7 Letter Countdown Words Ending With 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 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. 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. CUE (5) 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. 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. 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. EME (5) [noun] (obsolete outside Scotland) An uncle. | [noun] Friend. 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. 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. 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). 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) 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 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. 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) JOE (10) [noun] A male; a guy; a fellow. | [noun] Coffee. | [noun] Darling, sweetheart. KAE (7) KUE (7) 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. 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) NAE (3) 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. 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. 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. 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. 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) REE (3) 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) 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. 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) 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. 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 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) 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.) 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. ZEE (12) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter Z. | [noun] Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Sleep.

ABBE (8) [noun] A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey. | [noun] An honorific title for a member of the French clergy. 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). 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. AGEE (5) 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 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. ALEE (4) [adverb] On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather) 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. AMIE (6) [noun] A female friend (French origin, used in English). 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. 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. 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. AWEE (7) 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. 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. BENE (6) 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. 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. 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. 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). BRIE (6) [noun] A variety of soft, mild French cheese made from cow's milk. BUTE (6) [noun] Phenylbutazone. 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! CEDE (7) [verb] To give up; yield to another. | [verb] To give way. CEPE (8) [noun] An edible fungus with a brown cap and white pores, also known as a porcini mushroom. 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. CETE (6) [noun] A group of badgers. 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 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. 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. 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. 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 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 DEME (7) [noun] A township or other subdivision of ancient Attica. | [noun] A distinct local population of plants or animals. DENE (5) [noun] A valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet | [noun] A sand dune by the seashore DERE (5) [noun] Hurt; harm; injury. | [verb] To hurt; harm; injure; wound. | [verb] To annoy, trouble, grieve. | [noun] That place. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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) 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. 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: EAVE (7) [noun] Eaves: the underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building. ECHE (9) 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. EIDE (5) 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. EPEE (6) [noun] A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing. ERNE (4) [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) | [noun] An eagle. | [verb] To long; to yearn. EYNE (7) EYRE (7) [noun] A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere). 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. FEME (9) FERE (7) 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). FICE (9) 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. FLEE (7) [verb] To run away; to escape. | [verb] To escape from. | [verb] To disappear quickly; to vanish. 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 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. FROE (7) [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [noun] A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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) 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. 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. HEBE (9) [noun] A Jew. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.) 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) IDLE (5) [noun] An idle animation. | [noun] An idle game. | [verb] To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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) KIBE (10) [noun] A chilblain or ulcer, especially on the heel of the foot. 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. KORE (8) [noun] An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle. 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. LEKE (8) 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. 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) 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. NENE (4) [noun] The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957. NEVE (7) [noun] Nephew. | [noun] A male cousin. | [noun] A grandson. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 OWSE (7) 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. PEKE (10) [noun] A Pekingese dog. PELE (6) 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. 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. PLIE (6) [noun] A smooth and continuous bending of the knees 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) 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. PYRE (9) [noun] A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned. | [noun] Any heap or pile of combustibles. 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. REDE (5) [noun] Help, advice, counsel. | [noun] Decision, a plan. | [verb] To govern, protect. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. SENE (4) [noun] Senna. | [noun] A unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a Samoan tala. 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. 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) 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. 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 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 STYE (7) [noun] A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid. | [noun] A ladder. | [noun] An inflammation of the eyelid. 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) 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) TELE (4) [noun] Television. | [noun] A television set. | [noun] A hotel or motel. 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. 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. 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. 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). 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) 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. UNBE (6) UNDE (5) 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. 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. 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. 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) 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. 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. 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. WHEE (10) [interjection] An expression of pleasure or enjoyment, mostly from rapid physical motion. 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. 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. WYLE (10) WYTE (10) YARE (7) [adjective] Ready; prepared. | [adjective] Ready, alert, prepared, prompt. | [adjective] Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble. YIPE (9) [interjection] Used to express surprise, fear, or dismay. 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 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)

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. ABELE (7) [noun] The white poplar (Populus alba). ABIDE (8) [verb] To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere. | [verb] To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand. | [verb] To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for. ABODE (8) [verb] To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere. | [verb] To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand. | [verb] To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for. | [noun] An omen; a foretelling. 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 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. ALONE (5) [adjective] By oneself, solitary. | [adjective] Apart from, or exclusive of, others. | [adjective] Considered separately. 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. 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. 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-) 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. ANELE (5) [verb] To anoint; to give extreme unction with oil. 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. 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. ANTRE (5) [noun] A cave or cavern. APACE (9) [adverb] Quickly, rapidly, with speed. 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. AQUAE (14) [noun] Plural of aqua, meaning waters or bodies of water, used in Latin phrases and scientific nomenclature. AREAE (5) [noun] Plural of area; multiple regions or surfaces. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. AXILE (12) [adjective] Relating to or situated on an axis. AXITE (12) 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. 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. 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. BARBE (9) BARDE (8) [noun] A piece of armor for a horse. | [verb] To cover a horse with armor. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. BENNE (7) [noun] Sesame. BERME (9) 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. BIKIE (11) [noun] A motorcyclist who is a member of a club; a biker. 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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. 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. BOITE (7) [noun] A nightclub or small theater, especially in France; a box or case. 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. BONNE (7) [noun] A French nursemaid. BONZE (16) [noun] A Buddhist monk or priest in East Asia. BOOZE (16) [noun] Any alcoholic beverage. | [noun] A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party. | [verb] To drink alcohol. BORNE (7) [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To support, sustain, or endure. | [verb] To support, keep up, or maintain. 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. BOWSE (10) [verb] To haul or pull with a rope, especially in nautical contexts. | [verb] To drink heavily or carouse. 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. 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. BREDE (8) [noun] A broad piece of cloth or embroidery. | [noun] Breadth or width. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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) 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. 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. 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. 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. CAVIE (10) [noun] A guinea pig, especially as used in laboratory experiments. CEASE (7) [noun] Cessation; extinction (see without cease). | [verb] To stop. | [verb] To stop doing (something). CENSE (7) [verb] To perfume with incense. | [noun] A census. | [noun] A public rate or tax. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. COMTE (9) [noun] A French nobleman or count. 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. 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. COPSE (9) [noun] A thicket of small trees or shrubs. | [verb] To trim or cut. | [verb] To plant and preserve. CORSE (7) [noun] A (living) body. | [noun] A dead body, a corpse. 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. 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. COXAE (14) [noun] The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example). 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 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. 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. CRUSE (7) [noun] A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water. | [noun] An oil lamp or similar emblem. 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. 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. 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. 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. DAUBE (8) [noun] A stew of braised meat, usually beef. DEAVE (9) 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. DEICE (8) 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. DENSE (6) [noun] A thicket. | [adjective] Having relatively high density. | [adjective] Compact; crowded together. 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. DEXIE (13) DHOLE (9) [noun] An Asian wild dog, Cuon alpinus. DIDIE (7) DIENE (6) [noun] An organic compound, especially a hydrocarbon, containing two double bonds. DINGE (7) DIODE (7) [noun] An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier. 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) DOBIE (8) DODGE (8) [noun] An act of dodging. | [noun] A trick, evasion or wile. | [noun] A line of work. 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. DONEE (6) [noun] Someone who receives a gift from a donor. DONNE (6) 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. 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) 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) 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. 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. DUPLE (8) [adjective] Double. | [adjective] Having two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure. | [adjective] Having two beats in each foot. DWINE (9) 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 EDILE (6) 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. EERIE (5) [adjective] Strange, weird, fear-inspiring. | [adjective] Frightened, timid. ELATE (5) [verb] To make joyful or proud. | [verb] To lift up; raise; elevate. | [adjective] Elated; exultant 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. 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. 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. EMCEE (9) [noun] A rapper. | [noun] Initialism of main colour. | [noun] Initialism of matching colour. 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. EMYDE (11) ENATE (5) 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). 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. 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. 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. 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. ERODE (6) [verb] To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction. | [verb] To destroy gradually by an ongoing process. EROSE (5) ETAPE (7) ETUDE (6) [noun] A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill. ETWEE (8) 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. 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. 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 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. EYRIE (8) [noun] The nest of a bird of prey. | [noun] Any high and remote but commanding place. 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. 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. 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. 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. FARLE (8) FAUVE (11) FEASE (8) FEAZE (17) FEEZE (17) 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. 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. FESSE (8) [noun] A horizontal band across the middle of the shield. 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. FICHE (13) [noun] A microfiche FIDGE (10) FILLE (8) FIQUE (17) 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. FLITE (8) 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. FLYTE (11) 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. 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. 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. FRERE (8) FRISE (8) 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. FUZEE (17) [noun] A light musket or firelock. | [noun] A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks. | [noun] A large friction match. 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. GAMBE (10) 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. 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. GELEE (6) 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. GENRE (6) [noun] A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks. GEODE (7) [noun] A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall. GESTE (6) GIGHE (10) GIGUE (7) [noun] An Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period). GIMME (10) [noun] That which is easily obtained, or certain to occur. 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. 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) 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. GREBE (8) [noun] Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes. GRIDE (7) 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. GRUME (8) [noun] A thick semisolid | [noun] A clot (of blood) 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. GURGE (7) HALVE (11) [verb] To reduce to half the original amount. | [verb] To divide into two halves. | [verb] To make up half of. 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. HASTE (8) [noun] Speed; swiftness; dispatch. | [noun] Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence. | [verb] To urge onward; to hasten. HAUTE (8) 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). 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. 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. HEEZE (17) 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. 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 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. HOISE (8) 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). 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. HOYLE (11) 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. 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. 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) 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). INGLE (6) [noun] An open fireplace. | [noun] A catamite. | [noun] A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart. | [noun] A male lover. 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 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. IRONE (5) 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. 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. JAMBE (16) JESSE (12) 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 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) 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. 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. 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. KIBBE (13) 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. 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. KOINE (9) [noun] A lingua franca. | [noun] A regional language that becomes standard over time. KOPJE (18) [noun] A small hill or mound (especially on the African veld). 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. 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. KYTHE (15) 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. 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. LAPSE (7) [noun] A temporary failure; a slip. | [noun] A decline or fall in standards. | [noun] A pause in continuity. LAREE (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. 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. 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. 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. 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. LENSE (5) LEONE (5) [noun] A unit of currency of Sierra Leone, divided into 100 cents. LETHE (8) 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. LIANE (5) [noun] A climbing woody vine, usually tropical. 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. LIEVE (8) LISLE (5) [noun] A type of strong cotton thread, or a cloth woven from such thread. 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. LIVRE (8) 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. 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. 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). 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. LOWSE (8) LUCRE (7) [noun] Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner. 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. LYASE (8) [noun] Any of many classes of enzyme that catalyze the breaking of a specific form of bond LYCEE (10) [noun] A public secondary school in France. 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) 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. MAMIE (9) 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 MARGE (8) [noun] Margin; edge; verge. | [noun] Margarine. MARSE (7) MASSE (7) 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. MAVIE (10) MAYBE (12) [noun] Something that is possibly true. | [noun] An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement. | [noun] A future event that may or may not happen. 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. MENSE (7) MERDE (8) [noun] (quaint) shit MERGE (8) [noun] The joining together of multiple sources. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. MERLE (7) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MESNE (7) [noun] A mesne lord. | [adjective] Intermediate. 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. 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 MILLE (7) 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. 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. 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. 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. MONDE (8) 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. 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. MORAE (7) MORSE (7) [noun] A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative. | [noun] A walrus. MOSTE (7) 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. 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. 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. MOXIE (14) [noun] Nerve, spunk, strength of character. | [noun] Verve. | [noun] Wit, smarts, skill. MURRE (7) [noun] Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks). MYOPE (12) [noun] One who has myopia. NACRE (7) [noun] A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl. | [noun] A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl. NAIVE (8) [noun] A naive person; a greenhorn. | [adjective] Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated. | [adjective] Not having been exposed to something. 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. 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. 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 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. NEWIE (8) [noun] Something newly released, such as a song or film. NGWEE (9) [noun] A currency of Zambia, one hundredth of a kwacha. 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. 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) NITRE (5) [noun] Native sodium carbonate; natron. | [noun] A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making gunpowder. 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. NOISE (5) [noun] Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant. | [noun] Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations. | [noun] Unwanted part of a signal. 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. 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. NOVAE (8) [noun] Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star. 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. 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. 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. OBOLE (7) 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. ODYLE (9) 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. 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. 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. 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. OORIE (5) 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 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. 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) OUTRE (5) [adjective] Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant. | [adjective] Very unconventional. OVATE (8) [adjective] Shaped like an egg. | [adjective] (of leaves) With the broadest extremity near the base. | [noun] An Irish bard. 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. 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) 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. PADLE (8) PADRE (8) [noun] A military clergyman | [noun] A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. PAYEE (10) [noun] One to whom money is paid. 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. PEAGE (8) 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. PEEVE (10) [noun] An annoyance or grievance. | [verb] To annoy; vex. PEISE (7) PEKOE (11) [noun] A high-quality black tea made using young leaves, grown in Sri Lanka, India, Java and the Azores. 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. PENNE (7) [noun] A type of short, diagonally cut pasta. PERSE (7) [noun] A dark blue-gray colour. | [noun] A cloth of this colour. | [adjective] Dark greyish blue or purple. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. POOVE (10) [noun] Less common variant of poof (male homosexual). 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. 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. PRESE (7) 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. 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. 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. PSOAE (7) 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. 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. 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) 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). 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. RAGEE (6) 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. RAKEE (9) RAMEE (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. RAPHE (10) [noun] A ridge or seam on an organ, bodily tissue, or other structure, especially at the join between two halves or sections. RATHE (8) [adjective] Ripening or blooming early. | [adverb] Quickly. | [adverb] Early in the morning. RAZEE (14) 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. REBBE (9) [noun] The spiritual leader of a Chassidic Jewish community. RECCE (9) [noun] Reconnaissance. | [verb] Reconnoitre. | [adjective] Relating to reconnaissance. REDYE (9) 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. 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. RENTE (5) RESEE (5) RETIE (5) [verb] To tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied before. 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). REVUE (8) [noun] A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied. Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs. 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. 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. 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. RILLE (5) [noun] A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies. 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. ROBLE (7) ROGUE (6) [noun] A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person. | [noun] A mischievous scamp. | [noun] A vagrant. ROOSE (5) ROQUE (14) [noun] A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard surface ROTTE (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. 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. RUFFE (11) [noun] Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish. | [noun] Other species in the same genus. RUGAE (6) 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). 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. SADHE (9) SAICE (7) 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. 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 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. 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 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 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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.). SELLE (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 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. 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). SETAE (5) [noun] A bristle or hair | [noun] The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort. 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. 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. 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. SHUTE (8) 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. 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. 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. 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. SIREE (5) [noun] (used as an intensifier, emphatically, after yes or no) Sir. SIXTE (12) [noun] The sixth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at eye level. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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) 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. 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. 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. 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. SOAVE (8) 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. 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. 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). 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. 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. 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. 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. SPUME (9) [noun] Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater. | [verb] To froth. 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. 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. STERE (5) [noun] A measure of volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to one cubic metre. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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) 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. 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. 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. TAUPE (7) [noun] A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin. | [adjective] Of a dark brownish-grey colour. 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. TAZZE (23) 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. TELAE (5) 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. TEPEE (7) [noun] Alternative form of teepee 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. TERNE (5) [noun] An alloy coating made of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin) and used to cover steel. 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. 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. 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. 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). THESE (8) [pronoun] The thing, item, etc. being indicated. 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. 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. TILDE (6) [noun] The grapheme of character ~. | [noun] The character used to represent negation, usually ~ or ¬. 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. 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 TONNE (5) [noun] A metric unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. Symbol: t | [noun] A score of 100. TOPEE (7) [noun] A pith helmet. 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. 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). TOUSE (5) TOWIE (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) 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. 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 TSADE (6) TUBAE (7) TULLE (5) [noun] A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc. 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. TWICE (10) [adverb] Two times. | [adverb] (usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree. 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. TYTHE (11) UKASE (9) [noun] An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor. | [noun] Any absolutist order or arrogant proclamation 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. 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) 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. 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. 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. UPBYE (12) URARE (5) URASE (5) URATE (5) [noun] Any salt of uric acid. 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. USQUE (14) UTILE (5) [noun] A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction. | [adjective] Useful. VAGUE (9) [noun] A wandering; a vagary. | [noun] An indefinite expanse. | [verb] To wander; to roam; to stray. 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 VARVE (11) [noun] An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock. VEGIE (9) [noun] A vegetable. | [noun] A vegetarian. VENAE (8) VENGE (9) 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. 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. 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 VITAE (8) 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. 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. WACKE (14) [noun] A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. WINZE (17) [noun] A steep shaft in a mine which joins two levels. 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. WODGE (10) [noun] A bulk quantity, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad. WORSE (8) [adjective] Unfavorable; negative; not good. | [adjective] Not suitable or fitting. | [adjective] Not appropriate, of manners etc. 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. YENTE (8) YINCE (10) YODLE (9) YOGEE (9) YOUSE (8) [pronoun] You (plural). | [pronoun] You (singular). YOWIE (11) ZAIRE (14) [noun] The unit of currency of Zaire. ZLOTE (14) ZOEAE (14) ZOWIE (17) [interjection] An indication of astonishment or admiration.

ABDUCE (11) ABJURE (15) [verb] To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow. | [verb] To cause one to renounce or recant. | [verb] To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim. ABLATE (8) [verb] To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization. | [verb] To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature. ABLAZE (17) [adjective] Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire. | [adjective] Radiant with bright light and color. | [adjective] In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. ABRADE (9) [verb] To rub or wear off; erode. | [verb] To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate. | [verb] To irritate by rubbing; chafe. | [verb] To wrench (something) out. ACCEDE (11) [verb] To approach; to arrive, to come forward. | [verb] To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of. | [verb] To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way. ACCRUE (10) [noun] Something that accrues; advantage accruing | [verb] To increase, to rise | [verb] To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent. ACCUSE (10) [noun] Accusation. | [verb] To find fault with, blame, censure | [verb] (followed by "of") to charge with having committed a crime or offence ACHENE (11) [noun] A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup. ACNODE (9) [noun] An isolated point on a curve that is not connected to any other part of the curve. ACTIVE (11) [noun] A person or thing that is acting or capable of acting. | [noun] Any component that is not passive. See Passivity (engineering). | [adjective] Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives. ACUATE (8) [verb] To sharpen or make acute; to point or taper. | [adjective] Sharpened; pointed; made acute. ADDUCE (10) [verb] To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. ADHERE (10) [verb] To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united. | [verb] To be attached or devoted by personal union, in belief, on principle, etc. | [verb] To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree. ADJURE (14) [verb] To issue a formal command. | [verb] To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly. ADMIRE (9) [verb] To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at. | [verb] To regard with wonder and delight. | [verb] To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence. ADNATE (7) [adjective] Linked or fused to a structure of a type different from itself; for example, attachment of a stamen to a petal is adnate, while attachment of a stamen to another stamen is connate. | [adjective] Growing with one side adherent to a stem; applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals. in fish, having the eyes fused and unable to rotate independently ADVICE (12) [noun] An opinion offered in an effort to be helpful. | [noun] Deliberate consideration; knowledge. | [noun] (commonly in plural) Information or news given; intelligence ADVISE (10) [verb] To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed. | [verb] To recommend; to offer as advice. | [verb] To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated. AEDILE (7) [noun] An elected official who was responsible for the maintenance of public buildings, regulation of festivals, supervision of markets and the supply of grain and water. AEDINE (7) AERATE (6) [verb] To supply with oxygen or air. AEROBE (8) [noun] Any organism (but especially a bacterium) that can tolerate the presence of oxygen, or that needs oxygen to survive. AFFINE (12) [noun] (genealogy) A relative by marriage, an in-law. | [verb] To refine. | [adjective] Assigning finite values to finite quantities. AFLAME (11) [adjective] In flames, on fire, flaming, with flames coming from it | [adjective] Showing anger or contempt AGAPAE (9) [noun] Plural of agape, referring to Christian love or brotherly love, or plural of agape referring to a type of mollusk shell. AGLARE (7) [adjective] In a glaring state; glowing or shining brightly. | [adverb] In a glaring manner; so as to glare. AGNATE (7) [noun] A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family. | [noun] Any paternal male relative. | [adjective] Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family. AGNIZE (16) [verb] To recognise; to acknowledge. AGORAE (7) [noun] A place for gathering. | [noun] A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece. AGRAFE (10) [noun] A clasp or buckle used to fasten garments or armor. | [noun] In architecture, an ornamental clasp or fastening device. AHORSE (9) [adverb] On or mounted upon a horse. ALBITE (8) [noun] A plagioclase feldspar, the first member of the Albite-Anorthite solid solution series. ALCADE (9) ALCOVE (11) [noun] A small recessed area set off from a larger room. | [noun] A shady retreat. ALDOSE (7) ALIBLE (8) ALKANE (10) [noun] Any acyclic saturated hydrocarbon (e.g., methane, ethane, etc.). ALKENE (10) [noun] An unsaturated, aliphatic hydrocarbon with one or more carbon–carbon double bonds ALKINE (10) ALKYNE (13) [noun] A hydrocarbon containing at least one carbon–carbon triple bond. ALLEGE (7) [verb] To state under oath, to plead. | [verb] To cite or quote an author or his work for or against. | [verb] To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc. | [verb] To lighten, diminish. ALLELE (6) [noun] One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome. ALLUDE (7) [verb] To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion. ALLURE (6) [noun] The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction. | [noun] Gait; bearing | [verb] To entice; to attract. ALMUCE (10) ALMUDE (9) ALPINE (8) [noun] Any of several plants, native to mountain habitats, often grown in a rock garden | [adjective] Of, relating to, or inhabiting mountains, especially above the timber line | [adjective] Of or relating to slalom and downhill skiing. (Compare Nordic.) ALSIKE (10) [noun] Trifolium hybridum, a species of clover with pinkish or white flowers. ALULAE (6) [noun] A small projection of three or four feathers on the first digit of the wing on some birds. ALVINE (9) AMBAGE (11) AMEBAE (10) [noun] A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. | [noun] The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. | [noun] An asexual. AMERCE (10) [verb] To impose a fine on; to fine. | [verb] To punish; to make an exaction. AMMINE (10) [noun] A coordination compound formed by the combination of ammonia with a metal salt or other compound. AMPERE (10) [noun] A unit of electrical current, the standard base unit in the International System of Units; colloquially amp. Abbreviation: amp, Symbol: A AMPULE (10) [noun] A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection. ANANKE (10) [noun] In Greek mythology, the goddess of necessity and inevitability; also used to denote an inescapable force or necessity. ANCONE (8) [noun] A projecting corner stone or bracket used in architecture to support a cornice or vault. ANLACE (8) [noun] A medieval dagger or short sword worn at the belt. ANLAGE (7) [noun] A primordium, the initial clustering of embryonic cells from which a body part develops. | [noun] An allele, a specific version of a gene (as used by Gregor Mendel). | [noun] Temperament, the predominant personality type. ANNEXE (13) [noun] An addition, an extension. | [noun] An appendix to a book or document. | [noun] An addition or extension to a building. ANOMIE (8) [noun] Alienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values. ANSATE (6) [adjective] Having a handle or loop-shaped projection, especially describing an architectural feature or design element such as an ansate cross. ANYONE (9) [pronoun] Any person; anybody. AORTAE (6) [noun] Plural of aorta, the main artery carrying blood from the heart. APACHE (13) [noun] Any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American southwest excluding Navajo, i.e. Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache. | [noun] A person belonging to an Apache people. | [noun] A Parisian gangster of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. APIECE (10) [adverb] Each by itself; for or to each one APLITE (8) [noun] A fine-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of quartz and feldspar, typically occurring as veins in granite. APOGEE (9) [noun] The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is furthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter. | [noun] (more generally) The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet: the apoapsis of any satellite. | [noun] (possibly obsolete outside astrology) The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is furthest from the Earth. APPOSE (10) [verb] To interrogate; to question. | [verb] To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose. | [verb] To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). ARABLE (8) [adjective] (of land) Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths). | [adjective] (NGO jargon, of land) Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards). ARBUTE (8) [noun] A Mediterranean evergreen shrub or small tree bearing strawberry-like fruits. ARCADE (9) [noun] A row of arches. | [noun] A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides. | [noun] An establishment that runs coin-operated games. ARCANE (8) [adjective] Understood by only a few. | [adjective] (by extension) Obscure, mysterious. | [adjective] Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand. AREOLE (6) [noun] The smallest enclosures created by the veins of a leaf. | [noun] Bump on a cactus out of which grow clusters of spines. ARGYLE (10) [noun] A pattern of diamond-shaped areas on a solid background; used especially of knitwear | [noun] A sock having this pattern ARIOSE (6) [adjective] Having a melody or tune; characterized by or resembling an aria. ARKOSE (10) [noun] A sedimentary rock consisting of small fragments of feldspar and quartz similar to a coarse sand. ARMURE (8) AROUSE (6) [verb] To stimulate feelings. | [verb] To sexually stimulate. | [verb] To wake from sleep or stupor. ARRIVE (9) [verb] To reach; to get to a certain place. | [verb] To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed. | [verb] To come; said of time. ARSINE (6) [noun] A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having an odor like garlic. | [noun] Any organic derivative of this compound, or of diarsane, triarsane etc. ASHORE (9) [adverb] On the land as opposed to onboard. | [adverb] On, or towards the shore. ASLOPE (8) [adjective] Slanted or sloping | [adverb] Slanted or sloping ASPIRE (8) [verb] To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something. | [verb] To go as high as, to reach the top of (something). | [verb] To move upward; to be very tall. ASSIZE (15) [noun] A session or inquiry made before a court or jury. | [noun] The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors. | [noun] An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business. ASSUME (8) [verb] To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof | [verb] To take on a position, duty or form | [verb] To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate ASSURE (6) [verb] To make sure and secure. | [verb] (followed by that or of) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something). | [verb] To guarantee, promise (to do something). ASTUTE (6) [adjective] Quickly and critically discerning. | [adjective] Shrewd or crafty. ATTIRE (6) [noun] (clothing) One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes. | [noun] The single horn of a deer or stag. | [verb] To clothe or adorn. ATTUNE (6) [verb] To bring into musical accord. | [verb] To tune (an instrument). | [verb] To bring into harmony or accord. AUBADE (9) [noun] A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn. | [noun] A morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning. AUDILE (7) [noun] A person whose mental imagery consists of sounds. | [adjective] Pertaining to hearing. AUGITE (7) [noun] A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt. AUNTIE (6) [noun] The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The female cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. AURATE (6) [adjective] Made of or containing gold, or having the color of gold. AVENGE (10) [noun] An act of vengeance; a revenge. | [verb] To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. | [verb] To take vengeance. AVENUE (9) [noun] A broad street, especially one bordered by trees. | [noun] A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit. | [noun] The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. AVERSE (9) [verb] To turn away. | [adjective] Having a repugnance or opposition of mind. | [adjective] Turned away or backward. AVIATE (9) [verb] To operate an aircraft. AVULSE (9) [verb] To tear off forcibly. AWHILE (12) [adverb] For some time; for a short time. | [adverb] (Pennsylvania Dutch English, US) In the meantime; during an implicit ongoing process. AXLIKE (17) [adjective] Resembling or shaped like an ax. BABBLE (12) [noun] Idle talk; senseless prattle | [noun] Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. | [noun] A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions. BACCAE (12) BADDIE (10) [noun] A person of bad character in a work of fiction. BAFFLE (14) [noun] A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether. | [noun] An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable. | [noun] (coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine. BAGGIE (10) [noun] A small bag, especially a small, clear, plastic bag. BAILEE (8) [noun] One who holds bailed property; one who takes possession of the property of another (called a bailor) in order to keep that property safe for the other. BAILIE (8) [noun] A bailiff. | [noun] The chief magistrate of a Scottish barony or part of a county, with functions like a sheriff's. | [noun] A municipal officer in Scotland corresponding to an English alderman. BANGLE (9) [noun] A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp. | [verb] To beat about or beat down, as corn by the wind. | [verb] To waste away little by little; squander carelessly; fritter (away). | [noun] The cut branch of a tree; a large, rough stick; the largest piece of wood in a bundle of twigs BAREGE (9) [noun] A type of gauzy fabric used for making dresses, originally made in Barèges. BARGEE (9) [noun] A crewman of a working barge. BARITE (8) [noun] A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO4. BARMIE (10) [adjective] Infested with barm or yeast; fermenting. | [adjective] British slang for foolish or crazy. BARQUE (17) [noun] A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged | [noun] Any small sailing vessel | [noun] A sailing vessel or boat of any kind BARYTE (11) [noun] A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO4. BASQUE (17) [noun] The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist. | [noun] A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature. BATTLE (8) [noun] A contest, a struggle. | [noun] A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement. | [noun] A division of an army; a battalion. | [verb] To nourish; feed. BATTUE (8) [noun] A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc. | [noun] A hunt performed in this manner. BAUBEE (10) BAUBLE (10) [noun] A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw. | [noun] A club or sceptre carried by a jester. | [noun] A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees. BAWBEE (13) [noun] A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny. | [noun] A copper; a small amount of money. BAWTIE (11) BEADLE (9) [noun] A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order | [noun] (ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister | [noun] A warrant officer BEAGLE (9) [noun] A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet. | [noun] A person who snoops on others; a detective. | [noun] A bailiff. BEANIE (8) [noun] A cap that fits the head closely, usually knitted from wool. | [noun] A head-hugging brimless cap, with or without a visor, made from triangular sections of cloth, leather, or silk joined by a button at the crown and seamed together around the sides. | [noun] A Beanie Baby, a small soft toy filled with beans or similar stuffing. BECAME (12) [verb] To arrive, come (to a place). | [verb] To come about; happen; come into being; arise. | [verb] Begin to be; turn into. BECOME (12) [verb] To arrive, come (to a place). | [verb] To come about; happen; come into being; arise. | [verb] Begin to be; turn into. BEEBEE (10) BEETLE (8) [noun] A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011) | [noun] Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest. | [noun] A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts. | [verb] To loom over; to extend or jut. | [noun] A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc. BEFORE (11) [adverb] At an earlier time. | [adverb] In advance. | [adverb] At the front end. BEGAZE (18) [verb] To gaze at; to look steadily or intently upon. BEGONE (9) [interjection] Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away. | [verb] To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun. | [verb] To clothe, dress. BEHAVE (14) [verb] To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way. | [verb] To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. | [verb] To conduct, manage, regulate (something). BEHOVE (14) [verb] To befit, to suit. | [verb] To be necessary for (someone). | [verb] To be in the best interest of; to benefit. BELIKE (12) [verb] To make like; simulate. | [verb] To be like; resemble. | [noun] An object of affection or liking. | [adverb] Likely, probably, perhaps, haply. BELIVE (11) BEMIRE (10) [verb] To soil with mud or a similar substance. | [verb] To immerse or trap in mire. BEMUSE (10) [verb] To confuse or bewilder. | [verb] To devote to the Muses. BENAME (10) [verb] To name or call by a particular name. | [verb] To suit or befit. BENDEE (9) BERAKE (12) BERATE (8) [verb] To chide or scold vehemently BERIME (10) BESIDE (9) [adverb] Otherwise; else. | [preposition] Next to; at the side of. | [preposition] Not relevant to. BETAKE (12) [verb] To beteach. | [verb] To take over to; take across (to); deliver. | [verb] To seize; lay hold of; take. BETIDE (9) [verb] To happen unto; to befall. | [verb] To happen; to take place; to bechance or befall. BETIME (10) BETISE (8) [noun] A foolish or stupid action; a blunder or silly mistake. BEWARE (11) [verb] (defective) To use caution, pay attention to (used both with and without of). BIFACE (13) [noun] A double-sided stone tool BIGEYE (12) [noun] Any fish in the taxonomic family Priacanthidae, which have large eyes. | [noun] Any of certain fish or shark species identified by their large eyes, in particular bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus. BIGGIE (10) [noun] Something large in size in comparison to similar things. | [noun] Something impressive in comparison to similar things. | [noun] (chiefly in the negative) Big deal. BILLIE (8) BINATE (8) [verb] To perform bination; to hold Mass twice on the same day. | [adjective] Double; growing in pairs or couples. BINDLE (9) [noun] A bundle carried by a hobo, typically containing personal belongings tied in cloth and carried on a stick. BIRDIE (9) [noun] (diminutive) A (little) bird; a birdling; a child's term for a bird. | [noun] The completion of a hole one stroke below par. | [noun] A shuttlecock. BIREME (10) [noun] (history) an ancient galley having two banks of oars, one above the other. BIRKIE (12) [noun] A golf score of one stroke under par on a hole. BISQUE (17) [noun] A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables. | [noun] A pale pinkish brown colour. | [noun] A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit. | [noun] An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed. BISTRE (8) [noun] A brown pigment made from soot, especially from beech wood. | [noun] A mid-to-dark brown color resembling the pigment. BIZONE (17) [noun] A region divided into two zones, specifically referring to the combined American and British occupation zones in Germany after World War II. BLENDE (9) [noun] Sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc) BLITHE (11) [adjective] (dated or literary) Happy, cheerful. | [adjective] Casually indifferent, careless, showing a lack of concern. BLONDE (9) [noun] A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color. | [noun] A person with this hair color. | [adjective] Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour. BLOOIE (8) BLOUSE (8) [noun] A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist. | [noun] A shirt for women, particularly a shirt with buttons; a dress shirt tailored for women. | [noun] A loose-fitting uniform jacket. | [noun] A prostitute. BLUNGE (9) [verb] To mix clay and water. BOBBLE (12) [noun] A furry ball attached on top of a hat. | [noun] Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie | [noun] A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes). BOCCIE (12) [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. BODICE (11) [noun] A sleeveless shirt for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves. | [noun] Blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or European folk costume. | [noun] The upper portion of a women's one-piece dress, equivalent to a shirt. BOGGLE (10) [noun] A scruple or objection. | [noun] A bungle; a botched situation. | [verb] Either literally or figuratively to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle. | [noun] A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear. BOLETE (8) [noun] A type of fruiting body produced by certain fungus species in the order Boletales, especially those of genus Boletus, many of which are prized for their flavour; any species of said order that produces such a fruiting body. BOLIDE (9) [noun] An extremely bright meteor. | [noun] Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth. | [noun] A fireball. BONNIE (8) [adjective] Merry; happy. | [adjective] Beautiful; pretty; attractive. | [adjective] Fine, good (often used ironically). BOOBIE (10) [noun] A seabird of tropical and subtropical oceans, typically with dark and white plumage. | [noun] A foolish or stupid person. BOODLE (9) [noun] Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag. | [noun] The whole collection or lot; caboodle. BOOGIE (9) [noun] A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity. | [noun] A black person. | [noun] Dancing usually prominently exhibiting movements of the buttocks. BOOKIE (12) [noun] A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar. BOOTEE (8) [noun] A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet. | [noun] A thick sock worn under a wetsuit. | [noun] An overshoe or sock worn to cover dirty shoes or feet. BOOTIE (8) [noun] A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet. | [noun] A thick sock worn under a wetsuit. | [noun] An overshoe or sock worn to cover dirty shoes or feet. BORAGE (9) [noun] Borago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored leaves, used in salads. BORANE (8) [noun] Any binary compound of boron and hydrogen. BORATE (8) [noun] The oxyanion BO33- or any of several more complex derivatives | [noun] A salt or ester formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical BORIDE (9) [noun] The B3− anion | [noun] Any binary compound of boron and a more electropositive element BOSQUE (17) [noun] A thicket or small woods, especially in Spain or Spanish America. BOTTLE (8) [noun] A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids. | [noun] The contents of such a container. | [noun] A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle. | [noun] A dwelling; habitation. BOUCLE (10) [noun] A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls. | [noun] Yarn with multiple plies, one of which is looser than the others, producing loops and curls. BOUFFE (14) [noun] Food or a meal, especially one that is hearty or abundant. | [noun] Comic or farcical entertainment, particularly in opera (opéra bouffe). BOUGIE (9) [noun] A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie. | [noun] A wax candle. | [adjective] (usually derogatory) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery). BOULLE (8) [noun] A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works. | [noun] Furniture having ornamentation of this kind. BOUNCE (10) [noun] A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle. | [noun] A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly. | [noun] An email return with any error. BOURNE (8) [noun] A boundary. | [noun] A goal or destination. | [noun] A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally. BOURSE (8) [noun] A stock exchange. | [noun] A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged. | [noun] The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots. BOVINE (11) [noun] An animal of the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cattle, buffaloes and bison. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to cattle. | [adjective] Belonging to the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cows, buffalo, and bison. BRAISE (8) [noun] A dish (usually meat) prepared by braising. | [noun] A sauce used for braising. | [verb] To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling. | [noun] Pagellus bogaraveo, syn. Pagellus centrodontus (sea bream) BRAIZE (17) [verb] To cook meat or vegetables slowly in a closed pot with a small amount of liquid. | [verb] An alternative spelling of "braise." BREEZE (17) [noun] A light, gentle wind. | [noun] Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult. | [noun] Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength. | [noun] A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae. BRIBEE (10) [noun] A person who receives a bribe. BRIDGE (10) [noun] A construction or natural feature that spans a divide. | [noun] An arch or superstructure. | [noun] A connection, real or abstract. | [noun] A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each. BRIDLE (9) [noun] The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins. | [noun] A restraint; a curb; a check. | [noun] A length of line or cable attached to two parts of something to spread the force of a pull, as the rigging on a kite for attaching line. BROCHE (13) [noun] A decorative clasp or pin worn on clothing. | [noun] A spit or skewer for roasting meat. BROGUE (9) [noun] A strong dialectal accent. In Ireland it used to be a term for Irish spoken with a strong English accent, but gradually changed to mean English spoken with a strong Irish accent as English control of Ireland gradually increased and Irish waned as the standard language. | [noun] A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips. | [noun] A heavy shoe of untanned leather. | [verb] To fish for eels by disturbing the waters. BRONZE (17) [noun] A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals. | [noun] A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze. | [noun] A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture. BROWSE (11) [noun] Young shoots and twigs. | [noun] Fodder for cattle and other animals. | [verb] To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand. BRUISE (8) [noun] A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow. | [noun] A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface. | [verb] To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it. BUBALE (10) [noun] A large African antelope with long curved horns, also called a hartebeest. BUBBLE (12) [noun] A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid. | [noun] A small spherical cavity in a solid material. | [noun] (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere. BUCKLE (14) [verb] To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression. | [verb] To make bend; to cause to become distorted. | [verb] To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person). | [noun] A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap. BUDDLE (10) [noun] An apparatus on which crushed ore is washed. | [verb] To wash (ore) in a buddle. BUDGIE (10) [noun] A budgerigar. BUGEYE (12) [noun] A person with protruding or bulging eyes. | [adjective] Having large, protruding eyes. BULLAE (8) [noun] A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion. | [noun] A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents. | [noun] In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss. BUMBLE (12) [noun] A confusion; a jumble. | [verb] To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes. | [noun] A bumble-bee. BUNDLE (9) [noun] A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. | [noun] A package wrapped or tied up for carrying. | [noun] A group of products or services sold together as a unit. BUNGEE (9) [noun] An elastic fabric-bound strap with a hook at each end, used for securing luggage. | [noun] An elastic cord tied to the ankles of the jumper in bungee jumping. | [noun] A rubber eraser. BUNGLE (9) [noun] A botched or incompetently handled situation. | [verb] To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly. BUPPIE (12) [noun] A black urban professional; an African American subset of the yuppie category. The group includes black professionals and executives in their late twenties and early thirties. BURBLE (10) [noun] A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek. | [noun] A gush of rapid speech. | [noun] The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body. | [noun] Trouble; disorder. BURDIE (9) BURGEE (9) [noun] A flag, usually a broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail, flown by yachts to identify the owner's yacht club. BURGLE (9) [verb] To commit burglary. | [verb] To take the ball legally from an opposing player. BURNIE (8) BURSAE (8) [noun] Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces. BUSTLE (8) [noun] An excited activity; a stir. | [noun] A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine. | [noun] A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops. BUTANE (8) [noun] A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C4H10 n-butane, and 2-methyl-propane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions. | [noun] The n-butane isomer only. BUTENE (8) [noun] A hydrocarbon gas with four carbon atoms and one double bond, used in the production of plastics and other chemicals. BYGONE (12) [noun] (usually plural) An event that happened in the past. | [adjective] Having been or happened in the distant past. BYLINE (11) [noun] A line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the writer's name. | [noun] A touchline. | [verb] To provide (an article) with a byline. BYNAME (13) [noun] A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname. | [noun] A nickname. | [noun] A pseudonym; nom-de-plume. BYRNIE (11) [noun] A short chain mail shirt, covering from the upper arms to the upper thighs. CABBIE (12) [noun] A cabdriver, someone who drives a taxi. CACKLE (14) [noun] The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg. | [noun] A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose. | [noun] Futile or excessively noisy talk. CADDIE (10) [noun] A golfer's assistant and adviser. | [verb] To serve as a golf caddie. | [noun] A Scottish errand boy, porter, or messenger. | [noun] A small tray with a handle and compartments for holding items. CAIQUE (17) [noun] A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling. | [noun] Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites. CAJOLE (15) [verb] To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax. CALQUE (17) [noun] A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language. | [verb] To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts. CAMISE (10) [noun] A fine linen shirt or tunic, especially one worn in the Middle Ages. CANAPE (10) [noun] An hors d’oeuvre, a bite-sized open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish. | [noun] A piece of furniture similar to a couch or settee, an elegant sofa. CANDLE (9) [noun] A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin. | [noun] The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter. | [noun] A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela. CANGUE (9) [noun] A wooden collar or frame formerly used as an instrument of punishment or torture in China and other parts of Asia. CANINE (8) [noun] Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae. | [noun] Any of certain extant canids regarded as similar to the dog or wolf (including coyotes, jackals, etc.) but distinguished from the vulpines, which are regarded as fox-like. | [noun] In heterodont mammals, the pointy tooth between the incisors and the premolars; a cuspid. CANNIE (8) CANTLE (8) [noun] A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something. | [noun] The raised back of a saddle. | [noun] The top of the head. CAPOTE (10) [noun] A long coat or cloak with a hood. | [noun] A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen. | [noun] A close-fitting woman's bonnet. CARAFE (11) [noun] A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages. | [noun] A glass pot with a spout for pouring, used for both serving coffee and as a receptacle during the brewing process. CARATE (8) CARIBE (10) [noun] A carnivorous fish of South American rivers, also known as a piranha. CARNIE (8) [noun] A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud). | [noun] The jargon used by carnival workers. | [noun] A carnival. | [noun] A proponent of carnism; one who supports the practice of eating meat and using other animal products. CASQUE (17) [noun] A helmet. | [noun] A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary. CASTLE (8) [noun] A large building that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. | [noun] An instance of castling. | [noun] A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower. CATTIE (8) [noun] A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram. CATTLE (8) [noun] Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc). | [noun] Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses. | [noun] People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny. CAUDLE (9) [noun] A warm drink made of wine or ale mixed with eggs, sugar, spices, and gruel, traditionally served to sick people or during confinement. CAYUSE (11) [noun] A small Indian horse or pony. CELLAE (8) [noun] The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos. CENOTE (8) [noun] A deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings. CENTRE (8) [noun] The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference. | [noun] The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference. | [noun] The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges. CERATE (8) [noun] A medicinal preparation or ointment made with wax as a base. | [verb] To cover or treat with a cerate. CERISE (8) [noun] A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink. | [adjective] Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk. CERITE (8) [noun] A mineral consisting of a silicate of cerium and other rare earth elements. CERUSE (8) [noun] White lead, a hydrate of lead mixed with carbonate, formerly used as a white pigment, in cosmetics, and for medical purposes. CETANE (8) [noun] The aliphatic hydrocarbon C16H34 (hexadecane) used as a standard for diesel fuel. CHAINE (11) [noun] A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal. | [noun] A series of interconnected things. | [noun] A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name. CHAISE (11) [noun] An open, horse-drawn carriage for one or two people, usually with one horse and two wheels. | [noun] A chaise longue. | [noun] A post chaise. CHANCE (13) [noun] An opportunity or possibility. | [noun] Random occurrence; luck. | [noun] The probability of something happening. | [verb] To happen by chance, to occur. CHANGE (12) [noun] The process of becoming different. | [noun] Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination. | [noun] A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes CHARGE (12) [noun] The amount of money levied for a service. | [noun] A ground attack against a prepared enemy. | [noun] A forceful forward movement. CHASSE (11) [noun] A small serving of spirits taken to remove the taste of coffee, tobacco, etc. | [noun] A gliding movement in dance (especially ballet) with the same foot always leading. | [verb] To perform this step. | [noun] A reliquary casket. CHASTE (11) [adjective] Abstaining from immoral or unlawful sexual intercourse. | [adjective] Virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience. | [adjective] Austere, simple, undecorative. CHEESE (11) [noun] A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk. | [noun] Any particular variety of cheese. | [noun] A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture. | [noun] Wealth, fame, excellence, importance. | [verb] To stop; to refrain from. | [verb] To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter. CHEGOE (12) [noun] A tropical flea that burrows into the skin of humans and animals, causing irritation and infection. CHELAE (11) [noun] A pincer-like claw of a crustacean or arachnid. CHEQUE (20) [noun] A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity. CHEVRE (14) [noun] A type of soft cheese from goat’s milk, originating in France, often formed in a cylinder. CHICLE (13) [noun] The milky latex of the sapodilla tree, used after coagulation as the principal ingredient of chewing gum CHIGOE (12) [noun] A small tropical flea, Tunga penetrans, whose females burrow under the skin of animals, including humans, and lay their eggs, causing strong irritation and sores. CHILDE (12) [noun] A child of noble birth. | [noun] The cognomen given to the oldest son prior to his taking his father's title. CHIRRE (11) [verb] To make a trilling or chirping sound. | [noun] A trilling or chirping sound, especially made by insects. CHOICE (13) [noun] An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something. | [noun] The power to choose. | [noun] One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision. CHOOSE (11) [verb] To pick; to make the choice of; to select. | [verb] To elect. | [verb] To decide to act in a certain way. | [noun] The act of choosing; selection. CHOUSE (11) [verb] To cheat or swindle someone. | [noun] A person who cheats or swindles. CHOWSE (14) CHROME (13) [noun] Chromium, when used to plate other metals. | [noun] The basic structural elements used in a graphical user interface, such as window frames and scroll bars, as opposed to the content. | [noun] Handguns (collectively) CICALE (10) CILICE (10) [noun] A hairshirt. | [noun] (chiefly in Opus Dei) A leather strap studded with metallic barbs that cut into flesh as a constant reminder of Christ's suffering. CINQUE (17) [noun] A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips. CIRCLE (10) [noun] A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center). | [noun] A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point. | [noun] Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures. CIRQUE (17) [noun] A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley. | [noun] Something in the shape of a circle or ring, such as a Roman circus. CITOLE (8) [noun] An archaic musical instrument whose exact form is uncertain, generally shown with four strings. CLAQUE (17) [noun] A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo. | [noun] A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus. | [noun] A group of fawning admirers. CLAUSE (8) [noun] (grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them. | [noun] (grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) dependent. | [noun] A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document. CLEAVE (11) [noun] Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass. | [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 cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto. CLEOME (10) [noun] Any flowering plant in the genus Cleome. CLICHE (13) [noun] Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude. | [noun] A stereotype (printing plate). | [verb] To use a cliché; to make up a word or a name that sounds like a cliché. CLIQUE (17) [noun] A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal. | [noun] A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph. | [noun] A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner. CLOCHE (13) [noun] A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth. | [noun] A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim. | [noun] A tableware cover, often resembling a bell. CLOQUE (17) [noun] A fabric with an embossed design. CLOTHE (11) [verb] To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing. | [verb] To cover or invest, as if with a garment. COARSE (8) [adjective] Composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture. | [adjective] Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy. COATEE (8) [noun] A coat with short flaps. COBBLE (12) [noun] A cobblestone. | [noun] A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. | [verb] To make shoes (what a cobbler does). COCKLE (14) [noun] Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells. | [noun] The shell of such a mollusk. | [noun] (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”). | [noun] Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum). | [noun] A £10 note; a tenner. CODDLE (10) [noun] An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions. | [noun] An effeminate person. | [verb] To treat gently or with great care. COERCE (10) [verb] To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb. | [verb] To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will. | [verb] To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type. COFFEE (14) [noun] A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water. | [noun] A serving of this beverage. | [noun] The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, misnamed ‘beans’ due to their shape. COFFLE (14) [noun] A line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves. | [verb] To fasten (a line of people or animals) together. COHERE (11) [verb] To stick together physically, by adhesion. | [verb] To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose. COHUNE (11) [noun] A species of palm, Attalea cohune, native to South America, that produces large nuts. COIFFE (14) [noun] An elaborate hairstyle or headdress. | [verb] To arrange or style hair. COIGNE (9) [noun] A corner or angle, especially an external angle of a wall or building. | [noun] A cornerstone or quoin. COLLIE (8) [noun] Any of various breeds of dog originating in Scotland and England as sheepdogs COLONE (8) COLURE (8) [noun] Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices. COMADE (11) COMAKE (14) COMATE (10) COMMIE (12) [noun] One who subscribes to anticapitalism. | [noun] A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator. | [adjective] Communist. | [noun] A Holden Commodore. | [noun] A commercial vehicle. COMOSE (10) [adjective] Having or bearing a coma or tuft of hairs; hairy or tufted. CONGEE (9) [noun] Leave, formal permission for some action, : | [noun] Formal dismissal; any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony. | [noun] Formal leavetaking; any farewell. | [noun] A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat. CONINE (8) [noun] A poisonous alkaloid found in hemlock plants, used historically as a poison and in chemical research. COOKIE (12) [noun] A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm. | [noun] A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it. | [noun] A bun. | [noun] Affectionate name for a cook. | [noun] A cucoloris. COOLIE (8) [noun] An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a labourer; a porter. Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers. | [noun] (Trinidad) An Indian or a person of Indian descent. COOMBE (12) [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. COOTIE (8) [noun] A louse (Pediculus humanus). | [noun] A louse (Pediculus humanus). | [noun] (usually in the plural) Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children). CORBIE (10) [noun] A raven or crow (typically Corvus corax). | [noun] Either of two moth species of genus Oncopera, whose larvae feed on grasses, especially Oncopera intricata. CORPSE (10) [noun] A dead body. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A human body in general, whether living or dead. | [verb] (of an actor) To lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably. CORRIE (8) [noun] A bowl-shaped geographical feature formed by glaciation. CORVEE (11) [noun] Unpaid labor required by a feudal lord. | [noun] Labor, especially for roads or dams, in lieu of taxes. COSINE (8) [noun] In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse. Symbol: cos COSTAE (8) [noun] A rib. | [noun] A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing. COTTAE (8) COTYPE (13) [noun] A specimen that is designated as a type specimen for a species, along with other type specimens, rather than the single holotype. | [noun] In biology and taxonomy, one of several specimens used to define a species when no single holotype is designated. COULEE (8) [noun] A stream. | [noun] A lava flow. | [noun] A deep gulch or ravine, frequently dry in summer. COUPLE (10) [noun] Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship. | [noun] Two of the same kind connected or considered together. | [noun] A small number. COURSE (8) [noun] A sequence of events. | [noun] A path that something or someone moves along. | [noun] The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast. | [adverb] In due course; as a matter of course, as a natural result. COWAGE (12) [noun] A tropical climbing plant (Mucuna pruriens) with stinging hairs on its pods, also spelled cowhage or cowhitch. COWPIE (13) [noun] A pie made with chocolate and caramel filling. | [noun] Feces of a cow, especially when deposited on pasture land. COWRIE (11) [noun] A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell. | [noun] (by extension) Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell. | [noun] (by extension) Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell. COYOTE (11) [noun] Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America. | [noun] A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America. | [verb] To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside. CRADLE (9) [noun] A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots. | [noun] The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence. | [noun] Infancy, or very early life. CRAMBE (12) [noun] A cruciferous plant of the genus Crambe, particularly Crambe maritima (sea kale), grown for its edible shoots. CREASE (8) [noun] A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced. | [noun] One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease. | [noun] The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go. | [noun] An Indonesian or Malay dagger with a wavy, or rigid serpentine blade. CREATE (8) [verb] To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:) | [verb] To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion. | [verb] To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute. CRECHE (13) [noun] A representation of the nativity scene. | [noun] A hospital for orphaned infants; a foundling hospital. | [noun] A day nursery. CREESE (8) [noun] An Indonesian or Malay dagger with a wavy, or rigid serpentine blade. | [noun] A Moro sword with an asymmetrical blade. | [verb] To stab with a kris. CREOLE (8) [noun] A descendant of white European settlers who is born in a colonized country. | [noun] Anyone with mixed ancestry born in a country colonized by white Europeans, now especially one who speaks a creole language. | [noun] Someone of black African descent who is born in the Caribbean or Americas (originally as opposed to an African immigrant). CRINGE (9) [noun] A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling. | [noun] A servile obeisance. | [noun] A crick. CROSSE (8) [noun] A lacrosse stick. CROUPE (10) CROUSE (8) CRUISE (8) [noun] A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure. | [noun] Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases. | [noun] A period spent in the Marine Corps. CUBAGE (11) [noun] A cubic measurement. CUDDIE (10) CUDDLE (10) [noun] A snuggle; an affectionate embrace, often given to family members and close friends. | [verb] To embrace affectionately, lie together snugly. | [verb] To cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth. CUISSE (8) [noun] Defensive armour for the thighs CULPAE (10) CUPULE (10) [noun] Any small structure shaped like a cup, such as at the base of an acorn, or the sucker on the feet of some flies CURARE (8) [noun] A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content | [noun] Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae | [noun] A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery CURATE (8) [noun] An assistant rector or vicar. | [noun] A parish priest. | [verb] To act as a curator for. CURDLE (9) [verb] To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk) | [verb] To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood) | [verb] To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly CURIAE (8) CURITE (8) CURRIE (8) CURULE (8) [adjective] Designating a kind of elaborate ceremonial seat inlaid with ivory, used by the highest magistrates in ancient Rome. CUTTLE (8) [noun] Any of various squid-like cephalopods (marine mollusks) of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened | [noun] A knife. | [noun] A foul-mouthed fellow. CYMENE (13) CYMOSE (13) DABBLE (11) [noun] A spattering or sprinkling of a liquid. | [noun] An act of splashing in soft mud, water, etc. | [noun] An act of participation in an activity in a casual or superficial way. DADDLE (9) DAGGLE (9) DAMAGE (10) [noun] Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact. | [noun] Cost or expense. | [verb] To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction. DANDLE (8) [verb] To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant. | [verb] To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet. | [verb] To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle. DANGLE (8) [noun] An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group. | [noun] The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style. | [noun] A dangling ornament or decoration. DAPHNE (12) [noun] Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals. DAPPLE (11) [noun] A mottled marking, usually in clusters. | [noun] An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat. | [verb] To mark or become marked with mottling or spots. DARKIE (11) [noun] A person with dark skin. | [noun] A dark lantern. DARKLE (11) DARTLE (7) DASSIE (7) [noun] A small, herbivorous mammal in the order Hyracoidea, the rock hyrax. DATIVE (10) [noun] (grammar) The dative case. | [adjective] (grammar) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter or indirect object, generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective. | [adjective] In one’s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office or other privilege. DAUTIE (7) DAWDLE (11) [noun] A dawdler. | [noun] A slow walk, journey. | [noun] An easily accomplished task; a doddle. DAWTIE (10) DAZZLE (25) [noun] A light of dazzling brilliancy. | [noun] Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly. | [noun] A herd of zebra. DEARIE (7) [noun] (chiefly as a term of address) A person who is dear; sweetie. DEBASE (9) [verb] To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade. | [verb] To lower in position or rank. | [verb] To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins. DEBATE (9) [noun] An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision. | [noun] An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views. | [noun] Discussion of opposing views. DEBONE (9) [verb] To remove the bones from. DECADE (10) [noun] A group, set, or series of ten , particularly: | [noun] A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance. | [noun] The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1. DECANE (9) [noun] Any of the seventy-five isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having the chemical formula C10H22 DECARE (9) DECIDE (10) [verb] To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle | [verb] To make a judgment, especially after deliberation | [verb] To cause someone to come to a decision DECILE (9) [noun] Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into ten groups of equal frequency. | [noun] Any one of the ten subsets or groups so divided. | [noun] An aspect or position of two planets when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac. DECKLE (13) [noun] (paper-making) A frame or edge which limits the pulp and, consequently, the size of the resulting paper. | [noun] A membrane covering the outermost side of a brisket of beef, where it was attached to the rib cage | [noun] (Jewish cuisine) The fattier, smaller point-cut portion of a brisket of beef, being the superficial pectoral muscle. DECODE (10) [noun] A product of decoding | [noun] Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols | [verb] To convert from an encrypted form to plain text. DECREE (9) [noun] An edict or law. | [noun] The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity. | [noun] The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate. DEDUCE (10) [verb] To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises. | [verb] To take away; to deduct; to subtract. | [verb] (Latinism) To lead forth. DEFACE (12) [verb] To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner. | [verb] To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of. | [verb] (flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it. DEFAME (12) [noun] Disgrace, dishonour. | [noun] Defamation; slander, libel. | [verb] To disgrace; to bring into disrepute. DEFILE (10) [verb] To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul. | [verb] To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate | [verb] To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape | [noun] A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains. DEFINE (10) [noun] A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs. | [verb] To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly. | [verb] To settle, decide (an argument etc.) DEFUSE (10) [verb] To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.). | [verb] To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile. | [verb] To disorder; to make shapeless. DEFUZE (19) DEGAGE (9) DEGAME (10) DEGREE (8) [noun] A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DEKARE (11) DELATE (7) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DELETE (7) [noun] A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. | [noun] A deletion. | [noun] (recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release. DELIME (9) DELUDE (8) [verb] To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe. | [verb] To frustrate or disappoint. DELUGE (8) [noun] A great flood or rain. | [noun] An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction. | [noun] (military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System. DELUXE (14) [adjective] Very fine in quality or luxurious. DEMISE (9) [noun] The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. | [noun] Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor. | [noun] Death. DEMODE (10) DEMOTE (9) [verb] To lower the rank or status of. | [verb] To relegate. DEMURE (9) [verb] To look demurely. | [adjective] (usually of women) Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious. | [adjective] Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity. DENGUE (8) [noun] An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain. DENOTE (7) [verb] To indicate; to mark. | [verb] To make overt. | [verb] To refer to literally; to convey as meaning. DENUDE (8) [verb] To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip. DEPONE (9) [verb] To testify, especially in the form of a deposition. | [verb] To take the deposition of; to depose. | [verb] To lay, as a stake; to wager. DEPOSE (9) [verb] To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away. | [verb] To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent. | [verb] To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition DEPUTE (9) [noun] Deputy | [verb] To assign (someone or something) to or for something | [verb] To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate DERATE (7) [verb] To lower the rated capability of any rated equipment or material. DERIDE (8) [verb] To harshly mock; ridicule. DERIVE (10) [verb] To obtain or receive (something) from something else. | [verb] To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning. | [verb] To find the derivation of (a word or phrase). DESIRE (7) [noun] Someone or something wished for. | [noun] Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual. | [noun] The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something. DEVICE (12) [noun] Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one. | [noun] A peripheral device; an item of hardware. | [noun] A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. DEVISE (10) [noun] The act of leaving real property in a will. | [noun] Such a will, or a clause in such a will. | [noun] The real property left in such a will. DEVOTE (10) [verb] To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter | [verb] To consign over; to doom | [verb] To execrate; to curse DIBBLE (11) [noun] A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds. | [verb] To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble. | [verb] To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil. | [noun] (originally Manchester) A police officer. DICKIE (13) [noun] A louse. | [noun] Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar. | [noun] A detachable shirt front, collar or bib. DIDDLE (9) [noun] In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed. | [noun] The penis. | [verb] To cheat; to swindle. DILATE (7) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DILDOE (8) DILUTE (7) [noun] An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual. | [verb] To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water. | [verb] To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. DIMPLE (11) [noun] A small depression or indentation in a surface. | [noun] Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth. | [verb] To create a dimple in. DINDLE (8) DINGLE (8) [noun] A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley. DIPLOE (9) DIPOLE (9) [noun] Any object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna) that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles) | [noun] Any molecule or radical that has delocalised positive and negative charges | [noun] A dipole antenna DISUSE (7) [noun] The state of not being used; neglect. | [verb] To cease the use of. | [verb] To disaccustom. DIVIDE (11) [noun] A thing that divides. | [noun] An act of dividing. | [noun] A distancing between two people or things. DIVINE (10) [noun] One skilled in divinity; a theologian. | [noun] A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. | [noun] (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept. | [verb] To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination. DOABLE (9) [noun] Something that can be done; a possible or practical task. | [adjective] Possible to do; feasible. | [adjective] Worthy of sexual conquest. DOCILE (9) [adjective] Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient. | [adjective] Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management. DOGGIE (9) [noun] A dog, especially a small one. | [noun] Doggy style | [noun] (armed services) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer. DOMINE (9) DONATE (7) [verb] To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another. DONNEE (7) DONSIE (7) DOODLE (8) [noun] A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person. | [noun] A small mindless sketch, etc. | [noun] (sometimes childish) Penis. | [noun] Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog. DOOLEE (7) DOOLIE (7) DOOZIE (16) [noun] Something that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense. DORMIE (9) DOSAGE (8) [noun] The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing. | [noun] The addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something, e.g. sugar to wine. | [noun] The measured amount so administered or added; the dose. DOTAGE (8) [noun] Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility. | [noun] Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree. | [noun] Foolish utterance(s); drivel. DOTTLE (7) [noun] A plug or tap of a vessel. | [noun] A small rounded lump or mass. | [noun] The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe. | [noun] A dotard. DOUBLE (9) [noun] Twice the number, amount, size, etc. | [noun] A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes | [noun] A drink with two portions of alcohol. DOUCHE (12) [noun] A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for vaginal irrigation. | [noun] Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe. | [noun] A jet or spray of any liquid. DRAGEE (8) [noun] A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc. DRAWEE (10) [noun] The party directed to pay the amount of a draft or cheque. DREDGE (9) [noun] Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: | [noun] Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. | [verb] To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge. | [noun] A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation. | [noun] A mixture of oats and barley. DROGUE (8) [noun] (whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving. | [noun] A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to. | [noun] A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute. DROWSE (10) [noun] The state of being sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To be sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To nod off; to fall asleep. DRUDGE (9) [noun] A person who works in a low servile job. | [noun] Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else. | [verb] To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. DUCKIE (13) DUDDIE (9) DUENDE (8) [noun] A small, mischievous humanoid creature in Iberian (Spanish/Portuguese), Latin American, and Philippine folklore/mythology; an imp. | [noun] Personal charm. DUFFLE (13) [noun] A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. | [noun] Outfit or supplies, collectively; kit. DUNITE (7) [noun] A type of igneous rock with a coarse-grained or phaneritic texture. DURRIE (7) [noun] A thick, flat-woven cotton Indian rug or carpet. DYABLE (12) DYNODE (11) [noun] Any of a series of electrodes within a photomultiplier tube. ECARTE (8) [noun] A card game for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game. ECTYPE (13) EDIBLE (9) [noun] Anything edible. | [noun] (marijuana) a foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter etc. | [adjective] That can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption. EFFACE (14) [verb] To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible. | [verb] To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out. | [verb] To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence. EFFETE (12) [adjective] Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out. | [adjective] Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent. | [adjective] Decadent, weak through self-indulgence. EFFUSE (12) [noun] Effusion; loss | [verb] To emit; to give off | [verb] To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something EKUELE (10) ELAPSE (8) [verb] (of time) To pass or move by. ELUATE (6) [noun] A liquid solution that results from elution | [verb] To subject or be subjected to elution EMBRUE (10) [verb] To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.). EMERGE (9) [verb] To come into view. | [verb] To come out of a situation, object or a liquid. | [verb] To become known. EMEUTE (8) EMIGRE (9) [noun] One who has departed their native land, often as a refugee. | [noun] An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another. EMPALE (10) EMPIRE (10) [adjective] (furniture) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814). | [adjective] (of wine) Produced in a dependency of the British Empire or Commonwealth of Nations. | [noun] A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority. ENABLE (8) [verb] To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. | [verb] To affirm; to make firm and strong. | [verb] To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for. ENCAGE (9) [verb] To lock inside a cage; to imprison. ENCASE (8) [verb] To enclose, as in a case. ENCODE (9) [verb] To convert (plain text) into code. | [verb] (communication) To convert source information into another form. | [verb] To constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix so as to transcribe DNA material. ENCORE (8) [noun] A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete. | [noun] A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance. | [verb] To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by. ENDITE (7) [noun] One of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium. | [verb] To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe. | [verb] To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose. ENDIVE (10) [noun] A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus). ENDURE (7) [verb] To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist. | [verb] To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant. | [verb] To last. ENFACE (11) ENGAGE (8) [verb] (heading) To interact socially. | [verb] (heading) To interact antagonistically. | [verb] (heading) To interact contractually. ENGINE (7) [noun] A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc. | [noun] A tool; a utensil or implement. | [noun] A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects. ENISLE (6) [verb] To make into an island. | [verb] (by extension) To isolate. ENLACE (8) [verb] To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace | [verb] (by extension) To entangle. ENNUYE (9) ENRAGE (7) [verb] To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious. ENROBE (8) [verb] To invest or adorn with a robe or vestment; to attire. | [verb] To coat or cover. ENSILE (6) [verb] To preserve (forage) in a silo. ENSURE (6) [verb] To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. | [verb] To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). ENTICE (8) [verb] To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope. ENTIRE (6) [noun] The whole of something; the entirety. | [noun] An uncastrated horse; a stallion. | [noun] A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted. ENTREE (6) [noun] (French Canada) A smaller dish served before the main course of a meal. | [noun] The main course or main dish of a meal. | [noun] The act of entering somewhere, or permission to enter; admittance. ENZYME (20) [noun] A globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction. | [noun] Leavened bread, as opposed to azyme EOSINE (6) EPHEBE (13) [noun] A 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training. | [noun] (by extension) A young man; a youth. EPOPEE (10) EQUATE (15) [noun] A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value. | [verb] To consider equal or equivalent. | [verb] To set as equal. EQUINE (15) [noun] Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus. | [adjective] Of or relating to a horse or horses. | [adjective] Of or relating to any member or members of the genus Equus. ERGATE (7) ERMINE (8) [noun] A weasel, Mustela erminea, found in northern latitudes; its dark brown fur turns white in winter (apart from the black tip of the tail). | [noun] The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes. | [noun] (by extension) The office of a judge. ESCAPE (10) [noun] The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. | [noun] Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. | [noun] Something that has escaped; an escapee. ESTATE (6) [noun] The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. | [noun] State; condition. | [noun] Status, rank. ETERNE (6) ETHANE (9) [noun] An aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6, gaseous at normal temperatures and pressures, being a constituent of natural gas. | [noun] The same compound, subjected to modification by replacing one or more of the hydrogen atoms with other radicals. ETHENE (9) [noun] (IUPAC name) The organic chemical compound ethylene. The simplest alkene, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C2H4 | [noun] Any alkene derived from ethylene ETHYNE (12) [noun] (official IUPAC name) The organic compound acetylene. The simplest alkyne, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C2H2. ETOILE (6) EUCHRE (11) [noun] A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards. | [verb] To deceive or outwit. EVINCE (11) [verb] To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest. EVOLVE (12) [verb] To move in regular procession through a system. | [verb] To change; transform. | [verb] To come into being; develop. EVZONE (18) [noun] A member of the Greek presidential guard. | [noun] An infantryman of a select corps of the Greek army. EXCIDE (16) EXCISE (15) [noun] A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). | [verb] To impose an excise tax on something. | [verb] To cut out; to remove. EXCITE (15) [verb] To stir the emotions of. | [verb] To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate. | [verb] To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. EXCUSE (15) [noun] Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault. | [noun] A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts. | [noun] (with preceding negative adjective, especially sorry, poor or lame) An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality. EXHALE (16) [noun] An exhalation. | [verb] To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out. | [verb] To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm. EXHUME (18) [verb] To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. | [verb] To uncover; to bring to light. EXPIRE (15) [verb] To die. | [verb] To lapse and become invalid. | [verb] To exhale; to breathe out. EXPOSE (15) [verb] To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to. | [verb] To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image. | [verb] To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness. FACADE (12) [noun] The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation. | [noun] (by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ. | [noun] A deceptive or insincere outward appearance; a front. FACETE (11) FACILE (11) [adjective] Easy, now especially in a disparaging sense; contemptibly easy. | [adjective] Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with. | [adjective] Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.). FAERIE (9) [noun] Realm of the fays, fairyland. | [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. FAILLE (9) [noun] A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs. FALSIE (9) FAMINE (11) [noun] Extreme shortage of food in a region. | [noun] A period of extreme shortage of food in a region. | [noun] Starvation or malnutrition. FARCIE (11) FAUNAE (9) [noun] Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. | [noun] A book, cataloguing the animals of a country. FEEBLE (11) [verb] To make feeble; to enfeeble. | [adjective] Deficient in physical strength | [adjective] Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint. FEIRIE (9) FELINE (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to cats. | [adjective] Catlike (resembling a cat) | [noun] A cat; member of the cat family Felidae. FELLOE (9) [noun] The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes. FEMALE (11) [noun] One of the female (feminine) sex or gender. | [adjective] Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it. | [adjective] Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.) FERIAE (9) FERINE (9) FERLIE (9) FERULE (9) [noun] A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand. | [verb] To punish with a ferule. FESCUE (11) [noun] A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. | [noun] A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca. | [noun] An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. FETTLE (9) [noun] A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim. | [noun] One's mental state; spirits. | [noun] Sand used to line a furnace. FIACRE (11) [noun] A small carriage for hire. FIANCE (11) [verb] To betroth; to affiance. | [noun] A man who is engaged to be married. | [noun] A person engaged to be married. FICKLE (15) [adjective] Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable. | [adjective] Changeable. | [verb] To deceive, flatter. FIDDLE (11) [noun] Any of various bowed string instruments, often a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin. | [noun] A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument. | [noun] An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw. FIERCE (11) [adjective] Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage. | [adjective] Resolute or strenuously active. | [adjective] Threatening in appearance or demeanor. FIGURE (10) [noun] A drawing or diagram conveying information. | [noun] The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body. | [noun] A person or thing representing a certain consciousness. FILOSE (9) FIMBLE (13) FINALE (9) [noun] The grand end of something, especially a show or piece of music. | [noun] The chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works. FINITE (9) [adjective] Having an end or limit; (of a quantity) constrained by bounds; (of a set) whose number of elements is a natural number. | [adjective] (grammar, as opposed to infinite or nonfinite) limited by person or number. FIPPLE (13) [noun] The mouthpiece of a ducted flute, or the plug forming the floor of the windway. FIXATE (16) [verb] To make something fixed and stable; to fix. | [verb] To stare fixedly at something. | [verb] To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on. FIXURE (16) FIZZLE (27) [noun] A spluttering or hissing sound. | [noun] Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing. | [noun] An abortive effort; a flop or dud. FLAMBE (13) [noun] A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. | [noun] A flambéed dish. | [verb] To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. FLANGE (10) [noun] An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place. | [noun] The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component. | [noun] An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees. FLECHE (14) [noun] An arrow. | [noun] Any of the twenty-four points on a backgammon board. | [noun] A spire or steeple, especially of Gothic style; an object emerging from the ridge of a roof. FLEDGE (11) [verb] To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight. | [verb] To grow, cover or be covered with feathers. | [verb] To decorate with feathers. FLEECE (11) [noun] Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal | [noun] Insulating skin with the wool attached | [noun] A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen. FLENSE (9) [verb] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. FLOOIE (9) FLORAE (9) [noun] Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc. | [noun] A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc. | [noun] The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body FOIBLE (11) [noun] A quirk, idiosyncrasy, or mannerism; unusual habit or way (usage is typically plural), that is slightly strange or silly. | [noun] A weakness or failing of character. | [noun] Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte. FOLATE (9) [noun] A salt or ester of folic acid, especially one present in the vitamin B complex. FOLKIE (13) [noun] A folk singer, or an enthusiast of folk music. | [adjective] Of, or relating to folk music FOMITE (11) [noun] An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses and parasites), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts. FONDLE (10) [verb] To touch or stroke lovingly. | [verb] To grasp. FONDUE (10) [noun] A dish made of melted cheese, chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped. | [verb] To prepare or serve as a fondue. FOODIE (10) [noun] A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet. FOOTIE (9) [noun] (especially in plural) pyjamas or a similar covering that covers the feet | [noun] Alternative spelling of footy FOOTLE (9) [noun] Nonsense; foolishness. | [verb] To waste time; to trifle. | [verb] To talk nonsense. FOOZLE (18) [noun] A fogey. | [noun] A mistaken shot in golf. | [noun] The final boss character in a game. FORAGE (10) [noun] Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses. | [noun] An act or instance of foraging. | [noun] The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population FORBYE (14) [adverb] Past; by; beyond. | [adverb] Uncommonly; exceptionally. | [preposition] Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover. FORMEE (11) FOSSAE (9) [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. FOVEAE (12) [noun] A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ. | [noun] The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision. FRAISE (9) [verb] To put in danger, in terror, or at risk. | [noun] A type of palisade placed for defence around a berm; a defence consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position. | [noun] A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century. | [noun] A large thick pancake with slices of bacon in it. | [noun] A stylized strawberry with leaves. | [noun] Commotion. FRAPPE (13) [noun] Liqueur poured over shaved ice. | [noun] A thick milkshake containing ice cream. | [noun] (Greece) An iced, sweetened, beaten coffee drink. FREEZE (18) [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. | [noun] A period of intensely cold weather. | [noun] A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. FRIDGE (11) [noun] A refrigerator. | [verb] To place inside of a refrigerator. | [verb] To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove a character, usually female, from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character, usually male, and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s). | [verb] To rub, chafe. FRIEZE (18) [noun] A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. | [verb] To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. | [noun] That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture. FRINGE (10) [noun] Hair hanging over the forehead. | [noun] A hairstyle including such hair, especially cut straight across the forehead. | [noun] Brucellosis, a bacterial disease. FUCOSE (11) FUDDLE (11) [noun] Intoxication. | [noun] Intoxicating drink; liquor. | [noun] Muddle, confusion. FUMBLE (13) [noun] A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident. | [verb] To handle nervously or awkwardly. | [verb] To grope awkwardly in trying to find something | [noun] A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble. FURANE (9) FURORE (9) [noun] Uproar; enthusiastic anger. | [noun] Excitement or commotion. FUSILE (9) FUTILE (9) [adjective] Incapable of producing results; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting. FUTURE (9) [noun] The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced. | [noun] Something that will happen in moments yet to come. | [noun] Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to. GABBLE (11) [noun] Confused or unintelligible speech. | [verb] To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning. | [verb] To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity. GAGGLE (9) [noun] (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water. | [noun] (by extension) Any group or gathering of related things. | [verb] To make a noise like a goose; to cackle. GALEAE (7) [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). GALERE (7) GALORE (7) [noun] An abundance; plenty. | [adjective] In abundance. GAMBLE (11) [noun] A bet or wager. | [noun] A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain. | [noun] A risky venture. GAMETE (9) [noun] A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes. GAMINE (9) [noun] A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl. | [noun] A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman. | [adjective] (of a girl) Having a boyish, mischievous charm; tomboyish. GANGUE (8) [noun] The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore. GARAGE (8) [noun] A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items. | [noun] (20th century) A place where cars are serviced and repaired. | [noun] A petrol filling station. GARBLE (9) [noun] Confused or unintelligible speech. | [noun] Refuse; rubbish. | [noun] Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings. GARGLE (8) [noun] A liquid used for gargling | [noun] The sound of gargling | [noun] Lager, drink | [noun] A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters. GAROTE (7) GAUCHE (12) [adjective] Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling. | [adjective] Skewed, not plane. | [adjective] Describing a torsion angle of 60°. GAVAGE (11) [noun] A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras | [noun] A process of force-feeding cattle for veal | [noun] Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach GAWSIE (10) GELATE (7) GEMMAE (11) [noun] A bud; an asexual reproductive structure, as found in liverworts and hydra, able to produce new individuals from a cluster of cells. GEMOTE (9) GENOME (9) [noun] The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism. GENTLE (7) [noun] A person of high birth. | [noun] A maggot used as bait by anglers. | [noun] A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil. GIGGLE (9) [noun] A high-pitched, silly laugh. | [noun] Fun; an amusing episode. | [verb] To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way. GILLIE (7) [noun] A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief. | [noun] A fishing and hunting guide; a man or boy who attends to a person who is fishing or hunting, especially in Scotland. | [verb] To be a gillie, a fishing or hunting guide, for (someone). | [noun] A gill of an alcoholic drink. GIMMIE (11) GIRDLE (8) [noun] That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference | [noun] A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery. | [noun] The zodiac; also, the equator. | [noun] A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked. GIRLIE (7) [noun] A magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or semi-nude photographs of women. | [noun] A young girl. | [adjective] Of entertainment, involving attractive women or images thereof, usually nude or wearing skimpy clothing. GLAIRE (7) GLAIVE (10) [noun] A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head. | [noun] A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve. | [noun] A sword, particularly a broadsword. GLANCE (9) [noun] A brief or cursory look. | [noun] A deflection. | [noun] A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side. GLEBAE (9) GOALIE (7) [noun] A goalkeeper or goaltender. | [verb] To act as a goalie, to tend the goals, to mind the net. GOATEE (7) [noun] A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin. GOBBLE (11) [noun] Fellatio; blowjob | [noun] An act of eating hastily or greedily. | [verb] To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up) | [noun] The sound of a turkey. GOGGLE (9) [noun] A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye. | [noun] (in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses. | [verb] To stare (at something) with wide eyes. GOITRE (7) [noun] An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland. GOODIE (8) [noun] A good character in a story, often a hero. | [interjection] Expression of pleasure; yippee. GOONIE (7) GOURDE (8) [noun] The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes. GRAMME (11) [noun] Gram (unit of mass) GRANGE (8) [noun] A granary. | [noun] A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse or manor. | [noun] A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization. GREASE (7) [noun] Animal fat in a melted or soft state | [noun] (extension) Any oily or fatty matter. | [noun] Shorn but not yet cleansed wool GREAVE (10) [noun] A bush; a tree; a grove. | [noun] A bough; a branch. | [noun] A ditch or trench. | [noun] A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin. | [verb] To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave. GREIGE (8) [adjective] (of textiles) Unfinished; not fully processed; neither bleached nor dyed. | [noun] A colour between grey and beige, closely akin to taupe. | [adjective] Of a colour between grey and beige. GRIEVE (10) [verb] To cause sorrow or distress to. | [verb] To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for. | [verb] To experience grief. | [noun] A governor of a town or province. GRIFFE (13) GRILLE (7) [noun] A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack. | [noun] On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it. | [noun] A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English GRILSE (7) [noun] A young salmon after its first return from the sea. GRIPPE (11) [noun] Influenza, the flu. GROOVE (10) [noun] A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression. | [noun] A fixed routine. | [noun] The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit. GROSZE (16) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Polish zloty. GROUSE (7) [noun] Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere. | [verb] To seek or shoot grouse. | [noun] A cause for complaint. | [adjective] Excellent. GROYNE (10) [noun] An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater. GRUDGE (9) [noun] Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to a past misdeed or mistreatment. | [verb] To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). | [verb] To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. GRUNGE (8) [noun] Dirt or filth, especially when difficult to clean. | [noun] The state of being filthy; grubbiness. | [noun] A subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington, which melds punk and metal. GUGGLE (9) GUIMPE (11) [noun] Gimp; a narrow flat braid or reinforced cord of fabric used for ornamental trimming. | [noun] A kind of short, high-necked blouse with sleeves of the late Victorian era, designed to be worn under a low-cut dress, jumper, or pinafore dress. | [noun] A kind of short chemisette or yoke insert made of lace, embroidery, or the like, worn with a low-necked dress. GUNITE (7) [noun] A form of shotcrete in which a dry cementitious mixture is blown through a hose to the nozzle, with water injected only at the point of application. GURGLE (8) [noun] A gurgling sound. | [verb] To flow with a bubbling sound. | [verb] To make such a sound. GUSSIE (7) GUTTAE (7) GUTTLE (7) GUZZLE (25) [noun] Drink; intoxicating liquor. | [noun] A drinking bout; a debauch. | [noun] An insatiable thing or person. GYRASE (10) GYRATE (10) [verb] To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve. | [adjective] Having coils or convolutions GYRENE (10) GYROSE (10) HABILE (11) [adjective] Generally able or adroit; handy. HACKEE (15) HACKIE (15) HACKLE (15) [noun] An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp. | [noun] (usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster. | [noun] A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather. HADJEE (17) HAGGLE (11) [verb] To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller. | [verb] To hack (cut crudely) | [verb] To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. HALIDE (10) [noun] A salt of any halogen acid. HALITE (9) [noun] Native salt; sodium chloride NaCl as a mineral; rock salt. | [noun] An oxyanion containing a halogen in the +3 oxidation state. HAMATE (11) [noun] The hamate bone. | [adjective] Hooked at the end. HANDLE (10) [noun] The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved. | [noun] An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool, or an opportunity or pretext. | [noun] The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments. | [verb] To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s). HANKIE (13) [noun] (abbreviation, short) A handkerchief HANTLE (9) HASSLE (9) [noun] Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems. | [noun] A fight or argument. | [noun] An action which is not worth the difficulty involved. HAWKIE (16) HEARSE (9) [noun] A hind (female deer) in the second year of her age. | [noun] A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies. | [noun] A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. HEAUME (11) HECKLE (15) [noun] An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp. | [noun] (usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster. | [noun] A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather. HEDDLE (11) [noun] A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded. | [noun] One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom. | [verb] To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle. HEINIE (9) [noun] The buttocks. HEMPIE (13) HERMAE (11) HEXADE (17) HEXANE (16) [noun] Any of five isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons, C6H14. They are colorless, volatile liquids. HEXONE (16) HEXOSE (16) [noun] A sugar or saccharide containing six carbon atoms. HIGGLE (11) [verb] To hawk or peddle provisions. | [verb] To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle. HIPPIE (13) [noun] (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks. | [noun] (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc. | [noun] (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and wearing unusually long hair (for males), and because of it, often stereotyped as a deadbeat. HIRPLE (11) [verb] To walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling. HIRSLE (9) HOAGIE (10) [noun] A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll; a submarine sandwich. HOARSE (9) [adjective] Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc. HOBBLE (13) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off. | [noun] An unsteady, off-balance step. | [noun] A difficult situation; a scrape. HOGTIE (10) [noun] The act of tying the feet together in this way. | [verb] To tie an animal's or someone's feet together; originally all four legs of a quadruped. | [verb] To render helpless. HOMAGE (12) [noun] A demonstration of respect, such as towards an individual after their retirement or death | [noun] An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style. Recently, the pronunciation /oʊˈmɒːʒ/ has been introduced from French for this usage; see hommage, which preserves the French spelling. | [noun] In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights. HOMBRE (13) [noun] (in Spanish-speaking contexts) A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man. HONDLE (10) HONKIE (13) HOODIE (10) [noun] A sweatshirt, with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front. | [noun] (often with negative connotation of yobbishness) A young person wearing such a sweatshirt, usually a male. | [noun] Foreskin HOOLIE (9) HOOPOE (11) [noun] An Old World bird, Upupa epops, known for its distinctive plumage, fanlike crest, and slender bill. HOPPLE (13) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze. | [verb] To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble. | [verb] To entangle; to hamper. HORSTE (9) HOWDIE (13) HUCKLE (15) HUDDLE (11) [noun] A dense and disorderly crowd. | [noun] A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play. | [noun] A hesitation during play to think about one's next move. HUMANE (11) [adjective] (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives. | [adjective] Having the nature or attributes of a human being. | [adjective] Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate. HUMATE (11) HUMBLE (13) [noun] (Baltimore) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject. | [verb] To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of | [verb] To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. | [noun] A stag that has failed to grow antlers; a cow that has not developed horns. HUMVEE (14) [noun] A diesel-powered, four-wheel drive tactical military vehicle that can carry a wide variety of military hardware HURDLE (10) [noun] An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race. | [noun] A perceived obstacle. | [noun] A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes. HURTLE (9) [noun] A fast movement in literal or figurative sense. | [noun] A clattering sound. | [verb] To move rapidly, violently, or without control. HUSTLE (9) [noun] A state of busy activity. | [noun] A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle. | [noun] (preceded by definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle. HYDRAE (13) HYPHAE (17) [noun] Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus. ICICLE (10) [noun] A drooping, tapering shape of ice. IDEATE (7) [verb] To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize. | [verb] To generate an idea. | [adjective] Produced by an idea. | [noun] The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence. IGNITE (7) [verb] To set fire to (something), to light (something) | [verb] To spark off (something), to trigger | [verb] To commence burning. IGNORE (7) [verb] To deliberately not listen or pay attention to. | [verb] To pretend to not notice someone or something. | [verb] Fail to notice. ILLITE (6) [noun] A micaceous phyllosilicate clay mineral with aggregates of grey or white monoclinic crystals. ILLUME (8) [verb] To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright IMBIBE (12) [verb] To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages). | [verb] To take in; absorb. IMBRUE (10) [verb] To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.). IMMANE (10) IMMUNE (10) [noun] A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease | [verb] To make immune. | [adjective] (usually with "from") Exempt; not subject to. IMMURE (10) [noun] A wall; an enclosure. | [verb] To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls. | [verb] To put or bury within a wall. IMPALE (10) [verb] To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object. | [verb] To place two coats of arms side by side on the same shield (often those of two spouses upon marriage). | [verb] To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. IMPEDE (11) [verb] To get in the way of; to hinder. IMPHEE (13) IMPONE (10) IMPOSE (10) [verb] To establish or apply by authority. | [verb] To be an inconvenience (on or upon) | [verb] To enforce: compel to behave in a certain way IMPURE (10) [verb] To defile; to pollute | [adjective] Not pure IMPUTE (10) [verb] To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source. | [verb] To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution. | [verb] To take into account. INCAGE (9) INCASE (8) [verb] To enclose, as in a case. INCISE (8) [verb] To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave. INCITE (8) [verb] To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action. INCOME (10) [noun] Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others. | [noun] Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy. | [noun] A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction. INCUSE (8) [noun] An impression hammered or pressed (onto a coin) | [verb] To hammer or press (usually onto a coin) | [adjective] Hammered or pressed in (usually on a coin) INDENE (7) [noun] The bicyclic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring fused to one of cyclopentadiene INDITE (7) [verb] To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe. | [verb] To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose. | [verb] To dictate; to prompt. | [noun] An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral. INDOLE (7) [noun] An organic compound, C8H7N, found in coal tar, and produced in the gut by the bacterial decomposition of tryptophan; it is an aromatic bicyclic heterocycle having a benzene ring fused with a pyrrole ring; indole and its derivatives occur widely in nature and have many industrial applications. | [noun] Any of the derivatives of indole1. | [adjective] Guileless INDUCE (9) [verb] To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon. | [verb] To cause, bring about, lead to. | [verb] To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction. INFARE (9) INFUSE (9) [verb] To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill. | [verb] To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal). | [verb] To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with). INGATE (7) INHALE (9) [noun] An inhalation. | [verb] To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm. | [verb] To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form of aerosols/smoke -sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm. INHERE (9) [verb] To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something INHUME (11) [verb] To bury in a grave. INJURE (13) [verb] To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature. | [verb] To damage or impair. | [verb] To do injustice to. INLACE (8) INMATE (8) [noun] A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient). | [noun] A person who shares a residence, such as a lodger, a hotel guest, or a student living on campus. INNATE (6) [verb] To cause to exist; to call into being. | [adjective] Inborn; existing or having existed since birth. | [adjective] Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience. INSANE (6) [adjective] Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad | [adjective] Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons | [adjective] Causing insanity or madness. INSIDE (7) [noun] The interior or inner part. | [noun] The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right. | [noun] The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference. INSOLE (6) [noun] The inside sole of a shoe or other footwear. INSURE (6) [verb] To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. | [verb] To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). | [verb] To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event. INTAKE (10) [noun] The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet. | [noun] The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder. | [noun] The quantity taken in. INTIME (8) INTINE (6) INTONE (6) [verb] To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize. | [verb] To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant. | [verb] To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound. INVADE (10) [verb] To move into. | [verb] To enter by force in order to conquer. | [verb] To infest or overrun. INVITE (9) [verb] To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. | [verb] To request formally. | [verb] To encourage. | [noun] An invitation. INVOKE (13) [verb] To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance. | [verb] To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude. | [verb] To call to mind (something) for some purpose. INWOVE (12) IODATE (7) [noun] The anion IO3-; Any salt of iodic acid. | [verb] To treat with iodine. IODIDE (8) [noun] A binary compound of iodine and another element or radical. IODINE (7) [noun] A chemical element (symbol: I) with an atomic number of 53; one of the halogens. | [noun] An antiseptic incorporating the element. | [noun] An iodide. IODISE (7) [verb] To treat or react with iodine. IODIZE (16) [verb] To treat or react with iodine. IOLITE (6) IONISE (6) [verb] To dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged species; to be thus dissociated. IONIZE (15) [verb] To dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged species; to be thus dissociated. IONONE (6) JANGLE (14) [noun] A rattling metallic sound. | [noun] Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble. | [verb] To make a rattling metallic sound. JAUNCE (15) JAYGEE (17) JAYVEE (19) JEJUNE (20) [adjective] (now rare) Not nutritious. | [adjective] (by extension, of a speech or an argument) Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance. | [adjective] Naive; simplistic. JIGGLE (15) [noun] A weak, shaking movement. | [verb] To shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle. | [verb] To shake, rattle, or wiggle. JINGLE (14) [noun] The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself. | [noun] A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played. | [noun] A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial. JINNEE (13) [noun] (Muslim demonology) A genie and descendant of the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form, equivalent to demons in Jewish demonology. JOCOSE (15) [adjective] Given to jesting; habitually jolly | [adjective] Playful; characterized by joking JOGGLE (15) [noun] A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends. | [noun] A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping. | [verb] To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog. JOSTLE (13) [noun] The act of jostling someone or something; push, shove. | [noun] The action of a jostling crowd. | [verb] To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside. JOUNCE (15) [noun] The fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time; the time derivative of jerk. | [verb] To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions. JUBILE (15) JUGATE (14) JUGGLE (15) [noun] (juggling) The act of throwing and catching each prop at least twice, as opposed to a flash. | [noun] The handling or managing of many tasks at once. | [noun] The performance of a magic trick. JUJUBE (22) [noun] The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees. | [noun] A fruit-bearing tree, Ziziphus jujuba or Ziziphus zizyphus. | [noun] The fruit of this tree, fructus jujubae. JUMBLE (17) [noun] A mixture of unrelated things. | [noun] Items for a rummage sale. | [noun] A rummage sale. | [noun] A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped. JUNGLE (14) [noun] A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest. | [noun] Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat. | [noun] A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality. JUNKIE (17) [noun] A narcotics addict, especially a heroin user. | [noun] (by extension) An enthusiast of something. JUSTLE (13) KARATE (10) [noun] An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting. | [verb] To attack (somebody or something) with karate or similar techniques. KEBBIE (14) KECKLE (16) KELPIE (12) [noun] A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland. | [noun] An Australian breed of sheepdog. KETENE (10) [noun] Any of a class of unsaturated ketones, having a general formula R1R2C=C=O, that react as if they were inner acid anhydrides | [noun] The parent compound of this class, CH2=C=O, an unstable, reactive colourless gas KETONE (10) [noun] A homologous series of organic molecules whose functional group is an oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom—by a double bond—in a carbon-hydrogen based molecule. KETOSE (10) KETTLE (10) [noun] A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid. | [noun] The quantity held by a kettle. | [noun] A vessel for boiling water for tea. | [noun] A kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence. KIBBLE (14) [noun] Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed. | [verb] To grind coarsely. | [noun] An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface. KIDDIE (12) [noun] A child. KILLIE (10) KILTIE (10) [noun] A shoe having a fringed tongue or fringed extra piece that lies over the tongue. | [noun] The fringed tongue of such a shoe. | [noun] A person who wears a kilt. KINASE (10) [noun] Any of a group of enzymes that transfer phosphate groups from high-energy donor molecules, such as ATP, to specific target molecules (substrates), in a process termed phosphorylation. KINDLE (11) [verb] To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.). | [verb] To arouse or inspire (a passion, etc). | [verb] To begin to grow or take hold. | [noun] (collective) A group of kittens. KIRTLE (10) [noun] A knee-length tunic. | [noun] A short jacket. | [noun] A woman's gown; a woman's outer petticoat or skirt. KISHKE (17) [noun] A dish made from stuffed intestine. | [noun] (often in the plural) Intestines, guts. KITTLE (10) [verb] To tickle, to touch lightly. | [adjective] Ticklish. | [adjective] Not easily managed | [verb] To bring forth young, as a cat; to kitten; to litter. KLUDGE (12) [noun] (electronics engineering) An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design. | [noun] Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently. | [noun] An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts. KOOKIE (14) KOPPIE (14) [noun] A small hill or mound (especially on the African veld). LABILE (8) [adjective] Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. | [adjective] Apt or likely to change. | [adjective] (of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed). LACUNE (8) LADDIE (8) [noun] A small boy. LAGUNE (7) LAMBIE (10) LAMIAE (8) [noun] A monster preying upon human beings and who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent. LANATE (6) LANGUE (7) [noun] Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language. LANOSE (6) LARINE (6) LARVAE (9) [noun] An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish. | [noun] An animal in the aforementioned stage. | [noun] A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage. LASSIE (6) [noun] A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart. LAUNCE (8) [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. | [noun] A balance. LAURAE (6) LAVAGE (10) [noun] A washing. | [noun] A washing of a hollow organ. | [verb] To wash a hollow organ LAWINE (9) LEAGUE (7) [noun] A group or association of cooperating members. | [noun] An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship. | [noun] (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level. | [noun] (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers). LECHWE (14) [noun] Kobus leche, an African antelope that inhabits marshy regions. LEGATE (7) [noun] A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions. | [noun] An ambassador or messenger. | [noun] The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome. LEGUME (9) [noun] The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food. | [noun] Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers). | [noun] A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea. LESSEE (6) [noun] An individual or a corporation who has the right of use of something of value, gained through a lease agreement with the real owner of the property. | [noun] The entity to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. | [noun] Someone who is allowed to use a house, building, land etc. for a period of time in return for payment to the owner. LEXEME (15) [noun] A unit of lexical meaning, roughly corresponding to the set of inflected forms taken by a single word. | [noun] An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token). LEZZIE (24) LIABLE (8) [adjective] Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable. | [adjective] Subject; susceptible. | [adjective] Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable. LIAISE (6) [verb] To establish a liaison. | [verb] To act between parties with a view to reconciling differences. | [verb] To cooperate, consult and discuss in order to come to a common solution. LIBRAE (8) [noun] A Roman unit of weight equal to about 327 grams. | [noun] Any of various units of weight in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries approximately equal to 460 grams or a little more than a US or UK pound. | [noun] Alternative spelling of libbra, an Italian unit of weight. LICHEE (11) [noun] The Chinese tropical fruit tree Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family. | [noun] That tree's bright red oval fruit with a single stone surrounded by a fleshy white aril. | [noun] A soft pink-red colour, like that of a lychee rind (also called lychee red). LIERNE (6) [noun] A cross-shaped rib of an ogival vault. LIGASE (7) [noun] Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the binding of two molecules; synthetase. LIGATE (7) [verb] To bind with a ligature or bandage. | [verb] To connect text characters with a ligature. LIGULE (7) [noun] A strap-shaped structure. | [noun] A portion of a leaf found at the base of the petiole, when present. | [noun] In many grasses (Poaceae) and some sedges (Cyperaceae), the membranous appendage or ring of hairs projecting from the inner side of a leaf at the junction between the blade and the sheath. LIGURE (7) LINAGE (7) [noun] Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage. | [noun] A number of lines of text in a column. LIPASE (8) [noun] Any of a group of enzymes which catalyses the hydrolysis of lipids. LIPIDE (9) LISTEE (6) LITTLE (6) [noun] A small amount. | [adjective] Small in size. | [adjective] Insignificant, trivial. LOATHE (9) [verb] To detest, hate, revile. LOBATE (8) [adjective] Lobed. | [adjective] Resembling a lobe. LOBULE (8) [noun] A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. | [noun] In liverworts with bilobed leaves, the smaller of the two lobes, sometimes modified to form a sac. LOCALE (8) [noun] The place where something happens. | [noun] The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc. | [noun] A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.) LOCATE (8) [verb] To place; to set in a particular spot or position. | [verb] To find out where something is located. | [verb] To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.) LOCULE (8) [noun] A little hollow; a loculus. LOGGIE (8) LOUCHE (11) [verb] To make (an alcoholic beverage, e.g. absinthe or ouzo) cloudy by mixing it with water, due to the presence of anethole. This is known as the ouzo effect. | [adjective] Of questionable taste or morality; decadent. | [adjective] Not reputable or decent. LOUNGE (7) [noun] A waiting room in an office, airport etc. | [noun] A domestic living room. | [noun] An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television. LOUVRE (9) [noun] A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. | [noun] (chiefly in plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. | [noun] Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation. LOVAGE (10) [noun] A perennial Mediterranean herb, Levisticum officinale, with odor and flavor resembling celery. | [noun] A liquor made from this herb. | [noun] Various species in the genus Ligusticum (generally with an adjective to differentiate them from Levisticum) LUCKIE (12) LUGGIE (8) LUNATE (6) [noun] A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period | [noun] The lunate bone | [adjective] Shaped like a crescent. LUNGEE (7) LUNULE (6) [noun] Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula or lune. | [noun] A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells, sometimes shaped like a double crescent, but more often heart-shaped. LUPINE (8) [noun] Any member of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae. | [noun] A lupin bean, a yellow legume seed of a Lupinus plant (usually Lupinus luteus), used as feed for sheep and cattle and commonly eaten in the Mediterranean area and in Latin America although toxic if prepared improperly. | [adjective] Of, or pertaining to, the wolf. LUSTRE (6) [noun] Shine, polish or sparkle. | [noun] By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor. | [noun] Refinement, polish or quality. | [noun] Shine, polish or sparkle. LUXATE (13) [verb] To dislocate. | [adjective] Dislocated. LYCHEE (14) [noun] The Chinese tropical fruit tree Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family. | [noun] That tree's bright red oval fruit with a single stone surrounded by a fleshy white aril. | [noun] A soft pink-red colour, like that of a lychee rind (also called lychee red). LYRATE (9) [adjective] Shaped like a lyre. | [adjective] (of leaves) Having a large terminal lobe and smaller rounded lobes toward its base. LYSATE (9) [noun] All the material formed by the lysis of cells. LYSINE (9) [noun] An essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2. LYTTAE (9) MACKLE (14) [noun] A spot. | [noun] A blur or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little during printing. | [verb] To blur or be blurred; especially to blur or double an impression from type. MACULE (10) [noun] A spot. | [noun] A blur or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little during printing. | [verb] To blur or be blurred; especially to blur or double an impression from type. MADAME (11) [noun] A polite form of address for a woman or lady. | [noun] The mistress of a household. | [noun] A conceited or quarrelsome girl. MAGPIE (11) [noun] One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae | [noun] A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen. | [noun] Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects. MAIGRE (9) [noun] A kind of fish; the meagre. | [adjective] Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day). | [adjective] Belonging to a fast day or fast. MALATE (8) [noun] A salt or ester of malic acid. MALGRE (9) MALICE (10) [noun] Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune. | [noun] An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter. | [verb] To intend to cause harm; to bear malice. MALINE (8) MALLEE (8) [noun] A type of scrubland with low-growing thick eucalypts, characteristic of certain parts of Australia. | [noun] Any semi-desert region of Australia where such scrub is the predominant vegetation. | [noun] Any of several low-growing eucalypts characteristic of such scrubland, especially Eucalyptus dumosa, Eucalyptus oleosa, and Eucalyptus socialis. | [noun] A member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any native gardener. MAMMAE (12) [noun] The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae) | [noun] An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera MAMMEE (12) [noun] An American fruit tree, Mammea americana. | [noun] Its large fragrant fruit, with a thick tough ring surrounding bright yellow pulp. MAMMIE (12) MANAGE (9) [noun] The act of managing or controlling something. | [noun] (horseriding) Manège. | [verb] To direct or be in charge of. MANCHE (13) MANEGE (9) [noun] The art of training and riding horses; dressage. | [noun] A riding school. | [noun] A riding arena (enclosed, but usually unroofed area, in contradistinction to a riding hall). MANGLE (9) [verb] To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. | [verb] To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc. | [noun] A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry. | [noun] Mangrove (tree) MANQUE (17) [adjective] Unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be MANTLE (8) [noun] The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney. | [noun] A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf. | [noun] A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.) MANURE (8) [noun] Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens. | [noun] Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser. | [noun] Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit. MARBLE (10) [noun] A rock of crystalline limestone. | [noun] (games) A small ball, usually of glass or ceramic. | [noun] An artwork made from marble. MARINE (8) [noun] A soldier, normally a member of a marine corps, trained to serve on board or from a ship | [noun] Capitalised in the plural A marine corps. | [noun] A painting representing some marine subject. MARQUE (17) [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. | [noun] A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). | [noun] A ship commissioned for making captures. MASHIE (11) [noun] A metal-headed golf club with a moderate loft, the equivalent of a five iron in a modern set of clubs. MASQUE (17) MATURE (8) [adjective] Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe. | [adjective] Brought to a state of complete readiness. | [adjective] Profound; careful. | [verb] To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities). MAUGRE (9) MAXIXE (22) [noun] A Brazilian dance in a rapid 2/4 time, influenced by the tango and polka. | [noun] A deep blue variety of beryl. MEAGRE (9) [noun] Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae. | [verb] To make lean. | [adjective] Having little flesh; lean; thin. MEALIE (8) [noun] An ear or kernel of maize; in plural as mass noun: maize, corn. MEANIE (8) [noun] A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy. | [noun] A villain. MEASLE (8) [noun] A leper. | [noun] A tapeworm larva. MEDDLE (10) [verb] To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. | [verb] To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense. | [verb] To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. MEDIAE (9) [noun] The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. | [noun] A voiced stop consonant. | [noun] One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus MEIKLE (12) MEINIE (8) MENACE (10) [noun] A perceived threat or danger. | [noun] The act of threatening. | [noun] An annoying and bothersome person or thing. | [verb] To make threats against (someone); to intimidate. MENAGE (9) [noun] A household; a domestic situation. | [noun] A type of cooperative society whereby all members pay a regular sum of savings, or through which goods can be paid for in installments. | [noun] A group of people living together in a sexual relationship. MENSAE (8) MESTEE (8) METAGE (9) [noun] Measurement, especially of coal. | [noun] A fee paid for a measurement. METATE (8) [noun] A flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains. METOPE (10) [noun] The architectural element between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze. METTLE (8) [noun] A quality of endurance and courage. | [noun] Good temperament and character. | [noun] Metal; a metallic substance. MICKLE (14) [noun] A great amount. | [noun] (originally erroneous) A small amount. | [noun] Great or important people as a class. MIDDLE (10) [noun] A centre, midpoint. | [noun] The part between the beginning and the end. | [noun] The middle stump. MIGGLE (10) MILAGE (9) [noun] The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles. | [noun] The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel. | [noun] An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile. MINGLE (9) [noun] A mixture. | [noun] The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group | [verb] To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product MINUTE (8) [noun] A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour). | [noun] A short but unspecified time period. | [noun] A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. | [adjective] Very small. MIRAGE (9) [noun] An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, giving the appearance of there being refuge in the distance. | [noun] An illusion. | [verb] To cause to appear as or like a mirage. MISATE (8) MISCUE (10) [noun] In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue. | [noun] The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor. | [noun] A miss of the object one intended to hit. MISLIE (8) MISUSE (8) [noun] An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something. | [verb] To use (something) incorrectly. | [verb] To abuse or mistreat (something or someone). MIZZLE (26) [noun] Misty rain or drizzle. | [verb] To rain in very fine drops. | [verb] To abscond, scram, flee. MOBILE (10) [noun] A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other. | [noun] The internet accessed via mobile devices. | [noun] Something that can move. MODULE (9) [noun] A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components. | [noun] A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building. | [noun] A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines. MOGGIE (10) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). MOLINE (8) [noun] The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind. MOLLIE (8) [noun] Any of many New World fish of the genus Poecilia, formerly called Mollienesia. | [noun] A Molotov cocktail. MONGOE (9) MOPOKE (14) [noun] A morepork. MORALE (8) [noun] The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others. MORGUE (9) [noun] A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance. | [noun] A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts. | [noun] The archive and background information division of a newspaper. MOROSE (8) [adjective] Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour. MOSQUE (17) [noun] A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid. MOTILE (8) [noun] A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc. | [adjective] Having the power to move spontaneously. | [adjective] Producing motion. MOTIVE (11) [noun] An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting. | [noun] An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action. | [noun] A limb or other bodily organ that can move. MOTTLE (8) [noun] A distinguishing blotch of color. | [noun] A mottled coloration or pattern. | [verb] To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. MOUSSE (8) [noun] An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse. | [noun] A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin. | [noun] A styling cream used for hair. MUCKLE (14) [noun] A great amount. | [verb] To latch onto something with the mouth. | [verb] To talk big; to exaggerate. MUCOSE (10) MUDDLE (10) [noun] A mixture; a confusion; a garble. | [noun] A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler. | [verb] To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. MUFFLE (14) [noun] Anything that mutes or deadens sound. | [noun] A warm piece of clothing for the hands. | [noun] A boxing glove. MUGGEE (10) MUMBLE (12) [noun] A quiet or unintelligible vocalization; a low tone of voice. | [verb] To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate. | [verb] To chew something gently with closed lips. MURINE (8) [noun] Any murine mammal. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the mouse, rat or (more generally) any mammal of the family Muridae. MUSCAE (10) MUSCLE (10) [noun] A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement. | [noun] An organ composed of muscle tissue. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise. MUSKIE (12) MUSTEE (8) MUTASE (8) MUTATE (8) [verb] To undergo mutation. | [verb] To cause mutation. MUTINE (8) MUTULE (8) [noun] Any of the rectangular blocks under the soffit of the cornice of the Greek Doric temple, which are studded with guttae. MUZZLE (26) [noun] The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws; the snout | [noun] The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech. | [noun] A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout. MYCELE (13) MYRTLE (11) [noun] An evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus, native to southern Europe and north Africa. NANNIE (6) NAPPIE (10) NARINE (6) NATIVE (9) [noun] An aboriginal inhabitant of a region colonized by English-speaking people; in particular: | [adjective] Aboriginal inhabitant of a region colonized by English-speaking people; in particular: | [noun] A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place. NATURE (6) [noun] The natural world; that which consists of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production, and design. (Compare ecosystem.) | [noun] The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended. | [noun] The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe. NEBULE (8) NEEDLE (7) [noun] A fine, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, etc. | [noun] Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. | [noun] A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle. NEGATE (7) [verb] To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict. | [verb] To nullify or cause to be ineffective. | [verb] To be negative; bring or cause negative results. NELLIE (6) NESTLE (6) [verb] To settle oneself comfortably and snugly. | [verb] To press oneself against another affectionately. | [verb] To lie half-hidden or in shelter. NETTLE (6) [noun] Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash. | [noun] Certain plants that have spines or prickles: | [noun] Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica: NEWSIE (9) [noun] A distributor of news; a newsagent. | [noun] A journalist. NIBBLE (10) [noun] A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth. | [noun] (in the plural, nibbles) Small snacks such as crisps/potato chips or nuts, often eaten to accompany drinks. | [verb] To eat with small, quick bites. | [noun] A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits. NICKLE (12) NIGGLE (8) [noun] A minor complaint or problem. | [noun] Small, cramped handwriting. | [verb] To trifle with; to deceive; to mock. NIMBLE (10) [adjective] Adept at taking or grasping | [adjective] Quick and light in movement or action. | [adjective] Quick-witted and alert. NIPPLE (10) [noun] The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted. | [noun] A mechanical device through which liquids or gases can be passed in a regulated manner. | [noun] An artificial nipple (definition 1) used for bottle-feeding infants. NOBBLE (10) [verb] To injure or obstruct intentionally. | [verb] To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation. | [verb] To steal. NODDLE (8) [noun] The head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. | [noun] The head as the seat of mental capacity or intellect. | [noun] The back of the head; nape. | [verb] To think or ponder. NODOSE (7) [adjective] Knot-like; swollen NODULE (7) [noun] A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump. NONAGE (7) [noun] The state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor. | [noun] A payment formerly made to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods. NONUSE (6) [noun] The failure to make use of something. NOODGE (8) NOODLE (7) [noun] (usually in the plural) a string or strip of pasta | [noun] A person with poor judgement; a fool | [noun] The brain, the head NORITE (6) [noun] A granular crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (such as labradorite) and hypersthene. NOTATE (6) [verb] To mark with spots or lines, which are often colored. | [verb] To add notes to; to annotate | [verb] To create notation (i.e. music); to record/put down in the form of notation NOTICE (8) [noun] The act of observing; perception. | [noun] A written or printed announcement. | [noun] A formal notification or warning. NOVICE (11) [noun] A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject. | [noun] A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation. NOWISE (9) [adverb] (In) no way, (in) no manner, definitely not. NOYADE (10) [noun] A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror. | [verb] To murder by drowning, especially during the French Reign of Terror. NOZZLE (24) [noun] A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe. | [noun] A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler. | [noun] The nose of an animal; muzzle. NUANCE (8) [noun] A minor distinction. | [noun] Subtlety or fine detail. | [verb] To apply a nuance to; to change or redefine in a subtle way. NUBBLE (10) [noun] A small knob or lump. | [verb] To beat or bruise with the fist. NUBILE (8) [noun] A young sexually attractive woman. | [adjective] Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman). | [adjective] Sexually attractive (especially of a young woman). NUCHAE (11) NUNCLE (8) [noun] Uncle. | [verb] To blench; cheat; deceive. NUTATE (6) NUZZLE (24) [verb] (of animals, lovers, etc) To touch someone or something with the nose. | [verb] To nurse; to foster; to bring up. | [verb] To nestle; to house, as in a nest. OBLATE (8) [noun] A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community. | [noun] A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house. | [adjective] Flattened or depressed at the poles. | [verb] To offer as either a gift or an oblation. OBLIGE (9) [verb] To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means. | [verb] To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation). | [verb] To be indebted to someone. OBTUSE (8) [verb] To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state. | [adjective] Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form. | [adjective] Intellectually dull or dim-witted. OCHONE (11) OCREAE (8) [noun] A sheath around a plant stem forming from the stipule of a leaf and extending above the point of insertion of the leaf. OCTANE (8) [noun] Any of the eighteen isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons (C8H18) found in petroleum, especially an iso-octane 2,2,4 trimethyl-pentane; they are used as fuels and solvents. OCTAVE (11) [noun] An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency. | [noun] The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch. | [noun] A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave) OEUVRE (9) [noun] A work of art. | [noun] The complete body of an artist's work. OFFICE (14) [noun] A ceremonial duty or service, particularly: | [noun] A position of responsibility. | [noun] Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position. OHMAGE (12) OLEATE (6) [noun] Any salt or ester of oleic acid OLEINE (6) ONSIDE (7) [noun] The portion of the playing area where one can legally play the ball, puck, etc. | [noun] The side of a vehicle on which the driver primarily propels it. | [adjective] Not in an offside position; In the part of the playing area where one can legally play the ball, puck, etc. OOCYTE (11) [noun] A cell that develops into an egg or ovum; a female gametocyte. OOLITE (6) [noun] A rock consisting of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains. | [noun] An ooid or oolith. OPAQUE (17) [noun] An area of darkness; a place or region with no light. | [noun] Something which is opaque rather than translucent. | [verb] To make, render (more) opaque. OPHITE (11) OPIATE (8) [noun] A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium. | [noun] Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment. | [verb] To treat with an opiate drug. OPPOSE (10) [verb] To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against. | [verb] To object to. | [verb] To present or set up in opposition; to pose. OPTIME (10) ORACHE (11) [noun] The saltbush: any of several plants, of the genus Atriplex, especially Atriplex hortensis or Atriplex patula, found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach. ORACLE (8) [noun] A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity. | [noun] A person such as a priest through whom the deity is supposed to respond with prophecy or advice. | [noun] A prophetic response, often enigmatic or allegorical, so given. ORANGE (7) [noun] An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis. | [noun] The fruit of an orange tree; a citrus fruit with a slightly sour flavour. | [noun] The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow. ORDURE (7) [noun] Dung, excrement. | [noun] (by extension) Dirt, filth. | [noun] (by extension) Something regarded as contaminating or perverting the morals; obscene material. OREIDE (7) ORGONE (7) [noun] In the psychoanalytic theory of Wilhelm Reich, a form of sexual energy or life force distributed throughout the universe and available for collection, storage, and further use. ORIOLE (6) [noun] Any of various colourful passerine birds, the New World orioles from the family Icteridae and the Old World orioles from the family Oriolidae. ORNATE (6) [verb] To adorn; to honour. | [adjective] Elaborately ornamented, often to excess. | [adjective] Flashy, flowery or showy OROIDE (7) ORPINE (8) [noun] Any of several temperate succulent plants of the family Crassulaceae, that have clusters of purple flowers, especially Hylotelephium telephium. | [noun] A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, sometimes approaching red. ORRICE (8) OSCINE (8) [noun] Any bird of the suborder Passeri (the songbirds), which have better vocal control than other birds. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the songbirds (suborder Passeri). OSCULE (8) OSMOLE (8) OSMOSE (8) [verb] To diffuse by osmosis. | [verb] To cause to diffuse by osmosis. | [noun] The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration through a partially permeable membrane. OTIOSE (6) [adjective] Having no effect. | [adjective] Done in a careless or perfunctory manner. | [adjective] Reluctant to work or to exert oneself. OUTAGE (7) [noun] A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply. | [noun] The amount of something lost in storage or transportation. OUTATE (6) OUTBYE (11) OUTLIE (6) OUTSEE (6) OUTVIE (9) [verb] To outdo a competitor or rival. PADDLE (10) [noun] A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat. | [noun] A double-bladed oar used for kayaking. | [noun] Time spent on paddling. | [verb] To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside. PALACE (10) [noun] Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system. | [noun] A large and lavishly ornate residence. | [noun] A large, ornate public building used for entertainment or exhibitions. PALATE (8) [noun] The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus. | [noun] The sense of taste. | [noun] Relish; taste; liking (from the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste) PALEAE (8) [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. PANTIE (8) PAPULE (10) [noun] A small, inflammatory, irritated spot on the skin, similar in appearance to a pimple, but not containing pus. PARADE (9) [noun] An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd of spectators. | [noun] A procession of people moving down a street, organized to protest something. | [noun] Any succession, series, or display of items. PARDEE (9) PARDIE (9) PAREVE (11) [adjective] Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient. | [adjective] (by extension) Neutral, bland, inoffensive. PAROLE (8) [noun] The release of a former prisoner under condition of compliance with specific terms. | [noun] The amount of time a former prisoner spends on limited release. | [noun] A word of honor, especially given by a prisoner of war, to not engage in combat if released. PARURE (8) [noun] A set of jewellery to be worn together. PASSEE (8) PASTIE (8) [noun] An item worn (often by strippers) to conceal one's nipples. | [noun] A type of seasoned meat pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. | [noun] A circular, battered and deep-fried meat pie usually consisting of minced pork, onion, potato and seasoning and served in a bap or with chips. A peculiarity of Northern Irish "chippy" cuisine, rarely (if ever) seen outside the area. PATINE (8) PATTEE (8) PATTIE (8) [noun] (US, Australia, New Zealand) A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape. | [noun] A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric. PAVANE (11) [noun] A musical style characteristic of the 16th and 17th centuries. | [noun] A moderately slow, courtly processional dance in duple time/meter. PAVISE (11) PAWNEE (11) [noun] One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn. PEBBLE (12) [noun] A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water. | [noun] A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. | [noun] A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface. PEDATE (9) PEDDLE (10) [verb] To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities. | [verb] To sell illegal narcotics. | [verb] To spread or cause to spread. PEERIE (8) [noun] A Shetland sheepdog. | [adjective] Small, tiny. | [noun] Spinning top PEEWEE (11) [noun] A short or small person; a small object. | [noun] A kind of small marble in children's games. | [noun] A player in a sports league for very young children. | [noun] (New South Wales and Queensland) A magpie-lark or mudlark, Grallina cyanoleuca. PELAGE (9) [noun] Fur, or any other form of the coat of a mammal PELITE (8) [noun] A sedimentary rock containing very fine particles. PENILE (8) [adjective] Pertaining to the penis. PENNAE (8) PENSEE (8) PEOPLE (10) [noun] Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. | [noun] Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc. | [noun] A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler. PERDIE (9) PERDUE (9) PERUKE (12) [noun] A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries. PERUSE (8) [noun] An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing. | [verb] To examine or consider with care. | [verb] To read completely. PESADE (9) PESTLE (8) [noun] A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things. | [noun] A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape. | [noun] The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig. PETITE (8) [adjective] (especially of a woman) fairly short and of slim build. | [adjective] (clothing) of small size. | [adjective] Small, little; insignificant; petty. PETTLE (8) PEYOTE (11) [noun] A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central Mexico that produces buttonlike tubercles that can be chewed for its psychedelic effect, primarily from the drug mescaline. | [noun] A mescal button produced by the plant. PHOEBE (13) [noun] Any of several birds of the genus Sayornis. PHRASE (11) [noun] A short written or spoken expression. | [noun] (grammar) A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words. | [noun] A small section of music in a larger piece. PHYLAE (14) PIAFFE (14) [noun] A calm, composed, elevated trot in place. | [verb] To strut pretentiously, to parade about. | [verb] To trot a horse with a high, slow, step, lifting the feet but without moving forward significantly. PIAZZE (26) PICKLE (14) [noun] A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. | [noun] (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. | [noun] The brine used for preserving food. | [noun] A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.) PIDDLE (10) [verb] To eat with small, quick bites. | [verb] To bite lightly. | [verb] To consume gradually. PIERCE (10) [verb] To puncture; to break through | [verb] To create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry | [verb] To break or interrupt abruptly | [noun] A pierced earring PIFFLE (14) [noun] Nonsense, foolish talk. | [verb] To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner. | [verb] To waste, to fritter away. PIGGIE (10) PIKAKE (16) PILOSE (8) [adjective] Covered with fine hair. PILULE (8) [noun] A little pill. PIMPLE (12) [noun] An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus. | [noun] An annoying person. | [noun] Scotch (whisky) PINENE (8) [noun] Either of two isomeric bicyclic monoterpene hydrocarbons that are the principal components of pine resin PINITE (8) PINKIE (12) [noun] A little finger, the finger furthest on a hand from the thumb. | [noun] (less commonly) A little toe, the toe furthest on a foot from the big toe. | [noun] Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals. | [noun] (South Australia) A bilby. PINNAE (8) [noun] The visible part of the ear that resides outside of the head, the auricle; outer ear excluding the ear canal. | [noun] A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf. | [noun] A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage. PINOLE (8) [noun] A coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often mixed with herbs, which may be eaten by itself or incorporated into drinks. PINTLE (8) [noun] (now dialectal) The penis, or tarse. | [noun] A pin or bolt, usually vertical, which acts as a pivot for a hinge or a rudder. | [noun] (gunnery) An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves. PIPAGE (11) PIRATE (8) [noun] A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns. | [noun] An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels. | [noun] One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission PIZZLE (26) [noun] The penis of an animal. | [noun] A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals. PLAGUE (9) [noun] (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis. | [noun] An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease. | [noun] A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution. PLAICE (10) [noun] Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae: PLAQUE (17) [noun] Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch. | [noun] A piece of flat metal with writing on it, attached to a building, monument, or other structure to remind people of a person or an event. | [noun] A small card representing an amount of money, used for betting in casinos; a sort of gaming chip. PLEASE (8) [verb] To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to. | [verb] To desire; to will; to be pleased by. | [adverb] Used to make a polite request. | [adverb] (Cincinnati) Said as a request to repeat information. PLEDGE (10) [noun] A solemn promise to do something. | [noun] A security to guarantee payment of a debt. | [noun] A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved. PLICAE (10) [noun] A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue. | [noun] Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together. | [noun] A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches. PLISSE (8) [noun] A fabric treated so as to be permanently puckered or crinkled. | [adjective] Of a fabric, treated to give a permanent puckered or crinkled effect. PLUNGE (9) [noun] The act of plunging or submerging | [noun] A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water) | [noun] A swimming pool PODITE (9) POINTE (8) [noun] The tip of the toe; a ballet position executed with the tip of the toe. POLICE (10) [noun] A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order. | [noun] A police officer. | [noun] People who seek to enforce norms or standards. POLITE (8) [verb] To polish; to refine; to render polite. | [adjective] Well-mannered, civilized. | [adjective] Smooth, polished, burnished. POLLEE (8) [noun] Someone who participates in a poll. POMACE (12) [noun] The pulp that remains after a fruit has been pressed to extract the juice (or a nut, etc., has been pressed to extract the oil). | [noun] Fish scrap. POMADE (11) [noun] A greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair, making it look slick and shiny. | [noun] Any medicinal ointment. | [verb] To anoint with pomade; to use pomade to style (hair). POMMEE (12) POMMIE (12) [noun] (sometimes pejorative) An English immigrant; a pom. | [adjective] (sometimes derogatory) English; British. PONGEE (9) [noun] A soft unbleached silk, from China or India, from silkworms that feed on oak leaves. POODLE (9) [noun] A breed of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly coat in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, medium, miniature, or toy. | [noun] A person servile towards someone whom he or she considers his or her superior. POPPLE (12) [noun] Poplar | [noun] Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind). | [verb] Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner. POPSIE (10) POROSE (8) POTAGE (9) [noun] A thick creamy soup. POTPIE (10) [noun] A pie, having pastry sides and bottom, and filled with meat etc | [noun] A dish of meat and vegetable stew with dumplings POTSIE (8) POTTLE (8) [noun] A former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot or drinking vessel of around this size. | [noun] A receptacle, typically for potato chips, yoghurt or other foodstuffs. | [noun] A small pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries. POUFFE (14) [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. | [noun] A headdress for women popular in 18th century France. POUNCE (10) [noun] A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface. | [noun] Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc. | [verb] To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder. | [noun] A sudden leaping attack. PRAISE (8) [noun] Commendation; favourable representation in words | [noun] Worship | [verb] To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship. PRANCE (10) [noun] A prancing movement. | [verb] (of a horse) To spring forward on the hind legs. | [verb] To strut about in a showy manner. PREMIE (10) PREVUE (11) PRINCE (10) [noun] A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch. | [noun] A female monarch. | [noun] Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person. PSYCHE (16) [noun] The human soul, mind, or spirit. | [noun] (chiefly psychology) The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual. | [noun] A small white butterfly, Leptosia nina, family Pieridae, of Asia and Australasia. | [verb] To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind. PUDDLE (10) [noun] A small pool of water, usually on a path or road. | [noun] Stagnant or polluted water. | [noun] A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight. PUGREE (9) PUISNE (8) [adjective] Younger; junior. | [adjective] Insignificant, petty; ineffectual. | [adjective] Inferior in rank, as designation of any justice, judge etc. other than the most senior. PULQUE (17) [noun] A milk-colored, somewhat viscous Mexican alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of certain agave plants. PUMICE (12) [noun] A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles. As the lava solidifies, the bubbles are frozen into the rock. | [verb] To abrade or roughen with pumice. PUNGLE (9) PUNKIE (12) PUPATE (10) [verb] To become a pupa. PURFLE (11) [noun] An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing. | [noun] An ornament consisting of a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or gold studs or mountings. | [verb] To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border. PURINE (8) [noun] Any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds, composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings, that constitute one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids. PURPLE (10) [noun] A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta. | [noun] (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. | [noun] Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. PURSUE (8) [verb] To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. | [verb] To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.). | [verb] To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.). PUTTEE (8) [noun] A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc. | [noun] (grammar) Something that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting. PUZZLE (26) [noun] Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of. | [noun] A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete. | [noun] A crossword puzzle. PYRENE (11) [noun] A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing four fused benzene rings; first isolated from coal tar | [noun] The stone of a drupe PYRITE (11) [noun] The common mineral iron disulfide (FeS2), of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system. | [noun] (usually as a plural: pyrites) Any metallic-looking sulphide, such as the above, which is the most common. | [noun] (usually as a plural: pyrites) Any metal dichalcogenide that is isostructural to the common mineral. PYRONE (11) PYROPE (13) [noun] A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gemstone. QUAERE (15) QUARTE (15) [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. QUATRE (15) QUICHE (20) [noun] A pie made primarily of eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat or vegetables are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked. | [adjective] Extremely appealing to look at; sexually alluring. QUINCE (17) [noun] The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga. | [noun] The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia. | [noun] A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince. QUINTE (15) [noun] The fifth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at knee height. RABBLE (10) [verb] To speak in a confused manner; talk incoherently; utter nonsense | [verb] To speak confusedly or incoherently; gabble or chatter out | [noun] A bewildered or meaningless string of words. | [noun] An iron bar used in puddling. RACEME (10) [noun] An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis. RACKLE (12) RADDLE (8) [noun] A red ochre. | [verb] To mark with raddle; to daub something red. | [verb] To interweave or twist together. | [noun] A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence. RADOME (9) [noun] A radar dome. RAFFLE (12) [noun] A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize. | [noun] A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes. | [verb] To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off. | [noun] Refuse; rubbish RAGGEE (8) RAGGLE (8) RALLYE (9) [noun] A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause. | [noun] A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America. | [noun] A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point. RAMATE (8) RAMBLE (10) [noun] A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside. | [noun] A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction. | [noun] A bed of shale over the seam of coal. RAMOSE (8) [adjective] Having branches; branching RANKLE (10) [verb] To cause irritation or deep bitterness. | [verb] To fester. RAPHAE (11) [noun] A ridge or seam on an organ, bodily tissue, or other structure, especially at the join between two halves or sections. RAPINE (8) [noun] The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder. | [verb] To plunder. RAPPEE (10) [noun] A dark, coarse, strongly flavored snuff. RASSLE (6) [verb] To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest | [verb] To struggle or strive | [verb] To take part in a wrestling match with someone RASURE (6) RATINE (6) RATITE (6) [noun] A bird of the order of Struthioniformes, a diverse group of large running, flightless birds, mostly extinct, but including the cassowary, elephant bird, emu, kiwi, moa, ostrich, rhea and tinamou | [adjective] Pertaining to the order Struthioniformes (as opposed to carinate). RATTLE (6) [noun] A sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another. | [noun] A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container. | [noun] A device that makes a rattling sound such as put on an animal so its location can be heard. | [noun] A former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight, usually between 1–5 pounds (0.5–2.5 kg). RAVAGE (10) [noun] Grievous damage or havoc. | [noun] Depredation or devastation | [verb] To devastate or destroy something. RAVINE (9) [noun] A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water. | [noun] Rapine; rapacity. | [noun] Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. REBATE (8) [noun] A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement. | [noun] The return of part of an amount already paid. | [noun] The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed. REBORE (8) [noun] The process of modifying the bore of an engine. | [verb] To bore through an existing hole, generally to correct its shape. | [verb] To bear again. REBUKE (12) [noun] A harsh criticism. | [verb] To criticise harshly; to reprove. RECANE (8) RECEDE (9) [verb] To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. | [verb] To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor. | [verb] To take back. RECIPE (10) [noun] A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions. | [noun] Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. | [noun] By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription. RECITE (8) [verb] To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience. | [verb] To list or enumerate something. | [verb] To deliver a recitation. RECODE (9) [verb] To code again or differently. RECUSE (8) [verb] To refuse or reject (a judge); to declare that the judge shall not try the case or is disqualified from acting. | [verb] (of a judge) To refuse to act as a judge; to declare oneself disqualified from acting. REDATE (7) REDDLE (8) [noun] Red ochre | [verb] To redden. REDEYE (10) [noun] The names of animals that have red eyes. | [noun] Types of beverages. | [noun] (travel) An overnight airplane flight. REDIAE (7) REDONE (7) [verb] To do again. REDUCE (9) [verb] To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower. | [verb] To lose weight. | [verb] To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote. REFACE (11) [verb] To replace the face or surface of something; to create a new outer layer. REFILE (9) REFINE (9) [verb] To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities. | [verb] To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter. | [verb] To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish. REFIRE (9) REFUGE (10) [noun] A state of safety, protection or shelter. | [noun] A place providing safety, protection or shelter. | [noun] Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort. REFUSE (9) [noun] Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. | [adjective] Discarded, rejected. | [noun] Refusal | [verb] To melt again. REFUTE (9) [verb] To prove (something) to be false or incorrect. | [verb] To deny the truth or correctness of (something). REGALE (7) [noun] A feast, meal. | [verb] To please or entertain (someone). | [verb] To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink. REGAVE (10) REGGAE (8) [noun] A form of music originating in Jamaica and associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line and percussive rhythm guitar on the offbeat, often with close vocal harmonies. REGIME (9) [noun] Mode of rule or management. | [noun] A form of government, or the government in power. | [noun] A period of rule. REGIVE (10) REGLUE (7) REHIRE (9) [noun] A former employee who has been hired again. | [verb] To hire again. RELACE (8) RELATE (6) [verb] To tell in a descriptive way. | [verb] To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another). | [verb] To have a connection. RELEVE (9) RELINE (6) [verb] To add new lines to. | [verb] To add a new lining to. RELIVE (9) [verb] To experience (something) again; to live over again. | [verb] To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate. | [verb] To come back to life. RELUME (8) [verb] To rekindle; to relight (literally or figuratively). | [verb] To make clear or bright again. REMADE (9) [verb] To make again. | [verb] To make a new, especially updated, version of (a film, video game, etc.). REMAKE (12) [noun] A new version of something. | [noun] A new, especially updated, version of a film, video game, etc. | [verb] To make again. REMATE (8) REMISE (8) [noun] A return or surrender of a claim, property etc. | [verb] To send or give back. | [verb] To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed, to quitclaim. | [noun] A house for covered carriages; a chaise house. REMOTE (8) [noun] An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room. | [verb] To connect to a computer from a remote location. | [adjective] At a distance; disconnected. REMOVE (11) [noun] The act of removing something. | [noun] (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement. | [noun] (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last RENAME (8) [noun] An instance of renaming. | [verb] To give a new name to. RENEGE (7) [verb] To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word. | [verb] In a card game, to break one's commitment to follow suit when capable. | [verb] To deny; to renounce REPAVE (11) REPINE (8) [verb] To fail; to wane. | [verb] To complain; to regret. REPOSE (8) [noun] Rest; sleep. | [noun] Quietness; ease; peace; calmness. | [noun] The period between eruptions of a volcano. | [verb] To pose again. REPUTE (8) [noun] Reputation, especially a good reputation. | [verb] To attribute or credit something to something; to impute. | [verb] To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something RERISE (6) REROSE (6) RESALE (6) [noun] The action of selling something previously bought, usually at a higher price for profit. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to selling on. RESCUE (8) [noun] An act or episode of rescuing, saving. | [noun] A liberation, freeing. | [noun] The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril RESHOE (9) RESIDE (7) [verb] To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time. | [verb] To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element. | [verb] To sink; to settle, as sediment. RESILE (6) [verb] To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. | [verb] To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body. RESITE (6) [verb] To move to another site or place. RESIZE (15) [noun] An operation that changes the size of something. | [verb] To alter the size of something. | [verb] To change in size. RESOLE (6) [verb] To replace or reattach the sole of an article of footwear. RESUME (8) [verb] To take back possession of (something). | [verb] To summarise. | [verb] To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on. | [noun] A summary or synopsis. RETAKE (10) [noun] A scene that is filmed again, or a picture that is photographed again | [noun] An instance of resitting an examination | [verb] To take something again RETAPE (8) RETENE (6) RETILE (6) [verb] To tile again; to replace with new tiles RETIME (8) [verb] To reschedule for another time. | [verb] To change the timing or duration of. RETINE (6) RETIRE (6) [noun] The act of retiring, or the state of being retired. | [noun] A place to which one retires. | [noun] A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back. | [verb] To fit (a vehicle) with new tires. RETORE (6) RETUNE (6) [verb] To tune again. RETUSE (6) RETYPE (11) [verb] To re-enter (text) using a keyboard. REVERE (9) [noun] A revers | [verb] To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion. | [verb] To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g. a saint, or an idol REVILE (9) [noun] Reproach; reviling | [verb] To attack (someone) with abusive language. REVISE (9) [noun] A review or a revision. | [noun] A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction. | [verb] To look at again, to reflect on. REVIVE (12) [verb] To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. | [verb] To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew. | [verb] To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression. REVOKE (13) [noun] The act of revoking in a game of cards. | [noun] A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid. | [noun] A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental. REVOTE (9) [noun] An act of voting again | [verb] To vote again. REWAKE (13) REWIRE (9) [verb] To replace or reconnect the wires of a device or installation. | [verb] To change the functionality of something by altering the parameters or logic. REWOKE (13) REWOVE (12) REZONE (15) [verb] To change the zoning assigned to a piece of property by the planning and zoning commission of a government that determines proper and legal use for land. RHAPHE (14) RIBOSE (8) [noun] A naturally occurring pentose sugar, which is a component of the nucleosides and nucleotides that constitute the nucleic acid biopolymer, RNA. It is also found in riboflavin. RIDDLE (8) [noun] A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature. | [noun] An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning. | [verb] To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. | [noun] A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand. | [noun] A curtain; bed-curtain | [verb] To plait RIFFLE (12) [noun] A swift, shallow part of a stream causing broken water. | [noun] A succession of small waves. | [noun] A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed. Also one of the cleats, grooves or steps in such trough. | [noun] In seal engraving, a small metal disc at the end of a tool. RIMOSE (8) RIMPLE (10) RIPPLE (10) [noun] A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid. | [noun] A sound similar to that of undulating water. | [noun] A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together. | [verb] To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze | [noun] An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc. RISQUE (15) [adjective] Suggestive of sexual impropriety; bordering on the indelicate. | [noun] A possible adverse event or outcome | [noun] The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event. RIVAGE (10) ROADIE (7) [noun] A biker. | [noun] One of the crew for a musical group or other travelling stage production, especially a stagehand or technician. | [noun] An alcoholic beverage for the ride, for consumption while one is driving. ROOKIE (10) [noun] An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces. | [noun] A novice. | [noun] An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players. ROOMIE (8) [noun] A roommate. ROSCOE (8) [noun] A handgun, particularly a revolver. ROTATE (6) [verb] To spin, turn, or revolve. | [verb] To advance through a sequence; to take turns. | [verb] (of aircraft) To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff. ROTCHE (11) ROUBLE (8) [noun] The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: копе́йка, Belarusian: капе́йка). The Russian ruble's symbol is ₽. ROUCHE (11) RUBACE (10) RUBBLE (10) [noun] The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry. | [noun] A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock. | [noun] (in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. RUCKLE (12) [noun] A disordered collection. | [noun] A wrinkle. | [verb] To crease or wrinkle. | [noun] A rattling noise in the throat, as from suffocation. RUDDLE (8) [noun] A form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep. | [noun] Ruddiness; red coloration. | [verb] To mark something with red ochre. | [noun] A riddle or sieve. RUFFLE (12) [noun] Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration. | [noun] Disturbance; agitation; commotion. | [noun] A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff. RUGATE (7) RUGOSE (7) [adjective] Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation. | [adjective] Rugged, rough, unrefined. | [adjective] Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. rugose-veined or rugose-leaved. RUMBLE (10) [noun] A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach. | [noun] A street fight or brawl. | [noun] A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other. RUMPLE (10) [noun] A wrinkle. | [verb] To make wrinkled, particularly fabric. | [verb] To muss; to tousle. RUNDLE (7) RUNKLE (10) RUSHEE (9) RUSINE (6) RUSTLE (6) [noun] A soft crackling sound similar to the movement of dry leaves. | [noun] A movement producing such a sound. | [verb] To move (something) with a soft crackling sound. RUTILE (6) [noun] The most frequent of the three polymorphs of titanium dioxide, crystalizing in the tetragonal system, TiO2. SABINE (8) [noun] The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. | [noun] The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug. | [noun] The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America. SACQUE (17) SADDLE (8) [noun] A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal. | [noun] An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal. | [noun] A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc. | [verb] To put a saddle on (an animal). SAITHE (9) [noun] The pollock or coalfish or coley (Pollachius virens). SALINE (6) [noun] Water containing dissolved salt. | [noun] A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth. | [adjective] Containing salt; salty. SALPAE (8) SALTIE (6) [noun] A salt-water crocodile (or estuarine crocodile). | [noun] An ocean-going ship that enters the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway. | [noun] The saltwater fluke or dab. SALUTE (6) [noun] An utterance or gesture expressing greeting or honor towards someone, now especially a formal, non-verbal gesture made with the arms or hands in any of various specific positions. | [noun] A kiss, offered in salutation. | [noun] A discharge of cannon or similar arms, as a mark of honour or respect. SAMITE (8) [noun] A material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages. SAMPLE (10) [noun] A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen. | [noun] A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population. | [noun] A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free. SAPOTE (8) SARAPE (8) [noun] A type of blanket worn as a cloak, especially by Spanish-Americans, or used as a saddle blanket. SARODE (7) SATIRE (6) [noun] A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this. | [noun] A satirical work. | [noun] Severity of remark. SAVAGE (10) [noun] An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian. | [noun] A defiant person. | [verb] To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint. SAVATE (9) [noun] A form of French martial art that involves combinations of punching and kicking moves SAVINE (9) [noun] The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. | [noun] The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug. | [noun] The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America. SCARCE (10) [adjective] Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand. | [adjective] Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of. | [adverb] Scarcely, only just. SCATHE (11) [noun] Harm; damage; injury; hurt; misfortune; waste. | [verb] To injure or harm. | [verb] To blast; scorch; wither. SCHEME (13) [noun] A systematic plan of future action. | [noun] A plot or secret, devious plan. | [noun] An orderly combination of related parts. SCHMOE (13) SCONCE (10) [noun] A fixture for a light. | [noun] A head or a skull. | [noun] A poll tax; a mulct or fine. | [noun] A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford. SCOUSE (8) [noun] A stew associated with the Liverpool area, usually containing (at least) meat, onions, carrots and potatoes. SCRAPE (10) [noun] A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch). | [noun] A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons. | [noun] An awkward set of circumstances. SCRIBE (10) [noun] Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary or copyist. | [noun] A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people. | [noun] A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber. SCRIVE (11) SCYTHE (14) [noun] An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath. | [noun] A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots. | [noun] The tenth Lenormand card. SEANCE (8) [noun] A ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium. | [noun] The sitting of an assembly to discuss a matter. | [verb] To hold a séance (communication with spirits). SECEDE (9) [verb] To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. | [verb] To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. SECURE (8) [verb] To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect. | [verb] To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of. | [verb] To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping. SEDATE (7) [verb] To calm or put (a person) to sleep using a sedative drug. | [verb] To make tranquil. | [adjective] (of a person or their behaviour) Remaining composed and dignified, and avoiding too much activity or excitement. SEDILE (7) [noun] One of a row of seats in an Ancient Roman amphitheatre. | [noun] A seat in the chancel of a church near the altar, for the officiating clergyman. SEDUCE (9) [verb] To beguile or lure (someone) away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray. | [verb] To entice or induce (someone) to engage in a sexual relationship. | [verb] (by extension) To have sexual intercourse with. SEETHE (9) [verb] To boil. | [verb] (of a liquid) To boil vigorously. | [verb] (of a liquid) To foam in an agitated manner, as if boiling. SEICHE (11) [noun] A short-term standing wave oscillation of the water level in a lake, characteristic of its geometry SEMEME (10) [noun] The smallest unit of meaning; especially the meaning expressed by a morpheme. SEMPLE (10) SEMPRE (10) [adverb] (as a qualifier) always, still; maintaining the same style SENATE (6) [noun] In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber. | [noun] A group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors in a political system or in institutional governance, as in a university, and traditionally of advanced age and male. SENILE (6) [noun] A person who is senile. | [adjective] Of, or relating to old age. | [adjective] Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering. SERAPE (8) [noun] A type of blanket worn as a cloak, especially by Spanish-Americans, or used as a saddle blanket. SERENE (6) [noun] Serenity; clearness; calmness. | [noun] Evening air; night chill. | [verb] To make serene. | [noun] A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset. SERINE (6) [noun] A nonessential amino acid, CH2OH.CH(NH2)COOH, found in most animal proteins, especially silk. SESAME (8) [noun] A tropical Asian plant (Sesamum indicum) bearing small flat seeds used as food and as a source of oil. | [noun] The seed of this plant. SETOSE (6) [adjective] Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs. SETTEE (6) [noun] A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa. | [noun] A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, used in the Mediterranean. SETTLE (6) [verb] To conclude or resolve (something): | [verb] To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something). | [verb] To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated. | [noun] A seat of any kind. SEVERE (9) [adjective] Very bad or intense. | [adjective] Strict or harsh. | [adjective] Sober, plain in appearance, austere. SEWAGE (10) [noun] A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed. | [noun] Sewerage. SHAVIE (12) SHEAVE (12) [noun] A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley. | [noun] A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole. | [verb] To gather and bind into a sheaf. SHEEVE (12) SHELVE (12) [noun] A rocky ledge or shelf. | [verb] To place on a shelf. | [verb] To set aside; to quit or postpone. SHIKSE (13) SHOPPE (13) [noun] (sometimes capitalized) A fanciful spelling of shop, chiefly used in the names of businesses to give an air of old-fashionedness. SHRIKE (13) [noun] Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae which are known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns. SHRINE (9) [noun] A holy or sacred place dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshipped. | [noun] A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint. | [noun] A place or object hallowed from its history or associations. SHRIVE (12) [verb] To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.) | [verb] To prescribe penance or absolution. | [verb] To confess, and receive absolution. SHROVE (12) [verb] To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.) | [verb] To prescribe penance or absolution. | [verb] To confess, and receive absolution. SICKEE (12) SICKIE (12) [noun] A day, or time, off work due to (supposed) illness. SICKLE (12) [noun] An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops. | [noun] Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock. | [verb] To cut with a sickle. SIGNEE (7) [noun] One who signs a contract, especially in athletic contexts SILAGE (7) [noun] Fermented green forage fodder stored in a silo. | [verb] To ensilage. SILANE (6) [noun] Any of a group of silicon hydrides that are analogous to alkanes (the paraffin hydrocarbons); especially the parent compound SiH4 | [noun] Monosilane (SiH₄) | [noun] Any organic derivative of monosilane SILVAE (9) SIMILE (8) [noun] A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as. SIMPLE (10) [noun] A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant. | [noun] (by extension) A physician. | [noun] A simple or atomic proposition. SINGLE (7) [noun] A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B. | [noun] A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track. | [noun] One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner. SIRREE (6) [noun] (used as an intensifier, emphatically, after yes or no) Sir. SIZZLE (24) [noun] The sound of water hitting a hot surface | [noun] Zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement. | [verb] To make the sound of water hitting a hot surface. SKEANE (10) SLEAVE (9) SLEAZE (15) [noun] Low moral standards. | [noun] A person of low moral standards. | [noun] A man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of causing disgust. SLEDGE (8) [noun] A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc. | [verb] To hit with a sledgehammer. | [noun] A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass. | [verb] To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered unsportsmanlike). SLEEVE (9) [noun] The part of a garment that covers the arm. | [noun] A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc. | [noun] A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD. SLUDGE (8) [noun] Solids separated from suspension in a liquid. | [noun] A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes. | [noun] A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler. SLUICE (8) [noun] An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow. | [noun] A water gate or floodgate. | [noun] Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. SMIDGE (10) [noun] A very small quantity or amount. SMUDGE (10) [noun] A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. | [noun] Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation. | [noun] A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. | [verb] To obscure by blurring; to smear. SNATHE (9) SNEEZE (15) [noun] An act of sneezing. | [verb] To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose. | [verb] To expel air as if the nose were irritated. SNOOZE (15) [noun] A brief period of sleep; a nap. | [noun] The snooze button on an alarm clock. | [noun] Something boring. SOCAGE (9) [noun] In the Middle Ages (and chiefly but not exclusively medieval England), a legal system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord. SOFTIE (9) [noun] A weak or sentimental person. | [noun] Somebody who finds it difficult to scold or punish. | [noun] A software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware. SOIGNE (7) [adjective] Fashionable and elegant, well-groomed. SOIREE (6) [noun] A formal evening party. SOLACE (8) [noun] Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress. | [noun] A source of comfort or consolation. | [verb] To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console. SOLATE (6) SOLUTE (6) [noun] Any substance that is dissolved in a liquid solvent to create a solution | [verb] To dissolve. | [verb] To absolve. SOMBRE (10) [noun] Gloom; obscurity; duskiness. | [verb] To make sombre or dark; to make shady. | [adjective] Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit. SOMITE (8) [noun] One of the paired masses of mesoderm distributed along the sides of the neural tube that will eventually become dermis, skeletal muscle, or vertebrae. | [noun] A metamere, one of a series of segments, arranged longitudinally, of which some animals are composed. SONSIE (6) [adjective] Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump SOOTHE (9) [verb] To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh. | [verb] To allay; assuage; mitigate; soften. | [verb] To smooth over; render less obnoxious. SOPITE (8) SORTIE (6) [noun] An attack made by troops from a besieged position. | [noun] An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft. | [noun] An attacking move SOURCE (8) [noun] The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired. | [noun] Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates. | [noun] A reporter's informant. SOZINE (15) SPAHEE (11) SPARGE (9) [noun] The step or process in brewing beer which separates the mash into clear liquid wort and grain. | [verb] To sprinkle or spray. | [verb] To introduce bubbles into (a liquid). SPARSE (8) [verb] To scatter; to disperse. | [adjective] Having widely spaced intervals. | [adjective] Not dense; meager; scanty SPATHE (11) [noun] A large bract that envelops or subtends a whole inflorescence, typically a spadix. SPAVIE (11) SPECIE (10) [noun] Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie. | [noun] Money, especially in the form of coins made from precious metal, that has an intrinsic value; coinage. SPEISE (8) SPENCE (10) [noun] A buttery or pantry SPENSE (8) SPHENE (11) [noun] Titanite SPHERE (11) [noun] A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter . | [noun] A spherical physical object; a globe or ball. | [noun] The apparent outer limit of space; the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded. SPICAE (10) SPLAKE (12) [noun] A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout SPLICE (10) [noun] A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together. | [noun] The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable. | [noun] That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade. SPLINE (8) [noun] Long thin piece of metal or wood. | [noun] A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together. | [noun] A flexible strip of metal or other material, that may be bent into a curve and used in a similar manner to a ruler to draw smooth curves between points. SPLORE (8) SPONGE (9) [noun] Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica. | [noun] A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic). | [noun] A porous material such as sponges consist of. SPOUSE (8) [noun] A person in a marriage or marital relationship. | [verb] To wed; to espouse. SPRITE (8) [noun] Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood. | [noun] A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost. | [noun] A kind of short arrow. SPRUCE (10) [noun] Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir. | [noun] The wood of a spruce. | [noun] (used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce. SPURGE (9) [noun] Any plant of the genus Euphorbia, a diverse genus of over 2,000 species. | [verb] To emit foam; to froth; said of the emission of yeast from beer during fermentation. SQUARE (15) [noun] A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral. | [noun] Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form. | [noun] An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles. SQUIRE (15) [noun] A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight. | [noun] A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire. | [noun] A male attendant on a great personage. | [noun] A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure. STABLE (8) [noun] A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses. | [noun] (metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner. | [noun] A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers. | [adjective] Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed. STACTE (8) STANCE (8) [noun] The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands. | [noun] One's opinion or point of view. | [noun] A place to stand; a position, a site, a station. STAPLE (8) [noun] A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group. | [noun] (by extension) Place of supply; source. | [noun] The principal commodity produced in a town or region. | [noun] A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around. STARVE (9) [verb] To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away. | [verb] To die because of lack of food or of not eating. | [verb] To be very hungry. STATUE (6) [noun] A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting. | [noun] A portrait. | [verb] To form a statue of; to make into a statue. STEEVE (9) [noun] The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel. | [noun] A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales and similar cargo needing to be packed tightly. | [verb] To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc. STELAE (6) [noun] An obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone STEPPE (10) [noun] The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Similar to (North American) prairie and (African) savanna. | [noun] A vast cold, dry grass-plain. STIFLE (9) [noun] A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses. | [noun] A bone disease of this region. | [verb] To interrupt or cut off. STODGE (8) [noun] Heavy, dull, often starchy food, such as a steamed pudding | [verb] To stuff; to cram. STOGIE (7) [noun] A cigar. | [noun] A type of sturdy work boot; a brogan. STOOGE (7) [noun] One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe. | [noun] A straight man. | [noun] A secret informant for police. STOURE (6) STRAFE (9) [noun] An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft. | [noun] A sideways movement without turning. | [verb] To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft. STRAKE (10) [noun] An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel. | [noun] A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow. | [noun] A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501). | [verb] (sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate. STRIAE (6) [noun] A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes. | [noun] One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc. | [noun] A stretch mark. STRIDE (7) [verb] To walk with long steps. | [verb] To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. | [verb] To pass over at a step; to step over. | [noun] A long step in walking. STRIFE (9) [noun] Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work. | [noun] Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means. | [noun] Bitter conflict, sometimes violent. STRIKE (10) [noun] A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught. | [noun] The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame. | [noun] A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest. STRIPE (8) [noun] A long, relatively straight region of a single colour. | [noun] (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces. | [noun] Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort. STRIVE (9) [noun] Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work. | [noun] Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means. | [noun] Bitter conflict, sometimes violent. STROBE (8) [noun] A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light. | [noun] An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read. | [verb] To flash like a stroboscopic lamp. STRODE (7) [verb] To walk with long steps. | [verb] To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. | [verb] To pass over at a step; to step over. STROKE (10) [noun] An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface). | [noun] A blow or hit. | [noun] A single movement with a tool. | [verb] To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction. STROVE (9) STYMIE (11) [noun] A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952). | [noun] (by extension) An obstacle or obstruction. | [verb] To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck. SUABLE (8) SUBDUE (9) [verb] To overcome, quieten, or bring under control. | [verb] To bring (a country) under control by force. SUBTLE (8) [adjective] Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood; barely noticeable. | [adjective] (of a thing) Cleverly contrived. | [adjective] (of a person or animal) Cunning, skillful. SUCKLE (12) [noun] A teat. | [verb] To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs. | [verb] To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother. SUMMAE (10) [noun] A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy. SUNDAE (7) [noun] A dessert consisting of ice cream with various toppings. | [noun] A Korean dish made of the boiled or steamed intestines of a cow or pig, stuffed with various ingredients. SUPINE (8) [noun] (grammar) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle. | [noun] (grammar) In Swedish: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses. | [adjective] Lying on its back. SUPPLE (10) [verb] To make or become supple. | [verb] To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. | [adjective] Pliant, flexible, easy to bend SUTTEE (6) [noun] The traditional custom of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion. SUTURE (6) [noun] A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound. | [noun] Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together. | [noun] An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault. SVELTE (9) [adjective] Attractively thin; gracefully slender. | [adjective] Refined, delicate. SWATHE (12) [noun] A bandage; a band | [verb] To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers | [noun] The track cut out by a scythe in mowing. SWERVE (12) [noun] A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision. | [noun] A deviation from duty or custom. | [verb] To stray; to wander; to rove. SWINGE (10) [noun] A swinging blow. | [noun] Power; sway; influence. | [verb] To singe. SWIPLE (11) SWITHE (12) SYLVAE (12) TACKLE (12) [noun] A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook. | [noun] A block and tackle. | [noun] Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling. TAILLE (6) [noun] A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France. | [noun] A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. | [noun] The tenor voice or part. TAKAHE (13) [noun] A species of large flightless bird in the Rallidae family, endemic to New Zealand. TALKIE (10) [noun] A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film. TAMALE (8) [noun] Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks. TAMMIE (10) TANGLE (7) [noun] A tangled twisted mass. | [noun] A complicated or confused state or condition. | [noun] An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight. | [noun] Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria. TASSIE (6) [noun] A cup or goblet for drinking wine. | [noun] A decorative ring or plug at the end of the barrel of a pen. | [noun] A small tart or miniature pie. TATTIE (6) [noun] Potato | [noun] A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters. TATTLE (6) [noun] A tattletale. | [noun] Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person. | [noun] Idle talk; gossip; an instance of such talk or gossip. TAWPIE (11) TAXEME (15) TAXITE (13) TEAZLE (15) [noun] Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus. | [noun] The dried flower head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus fullonum, used for teasing or carding cloth. | [noun] Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth. TECHIE (11) [noun] One who works with, or has an interest in, technology or computers. | [noun] A person who works on the technical side of events. TEEPEE (8) [verb] To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it. TEETHE (9) [verb] To grow teeth. | [verb] To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth. TELOME (8) TEMPLE (10) [noun] A house of worship, especially: | [noun] A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members. | [noun] Any place regarded as holding a religious presence. | [noun] The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear. | [noun] A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely. TENACE (8) [noun] An interrupted sequence of high cards of the same suit, such as the king and jack or the ace and queen. TENIAE (6) TENTIE (6) TENURE (6) [noun] A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency. | [noun] A period of time during which something is possessed. | [noun] A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution. TERETE (6) [adjective] Having a smooth circular cross-section; cylindrical, commonly more or less tapering. TERRAE (6) TESTAE (6) [noun] A seed coat. | [noun] The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test. TESTEE (6) THECAE (11) [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. THEINE (9) [noun] Caffeine when present in tea. THENCE (11) [adverb] From there, from that place or from that time. | [adverb] Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom. | [adverb] From that time; thenceforth; thereafter THERME (11) THIEVE (12) [verb] To commit theft. THORPE (11) [noun] (now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village. THRAVE (12) THRICE (11) [adverb] Three times. THRIVE (12) [verb] To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish. | [verb] To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable. THRONE (9) [noun] An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions. | [noun] Leadership, particularly the position of a monarch. | [noun] The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope. THROVE (12) [verb] To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish. | [verb] To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable. THYRSE (12) TIBIAE (8) [noun] The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone | [noun] The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus. | [noun] The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus. TICKLE (12) [noun] The act of tickling. | [noun] An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling. | [noun] A light tap of the ball. TIERCE (8) [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. TIMBRE (10) [noun] The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume. | [noun] The pitch of a sound as heard by the ear, described relative to its absolute pitch. | [noun] The crest on a coat of arms. TINGLE (7) [noun] A prickling or mildly stinging sensation. | [verb] To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation. | [verb] To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation. TINKLE (10) [noun] A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes. | [noun] A telephone call. | [noun] An act of urination. TIPPLE (10) [noun] An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal. | [noun] An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done. | [noun] Any alcoholic drink. TIPTOE (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) The tip of the toe. | [verb] To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground. | [adjective] Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes. TIRADE (7) [noun] A long, angry or violent speech; a diatribe. | [noun] A section of verse concerning a single theme; a laisse. | [verb] To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade. TISANE (6) [noun] A medicinal drink, originally made from barley soaked in water. TISSUE (6) [noun] Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric. | [noun] A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures. | [noun] A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief. TITTIE (6) [noun] A breast | [noun] A nipple | [noun] A kitten TITTLE (6) [noun] A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck. | [noun] Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j. | [verb] To chatter. TODDLE (8) [noun] A carefree or aimless gait; a stroll. | [verb] To walk unsteadily, as a small child does. | [verb] To walk in a carefree manner. TOFFEE (12) [noun] A type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard | [noun] A small, individual piece of toffee | [noun] Any kind of sweets; candy TOGATE (7) TOGGLE (8) [noun] A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope or chain to be secured to any other loop, ring, or bight, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat. | [noun] (in particular) A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric. | [noun] A toggle switch. TOLANE (6) TONEME (8) [noun] A phoneme in a language that uses different tones for different meanings. TONGUE (7) [noun] The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech. | [noun] This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).− | [noun] (metonym) A language. TOOTLE (6) [noun] A soft toot sound. | [noun] A trip or excursion. | [verb] To make a soft toot sound. TOPPLE (10) [verb] To push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something | [verb] To totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so TOROSE (6) TORQUE (15) [noun] A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton metre or Nm; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy) | [verb] To twist or turn something. | [noun] A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples. TOUCHE (11) [interjection] An acknowledgement of a hit. | [interjection] An acknowledgement of the validity, appropriateness or superiority of an opponent's argument or statement in a discussion. TOUPEE (8) [noun] A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man. | [noun] A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair. | [noun] A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig. TOUSLE (6) [noun] The action of ruffling or setting in disorder. | [verb] To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss. TOUZLE (15) TOWAGE (10) [noun] The act of towing. | [noun] A charge for towing. TOWHEE (12) [noun] Any of several species of birds of the genera Pipilo and Melozone. TOWNEE (9) [noun] A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university. | [noun] A person born and raised in an area of Massachusetts who is proud of his or her Irish-American community, culture, and heritage. | [noun] A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area. Especially, one who is perceived not to have adopted rural ways. TOWNIE (9) [noun] A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university. | [noun] A person born and raised in an area of Massachusetts who is proud of his or her Irish-American community, culture, and heritage. | [noun] A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area. Especially, one who is perceived not to have adopted rural ways. TOXINE (13) TRANCE (8) [noun] A dazed or unconscious condition. | [noun] A state of awareness, concentration, and/or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being). | [noun] A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis. | [noun] (obsolete outside Britain) A tedious journey. TREBLE (8) [noun] The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition. | [noun] A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano. | [noun] The highest tuned in a ring of bells. TRIAGE (7) [noun] Assessment or sorting according to quality. | [noun] The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury). | [noun] (by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed. TRIENE (6) [noun] Any alkene that has three double bonds TRIFLE (9) [noun] An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream. | [noun] Anything that is of little importance or worth. | [noun] A very small amount (of something). TRIODE (7) [noun] A thermionic valve containing an anode, a cathode, and a control grid; small changes to the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode, which makes amplification possible. TRIOSE (6) [noun] A sugar or saccharide containing three carbon atoms. Trioses are the smallest monosaccharides. Dihydroxyacetone and L-/D-glyceraldehyde are the only trioses. TRIPLE (8) [noun] Three times or thrice the number, amount, size, etc | [noun] A drink with three portions of alcohol. | [noun] A hamburger with three patties. TRISTE (6) TRIUNE (6) [adjective] Threefold, having three components that are both separate and united. | [adjective] (specifically, of the Trinity) Having three hypostases that are perfectly united but distinct. TROCHE (11) TROMPE (10) TROUPE (8) [noun] A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers. | [noun] Any group of people working together on a shared activity. | [verb] To tour with a troupe. TRUDGE (8) [noun] A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk. | [verb] To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps. | [verb] To trudge along or over a route etc. TRUFFE (12) TRYSTE (9) TSETSE (6) [noun] Any fly of the genus Glossina, native to Africa, that feeds on human and animal blood; known primarily as a carrier of parasitic trypanosomes. TUBATE (8) TUBULE (8) [noun] A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube. TUILLE (6) TUMBLE (10) [noun] A fall, especially end over end. | [noun] A disorderly heap. | [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. TURTLE (6) [noun] Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise. | [noun] (specifically) A marine reptile of that order. | [noun] An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above. | [noun] A turtle dove. TUSCHE (11) TUSHIE (9) TUSSLE (6) [noun] A physical fight or struggle. | [noun] A conflict, an argument, a disagreement. | [verb] To have a tussle. TUYERE (9) [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 TWEEZE (18) [verb] To pluck or grasp using tweezers. | [verb] To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers. | [verb] To pluck out hairs using tweezers. TWELVE (12) [noun] A group of twelve items. | [noun] A twelve-bore gun. | [noun] A jury (normally composed of twelve persons). TWINGE (10) [noun] A pinch; a tweak; a twitch. | [noun] A sudden sharp pain. | [verb] To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak. TZETZE (24) UBIQUE (17) UGSOME (9) ULLAGE (7) [noun] In a wine bottle, the empty space between the cork and the top of the wine. | [noun] In a cask or barrel, the empty space, occupied by air, that is created by not completely filling the cask or barrel, or through spillage. | [noun] The topping-up of such a barrel with fresh wine. UMBRAE (10) [noun] The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. | [noun] The central region of a sunspot. | [noun] A shadow. UMPIRE (10) [noun] The official who presides over a tennis game sat on a high chair. | [noun] One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match. | [noun] One of usually 4 officials who preside over a baseball game. UNABLE (8) [adjective] Not able; lacking a certain ability. | [verb] To render unable; disable UNCAGE (9) [verb] To take out of or release from a cage. | [verb] (by extension) To unleash; to remove from restraints. UNCAKE (12) UNCASE (8) [verb] To take out of a case or covering; to uncover. | [verb] To strip; to flay. | [verb] To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body. UNCIAE (8) UNCUTE (8) UNDINE (7) [noun] A female water-sprite or nymph. | [noun] The elemental being of water. | [noun] A small flask used to apply lotions to the eye. UNDONE (7) [adjective] Not done. | [verb] To reverse the effects of an action. | [verb] To unfasten. UNEASE (6) [noun] Trouble; misery; a feeling of disquiet or concern. | [verb] To make uneasy or uncomfortable UNFREE (9) [adjective] Not free; especially of a tenant who was bound to a manor. UNGLUE (7) UNIQUE (15) [noun] A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled. | [adjective] Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched. | [adjective] Of a feature, such that only one holder has it. UNLACE (8) [verb] To remove the knot from laces; to undo laces. | [verb] To loosen the clothing of (a person). | [verb] To remove (film) from a projector. UNLADE (7) [verb] To unload. | [verb] To disburden; take the burden from; relieve. | [verb] To discharge the cargo from. UNLIKE (10) [noun] Something that is not like something else; something different. | [adjective] Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance. | [adjective] Unequal. | [noun] The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media. UNLIVE (9) UNMADE (9) [adjective] Not (yet) made | [adjective] Existing without having been made | [verb] To destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature. UNMAKE (12) [verb] To destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature. UNPILE (8) UNPURE (8) UNRIPE (8) [adjective] Not ripe. | [adjective] Developing too early; premature. UNROBE (8) [verb] To disrobe, to undress. UNROVE (9) UNSAFE (9) [adjective] Not safe (various senses); dangerous. UNSURE (6) [adjective] Uncertain | [adjective] Unstable or precarious UNTAME (8) UNTRUE (6) [adjective] False; not true. | [adjective] Not faithful or loyal. UNTUNE (6) UNWISE (9) [adjective] Not wise; lacking wisdom UNWOVE (12) UNYOKE (13) [verb] To release something from a yoke or harness. | [verb] To disconnect, unlink. | [verb] To liberate, deliver from oppression. UPBORE (10) UPDATE (9) [noun] An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known. | [noun] A change in information, a modification of existing or known data. | [noun] An additional piece of information. An addition to existing information. UPDIVE (12) UPDOVE (12) UPGAZE (18) UPHOVE (14) UPHROE (11) UPPILE (10) UPRATE (8) [noun] An increase in a rating | [verb] To give something a higher rating UPRISE (8) [noun] The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. | [verb] To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. | [verb] To have an upward direction or inclination UPROSE (8) [verb] To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. | [verb] To have an upward direction or inclination | [verb] To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising. UPSIDE (9) [noun] The highest or uppermost side or portion of something | [noun] A favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect | [noun] An upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc UPTAKE (12) [noun] Understanding; comprehension. | [noun] Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism. | [noun] The act of lifting or taking up. UPTIME (10) [noun] The period of time a computer has functioned since last requiring a reboot. UPTORE (8) URBANE (8) [adjective] (of a man) Courteous, polite, refined, and suave. UREASE (6) UREIDE (7) [noun] Any compound, of general formula R-CO-NH-CO-NH2 or R-CO-NH-CO-NH-CO-R', formally derived by the acylation of urea URSINE (6) [noun] A bear. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae. USABLE (8) [adjective] Capable of being used. | [adjective] Easy to use; exhibiting good usability. | [adjective] Homosexual USANCE (8) [noun] The length of time permitted for the payment of a bill of exchange. | [noun] Use. | [noun] Customary or habitual usage. UVULAE (9) [noun] The fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing. | [noun] The slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate. | [noun] An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper. VACATE (11) [verb] To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction. | [verb] To leave an office or position. | [verb] To have a court judgement set aside; to annul. VADOSE (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to water beneath the surface of the earth which is located above the level of the permanent groundwater. VAGILE (10) VAHINE (12) VALINE (9) [noun] An essential amino acid 2-amino-3-methylbutanoic acid found in most animal proteins. VALISE (9) [noun] A piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase or travelling bag. 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VILLAE (9) VIRILE (9) [adjective] Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor. | [adjective] (of a male) Possessing high sexual drive and capacity for sexual intercourse. | [adjective] (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns. VIRTUE (9) [noun] Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct. | [noun] A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality. | [noun] Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins. VISAGE (10) [noun] Countenance; appearance; one's face. VISIVE (12) VITTAE (9) [noun] A fillet, or garland for the head. | [noun] A longitudinal stripe. | [noun] An oil tube in the fruit of some plants. VITTLE (9) [noun] Food. | [noun] (in the plural) Food; edible provisions. | [verb] To provide or obtain edible provisions. VIVACE (14) VOLUME (11) [noun] A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement. | [noun] Strength of sound; loudness. | [noun] The issues of a periodical over a period of one year. VOLUTE (9) [noun] The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture. | [noun] The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell. | [noun] Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae. VOTIVE (12) [noun] A hymn or chant dedicated to a particular saint, or to the Virgin Mary | [adjective] Dedicated or given in fulfillment of a vow or pledge | [adjective] Of, expressing or symbolizing a vow. Often used to describe thick cylindrical candles found in many churches, lit when making a private vow or asking a private intention. VOYAGE (13) [noun] A long journey, especially by ship. | [noun] The act or practice of travelling. | [verb] To go on a long journey. VULVAE (12) WABBLE (13) WADDIE (11) WADDLE (11) [noun] A squat, swaying gait. | [verb] To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side. WAFFIE (15) WAFFLE (15) [noun] A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern. | [noun] A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern. | [verb] To smash. | [noun] Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive. WAGGLE (11) [noun] A wobbling motion. | [noun] The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke. | [verb] To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble. WAHINE (12) [noun] A Polynesian or Maori woman. | [noun] A female surfer. WALLIE (9) WAMBLE (13) WANDLE (10) WANGLE (10) [noun] The act of wangling | [verb] To obtain through manipulative or deceitful methods. | [verb] To falsify, as records. WARBLE (11) [noun] The sound of one who warbles; singing with trills or modulations. | [noun] In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrowband noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered. | [verb] To modulate a tone's frequency. | [noun] A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma. WARSLE (9) WATAPE (11) WATTLE (9) [noun] A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof. | [noun] A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch. | [noun] A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards. WEDGIE (11) [noun] A wedge-heeled shoe. | [noun] A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks. | [noun] A situation where a person's underpants are stuck uncomfortably between their buttocks. WEENIE (9) [noun] Someone weak and unimportant. | [noun] A geek or nerd, especially a computer user with a deficient social life. | [noun] (collectible card games) A small creature which has a low cost to put into play, often used in a swarm with other such creatures. WEEPIE (11) [noun] A sad or sentimental film, often portraying troubled romance, designed to elicit a tearfully emotional response from its audience. WEEWEE (12) WELLIE (9) [noun] Wellington boot. | [noun] Force on a pedal or increase to any fuel or power for an engine or motor. | [noun] Force or effort. WHARVE (15) WHEEZE (21) [noun] A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration. | [noun] An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone. | [noun] (British, Irish) An ulterior scheme or plan WHENCE (14) [adverb] From where; from which place or source. | [conjunction] Used for introducing the result of a fact that has just been stated. WHERVE (15) WHINGE (13) [noun] A cry. | [noun] A peevish complaint. | [verb] To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner. WIDDIE (11) WIDDLE (11) [noun] Urine. | [noun] An act of urination. | [verb] To urinate. WIENIE (9) [noun] A wiener. | [noun] The penis. WIGGLE (11) [noun] A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular. | [noun] An alternating state or characteristic. | [noun] (in the plural) See wiggles. WIMBLE (13) WIMPLE (13) [noun] A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders. | [noun] A fold or pleat in cloth. | [noun] A ripple, as on the surface of water. | [verb] To cover with a wimple. WINDLE (10) WINKLE (13) [noun] A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae. | [noun] Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculata and Busycon carica. | [noun] The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man. WINTLE (9) WOBBLE (13) [noun] An unsteady motion. | [noun] A tremulous sound. | [noun] A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep WOODIE (10) [noun] An early station wagon or estate car in which the rear portion of the car's bodywork is made of wood, often associated with Southern California surfing culture. | [noun] A wooden rollercoaster; an amusement ride whose rails are overlaid upon a wooden track. | [noun] An erection of the penis. WOOLIE (9) WRASSE (9) [noun] Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are brightly colored. WRITHE (12) [noun] A contortion. | [noun] (knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot | [verb] To twist, to wring (something). XYLENE (16) [noun] Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, found in coal and wood tar. XYLOSE (16) [noun] One of the pentoses, C5H10O5, a white crystalline sugar, derived from wood. YIPPEE (13) [interjection] Used to express joy or elation. YIPPIE (13) [noun] A member of the Youth International Party, a group of politically active hippies. | [interjection] Used to express joy or elation. YUPPIE (13) [noun] A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle. ZAFFRE (21) [noun] A blue pigment obtained by roasting cobalt ore. | [noun] A cobalt blue colour, like that of the pigment. ZIZZLE (33) ZOMBIE (19) [noun] A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere. | [noun] (voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own. | [noun] A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living. ZONATE (15) ZONULE (15) [noun] A little zone, or girdle; a zonula. | [noun] The zonule of Zinn. ZOUAVE (18) ZYGOSE (19) ZYGOTE (19) [noun] A fertilized egg cell. ZYMASE (20) [noun] Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the fermentation of simple carbohydrates to ethanol and carbon dioxide.