MAMIE (9) MANED (8) MANES (7) [noun] The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the subjects of reverence, or of other deceased relatives. | [noun] Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion | [noun] Long or thick hair of a person's head. MANGE (8) [noun] A skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.). MANSE (7) [verb] To excommunicate; curse. | [noun] A house inhabited by the minister of a parish. | [noun] A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house. MAPLE (9) [noun] A tree of the Acer genus, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds. | [noun] The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance MARES (7) [noun] An adult female horse. | [noun] A foolish woman. | [noun] A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit. MARGE (8) [noun] Margin; edge; verge. | [noun] Margarine. MARSE (7) MASER (7) [noun] A device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems | [noun] Any celestial object that generates microwaves using the same method | [noun] The maple tree, or maple wood. MASSE (7) MATED (8) [verb] To put the king of an opponent into checkmate. | [verb] (by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape. | [verb] To match, fit together without space between. MATER (7) [noun] Mother. | [noun] A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain. | [noun] Someone or something that mates. | [noun] Tomato. MATES (7) [noun] The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture. | [noun] (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat. | [verb] To put the king of an opponent into checkmate. MATEY (10) [noun] The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture. | [noun] (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat. | [noun] A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate. MATTE (7) [noun] A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame. | [noun] A background, often painted or created with computers | [noun] (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals. MAUVE (10) [noun] A bright purple synthetic dye. | [noun] The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour. | [adjective] Having a pale purple colour. MAVEN (10) [noun] An expert in a given field. MAVIE (10) MAWED (11) MAXES (14) [verb] (usually with out) to reach the limit, to reach the maximum. MAYBE (12) [noun] Something that is possibly true. | [noun] An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement. | [noun] A future event that may or may not happen. MAYED (11) MAZED (17) [verb] To amaze, astonish, bewilder | [verb] To daze, stupefy, or confuse MAZER (16) [noun] The maple tree, or maple wood. | [noun] A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl. MAZES (16) [noun] A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way. | [noun] Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle. | [noun] Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment. MEADS (8) [noun] An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water. | [noun] A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide. | [noun] A meadow. MEALS (7) [noun] Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack). | [noun] Food served or eaten as a repast. | [noun] A time or an occasion. MEALY (10) [adjective] Resembling meal (the foodstuff). MEANS (7) [verb] To lament. | [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). MEANT (7) [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). | [verb] To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says). MEANY (10) [noun] A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy. | [noun] A villain. MEATS (7) [noun] The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. | [noun] A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. | [noun] Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. MEATY (10) [adjective] Of, relating to, or containing meat. | [adjective] Resembling meat in flavour, etc. | [adjective] Of a person or a body part, large and solid. MECCA (11) MEDAL (8) [noun] A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object. | [noun] A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward. | [verb] To win a medal. MEDIA (8) [noun] The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. | [noun] A voiced stop consonant. | [noun] One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus | [noun] Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information. MEDIC (10) [noun] A doctor. | [noun] A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military. | [noun] A medical student. | [noun] Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc. MEDII (8) MEEDS (8) [noun] A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award. | [noun] A gift; bribe. | [noun] Merit or desert; worth. MEETS (7) [noun] A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet). | [noun] A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. | [noun] A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. MEINY (10) MELDS (8) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. MELEE (7) [noun] A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling. | [noun] A noisy, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap. | [noun] Any any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation. MELIC (9) [noun] Any of various grasses, of the genus Melica, from north temperate regions | [adjective] Of or pertaining to Greek lyric verse. MELLS (7) MELON (7) [noun] Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber. | [noun] The fruit of such plants. | [noun] A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh. | [noun] The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link. MELTS (7) [noun] Molten material, the product of melting. | [noun] The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. | [noun] The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. MEMOS (9) [noun] A short note; a memorandum. | [noun] A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation. | [verb] To record something; to make a note of something. MENAD (8) MENDS (8) [noun] A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending. | [noun] The act of repairing. | [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. MENSA (7) MENSE (7) MENTA (7) MENUS (7) [noun] The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. | [noun] A list of dishes offered in a restaurant. | [noun] A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface MEOUS (7) MEOWS (10) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MERCY (12) [noun] Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another. | [noun] Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate. | [noun] A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion. MERDE (8) [noun] (quaint) shit MERER (7) MERES (7) [noun] A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere. | [noun] Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line. | [noun] A Maori war-club. MERGE (8) [noun] The joining together of multiple sources. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. MERIT (7) [noun] A claim to commendation or a reward. | [noun] A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence. | [noun] Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward. MERKS (11) MERLE (7) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MERLS (7) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MERRY (10) [adjective] Jolly and full of high spirits. | [adjective] Festive and full of fun and laughter. | [adjective] Brisk | [noun] An English wild cherry. MESAS (7) [noun] Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges. MESHY (13) MESIC (9) [adjective] (of a habitat) Moist. | [adjective] (of an organism) Adapted to a moist habitat. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to mesons; mesonic. MESNE (7) [noun] A mesne lord. | [adjective] Intermediate. MESON (7) [noun] (rare outside entomology) The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves. | [noun] A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons and protons. (The most easily detected mesons fit this definition.) | [noun] (now specifically) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.) MESSY (10) [adjective] (of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly. | [adjective] (of a person) Prone to causing mess. | [adjective] (of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with. METAL (7) [noun] (heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from. | [noun] A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent and or. | [noun] Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects. METED (8) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). METER (7) [noun] (always meter) A device that measures things. | [noun] (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. | [noun] (always meter) One who metes or measures. METES (7) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). | [noun] A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere. METHS (10) [noun] Methylated spirits. | [noun] Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride. | [noun] Methadone. METIS (7) [noun] A person of mixed-race ancestry. | [noun] A person of mixed European and Indigenous descent. | [noun] A person who self-identifies as Métis. | [noun] (knowledge management) Practical intelligence; street smarts. METRE (7) [verb] To measure with a metering device. | [verb] To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter. | [verb] To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath). | [noun] The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition. METRO (7) [noun] An underground railway. | [noun] A train that runs on such an underground railway. | [noun] An urban rapid transit light railway | [noun] A metropolitan area MEWED (11) [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. | [verb] (of a bird) To moult. | [verb] (of a bird) To cause to moult. MEWLS (10) [noun] A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling. | [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MEZES (16) [noun] Small portions of starters typical of Turkish and Greek cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita. MEZZO (25) [noun] Mezzo-soprano MICHE (12) 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 MIENS (7) [noun] Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. | [noun] A specific facial expression. MIKED (12) [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. MIKES (11) [noun] A microphone. | [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. MILER (7) [noun] (often in combination) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles. | [noun] (in combination) A race whose length is the specified number of miles. MILES (7) [noun] The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards. | [noun] Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values. | [noun] Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet. MILLE (7) MIMED (10) [verb] To mimic. | [verb] To act without words. | [verb] To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound. MIMEO (9) [noun] A mimeograph. | [noun] An unpublished academic paper. | [verb] To mimeograph. MIMER (9) MIMES (9) [noun] A form of acting without words; pantomime. | [noun] A pantomime actor. | [noun] A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce. MINAE (7) MINCE (9) [noun] Finely chopped meat. | [noun] Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat. | [noun] An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait. MINED (8) [verb] To remove (ore) from the ground. | [verb] To dig into, for ore or metal. | [verb] To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). MINER (7) [noun] A person who works in a mine. | [noun] An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives. | [noun] Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina. MINES (7) [noun] Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. | [noun] A specific facial expression. | [noun] An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. MINKE (11) [noun] A minke whale, one of two species of baleen whales within Balaenoptera, the northern-dwelling species of which is often seen in coastal waters. MIRED (8) [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [verb] To sink into mud. | [verb] To weigh down. | [noun] A unit of measurement for color temperature. MIRES (7) [noun] Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. | [noun] An undesirable situation, a predicament. | [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. MIREX (14) [noun] The pesticide and fire retardant perchloropentacyclodecane, which is a persistent organic pollutant. MISER (7) [noun] A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious. | [noun] A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated. MISES (7) MITER (7) [noun] A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. | [noun] The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. MITES (7) [noun] Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari). | [noun] A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. | [noun] A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. MITRE (7) [noun] A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. | [noun] The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. MIXED (15) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. MIXER (14) [noun] One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together. | [noun] One who mixes or socializes. | [noun] A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below. MIXES (14) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. MIZEN (16) [noun] Mizzenmast. | [noun] A fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast. 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. MOHEL (10) [noun] The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris. MOIRE (7) [noun] Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat. | [noun] Any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given. MOKES (11) [noun] A donkey. | [noun] A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net. | [noun] A black person. MOLES (7) [noun] A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy. | [noun] Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae. | [noun] Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats. MOMES (9) MONDE (8) MONEY (10) [noun] A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply. | [noun] A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value. | [noun] A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union). MONIE (7) MONTE (7) [noun] A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt. | [noun] (Latin America) A wood or forest; timberland. MOOED (8) [verb] Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound. MOOSE (7) [noun] The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers. | [noun] An ugly person. | [noun] An Asian girl taken as a lover. MOPED (10) [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. | [verb] To make spiritless and stupid. | [adjective] Melancholic, dejected. | [noun] A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit. MOPER (9) MOPES (9) [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. | [verb] To make spiritless and stupid. MOPEY (12) MORAE (7) MOREL (7) [noun] Any of several edible mushrooms, especially the common morel or yellow morel. | [noun] Any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. | [noun] A variety of cultivated cherry, Prunus cerasus 'austera', having a dark skin MORES (7) [noun] A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws. | [noun] A carrot; a parsnip. | [noun] A root; stock. | [verb] To root up. MORSE (7) [noun] A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative. | [noun] A walrus. MOSEY (10) [verb] To set off, get going; to start a journey. | [verb] To go off quickly: to hurry up. | [verb] To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner. MOSTE (7) MOTEL (7) [noun] A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there. | [noun] A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel. | [verb] To stay in a motel or motels. MOTES (7) [noun] A small particle; a speck. | [noun] A meeting for discussion. | [noun] A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs. MOTET (7) [noun] A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem. MOTEY (10) MOTTE (7) [noun] A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch. | [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. MOUES (7) [noun] A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness. MOUSE (7) [noun] Any small rodent of the genus Mus. | [noun] A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent. | [noun] A quiet or shy person. MOVED (11) [verb] To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another. | [verb] To act; to take action; to begin to act | [verb] To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in. MOVER (10) [noun] Someone who or something that moves. | [noun] A dancer. | [noun] A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another. MOVES (10) [noun] The act of moving; a movement. | [noun] An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. | [noun] A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc. MOVIE (10) [noun] A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion. | [noun] (usually plural) A cinema. MOWED (11) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. | [verb] To make grimaces, mock. MOWER (10) [noun] A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass. | [noun] A person who cuts grass. MOXIE (14) [noun] Nerve, spunk, strength of character. | [noun] Verve. | [noun] Wit, smarts, skill. MULED (8) MULES (7) [noun] The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. | [noun] The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals. | [noun] A hybrid plant. | [verb] To remove skin from (an animal) to prevent myiasis. MULEY (10) [adjective] (of cattle or deer) Without horns. | [noun] Mule deer MURED (8) [verb] To wall in or fortify | [verb] To enclose or imprison within walls. MURES (7) [noun] Wall | [noun] Husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh MUREX (14) [noun] Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods. MURRE (7) [noun] Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks). MUSED (8) [verb] To become lost in thought, to ponder. | [verb] To say (something) with due consideration or thought. | [verb] To think on; to meditate on. MUSER (7) MUSES (7) [noun] A source of inspiration. | [noun] A poet; a bard. | [noun] An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness. MUTED (8) [verb] To silence, to make quiet. | [verb] To turn off the sound of. | [verb] Of a bird: to defecate. MUTER (7) MUTES (7) [noun] A stopped consonant; a stop. | [noun] An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. | [noun] A person who does not have the power of speech. MYOPE (12) [noun] One who has myopia. NABES (7) [noun] Neighborhood. | [noun] (frequently plural) Neighborhood theater, neighborhood cinema. NACRE (7) [noun] A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl. | [noun] A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl. NAEVI (8) [noun] A pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal area on the skin. Naevi may be congenital or acquired, and are always benign. NAIVE (8) [noun] A naive person; a greenhorn. | [adjective] Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated. | [adjective] Not having been exposed to something. NAKED (10) [adjective] Bare, not covered by clothing. | [adjective] Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear. | [adjective] Glib, without decoration, put bluntly. | [verb] To make naked; to bare. NALED (6) NAMED (8) [verb] (ditransitive) To give a name to. | [verb] To mention, specify. | [verb] To identify as relevant or important NAMER (7) NAMES (7) [noun] Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing. | [noun] Reputation. | [noun] An abusive or insulting epithet. NANCE (7) [verb] To move in a prissy or stereotypically gay way. | [noun] An effeminate man, especially a homosexual. | [noun] A large shrub or small tree of subtropical and tropical areas of the Americas, Byrsonima crassifolia, bearing a small, sweet, yellow fruit. NAPES (7) [noun] The back part of the neck. | [noun] The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head. | [noun] A tablecloth. NAPPE (9) [noun] The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop. | [noun] Either of the two parts of a double cone. | [noun] A sheet-like mass of rock that has been folded over adjacent strata. NARES (5) [noun] A nostril | [noun] A nostril NATES (5) [noun] The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes. | [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] The umbones of a bivalve shell. NAVEL (8) [noun] The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth. | [noun] The central part or point of anything; the middle. | [noun] A navel orange. NAVES (8) [noun] The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances. | [noun] A hub of a wheel. | [noun] The navel. NEAPS (7) [noun] The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals. | [noun] A neap tide. | [verb] To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides. NEARS (5) [noun] The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc. | [verb] To come closer to; to approach. NEATH (8) [preposition] Beneath. NEATS (5) [noun] An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy. NECKS (11) [noun] The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals. | [noun] The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts. | [noun] The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck. 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. NEEMS (7) [noun] Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield the insecticide azadirachtin. NEEPS (7) [noun] The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland. NEGUS (6) [noun] A drink of wine, lemon, sugar, nutmeg and hot water. | [noun] A ruler of Ethiopia or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the supreme ruler of Ethiopia before 1974. NEIFS (8) NEIGH (9) [noun] The cry of a horse. | [verb] (of a horse) To make its cry. | [verb] To make a sound similar to a horse's cry. NEIST (5) NELLY (8) [noun] A person's life. | [noun] An effeminate homosexual man. | [noun] A silly person. NEMAS (7) NEONS (5) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The lightest of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas. | [noun] A form or sample of the element. | [noun] Neon signs or lights, collectively. 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. NEROL (5) NERTS (5) NERTZ (14) NERVE (8) [noun] A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics. | [noun] A neuron. | [noun] A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood NERVY (11) [adjective] Having nerve; bold; brazen. | [adjective] Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated. | [adjective] Strong; sinewy. NESTS (5) [noun] A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. | [noun] A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young. | [noun] A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation. NETOP (7) NETTS (5) [noun] The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit. NETTY (8) [adjective] Neat, well-groomed, natty. | [adjective] Netted: made of or employing a net. | [adjective] Netlike. | [noun] An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. NEUKS (9) NEUME (7) [noun] Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation. | [noun] A sequence of notes to be sung to one syllable. NEUMS (7) [noun] Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation. | [noun] A sequence of notes to be sung to one syllable. NEVER (8) [adverb] At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance. | [adverb] Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously. | [adverb] Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely). NEVES (8) NEVUS (8) [noun] Any of a number of different, usually benign, pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal lesions of the skin. NEWEL (8) [noun] A central pillar around which a staircase spirals. | [noun] A sturdy pillar at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, supporting the handrail. | [noun] A novelty; a new thing. NEWER (8) [adjective] Recently made, or created. | [adjective] Additional; recently discovered. | [adjective] Current or later, as opposed to former. NEWIE (8) [noun] Something newly released, such as a song or film. NEWLY (11) [adverb] Very recently; in the immediate past. NEWSY (11) [noun] A distributor of news; a newsagent. | [noun] A journalist. | [adjective] Containing lots of news; informative. NEWTS (8) [noun] A small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult. NEXUS (12) [noun] A form of connection. | [noun] A connected group. | [noun] The centre of something. NGWEE (9) [noun] A currency of Zambia, one hundredth of a kwacha. NICER (7) [adjective] Pleasant, satisfactory. | [adjective] Of a person: friendly, attractive. | [adjective] Respectable; virtuous. NICHE (10) [noun] A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. Hence, any similar position, literal or figurative. | [noun] A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited. | [noun] (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business. NIDED (7) NIDES (6) [noun] A nest of pheasants. NIECE (7) [noun] A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece"). NIEVE (8) NINES (5) [noun] The digit or figure 9. | [noun] A playing card with nine pips. | [noun] A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol. NISEI (5) [noun] An American or Canadian whose parents were Japanese immigrants NITER (5) [noun] Native sodium carbonate; natron. | [noun] A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making gunpowder. NITES (5) [noun] The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark. | [noun] (Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight. | [noun] (Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise. NITRE (5) [noun] Native sodium carbonate; natron. | [noun] A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making gunpowder. NIXED (13) [verb] To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. | [verb] To destroy or eradicate. NIXES (12) [verb] To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. | [verb] To destroy or eradicate. | [noun] Nothing NIXIE (12) [noun] A female nix, a water-spirit. | [noun] A piece of mail returned as undeliverable. NOBLE (7) [noun] An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood. | [noun] A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d. | [adjective] Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character. 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. NOELS (5) [noun] Christmas | [noun] A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol. NOISE (5) [noun] Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant. | [noun] Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations. | [noun] Unwanted part of a signal. NOMEN (7) [noun] The name of a citizen of Ancient Rome, designating them as a member of a gens. | [noun] The birth name of a pharaoh, the fifth of the five names of the royal titulary, traditionally encircled by a cartouche and preceded by the title zꜣ-rꜥ. NOMES (7) [noun] A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece. | [noun] A territorial division of ancient Egypt. | [noun] A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece. NONCE (7) [noun] The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce). | [noun] A nonce word. | [noun] A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks. | [noun] (prisons) A sex offender, especially one who is guilty of sexual offences against children. NONES (5) [noun] A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day. | [noun] A break in play between the first and second sessions. | [noun] (Minnesota) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering. | [noun] Those without any religious affiliation: atheists and others outside any organized religion. NONET (5) [noun] A composition for nine instruments or nine voices. | [noun] A group of nine nuclear or subatomic particles. | [noun] A byte of nine bits. NOOSE (5) [noun] An adjustable loop of rope, such as the one placed around the neck in hangings, or the one at the end of a lasso. | [verb] To tie or catch in a noose; to entrap or ensnare. NOSED (6) [verb] To move cautiously by advancing its front end. | [verb] To snoop. | [verb] To detect by smell or as if by smell. NOSES (5) [noun] A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell. | [noun] A snout, the nose of an animal. | [noun] The tip of an object. NOSEY (8) [noun] A look at something to satisfy one's curiosity. | [adjective] Prying, inquisitive or curious in other’s affairs; tending to snoop or meddle. | [adjective] Having a large or elongated nose. 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. NOTER (5) NOTES (5) [noun] (heading) A symbol or annotation. | [noun] (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment. | [noun] (heading) A sound. NOVAE (8) [noun] Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star. NOVEL (8) [adjective] Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new. | [adjective] Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type. | [noun] A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. | [noun] A novelty; something new. | [noun] A new legal constitution in ancient Rome. 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. 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). NUKES (9) [noun] A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove. | [noun] A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat. | [noun] A recess, cove or hollow. NUMEN (7) [noun] A divinity, especially a local or presiding god. | [noun] An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendant. NURSE (5) [noun] A wet nurse. | [noun] A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young. | [noun] A person trained to provide care for the sick. OAKEN (9) [adjective] Made from the wood of the oak tree. Also in metaphorical uses, suggesting robustness. OARED (6) [adjective] Having oars. | [verb] To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars. OASES (5) [noun] A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert. | [noun] A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle. OATEN (5) [adjective] Made of oats OATER (5) [noun] (entertainment) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie. OAVES (8) OBEAH (10) [noun] A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean. | [noun] A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft. | [noun] A spell performed in the practice of the magic craft; an item associated with such a spell. OBELI (7) [noun] A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient manuscripts and texts to mark a word or passage as doubtful or spurious, or redundant; an obelisk. | [noun] A dagger symbol (†), which is used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.; beside a person's name to indicate that the person is deceased; or beside a date to indicate that it is a person's death date; an obelisk. OBESE (7) [adjective] Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2. OBEYS (10) [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.). OBJET (14) OBOES (7) [noun] A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family. OBOLE (7) OCEAN (7) [noun] One of the large bodies of water separating the continents. | [noun] Water belonging to an ocean. | [noun] An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits. OCHER (10) [noun] An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide | [noun] A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour | [noun] The stop codon sequence "UAA." OCHRE (10) [noun] An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide | [noun] A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour | [noun] The stop codon sequence "UAA." | [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. OCKER (11) [noun] Interest on money; usury; increase. | [verb] To increase (in price); add to. | [noun] A boorish or uncultivated Australian. OCREA (7) [noun] A sheath around a plant stem forming from the stipule of a leaf and extending above the point of insertion of the leaf. OCTET (7) [noun] A group or set of eight of something. | [noun] A group of eight musicians performing together. | [noun] A composition for such a group of musicians. 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. 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. ODYLE (9) OFFED (12) [verb] To kill. | [verb] To switch off. OFFER (11) [noun] A proposal that has been made. | [noun] Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered. | [noun] An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation. | [verb] To propose or express one's willingness (to do something). | [noun] (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off OFTEN (8) [adjective] Frequent. | [adverb] Frequently, many times. OFTER (8) OGEES (6) [noun] A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape | [noun] A pointed arch made from two ogees | [noun] An inflection point. OGIVE (9) [noun] The curve of a cumulative distribution function. | [noun] A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault. | [noun] The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket. OGLED (7) [verb] To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously. OGLER (6) OGLES (6) [noun] An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An eye. | [verb] To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously. OGRES (6) [noun] A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh. | [noun] A brutish man reminiscent of the mythical ogre. OILED (6) [verb] To lubricate with oil. | [verb] To grease with oil for cooking. | [adjective] Covered in, or supplied with, oil. OILER (5) [noun] One who or that which oils. | [noun] An oil tanker. | [noun] An oil well. OKEHS (12) 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. OLEIC (7) OLEIN (5) OLEOS (5) OLEUM (7) [noun] A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid. OLIVE (8) [noun] A tree, Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it. | [noun] The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green). | [noun] The wood of the olive tree. OMBER (9) OMBRE (9) [noun] A large Mediterranean food fish Umbrina cirrosa | [noun] (colors) A gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark. OMEGA (8) [noun] The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω. | [noun] (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence. | [noun] Angular velocity; symbol: ω. OMENS (7) [noun] Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury. | [noun] A thing of prophetic significance. | [verb] To be an omen of. OMERS (7) [noun] A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts. | [noun] A vessel of one omer. | [noun] The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover. ONERY (8) ONSET (5) [noun] An attack; an assault especially of an army. | [noun] The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent. | [noun] The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus. OOHED (9) [verb] To exclaim ooh. OORIE (5) OOZED (15) [verb] To be secreted or slowly leak. | [verb] To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude. OOZES (14) [verb] To be secreted or slowly leak. | [verb] To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude. | [noun] Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather. OPENS (7) [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. OPERA (7) [noun] A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance. | [noun] The score for such a work. | [noun] A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house. | [noun] A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works. OPINE (7) [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). | [noun] Any of a class of organic compounds, derived from amino acids, found in some plant tumours OPTED (8) [verb] To choose; select. ORATE (5) [verb] To speak formally; to give a speech. | [verb] To speak passionately; to preach for or against something. | [adjective] Competent in oracy; having good speaking skills. 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. OREAD (6) [noun] A mountain nymph; an anthropomorphic appearance of the spirit of a mountain. ORIEL (5) [noun] A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a protrusion on the outer wall. | [noun] A gallery for minstrels. | [noun] A small apartment next to a hall, used for dining. ORLES (5) [noun] A bordure that runs around the outline of a shield without touching the edge | [noun] The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest; a torse | [noun] A fillet under the ovolo of a capital ORMER (7) [noun] An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the Channel Islands. OSIER (5) [noun] A kind of willow, Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow. | [noun] One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants. OTHER (8) [noun] An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another. | [noun] The other one; the second of two. | [verb] To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien. OTTER (5) [noun] An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae of the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, and others. | [noun] A hairy man with a slender physique, in contrast with a bear, who is more thickset. | [noun] Annatto (dye) OUNCE (7) [noun] An avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams. | [noun] A troy ounce, weighing 1/12 of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams. | [noun] A US fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/16 of a US pint, 1.8047 cubic inches or 29.5735 millilitres. | [noun] A large wild feline, such as a lynx or cougar. OUPHE (10) OURIE (5) OUSEL (5) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] The water ouzel, an aquatic perching bird, Cinclus mexicanus. 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. OUTER (5) [noun] An outer part. | [noun] The 4th circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie. | [noun] A shot which strikes the outer of a target. | [noun] Someone who admits to something publicly. OUTRE (5) [adjective] Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant. | [adjective] Very unconventional. OUZEL (14) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] The water ouzel, an aquatic perching bird, Cinclus mexicanus. OVATE (8) [adjective] Shaped like an egg. | [adjective] (of leaves) With the broadest extremity near the base. | [noun] An Irish bard. OVENS (8) [noun] A chamber used for baking or heating. OVERS (8) [noun] A set of six legal balls bowled. | [noun] Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc. | [noun] A shore, riverbank. OVERT (8) [adjective] Open and not concealed or secret. OVINE (8) [noun] A sheep. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a sheep | [adjective] (by extension) resembling a sheep in character; passive, of low intelligence and acquiescent OVULE (8) [noun] The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments. | [noun] An immature ovum in mammals. OWLET (8) [noun] Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing. | [noun] (by extension) A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active. | [noun] The owl pigeon. 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. OWNER (8) [noun] One who owns something. | [noun] The captain of a ship. OWSEN (8) OXEYE (15) [noun] Several daisy-like flowers in various genera, | [noun] Any oxeye daisy. | [noun] The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis). OXIDE (13) [noun] A binary chemical compound of oxygen with another chemical element. OXIME (14) OXTER (12) [noun] The armpit. | [verb] To hug with the arms, or support by taking the arm of. OYERS (8) OZONE (14) [noun] An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O₃) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a blue gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge. | [noun] Fresh air, especially that breathed at the seaside and smelling of seaweed. | [verb] To treat with ozone. PACED (10) [verb] To walk back and forth in a small distance. | [verb] To set the speed in a race. | [verb] To measure by walking. PACER (9) [noun] One who paces. | [noun] In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter. | [noun] A pacemaker. | [noun] A mechanical pencil. PACES (9) [noun] Step. | [noun] Way of stepping. | [noun] Speed or velocity in general. PADLE (8) PADRE (8) [noun] A military clergyman | [noun] A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest PAEAN (7) [noun] A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle. | [noun] (by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph. | [noun] (by extension) An enthusiastic expression of praise. PAEON (7) [noun] A foot containing any pattern of three short syllables and one long syllable. PAGED (9) [verb] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript. | [verb] (often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication. | [verb] To furnish with folios. PAGER (8) [noun] A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages. | [noun] A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time. | [noun] (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages. PAGES (8) [noun] One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. | [noun] One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed. | [noun] Any record or writing; a collective memory. PAISE (7) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in various Asian countries. | [noun] (British India) A subdivision of currency equivalent to 1/64 of a rupee or three pies. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka. | [noun] A state of balance, equilibrium or stability. PALEA (7) [noun] The interior chaff or husk of grasses. | [noun] One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower. | [noun] A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap. PALED (8) [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [verb] To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. PALER (7) [adjective] Light in color. | [adjective] (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.). | [adjective] Feeble, faint. PALES (7) [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [verb] To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. | [noun] A wooden stake; a picket. PALET (7) PANED (8) PANEL (7) [noun] A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc. | [noun] A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example. | [noun] An individual frame or drawing in a comic. PANES (7) [noun] An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc. | [noun] A layer in the build-up of a GUI. | [noun] A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface. PANNE (7) [noun] A lustrous finish applied to velvet and satin. | [noun] A fabric resembling velvet, but having the nap flat and less close. | [noun] A wetland consisting of a small depression, with or without standing water, often in a salt marsh or other coastal wetland. PAPER (9) [noun] A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water. | [noun] A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine). | [noun] Wallpaper. PARED (8) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PAREO (7) [noun] A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong. PARER (7) PARES (7) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PAREU (7) PARGE (8) [noun] A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls. | [verb] To apply a parge on to a surface. PARLE (7) PARSE (7) [noun] An act of parsing. | [noun] The result of such an act. | [verb] To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically. PARVE (10) [adjective] Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient. | [adjective] (by extension) Neutral, bland, inoffensive. PASEO (7) [noun] A public path or avenue designed for walking, sometimes for dining or recreation. PASES (7) PASSE (7) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. PASTE (7) [noun] A soft moist mixture, in particular: | [noun] A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid | [noun] A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass. PATED (8) PATEN (7) [noun] The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist. | [noun] Any shallow dish found in an archaeological site. PATER (7) [noun] Father PATES (7) [noun] (somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown. | [noun] Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities. | [noun] The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color. PAUSE (7) [noun] A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer. | [noun] A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. | [noun] A short time for relaxing and doing something else. PAVED (11) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAVER (10) [noun] A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home. | [noun] One who paves; one who lays pavement. PAVES (10) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAWED (11) [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. | [verb] (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw. | [verb] (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. PAWER (10) PAXES (14) PAYED (11) [verb] To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | [verb] To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. | [verb] To be profitable for. PAYEE (10) [noun] One to whom money is paid. PAYER (10) [noun] One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid. | [noun] A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg. PEACE (9) [noun] A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance. | [noun] A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions. | [noun] Harmony in personal relations. PEACH (12) [noun] A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. | [noun] The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed. | [noun] A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color. | [verb] To inform on someone; turn informer. | [noun] A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite. PEAGE (8) PEAGS (8) PEAKS (11) [noun] A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. | [noun] The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period. | [noun] The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point. PEAKY (14) [adjective] Sickly; peaked. | [adjective] Characterised by peaks. PEALS (7) [noun] A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc. | [noun] A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale. | [noun] The changes rung on a set of bells. PEANS (7) PEARL (7) [noun] A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery. | [noun] Something precious. | [noun] A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application. PEARS (7) [noun] An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem. | [noun] A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis). | [noun] The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood). PEART (7) [adjective] Lively; active. PEASE (7) [noun] A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family. | [noun] The edible seed of some of these plants. | [noun] A ball travelling at high velocity. | [verb] To make peace between (conflicting people, states etc.); to reconcile. PEATS (7) [noun] Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. | [noun] A pet, a darling; a woman. PEATY (10) PEAVY (13) [noun] A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end. PECAN (9) [noun] A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts. | [noun] A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree. | [noun] A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut. PECHS (12) PECKS (13) [noun] An act of striking with a beak. | [noun] A small kiss. | [verb] To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). PECKY (16) 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) PEEKS (11) [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. PEELS (7) [noun] A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. | [noun] (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc. | [noun] The action of peeling away from a formation. PEENS (7) [noun] The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end. | [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [noun] Penis. PEEPS (9) [noun] A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird. | [noun] A feeble utterance or complaint. | [noun] The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill. | [noun] Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. PEERS (7) [noun] A look; a glance. | [verb] To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. | [verb] To come in sight; to appear. PEERY (10) [adjective] That tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to peers or the peerage. | [noun] Spinning top PEEVE (10) [noun] An annoyance or grievance. | [verb] To annoy; vex. PEINS (7) PEISE (7) PEKAN (11) [noun] The fisher cat, the fisher (Martes pennanti), or the marten (Martes americana). PEKES (11) [noun] A Pekingese dog. PEKIN (11) PEKOE (11) [noun] A high-quality black tea made using young leaves, grown in Sri Lanka, India, Java and the Azores. PELES (7) PELFS (10) PELON (7) PELTS (7) [noun] A blow or stroke from something thrown. | [verb] To bombard, as with missiles. | [verb] To throw; to use as a missile. PENAL (7) [adjective] Of or relating to punishment. | [adjective] Subject to punishment; punishable. | [adjective] Serving as a place of punishment. PENCE (9) [noun] In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d. | [noun] In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p. | [noun] In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p. PENDS (8) PENES (7) [noun] The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end. | [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [noun] Penis. PENGO (8) [noun] The monetary unit of Hungary from January, 1927 to July, 1946, divided into 100 fillér. PENIS (7) [noun] The male reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse that in the human male and some other mammals is also used for urination; the tubular portion of the male genitalia (excluding the scrotum). PENNA (7) [noun] A contour feather PENNE (7) [noun] A type of short, diagonally cut pasta. PENNI (7) [noun] A former Finnish currency unit, worth 1/100 of the markka. PENNY (10) [noun] In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d. | [noun] In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p. | [noun] In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p. PEONS (7) [noun] A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work. | [noun] A person of low rank or importance. | [noun] A messenger, foot soldier, or native policeman. PEONY (10) [noun] A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers. | [noun] A dark red colour. PEPLA (9) PEPOS (9) [noun] A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber. | [noun] A plant producing such a fruit. PEPPY (14) [adjective] Full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy PERCH (12) [noun] Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca. | [noun] Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially: | [noun] Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper. | [noun] Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca. PERDU (8) PERDY (11) PEREA (7) PERIL (7) [noun] A situation of serious and immediate danger. | [noun] Something that causes, contains, or presents danger. | [noun] An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event. PERIS (7) [noun] (Persian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being. PERKS (11) [noun] Perquisite. | [noun] A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up. | [noun] A percolator, particularly of coffee. PERKY (14) [adjective] Lively or enthusiastic. | [adjective] Standing upright; firm. PERMS (9) [noun] A permanent. | [noun] A permanent wave. | [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. PERRY (10) [noun] A fermented alcoholic beverage made from pears; somewhat analogous to cider. PERSE (7) [noun] A dark blue-gray colour. | [noun] A cloth of this colour. | [adjective] Dark greyish blue or purple. PESKY (14) [adjective] Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child). PESOS (7) [noun] A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar. | [noun] The currency of various countries, including but not limited to Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines. PESTO (7) [noun] A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region in Italy, made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil and cheese (usually pecorino) PESTS (7) [noun] A plague, pestilence, epidemic | [noun] Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest. | [noun] An annoying person, a nuisance. PESTY (10) PETAL (7) [noun] One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored. | [noun] Term of endearment. PETER (7) [noun] The penis. | [noun] A safe. | [verb] (most often used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing. | [verb] In whist, to play a blue peter. PETIT (7) [noun] (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy. | [noun] A kind of pigeon. | [adjective] (of size) Petite: small, little. | [noun] The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point. PETTI (7) PETTO (7) PETTY (10) [noun] (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size. | [noun] A class or school for young schoolboys. | [noun] An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. PEWEE (10) [noun] The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus). | [noun] A woodcock. | [noun] An American version of the children's game gilli-danda. PEWIT (10) [noun] Any of several birds PHAGE (11) [noun] A virus that is parasitic on bacteria. PHASE (10) PHONE (10) [noun] A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc. | [verb] To call (someone) using a telephone. | [noun] A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language. PHYLE (13) PIECE (9) [noun] A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts. | [noun] A single item belonging to a class of similar items | [noun] One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games. PIERS (7) [noun] A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty. | [noun] A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment. | [noun] A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided. PIETA (7) [noun] A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus. PIETY (10) [noun] Reverence and devotion to God. | [noun] Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country. | [noun] A devout act or thought. 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. PIKER (11) [noun] A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman. | [noun] One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money. | [noun] A stingy person; a cheapskate. PIKES (11) [noun] A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults. | [noun] A sharp point, such as that of the weapon. | [noun] A large haycock. PILEA (7) [noun] The top of a bird's head, from the base of the bill to the nape. 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. PILEI (7) [noun] The cap of a mushroom. | [noun] The bell of a jellyfish. | [noun] A small thin cloud attached to a cumulus cloud. PILES (7) [noun] A mass of things heaped together; a heap. | [noun] A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process. | [noun] A mass formed in layers. | [noun] Haemorrhoids. 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. PINES (7) [noun] Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus. | [noun] Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect. | [noun] The wood of this tree. PINEY (10) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or having many pines 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. PIPER (9) [noun] A musician who plays a pipe. | [noun] A bagpiper. | [noun] A baby pigeon. | [noun] A plant of the family Piperaceae. PIPES (9) [noun] Meanings relating to a wind instrument. | [noun] Meanings relating to a hollow conduit. | [noun] Meanings relating to a container. PIPET (9) [noun] A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid. | [verb] To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette. PIQUE (16) [noun] A feeling of enmity; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride. | [noun] A feeling of irritation or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little thought or consideration. | [noun] Keenly felt desire; a longing. | [noun] In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one. | [noun] A chigger or jigger, Tunga penetrans. | [noun] A durable ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk. PISTE (7) [noun] A downhill trail. | [noun] The field of play of a fencing match. | [noun] The track left by somebody riding a horse. PIXEL (14) [noun] One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory. | [noun] One of the squares that make up a pixel art work or a zoomed in image in a computer. | [verb] To create computer graphics by editing individual pixels. PIXES (14) PIXIE (14) [noun] (fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature. | [noun] A cute, petite woman with short hair. | [noun] An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome. PLACE (9) [noun] (physical) An area; somewhere within an area. | [noun] A location or position in space. | [noun] A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader. | [verb] To put (an object or person) in a specific location. PLAGE (8) [noun] A region; country | [noun] A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun PLANE (7) [noun] A level or flat surface. | [noun] A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane). | [noun] A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane) | [noun] A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface. | [noun] An airplane; an aeroplane. | [noun] A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus. PLATE (7) [noun] A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten. | [noun] Such dishes collectively. | [noun] The contents of such a dish. | [noun] Precious metal, especially silver. PLEAD (8) [verb] To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case. | [verb] To beg, beseech, or implore. | [verb] To offer by way of excuse. PLEAS (7) [noun] An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty. | [noun] An excuse; an apology. | [noun] That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification. PLEAT (7) [noun] A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance. | [noun] A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness. | [noun] A plait. PLEBE (9) [noun] (usually in the plural) A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens. | [noun] The plebs, the plebeian class. | [noun] The similar lower class of any area. PLEBS (9) [noun] A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society. | [noun] A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy. PLENA (7) PLEWS (10) [noun] Beaver pelt 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. PLIER (7) PLIES (7) [noun] A layer of material. | [noun] A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn. | [noun] Short for plywood. | [noun] A smooth and continuous bending of the knees PLUME (9) [noun] A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration. | [noun] A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle. | [noun] A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward. | [verb] To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes. PLYER (10) POEMS (9) [noun] A literary piece written in verse. | [noun] A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry. | [noun] A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose. POESY (10) [noun] A poem. | [noun] The class of literature comprising poems; poetry, verse. POETS (7) [noun] A person who writes poems. | [noun] A person with a creative or romantic imagination. POGEY (11) [noun] A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc. | [noun] (often with the) Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance. POISE (7) [noun] A state of balance, equilibrium or stability. | [noun] Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation. | [noun] Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body. 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. POKER (11) [noun] A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick. | [noun] A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings. | [noun] One who pokes. | [noun] Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game. | [noun] Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear. POKES (11) [noun] A prod, jab, or thrust. | [noun] A lazy person; a dawdler. | [noun] A stupid or uninteresting person. POKEY (14) [noun] (with "the") prison. | [adjective] (of a room, house) of small volume, cramped | [adjective] Slow 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. POLER (7) [noun] One who propels a boat using a pole. | [noun] A horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle. | [noun] An extortioner. POLES (7) [noun] Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes. | [noun] A type of basic fishing rod. | [noun] A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used. POMES (9) [noun] A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels. | [noun] A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service. PONCE (9) [noun] A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's. | [verb] To act as a pimp. | [verb] Hence, to try to get rid of or proactively sell something. PONES (7) POOVE (10) [noun] Less common variant of poof (male homosexual). POPES (9) [noun] (Russian Orthodoxy) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson. | [noun] An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state. | [noun] (Coptic Church) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church. 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 PORES (7) [noun] A tiny opening in the skin. | [noun] By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid. | [verb] To study meticulously; to go over again and again. 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.). POSER (7) [noun] A particularly difficult question or puzzle. | [noun] Someone who asks a question or sets a problem. | [noun] Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting. POSES (7) [noun] Common cold, head cold; catarrh. | [noun] Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body). | [noun] Affectation. POSSE (7) [noun] A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd. | [noun] A group of people summoned to help law enforcement. | [noun] A search party. POWER (10) [noun] Ability to do or undergo something. | [noun] (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. | [noun] (physical) Effectiveness. POXED (15) POXES (14) [noun] A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks. | [noun] Syphilis. | [noun] A curse. PRASE (7) [noun] A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green colour. PRATE (7) [noun] Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity. | [verb] To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly. PREED (8) PREEN (7) [noun] A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth. | [noun] (dialectal) pin | [noun] (dialectal) bodkin; brooch | [verb] (of birds) To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers. PREES (7) PREPS (9) [noun] A preventative medical regiment of HIV medicines used to protect against HIV seroconversion after an exposure. | [noun] Preparation. | [noun] A prep school. PRESA (7) PRESE (7) PRESS (7) [noun] A device used to apply pressure to an item. | [noun] A printing machine. | [noun] (collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers). | [verb] To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon. PREST (7) PREXY (17) [noun] A president, especially of a college or university. PREYS (10) [verb] To act as a predator. PRICE (9) [noun] The cost required to gain possession of something. | [noun] The cost of an action or deed. | [noun] Value; estimation; excellence; worth. 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). PRIER (7) PRIES (7) [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). PRIME (9) [noun] The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour. | [noun] The religious service appointed to this hour. | [noun] The early morning generally. | [verb] To prepare a mechanism for its main work. | [noun] An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points. PRISE (7) [noun] The cost required to gain possession of something. | [noun] The cost of an action or deed. | [noun] Value; estimation; excellence; worth. PRIZE (16) [noun] That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power. | [noun] Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel. | [noun] An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort. | [verb] To consider highly valuable; to esteem. | [adjective] Having won a prize; award-winning. | [noun] The cost required to gain possession of something. PROBE (9) [noun] Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. | [noun] Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. | [noun] An act of probing; a prod, a poke. PROEM (9) [noun] An introduction, preface or preamble. PROLE (7) [noun] A member of the proletariat; a proletarian | [noun] A pleb (ordinary person). PRONE (7) [adjective] Lying face downward. | [adjective] Having a downward inclination or slope. | [adjective] Predisposed, liable, inclined. PROSE (7) [noun] Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry. | [noun] Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse. | [noun] A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. PROVE (10) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. | [verb] To proofread. 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. PRUNE (7) [noun] A plum. | [noun] The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum. | [noun] An old woman, especially a wrinkly one. | [verb] To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. PRYER (10) PSEUD (8) [noun] An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur | [noun] Pseudomonas bacteria. | [noun] A pseudonym. PSOAE (7) PUBES (9) [noun] The pubic hair. | [noun] The pubic region. | [noun] The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis | [noun] A single pubic hair. PUCES (9) 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. PUKES (11) [noun] Vomit. | [noun] A drug that induces vomiting. | [noun] A worthless, despicable person. PULED (8) [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. PULER (7) PULES (7) [noun] A plaintive melancholy whine. | [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. PULSE (7) [noun] A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart. | [noun] A beat or throb. | [noun] The beat or tactus of a piece of music. | [verb] To beat, to throb, to flash. | [noun] Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals, especially in the mature, dry condition. PUPAE (9) [noun] An insect in the development stage between larva and adult. PUREE (7) [noun] A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid. | [verb] To crush or grind food into a puree. | [noun] A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan. PURER (7) [adjective] Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied. | [adjective] Free of foreign material or pollutants. | [adjective] Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean. PURGE (8) [noun] An act of purging. | [noun] An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting. | [noun] A cleansing of pipes. PURSE (7) [noun] A small bag for carrying money. | [noun] A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items) | [noun] A quantity of money given for a particular purpose. PUSES (7) PYRES (10) [noun] A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned. | [noun] Any heap or pile of combustibles. PYXES (17) [noun] A small, usually round container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist, especially used to bring communion to the sick, or others who are unable to attend Mass. | [noun] A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint. | [noun] The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. PYXIE (17) QUAKE (18) [noun] A trembling or shaking. | [noun] An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force. | [verb] To tremble or shake. QUALE (14) [noun] An instance of subjective, conscious experience. QUARE (14) [adjective] Queer, strange (suggesting an Irish accent) | [adjective] (used to suggest emphasis such as "a lot of" or "very" (suggesting an Irish accent).) QUATE (14) QUEAN (14) [noun] A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute. | [noun] A young woman, a girl; a daughter. QUEEN (14) [noun] A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria. | [noun] The wife or widow of a king. | [noun] The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. QUEER (14) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity. QUELL (14) [noun] A subduing. | [verb] To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit. | [verb] To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. | [noun] A source, especially a spring. QUERN (14) [noun] A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones. | [verb] To grind; to use a quern. QUERY (17) [noun] A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK). | [noun] A question mark. | [noun] A set of instructions passed to a database. QUEST (14) [noun] A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission. | [noun] The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit. | [noun] Request; desire; solicitation. QUEUE (14) [noun] An animal's tail. | [noun] A men's hairstyle whose primary attribute is a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China. | [noun] A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back). QUEYS (17) QUIET (14) [noun] The absence of sound; quietness. | [noun] The absence of movement; stillness, tranquility | [verb] To become quiet, silent, still, tranquil, calm. QUIRE (14) [noun] One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold. | [noun] A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures. | [noun] A book, poem, or pamphlet. | [noun] A choir. QUITE (14) [adverb] (heading) To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely. | [adverb] (heading) In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually. | [adverb] To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather. | [noun] A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull. QUOTE (14) [noun] A quotation; a statement attributed to a person. | [noun] A quotation mark. | [noun] A summary of work to be done with a set price. RACED (8) [verb] To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest). | [verb] To compete against in such a race. | [verb] To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed. RACER (7) [noun] Someone who takes part in a race. | [noun] A racehorse. | [noun] An animal known for its fast speed, or suitable for racing; applied especially to a number of North American snakes, certain kinds of lake trout, etc. RACES (7) [noun] A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins | [noun] Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed. | [noun] A race condition. RAGED (7) [verb] To act or speak in heightened anger. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc. | [verb] To enrage. RAGEE (6) RAGES (6) [noun] Violent uncontrolled anger. | [noun] A current fashion or fad. | [noun] Any vehement passion. RAISE (5) [noun] An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK). | [noun] A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance. | [noun] A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward. | [noun] A cairn or pile of stones. RAJES (12) RAKED (10) [verb] To walk; to roam, to wander. | [verb] Of animals (especially sheep): to graze. | [verb] To roam or wander through (somewhere). RAKEE (9) RAKER (9) RAKES (9) [noun] A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey. | [noun] The movement of animals while grazing. | [noun] The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray. RALES (5) [noun] (now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema. | [noun] Abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound heard from the lungs, often audible only with a stethoscope. RAMEE (7) RAMET (7) RAMIE (7) [noun] (usually countable) A tall, tropical Asian perennial herb, Boehmeria nivea, cultivated for its fibrous stems. | [noun] (usually uncountable) fibre extracted from this plant, resembling flax. RANCE (7) RANEE (5) [noun] The wife of a rajah. | [noun] A Hindu princess or female ruler in India. RANGE (6) [noun] A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc. | [noun] A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates. | [noun] Selection, array. RAPED (8) RAPER (7) [noun] A person who has raped someone; a rapist. RAPES (7) RAPHE (10) [noun] A ridge or seam on an organ, bodily tissue, or other structure, especially at the join between two halves or sections. RARED (6) RARER (5) [adjective] Very uncommon; scarce. | [adjective] (of a gas) Thin; of low density. | [adjective] Good; enjoyable. RARES (5) RASED (6) [verb] To rub along the surface of; to graze | [verb] To rub or scratch out; to erase | [verb] To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze RASER (5) RASES (5) [noun] A scratching out, or erasure | [noun] A slight wound; a scratch | [noun] A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it RATED (6) [verb] To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level. | [verb] To evaluate or estimate the value of. | [verb] To consider or regard. RATEL (5) [noun] A carnivorous mammal, Mellivora capensis, found in Africa and some parts of Asia; the honey badger. RATER (5) RATES (5) [noun] The worth of something; value. | [noun] The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. | [noun] Speed. RATHE (8) [adjective] Ripening or blooming early. | [adverb] Quickly. | [adverb] Early in the morning. RAVED (9) [verb] To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. | [verb] To speak or write wildly or incoherently. | [verb] To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on. RAVEL (8) [noun] A snarl; a complication. | [noun] A ravelled thread. | [verb] To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse. RAVEN (8) [noun] Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax. | [noun] A jet-black colour. | [adjective] Of the color of the raven; jet-black | [noun] Rapine; rapacity. RAVER (8) [noun] A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture. | [noun] A person who raves or rants. RAVES (8) [noun] An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). | [noun] An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use. | [noun] The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties. RAWER (8) [adjective] (of food) Not cooked. | [adjective] (of materials, products, etc.) Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. | [adjective] Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. RAXED (13) RAXES (12) 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. RAZEE (14) RAZER (14) RAZES (14) [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. | [verb] To scrape as if with a razor. REACH (10) [noun] The act of stretching or extending; extension. | [noun] The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown. | [noun] The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. REACT (7) [noun] An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media. | [verb] To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact. | [verb] To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force READD (7) READS (6) [noun] A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play. | [noun] (in combination) Something to be read; a written work. | [noun] A person's interpretation or impression of something. READY (9) [noun] Ready money; cash | [verb] To prepare; to make ready for action. | [adjective] Prepared for immediate action or use. REALM (7) [noun] An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined. | [noun] The domain of a certain abstraction. | [noun] A scope of operation in networking or security. REALS (5) [noun] A commodity; see realty. | [noun] (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages. | [noun] A real number. REAMS (7) [verb] To cream; mantle; foam; froth. | [verb] To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider. | [verb] To shape or form, especially using a reamer. REAPS (7) [verb] To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine | [verb] To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting. | [verb] To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense. REARM (7) [verb] To replace or restore the weapons or arms of a previously defeated, or disarmed army, country, person or other body. REARS (5) [verb] To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. | [verb] (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. | [verb] To rise up on the hind legs REATA (5) REAVE (8) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. REBAR (7) [noun] A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure. | [noun] A grid-shaped system of such bars. | [verb] To reinforce with bars of this kind. | [verb] To bar again. REBBE (9) [noun] The spiritual leader of a Chassidic Jewish community. REBEC (9) [noun] An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras. REBEL (7) [noun] A person who resists an established authority, often violently | [noun] A person from the Confederate States of America | [verb] To resist or become defiant toward an authority. 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. REBOP (9) REBUS (7) [noun] A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. | [noun] A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. | [verb] To mark or indicate by a rebus. REBUT (7) [verb] To drive back or beat back; to repulse. | [verb] To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it. REBUY (10) RECAP (9) [noun] A tire that has had new tread glued on. | [verb] To seal (something) again with a cap. | [verb] To replace the worn tread on a tire by gluing a new outer portion. (US English only - Retread in UK English) | [noun] A recapitulation. | [noun] A leveraged recapitalization accomplished by increasing the debt to equity ratio. | [verb] To replace capacitors in electronic equipment. RECCE (9) [noun] Reconnaissance. | [verb] Reconnoitre. | [adjective] Relating to reconnaissance. RECKS (11) [verb] To make account of; to care for; to heed, regard, consider. | [verb] To concern, to be important or earnest. | [verb] To think. RECON (7) [noun] Reconnaissance. | [verb] Reconnoiter. | [noun] The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination. RECTA (7) [noun] The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon. RECTI (7) [noun] Any of several straight muscles in various parts of the body, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye etc. RECTO (7) [noun] The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal. | [noun] The right-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an odd page number. | [noun] A writ of right. RECUR (7) [verb] To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc. | [verb] To happen again. | [verb] To recurse. RECUT (7) [verb] To cut again 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. REEFS (8) [noun] A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water. | [noun] A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore. | [noun] A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind. REEFY (11) REEKS (9) [noun] A strong unpleasant smell. | [noun] Vapour; steam; smoke; fume. | [verb] To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell. REEKY (12) REELS (5) [noun] A shaky or unsteady gait. | [noun] A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel. | [noun] A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound. REEST (5) REEVE (8) [noun] Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities. | [noun] The president of a township or municipal district council. | [noun] The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander. | [verb] To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it. | [noun] A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff. REFED (9) REFEL (8) REFER (8) [verb] To direct the attention of. | [verb] To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere. | [verb] To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation. REFIT (8) [noun] The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored. | [verb] To fit again; to put back into its place. | [verb] To prepare for use again; to repair or restore. REFIX (15) [verb] To fix again. REFLY (11) REFRY (11) REGAL (6) [adjective] Of or relating to royalty. | [adjective] Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress. | [noun] A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; today it has been revived for the performance of music from those times. REGES (6) REGMA (8) REGNA (6) REHAB (10) [noun] Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs. | [noun] An institution for rehabilitation. | [verb] To rehabilitate. REHEM (10) REIFS (8) REIFY (11) [verb] To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing REIGN (6) [noun] The exercise of sovereign power. | [noun] The period during which a monarch rules. | [noun] The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled. REINK (9) REINS (5) [noun] A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child. | [noun] An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing. | [verb] To direct or stop a horse by using reins. | [noun] The kidneys. REIVE (8) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. REKEY (12) [verb] To enter information into a device, such as a keyboard or keypad, after it has been done at least once before. | [verb] To modify (a lock or its cylinder) to change which keys will open it. | [verb] To change the key or tenor of; to reframe. RELAX (12) [verb] To calm down. | [verb] To make something loose. | [verb] To become loose. RELAY (8) [noun] A new set of hounds. | [noun] A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired. | [noun] (by extension) A new set of anything. | [verb] To lay (for example, flooring or railroad track) again. RELET (5) [noun] A property that has been let again | [verb] To let a property again RELIC (7) [noun] That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion. | [noun] Something old and outdated, possibly kept for sentimental reasons. | [noun] A part of the body of a saint, or an ancient religious object, kept for veneration. RELIT (5) [verb] To light or kindle anew. | [verb] To render again with different simulated lighting conditions. REMAN (7) [verb] To supply with new personnel. | [adjective] Having the property of having undergone remanufacture REMAP (9) [verb] To assign differently; to relabel or repurpose. | [verb] To map again. REMET (7) REMEX (14) [noun] Quill | [noun] The flight feather of a bird. REMIT (7) [noun] Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope. | [noun] A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court. | [verb] To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply. REMIX (14) [noun] A rearrangement of an older piece of music, possibly including various cosmetic changes. | [noun] A piece of music formed by combining existing pieces of music together, possibly including various other cosmetic changes | [verb] To mix again. RENAL (5) [adjective] Pertaining to the kidneys. 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. RENEW (8) [verb] To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. | [verb] To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of. | [verb] To make new spiritually; to regenerate. RENIG (6) RENIN (5) [noun] A circulating enzyme released by mammalian kidneys that converts angiotensinogen to angiotensin-I. Because its activity ultimately leads to formation of angiotensin-II and aldosterone, this hormone plays a role in maintaining blood pressure. RENTE (5) RENTS (5) [noun] A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property. | [noun] A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service. | [noun] A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business. REOIL (5) REPAY (10) [verb] To pay back. REPEG (8) REPEL (7) [verb] To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc. | [verb] To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.). | [verb] To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.). REPIN (7) REPLY (10) [noun] A written or spoken response; part of a conversation. | [noun] Something given in reply. | [noun] A counterattack. REPOS (7) [noun] Repossession | [noun] A repurchase agreement: a type of derivative which allows a borrower to use a financial security as collateral for a cash loan at a fixed interest rate | [noun] A repository usually containing software, in either source code or precompiled form. REPOT (7) [verb] To move a growing plant from one pot to a larger one to allow for further growth REPPS (9) REPRO (7) [noun] The proof prepared in offset printing, with all elements positioned on the page. | [verb] To reproduce (a bug or problem). | [noun] The act of reproducing new individuals biologically. RERAN (5) [verb] To run (a previously broadcast television program) again. | [verb] To run (a race) again. | [verb] To run (a computer program) again. RERIG (6) RERUN (5) [noun] A television program shown after its initial presentation — particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat. | [noun] Another printing run (impression; batch of copies of a given edition) of a book, cartoon, etc. | [noun] A political candidate who holds the same political agenda or doctrine as a past or incumbent holder of a given political office. RESAW (8) RESAY (8) RESEE (5) RESET (5) [verb] To set back to the initial state. | [verb] To set to zero. | [verb] To adjust; to set or position differently. | [noun] An act of resetting to the initial state | [noun] The crime of knowingly and dishonestly receiving stolen goods, or harbouring an outlaw. RESEW (8) RESID (6) RESIN (5) [noun] A viscous hydrocarbon secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees. | [noun] Any of various yellowish viscous liquids or soft solids of plant origin; used in lacquers, varnishes and many other applications; chemically they are mostly hydrocarbons, often polycyclic. | [noun] Any synthetic compound of similar properties. RESOD (6) RESOW (8) RESTS (5) [noun] (of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep. | [noun] Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation. | [noun] Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility. RETAG (6) RETAX (12) RETCH (10) [noun] An unsuccessful effort to vomit. | [verb] To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting. | [verb] To reck | [verb] To reach RETEM (7) RETIA (5) [noun] A network of blood vessels or nerves. | [noun] An anatomical part resembling or including a network. | [noun] A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features. RETIE (5) [verb] To tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied before. RETRO (5) [noun] Past fashions or trends. | [adjective] Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were. | [adjective] Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto. RETRY (8) [noun] Another attempt. | [verb] To try or attempt again. | [verb] To try judicially a second time. REUSE (5) [noun] The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable. | [noun] The act of using again, or in another place. | [verb] To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else). REVEL (8) [noun] An instance of merrymaking; a celebration. | [noun] A kind of dance. | [noun] A wake for the dead. | [noun] The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb. REVET (8) [verb] To face (an embankment, etc.) with masonry, wood, or other material. REVUE (8) [noun] A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied. Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs. REWAN (8) REWAX (15) REWED (9) REWET (8) REWIN (8) REWON (8) REXES (12) [noun] An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking. RHEAS (8) [noun] A large flightless bird of the genus Rhea, native to South America. RHEUM (10) [noun] Watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease. | [noun] Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism. | [noun] Tears. RHYME (13) [noun] Rhyming verse (poetic form) | [noun] A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse. | [noun] A word that rhymes with another. RIBES (7) 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). RICER (7) [noun] A person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests rice. | [noun] A utensil used to extrude soft foods (such as, and especially, cooked potato) through holes about the diameter of a grain of rice. | [noun] An imported automobile from an Oriental country, deemed inferior because it is low-powered and/or cheap. RICES (7) [noun] Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food. | [noun] A specific variety of this plant. | [noun] The seeds of this plant used as food. 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. RIELS (5) [noun] The monetary unit of Cambodia, equivalent to 100 sen or 10 kak. Symbol: ៛ RIFER (8) RIFLE (8) [noun] A shouldered firearm with a long, rifled barrel to improve range and accuracy. | [noun] (usually plural) A rifleman. | [noun] An artillery piece with a rifled barrel. RILED (6) [verb] To make angry | [verb] To stir or move from a state of calm or order RILES (5) [verb] To make angry | [verb] To stir or move from a state of calm or order RILEY (8) [adjective] Angry, upset. RILLE (5) [noun] A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies. RIMED (8) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. RIMER (7) RIMES (7) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. RINSE (5) [noun] The action of rinsing. | [noun] A liquid used to rinse, now particularly a hair dye. | [verb] To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap. RIPED (8) RIPEN (7) [verb] To grow ripe; to become mature (said of grain, fruit, flowers etc.) | [verb] To approach or come to perfection. | [verb] To cause to mature; to make ripe RIPER (7) [adjective] (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature | [adjective] (of foods) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow | [adjective] Having attained its full development; mature; perfected RIPES (7) RISEN (5) [verb] To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. | [verb] To increase in value or standing. | [verb] To begin; to develop. RISER (5) [noun] Someone or something which rises. | [noun] A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something. | [noun] The vertical part of a step on a staircase. RISES (5) [verb] To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. | [verb] To increase in value or standing. | [verb] To begin; to develop. RITES (5) [noun] That which complies with justice, law or reason. | [noun] A legal, just or moral entitlement. | [noun] The right side or direction. RIVED (9) [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. RIVEN (8) [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. | [adjective] Torn apart. RIVER (8) [noun] A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea. | [noun] Any large flow of a liquid in a single body. | [noun] The last card dealt in a hand. | [noun] One who rives or splits. RIVES (8) [noun] A place torn; a rent; a rift. | [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. RIVET (8) [noun] A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end. | [noun] Any fixed point or certain basis. | [noun] A light kind of footman's armour. ROBED (8) [verb] To clothe; to dress. | [verb] To put on official vestments. | [adjective] Wearing a robe. ROBES (7) [noun] A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature. | [noun] The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap. | [noun] A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom. ROBLE (7) 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. ROGER (6) [interjection] (radio telecommunications) Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood) | [verb] Of a man, to have sexual intercourse with (someone), especially in a rough manner. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse. ROGUE (6) [noun] A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person. | [noun] A mischievous scamp. | [noun] A vagrant. ROLES (5) [noun] A character or part played by a performer or actor. | [noun] The expected behaviour of an individual in a society. | [noun] The function or position of something. ROMEO (7) ROOSE (5) 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. ROPER (7) [noun] An accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster. | [noun] Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso. | [noun] A maker of ropes. ROPES (7) [noun] Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. | [noun] An individual length of such material. | [noun] A cohesive strand of something. ROPEY (10) [adjective] Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch. | [adjective] Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures. | [adjective] Of poor quality; in poor health. ROQUE (14) [noun] A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard surface ROSED (6) [verb] To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush. | [verb] To perfume, as with roses. | [adjective] Having taken on a crimson colour. ROSES (5) [noun] A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers. | [noun] A flower of the rose plant. | [noun] A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae) ROSET (5) ROTES (5) ROTTE (5) ROUEN (5) ROUES (5) ROUGE (6) [noun] Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher. | [noun] Any reddish pink colour. | [noun] A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored. (This scoring term is not often used in Canada, with the term single being more commonly used.) ROUSE (5) [noun] An arousal. | [noun] The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse. | [verb] To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy. | [noun] An official ceremony over drinks. ROUTE (5) [noun] A course or way which is traveled or passed. | [noun] A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation. | [noun] A road or path; often specifically a highway. | [verb] To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. 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. ROVEN (8) ROVER (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) A randomly selected target. | [noun] One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad. | [noun] A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry. | [noun] A pirate. ROVES (8) [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. 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. ROWEL (8) [noun] The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur. | [noun] A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit. | [noun] A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery. ROWEN (8) [noun] A second crop of hay; aftermath. | [noun] A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle. ROWER (8) [noun] One who rows. | [noun] A rowing machine. RUBES (7) [noun] A person of rural heritage; a yokel. | [noun] An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person. RUBLE (7) [noun] The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: копе́йка, Belarusian: капе́йка). The Russian ruble's symbol is ₽. RUCHE (10) [noun] A strip of fabric which has been fluted or pleated. | [noun] A small ruff of fluted or pleated fabric worn at neck or wrist. | [noun] A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn. RUDER (6) [adjective] Bad-mannered. | [adjective] Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive. | [adjective] Tough, robust. RUERS (5) RUFFE (11) [noun] Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish. | [noun] Other species in the same genus. RUGAE (6) 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). RULER (5) [noun] A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a straightedge with markings. | [noun] A person who rules or governs; someone or something that exercises dominion or controlling power over others. | [verb] To beat with a ruler (as a traditional school punishment). RULES (5) [noun] A regulation, law, guideline. | [noun] A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure. | [noun] A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing. RUMEN (7) [noun] The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants. RUNES (5) [noun] A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons. | [noun] A Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala. | [noun] A letter or mark used as mystical or magic symbol. RUPEE (7) [noun] The common name for the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka, often abbreviated ₨. | [noun] A silver coin circulating in India between the 16th and 20th centuries, weighing one tola (formerly 170–180 troy grains; from 1833, 180 troy grains). RUSES (5) [noun] A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs. | [noun] (by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick. | [noun] Cunning, guile, trickery. RYKED (13) RYKES (12) SABED (8) SABER (7) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. | [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SABES (7) SABLE (7) [noun] A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur (Wikipedia). | [noun] The marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana). | [noun] The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur. SABRE (7) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. | [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SADES (6) SADHE (9) SAFER (8) [adjective] Not in danger; out of harm's reach. | [adjective] Free from risk. | [adjective] Providing protection from danger; providing shelter. SAFES (8) [noun] A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping. | [noun] A condom. | [noun] A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects. SAGER (6) SAGES (6) [noun] A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher. SAICE (7) SAKER (9) [noun] A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia. | [noun] A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century. SAKES (9) [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. | [noun] Cause, interest or account | [noun] Purpose or end; reason | [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. SALEP (7) [noun] A starch or jelly made out of plants in the Orchidaceae family, such as the early-purple orchid (Orchis mascula). SALES (5) [noun] A hall. | [noun] An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit. | [noun] (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices. SALVE (8) [noun] An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects. | [noun] Any remedy or action that soothes or heals. | [verb] To calm or assuage. | [verb] To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies). | [interjection] Hail; a greeting. | [verb] To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute. SAMEK (11) SANED (6) SANER (5) [adjective] Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally. | [adjective] Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner. | [adjective] Rational; reasonable; sensible. SANES (5) SAREE (5) [noun] The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head. SARGE (6) [noun] Sergeant | [verb] (pickup community) to go out and engage women in order to pick them up SATED (6) [verb] To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up. | [adjective] In a state of complete and thorough satisfaction; having ones appetite fully satisfied, by having enough of something. | [adjective] Quelled of thirst or hunger. SATEM (7) SATES (5) SAUCE (7) [noun] A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food. | [noun] Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in: | [noun] (usually “the”) Alcohol, booze. SAUTE (5) [verb] To cook (food) using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat, allowing the food to brown and form a crust stopping it from sticking to the pan as it cooks. SAVED (9) [verb] To prevent harm or difficulty. | [verb] To put aside, to avoid. | [adjective] Rescued from the consequences of sin. SAVER (8) [noun] One who saves. | [noun] One who keeps savings more than usual. SAVES (8) [noun] In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring. | [noun] When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead. | [noun] A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten. SAWED (9) [verb] To cut (something) with a saw. | [verb] To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. | [verb] To be cut with a saw. SAWER (8) SAXES (12) [noun] A slate-cutter's hammer; slate-ax. | [noun] A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length. | [noun] A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards. SAYER (8) SCALE (7) [noun] A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. | [noun] An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude. | [noun] Size; scope. | [noun] Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile. | [noun] A device to measure mass or weight. SCAPE (9) [noun] A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root. | [noun] The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body). | [noun] The basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape. | [noun] Escape | [noun] The cry of the snipe when flushed. SCARE (7) [noun] A minor fright. | [noun] A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread. | [noun] A device or object used to frighten. | [verb] To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. | [adjective] Lean; scanty SCENA (7) [noun] A scene in an opera. | [noun] An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria. | [noun] The stage of an ancient theatre. 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. SCENE (7) [noun] The location of an event that attracts attention. | [noun] The stage. | [noun] The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set SCENT (7) [noun] A distinctive odour or smell. | [noun] An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing. | [noun] The sense of smell. SCONE (7) [noun] A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle. | [noun] (Utah) Frybread served with honey butter spread on it. | [noun] The head. SCOPE (9) [noun] The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain. | [noun] A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target. | [noun] Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom. | [noun] A bundle, as of twigs. SCORE (7) [noun] The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game. | [noun] The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers. | [noun] The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade. SCREE (7) [noun] Loose stony debris on a slope. | [noun] (by extension) Similar debris made up of broken building material such as bricks, concrete, etc. | [noun] A slope made up of loose stony debris at the base of a cliff, mountain, etc. | [noun] A harsh, high-pitched sound or cry (as of a hawk). | [verb] To flatten or level concrete while still wet, and remove protruding gravel and stones from the surface. | [noun] A coarse sieve. SCREW (10) [noun] A device that has a helical function. | [noun] The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side. | [noun] A prison guard. SCUTE (7) [noun] A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles. | [noun] A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs | [noun] A small shield. SEALS (5) [noun] A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal. | [noun] A bearing representing a creature something like a walrus. | [verb] To hunt seals. SEAMS (7) [noun] A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. | [noun] A suture. | [noun] A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. SEAMY (10) [adjective] Sordid, squalid or corrupt. | [adjective] Having or showing a seam. SEARS (5) [verb] To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument. | [verb] To wither; to dry up. | [verb] To make callous or insensible. SEATS (5) [noun] Something to be sat upon. | [noun] A location or site. | [noun] The starting point of a fire. SEBUM (9) [noun] A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris. SECCO (9) [noun] A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco. | [adjective] Dry | [adjective] Dry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance SECTS (7) [noun] An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs. | [noun] A group following a specific ideal or a leader. | [noun] A cutting; a scion. 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. SEEKS (9) [verb] To try to find; to look for; to search for. | [verb] To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. | [verb] To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at. SEELS (5) [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. SEELY (8) SEEMS (7) [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. SEEPS (7) [noun] A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping. | [noun] Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage. | [noun] The seeping away of a liquid, etc. SEEPY (10) SEERS (5) [noun] One who sees something; an eyewitness. | [noun] One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner. | [noun] Unit of mass or volume in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent. SEGNI (6) SEGNO (6) SEGOS (6) [noun] A perennial bulb lily found in Western North America, the Calochortus nuttallii, which has trumpet-shaped flowers. SEGUE (6) [noun] An instance of segueing, a transition. | [verb] To move smoothly from one state or subject to another. | [verb] To make a smooth transition from one theme to another. SEIFS (8) [noun] A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind. SEINE (5) [noun] A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish. | [verb] To use a seine, to fish with a seine. SEISE (5) [verb] To vest ownership of a freehold estate in (someone). | [verb] (with of) To put in possession. | [verb] To seize. SEISM (7) SEIZE (14) [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.). SELAH (8) [noun] A pause or rest of a contemplative nature. | [interjection] A word occurring between verses or paragraphs in parts of the Hebrew Bible, namely in Habakkuk and the Psalms; perhaps indicating a pause, either for contemplation or for the singer to clear his or her throat. SELFS (8) [noun] One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition. | [noun] The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. | [noun] An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves). SELLE (5) SELLS (5) [noun] An act of selling. | [noun] An easy task. | [noun] An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity. SELVA (8) [noun] Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin. SEMEN (7) [noun] A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells. SEMES (7) [noun] A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. | [noun] A suture. | [noun] A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. | [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. SEMIS (7) [noun] A semi-detached house. | [noun] A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic. | [noun] A semifinal. | [noun] A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an as. 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. SENGI (6) SENNA (5) [noun] Any of several plants of the tribe Cassieae, especially those of the genera Cassia and Senna, whose leaves and pods are used as a purgative and laxative. | [noun] The dried leaves or pods of these plants (especially of Senna alexandrina, syn. Cassia angustifolia or Cassia acutifolia), used medicinally. | [noun] Senna glycoside, a laxative. SENOR (5) [noun] A Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or an older man. SENSA (5) SENSE (5) [noun] Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. | [noun] Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness. | [noun] Sound practical or moral judgment. SENTE (5) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Lesotho loti. | [noun] (Go) first move, initiative SENTI (5) SEPAL (7) [noun] One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when the sepals in a plant's calyx are not fused into a single structure. SEPIA (7) [noun] A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. | [noun] A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour. | [noun] (by extension) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph. SEPIC (9) SEPOY (10) [noun] A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal. SEPTA (7) [noun] A wall separating two cavities; a partition | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus. SEPTS (7) [noun] A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland). | [noun] An enclosure; a railing. SERAC (7) [noun] Often sérac: a hard, cone-shaped, pale green, strongly flavoured cheese from Switzerland made from skimmed cowmilk and blue fenugreek (Trigonella caerulea); Schabziger, Sapsago. It is usually eaten grated, mixed with butter, or in a fondue. | [noun] (glaciology) A sharp tower of ice formed by intersecting crevasses of a glacier. SERAI (5) [noun] (In Turkish or Muslim Asian contexts) A palace. | [noun] A seraglio. | [noun] A caravanserai; an inn. SERAL (5) SERED (6) SERER (5) SERES (5) [noun] A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved. | [noun] A claw, a talon. SERFS (8) [noun] A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights | [noun] A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe | [noun] (strategy games) a worker unit SERGE (6) [noun] A type of worsted cloth. | [noun] (by metonymy) A garment made of this fabric. | [verb] To overlock. | [noun] A large wax candle used in some church ceremonies. SERIF (8) [noun] A short line added to the end of a stroke in traditional typefaces, such as Times New Roman. | [adjective] Of a typeface, provided with serifs. SERIN (5) [noun] Any of various small finches in the genus Serinus, with largely yellow plumage. SEROW (8) [noun] Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis. SERRY (8) SERUM (7) [noun] The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. | [noun] Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum. | [noun] A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. SERVE (8) [noun] An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games. | [noun] A portion of food or drink, a serving. | [verb] (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). SERVO (8) [noun] A servomechanism or servomotor. | [verb] To control by means of a servocontrol | [noun] A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities. SETAE (5) [noun] A bristle or hair | [noun] The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort. SETAL (5) SETON (5) [noun] A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen etc., introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to induce suppuration; also, the issue so formed. SETTS (5) [noun] The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger. | [noun] The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan. | [noun] A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging. SETUP (7) [noun] Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus. | [noun] The fashion in which something is organized or arranged. | [noun] A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody. SEVEN (8) [noun] The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof. | [noun] A card bearing seven pips. | [numeral] A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). SEVER (8) [verb] To cut free. | [verb] To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated. | [verb] To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. SEWAN (8) SEWAR (8) 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. SEWER (8) [noun] A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage. | [verb] To provide (a place) with a system of sewers. | [noun] A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc. | [noun] One who sews. SEXED (13) [verb] To determine the sex of an animal. | [verb] To have sex with. | [adjective] Having a sex; being male or female. SEXES (12) [noun] An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs. | [noun] A group following a specific ideal or a leader. | [noun] A cutting; a scion. SEXTO (12) SEXTS (12) [noun] Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight. | [noun] The service appointed for this hour. | [noun] A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees. 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. SHAKE (12) [noun] The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion. | [noun] A milkshake. | [noun] A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float. SHALE (8) [noun] A shell or husk; a cod or pod. | [noun] A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. | [verb] To take off the shell or coat of. SHAME (10) [noun] Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor or something being exposed that should have been kept private. | [noun] Something to regret. | [noun] Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision. | [verb] To cause to feel shame. SHAPE (10) [noun] The status or condition of something | [noun] Condition of personal health, especially muscular health. | [noun] The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure. SHARE (8) [noun] A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone. | [noun] A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability. | [noun] A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network. | [noun] The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine. SHAVE (11) [verb] To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. | [verb] To cut anything in this fashion. | [verb] To remove hair from one's face by this means. | [noun] An instance of shaving. SHEAF (11) [noun] A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. | [noun] Any collection of things bound together; a bundle. | [noun] A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer. SHEAL (8) SHEAR (8) [noun] A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger. | [noun] The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing. | [noun] Forces that push in opposite directions. SHEAS (8) 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. SHEEN (8) [noun] Splendor; radiance; shininess. | [noun] A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface. | [verb] To shine; to glisten. | [noun] The letter ش in the Arabic script. SHEEP (10) [noun] A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis. | [noun] A timid, shy person who is easily led by others. | [noun] (chiefly plural) A religious adherent, a member of a congregation or religious community (compare flock). | [noun] A sheep; specifically singular form of sheep. SHEER (8) [noun] A sheer curtain or fabric. | [adjective] Very thin or transparent. | [adjective] Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated. | [noun] The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern. SHEET (8) [noun] A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper. | [noun] A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc. | [noun] A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking. SHEIK (12) [noun] The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe. | [noun] An Islamic religious cleric; the leader of an Islamic religious order. | [noun] (some Arab Gulf countries) An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families. SHELF (11) [noun] A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and used to support, store or display objects. | [noun] The capacity of such an object | [noun] A projecting ledge that resembles such an object. SHELL (8) [noun] A hard external covering of an animal. | [noun] The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg. | [noun] One of the outer layers of skin of an onion. SHEND (9) SHENT (8) SHEOL (8) 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. SHEWN (11) SHEWS (11) [noun] A play, dance, or other entertainment. | [noun] An exhibition of items. | [noun] A broadcast program/programme. 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 SHIEL (8) SHIER (8) SHIES (8) [noun] An act of throwing. | [noun] A place for throwing. | [noun] A sudden start aside, as by a horse. SHINE (8) [noun] Brightness from a source of light. | [noun] Brightness from reflected light. | [noun] Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour. | [verb] To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something). SHIRE (8) [noun] Physical area administered by a sheriff. | [noun] Former administrative area of Britain; a county. | [noun] The general area in which a person lives or comes from, used in the context of travel within the United Kingdom. SHIVE (11) [noun] A slice, especially of bread. | [noun] A sheave. | [noun] A beam or plank of split wood. | [noun] A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching | [noun] A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). | [noun] A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative. SHLEP (10) [noun] A long or burdensome journey. | [noun] A boring person, a drag; a good-for-nothing person. | [noun] A sloppy or slovenly person. SHOED (9) SHOER (8) SHOES (8) [noun] A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do. | [noun] A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe. | [noun] A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles. SHONE (8) [verb] To emit light. | [verb] To reflect light. | [verb] To distinguish oneself; to excel. SHORE (8) [noun] Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond. | [noun] (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port. | [verb] To set on shore. | [noun] A prop or strut supporting the weight or flooring above it. | [verb] To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears. | [noun] (Obsolete except in Hiberno-English) A sewer. | [verb] To warn or threaten. SHOTE (8) [noun] A young, newly-weaned pig. | [noun] A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus). SHOVE (11) [noun] A rough push. | [noun] An all-in bet. | [noun] A forward movement of packed river-ice. 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. SHREW (11) [noun] Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha). | [noun] Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews (order Soricomorpha). | [noun] An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold. | [verb] To beshrew; to curse. SHUTE (8) SHYER (11) [adjective] Easily frightened; timid. | [adjective] Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach. | [adjective] Cautious; wary; suspicious. SICES (7) [noun] A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses. | [noun] (Malaya) usually syce: chauffeur, driver. | [noun] The number six in a game of dice. 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. SIEGE (6) [noun] (heading) Military action. | [noun] (heading) A seat. | [noun] A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory. SIEUR (5) SIEVE (8) [noun] A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid. | [noun] A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input. | [noun] A kind of coarse basket. SIKER (9) SIKES (9) [noun] A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer. | [noun] A sigh. | [verb] To sigh or sob. SILEX (12) [noun] Flint. | [noun] A finely ground relatively pure form of silicas used as a paint filler etc. SINCE (7) [adverb] From a specified time in the past. | [preposition] From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred. | [conjunction] From the time that. SINES (5) [noun] In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse. SINEW (8) [noun] A cord or tendon of the body. | [noun] A cord or string, particularly as of a musical instrument. | [noun] Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength. SINGE (6) [noun] A burning of the surface; a slight burn. | [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. SIPED (8) SIPES (7) [noun] Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction. | [noun] A drain. SIRED (6) [verb] (of a male) to procreate; to father, beget, impregnate. SIREE (5) [noun] (used as an intensifier, emphatically, after yes or no) Sir. SIREN (5) [noun] One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks. | [noun] One who sings sweetly and charms. | [noun] A dangerously seductive woman. SIRES (5) [noun] A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign. | [noun] A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another. | [noun] A father; the head of a family; the husband. SISES (5) SITED (6) [verb] To situate or place a building. SITES (5) [noun] Sorrow, grief. | [noun] The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position | [noun] A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation SIVER (8) SIXES (12) [noun] The digit or figure 6. | [noun] (by ellipsis of six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something). | [noun] An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team. SIXTE (12) [noun] The sixth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at eye level. 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. SIZER (14) SIZES (14) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) An assize. | [noun] A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc. | [noun] A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink. SKATE (9) [noun] A light boot, fitted with a blade, used for ice skating. | [noun] A boot having small wheels or casters attached to its sole; used for roller skating | [noun] A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice. | [noun] A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body. | [noun] A worn-out horse. SKEAN (9) [noun] A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel. | [noun] A web, a weave, a tangle. | [noun] The membrane of a fish ovary. | [noun] A double-edged, leaf-shaped, typically bronze dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland. SKEED (10) SKEEN (9) SKEES (9) SKEET (9) [noun] A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight. | [noun] A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9. | [noun] The ejaculation of semen. | [noun] (Manx) news or gossip SKEGS (10) [noun] A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller. | [noun] A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel. | [noun] A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard. SKEIN (9) [noun] A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel. | [noun] A web, a weave, a tangle. | [noun] The membrane of a fish ovary. SKELM (11) SKELP (11) [noun] A blow; a smart stroke. | [noun] A squall; a heavy fall of rain. | [noun] A large portion. | [noun] A narrow strip of rolled or forged metal, ready to be bent and welded to form a pipe. SKENE (9) [noun] An element of ancient Greek theater: the structure at the back of the stage. | [noun] A double-edged, leaf-shaped, typically bronze dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland. | [noun] A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel. SKEPS (11) [noun] A basket. | [noun] A beehive made of straw or wicker. SKEWS (12) [noun] Something that has an oblique or slanted position. | [noun] An oblique or sideways movement. | [noun] A bias or distortion in a particular direction. 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. SKIER (9) [noun] One who skis. | [noun] A ball hit high in the air, often leading to a catch. SKIES (9) [noun] The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day. | [noun] The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate etc. | [noun] Heaven. | [verb] To move on skis SKIEY (12) SKITE (9) [noun] A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow. | [noun] A trick. | [noun] A contemptible person. | [noun] A kind of hermitage SKIVE (12) [noun] Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty. | [noun] An act of avoiding lessons or work. | [verb] To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk. | [noun] A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond. SKYED (13) SKYEY (15) [adjective] Resembling the sky. | [adjective] Of or relating to the sky. | [adjective] In the sky. SLAKE (9) [verb] To satisfy (thirst, or other desires). | [verb] To cool (something) with water or another liquid. | [verb] To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place. | [noun] A sloppy mess. SLATE (5) [noun] A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers. | [noun] The bluish-grey colour of most slate. | [noun] A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools | [verb] To cover with slate. SLAVE (8) [noun] A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control. | [noun] A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant. | [noun] An abject person. 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. SLEEK (9) [noun] That which makes smooth; varnish. | [verb] To make smooth or glossy; to polish or cause to be attractive. | [adjective] Having an even, smooth surface; smooth SLEEP (7) [verb] To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. | [verb] (of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. | [verb] To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. | [noun] The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm. SLEET (5) [noun] Pellets of ice made of mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes. | [noun] A mixture of rain and snow. | [noun] A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain. SLEPT (7) [verb] To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. | [verb] (of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. | [verb] To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. SLEWS (8) [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. SLICE (7) [noun] That which is thin and broad. | [noun] A thin, broad piece cut off. | [noun] An amount of anything. 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. SLIER (5) SLIME (7) [noun] Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. | [noun] Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs. | [noun] A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball. SLIPE (7) SLOES (5) [noun] The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa). | [noun] The tree Prunus spinosa. | [noun] Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit. SLOPE (7) [noun] An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward. | [noun] The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward. | [noun] The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical. SLUED (6) [adjective] Somewhat drunk; tipsy. | [verb] To rotate something on an axis. | [verb] To turn something sharply. SLUES (5) [noun] The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued. | [noun] A slough; a run or wet place. SLYER (8) [adjective] Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. | [adjective] (having a positive sense) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice | [adjective] Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle SLYPE (10) [noun] A covered passageway, especially one connecting the transept of a cathedral or monastery to the chapter house. SMAZE (16) [noun] Smoky haze in the air. SMEAR (7) [noun] A mark made by smearing. | [noun] Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear. | [noun] A Pap smear. SMEEK (11) SMELL (7) [noun] A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. | [noun] The sense that detects odours. | [noun] A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate. SMELT (7) [noun] Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe. | [noun] A fool; a simpleton. | [verb] To sense a smell or smells. | [noun] Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal. SMERK (11) SMEWS (10) [noun] A small compact diving duck, Mergus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes. SMILE (7) [noun] A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety. | [noun] Favour; propitious regard. | [noun] A drink bought by one person for another. SMITE (7) [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To strike down or kill with godly force. | [verb] To injure with divine power. SMOKE (11) [noun] The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material. | [noun] A cigarette. | [noun] Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.) | [verb] To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. SMOTE (7) [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To strike down or kill with godly force. | [verb] To injure with divine power. SNAKE (9) [noun] A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue. | [noun] A treacherous person. | [noun] Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain. SNARE (5) [noun] A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather). | [noun] A mental or psychological trap. | [noun] A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal. SNEAK (9) [noun] One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information. | [noun] A cheat; a con artist. | [noun] An informer; a tell-tale. SNEAP (7) SNECK (11) [noun] A latch or catch. | [noun] The nose. | [noun] A cut. SNEDS (6) [verb] To lop. SNEER (5) [noun] A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn. | [noun] A display of contempt; scorn. | [verb] To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn SNELL (5) [adjective] Quick, smart; sharp, active, brisk or nimble; lively. | [adjective] Quick-witted; witty. | [adjective] Harsh; severe. | [noun] A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook or lure is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line. 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. SNIPE (7) [noun] Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak. | [noun] A fool; a blockhead. | [noun] A shot fired from a concealed place. | [noun] A cigarette butt. | [noun] A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm. SNORE (5) [noun] The act of snoring, and the noise produced. | [noun] An extremely boring person or event. | [verb] To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate. SNYES (8) SOAVE (8) SOBER (7) [verb] (often with up) To make or become sober. | [verb] (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication. | [verb] To moderate one's feelings SOCLE (7) [noun] A low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other artwork. | [noun] A plain face or plinth at the foot of a wall. | [noun] The sum of the minimal normal submodules of a given R-module of a given ring R. SOKES (9) [noun] Any of several medieval rights, either to hold a court, or to receive fines. | [noun] A district under a particular jurisdiction. 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. SOLEI (5) [noun] A broad, flat muscle that extends behind the gastrocnemius along the back of the calf. SOLES (5) [noun] A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall. | [noun] A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water. | [noun] The bottom or plantar surface of the foot. SOLVE (8) [noun] (chiefly law enforcement) A solution; an explanation. | [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. SONDE (6) [noun] Probe; sound. | [noun] (physical sciences) Any of various devices for testing physical conditions, often for remote or underwater locations. SONES (5) [noun] (acoustics) a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing SOOEY (8) SOREL (5) [noun] A young buck (deer) in the third year. | [noun] A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel. | [noun] Any of various plants with acidic leaves, especially SORER (5) [adjective] Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive. | [adjective] Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. | [adjective] Dire; distressing. SORES (5) [noun] An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin. | [noun] Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. | [noun] A group of ducks on land. SOUSE (5) [noun] Something kept or steeped in brine | [noun] The act of sousing; a plunging into water. | [noun] A person suffering from alcoholism. | [noun] The act of sousing, or swooping. | [noun] A sou (the French coin). SOWED (9) [verb] To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). | [verb] To spread abroad; to propagate. | [verb] To scatter over; to besprinkle. SOWER (8) SPACE (9) [noun] (heading) Of time. | [noun] (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise. | [noun] (heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise. 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. SPAED (8) [verb] To divine; foretell SPAES (7) [verb] To divine; foretell SPAKE (11) [adjective] Quiet; tame. | [adjective] Ready; prompt. | [verb] To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud. SPALE (7) SPARE (7) [noun] The act of sparing; moderation; restraint. | [noun] Parsimony; frugal use. | [noun] An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket. | [verb] To show mercy. SPATE (7) [noun] A river flood; an overflow or inundation. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden rush or increase. SPEAK (11) [noun] A low class bar, a speakeasy. | [noun] Language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group. | [noun] Speech, conversation. SPEAN (7) SPEAR (7) [noun] A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion. | [noun] A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman. | [noun] A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish. SPECK (13) [noun] A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc. | [noun] A very small thing; a particle; a whit. | [noun] A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States. | [noun] Fat; lard; fat meat. SPECS (9) [noun] Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of. | [noun] Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship. | [noun] Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts) 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. SPEEL (7) SPEER (7) SPEIL (7) SPEIR (7) SPELL (7) [noun] Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers. | [noun] A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula. | [noun] Speech, discourse. | [verb] To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort. | [noun] A shift (of work); a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour. | [noun] A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk. SPELT (7) [verb] To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort. | [verb] (sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. | [verb] To be able to write or say the letters that form words. | [noun] A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon. | [noun] A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter. SPEND (8) [noun] Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure. | [noun] (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money. | [noun] Discharged semen. SPENT (7) [verb] To pay out (money). | [verb] To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. | [verb] To squander. SPERM (9) [noun] The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon. | [noun] Semen; the generative substance of male animals. | [noun] Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti. SPEWS (10) [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 SPICE (9) [noun] Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food. | [noun] Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging. | [noun] A synthetic cannabinoid drug. SPIED (8) [verb] To act as a spy. | [verb] To spot; to catch sight of. | [verb] To search narrowly; to scrutinize. SPIEL (7) [noun] A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade. | [noun] An early form of rap music. | [verb] To talk at length. | [noun] A game of curling. SPIER (7) SPIES (7) [noun] A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage). | [verb] To act as a spy. | [verb] To spot; to catch sight of. SPIKE (11) [noun] In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument. | [noun] The spike of a cello or double bass that makes contact with the floor and supports the weight of the instrument. | [noun] A sort of very large nail. SPILE (7) [noun] A splinter. | [noun] A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask. | [noun] A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap. | [noun] A pile; a post or girder. | [verb] Spoil. SPINE (7) [noun] The series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a person, or from the head to the tail of an animal; backbone, vertebral column. | [noun] Something resembling a backbone, such as a ridge, or a long, central structure from which other structures radiate. | [noun] A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant. SPIRE (7) [noun] The stalk or stem of a plant. | [noun] A young shoot of a plant; a spear. | [noun] Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc. | [verb] To breathe. | [noun] One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. SPITE (7) [noun] Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice | [noun] Vexation; chagrin; mortification. | [verb] To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart. | [preposition] Notwithstanding; despite. SPODE (8) SPOKE (11) [noun] A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim. | [noun] A projecting handle of a steering wheel. | [noun] A rung of a ladder. | [verb] To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud. SPORE (7) [noun] A reproductive particle, usually a single cell, released by a fungus, alga, or plant that may germinate into another. | [noun] A thick resistant particle produced by a bacterium or protist to survive in harsh or unfavorable conditions. | [verb] To produce spores. SPREE (7) [noun] A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic. | [noun] Uninhibited activity. | [verb] To engage in a spree. SPRUE (7) [noun] A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis. | [noun] (founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. | [noun] (founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold. 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 SPUES (7) [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 SPUME (9) [noun] Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater. | [verb] To froth. SQUEG (15) STADE (6) STAGE (6) [noun] A phase. | [noun] A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given. | [noun] A floor or storey of a house. STAKE (9) [noun] A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay. | [noun] A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet. | [noun] A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off. STALE (5) [noun] Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh. | [verb] (of alcohol) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer). | [verb] To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption. | [noun] A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) | [noun] A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line. | [noun] (livestock) Urine, especially used of horses and cattle. | [noun] A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap. STANE (5) STARE (5) [noun] A persistent gaze. | [verb] (construed with at) To look fixedly (at something). | [verb] To influence in some way by looking fixedly. | [noun] A starling. STATE (5) [noun] A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. | [noun] High social standing or circumstance. | [noun] A polity. STAVE (8) [noun] One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc. | [noun] One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel | [noun] A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. STEAD (6) [noun] A place, or spot, in general. | [noun] A place where a person normally rests; a seat. | [noun] An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc. | [noun] One's partner in a romantic relationship. STEAK (9) [noun] Beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling. | [noun] (by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc. | [noun] (seafood) A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish. STEAL (5) [noun] The act of stealing. | [noun] A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price. | [noun] A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team. STEAM (7) [noun] The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase. | [noun] Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy. | [noun] Internal energy for motive power. STEED (6) [noun] A stallion, especially in the sense of mount. | [noun] A bicycle. STEEK (9) STEEL (5) [noun] An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness. | [noun] Any item made of this metal, particularly including: | [noun] Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment. | [proper noun] Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877. STEEP (7) [noun] The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity. | [adjective] Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical. | [adjective] Expensive | [noun] A liquid used in a steeping process STEER (5) [noun] A suggestion about a course of action. | [noun] A helmsman; a pilot. | [verb] To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). | [noun] The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production. STEIN (5) [noun] A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass. STELA (5) [noun] An obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone STELE (5) [noun] Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh. | [noun] A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) | [noun] The posts and rungs composing a ladder. | [noun] An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela. | [noun] The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome. STEMS (7) [noun] Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics. | [noun] An electron microscope that transmits a very narrow beam of electrons through a sample; it can detect individual large or heavy atoms. | [noun] A gleam of light; a flame. STENO (5) [noun] A stenographer, someone whose job is to take dictation in shorthand | [noun] Stenography STEPS (7) [noun] An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace. | [noun] A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder. | [noun] A distinct part of a process; stage; phase. STERE (5) [noun] A measure of volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to one cubic metre. STERN (5) [adjective] Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner. | [adjective] Grim and forbidding in appearance. | [noun] The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel. | [noun] A bird, the black tern. STETS (5) [verb] To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was. STEWS (8) [noun] A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron. | [noun] A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. | [noun] A brothel. 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. STIES (5) [noun] A pen or enclosure for swine. | [noun] A messy, dirty or debauched place. | [verb] To place in, or as if in, a sty STILE (5) [noun] A set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass. | [noun] A vertical component of a frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder. | [noun] Senses relating to a thin, pointed object. STIME (7) STIPE (7) [noun] The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc. | [noun] The trunk of a tree. | [noun] The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower STOAE (5) STOKE (9) [verb] To poke, pierce, thrust. | [verb] To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. | [verb] (by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion. | [noun] A unit of kinematic viscosity in the CGS system of units. 1 stokes = 1 cm2/s STOLE (5) [verb] To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else. | [verb] (of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement. | [verb] To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully. | [noun] An ecclesiastical garment consisting of a decorated band worn on the back of the neck with each end hanging over the chest. | [noun] A stolon. STONE (5) [noun] A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks. | [noun] A small piece of stone, a pebble. | [noun] A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond. STOPE (7) [noun] A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps. | [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. STORE (5) [noun] A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept. | [noun] A supply held in storage. | [noun] (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop. STOVE (8) [noun] A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. | [noun] A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker. | [noun] A hothouse (heated greenhouse). | [verb] To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. STREP (7) [noun] A strep throat. | [noun] A streptococcus. | [noun] Any of several plants of the genus Streptocarpus. the Cape primroses. STREW (8) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STUPE (7) [noun] A stupid person or (rarely) thing. | [noun] A hot, wet medicated cloth or sponge applied externally. | [verb] To foment with such a cloth or sponge. STYED (9) STYES (8) [noun] A ladder. | [noun] An inflammation of the eyelid. | [noun] A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid. STYLE (8) [noun] Senses relating to a thin, pointed object. | [noun] (by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good. | [noun] A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art. SUAVE (8) [noun] Sweet talk. | [adjective] Charming, confident and elegant. SUBER (7) SUCRE (7) [noun] The former currency of Ecuador, divided into 100 centavos. 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 SUERS (5) SUETS (5) SUETY (8) SUITE (5) [noun] A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage | [noun] A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together | [noun] A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access. SUPER (7) [adjective] Of excellent quality, superfine. | [adjective] Better than average, better than usual; wonderful. | [adverb] Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-). | [noun] Short for superannuation. SUPES (7) SURER (5) [adjective] Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable. | [adjective] Certain in one's knowledge or belief. | [adjective] Certain to act or be a specified way. SURGE (6) [noun] A sudden transient rush, flood or increase. | [noun] The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation | [noun] A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current. SWAGE (9) [noun] A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for cold shaping of a metal item. | [verb] To bend or shape through use of a swage. | [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). SWALE (8) [noun] A low tract of moist or marshy land. | [noun] A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline. | [noun] A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch. | [noun] A gutter in a candle. SWARE (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [noun] A swear word. SWEAR (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [noun] A swear word. | [verb] To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours. SWEAT (8) [noun] Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation. | [noun] The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis. | [noun] (especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced). | [verb] To emit sweat. 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. SWEEP (10) [noun] A single action of sweeping. | [noun] The person who steers a dragon boat. | [noun] A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew. SWEER (8) SWEET (8) [noun] The basic taste sensation induced by sugar. | [noun] A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy. | [noun] A food eaten for dessert. SWELL (8) [verb] To become bigger, especially due to being engorged. | [verb] To cause to become bigger. | [verb] To grow gradually in force or loudness. | [noun] The act of swelling; increase in size. | [adjective] Fashionable, like a swell or dandy. SWEPT (10) [verb] To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush. | [verb] To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke. | [verb] To search (a place) methodically. SWINE (8) [noun] (plural swine) A pig (the animal). | [noun] A contemptible person (plural swines). | [noun] A police officer; a "pig". | [noun] A female pig. SWIPE (10) [noun] A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep. | [noun] A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club. | [noun] An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it. SWIVE (11) [verb] To copulate with (a woman). | [verb] To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. SWORE (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. SYCEE (10) SYCES (10) [noun] A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses. | [noun] (Malaya) usually syce: chauffeur, driver. SYKES (12) SYREN (8) TABER (7) TABES (7) [noun] A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease. TABLE (7) [noun] Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. | [noun] A two-dimensional presentation of data. | [noun] The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate. TACES (7) TACET (7) TACHE (10) [noun] Moustache, mustache. | [noun] A spot, stain, or blemish. | [noun] Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button. TAELS (5) [noun] Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams. | [noun] Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver. | [noun] Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms TAJES (12) [noun] A tall brimless hat, usually conical or curved on top, worn in Muslim countries as a sign of distinction and prestige. | [noun] A crown worn by Indian princes as a sign of high rank. TAKEN (9) [verb] To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force. | [verb] To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc). | [verb] To remove. TAKER (9) [noun] One who takes something. | [noun] A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives. | [noun] One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something. TAKES (9) [noun] The or an act of taking. | [noun] Something that is taken; a haul. | [noun] An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective. TALER (5) TALES (5) [noun] Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams. | [noun] Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver. | [noun] Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms | [noun] A person available to fill vacancies in a jury. TAMED (8) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. TAMER (7) [adjective] Not or no longer wild; domesticated | [adjective] (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact | [adjective] Not exciting. TAMES (7) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. TAPED (8) [verb] To bind with adhesive tape. | [verb] To record, particularly onto magnetic tape. | [verb] (passive) To understand, figure out. TAPER (7) [noun] A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle | [noun] (by extension) a small light. | [noun] A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object | [noun] One who operates a tape machine. TAPES (7) [noun] Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. | [noun] Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. | [noun] Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race. TARED (6) TARES (5) [noun] A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa) | [noun] Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel. | [noun] A damaging weed growing in fields of grain. TARGE (6) [noun] A small shield | [noun] A tassel or pendant TARRE (5) TASSE (5) TASTE (5) [noun] One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation. | [noun] The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation. | [noun] A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs. TATER (5) [noun] A potato. | [noun] A home run TATES (5) TAUPE (7) [noun] A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin. | [adjective] Of a dark brownish-grey colour. TAWED (9) [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [verb] To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them. TAWER (8) TAWIE (8) TAWSE (8) [noun] A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically three) tails, used for corporal punishment in schools, applied to the palm of the hands or buttocks. | [verb] To beat with a tawse. TAXED (13) [verb] To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company). | [verb] To impose and collect a tax on (something). | [verb] To make excessive demands on. TAXER (12) TAXES (12) [noun] Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services. | [noun] A burdensome demand. | [noun] A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. | [noun] The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus. TAZZE (23) TEACH (10) [verb] To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate. | [verb] (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to. | [verb] To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher. | [noun] (usually as a term of address) teacher TEAKS (9) [noun] An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.). | [noun] A tree of the species in the genus Tectona | [noun] A yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood. TEALS (5) [noun] Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks. | [noun] A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan. TEAMS (7) [noun] A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. | [noun] Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work. | [noun] A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks. TEARS (5) [noun] A hole or break caused by tearing. | [noun] A rampage. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. TEARY (8) [adjective] Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry. | [adjective] Of eyes, filled with tears. TEASE (5) [noun] One who teases. | [noun] A single act of teasing. | [noun] One who deliberately arouses others (usually men) sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal. TEATS (5) [noun] The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted. | [noun] Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle. | [noun] An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants. TECHY (13) [adjective] Technical | [adjective] Easily annoyed or irritated; peevish, testy or irascible. TECTA (7) [noun] The dorsal portion of the midbrain of vertebrates; in mammals, containing the superior colliculus and inferior colliculus | [noun] The interconnected outer surface of a spore. 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. TEELS (5) TEEMS (7) [verb] To be stocked to overflowing. | [verb] To be prolific; to abound; to be rife. | [verb] To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. TEENS (5) [noun] A teenager. | [noun] Grief; sorrow; trouble. | [noun] Vexation; anger; hate. TEENY (8) [adjective] Very small; tiny. | [adjective] Fretful; peevish; cross TEETH (8) [noun] The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect. | [verb] To grow teeth. | [verb] To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth. TEFFS (11) TEGUA (6) TEIID (6) TEIND (6) TELAE (5) TELES (5) [noun] Television. | [noun] A television set. | [noun] A hotel or motel. TELEX (12) [noun] A communications system consisting of a network of teletypewriters. | [noun] A message sent through such a network. | [noun] The machine used to send and receive such messages. TELIA (5) TELIC (7) [adjective] Tending or directed towards a goal or specific end. | [adjective] (grammar) That expresses an end or purpose. | [adjective] That expresses the perfective aspect. TELLS (5) [noun] A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold. | [noun] That which is told; a tale or account. | [noun] A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper. TELLY (8) [noun] Television. | [noun] A television set. | [noun] A hotel or motel. TELOI (5) [noun] The aim or goal. TELOS (5) [noun] The aim or goal. TEMPI (9) [noun] A frequency or rate. | [noun] A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use for him (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another. | [noun] The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side. TEMPO (9) [noun] A frequency or rate. | [noun] A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use for him (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another. | [noun] The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side. TEMPS (9) [noun] A temporary employee, usually in an office. | [noun] A temporary storage location. | [verb] To work as a temporary employee. TEMPT (9) [verb] To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice. | [verb] To attract; to allure. | [verb] To provoke something; to court. TENCH (10) [noun] A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca. 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. TENET (5) [noun] An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization. TENIA (5) [noun] A ribbon worn in the hair in ancient Greece. | [noun] (Doric architecture) A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order. | [noun] Any of several ribbon-like bands of tissue. TENON (5) [noun] A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame. | [verb] To make into a tenon. | [verb] To fit with tenons. TENOR (5) [noun] A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto. | [noun] A person, instrument or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range. | [noun] A musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies. TENSE (5) [noun] (grammar) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. | [noun] (grammar) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense. | [noun] The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. | [verb] To make or become tense. TENTH (8) [noun] The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position. | [noun] One of ten equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third. TENTS (5) [noun] A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather. | [noun] The representation of a tent used as a bearing. | [noun] A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church. TENTY (8) TEPAL (7) [noun] Any component of the perianth (outermost whorls of flower parts, not involved in reproduction), especially when the components are not distinguished into sepals and petals. TEPAS (7) TEPEE (7) [noun] Alternative form of teepee TEPID (8) [adjective] Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool. | [adjective] Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness. TEPOY (10) TERAI (5) [noun] A belt of marshy land, which lies between the foothills of the Himalayas and the plains. | [noun] A terai hat. TERCE (7) [noun] The third hour of daylight (about 9 am). | [noun] The service appointed for this hour. | [noun] A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property. TERGA (6) [noun] The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod. TERMS (7) [noun] That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary. | [noun] A chronological limitation or restriction. | [noun] Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. TERNE (5) [noun] An alloy coating made of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin) and used to cover steel. TERNS (5) [noun] Any of various sea birds of the family Sternidae that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail. | [noun] That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together. | [noun] A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw. TERRA (5) [noun] (astrogeology) A rough upland or mountainous region of the Moon with a relatively high albedo. TERRY (8) [noun] A type of coarse cotton fabric covered in many small raised loops that is used to make towels, bathrobes and some types of nappy/diaper. TERSE (5) [adjective] (by extension) Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point. | [adjective] (by extension) Of manner or speech: abruptly or brusquely short; curt. | [adjective] Burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce. TESLA (5) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity. Symbol: T TESTA (5) [noun] A seed coat. | [noun] The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test. TESTS (5) [noun] A challenge, trial. | [noun] A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. | [noun] (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term. TESTY (8) [adjective] Easily annoyed, irritable. | [adjective] Marked by impatience or ill humor. TETHS (8) TETRA (5) [noun] Any of numerous species of small South American freshwater fish of the family Characidae, popular in home aquariums. TEUCH (10) TEUGH (9) TEWED (9) TEXAS (12) TEXTS (12) [noun] A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences. | [noun] A book, tome or other set of writings. | [noun] A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones. THANE (8) [noun] A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron. THEBE (10) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Botswanan pula. THECA (10) [noun] Any external case or sheath. | [noun] The pollen-producing organ usually found in pairs and forming an anther. | [noun] The twin layers of cells surrounding the basal lamina of an ovarian follicle. THEFT (11) [noun] The act of stealing property. THEGN (9) [noun] A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron. THEIN (8) THEIR (8) THEME (10) [noun] A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic. | [noun] A recurring idea; a motif. | [noun] An essay written for school. THENS (8) THERE (8) [noun] That place. | [noun] That status; that position. | [adverb] (location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here). THERM (10) [noun] A former unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units. Symbol: thm. THESE (8) [pronoun] The thing, item, etc. being indicated. THETA (8) [noun] The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ. | [noun] The measure of an angle. | [noun] The sensitivity of the value of a derivative with respect to time; the "time decay". THEWS (11) [noun] A bondman; a slave. | [verb] To oppress; enslave. | [noun] Muscle or sinew. THEWY (14) THIEF (11) [noun] One who carries out a theft. | [noun] One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence. | [noun] A waster in the snuff of a candle. THINE (8) [pronoun] Singular second person possessive pronoun; yours THOLE (8) [noun] The ability to bear or endure something; endurance, patience. | [verb] To suffer. | [verb] To endure, to put up with, to tolerate. | [noun] A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars. | [noun] A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus. THOSE (8) [pronoun] (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction. | [pronoun] The known (thing); used to refer to something just said. | [pronoun] (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question. THREE (8) [noun] The digit/figure 3. | [noun] Anything measuring three units, as length. | [noun] A person who is three years old. THREW (11) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. THROE (8) [noun] A pang, spasm. | [noun] (usually plural) A hard struggle. | [noun] A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow. THYME (13) [noun] Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as the garden thyme, Thymus vulgaris, a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups. 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. TIERS (5) [noun] One who ties (knots, etc). | [noun] Something that ties. | [noun] A child's apron. TIGER (6) [noun] Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia. | [noun] A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms. | [noun] A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress. | [noun] A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer. TIKES (9) [noun] A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida. | [noun] A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery. | [noun] A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement. 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. TILER (5) [noun] A person who sets tiles. | [noun] A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons. TILES (5) [noun] A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile etc. | [noun] A rectangular graphic. | [noun] Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong. TIMED (8) [verb] To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. | [verb] To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. | [verb] To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. TIMER (7) [noun] Someone or something which times. | [noun] A device used to measure amounts of time. | [noun] Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time. TIMES (7) [noun] The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. | [noun] A duration of time. | [noun] An instant of time. TINEA (5) [noun] A fungal infection of the skin, known generally as ringworm. TINED (6) TINES (5) [noun] A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb. | [noun] A small branch, especially on an antler or horn. | [noun] A wild vetch or tare. TINGE (6) [noun] A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing. | [noun] The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint. | [verb] To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing. TIRED (6) [verb] To become sleepy or weary. | [verb] To make sleepy or weary. | [verb] To become bored or impatient (with). TIRES (5) [verb] To become sleepy or weary. | [verb] To make sleepy or weary. | [verb] To become bored or impatient (with). TITER (5) [noun] The concentration of a substance as determined by titration. | [verb] To measure a concentration, especially by means of titration TITHE (8) [noun] A tenth. | [noun] The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. | [noun] A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church) | [noun] A boon (a grant or concession). TITLE (5) [noun] A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also | [noun] Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this. | [noun] In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice. TITRE (5) [noun] The strength or concentration of a solution that has been determined by titration. | [verb] To determine a titre, especially by titration TOGAE (6) TOGUE (6) TOILE (5) [noun] Plain or simple twilled fabric TOKED (10) [verb] To give a gratuity to. | [verb] To smoke marijuana. | [verb] To inhale a puff of marijuana TOKEN (9) [noun] Something serving as an expression of something else. | [noun] A keepsake. | [noun] A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services. TOKER (9) TOKES (9) [noun] (casinos) A gratuity. | [noun] A puff of marijuana. | [noun] A piece of bread. TOLED (6) TOLES (5) TOMES (7) [noun] One in a series of volumes. | [noun] A large or scholarly book. TONED (6) [verb] To give a particular tone to | [verb] To change the colour of | [verb] To make (something) firmer TONER (5) [noun] Powder used in laser printers and photocopiers to form the text and images on the printed paper. | [noun] Cosmetic lotion designed to cleanse the skin and shrink pores, usually used on the face. | [noun] A musician, particularly one that plays a wind instrument. TONES (5) [noun] A specific pitch. | [noun] (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second. | [noun] (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody. TONEY (8) TONNE (5) [noun] A metric unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. Symbol: t | [noun] A score of 100. TOPED (8) [verb] To drink excessively; to get drunk. TOPEE (7) [noun] A pith helmet. TOPER (7) TOPES (7) [verb] To drink excessively; to get drunk. | [noun] A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout. | [noun] A grove of trees. TOPHE (10) TOQUE (14) [noun] A type of hat with no brim. | [noun] (specifically) A tall white hat with no brim of the sort worn by chefs | [noun] (by extension) A chef. | [noun] A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel. | [noun] A rhythm used in Latin music, especially Cuban religious rituals. TORES (5) [noun] The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane. | [noun] The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring. | [noun] A topological space which is a product of two circles. TORSE (5) [noun] A twist of cloth or wreath underneath and forming part of a crest; an orle, a wreath. It is customarily shown with six twists, the first tincture being the tincture of the field, the second the tincture of the metal, and so on. | [noun] The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs. TORTE (5) [noun] A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau). TOTED (6) [verb] To carry or bear. | [verb] To add up; to calculate a total. TOTEM (7) [noun] Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family. | [noun] The representation of such object or creature. | [noun] The clan whose kinship is defined in reference to such an object or creature. TOTER (5) TOTES (5) [noun] A tote bag. | [noun] A heavy burden. | [noun] (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods. | [adverb] To the fullest extent or degree. TOUSE (5) TOWED (9) TOWEL (8) [noun] A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath. | [verb] To hit with a towel. | [verb] To dry by using a towel. TOWER (8) [noun] A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast. | [noun] A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc. | [noun] A water tower. | [verb] To be very tall. | [noun] One who tows. TOWIE (8) TOYED (9) [verb] To play (with) in an idle or desultory way. | [verb] To ponder or consider. | [verb] To stimulate with a sex toy. TOYER (8) TRACE (7) [noun] An act of tracing. | [noun] An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package. | [noun] A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal. | [verb] To follow the trail of. 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. TRAVE (8) TREAD (6) [verb] To step or walk (on or over something); to trample. | [verb] To step or walk upon. | [verb] To beat or press with the feet. | [noun] A step taken with the foot. TREAT (5) [noun] An entertainment, outing, food, drink, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others. | [noun] An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure. | [noun] A snack food item designed to be given to pets. 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. TREEN (5) [noun] Fast growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem. | [noun] A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage. | [noun] Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense). | [noun] Household articles made of wood. | [noun] A territorial division in the Isle of Man. TREES (5) [noun] Fast growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem. | [noun] A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage. | [noun] Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense). TREKS (9) [noun] A journey by ox wagon. | [noun] The Boer migration of 1835-1837. | [noun] A slow or difficult journey. TREND (6) [noun] An inclination in a particular direction. | [noun] A tendency. | [noun] A fad or fashion style. | [noun] Clean wool. TRESS (5) [noun] A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet. | [noun] A long lock of hair | [noun] (by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers. TRETS (5) TREWS (8) [noun] Trousers, especially if close fitting and tartan. TREYS (8) [noun] A playing card or die with the rank of three. | [noun] A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes. | [noun] A three-pointer. TRIBE (7) [noun] A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people. | [noun] A society larger than a band but smaller than a state. | [noun] A group of apes who live and work together. TRICE (7) [verb] To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply. | [verb] To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope. | [noun] Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; an instant, a moment. | [noun] A pulley, a windlass. 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. TRIER (5) [noun] One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard. | [noun] An instrument used for sampling something. | [noun] One who tries judicially. TRIES (5) [noun] An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings. | [noun] An attempt. | [noun] An act of tasting or sampling. TRIKE (9) [noun] A tricycle. | [noun] A three-wheeled motorbike. | [noun] A kind of railroad maintenance vehicle: a speeder or jigger. | [noun] A triceratops. TRINE (5) [noun] A group of three things. | [noun] An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart. | [verb] To put in the aspect of a trine. TRIPE (7) [noun] The lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food. | [noun] The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural. | [noun] (chiefly plural) Something disparaged as valueless, especially written works and popular entertainment (movies, television). TRITE (5) [adjective] Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed. | [adjective] So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law. | [noun] A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater. TRODE (6) TROKE (9) TRONE (5) TROPE (7) [noun] Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif. | [noun] A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor. | [noun] Mathematical senses. TROVE (8) [noun] A treasure trove; a collection of treasure. | [noun] A collection of things. TRUCE (7) [noun] A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties | [noun] An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time TRUED (6) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. TRUER (5) [adjective] (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct. | [adjective] Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate. | [adjective] Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result. TRUES (5) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. TSADE (6) TSKED (10) TUBAE (7) TUBED (8) [verb] To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. | [verb] To ride an inner tube. | [verb] To intubate. TUBER (7) [noun] A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot. | [noun] A thickened rootstock. | [noun] A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body. TUBES (7) [noun] Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. | [noun] An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances. | [noun] (often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.) TULES (5) [noun] Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus | [noun] A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin TULLE (5) [noun] A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc. 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. TUNER (5) [noun] A person who tunes a piano or organ. | [noun] A device, electronic or mechanical, that helps a person tune a musical instrument by showing the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch. | [noun] On a musical instrument, a peg or mechanical device that changes the tension, and hence pitch, of a string. | [noun] (entertainment industry) A musical. TUNES (5) [noun] A melody. | [noun] A song, or short musical composition. | [noun] The act of tuning or maintenance. TUQUE (14) [noun] A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel. | [noun] A watch cap. TUTEE (5) [noun] A student of a tutor. TUXES (12) [noun] A tuxedo. TUYER (8) TWAES (8) TWEAK (12) [noun] A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch. | [noun] A slight adjustment or modification. | [noun] Trouble; distress; tweag. TWEED (9) [noun] A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing. TWEEN (8) [noun] An action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening. | [verb] To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement. | [noun] A person in their twenties, between 20 and 29 years old. Possibly including 30-32. | [noun] A child, usually a girl, in the age range between young childhood and adolescence, normally between eight and thirteen years of age. TWEET (8) [noun] The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle. | [noun] An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. | [verb] To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds. TWERP (10) [noun] A fool, a twit. | [noun] A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. | [noun] A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling). TWICE (10) [adverb] Two times. | [adverb] (usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree. TWIER (8) TWINE (8) [noun] A twist; a convolution. | [noun] A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string. | [noun] The act of twining or winding round. | [verb] To weave together. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide. TWYER (11) [noun] A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge TYEES (8) TYERS (8) TYKES (12) [noun] A mongrel dog. | [noun] A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one | [noun] A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement TYNED (9) TYNES (8) 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. TYPES (10) [noun] A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. | [noun] An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc. | [noun] An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment. TYPEY (13) TYRED (9) TYRES (8) [noun] The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid. | [noun] The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railway vehicle. | [verb] To fit tyres to (a vehicle). TYTHE (11) 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. UKASE (9) [noun] An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor. | [noun] Any absolutist order or arrogant proclamation ULCER (7) [noun] An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection. | [noun] Peptic ulcer | [noun] Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character. ULEMA (7) [noun] An educated scholar of Islamic law; a member of the ulema class ULNAE (5) [noun] The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate. UMBEL (9) [noun] A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre. UMBER (9) [noun] A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides. | [noun] A grayling. | [noun] A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop. UMPED (10) [verb] To act as an umpire. UNCLE (7) [noun] The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The male cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A companion to one's (usually unmarried) mother. 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. 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. UNITE (5) [noun] A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, first produced during the reign of King James I, and bearing a legend indicating the king's intention of uniting the kingdoms of England and Scotland. | [verb] To bring together as one. | [verb] To come together as one. UNLED (6) UNLET (5) [adjective] (of property) Not let (not in temporary possession in return for rent) UNMET (7) [adjective] Not met; unfulfilled; not achieved UNMEW (10) UNPEG (8) [verb] To remove from a peg. UNPEN (7) UNSET (5) [verb] To make not set. | [adjective] Not set; not fixed or appointed. | [adjective] Not mounted or placed in a setting. UNSEW (8) UNSEX (12) [verb] To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics. | [verb] To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate. UNTIE (5) [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. | [verb] To resolve; to unfold; to clear. UNWED (9) [noun] One who is not married; a bachelor or a spinster. | [verb] To annul the marriage of. | [verb] To separate. UPBYE (12) 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. UPPER (9) [noun] A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite. | [noun] The upper portion of something | [noun] Someone with higher social standing UPSET (7) [noun] Disturbance or disruption. | [noun] An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win. | [noun] (automobile insurance) An overturn. URAEI (5) [noun] A representation of the sacred asp, symbolising supreme power in ancient Egypt. URARE (5) URASE (5) URATE (5) [noun] Any salt of uric acid. UREAL (5) UREAS (5) UREDO (6) UREIC (7) 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. URGER (6) [noun] One who urges. URGES (6) [noun] A strong desire; an itch to do something. | [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. URINE (5) [noun] Liquid waste consisting of water, salts and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra. | [verb] To urinate. URSAE (5) USAGE (6) [noun] The manner or the amount of using; use. | [noun] Habit or accepted practice. | [noun] The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis. USERS (5) [noun] One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser. | [noun] A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs. | [noun] A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account. USHER (8) [noun] A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats. | [noun] A male escort at a wedding. | [noun] A doorkeeper in a courtroom. USNEA (5) USQUE (14) UTERI (5) [noun] The womb, an organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth. UTILE (5) [noun] A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction. | [adjective] Useful. UTTER (5) [adjective] Outer; furthest out, most remote. | [adjective] Outward. | [adjective] Absolute, unconditional, total, complete. | [verb] To produce (speech or other sounds) with one's voice. UVEAL (8) UVEAS (8) [noun] The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris. VAGUE (9) [noun] A wandering; a vagary. | [noun] An indefinite expanse. | [verb] To wander; to roam; to stray. VALES (8) [noun] A valley. VALET (8) [noun] A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance. | [noun] A hotel employee performing such duties for guests. | [noun] (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience. VALSE (8) [noun] A waltz. VALUE (8) [noun] The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. | [noun] The degree of importance given to something. | [noun] That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system. VALVE (11) [noun] A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe. | [noun] A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit. | [noun] One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction VANED (9) VANES (8) [noun] A weather vane | [noun] Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid | [noun] The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft VARVE (11) [noun] An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock. VASES (8) [noun] An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers. | [noun] The body of the Corinthian capital. VEALS (8) VEALY (11) VEENA (8) [noun] A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music. VEEPS (10) [noun] (US politics) The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination. | [noun] Any vice president (in a corporation, organization, etc.) VEERS (8) [noun] A turn or swerve; an instance of veering. VEERY (11) [noun] An American thrush (Catharus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. VEGAN (9) [noun] A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products | [noun] A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism. | [adjective] (of a product or practice, especially food) Not containing animal products (meat, eggs, milk, leather, etc) or inherently involving animal use. VEGIE (9) [noun] A vegetable. | [noun] A vegetarian. VEILS (8) [noun] Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material. | [noun] A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense. | [noun] The calyptra of mosses. VEINS (8) [noun] A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart. | [noun] (in plural) The entrails of a shrimp. | [noun] In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle. VEINY (11) VELAR (8) [noun] A sound articulated at the soft palate | [adjective] Articulated at the velum or soft palate. | [adjective] Referring to a veil or velum. 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. VELUM (10) [noun] A thin membrane, resembling a veil, such as: | [noun] An accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance. Normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus. VENAE (8) VENAL (8) [adjective] Venous; pertaining to veins. | [adjective] For sale; available for purchase. | [adjective] Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit. VENDS (9) [verb] To hawk or to peddle merchandise. | [verb] To sell wares through a vending machine. VENGE (9) VENIN (8) VENOM (10) [noun] A poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging. | [noun] Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice; vitriol. | [verb] To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. VENTS (8) [noun] An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. | [noun] A small aperture. | [noun] The opening of a volcano from which lava flows. VENUE (8) [noun] A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events. | [noun] A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid, or the district from which a jury comes. | [noun] A bout; a hit; a turn. See venew. VERBS (10) [noun] (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state. | [noun] Any word; a vocable. | [noun] An action as opposed to a trait or thing. VERGE (9) [noun] A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. | [noun] An edge or border. | [noun] The phallus. | [verb] To be or come very close; to border; to approach. VERSE (8) [noun] A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme. | [noun] Poetic form in general. | [noun] One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed. | [verb] To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game. VERSO (8) [noun] The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal; | [noun] The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number. VERST (8) [noun] A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about 2/3 of a mile. VERTS (8) [noun] A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise. | [noun] Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer. | [noun] The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest. VERTU (8) [noun] The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities. | [noun] Objets d'art collectively. | [noun] Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power. VERVE (11) [noun] Excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing | [noun] Artistic energy and enthusiasm | [noun] Vigour, vitality and liveliness VESTA (8) [noun] A short match, made of wood or wax VESTS (8) [noun] A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries. | [noun] A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat. | [noun] A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse. VETCH (13) [noun] Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds | [noun] Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae VEXED (16) [verb] To trouble aggressively, to harass. | [verb] To annoy, irritate. | [verb] To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. VEXER (15) VEXES (15) [verb] To trouble aggressively, to harass. | [verb] To annoy, irritate. | [verb] To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. VEXIL (15) VIBES (10) [noun] A vibraphone. | [noun] Vibration. | [noun] A vibrator (sex toy). VICED (11) VICES (10) [noun] A bad habit. | [noun] Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs. | [noun] A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness. 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. VIERS (8) VIEWS (11) [noun] (physical) Visual perception. | [noun] A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch. | [noun] (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination. VIEWY (14) VILER (8) [adjective] Morally low; base; despicable. | [adjective] Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid. VIMEN (10) VINED (9) VINES (8) [noun] The climbing plant that produces grapes. | [noun] Any plant of the genus Vitis. | [noun] (by extension) Any similar climbing or trailing plant. VIPER (10) [noun] A venomous snake in the family Viperidae. | [noun] A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person. | [noun] A person who smokes marijuana. VIREO (8) [noun] Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage. | [noun] Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireo, greenlets and peppershrikes. | [noun] (in plural) The family Vireonidae. VIRES (8) VISED (9) VISES (8) [noun] An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing. | [verb] To clamp with or as with a vise. | [verb] To examine and endorse (a passport, etc.); to visa. VITAE (8) VIXEN (15) [noun] A female fox. | [noun] A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman. | [noun] A racy or salacious woman. VOCES (10) VOGIE (9) VOGUE (9) [noun] The prevailing fashion or style. | [noun] Popularity or a current craze. | [noun] A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s. VOICE (10) [noun] Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character | [noun] Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants. | [noun] The tone or sound emitted by an object | [verb] To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce VOILE (8) [noun] A light, translucent cotton fabric used for making curtains and dresses. VOLED (9) VOLES (8) [noun] Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats. | [noun] A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks. VOLTE (8) [noun] A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated). | [noun] A volte | [noun] A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet. VOMER (10) [noun] The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils. 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 VOTER (8) [noun] Someone who votes. VOTES (8) [noun] A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities | [noun] An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot | [noun] An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer 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. VOWEL (11) [noun] A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable. | [noun] A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. | [verb] To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic) VOWER (11) WACKE (14) [noun] A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt. 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. WAFER (11) [noun] A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie. | [noun] (christianity) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion. | [noun] A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc. WAGED (10) [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. | [verb] To employ for wages; to hire. WAGER (9) [noun] Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. | [noun] That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. | [noun] A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. | [noun] Agent noun of wage; one who wages. WAGES (9) [noun] (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour. | [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. WAIVE (11) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). | [verb] To move from side to side; to sway. | [noun] A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman. WAKED (13) [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. | [verb] (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep. | [verb] To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. WAKEN (12) [verb] To wake or rouse from sleep. | [verb] To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir. WAKER (12) WAKES (12) [noun] The act of waking, or state of being awake. | [noun] The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. | [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. WALED (9) WALER (8) [noun] A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse. | [noun] (structural engineering) A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress. WALES (8) [noun] A ridge or low barrier. | [noun] A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course). | [noun] The texture of a piece of fabric. WAMES (10) WANED (9) [verb] To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline. | [verb] Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength. | [verb] Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible. WANES (8) [noun] A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc. | [noun] The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth. | [noun] The end of a period. WANEY (11) WARED (9) [verb] To be ware or mindful of something. | [verb] To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary. | [verb] To wear, or veer. WARES (8) [noun] (usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use. | [noun] (in the plural) See wares. | [noun] Pottery or metal goods. WASTE (8) [noun] Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish. | [noun] Excrement or urine. | [noun] A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert. | [adjective] Uncultivated, uninhabited. | [verb] To devastate, destroy WATER (8) [noun] A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam. | [noun] The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy. | [noun] Water in a body; an area of open water. | [verb] To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants). WAVED (12) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAVER (11) [noun] An act of wavering, vacillating, etc. | [noun] Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc. | [noun] Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment). WAVES (11) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAVEY (14) WAXED (16) [verb] To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. | [verb] To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply. | [verb] To defeat utterly. WAXEN (15) [adjective] Grown. | [verb] To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. | [verb] To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply. | [adjective] Made of wax; covered with wax. WAXER (15) WAXES (15) [noun] Beeswax. | [noun] Earwax. | [noun] Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters. WEALD (9) WEALS (8) [noun] A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt. WEANS (8) WEARS (8) [verb] To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc. | [verb] To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. | [verb] To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. WEARY (11) [verb] To make or to become weary. | [adjective] Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued. | [adjective] Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick. WEAVE (11) [noun] A type or way of weaving. | [noun] Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair. | [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To move by turning and twisting. WEBBY (15) WEBER (10) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb. WECHT (13) 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. WEEKS (12) [noun] Any period of seven consecutive days. | [noun] A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday. | [noun] A period of five days beginning with Monday. WEENS (8) [verb] To suppose, imagine; to think, believe. | [verb] To expect, hope or wish. | [verb] To weep or cry. WEENY (11) [adjective] Minuscule. | [noun] A wiener, a hot dog. | [noun] A penis, from the resemblance to a wiener, sometimes thought of as small by influence from teeny weeny WEEPS (10) [verb] To cry; shed tears. | [verb] To lament; to complain. | [verb] (of a wound or sore) To produce secretions. WEEPY (13) [noun] A sad or sentimental film, often portraying troubled romance, designed to elicit a tearfully emotional response from its audience. | [adjective] Inclined to weep; tearful or lachrymose. WEEST (8) [verb] To waste. | [adjective] Small, little. WEETS (8) WEFTS (11) [noun] The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric. | [noun] The yarn used for the weft; the fill. | [noun] (hairdressing) A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair. WEIGH (12) [verb] To determine the weight of an object. | [verb] Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale. | [verb] To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. WEIRD (9) [noun] Fate; destiny; luck. | [noun] A prediction. | [noun] A spell or charm. WEIRS (8) [noun] An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream. | [noun] A fence placed across a river to catch fish. WEKAS (12) [noun] The woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand. WELCH (13) [noun] A person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one. | [verb] To fail to repay a small debt. | [verb] To fail to fulfill an obligation. 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. WELLS (8) [noun] A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. | [noun] A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring. | [noun] A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects. WELLY (11) [noun] Wellington boot. | [noun] Force on a pedal or increase to any fuel or power for an engine or motor. | [noun] Force or effort. | [adverb] Almost; nearly. WELSH (11) [verb] To swindle someone by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt. WELTS (8) [verb] To roll; revolve | [noun] A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow; a wheal or weal. | [noun] (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling. WENCH (13) [noun] (possibly offensive) A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one. | [noun] Used as a term of endearment for a female person, especially a wife, daughter, or girlfriend: darling, sweetheart. | [noun] A woman servant; a maidservant. 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. WENNY (11) WESTS (8) WETLY (11) WHALE (11) [noun] Any of several species of large sea mammals of the infraorder Cetacea. | [noun] Something, or someone, that is very large. | [noun] Something, or someone, that is excellent. | [verb] To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly. WHEAL (11) [verb] To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt. | [verb] To give a surface a texture of wales or welts. | [verb] To choose, select. | [noun] A mine. WHEAT (11) [noun] Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery. | [noun] A light brown colour, like that of wheat. | [adjective] Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat. WHEEL (11) [noun] A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. | [noun] The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture. | [noun] A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel. WHEEN (11) [noun] A little; a small number. | [noun] A quantity; a goodly number. WHEEP (13) WHELK (15) [noun] Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe. | [noun] Pimple | [noun] A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale. WHELM (13) [noun] A surge of water. | [verb] To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge. | [verb] To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. WHELP (13) [noun] A young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub. | [noun] An insolent youth; a mere child. | [noun] A kind of ship. | [verb] (of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth. | [interjection] Well, typically used in exasperation. WHENS (11) WHERE (11) [noun] The place in which something happens. | [adverb] Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: at what place; to what place; what place. | [adverb] In what situation. WHETS (11) [verb] To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone. | [verb] To stimulate or make more keen. | [verb] To preen. WHEWS (14) WHEYS (14) WHILE (11) [noun] An uncertain duration of time, a period of time. | [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. WHINE (11) [noun] A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound | [noun] A complaint or criticism | [verb] To utter a high-pitched cry. WHITE (11) [noun] The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths. | [noun] A person of European descent with light-coloured skin. | [noun] Any butterfly of the family Pieridae. WHOLE (11) [noun] Something complete, without any parts missing. | [noun] An entirety. | [adjective] Entire, undivided. WHORE (11) [noun] Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood. | [noun] A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage. | [noun] A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut. WHOSE (11) [pronoun] (interrogative) That or those of whom or belonging to whom. | [pronoun] (relative) That or those of whom or belonging to whom. 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 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) WIFES (11) WILED (9) [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. | [verb] To loiter. WILES (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice WINCE (10) [noun] A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away. | [noun] A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will. | [verb] To flinch as if in pain or distress. WINED (9) [verb] To entertain with wine. | [verb] To drink wine. WINES (8) [noun] An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes. | [noun] An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine". | [noun] A serving of wine. WINEY (11) WINZE (17) [noun] A steep shaft in a mine which joins two levels. 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. WIPER (10) [noun] Someone who wipes. | [noun] Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping. | [noun] Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping. WIPES (10) [noun] The act of wiping something. | [noun] A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping. | [noun] A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape. 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. WIRER (8) WIRES (8) [noun] Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die. | [noun] A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable. | [noun] A metal conductor that carries electricity. WISED (9) [verb] To become wise. | [verb] Usually with "up", to inform or learn. | [verb] To instruct. WISER (8) [adjective] Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience. | [adjective] Disrespectful. | [adjective] Aware, informed. WISES (8) [noun] Way, manner, method. WITED (9) WITES (8) WITHE (11) [noun] A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy. | [noun] A band of twisted twigs. | [noun] An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows. WIVED (12) [verb] To marry (a woman). | [verb] To provide (someone) with a wife. WIVER (11) WIVES (11) [noun] A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse. | [noun] The female of a pair of mated animals. | [noun] An adult female human. WIZEN (17) [verb] To wither; to become, or make, lean and wrinkled by shrinkage, as from age or illness. | [adjective] Wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness. WIZES (17) WODGE (10) [noun] A bulk quantity, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad. WOKEN (12) [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. WOMEN (10) [noun] An adult female human. | [noun] (collective) All females collectively; womankind. | [noun] A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc. 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. WOOER (8) WORSE (8) [adjective] Unfavorable; negative; not good. | [adjective] Not suitable or fitting. | [adjective] Not appropriate, of manners etc. WOVEN (11) [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. WOWED (12) [verb] To amaze or awe. WREAK (12) [verb] To cause something harmful; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injury; to let out something harmful; . | [verb] To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite. | [verb] To inflict or take vengeance on. | [noun] Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. WRECK (14) [noun] Something or someone that has been ruined. | [noun] The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down. | [noun] An event in which something is damaged through collision. WRENS (8) [noun] Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; true wren. | [noun] Small bird of similar appearance to a true wren. WREST (8) [noun] The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion. | [noun] A key to tune a stringed instrument. | [noun] Active or motive power. | [noun] A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined. | [noun] A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself. WRIED (9) WRIER (8) [adjective] Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). | [adjective] Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. | [adjective] Twisted, bent, crooked. WRIES (8) WRITE (8) [noun] The act or style of writing. | [noun] The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk. | [verb] To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate. WROTE (8) [verb] To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate. | [verb] To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.). | [verb] To send written information to. WRYER (11) [adjective] Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). | [adjective] Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. | [adjective] Twisted, bent, crooked. WYLED (12) WYLES (11) WYTED (12) WYTES (11) XEBEC (16) [noun] A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern. XENIA (12) XENIC (14) XENON (12) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Xe) with an atomic number of 54. It is a colorless, odorless, unreactive noble gas, used notably in camera flash technology. XERIC (14) [adjective] Extremely dry, lacking humidity and water. | [adjective] Adapted to live in a very dry habitat. XEROX (19) [noun] A photocopy. | [noun] A photocopier. | [verb] To make a paper copy or copies by means of a photocopier. XERUS (12) XYLEM (17) [noun] A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood. YAGER (9) YAMEN (10) YARER (8) 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. YEANS (8) [verb] (of goats or sheep) To give birth to. YEARN (8) [verb] To long, have a strong desire (for something). | [verb] To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically. | [verb] To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone). | [verb] To curdle, as milk. | [noun] Yearning; yen. YEARS (8) [noun] A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference). | [noun] (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star. | [noun] A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar. YEAST (8) [noun] An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines. | [noun] A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families. | [noun] A frothy foam. YECCH (15) [noun] An exclamation of disgust. | [interjection] An exclamation of disgust. YECHS (13) YECHY (16) YEGGS (10) [noun] A person who breaks open safes; a burglar. YELKS (12) YELLS (8) [noun] A shout. | [noun] A phrase to be shouted. | [verb] Shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice. YELPS (10) [noun] An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance. | [noun] A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail. | [verb] To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise. YENTA (8) [noun] A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger. | [noun] (Jewish) A matchmaker; a woman who specializes in finding spouses. YENTE (8) YERBA (10) [noun] Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage mate. YERKS (12) [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. YESES (8) [noun] An affirmative expression; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance. | [noun] A vote of support or in favor/favour of something. | [verb] To agree with, affirm, approve. YETIS (8) [noun] An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas YETTS (8) YEUKS (12) YEUKY (15) 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. YIKES (12) [interjection] Expression of shock and alarm. | [interjection] Expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances. YINCE (10) YIPES (10) [interjection] Expression of shock and alarm. | [interjection] Expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances. YLEMS (10) 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. YODLE (9) YOGEE (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. YOKEL (12) [noun] An unsophisticated person. | [noun] A person of rural background. YOKES (12) [noun] Frame around the neck, and related senses. | [noun] Pair of harnessed draught animals, and related senses. | [noun] Extended uses and quantities. YORES (8) YOUSE (8) [pronoun] You (plural). | [pronoun] You (singular). YOWED (12) YOWES (11) YOWIE (11) YULES (8) ZAIRE (14) [noun] The unit of currency of Zaire. ZAXES (21) [noun] A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing. ZAZEN (23) [noun] A form of seated meditation in Zen Buddhism. ZEALS (14) ZEBEC (18) [noun] A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern. ZEBRA (16) [noun] Any of three species of genus Equus: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa. | [noun] A referee. | [noun] An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".) ZEBUS (16) [noun] A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos primigenius indicus). ZEINS (14) ZERKS (18) ZEROS (14) [noun] The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero. | [noun] The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems. | [noun] Nothing, or none. ZESTS (14) [noun] The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish. | [noun] General vibrance of flavour. | [noun] (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto. ZESTY (17) ZETAS (14) [noun] The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ, ζ) preceded by epsilon (Ε, ε) and followed by eta, (Η, η); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ, ϝ) | [noun] A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function. ZIBET (16) ZINEB (16) [noun] An organic fungicide and insecticide sprayed on cereal grasses, fruit trees, etc. ZLOTE (14) ZOEAE (14) ZOEAL (14) ZOEAS (14) 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. ZONER (14) ZONES (14) [noun] Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles). | [noun] Any given region or area of the world. | [noun] A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc. ZOWIE (17) [interjection] An indication of astonishment or admiration. ZYMES (19)