Countdown Words Containing T

ACT (5) [noun] Something done, a deed. | [noun] Actuality. | [noun] Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work. AFT (6) [noun] The stern portion of a vessel. | [adjective] Located at the back of a boat, ship, or airplane | [adverb] At, near, or towards the stern of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel). | [noun] The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm. AIT (3) [noun] An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. | [noun] An oat. ALT (3) [noun] High pitch, of a voice or instrument; especially, the octave above the top line of the treble stave. | [noun] A state of excitement, a heightened emotional condition. | [noun] An alternate or secondary character. ANT (3) [noun] Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females. | [noun] A Web spider. | [verb] To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers. APT (5) [adjective] Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited. | [adjective] (of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards. | [adjective] Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn. | [noun] An apartment; a flat. ART (3) [noun] The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. | [noun] The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc. | [noun] Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus. ATE (3) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. ATT (3) BAT (5) [noun] Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous. | [noun] An old woman. | [noun] A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket. | [verb] To flutter | [noun] A packsaddle. | [noun] The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang. BET (5) [noun] A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event). | [noun] A degree of certainty. | [verb] To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager. | [noun] The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁 | [preposition] Between BIT (5) [noun] A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal. | [noun] A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes. | [noun] A coin of a specified value. | [adjective] Bitten. | [noun] A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0. BOT (5) [noun] The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses. | [verb] To bugger | [verb] To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes. | [noun] A physical robot. BUT (5) [noun] An instance or example of using the word "but". | [noun] The outer room of a small two-room cottage. | [noun] A limit; a boundary. CAT (5) [noun] An animal of the family Felidae: | [noun] A person: | [noun] A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship. | [noun] A twin-hulled ship or boat. | [noun] A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output. | [adjective] Terrible, disastrous. | [noun] A street name of the drug methcathinone. | [noun] A catapult. | [noun] A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria. | [noun] Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth | [noun] Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.) COT (5) [noun] A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes. | [noun] A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides. | [noun] A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks. | [noun] A cottage or small homestead. | [noun] A small, crudely-formed boat. | [noun] A cover or sheath; a fingerstall. CUT (5) [noun] The act of cutting. | [noun] The result of cutting. | [noun] An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound. DIT (4) [verb] To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit). | [verb] To close up. | [noun] A ditty, a little melody. | [noun] The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code. | [noun] Decimal digit | [adjective] Indicator of a declared surname originating from Canadian French. DOT (4) [noun] A small, round spot. | [noun] (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period. | [noun] A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ. | [noun] A dowry. EAT (3) [noun] Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item. | [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. EFT (6) [noun] A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus). | [adverb] Again; afterwards ETA (3) [noun] The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek. | [noun] A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin. | [noun] A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people. ETH (6) [noun] A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language. FAT (6) [noun] A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy. | [noun] A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat. | [noun] That part of an organization deemed wasteful. | [noun] A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern. FET (6) [verb] To fetch | [noun] A piece | [noun] Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. FIT (6) [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. | [noun] A section of a poem or ballad. | [noun] A seizure or convulsion. GAT (4) [noun] (in old westerns) A Gatling gun. | [noun] (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol. | [verb] To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm. | [noun] A guitar | [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [noun] An opening between sandbanks; a strait. | [noun] A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen. GET (4) [noun] Offspring. | [noun] Lineage. | [noun] A difficult return or block of a shot. | [noun] A git. | [noun] A Jewish writ of divorce. GIT (4) [noun] A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying or childish person (usually a man). | [verb] To get. | [verb] To get (leave; scram). | [noun] The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting. GOT (4) [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [verb] To receive. | [verb] (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes. GUT (4) [noun] The alimentary canal, especially the intestine. | [noun] The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged | [noun] The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc. HAT (6) [noun] A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration. | [noun] A particular role or capacity that a person might fill. | [noun] Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery. | [verb] (heading, physical) To strike. HET (6) [noun] A heterosexual person. | [noun] Fan fiction based on celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship. | [adjective] Heterosexual. | [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). | [noun] Heterozygote | [noun] The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). HIT (6) [noun] A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. | [noun] Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim. | [noun] An attack on a location, person or people. | [pronoun] It. HOT (6) [verb] (with up) To heat; to make or become hot. | [verb] (with up) To become lively or exciting. | [adjective] (of an object) Having a high temperature. HUT (6) [noun] A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials. | [noun] A small wooden shed. | [noun] A small stack of grain. ITS (3) [noun] One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being. | [noun] The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag. | [noun] The game of tag. JET (10) [noun] A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc. | [noun] A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid. | [noun] A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers. | [noun] A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery. JOT (10) [noun] Iota; the smallest letter or stroke of any writing. | [noun] A small amount, bit; the smallest amount. | [noun] Moment, instant. JUT (10) [noun] Something that sticks out. | [verb] To stick out. | [verb] To butt. KAT (7) KIT (7) [noun] A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves. | [noun] A kind of basket made especially from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish; by extension, the contents of such a basket or similar container, used as a measure of weight. | [noun] A collection of items forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack. | [noun] A kitten (young cat). | [noun] A very small long-necked violin that came in a variety of shapes and configurations, meant to be carried in a pocket and intended for instructors (dancing masters) to carry to accompany their students. | [noun] A school of pigeons, especially domesticated, trained pigeons. LAT (3) [noun] A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind. | [noun] A monumental pillar, particularly the Buddhist columns erected in East India. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A latrine: a rudimentary or military facility for urination and defecation. | [noun] The gold-backed monetary unit of Latvia from August 1922 until April 1941, when it was replaced by the Soviet ruble; it was typically pegged at about 25 to the British pound. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A latissimus dorsi muscle. | [noun] Latitude LET (3) [noun] The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent. | [verb] To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). | [verb] To leave. | [verb] To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). LIT (3) [verb] To start (a fire). | [verb] To set fire to; to set burning. | [verb] To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark. | [noun] Little. | [noun] Colour; blee; dye; stain. | [verb] To colour; dye. | [noun] The body of all written works. LOT (3) [noun] A large quantity or number; a great deal. | [noun] A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively. | [noun] One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items. MAT (5) [noun] A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering. | [noun] A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster. | [noun] A floor pad to protect athletes. | [noun] (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal. | [noun] A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon. | [noun] A material or component needed for a crafting recipe. | [noun] A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame. MET (5) [verb] To make contact (with) while in proximity. | [verb] (Of groups) To come together. | [verb] To make physical or perceptual contact. | [verb] To measure. | [verb] To dream. MOT (5) [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. | [noun] A note or brief strain on a bugle. | [noun] A woman; a wife. MUT (5) NET (3) NIT (3) [noun] The egg of a louse. | [noun] A young louse. | [noun] A head louse regardless of its age. | [noun] A candela per square meter. | [noun] A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism. NOT (3) [noun] A unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true. | [adverb] Negates the meaning of the modified verb. | [adverb] To no degree. NTH (6) [noun] The item at position n in a sequence. | [noun] The item in a relatively large but unspecified position in a series. | [adjective] Occurring at position n in a sequence. NUT (3) [noun] A hard-shelled seed. | [noun] A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft. | [noun] A crazy person. | [interjection] No. OAT (3) [noun] Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa. | [noun] Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena. | [noun] (usually as plural) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop. OFT (6) [adverb] (and in combination) often; frequently; not rarely OOT (3) OPT (5) [verb] To choose; select. ORT (3) [noun] (usually in plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse. | [verb] To turn away from with disgust; refuse. OUT (3) [noun] A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc. | [noun] A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc. | [noun] A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball. PAT (5) [noun] The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep | [noun] A light tap or slap, especially with the hands | [noun] A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung. | [noun] Patent. PET (5) [noun] An animal kept as a companion. | [noun] (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.) | [noun] One who is excessively loyal to a superior. | [noun] A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted. | [noun] A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures. | [noun] A term of endearment usually applied to women and children. PHT (8) PIT (5) [noun] A hole in the ground. | [noun] An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race. | [noun] A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed. | [noun] A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit. | [noun] A pit bull terrier. POT (5) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food. | [noun] Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly | [noun] Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave e.g. Rowten Pot | [noun] Marijuana | [noun] A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc. | [noun] A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical. PUT (5) [noun] A right to sell something at a predetermined price. | [noun] A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date. | [noun] The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push. | [noun] An idiot; a foolish person; a duffer. | [noun] A prostitute. QAT (12) [noun] A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant. RAT (3) [noun] A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus. | [noun] Any of the numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) that resemble true rats in appearance, usually having a pointy snout, a long, bare tail, and body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches. | [noun] A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling. | [noun] A scratch or a score. | [noun] A ration. RET (3) [verb] To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem. | [adjective] Retired ROT (3) [noun] The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction. | [noun] Decaying matter. | [noun] Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs. RUT (3) [noun] Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. | [noun] The noise made by deer during sexual excitement. | [noun] Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. | [noun] A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. SAT (3) [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | [verb] (of a person) To move oneself into such a position. | [verb] (of an object) To occupy a given position permanently. | [noun] A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one. SET (3) [verb] To put (something) down, to rest. | [verb] To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. | [verb] To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be. | [noun] A punch for setting nails in wood. | [adjective] Fixed in position. | [noun] A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot. | [verb] To divide a class group in a subject according to ability SIT (3) [noun] Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine. | [noun] An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation. | [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | [noun] Short for situation. SOT (3) [noun] Stupid person; fool | [noun] Drunkard | [verb] To drink until one becomes drunk STY (6) [noun] A pen or enclosure for swine. | [noun] A messy, dirty or debauched place. | [verb] To place in, or as if in, a sty | [noun] A ladder. | [noun] An inflammation of the eyelid. TAB (5) [noun] A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc. | [noun] An ear. | [noun] (by extension) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls. | [noun] A restaurant bill. | [noun] A cigarette. | [noun] A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments. | [noun] (British slang) A student of Cambridge University. | [noun] A tabloid newspaper. | [noun] A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs. | [noun] A tableau curtain. TAD (4) [noun] A small amount; a little bit. | [noun] A street boy; an urchin. TAE (3) TAG (4) [noun] A small label. | [noun] A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it". | [noun] A skin tag, an excrescence of skin. | [noun] A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls. TAJ (10) [noun] A tall brimless hat, usually conical or curved on top, worn in Muslim countries as a sign of distinction and prestige. | [noun] A crown worn by Indian princes as a sign of high rank. TAM (5) [noun] A type of woolen hat developed in Scotland, a toorie bunnet. Originally they were worn by both genders, but now they are mostly worn by men and boys. | [noun] A traditional South and East Asian unit of weight, based upon the load of a shoulder pole and varying by place and over time but usually standardized at about 60 kg. TAN (3) [noun] A yellowish-brown colour. | [noun] A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources. | [noun] The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained. | [verb] To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun. | [numeral] The second cardinal number two, formerly used in Celtic areas, especially Cumbria and parts of Yorkshire, for counting sheep, and stitches in knitting. | [noun] An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh | [noun] A traditional South and East Asian unit of weight, based upon the load of a shoulder pole and varying by place and over time but usually standardized at about 60 kg. | [noun] A twig or small switch. TAO (3) [proper noun] In Taoism, The Way, specifically the transcendental basis of nature and, and/or the ideal way to live one's life. | [noun] The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution | [noun] The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area. TAP (5) [noun] A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask. | [noun] A device used to dispense liquids. | [noun] Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor. | [noun] A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat. | [noun] An Indian malarial fever. TAR (3) [noun] (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal. | [noun] Coal tar. | [noun] A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke. | [noun] A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems. | [noun] A Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus. | [noun] A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East. TAS (3) [noun] A heap, pile. | [noun] A cup or cupful. | [noun] An Oriental silk fabric, with gold or silver thread. TAT (3) [noun] Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze. | [noun] Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets. | [noun] Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute). | [verb] To make (something by) tatting. | [noun] A pony. | [noun] A tattoo. TAU (3) [noun] The letter Τ/τ in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek. | [noun] A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol. | [noun] A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon. TAV (6) TAW (6) [noun] Tawed leather. | [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [noun] A favorite marble in the game of marbles. | [noun] The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic. | [verb] To push; to tug; to tow. TAX (10) [noun] Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services. | [noun] A burdensome demand. | [noun] A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. | [verb] To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company). TEA (3) [noun] A drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, cannabis. | [noun] The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa. | [noun] Food consumed before going to bed. | [noun] A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea. It is now found in Chinese-language historical fiction. TED (4) [noun] A teddy boy. | [verb] To spread hay for drying. TEE (3) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter T. | [noun] Something shaped like the letter T. | [noun] (clothing) T-shirt. | [verb] To draw; lead. | [noun] A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole. | [noun] A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries. TEG (4) [noun] A sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old | [noun] A doe in its second year TEL (3) [noun] A message transmitted by telegraph. | [noun] An apparatus, or a process, for communicating rapidly between distant points, especially by means of established visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical means. | [noun] A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take. | [noun] A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold. TEN (3) [noun] A set or group with ten elements. | [noun] A card in a given suit with a value of ten. | [noun] A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units. See also tenner. TET (3) TEW (6) THE (6) [adverb] With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives. | [adverb] With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the. | [preposition] For each; per. THO (6) [pronoun] Those; they. | [adverb] Then; thereupon. | [conjunction] When. | [adverb] Despite that; however. THY (9) [conjunction] Because, for sake, forwhy, since. TIC (5) [noun] A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization. | [noun] (by extension) Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically. | [noun] (abbreviation) ticket 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. TIL (3) [preposition] Until, till | [preposition] ~ to: as far as; down to; up to, until | [conjunction] Until, till | [noun] The sesame plant TIN (3) [noun] A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn. | [noun] An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food. | [noun] A metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc. TIP (5) [noun] The tip of the external ear. | [noun] A small earpiece or earplug. | [noun] The part of an earbud that contours to the ear canal. | [noun] (skittles) The knocking over of a skittle. | [noun] A light blow or tap. | [noun] A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation. | [noun] A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc. | [noun] A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour. TIS (3) [noun] A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale. | [noun] The good luck plant, Cordyline fruticosa, an evergreen shrub. TIT (3) [noun] A mammary gland, teat. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast. | [noun] An idiot; a fool. | [noun] A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat). | [noun] A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere. TOD (4) [noun] A fox. | [noun] Someone like a fox; a crafty person. | [noun] A bush, especially of ivy. 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. TOG (4) [noun] A cloak. | [noun] A coat. | [noun] A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre | [adverb] At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity. TOM (5) [noun] A flat gong (without knob) that is struck with a felt-covered hammer. | [noun] The male of the domesticated cat. | [noun] The male of the turkey. | [noun] A tomato (the fruit). | [noun] Jewellery | [verb] (of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority. | [verb] To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability. TON (3) [noun] A unit of weight (mass) equal to 2240 pounds (a long ton) or 2000 pounds (a short ton) or 1000 kilograms (a metric ton). | [noun] A unit of volume; register ton. | [noun] In refrigeration and air conditioning, a unit of thermal power defined as 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.514 kW or 3024 kcal/h), originally the rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of one short ton of ice per day at 32 °F (0 °C). | [noun] Fashion, the current style, the vogue. | [noun] The common tunny, or horse mackerel. TOO (3) [adverb] (focus) Likewise. | [adverb] Also; in addition. | [adverb] (degree) To an excessive degree; over; more than enough. TOP (5) [noun] The highest or uppermost part of something. | [noun] A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top. | [noun] (heading) Someone who is eminent. TOR (3) [noun] A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill, created by the erosion and weathering of rock. | [noun] (South-West England) A hill with such rock formation. | [noun] A tower; a turret. | [adjective] Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious. TOT (3) [noun] A small child. | [noun] A measure of spirits, especially rum. | [noun] Tater tot. | [noun] A total, an addition of a long column of figures. TOW (6) TOY (6) [noun] Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. | [noun] A thing of little importance or value; a trifle. | [noun] A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal. TRY (6) [noun] An attempt. | [noun] An act of tasting or sampling. | [noun] A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football. | [adjective] Fine, excellent. TSK (7) TUB (5) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in. | [noun] The contents or capacity of such a vessel. | [noun] A bathtub. TUG (4) [noun] A sudden powerful pull. | [noun] A tugboat. | [noun] A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles. TUI (3) [noun] A New Zealand honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae TUN (3) [noun] A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. | [noun] A fermenting vat. | [noun] An old English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes. | [noun] A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days. TUP (5) [noun] A male sheep, a ram. | [noun] The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer. | [verb] To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe. | [noun] Two pence. TUT (3) [verb] To make a tut tut sound of disapproval. | [interjection] Tut tut; an expression of disapproval. | [interjection] Hush; be silent. | [noun] A tutorial. | [noun] An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it. | [noun] A piece of work. TUX (10) [noun] A tuxedo. TWA (6) TWO (6) [noun] The digit/figure 2. | [noun] A two-dollar bill. | [noun] A child aged two. TYE (6) UTA (3) UTS (3) VAT (6) [noun] A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning. | [noun] A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry. | [noun] A vessel for holding holy water. VET (6) [noun] A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon. | [noun] A veteran (a former soldier or other member of an armed forces). | [verb] To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval. WAT (6) [noun] A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia. | [noun] A kind of stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea. | [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. | [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. WET (6) [noun] Liquid or moisture. | [noun] Rainy weather. | [noun] Rainy season. (often capitalized) WIT (6) [noun] (now usually in the plural) Sanity. | [noun] (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses. | [noun] Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning. | [verb] Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively). | [preposition] Against. WOT (6) [verb] To know. | [interjection] An expression of surprise or disbelief. | [interjection] What do you want? An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires. | [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. YET (6) [adverb] (usually with negative) Thus far; up to the present; up to some specified time; still | [adverb] Continuously up to the current time; still. | [adverb] At some future time; eventually; still. | [noun] A metal pan or boiler; yetling. | [verb] To get. ZIT (12) [noun] Pimple

ABET (6) [noun] Fraud or cunning. | [noun] An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid. | [verb] To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. ABUT (6) [verb] To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) | [verb] To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to. | [verb] To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. ACTA (6) [noun] Plural of actum; records of the proceedings or transactions of a society or organization. ACTS (6) [noun] Something done, a deed. | [noun] Actuality. | [noun] Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work. ADIT (5) [noun] A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes. AIRT (4) [noun] A direction or point of the compass, especially in Scottish usage. | [verb] To guide or direct. AITS (4) [noun] An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. | [noun] An oat. ALIT (4) ALTO (4) [noun] A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody. | [noun] A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part. | [noun] An alto saxophone ALTS (4) [noun] An alternate or secondary character. | [noun] An alternate account. | [noun] An alternative investment or alternative fund. ANTA (4) [noun] A pilaster or pier formed at the corner of a building or at the end of a wall. ANTE (4) [noun] A price or cost, as in up the ante. | [noun] In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards. | [verb] To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up. ANTI (4) [noun] A person opposed to a concept or principle. | [adjective] Opposed to something. | [adjective] That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180° ANTS (4) [noun] Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females. | [noun] A Web spider. | [verb] To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers. ARTS (4) [noun] The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. | [noun] The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc. | [noun] Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus. ARTY (7) [adjective] Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown. ATAP (6) [noun] A palm tree native to Southeast Asia, or the leaf thatch made from this tree used for roofing. ATES (4) [verb] Third person singular simple present tense of "ate," meaning to consume food. | [noun] Plural of "ate," the Greek goddess of mischief and ruin. ATMA (6) [noun] The eternal self or soul in Hindu and yogic philosophy, believed to be the innermost essence of a person. ATOM (6) [noun] The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. | [noun] (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter. | [noun] The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something. ATOP (6) [adverb] On, to, or at the top. | [preposition] On the top of. | [preposition] On the top, with "of". AUNT (4) [noun] The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The female cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. AUTO (4) [noun] An automobile. | [noun] A setting for automatic operation. | [noun] An automatic gearbox / transmission. | [noun] An autorickshaw. BAHT (9) [noun] The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang. | [adverb] Without (Yorkshire dialect, famously part of the song title On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at) BAIT (6) [noun] Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net. | [noun] Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests. | [noun] Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something | [verb] To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport. | [verb] To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey. | [adjective] Obvious; blatant. BAST (6) [noun] Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord. BATE (6) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. | [noun] Strife; contention. | [noun] An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning. | [verb] To hit; strike | [verb] To masturbate. BATH (9) [noun] A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub. | [noun] A building or area where bathing occurs. | [noun] The act of bathing. | [noun] A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons). BATS (6) [noun] Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous. | [noun] An old woman. | [noun] A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket. BATT (6) [noun] Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation | [noun] (usually in the plural) A shoe. BEAT (6) [noun] A stroke; a blow. | [noun] A pulsation or throb. | [noun] A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. | [noun] A beatnik. BEET (6) [noun] Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar. | [noun] A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant. | [verb] To improve; to mend. BELT (6) [noun] A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. | [noun] A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt. | [noun] A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power. BENT (6) [verb] To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means. | [verb] To become curved. | [verb] To cause to change direction. | [noun] Any of various stiff or reedy grasses. BEST (6) [noun] The supreme effort one can make, or has made. | [noun] One's best behavior. | [noun] The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent. BETA (6) [noun] The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase. | [noun] Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc. | [noun] Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices. BETH (9) [noun] The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁 | [noun] The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב | [noun] The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ BETS (6) [noun] A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event). | [noun] A degree of certainty. | [verb] To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager. BHUT (9) [noun] A variety of extremely hot chili pepper, also known as the ghost pepper, native to India. BINT (6) [noun] A woman, a girl. 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. BITS (6) [noun] A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal. | [noun] A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes. | [noun] A coin of a specified value. BITT (6) [noun] The bitts. | [noun] A bollard. | [verb] To put round the bitts. BLAT (6) [verb] To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat. | [verb] To make a senseless noise. | [verb] To talk inconsiderately. | [noun] Connections; relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society). BLET (6) [verb] To overripen or decay, as fruit does when it becomes soft and brown. | [noun] The process of fruit becoming overripe. BLOT (6) [noun] A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance. | [noun] (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace. | [noun] A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier. BOAT (6) [noun] A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind. | [noun] A full house. | [noun] A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape. BOLT (6) [noun] A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw. | [noun] A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism. | [noun] A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open. | [noun] A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. BOOT (6) [noun] A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg. | [noun] A blow with the foot; a kick. | [noun] A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc. | [noun] Remedy, amends. | [noun] The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device. | [noun] A bootleg recording. BORT (6) [noun] Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond. BOTA (6) [noun] A leather bottle or bag, typically made from a goatskin, used for storing and carrying liquids such as wine or water. BOTH (9) [pronoun] Each of the two, or of the two kinds. | [conjunction] Including both of (used with and). | [conjunction] Including all of (used with and). BOTS (6) [noun] The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses. | [noun] A physical robot. | [noun] A piece of software designed to complete a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account. BOTT (6) [noun] The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses. BOUT (6) [noun] A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant. | [noun] A boxing match. | [noun] An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept. | [preposition] In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of. BRAT (6) [noun] A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish. | [noun] A son or daughter (at any age) of an active military service member. | [noun] A turbot or flatfish | [noun] Bratwurst | [noun] A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime. | [noun] Acronym of Born, Raised, And Transferred. BRIT (6) [verb] To break in pieces; divide. | [verb] To bruise; indent. | [verb] To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain). | [noun] One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc. | [noun] Brit milah BRUT (6) [adjective] (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet BUNT (6) [noun] The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. | [noun] A push or shove; a butt. | [noun] A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved. BUST (6) [noun] A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders. | [noun] The breasts and upper thorax of a woman. | [noun] The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession. | [noun] The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation. BUTE (6) [noun] Phenylbutazone. BUTS (6) [noun] An instance or example of using the word "but". | [noun] The outer room of a small two-room cottage. | [noun] A limit; a boundary. BUTT (6) [noun] The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end | [noun] The waste end of anything | [noun] (generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end. | [noun] A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt. | [noun] (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe. | [noun] Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot | [noun] A heavy two-wheeled cart. 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. CANT (6) [noun] An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup. | [noun] A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group. | [noun] A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta. | [noun] Side, edge, corner, niche. | [noun] A parcel, a division. | [adjective] Lively, lusty. CART (6) [noun] A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers. | [noun] A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart. | [noun] A shopping cart. | [noun] A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements. CAST (6) [noun] An act of throwing. | [noun] An instance of throwing out a fishing line. | [noun] Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc. CATE (6) [noun] (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food. CATS (6) [noun] An animal of the family Felidae: | [noun] A person: | [noun] A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship. CELT (6) [noun] A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool. CENT (6) [noun] (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢. | [noun] A small sum of money. | [noun] (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro. CETE (6) [noun] A group of badgers. CHAT (9) [noun] Informal conversation. | [noun] A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations. | [noun] (totum pro parte, typically with definite article) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a single member thereof. | [noun] A small potato, such as is given to swine. | [noun] (local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines. | [noun] A louse (small, parasitic insect). | [noun] Any savory snack, sold from a roadside stall in India, or served as a starter in an Indian restaurant CHIT (9) [noun] A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. | [noun] A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman. | [noun] The embryonic growing bud of a plant | [noun] A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message. | [noun] A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe. | [noun] Shit. CIST (6) [noun] A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece. | [noun] A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs. 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 CITY (9) [noun] A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place. | [noun] A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size. | [noun] The central business district; downtown. CLOT (6) [noun] A thrombus, solidified mass of blood. | [noun] A solidified mass of any liquid. | [noun] A silly person. COAT (6) [noun] An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp | [noun] A covering of material, such as paint.Wp | [noun] The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.Wp COFT (9) COLT (6) [noun] A young male horse. | [noun] A young crane (bird). | [noun] A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice. COOT (6) [noun] Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead. | [noun] A foolish or eccentric fellow | [noun] (with the) A success; something excellent. COST (6) [verb] To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. | [verb] To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. | [verb] To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. | [noun] Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used. | [noun] Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance. | [noun] A rib; a side. 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. COTS (6) [noun] A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes. | [noun] A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides. | [noun] A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks. CULT (6) [noun] A group or sect of people with a deviant religious, philosophical or cultural identity, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members. | [noun] Devotion to a saint. | [noun] The veneration and religious rites given to a deity, esp. in a historical polytheistic context. CUNT (6) [noun] The female genitalia, especially the vulva. | [noun] An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand more usually a man). | [noun] An objectionable object or item. CURT (6) [verb] To cut, cut short, shorten. | [adjective] Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude. | [adjective] Short or concise. 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. CUTS (6) [noun] The act of cutting. | [noun] The result of cutting. | [noun] An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound. CYST (9) [noun] A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ. | [noun] Of or pertaining to the urinary bladder or gall bladder (in compounds). DAFT (8) [adjective] Foolish, silly, stupid. | [adjective] Crazy, insane, mad. | [adjective] Gentle, meek, mild. DART (5) [noun] A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin | [noun] Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon. | [verb] To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch. DATA (5) [noun] (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc. | [noun] (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation. | [noun] (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn. DATE (5) [noun] The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel. | [noun] The date palm. | [noun] The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made. DATO (5) DAUT (5) DAWT (8) DEBT (7) [noun] An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another. | [noun] The state or condition of owing something to another. | [noun] Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction. DEET (5) DEFT (8) [adjective] Quick and neat in action; skillful. DENT (5) [noun] A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact. | [noun] A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action | [noun] A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. DIET (5) [noun] The food and beverage a person or animal consumes. | [noun] A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health. | [noun] (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption. | [verb] To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet. | [noun] (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly. DINT (5) [noun] A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight. | [noun] Force, power; especially in by dint of. | [noun] The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. DIPT (7) DIRT (5) [noun] Soil or earth. | [noun] A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance. | [noun] Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person. DITA (5) DITE (5) DITS (5) [noun] A ditty, a little melody. | [noun] A word; a decree. | [noun] The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code. DITZ (14) [noun] A scatterbrained person, especially a woman. DOAT (5) DOIT (5) [noun] A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver. | [noun] A small amount; a bit, a jot. | [noun] In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards. | [verb] To stumble; to blunder. DOLT (5) [noun] A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard. | [verb] To behave foolishly. DOST (5) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DOTE (5) [noun] A darling, a cutie. | [noun] An imbecile; a dotard. | [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. DOTH (8) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DOTS (5) [noun] A small, round spot. | [noun] (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period. | [noun] A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ. DOTY (8) DRAT (5) [verb] To damn or curse. | [interjection] Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration. DUCT (7) [noun] A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another. | [noun] An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs. | [noun] Guidance; direction. DUET (5) [noun] A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble). | [noun] A song composed for and/or performed by a duo. | [noun] A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant. DUIT (5) DUNT (5) [noun] A stroke; a dull-sounding blow. | [verb] To strike; give a blow to; knock. | [noun] The disease gid or sturdy in sheep. DUST (5) [noun] Fine particles | [noun] The act of cleaning by dusting. | [noun] The earth, as the resting place of the dead. DUTY (8) [noun] That which one is morally or legally obligated to do. | [noun] The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task. | [noun] A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff. EAST (4) [noun] One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox. Abbreviated as E. | [adjective] Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward. | [adjective] Wind from the east EATH (7) EATS (4) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. EDIT (5) [noun] A change to the text of a document. | [noun] A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software. | [noun] An interruption or change to an improvised scene. EFTS (7) [noun] A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus). EMIT (6) [verb] To send out or give off ERST (4) [adjective] First. | [adverb] First of all, before (some other specified thing). | [adverb] Sooner (than); before. ETAS (4) [noun] The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek. | [noun] A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin. | [noun] A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people. ETCH (9) [verb] To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards. | [verb] To engrave a surface. | [verb] To make a lasting impression. | [noun] An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been been mowed; also, a field of such growth. ETHS (7) [noun] A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language. ETIC (6) [adjective] Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures. ETNA (4) ETUI (4) [noun] A small, ornamental bag or rigid container used for holding articles such as needles. EXIT (11) [noun] An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. | [noun] A way out. | [noun] The act of departing from life; death. FACT (9) [noun] Something actual as opposed to invented. | [noun] Something which is real. | [noun] Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation. FART (7) [noun] An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. | [noun] (impolite) An irritating person; a fool. | [noun] (impolite, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views. FAST (7) [noun] A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations | [adjective] Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable. | [adjective] Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. | [noun] The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food. FATE (7) [noun] The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. | [noun] The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. | [noun] An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time. FATS (7) [noun] A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy. | [noun] A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat. | [noun] That part of an organization deemed wasteful. FEAT (7) [noun] A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment. | [verb] To form; to fashion. | [adjective] Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty. | [verb] To feature. I FEET (7) [noun] A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. | [noun] Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. | [noun] (often used attributively) Travel by walking. | [noun] Fact; performance; feat. FELT (7) [noun] A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. | [noun] A hat made of felt. | [noun] A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. | [verb] (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch. FETA (7) [noun] A variety of curd cheese made from sheep’s or goat’s milk and originating from Greece. FETE (7) [noun] A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity. | [noun] A feast, celebration or carnival. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). FETS (7) [verb] To fetch FIAT (7) [noun] An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree. | [noun] Authorization, permission or (official) sanction. | [noun] (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes. FIST (7) [noun] A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward. | [noun] The pointing hand symbol ☞. | [noun] The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code. | [noun] The act of breaking wind; fise. FITS (7) [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. FIXT (14) FLAT (7) [noun] An area of level ground. | [noun] A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪). | [noun] A flat tyre/tire. | [noun] An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room. | [verb] To beat or strike; pound FLIT (7) [noun] A fluttering or darting movement. | [noun] A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state. | [noun] A homosexual. FONT (7) [noun] A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism. | [noun] A receptacle for oil in a lamp. | [noun] Spring, source, fountain. | [noun] A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters. | [noun] A source, wellspring, fount. FOOT (7) [noun] A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. | [noun] Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. | [noun] (often used attributively) Travel by walking. FORT (7) [noun] A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops. | [noun] Any permanent army post. | [noun] An outlying trading-station, as in British North America. FRAT (7) [noun] Shortened form for fraternity, college organization. (Often used as a noun modifier.) FRET (7) [noun] Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. | [noun] Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation. | [noun] Herpes; tetter. | [noun] An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief. | [noun] A ferrule, a ring. | [noun] A channel, a strait; a fretum. | [noun] A channel or passage created by the sea. | [noun] A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea. FRIT (7) [noun] A fused mixture of materials used to make glass. | [noun] A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age) | [verb] To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture | [adjective] Frightened. | [noun] A frit fly. FUTZ (16) [noun] An objectionable woman | [verb] To be frivolous and waste time | [verb] To experiment by trial and error GAIT (5) [noun] Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. | [noun] One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training. | [verb] To teach a specific gait to a horse. | [noun] A sheaf of corn. GAST (5) GATE (5) [noun] A doorlike structure outside a house. | [noun] Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. | [noun] Movable barrier. | [noun] A way, path. GATS (5) [noun] (in old westerns) A Gatling gun. | [noun] (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol. | [verb] To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm. GELT (5) [noun] A lunatic. | [noun] Gilding; gilt. | [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). | [noun] Money. | [noun] Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel. GENT (5) [noun] A gentleman. | [adjective] Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful. | [adjective] Neat; pretty; elegant | [noun] Short for gentamicin. GEST (5) GETA (5) GETS (5) [noun] Offspring. | [noun] Lineage. | [noun] A difficult return or block of a shot. GHAT (8) [noun] A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place. | [noun] A mountain range. | [noun] A mountain pass. GIFT (8) [noun] Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. | [noun] A talent or natural ability. | [noun] Something gained incidentally, without effort. GILT (5) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. | [noun] A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding. GIRT (5) [noun] A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts. | [verb] To gird. | [verb] To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. | [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [adjective] Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big. GIST (5) [noun] The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith. | [noun] The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action. | [noun] Resting place (especially of animals), lodging. GITS (5) [noun] The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting. | [noun] A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying or childish person (usually a man). GLUT (5) [noun] An excess, too much. | [noun] That which is swallowed. | [noun] Something that fills up an opening. GNAT (5) [noun] Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera. GOAT (5) [noun] A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra. | [noun] A lecherous man. | [noun] A scapegoat. GOUT (5) [noun] An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints. | [noun] (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch. | [noun] A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae. | [noun] Taste; relish GRAT (5) GRIT (5) [noun] A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. | [noun] Inedible particles in food. | [noun] A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats. GROT (5) [noun] A grotto. | [noun] Any unpleasant substance or material. | [noun] A miserable person. GUST (5) [noun] A strong, abrupt rush of wind. | [noun] (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.). | [verb] To blow in gusts. | [noun] The physiological faculty of taste. | [verb] To taste. GUTS (5) [noun] The alimentary canal, especially the intestine. | [noun] The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged | [noun] The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc. HAET (7) HAFT (10) [noun] The handle of a tool or weapon. | [verb] To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle | [noun] A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted. HALT (7) [verb] To limp; move with a limping gait. | [verb] To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. | [verb] To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. | [noun] A cessation, either temporary or permanent. | [noun] Lameness; a limp. HANT (7) HART (7) [noun] A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year. | [noun] A red deer or one of related species. | [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. HAST (7) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HATE (7) [noun] An object of hatred. | [noun] Hatred. | [noun] Negative feedback, abusive behaviour. HATH (10) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HATS (7) [noun] A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration. | [noun] A particular role or capacity that a person might fill. | [noun] Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery. HAUT (7) HEAT (7) [noun] Thermal energy. | [noun] The condition or quality of being hot. | [noun] An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. | [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). HEFT (10) [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). | [verb] To throw, cast. | [verb] To rise and fall. | [noun] A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed). | [noun] A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook. HENT (7) HEST (7) [noun] Command, injunction. HETH (10) HETS (7) [noun] A heterosexual person. | [noun] Fan fiction based on celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship. | [noun] Heterozygote HILT (7) [noun] The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand. | [noun] The base of the penis. | [verb] To provide with a hilt. HINT (7) [noun] A clue. | [noun] A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement. | [noun] A small, barely detectable amount of. HIST (7) [noun] An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent. | [interjection] An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention. | [interjection] An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard. | [noun] The aggregate of past events. | [verb] To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight). HITS (7) [noun] A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. | [noun] Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim. | [noun] An attack on a location, person or people. HOLT (7) [noun] A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse. | [noun] The lair of an animal, especially of an otter. HOOT (7) [noun] A derisive cry or shout. | [noun] The cry of an owl. | [noun] A fun event or person. (See hootenanny) HOST (7) [noun] One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially. | [noun] One that provides a facility for an event. | [noun] A person or organization responsible for running an event. | [noun] A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels) | [noun] The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist. HOTS (7) [verb] (with up) To heat; to make or become hot. | [verb] (with up) To become lively or exciting. | [noun] A condition of physical attraction toward (for) someone. HUNT (7) [noun] The act of hunting. | [noun] A hunting expedition. | [noun] An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it. HURT (7) [noun] An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. | [noun] A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise. | [noun] Injury; damage; detriment; harm HUTS (7) [noun] A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials. | [noun] A small wooden shed. | [noun] A small stack of grain. HYTE (10) IKAT (8) [noun] A style of weaving that uses a process similar to tie-dye to dye the threads. | [noun] A work woven in this style. INTI (4) [noun] The currency of Peru between 1985 and 1991, replacing the sol. INTO (4) [preposition] To or towards the inside of. | [preposition] To or towards the region of. | [preposition] Against, especially with force or violence. IOTA (4) [noun] The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. | [noun] A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity. ITCH (9) [noun] A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch. | [noun] A constant teasing desire or want. | [verb] To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched. ITEM (6) [noun] A distinct physical object. | [noun] (by extension) An object that can be picked up for later use. | [noun] A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account. JATO (11) [noun] An auxiliary jet engine in a detachable unit that provides extra power for the takeoff of an aircraft | [noun] A takeoff assisted by such a unit | [noun] A RATO unit or RATO takeoff - a rocket assisted take-off JEST (11) [noun] An act performed for amusement; a joke. | [noun] Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke. | [noun] A deed; an action; a gest. | [adverb] Only, simply, merely. JETE (11) [noun] A leap from one foot to the other in which one leg appears to be "thrown" in the direction of the movement. JETS (11) [noun] A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc. | [noun] A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid. | [noun] A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers. JILT (11) [noun] A woman who jilts a lover. | [verb] To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love. JOLT (11) [noun] An act of jolting. | [noun] A surprise or shock. | [noun] A long prison sentence. JOTA (11) [noun] A traditional popular dance of the Iberian peninsula with regional variations. | [noun] The music to which this dance is set, normally of 3/4 or 6/8 time. JOTS (11) [noun] Iota; the smallest letter or stroke of any writing. | [noun] A small amount, bit; the smallest amount. | [noun] Moment, instant. JUST (11) [adjective] Factually right, correct; factual. | [adjective] Rationally right, correct. | [adjective] Morally right; upright, righteous, equitable; fair. | [noun] A joust, tournament. 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. JUTS (11) [noun] Something that sticks out. KART (8) [noun] A go-cart. | [verb] To ride in a go-cart. KATA (8) [noun] Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts. | [noun] (in combination) A drop (in temperature). | [adverb] In a direction analogous to down, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension. | [noun] A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries. KATS (8) KEET (8) KENT (8) [verb] To know, perceive or understand. | [verb] To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry. | [noun] A shepherd's staff. KEPT (10) [verb] To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain. | [verb] (heading) To hold the status of something. | [verb] (heading) To hold or be held in a state. KETO (8) KHAT (11) [noun] A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant. KHET (11) KILT (8) [noun] A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern. | [noun] Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid | [noun] A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA. | [verb] To put to death; to extinguish the life of. KIST (8) [verb] To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting. | [verb] To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact. | [verb] Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion. | [noun] A chest. KITE (8) KITH (11) [noun] Friends and acquaintances. | [noun] (rural) An acquaintance or a friend. KITS (8) [noun] A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves. | [noun] A kind of basket made especially from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish; by extension, the contents of such a basket or similar container, used as a measure of weight. | [noun] A collection of items forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack. KNIT (8) [noun] A knitted garment. | [noun] A session of knitting. | [verb] To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine. KNOT (8) [noun] A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops. | [noun] (of hair, etc) A tangled clump. | [noun] A maze-like pattern. | [noun] One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus). KOTO (8) [noun] A Japanese stringed instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand. KYAT (11) [noun] The official currency of Myanmar. KYTE (11) [noun] Obsolete form of kite. | [noun] Alternative spelling of kite LAST (4) [adjective] Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind. | [adjective] Most recent, latest, last so far. | [adjective] Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable. | [verb] To perform, carry out. | [noun] A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes. | [noun] A burden; load; a cargo; freight. LATE (4) [noun] A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night. | [adjective] Near the end of a period of time. | [adjective] Specifically, near the end of the day. LATH (7) [noun] A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc. | [verb] To cover or line with laths LATI (4) LATS (4) [noun] A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind. | [noun] A monumental pillar, particularly the Buddhist columns erected in East India. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A latrine: a rudimentary or military facility for urination and defecation. | [noun] Latrines: rudimentary or military facilities for urination and defecation. | [noun] A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind. | [noun] The latissimus dorsi muscles. | [noun] A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind. LEET (4) [noun] A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves. | [verb] To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). | [verb] To leave. | [noun] A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction. | [noun] The European pollock. | [noun] An artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace | [noun] Abbreviation of leetspeak. LEFT (7) [noun] The left side or direction. | [noun] The ensemble of left-wing political parties. Those holding left-wing views as a group. | [noun] The left hand or fist. | [verb] To have a consequence or remnant. | [verb] To have a consequence or remnant. LENT (4) [noun] A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures. | [noun] The second term of the academic year at some British schools. | [verb] To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned. LEPT (6) LEST (4) [conjunction] For fear that; that not; in order to prevent something from happening; in case. | [conjunction] (after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension) that (without the negative particle; introduces the reason for an emotion.) LETS (4) [noun] The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent. | [verb] To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). | [verb] To leave. LIFT (7) [noun] An act of lifting or raising. | [noun] The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip. | [noun] Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator. | [noun] Air. LILT (4) [noun] Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness. | [noun] A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune. | [noun] A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking. LINT (4) [noun] A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds. | [noun] Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc. | [noun] The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant. | [verb] To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors. LIST (4) [noun] A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth. | [noun] Material used for cloth selvage. | [noun] A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself. | [noun] Art; craft; cunning; skill. | [verb] To listen. | [noun] Desire, inclination. | [noun] A tilt to a building. 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. LITS (4) LITU (4) LOFT (7) [noun] (except in derivatives) air, the air; the sky, the heavens. | [noun] An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building. | [noun] The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure. LOOT (4) [noun] A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks. | [noun] The act of plundering. | [noun] Plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city. LOST (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). LOTA (4) [noun] A spherical pot, specifically a water pot used for washing and ablution, typically made of brass. | [noun] A person who switches loyalties, especially from one political party to another. LOTH (7) [adjective] Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling. | [adjective] Angry, hostile. | [adjective] Loathsome, unpleasant. | [noun] A measure of weight formerly used in Germany, the Netherlands and some other parts of Europe, equivalent to half of the local ounce. LOTI (4) [noun] A kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae. | [noun] A water lily, genus Nymphaea, especially those of Egypt or India. | [noun] A legendary plant eaten by the Lotophagi of the Odyssey that caused drowsiness and euphoria. | [noun] The basic monetary unit of the currency of the Kingdom of Lesotho, introduced in 1980 to replace the South African rand as legal tender. LOTS (4) [noun] A large quantity or number; a great deal. | [noun] A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively. | [noun] One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items. LOUT (4) [noun] A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob. | [noun] A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. | [verb] To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. | [verb] To bend, bow, stoop. LUNT (4) LUST (4) [noun] A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal. | [noun] A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual. | [noun] A delightful cause of joy, pleasure. 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. LUTZ (13) [noun] A jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, rotates counterclockwise and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate. MALT (6) [noun] Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise. | [noun] Malt liquor, especially malt whisky. | [noun] A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor. MART (6) [noun] A market. | [noun] A bargain. | [verb] To buy or sell in, or as in a mart. | [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. MAST (6) [noun] A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments ,or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires. | [noun] A non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command. | [verb] To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). | [noun] The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals. | [noun] A type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball. MATE (6) [noun] A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate. | [noun] (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner. | [noun] A friend, usually of the same sex. | [noun] The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture. | [noun] The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea MATH (9) [noun] A mowing; what is gathered from mowing. | [noun] Arithmetic calculations; (see do the math). | [noun] A math course. | [noun] A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram. MATS (6) [noun] A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering. | [noun] A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster. | [noun] A floor pad to protect athletes. MATT (6) [noun] (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal. | [adjective] Dull; not reflective of light. MAUT (6) MEAT (6) [noun] The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. | [noun] A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. | [noun] Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. MEET (6) [noun] A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet). | [noun] A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. | [noun] A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. | [adjective] Suitable; right; proper. MELT (6) [noun] Molten material, the product of melting. | [noun] The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. | [noun] The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. META (6) [adjective] Self-referential; structured analogously, but at a higher level. | [noun] Boundary marker. | [noun] Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus. | [noun] Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game. | [noun] Metoidioplasty. METE (6) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). | [noun] A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere. | [adjective] Suitable; right; proper. METH (9) [noun] Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride. | [noun] Methadone. | [noun] (Mancunian) A tramp. | [noun] A spiced mead, originally from Wales. MILT (6) [noun] The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food. | [noun] The semen of a male fish. | [verb] To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt. MINT (6) [noun] A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence. | [noun] A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc. | [noun] Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. | [noun] Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems. | [noun] (provincial) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor. MIST (6) [noun] Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. | [noun] A layer of fine droplets or particles. | [noun] Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision. MITE (6) [noun] Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari). | [noun] A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. | [noun] A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. MITT (6) [noun] A mitten | [noun] An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt. | [noun] (especially in plural) A hand. MITY (9) MIXT (13) MOAT (6) [noun] A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation. | [noun] An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason. | [noun] A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it. MOLT (6) [noun] The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. | [noun] The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. MOOT (6) [noun] A moot court. | [noun] A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties. | [noun] A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks. | [noun] A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors. | [noun] Vagina. | [noun] The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree. MORT (6) [noun] Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. | [noun] A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. | [noun] The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. | [noun] A great quantity or number. | [noun] A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed. | [noun] A three-year-old salmon. | [noun] A woman; a female. MOST (6) [noun] The greatest amount. | [noun] The greater part. | [noun] A record-setting amount. | [adverb] Almost. MOTE (6) [noun] A small particle; a speck. | [verb] May or might. | [verb] Must. | [noun] A meeting for discussion. | [noun] A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust. MOTH (9) [noun] A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae. | [noun] Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing. | [verb] To hunt for moths. | [noun] The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean. | [noun] A small particle; a speck. MOTS (6) [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. | [noun] A note or brief strain on a bugle. MOTT (6) [noun] (chiefly Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm. | [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. MUST (6) [noun] Something that is mandatory or required. | [verb] (modal auxiliary, defective) To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate. | [verb] (modal auxiliary, defective) To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a negative consequence. | [noun] The property of being stale or musty. | [noun] A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness (also spelled musth). MUTE (6) [noun] A stopped consonant; a stop. | [noun] An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. | [noun] A person who does not have the power of speech. | [noun] The faeces of a hawk or falcon. | [verb] To cast off; to moult. MUTS (6) MUTT (6) [noun] A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of diverse ancestry. | [noun] An idiot, a stupid person. | [noun] A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram. MYTH (12) [noun] A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc. | [noun] Such stories as a genre. | [noun] A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality. NEAT (4) [noun] An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy. | [adjective] Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities. | [adjective] Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below. | [noun] A bull or cow. NEST (4) [noun] A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. | [noun] A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young. | [noun] A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation. NETS (4) [noun] A mesh of string, cord or rope. | [noun] A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc. | [noun] A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something. NETT (4) [noun] The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit. | [adjective] Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear. | [adjective] Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat. NEWT (7) [noun] A small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult. NEXT (11) [noun] The one that follows after this one. | [adjective] Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining. | [adjective] Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order. 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. NITS (4) [noun] A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism. | [noun] A logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms. | [noun] The egg of a louse. NOTA (4) [noun] The back; the dorsal aspect of the thorax in insects. 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. NOWT (7) [noun] Naught, nothing. | [adverb] Naught, nothing. | [pronoun] Naught, nothing. | [noun] An ox. NUTS (4) [noun] A hard-shelled seed. | [noun] A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft. | [noun] A crazy person. OAST (4) [noun] A kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops. OATH (7) [noun] A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise. | [noun] A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge. | [noun] A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity. OATS (4) [noun] Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa. | [noun] Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena. | [noun] (usually as plural) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop. OBIT (6) [noun] Death of a person. | [noun] A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. | [noun] A record of a person's death. | [noun] An obituary. OMIT (6) [verb] To leave out or exclude. | [verb] To fail to perform. | [verb] To neglect or take no notice of. ONTO (4) [adjective] (of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain. | [preposition] Upon; on top of. | [preposition] Aware of. OOTS (4) OPTS (6) [verb] To choose; select. ORTS (4) [noun] (usually in plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse. OTIC (6) [adjective] Of, relating/pertaining to, or located near the ear OTTO (4) [noun] An essential oil extracted from flowers. | [noun] A perfume made from this oil. OUST (4) [verb] To expel; to remove. OUTS (4) [noun] A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc. | [noun] A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc. | [noun] A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball. PACT (8) [noun] An agreement; a compact; a covenant. | [noun] An agreement between two or more nations | [verb] To form a pact; to agree formally. PANT (6) [noun] A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. | [noun] Eager longing. | [noun] A violent palpitation of the heart. | [noun] A pair of pants (trousers or underpants). | [noun] (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain. PART (6) [noun] A portion; a component. | [noun] Duty; responsibility. | [noun] The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. PAST (6) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. PATE (6) [noun] (somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown. | [noun] Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities. | [noun] The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color. PATH (9) [noun] A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians. | [noun] A course taken. | [noun] A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry. | [noun] (abbreviation) Pathology. PATS (6) [noun] The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep | [noun] A light tap or slap, especially with the hands | [noun] A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung. PATY (9) PEAT (6) [noun] Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. | [noun] A pet, a darling; a woman. PELT (6) [noun] A blow or stroke from something thrown. | [verb] To bombard, as with missiles. | [verb] To throw; to use as a missile. PENT (6) [verb] To enclose in a pen. | [noun] Confinement; concealment. | [adjective] Confined in a pen, imprisoned. | [noun] A pentatonic scale. | [noun] A pentacle or pentagram. PERT (6) [noun] An impudent person. | [verb] To behave with pertness. | [adjective] (of a person) Attractive. PEST (6) [noun] A plague, pestilence, epidemic | [noun] Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest. | [noun] An annoying person, a nuisance. PETS (6) [noun] An animal kept as a companion. | [noun] (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.) | [noun] One who is excessively loyal to a superior. PFFT (12) [interjection] Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance | [interjection] Used to signify sarcasm or disagreement | [interjection] Used to signify a puffing sound PHAT (9) [adjective] (originally African American Vernacular English) Excellent; cool; very good. | [adjective] Sexy. | [adjective] Rich in texture; prominent. PHOT (9) [noun] A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph). | [verb] To photograph PHUT (9) [verb] To produce such a sound. | [interjection] A sound resembling the release of a blast of steam or exhaust gas. PINT (6) [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to: | [noun] (metonym) A pint of milk. | [noun] (metonymy) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint. PITA (6) [noun] A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels. | [noun] A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper. | [noun] The plant which yields the fiber. PITH (9) [noun] The soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees. | [noun] The spongy interior substance of a feather or horn. | [noun] The spinal cord; the marrow. | [noun] One divided by pi. PITS (6) [noun] A hole in the ground. | [noun] An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race. | [noun] A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed. PITY (9) [noun] A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something. | [noun] Something regrettable. | [noun] Piety. PLAT (6) [noun] A plot of land; a lot. | [noun] A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document. | [noun] A plot, a scheme. | [noun] A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.). | [adjective] (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level. PLOT (6) [noun] (authorship) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. | [noun] An area or land used for building on or planting on. | [noun] A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device. POET (6) [noun] A person who writes poems. | [noun] A person with a creative or romantic imagination. PORT (6) [noun] A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. | [noun] A town or city containing such a place, a port city. | [noun] The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board. | [noun] An entryway or gate. | [noun] Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making. | [noun] A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal. | [noun] A suitcase or schoolbag. POST (6) [noun] A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost. | [noun] A stud; a two-by-four. | [noun] A pole in a battery. | [noun] Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route. | [noun] An assigned station; a guard post. | [preposition] After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications. | [noun] Post-production. | [noun] A post mortem (investigation of body's cause of death). POTS (6) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food. | [noun] Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly | [noun] Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave e.g. Rowten Pot POUT (6) [noun] One's facial expression when pouting. | [noun] A fit of sulking or sullenness. | [verb] To push out one's lips. | [noun] Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae). | [noun] A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). PRAT (6) [noun] A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. | [adjective] Cunning, astute. | [noun] A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. PSST (6) [verb] To say psst, to get someone's attention or to communicate with them. | [interjection] Implies that the speaker is sending secret or whispered information to another person. PUNT (6) [noun] A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole. | [verb] To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole. | [noun] A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground. | [noun] A point in the game of faro. | [noun] The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002. PUTS (6) [noun] A right to sell something at a predetermined price. | [noun] A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date. | [noun] The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push. PUTT (6) [noun] The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green. | [verb] To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter. | [noun] A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines. | [verb] To place something somewhere. PUTZ (15) [noun] Fool, idiot. | [noun] Jerk. | [noun] Penis. | [noun] A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree. QATS (13) [noun] A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant. QUIT (13) [verb] To pay (a debt, fine etc.). | [verb] To repay (someone) for (something). | [verb] To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.). | [noun] Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America. RAFT (7) [noun] A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform. | [noun] (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion. | [noun] A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water. | [noun] A large (but unspecified) number, a lot. RANT (4) [noun] A criticism done by ranting. | [noun] A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation. | [noun] A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop. RAPT (6) [noun] An ecstasy; a trance. | [noun] Rapidity. | [verb] To transport or ravish. RATE (4) [noun] The worth of something; value. | [noun] The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. | [noun] Speed. | [verb] To berate, scold. RATH (7) [noun] A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age. | [noun] A Burmese carriage of state. | [adjective] Alternative form of rathe. RATO (4) RATS (4) [noun] A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus. | [noun] Any of the numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) that resemble true rats in appearance, usually having a pointy snout, a long, bare tail, and body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches. | [noun] A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling. REFT (7) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. RENT (4) [noun] A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property. | [noun] A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service. | [noun] A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business. | [verb] To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst REST (4) [noun] (of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep. | [noun] Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation. | [noun] Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility. | [verb] To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion. | [noun] That which remains. | [verb] To arrest. RETE (4) [noun] A network of blood vessels or nerves. | [noun] An anatomical part resembling or including a network. | [noun] A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features. RETS (4) [verb] To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem. RIFT (7) [noun] A chasm or fissure. | [noun] A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through. | [noun] A shallow place in a stream; a ford. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch. RIOT (4) [noun] Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. | [noun] The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. | [noun] A wide and unconstrained variety. RITE (4) [noun] A religious custom. | [noun] (by extension) A prescribed behavior. | [adjective] Straight, not bent. RITZ (13) [noun] (usually preceded by the) A display of ostentatious elegance. ROOT (4) [noun] The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction. | [noun] A root vegetable. | [noun] The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place. | [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. | [verb] (with "for" or "on") To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.) ROTA (4) [noun] A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar. | [noun] A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music. 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. ROTI (4) [noun] A kind of unleavened flatbread commonly consumed in South Asia and the Caribbean. ROTL (4) ROTO (4) ROTS (4) [noun] The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction. | [noun] Decaying matter. | [noun] Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs. ROUT (4) [noun] A noise, especially a loud one | [noun] A disturbance; tumult. | [noun] Snoring. | [noun] A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke. | [noun] A troop or group, especially of a traveling company or throng. | [verb] To search or root in the ground, like a pig. | [noun] The brent goose. RUNT (4) [noun] The smallest animal of a litter. | [noun] (by extension) The smallest child in the family. | [noun] Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person. RUST (4) [noun] The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation. | [noun] A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust"). | [noun] A reddish-brown color. | [verb] To oxidize, especially of iron or steel. RUTH (7) [noun] Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy. | [noun] Repentance; regret; remorse. | [noun] Sorrow; misery; distress. RUTS (4) [noun] Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. | [noun] The noise made by deer during sexual excitement. | [noun] Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. RYOT (7) [noun] A farmer or tiller of the soil. SALT (4) [noun] A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative. | [noun] One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid. | [noun] A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea. SATE (4) [verb] To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up. | [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | [verb] (of a person) To move oneself into such a position. | [noun] Satay SATI (4) [noun] The traditional custom of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion. SCAT (6) [noun] A tax; tribute. | [noun] A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands. | [noun] Animal excrement; droppings, dung. | [noun] Scat singing. | [verb] To leave quickly (often used in the imperative). | [noun] Any fish in the family Scatophagidae SCOT (6) [noun] A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff. SCUT (6) [noun] A hare; a hare as the game in a hunt. | [noun] A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer. | [noun] (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva. | [noun] A contemptible person. | [noun] Distasteful work; drudgery; specifically some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes. | [verb] (originally Cumbria) To scamper off. SEAT (4) [noun] Something to be sat upon. | [noun] A location or site. | [noun] The starting point of a fire. SECT (6) [noun] An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs. | [noun] A group following a specific ideal or a leader. | [noun] A cutting; a scion. SENT (4) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Estonian kroon. | [noun] A distinctive odour or smell. | [noun] An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing. SEPT (6) [noun] A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland). | [noun] An enclosure; a railing. SETA (4) [noun] A bristle or hair | [noun] The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort. SETS (4) [verb] To put (something) down, to rest. | [verb] To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. | [verb] To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be. SETT (4) [verb] To put (something) down, to rest. | [verb] To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. | [verb] To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be. SEXT (11) [noun] Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight. | [noun] The service appointed for this hour. | [noun] A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees. | [noun] An electronic message involving sexual language or images. SHAT (7) [verb] To defecate. | [verb] To excrete (something) through the anus. | [verb] To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful. | [noun] A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter. | [noun] A fragment of anything shattered. SHIT (7) [noun] Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces. | [noun] An instance of defecation. | [noun] Rubbish; worthless matter. | [verb] To defecate. SHOT (7) [verb] To launch a projectile. | [verb] To move or act quickly or suddenly. | [verb] To act or achieve. | [noun] A charge to be paid, a scot or shout. | [interjection] Thank you. SHUT (7) [adjective] Closed, shut. | [adjective] Narrow; confined. | [adjective] At a little distance; near. | [noun] A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets. SIFT (7) SILT (4) [noun] Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water. | [noun] (by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport. | [noun] A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. 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 SITH (7) SITS (4) [noun] Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine. | [noun] An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation. | [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. SKAT (8) [noun] A trick-taking card game for three players, popular in Germany. | [noun] A widow of two cards in the game of skat. SKIT (8) [noun] A short comic performance. | [noun] A jeer or sally; a brief satire. | [noun] A wanton girl; a wench. SLAT (4) [noun] A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath) or metal. | [noun] (aeronautical) A movable control surface at the leading edge of a wing that when moved, changes the chord line of the airfoil, affecting the angle of attack. Employed in conjunction with flaps to allow for a lower stall speed in the landing attitude, facilitating slow flight. | [noun] A ski. SLIT (4) [noun] A narrow cut or opening; a slot. | [noun] The opening of the vagina. | [noun] A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute. SLOT (4) [noun] A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc. | [noun] A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece. | [noun] An implement for baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like. | [noun] A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it. SLUT (4) [noun] A sexually promiscuous woman or girl. | [noun] Any sexually promiscuous person, often a gay man. | [noun] Someone who seeks attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree. SMIT (6) [noun] Fine clay or ochre made up into balls, used for marking sheep. | [noun] An infection. | [noun] A stain. | [verb] To hit, to strike. SMUT (6) [noun] Soot. | [noun] A flake of ash or soot. | [noun] Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. SNIT (4) [noun] A temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood. | [noun] A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters. | [noun] A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois. SNOT (4) [noun] Mucus, especially mucus from the nose. | [noun] A contemptible child. | [noun] A mean fellow. SOFT (7) [noun] A soft or foolish person; an idiot. | [noun] Ellipsis of soft tyre (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.) | [noun] A soft sound or part of a sound. SOOT (4) [noun] Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc. | [verb] To cover or dress with soot. SORT (4) [noun] A general type. | [noun] Manner; form of being or acting. | [noun] Condition above the vulgar; rank. | [verb] To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. SOTH (7) SOTS (4) [noun] Stupid person; fool | [noun] Drunkard | [verb] To drink until one becomes drunk SPAT (6) [verb] To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc. | [verb] To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth; specifically, to rain or snow slightly. | [verb] To utter (something) violently. | [noun] The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs. | [noun] (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe. | [noun] A brief argument, falling out, quarrel. | [noun] A light blow with something flat. | [noun] An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres. SPIT (6) [noun] A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire. | [noun] A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula. | [verb] To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object. | [noun] A sudden impact or blow. | [noun] The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade. SPOT (6) [noun] A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape. | [noun] A stain or disfiguring mark. | [noun] A pimple, papule or pustule. STAB (6) [noun] An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object. | [noun] A wound made by stabbing. | [noun] Pain inflicted on a person's feelings. STAG (5) [noun] An adult male deer. | [noun] A colt, or filly. | [noun] (by extension) A romping girl; a tomboy. STAR (4) [noun] Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots. | [noun] A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included. | [noun] A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points. STAT (4) [adjective] With no delay; at once. | [adverb] Immediately; now. | [verb] To assign statistics to (a monster, etc. in a game). | [noun] A statutory public holiday (also as stat holiday) STAW (7) STAY (7) [noun] Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn. | [noun] A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment. | [noun] A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress. | [noun] A prop; a support. | [noun] A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel. | [adjective] Steep; ascending. STEM (6) [noun] The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. | [noun] A branch of a family. | [noun] An advanced or leading position; the lookout. | [verb] To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood). | [noun] A gleam of light; a flame. | [noun] Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics. STEP (6) [noun] An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace. | [noun] A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder. | [noun] A distinct part of a process; stage; phase. STET (4) [noun] A symbol used by proofreaders and typesetters to indicate that a word or phrase that was crossed out should still remain. | [verb] To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was. STEW (7) [noun] A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron. | [noun] A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. | [noun] A brothel. | [noun] A steward or stewardess on an airplane. STEY (7) STIR (4) [noun] The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.) | [noun] Agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. | [noun] Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. | [noun] Jail; prison. STOA (4) [noun] In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; specifically, the Great Hall in Athens. STOB (6) [noun] A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting. | [noun] A small post for supporting paling. | [noun] A wedge in coal-mining. STOP (6) [noun] A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station. | [noun] An action of stopping; interruption of travel. | [noun] That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment. | [noun] A small well-bucket; a milk-pail. | [adjective] Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark. STOW (7) [noun] A place, stead. | [verb] To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. | [verb] To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. STUB (6) [noun] Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump. | [noun] A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes. | [noun] A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. STUD (5) [noun] A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding. | [noun] A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding. | [noun] (also by extension) A group of such animals. | [noun] A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob. | [noun] A person who studies or learns about a particular subject. STUM (6) [noun] Unfermented grape juice; must. | [noun] Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must. | [verb] To ferment. STUN (4) [noun] The condition of being stunned. | [noun] That which stuns; a shock; a stupefying blow. | [noun] A person who lacks intelligence. STYE (7) [noun] A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid. | [noun] A ladder. | [noun] An inflammation of the eyelid. SUET (4) [noun] The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow. SUIT (4) [noun] A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman. | [noun] (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit. | [noun] (metonym) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor. SWAT (7) [noun] A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking. | [noun] Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution. | [verb] To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. | [verb] To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone). SWOT (7) [noun] One who swots. | [noun] Work. | [noun] Vigorous study at an educational institution. TABS (6) [noun] A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc. | [noun] An ear. | [noun] (by extension) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls. TABU (6) [noun] An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. | [noun] (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. | [verb] To mark as taboo. TACE (6) TACH (9) [noun] Tachometer | [noun] (costers) A hat. | [noun] Tachycardia. TACK (10) [noun] A small nail with a flat head. | [noun] A thumbtack. | [noun] A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth. | [verb] To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head). | [noun] A stain; a tache. | [noun] That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy. TACO (6) [noun] A Mexican snack food; a small tortilla (soft or hard shelled), with typically some type of meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables (usually tomatoes and lettuce, as served in the United States, and cilantro, onion, and avocado, as served in México) and salsa. | [noun] The vulva. | [noun] A yellow stain on a shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant. TACT (6) [noun] The sense of touch; feeling. | [noun] The stroke in beating time. | [noun] Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing. TADS (5) [noun] A small amount; a little bit. | [noun] A street boy; an urchin. TAEL (4) [noun] Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams. | [noun] Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver. | [noun] Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms TAGS (5) [noun] A small label. | [noun] A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it". | [noun] A skin tag, an excrescence of skin. TAHR (7) [noun] Any of three genera of large Asian ungulates belonging to the subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes). TAIL (4) [noun] The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus. | [noun] An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails. | [noun] The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything. | [noun] Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs. TAIN (4) TAKA (8) [noun] The official currency of Bangladesh, equal to 100 paisas. Symbol: ৳ TAKE (8) [noun] The or an act of taking. | [noun] Something that is taken; a haul. | [noun] An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective. TALA (4) [noun] The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene. | [noun] A rhythmic pattern in Indian music. TALC (6) [noun] Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Mediaeval writers adopted the term from the Arabic. | [noun] A microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium. | [noun] A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses. TALE (4) [noun] An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie. | [noun] A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. | [noun] A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration. | [verb] To speak; discourse; tell tales. | [noun] Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams. TALI (4) [noun] The bone of the ankle. TALK (8) [verb] To communicate, usually by means of speech. | [verb] To discuss; to talk about. | [verb] To speak (a certain language). | [noun] A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal. TALL (4) [noun] (possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall. | [adjective] (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall. | [adjective] (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high. TAME (6) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. | [verb] To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. TAMP (8) [verb] (blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock. | [verb] To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes | [verb] To reduce the intensity of. TAMS (6) [noun] A traditional South and East Asian unit of weight, based upon the load of a shoulder pole and varying by place and over time but usually standardized at about 60 kg. | [noun] A type of woolen hat developed in Scotland, a toorie bunnet. Originally they were worn by both genders, but now they are mostly worn by men and boys. TANG (5) [noun] A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor. | [noun] A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself. | [noun] A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. | [noun] A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang. | [noun] Knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed) | [noun] The vagina. TANK (8) [noun] A closed container for liquids or gases. | [noun] An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids. | [noun] A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial. | [noun] A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight. | [verb] To stand; to tolerate. TANS (4) [noun] A traditional South and East Asian unit of weight, based upon the load of a shoulder pole and varying by place and over time but usually standardized at about 60 kg. | [noun] A yellowish-brown colour. | [noun] A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources. TAOS (4) [noun] The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution | [noun] The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area. | [noun] That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. TAPA (6) [noun] A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry. | [noun] Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas. | [noun] Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine. TAPE (6) [noun] Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. | [noun] Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. | [noun] Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race. TAPS (6) [noun] A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask. | [noun] A device used to dispense liquids. | [noun] Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor. TARE (4) [noun] A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa) | [noun] Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel. | [noun] A damaging weed growing in fields of grain. | [noun] The empty weight of a container; the tare weight or unladen weight. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [noun] Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce. TARN (4) [noun] A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England. | [noun] (chiefly Montana) One of many small mountain lakes or ponds. TARO (4) [noun] Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato. | [noun] Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc. | [noun] Food from a taro plant. TARP (6) [noun] A tarpaulin. | [verb] To cover something with a tarpaulin. TARS (4) [noun] (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal. | [noun] Coal tar. | [noun] A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke. TART (4) [adjective] Sharp to the taste; acid; sour. | [adjective] (of wine) high or too high in acidity. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; severe. | [noun] A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie. | [noun] A prostitute. TASK (8) [noun] A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. | [noun] A difficult or tedious undertaking. | [noun] An objective. | [noun] Second sight; the involuntary ability of seeing the future or distant events. TASS (4) [noun] A heap, pile. | [noun] A cup or cupful. | [noun] A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet. Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name. | [noun] An Oriental silk fabric, with gold or silver thread. TATE (4) TATS (4) [noun] Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze. | [noun] Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets. | [noun] Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute). TAUS (4) [noun] The letter Τ/τ in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek. | [noun] A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol. | [noun] A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon. TAUT (4) [verb] To make taut; to tauten, to tighten. | [adjective] Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight. | [adjective] (of a body, muscles, etc.) Not flabby; firm, toned; (of a person) having a lean, strong body. TAVS (7) TAWS (7) [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [verb] To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them. TAXA (11) [noun] A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. TAXI (11) [noun] A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver. | [noun] A share taxi. | [verb] To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power. TEAK (8) [noun] An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.). | [noun] A tree of the species in the genus Tectona | [noun] A yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood. TEAL (4) [noun] Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks. | [noun] A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan. | [adjective] Having a bluish-green colour TEAM (6) [noun] A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. | [noun] Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work. | [noun] A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks. TEAR (4) [noun] A hole or break caused by tearing. | [noun] A rampage. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [noun] A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation. TEAS (4) [noun] A drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, cannabis. | [noun] The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa. | [noun] Food consumed before going to bed. TEAT (4) [noun] The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted. | [noun] Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle. | [noun] An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants. TEDS (5) [noun] A teddy boy. | [verb] To spread hay for drying. TEED (5) [verb] To draw; lead. | [verb] To draw away; go; proceed. | [verb] To place a ball on a tee TEEL (4) TEEM (6) [verb] To be stocked to overflowing. | [verb] To be prolific; to abound; to be rife. | [verb] To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. | [verb] To empty. | [verb] To think fit. TEEN (4) [noun] A teenager. | [adjective] Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage | [noun] Grief; sorrow; trouble. | [verb] To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure. | [verb] (provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose. TEES (4) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter T. | [noun] Something shaped like the letter T. | [noun] (clothing) T-shirt. TEFF (10) [noun] A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia. | [noun] The fine grain of this plant. TEGS (5) [noun] A sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old | [noun] A doe in its second year TELA (4) TELE (4) [noun] Television. | [noun] A television set. | [noun] A hotel or motel. TELL (4) [noun] A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold. | [noun] That which is told; a tale or account. | [noun] A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper. | [noun] A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements. TELS (4) TEMP (8) [noun] Abbreviation of tempore. | [noun] A temporary employee, usually in an office. | [noun] A temporary storage location. TEND (5) [verb] (Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender. | [verb] (followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. | [verb] To contribute to or toward some outcome. | [verb] (with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.) | [verb] To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn. TENS (4) [noun] A set or group with ten elements. | [noun] A card in a given suit with a value of ten. | [noun] A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units. See also tenner. TENT (4) [noun] A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather. | [noun] The representation of a tent used as a bearing. | [noun] A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church. | [noun] Attention; regard, care. | [noun] A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges. | [noun] A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta. TEPA (6) TERM (6) [noun] That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary. | [noun] A chronological limitation or restriction. | [noun] Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. | [noun] A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. | [noun] One whose employment has been terminated TERN (4) [noun] Any of various sea birds of the family Sternidae that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail. | [noun] That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together. | [noun] A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw. TEST (4) [noun] A challenge, trial. | [noun] A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. | [noun] (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term. | [noun] A witness. | [noun] (body building) testosterone TETH (7) TETS (4) TEWS (7) TEXT (11) [noun] A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences. | [noun] A book, tome or other set of writings. | [noun] A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones. THAE (7) THAN (7) [adverb] At that time; then. | [preposition] Introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates. | [conjunction] Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison. THAT (7) [noun] Something being indicated that is there; one of those. | [adverb] (degree) To a given extent or degree. | [adverb] (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions). THAW (10) [noun] The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost | [noun] A warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen | [verb] To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen THEE (7) [verb] To address (a person) using the pronoun thee. | [verb] To use the word thee. | [pronoun] Objective and reflexive case of thou. | [verb] To thrive; prosper. | [noun] The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand. THEM (9) [pronoun] (plural) Those ones. | [pronoun] (singular) Him, her, or it; that one. THEN (7) [conjunction] Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison. | [conjunction] (obsolete outside dialectal, usually used with for) Because; for. | [noun] That time THEW (10) [noun] A bondman; a slave. | [adjective] Bond; servile. | [verb] To oppress; enslave. | [noun] Muscle or sinew. THEY (10) [pronoun] (the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants or objects previously mentioned. | [pronoun] (the third-person singular, sometimes proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but typically not if previously named and identified as male or female. | [pronoun] (indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker. | [pronoun] There (especially as an expletive subject of be). THIN (7) [noun] A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole. | [noun] Any food produced or served in thin slices. | [verb] To make thin or thinner. THIO (7) THIR (7) THIS (7) [noun] Something being indicated that is here; one of these. | [noun] Referring to the current context in a programming environment in C-like languages. | [adverb] To the degree or extent indicated. THOU (7) THRO (7) [preposition] Through | [adjective] Eager; earnest; vehement. | [adjective] Bold. THRU (7) [preposition] From one side of an opening to the other. | [preposition] Entering, then later leaving. | [preposition] Surrounded by (while moving). THUD (8) [noun] The sound of a dull impact. | [noun] Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter. | [verb] To make the sound of a dull impact. THUG (8) [noun] Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire. | [noun] One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her. | [noun] In gardening, an over-vigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed. THUS (7) [adverb] (manner) In this way or manner. | [adverb] As a result. | [noun] Frankincense obtained from conifers such as the Norway spruce, or long-leaved pine. TICK (10) [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. | [noun] Ticking. | [noun] Credit, trust. | [noun] (place names) A goat. TICS (6) [noun] A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization. | [noun] (by extension) Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically. | [noun] (abbreviation) ticket TIDE (5) [noun] The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon. | [noun] A stream, current or flood. | [noun] (chronology, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast. | [verb] To happen, occur. TIDY (8) [noun] A tabletop container for pens and stationery. | [noun] A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc. | [noun] A child's pinafore. TIED (5) [verb] To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely. | [verb] To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like. | [verb] To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like. TIER (4) [noun] One who ties (knots, etc). | [noun] Something that ties. | [noun] A child's apron. | [noun] A layer or rank, especially of seats or a wedding cake. TIES (4) [noun] A knot; a fastening. | [noun] A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig. | [noun] A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie. TIFF (10) [noun] A small argument; a petty quarrel. | [noun] Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. | [verb] To quarrel. | [verb] To deck out; to dress. | [verb] (British India) To have lunch. 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. TIKI (8) [noun] Carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean. 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. TILL (4) [preposition] Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time). | [preposition] To, up to (physically). | [preposition] To make it possible that. | [noun] A cash register. | [verb] To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.). | [noun] Glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders | [noun] A vetch; a tare. TILS (4) TILT (4) [noun] A slope or inclination. | [noun] The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc. | [noun] The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this. | [noun] A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc. 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. TING (5) [noun] The sound made when a small bell is struck. | [verb] To make a high sharp sound like a small bell being struck. | [interjection] Used to represent the sound of a small bell. | [noun] An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid. | [noun] (Caribbean creoles) Thing, person. TINS (4) [noun] A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn. | [noun] An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food. | [noun] A metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc. TINT (4) [noun] A slight coloring. | [noun] A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade) | [noun] A color considered with reference to other very similar colors. TINY (7) [noun] A small child; an infant. | [noun] Anything very small. | [adjective] Very small. TIPI (6) [noun] Alternative form of teepee TIPS (6) [noun] The tip of the external ear. | [noun] A small earpiece or earplug. | [noun] The part of an earbud that contours to the ear canal. 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. TIRL (4) TIRO (4) [noun] A newly recruited soldier. TITI (4) [noun] A New World monkey of the genus Callicebus, native to South America, distinguished by their long soft fur. | [noun] Mutton bird. | [noun] A tree of the southern United States (Cliftonia monophylla) having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers succeeded by one-seeded drupes. TITS (4) [noun] A mammary gland, teat. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast. | [noun] An idiot; a fool. TIVY (10) TOAD (5) [noun] An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae. | [noun] A contemptible or unpleasant person. | [noun] An ugly person. TOBY (9) [noun] A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop. | [noun] The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing. | [noun] The road or highway. TODS (5) [noun] A fox. | [noun] Someone like a fox; a crafty person. | [noun] A bush, especially of ivy. TODY (8) [noun] Any of the genus Todus of small insectivorous Caribbean birds. TOEA (4) [noun] A unit of currency, equivalent to one hundredth of a Papua New Guinean kina. TOED (5) [adjective] (chiefly in combination) Having (a specified number or type of) toes. | [verb] To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe. | [verb] To touch, tap or kick with the toes. TOES (4) [noun] Each of the five digits on the end of the foot. | [noun] An equivalent part in an animal. | [noun] That part of a shoe or sock covering the toe. TOFF (10) [noun] An elegantly dressed person. | [noun] A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it, who usually communicates an air of superiority. TOFT (7) [noun] A hillock. | [noun] A homestead, especially one on a hill. | [noun] A messuage with right of common. TOFU (7) [noun] A protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk. | [noun] A box or rectangle, empty or with a question mark or hexadecimal code inside, displayed by some systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts. (such as □ or ժ) TOGA (5) [noun] A loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome. | [noun] A loose wrap gown. | [noun] An academic gown. TOGS (5) [noun] A cloak. | [noun] A coat. | [noun] A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre TOIL (4) [noun] Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature. | [noun] Trouble, strife. | [noun] (usually in plural) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey. TOIT (4) TOKE (8) [noun] (casinos) A gratuity. | [verb] To give a gratuity to. | [noun] A puff of marijuana. | [noun] A piece of bread. TOLA (4) TOLD (5) [verb] (archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate. | [verb] To narrate. | [verb] To convey by speech; to say. 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. TOLL (4) [noun] Loss or damage incurred through a disaster. | [noun] A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc. | [noun] A fee for using any kind of material processing service. | [noun] The act or sound of tolling | [verb] To draw; pull; tug; drag. | [verb] To take away; to vacate; to annul. TOLU (4) [noun] The resinous secretion of Myroxylon balsamum, used in cough syrups and perfumery. TOMB (8) [noun] A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed. | [noun] A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave. | [noun] One who keeps secrets. TOME (6) [noun] One in a series of volumes. | [noun] A large or scholarly book. TOMS (6) [noun] A flat gong (without knob) that is struck with a felt-covered hammer. | [noun] The male of the domesticated cat. | [noun] The male of the turkey. 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) TONG (5) [noun] An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands. | [verb] To use tongs. | [verb] To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs. | [noun] A Chinese secret society or gang. | [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. TONS (4) [noun] A unit of weight (mass) equal to 2240 pounds (a long ton) or 2000 pounds (a short ton) or 1000 kilograms (a metric ton). | [noun] A unit of volume; register ton. | [noun] In refrigeration and air conditioning, a unit of thermal power defined as 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.514 kW or 3024 kcal/h), originally the rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of one short ton of ice per day at 32 °F (0 °C). TONY (7) [adjective] Stylish, high-toned, upscale. | [noun] A simpleton. TOOK (8) [verb] To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force. | [verb] To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc). | [verb] To remove. TOOL (4) [noun] A mechanical device intended to make a task easier. | [noun] Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade. | [noun] Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means. TOOM (6) TOON (4) [noun] A cartoon, especially an animated television show. | [noun] A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. | [noun] A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye. | [noun] A town. | [noun] A melody. TOOT (4) [noun] The noise of a horn or whistle. | [noun] (by extension) A fart; flatus. | [noun] Cocaine. | [noun] A toilet. 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. TOPH (9) TOPI (6) [noun] An antelope of the species Damaliscus korrigum. | [noun] A taqiyah (skullcap worn by Muslims etc.) TOPS (6) [noun] The highest or uppermost part of something. | [noun] A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top. | [noun] (heading) Someone who is eminent. TORA (4) TORC (6) [noun] A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples. 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. TORI (4) [noun] A topological space which is a product of two circles. | [noun] The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a shape consisting of a ring with a circular cross-section: the shape of an inner tube or hollow doughnut. | [noun] (in combination, n-torus, 4-torus, etc.) The product of the specified number of circles. | [noun] One who executes a technique against the training partner, or uke. TORN (4) [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [verb] To injure as if by pulling apart. | [verb] To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional. TORO (4) [noun] A traditional Japanese lantern. | [noun] Rapanea salicina, a species of shrub or small tree native to New Zealand. TORR (4) [noun] A unit of pressure that is equal to approximately 0.001316 atmospheres or 133.3 pascals. TORS (4) [noun] A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill, created by the erosion and weathering of rock. | [noun] (South-West England) A hill with such rock formation. | [noun] A tower; a turret. TORT (4) [noun] An injury or wrong. | [noun] A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages. | [noun] (only in the plural torts) Tort law (the area of law dealing with such wrongful acts). | [adjective] Tart; sharp. | [adjective] Stretched tight; taut. | [noun] A tortoise. | [noun] A tortoiseshell (animal with coloured markings on fur). TORY (7) [noun] (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party, which evolved from Royalist politicians; historically associated with upholding the rights of the monarchy and the privileges of the established Church. | [noun] (by extension) One who is like a British Tory; someone politically conservative. | [noun] (Canadian politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, one of that party's predecessors, or an affiliated provincial political party. TOSH (7) [noun] Copper; items made of copper | [noun] Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains | [noun] Rubbish, trash, especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash | [verb] To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim. | [noun] A half-crown coin; its value TOSS (4) [noun] A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care. | [noun] The coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play. | [noun] A haughty throwing up of the head. TOST (4) 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. TOTS (4) [noun] A small child. | [noun] A measure of spirits, especially rum. | [noun] Tater tot. TOUR (4) [noun] A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc. | [noun] A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place. | [noun] A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts. | [noun] A tower. | [verb] To toot a horn. TOUT (4) [noun] Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. | [noun] A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win. | [noun] A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar. | [noun] In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks. TOWN (7) [noun] A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city. | [noun] Any more urbanized center than the place of reference. | [noun] A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week. TOWS (7) TOWY (10) TOYO (7) TOYS (7) [noun] Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. | [noun] A thing of little importance or value; a trifle. | [noun] A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal. TRAD (5) [noun] Traditional climbing. | [noun] Irish traditional music | [noun] A traditionalist. TRAM (6) [noun] A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America). | [noun] A similar vehicle for carrying materials. | [noun] A people mover. | [noun] A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods. TRAP (6) [noun] A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. | [noun] A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. | [noun] A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor. | [noun] A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock. | [verb] To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses). | [noun] The trapezius muscle. TRAY (7) [noun] A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. | [noun] A flat carrier for items being transported. | [noun] The items on a full tray. | [noun] Trouble; annoyance; anger | [verb] To grieve; to annoy | [verb] To betray | [noun] A playing card or die with the rank of three. TREE (4) [noun] Fast growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem. | [noun] A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage. | [noun] Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense). TREF (7) TREK (8) [noun] A journey by ox wagon. | [noun] The Boer migration of 1835-1837. | [noun] A slow or difficult journey. TRET (4) [noun] An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare is deducted. TREY (7) [noun] A playing card or die with the rank of three. | [noun] A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes. | [noun] A three-pointer. TRIG (5) [noun] A dandy; coxcomb. | [adjective] True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful. | [adjective] Safe; secure. | [noun] Trigonometry. | [noun] A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid. | [verb] To fill; to stuff; to cram. | [noun] Triglyceride TRIM (6) [noun] Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders. | [noun] A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style. | [noun] Dress; gear; ornaments. TRIO (4) [noun] A group of three people or things. | [noun] A group of three musicians. | [noun] A piece of music written for three musicians. TRIP (6) [noun] A journey; an excursion or jaunt | [noun] A stumble or misstep | [noun] An error; a failure; a mistake | [noun] A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc. TROD (5) [verb] To step or walk (on or over something); to trample. | [verb] To step or walk upon. | [verb] To beat or press with the feet. | [verb] To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread | [noun] A track or pathway. TROP (6) TROT (4) [noun] Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. | [noun] Equipment with legs. | [noun] Type of equipment. | [noun] A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections. | [noun] A supporter of Trotskyism. TROW (7) [noun] Trust or faith. | [verb] To trust or believe. | [verb] To have confidence in, or to give credence to. | [noun] Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods. TROY (7) [adjective] Of, or relating to, troy weight. TRUE (4) [noun] The state of being in alignment. | [noun] Truth. | [noun] A pledge or truce. TRUG (5) [noun] A shallow, oval basket used for gardening | [noun] A trough or tray. | [noun] A hod for mortar. TSAR (4) [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. TSKS (8) TUBA (6) [noun] A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys. | [noun] A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba. | [noun] A large reed stop in organs. | [noun] A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis. | [noun] A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap. | [noun] A tube or tubular organ. 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.) TUBS (6) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in. | [noun] The contents or capacity of such a vessel. | [noun] A bathtub. TUCK (10) [noun] An act of tucking; a pleat or fold. | [noun] A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece. | [noun] A curled position. | [noun] A rapier, a sword. | [noun] The beat of a drum. | [noun] Food, especially snack food. TUFA (7) [noun] Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring. | [noun] A variety of volcanic rock, tuff. TUFF (10) [noun] A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel. | [adjective] Strong and resilient; sturdy. | [adjective] (of food) Difficult to cut or chew. TUFT (7) [noun] A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base. | [noun] A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding. | [noun] A small clump of trees or bushes. TUGS (5) [noun] A sudden powerful pull. | [noun] A tugboat. | [noun] A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles. TUIS (4) [noun] A New Zealand honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae 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 TUMP (8) [noun] A mound or hillock. | [verb] To form a mass of earth or a hillock around. | [verb] To bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump") | [noun] A tumpline. TUNA (4) [noun] Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae. | [noun] The edible flesh of the tuna. | [noun] The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia. TUNE (4) [noun] A melody. | [noun] A song, or short musical composition. | [noun] The act of tuning or maintenance. TUNG (5) TUNS (4) [noun] A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. | [noun] A fermenting vat. | [noun] An old English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes. TUPS (6) [noun] A male sheep, a ram. | [noun] The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer. TURD (5) [noun] (mildly) A piece of solid animal or human feces. | [noun] A worthless person or thing. TURF (7) [noun] A layer of earth covered with grass; sod. | [noun] A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc. | [noun] A sod of peat used as fuel. TURK (8) TURN (4) [verb] (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement. | [verb] (heading) To change condition or attitude. | [verb] To change one's course of action; to take a new approach. | [noun] A change of direction or orientation. TUSH (7) [noun] A tusk. | [noun] A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant. | [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] Nonsense; tosh. | [verb] To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log. | [noun] A half-crown coin; its value TUSK (8) [noun] One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar. | [noun] A small projection on a (tusk) tenon. | [noun] A tusk shell. | [noun] A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme). TUTS (4) [verb] To make a tut tut sound of disapproval. | [verb] To work by the piece; to carry out tut-work. TUTU (4) [noun] A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting. | [noun] Any of the genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand. TWAE (7) TWAS (7) TWAT (7) [noun] The vagina or vulva. | [noun] A contemptible and stupid person, idiot. | [verb] To hit, slap. TWEE (7) [adjective] Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice. TWIG (8) [noun] A small thin branch of a tree or bush. | [verb] To beat with twigs. | [verb] To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something. | [verb] To twitch; to pull; to tweak. TWIN (7) [noun] Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling. | [noun] Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc. | [noun] A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room. | [adjective] Double; dual; occurring as a matching pair TWIT (7) [noun] A reproach, gibe or taunt. | [noun] A foolish or annoying person. | [noun] A euphemism for "twat", a contemptible or stupid person. TWOS (7) [noun] The digit/figure 2. | [noun] A two-dollar bill. | [noun] A child aged two. TYEE (7) TYER (7) TYES (7) TYKE (11) [noun] A mongrel dog. | [noun] A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one | [noun] A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement TYNE (7) TYPE (9) [noun] A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. | [noun] An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc. | [noun] An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment. TYPO (9) [noun] A typographical error. | [verb] To make a typographical error. | [noun] A compositor; a typographer. TYPP (11) TYPY (12) 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. TYRO (7) [noun] A beginner; a novice. TZAR (13) [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. UNIT (4) [noun] A particular, minute unit of mass, defined differently for different substances, but so that varying substances of the same general type have the property that one international unit of the one has the same effect on the human body as one international unit of the other. | [noun] Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one. | [noun] A standard measure of a quantity. UNTO (4) [preposition] Up to, indicating a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it. | [preposition] To, indicating an indirect object. | [conjunction] Up to the time or degree that; until. UTAS (4) VAST (7) [noun] A vast space. | [adjective] Very large or wide (literally or figuratively). | [adjective] Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent. VATS (7) [noun] A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning. | [noun] A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry. | [noun] A vessel for holding holy water. VATU (7) [noun] The national currency of Vanuatu. VENT (7) [noun] An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. | [noun] A small aperture. | [noun] The opening of a volcano from which lava flows. | [noun] Ventriloquism. | [noun] Sale; opportunity to sell; market | [noun] A baiting place; an inn. | [noun] Ventilation or ventilator. VERT (7) [noun] A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise. | [noun] Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer. | [noun] The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest. | [noun] In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition. | [noun] Vertebrate VEST (7) [noun] A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries. | [noun] A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat. | [noun] A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse. VETO (7) [noun] A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc. | [noun] An invocation of that right. | [noun] An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. VETS (7) [noun] A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon. | [noun] A veteran (a former soldier or other member of an armed forces). | [verb] To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval. VEXT (14) VITA (7) [noun] A curriculum vitae. VOLT (7) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V | [noun] A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks. | [noun] A sudden movement to avoid a thrust. 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 WAFT (10) [noun] A light breeze. | [noun] Something (such as an odor or scent like a perfume) that is carried through the air. | [noun] A flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal; a waif, a wheft. WAIT (7) [noun] A delay. | [noun] An ambush. | [noun] One who watches; a watchman. WANT (7) [noun] A desire, wish, longing. | [noun] (often followed by of) Lack, absence. | [noun] Poverty. WART (7) [noun] A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). | [noun] Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads. | [noun] Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation. WAST (7) [noun] The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach. | [noun] A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist. | [noun] The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps). WATS (7) [noun] A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia. WATT (7) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W WEET (7) WEFT (10) [noun] The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric. | [noun] The yarn used for the weft; the fill. | [noun] (hairdressing) A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair. | [noun] Something cast away; a waif. WELT (7) [verb] To roll; revolve | [noun] A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow; a wheal or weal. | [noun] (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling. | [verb] To decay. WENT (7) [verb] To move: | [verb] (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). | [verb] To start; to begin (an action or process). WEPT (9) [verb] To cry; shed tears. | [verb] To lament; to complain. | [verb] (of a wound or sore) To produce secretions. WERT (7) WEST (7) [noun] One of the four principal compass points, specifically 270°, conventionally directed to the left on maps; the direction of the setting sun at an equinox, abbreviated as W. | [verb] To move to the west; (of the sun) to set. | [adjective] Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward. WETS (7) [noun] Liquid or moisture. | [noun] Rainy weather. | [noun] Rainy season. (often capitalized) WHAT (10) [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. | [noun] Something; thing; stuff. | [noun] The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what. WHET (10) [noun] The act of whetting something. | [noun] That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer. | [verb] To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone. WHIT (10) [noun] The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota. | [preposition] Against. | [preposition] In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. WILT (7) [noun] The act of wilting or the state of being wilted. | [noun] Any of various plant diseases characterized by wilting. | [verb] To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower). | [verb] (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something). WIST (7) [verb] Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively). | [verb] To know, be aware of. WITE (7) WITH (10) [adverb] Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | [preposition] Against. | [preposition] In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | [noun] A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy. WITS (7) [noun] (now usually in the plural) Sanity. | [noun] (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses. | [noun] Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning. WONT (7) [noun] One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice. | [verb] To make (someone) used to; to accustom. | [verb] To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something). WORT (7) [noun] A plant; herb; vegetable. | [noun] Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term. | [noun] Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer. WOST (7) WOTS (7) WRIT (7) [noun] A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. | [noun] Authority, power to enforce compliance. | [noun] That which is written; writing. WYTE (10) XYST (14) YETI (7) [noun] An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas YETT (7) YURT (7) [noun] A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger). ZEST (13) [noun] The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish. | [noun] General vibrance of flavour. | [noun] (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto. ZETA (13) [noun] The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ, ζ) preceded by epsilon (Ε, ε) and followed by eta, (Η, η); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ, ϝ) | [noun] A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function. ZITI (13) [noun] A type of penne pasta in the form of long smooth hollow tubes. ZITS (13) [noun] Pimple

ABAFT (10) [adverb] On the aft side; in the stern. | [adverb] Backwards. | [preposition] Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. 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. ABBOT (9) [noun] The superior or head of an abbey or monastery. | [noun] The pastor and/or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter. | [noun] A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries. ABETS (7) [noun] Fraud or cunning. | [noun] An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid. | [verb] To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. ABORT (7) [noun] A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. | [noun] The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. | [noun] An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission. | [verb] (now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. ABOUT (7) [adjective] Moving around; astir. | [adjective] In existence; being in evidence; apparent. | [adjective] Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood. ABUTS (7) [verb] To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) | [verb] To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to. | [verb] To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. ACETA (7) [noun] Plural of acetum; vinegar or a sour liquid. | [noun] Solutions of medicinal substances in vinegar. ACTED (8) [verb] To do something. | [verb] To do (something); to perform. | [verb] To perform a theatrical role. ACTIN (7) [noun] A globular structural protein that polymerizes in a helical fashion to form an actin filament (or microfilament). | [noun] One of the six isoforms of actin. ACTOR (7) [noun] A person who performs, plays a part in a theatrical play or film. | [noun] One who acts; a doer. | [noun] One who takes part in a situation. ACUTE (7) [noun] A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia. | [noun] An accent or tone higher than others. | [noun] An acute accent (´). ADAPT (8) [verb] To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit | [verb] To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust | [verb] To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character ADEPT (8) [noun] One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient | [adjective] Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient ADITS (6) [noun] A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes. ADMIT (8) [verb] To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration | [verb] To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise. | [verb] To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny ADOPT (8) [verb] To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) | [verb] To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally. | [verb] To select and take or approve. ADULT (6) [noun] A fully grown human or animal. | [noun] A person who has reached the legal age of majority. | [verb] To (cause to) be or become an adult. ADUST (6) [adjective] (usually postpositive, of a bodily humour) Abnormally dark or over-concentrated; associated with various states of discomfort or illness (specifically being too hot or dry). | [adjective] (by extension) Hot and dry; thirsty or parched. | [adjective] Burnt or having a scorched color. ADYTA (9) [noun] The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given. | [noun] (by extension) A private chamber; a sanctum. AFOOT (8) [adjective] (predicative) That is on foot, in motion, in action, in progress. | [adverb] On foot. (means of locomotion, walking) | [adverb] On foot. (support of the body, standing) AFRIT (8) [noun] (Islamic mythology) a kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an. AFTER (8) [adjective] Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent | [adjective] (where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship. | [adverb] Behind; later in time; following. 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. AGENT (6) [noun] One who exerts power, or has the power to act | [noun] One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him/her; someone entrusted to do the business of another | [noun] A person who looks for work for another person AGIST (6) [verb] To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. | [verb] To charge lands etc. with any public burden. AGLET (6) [noun] The cover at the tip of a shoelace, to prevent it from fraying. | [noun] A catkin. | [noun] A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice. AIRTH (8) [noun] A direction or point of the compass, specifically the cardinal direction between north and east; also used in Scottish English to mean direction or quarter. | [noun] The earth or ground. AIRTS (5) [noun] Directions or points of the compass, particularly in Scottish usage. | [noun] Plural of airt, meaning directions or quarters. AITCH (10) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter H. ALANT (5) ALATE (5) [noun] A winged, reproductive form of several social insects. | [adjective] Having winglike extensions or parts; winged. | [adverb] Recently; lately; of late. ALERT (5) [noun] An alarm. | [noun] A notification of higher importance than an advisory. | [noun] A state of readiness for potential combat. | [verb] To give warning to. ALIST (5) ALLOT (5) [verb] To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot. | [verb] To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose. ALOFT (8) [adverb] At, to, or in the air or sky. | [adverb] Above, overhead, in a high place; up. | [adverb] In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging. ALTAR (5) [noun] A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites. | [noun] A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary. | [noun] Anything that is worshipped or sacrificed to. ALTER (5) [verb] To change the form or structure of. | [verb] To become different. | [verb] To tailor clothes to make them fit. | [noun] (especially in the plural) An identity or headmate of a person with dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder). | [noun] A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites. ALTHO (8) ALTOS (5) [noun] A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody. | [noun] A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part. | [noun] An alto saxophone AMBIT (9) [noun] The sphere or area of control and influence of something. | [noun] A circuit, or a boundary around a property. | [noun] The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc. AMENT (7) [noun] A catkin or amentum. | [noun] A congenital idiot. AMITY (10) [noun] Friendship. The cooperative and supportive relationship between people, or animals. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis. | [noun] Mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship, especially between nations; peace; accord. AMORT (7) [adjective] Lifeless, spiritless, or dull in appearance or manner. ANENT (5) [preposition] Concerning, with regard to, about, in respect to, as to, insofar as, inasmuch as., apropos | [preposition] In the opinion or judgment of. | [preposition] Against, in front of, fronting; before; opposite; over against, on the other side. ANGST (6) [noun] Emotional turmoil; painful sadness. | [noun] A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety. | [verb] To suffer angst; to fret. ANTAE (5) [noun] Plural of anta, which are pilasters or square columns at the corners of a building or doorway in classical architecture. ANTAS (5) [noun] Plural of anta, which is a pilaster or pier formed at the corner of a wall in classical architecture. ANTED (6) [verb] To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up. | [verb] To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances. | [verb] To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers. ANTES (5) [noun] A price or cost, as in up the ante. | [noun] In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards. | [verb] To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up. ANTIC (7) [noun] A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle. | [noun] A caricature. | [noun] (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper. | [noun] A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping ANTIS (5) [noun] A person opposed to a concept or principle. ANTRA (5) [noun] A bodily cavity, especially one having bony walls, especially one in the sinuses. ANTRE (5) [noun] A cave or cavern. ANTSY (8) [adjective] Restless, apprehensive and fidgety AORTA (5) [noun] The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system. | [noun] The liveliest part of something. APART (7) [adjective] (Used after a noun or in the predicate) Exceptional, distinct. | [adjective] Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces. | [adverb] Placed separately (in regard to space or time). APORT (7) [adverb] On or toward the port (left side) of a ship. APTER (7) [adjective] Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited. | [adjective] (of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards. | [adjective] Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn. APTLY (10) [adverb] In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; appropriately 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. ARGOT (6) [noun] A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds. | [noun] The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers. ARHAT (8) [noun] One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint. | [noun] One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta. ARMET (7) [noun] A close-fitting helmet with a visor and beaver, used in the 15th and 16th centuries. ARTAL (5) [noun] A unit of weight used in some Muslim countries, typically equal to about 2.8 pounds or roughly 1.3 kilograms. ARTEL (5) [noun] A Russian or Soviet craftsmen's collective. ARTSY (8) [adjective] (sometimes derogatory) Inclined towards the arts; arty. ASCOT (7) [noun] Ascot tie ASSET (5) [noun] Something or someone of any value; any portion of one's property or effects so considered. | [noun] Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused. | [noun] An intelligence asset. ASTER (5) [noun] Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers. | [noun] A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell. | [noun] A star. ASTIR (5) [adjective] In motion; characterized by motion. | [adjective] Out of bed; up and about. ATAPS (7) [noun] A type of palm leaf used for thatching roofs, particularly in Southeast Asia. ATAXY (15) [noun] Ataxia | [noun] Disorder; irregularity ATILT (5) [adjective] At an angle from the vertical or horizontal. | [adverb] At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over. | [adverb] Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust). ATLAS (5) [noun] A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text. | [noun] A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc. on any given subject. | [noun] (especially of the human body) A detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its elements splayed so as to be presented in as discrete a manner as possible whilst retaining a realistic view of the whole. | [noun] A rich satin fabric. ATMAN (7) [noun] (Vedanta) The true self of an individual beyond identification with worldly phenomena, the essence of an individual, an infinitesimal part of Brahman. ATMAS (7) [noun] Plural of atma, the individual soul or self in Hindu and yogic philosophy. ATOLL (5) [noun] A type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform. Atolls have a unique geology, so not all islands with a reef and a lagoon are atolls ATOMS (7) [noun] The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. | [noun] (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter. | [noun] The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something. ATOMY (10) [noun] A floating mote or speck of dust. | [noun] An indivisible particle. | [noun] A tiny being; a very small person. | [noun] A skeleton. | [adjective] Resembling a tiny particle; made up of tiny particles. ATONE (5) [verb] To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency. | [verb] To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement. | [verb] To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony. ATONY (8) [noun] Lack of muscle tone or strength; absence of normal tension or responsiveness in a body part or organ. ATOPY (10) [noun] A genetic tendency to develop allergic diseases such as asthma, eczema, or hay fever. ATRIA (5) [noun] A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings. | [noun] A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels. | [noun] A cavity, entrance, or passage. ATRIP (7) [adjective] (nautical) With the anchor just clear of the bottom of the sea. | [adjective] In a state of readiness or preparation. ATTAR (5) [noun] An essential oil extracted from flowers. | [noun] A perfume made from this oil. ATTIC (7) [noun] The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation. AUDIT (6) [noun] A judicial examination. | [noun] An examination in general. | [noun] An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures AUGHT (9) [pronoun] Anything whatsoever, any part. | [noun] Whit, the smallest part, iota. | [noun] Zero | [noun] Estimation. | [noun] Property; possession | [numeral] A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine. AUNTS (5) [noun] The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The female cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. AUNTY (8) [noun] The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The female cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. AUTOS (5) [noun] An automobile. | [noun] A setting for automatic operation. | [noun] An automatic gearbox / transmission. AVANT (8) [noun] The front of an army; the vanguard. AVAST (8) [interjection] Hold fast!; desist!; stay!. | [interjection] (in imitation of pirates) listen!; pay attention! AVERT (8) [verb] To turn aside or away. | [verb] To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. | [verb] To turn away. AWAIT (8) [noun] A waiting for; ambush. | [noun] Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation. | [verb] To wait for. AXITE (12) AZOTE (14) [noun] An archaic or poetic term for nitrogen. AZOTH (17) [noun] The mercury of the alchemists, regarded as the universal remedy or elixir of life. | [noun] An alchemical term for the first matter or prima materia used in creating the philosopher's stone. BAHTS (10) [noun] Plural of baht, the basic monetary unit of Thailand. BAITH (10) [noun] A Scottish word meaning both or the two of something. BAITS (7) [noun] Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net. | [noun] Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests. | [noun] Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something BANTY (10) [noun] A small domestic chicken or other animal of diminutive size. | [adjective] Small or undersized. BASTE (7) [verb] To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric. | [noun] A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking. | [verb] To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. | [verb] To beat with a stick; to cudgel. BASTS (7) [verb] Third person singular present of "bast," meaning to sew loosely with long stitches in preparation for final sewing. | [noun] Plural of "bast," the fibrous material from plants used for rope or matting. BATCH (12) [noun] The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time. | [noun] (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation. | [noun] A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business. | [noun] A bank; a sandbank. | [verb] To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married. BATED (8) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. BATES (7) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. BATHE (10) [noun] The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath. | [verb] To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. | [verb] To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. BATHS (10) [noun] A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub. | [noun] A building or area where bathing occurs. | [noun] The act of bathing. BATIK (11) [noun] A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric. | [verb] To dye fabric using the wax-resist method. BATON (7) [noun] A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes | [noun] The stick of a conductor in musical performances. | [noun] An object transferred by runners in a relay race. BATTS (7) [noun] Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation | [noun] (usually in the plural) A shoe. BATTU (7) [adjective] Beaten or struck, used in ballet to describe a movement where the legs are beaten together in the air. | [verb] Past tense of "bat" in some contexts, particularly in ballet terminology. BATTY (10) [adjective] Mad, crazy, silly. | [adjective] Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal). | [noun] (West Indian slang) The buttocks or anus. BAWTY (13) BEAST (7) [noun] Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones. | [noun] (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. | [noun] A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner. BEATS (7) [noun] A stroke; a blow. | [noun] A pulsation or throb. | [noun] A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. BEAUT (7) [noun] Something or someone that is physically attractive. | [noun] Something that is a remarkable example of its type. | [adjective] Beautiful, splendid. BEETS (7) [noun] Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar. | [noun] A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant. BEFIT (10) [verb] To be fit for BEGAT (8) [noun] An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible | [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. BEGET (8) [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. | [verb] To bring forth. BEGOT (8) [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. | [verb] To bring forth. BELTS (7) [noun] A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. | [noun] A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt. | [noun] A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power. BENTS (7) [noun] An inclination or talent. | [noun] A predisposition to act or react in a particular way. | [noun] The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity. BERET (7) [noun] A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France. BERTH (10) [noun] A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc). | [noun] Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.) | [noun] A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park. BESET (7) [verb] To surround or hem in. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To attack or assail, especially from all sides. | [verb] To decorate something with jewels etc. BESOT (7) [verb] To make drunk or foolish; to stupefy or infatuate. | [verb] To soil or stain. BESTS (7) [noun] The supreme effort one can make, or has made. | [noun] One's best behavior. | [noun] The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent. BETAS (7) [noun] The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase. | [noun] Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc. | [noun] Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices. BETEL (7) [noun] Either of two plants often used in combination: | [noun] A quid (chewing preparation) containing these and other plant materials; paan. BETHS (10) [noun] The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁 | [noun] The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב | [noun] The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ BETON (7) [noun] Concrete, especially reinforced concrete used in construction. BETTA (7) [noun] A small colorful freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia, popular in aquariums. | [noun] A variant spelling of "beta," the second letter of the Greek alphabet. BHOOT (10) [noun] A ghost or spirit in Indian folklore and mythology. BHUTS (10) BIDET (8) [noun] A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus. | [noun] A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. BIGHT (11) [noun] A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow | [noun] An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf | [noun] A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature. BIGOT (8) [noun] One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to one's own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc. | [noun] One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so. BINIT (7) BINTS (7) [noun] A woman, a girl. BIONT (7) BIOTA (7) [noun] The living organisms of a region. | [noun] Platycladus orientalis (syn. Biota orientalis, Oriental arborvitae). BIRTH (10) [noun] The process of childbearing; the beginning of life. | [noun] An instance of childbirth. | [noun] A beginning or start; a point of origin. BITCH (12) [noun] (dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother. | [noun] A promiscuous woman, slut, whore. | [noun] A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman. BITER (7) [noun] The act of biting. | [noun] The wound left behind after having been bitten. | [noun] The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. | [noun] (in combination) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits. BITES (7) [noun] The act of biting. | [noun] The wound left behind after having been bitten. | [noun] The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. BITSY (10) [adjective] Very small; tiny. BITTS (7) [noun] A frame composed of two strong oak timbers (bitt-heads) fixed vertically in the fore part of a ship, bolted to the deck beams to which are secured the cables when the ship rides to anchor BITTY (10) [noun] (often in the plural) bitch, girl, woman, especially one that is promiscuous | [adjective] Containing bits; fragmented. | [adjective] Very small. BLAST (7) [noun] A violent gust of wind. | [noun] A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc. | [noun] A hit from a pipe. | [verb] To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din. | [noun] An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast). | [verb] To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool). BLATE (7) [verb] To bleat or cry out like a sheep or goat. | [verb] To expose or reveal something. BLATS (7) [verb] To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat. | [verb] To make a senseless noise. | [verb] To talk inconsiderately. BLEAT (7) [noun] The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat. | [verb] Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound. | [verb] Of a person, to complain. BLENT (7) [verb] To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. | [verb] To be mingled or mixed. | [verb] To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. BLEST (7) [adjective] Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing. | [adjective] A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs. | [adjective] Held in veneration; revered. BLETS (7) [verb] To undergo the process of overripening or decay, especially of fruit like medlars, to become soft and edible. BLITE (7) [noun] A plant of the amaranth family, also called strawberry blite, having small red berries. | [noun] Any of various plants with edible leaves, such as orache or spinach. BLITZ (16) [noun] A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to the Blitz. | [noun] A swift and overwhelming attack or effort. | [noun] A play in which additional defenders beyond the defensive linemen rush the passer. BLOAT (7) [noun] Distention of the abdomen from death. | [noun] Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant. | [noun] Wasteful use of space or other resources. BLOTS (7) [noun] A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance. | [noun] (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace. | [noun] A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier. BLUET (7) [noun] Any of several different plants having blue flowers from several genera. | [noun] Common name for several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma. BLUNT (7) [noun] A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip. | [noun] A short needle with a strong point. | [noun] (smoking) A marijuana cigar. | [verb] To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. BLURT (7) [noun] An abrupt outburst. | [verb] To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out. BOART (7) [noun] Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond. BOAST (7) [noun] A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself. | [noun] Something that one brags about. | [noun] A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall. | [verb] To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. BOATS (7) [noun] A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind. | [noun] A full house. | [noun] A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape. BOITE (7) [noun] A nightclub or small theater, especially in France; a box or case. BOLTS (7) [noun] A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw. | [noun] A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism. | [noun] A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open. BOOST (7) [noun] A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb. | [noun] Something that helps, or adds power or effectiveness; assistance. | [noun] (automotive engineering) A positive intake manifold pressure in cars with turbochargers or superchargers. BOOTH (10) [noun] A small stall for the display and sale of goods. | [noun] An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person. | [noun] An enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café. BOOTS (7) [noun] A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg. | [noun] A blow with the foot; a kick. | [noun] A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc. BOOTY (10) [noun] A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once. | [noun] Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy. | [noun] Something that has been stolen or illegally obtained from elsewhere. | [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet. BORTS (7) [noun] Industrial-grade diamonds used for cutting, grinding, and polishing tools. | [noun] Plural of bort, a poorly crystallized or imperfectly formed diamond. BORTY (10) BORTZ (16) [noun] Industrial-grade diamond used as an abrasive in cutting tools and grinding wheels. BOTAS (7) [noun] Plural of bota, a leather bottle or wineskin used for holding and dispensing wine or other beverages. | [noun] Plural of bota, a type of soft leather boot. BOTCH (12) [noun] An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work. | [noun] A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. | [noun] A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing. | [noun] A tumour or other malignant swelling. BOTEL (7) [noun] A floating hotel; a boat that acts as a hotel BOTHY (13) [noun] A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands. BOTTS (7) [noun] Plural of bott, a parasitic larva of a botfly that infects mammals. | [noun] Small raised markers or reflectors embedded in road surfaces to indicate lane boundaries. BOUTS (7) [noun] A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant. | [noun] A boxing match. | [noun] An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept. BRACT (9) [noun] A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises. BRANT (7) [noun] Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla. | [adjective] Steep, precipitous. | [adjective] Smooth; unwrinkled BRATS (7) [noun] A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish. | [noun] A son or daughter (at any age) of an active military service member. | [noun] A turbot or flatfish BRENT (7) [noun] A type of goose with a dark plumage, found in northern regions. | [noun] A crude oil variety from the North Sea. BRITS (7) [noun] Brit milah BRITT (7) BROTH (10) [noun] Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled. | [noun] A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat. BRUIT (7) [noun] Hearsay, rumour; talk; an instance of this. | [noun] A clamour, an outcry; a noise. | [verb] To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc. | [noun] An abnormal sound in the body heard on auscultation (for example, through using a stethoscope); a murmur. BRUNT (7) [noun] The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event. | [noun] The major part of something; the bulk. | [verb] To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand. 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. BUILT (7) [verb] To form (something) by combining materials or parts. | [verb] To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process. | [verb] To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to. BUNDT (8) [noun] A baking pan with a hollow, circular, raised area in the middle. BUNTS (7) [noun] The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. | [noun] A push or shove; a butt. | [noun] A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved. | [noun] Money BURET (7) [noun] A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration. | [noun] An altar cruet. BURNT (7) [verb] To cause to be consumed by fire. | [verb] To be consumed by fire, or in flames. | [verb] To overheat so as to make unusable. BURST (7) [noun] An act or instance of bursting. | [noun] A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display. | [noun] A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm. BUSTS (7) [noun] A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders. | [noun] The breasts and upper thorax of a woman. | [noun] The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession. BUSTY (10) [adjective] Having large breasts. BUTCH (12) [noun] A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner. | [adjective] (originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude. BUTEO (7) [noun] Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo. BUTLE (7) [verb] To serve as or perform the duties of a butler. BUTTE (7) [noun] An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top. BUTTS (7) [noun] The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end | [noun] The waste end of anything | [noun] (generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end. BUTTY (10) [noun] A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg. | [noun] Friend. | [noun] A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore. | [adjective] Resembling a heavy cart. BUTUT (7) [noun] A unit of currency, worth one hundredth of a Gambian dalasi BUTYL (10) [noun] Any of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C4H9, formally derived from butane by the loss of a hydrogen atom. | [noun] A synthetic rubber made by the polymerization of isobutylene. BYTES (10) [noun] A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word. | [noun] (most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values. CACTI (9) [noun] Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate. | [noun] Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, such as euphorbs. CADET (8) [noun] A student at a military school who is training to be an officer. | [noun] A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would. | [noun] (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.) CANST (7) [verb] (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to. | [verb] (modal auxiliary verb, defective) May; to be permitted or enabled to. | [verb] (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible. CANTO (7) [noun] One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book. | [noun] The treble or leading melody. CANTS (7) [noun] An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup. | [noun] A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group. | [noun] A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta. CANTY (10) [adjective] Cheerful, lively, or pleasant in disposition or manner. CAPUT (9) [noun] The head or a head-like structure, especially in anatomy. | [noun] A chapter or section of a book or legal document. CARAT (7) [noun] A unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 200 milligrams. | [noun] Any of several units of weight, varying from 189 to 212 mg, the weight of a carob seed. | [noun] A measure of the purity of gold, pure gold being 24 carats. CARET (7) [noun] A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point. | [noun] An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also called a cursor. | [noun] A circumflex, ⟨ ＾ ⟩. | [noun] A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata). CARTE (7) [noun] A bill of fare; a menu. | [noun] A visiting card. | [noun] A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person). | [noun] The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards. CARTS (7) [noun] A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers. | [noun] A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart. | [noun] A shopping cart. CASTE (7) [noun] Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies. | [noun] A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other. | [noun] A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony. CASTS (7) [noun] An act of throwing. | [noun] An instance of throwing out a fishing line. | [noun] Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc. CATCH (12) [noun] The act of seizing or capturing. | [noun] The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball. | [noun] The act of noticing, understanding or hearing. CATER (7) [noun] Caterer | [verb] To provide, particularly: | [noun] A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food. | [verb] To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally. | [noun] Four. CATES (7) [noun] Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. CATTY (10) [adjective] (of a person or remark) With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset, particularly among women. | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a cat. | [noun] A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram. CELTS (7) [noun] A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool. CENTO (7) [noun] A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems. CENTS (7) [noun] (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢. | [noun] A small sum of money. | [noun] (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro. CESTA (7) [noun] A basket used in jai alai for catching and throwing a ball. | [noun] A cestus or girdle worn in ancient times. CESTI (7) [noun] A leather fighting glove, frequently weighted with metal. | [noun] A girdle, especially that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power to excite love. CETES (7) [noun] Plural of cete, which is a group or collective noun for badgers. CHANT (10) [noun] Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony. | [noun] A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music. | [noun] Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. CHAPT (12) [verb] Past tense and past participle of "chap," meaning to crack or become cracked, especially of skin or lips. | [adjective] Cracked or roughened, typically describing skin. CHART (10) [noun] A map. | [noun] A systematic non-narrative presentation of data. | [noun] A written deed; a charter. CHATS (10) [noun] Any savory snack, sold from a roadside stall in India, or served as a starter in an Indian restaurant | [noun] Informal conversation. | [noun] A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations. CHEAT (10) [verb] To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation. | [verb] To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner. | [verb] To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely. | [noun] Someone who cheats (informal: cheater). CHERT (10) [noun] Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral. | [noun] A flint-like tool made from chert. CHEST (10) [noun] A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid. | [noun] A coffin. | [noun] The place in which public money is kept; a treasury. | [noun] Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity. CHETH (13) [noun] The eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. | [noun] A fence or hedge. CHITS (10) [noun] A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. | [noun] A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman. | [noun] The embryonic growing bud of a plant CHOTT (10) [noun] A shallow salt lake or depression in North Africa, typically dry except in winter. 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. CISTS (7) [noun] A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece. | [noun] A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs. CITED (8) [verb] To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another. | [verb] To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context. | [verb] To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court. CITER (7) [noun] One who cites or quotes. | [noun] One who summons or calls upon. CITES (7) [verb] To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another. | [verb] To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context. | [verb] To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court. CIVET (10) [noun] A carnivorous catlike animal, Civettictis civetta, that produces a musky secretion. It is two to three feet long, with black bands and spots on the body and tail. | [noun] The musky perfume produced by the animal. | [noun] Any animal in the family Viverridae or the similar family Nandiniidae CLAPT (9) [verb] Past tense and past participle of "clap," meaning to applaud by striking palms together, or to move or strike suddenly and loudly. CLAST (7) [noun] A fragment of rock that was broken from a larger rock or rock unit. CLEAT (7) [noun] A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc. | [noun] A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components. | [noun] A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release. CLEFT (10) [noun] An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting. | [noun] A piece made by splitting. | [noun] A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. | [verb] To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. CLEPT (9) [verb] To give a call; cry out; appeal. | [verb] To call; call upon; cry out to. | [verb] To call to oneself; invite; summon. CLIFT (10) CLIPT (9) CLOOT (7) [noun] A cloth or piece of fabric, especially a patch or rag. | [noun] A lump or clot, particularly of blood or earth. CLOTH (10) [noun] A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. | [noun] Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards. | [noun] A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose. CLOTS (7) [noun] A thrombus, solidified mass of blood. | [noun] A solidified mass of any liquid. | [noun] A silly person. CLOUT (7) [noun] Influence or effectiveness, especially political. | [noun] A blow with the hand. | [noun] A home run. | [verb] To form a clot or mass. COACT (9) [verb] To act together with another or others; to act jointly or in cooperation. COAPT (9) [verb] To fit or come together; to join or adapt closely. COAST (7) [noun] The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake. | [noun] The side or edge of something. | [noun] A region of land; a district or country. COATI (7) [noun] Any of several omnivorous mammals, of the genus Nasua or Nasuella, in order Carnivora, that live in the range from southern United States to northern Argentina. COATS (7) [noun] An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp | [noun] A covering of material, such as paint.Wp | [noun] The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.Wp COLTS (7) [noun] A young male horse. | [noun] A young crane (bird). | [noun] A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice. COMET (9) [noun] A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun. | [noun] A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body. | [noun] Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes. COMPT (11) COMTE (9) [noun] A French nobleman or count. CONTE (7) [noun] A short story or tale, especially one that is fictional or imaginative. CONTO (7) COOPT (9) [verb] To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee. | [verb] To commandeer, appropriate or take over. | [verb] To absorb or assimilate into an established group. COOTS (7) [noun] Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead. | [noun] A foolish or eccentric fellow | [noun] (with the) A success; something excellent. COSET (7) [noun] The set that results from applying a group's binary operation with a given fixed element of the group on each element of a given subgroup. COSTA (7) [noun] A rib. | [noun] A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing. COSTS (7) [verb] To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. | [verb] To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. | [verb] To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. COTAN (7) [noun] The reciprocal of the tangent function; the ratio of the adjacent side to the opposite side in a right triangle. COTED (8) [verb] Past tense of "cote," meaning to pass by or overtake. | [verb] Past tense of "cote," meaning to go along the side of. COTES (7) [noun] A cottage or hut. | [noun] A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons. COTTA (7) [noun] A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none. | [noun] A kind of coarse woollen blanket. COUNT (7) [noun] The act of counting or tallying a quantity. | [noun] The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted. | [noun] A countdown. | [noun] The male ruler of a county. COURT (7) [noun] An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. | [noun] (social) Royal society. | [noun] Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone COUTH (10) [verb] (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to. | [verb] (modal auxiliary verb, defective) May; to be permitted or enabled to. | [verb] (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible. | [noun] Social grace, refinement, sophistication; etiquette, manners. COVET (10) [verb] To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously. | [verb] To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden). | [verb] To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession. CRAFT (10) [noun] Strength; power; might; force . | [noun] Intellectual power; skill; art. | [noun] (obsolete in the general sense) A work or product of art . 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. CREPT (9) [verb] To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. | [verb] Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards. | [verb] To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction. CREST (7) [noun] The summit of a hill or mountain ridge. | [noun] A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. | [noun] The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet. CROFT (10) [noun] An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters. | [verb] To do agricultural work on one or more crofts. | [verb] To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it. | [noun] An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft. | [noun] A carafe. CRUET (7) [noun] A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as salt, pepper, oil, or vinegar, for use at a dining table. | [noun] A stand for these containers. | [noun] A small vessel used to hold wine or water for the Eucharist. CRUST (7) [noun] A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary. | [noun] The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc. | [noun] An outer layer composed of pastry CRWTH (13) CRYPT (12) [noun] A cave or cavern. | [noun] An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place. | [noun] A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure. CUBIT (9) [noun] Various former units of length notionally based on the distance from a grown man's elbow to his fingertips, standardized in different places and times at values between 35 and 60 cm. | [noun] The ulna. CULET (7) CULTI (7) CULTS (7) [noun] A group or sect of people with a deviant religious, philosophical or cultural identity, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members. | [noun] Devotion to a saint. | [noun] The veneration and religious rites given to a deity, esp. in a historical polytheistic context. CUNTS (7) [noun] The female genitalia, especially the vulva. | [noun] An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand more usually a man). | [noun] An objectionable object or item. CURET (7) CURST (7) [verb] To place a curse upon (a person or object). | [verb] To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. | [verb] To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet. CUTCH (12) [noun] Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster. | [noun] Young or seed oysters together with the shells and other objects to which they are usually attached. | [noun] Rubbish; debris; refuse. CUTER (7) [adjective] Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior. | [adjective] Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way. | [adjective] Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy. CUTES (7) CUTEY (10) [noun] A cute person or animal. | [noun] A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand. | [noun] (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma. CUTIE (7) [noun] A cute person or animal. | [noun] A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand. | [noun] (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma. CUTIN (7) [noun] A waxy polymer of hydroxy acids that is the main constituent of plant cuticle. CUTIS (7) [noun] The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis. CUTTY (10) [noun] A short spoon. | [noun] A short tobacco pipe. | [noun] A wanton or unchaste woman. CUTUP (9) [noun] Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes. CYSTS (10) [noun] A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ. | [noun] Of or pertaining to the urinary bladder or gall bladder (in compounds). CYTON (10) DARTS (6) [noun] A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin | [noun] Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon. DATED (7) [verb] To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution. | [verb] To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of. | [verb] To determine the age of something. DATER (6) [noun] One who dates. | [noun] A date-stamping device. DATES (6) [noun] The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel. | [noun] The date palm. | [noun] The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made. DATOS (6) DATTO (6) DATUM (8) [noun] (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc. | [noun] (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation. | [noun] (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn. DAUNT (6) [verb] To discourage, intimidate. | [verb] To overwhelm. DAUTS (6) DAVIT (9) [noun] A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship. | [noun] A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship. DAWTS (9) DEALT (6) [verb] To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share. | [verb] To administer or give out, as in small portions. | [verb] To distribute cards to the players in a game. DEATH (9) [noun] The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state. | [noun] (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English dēaþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male θᾰ́νᾰτος (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics. | [noun] (the death) The collapse or end of something. DEBIT (8) [noun] In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account. | [noun] A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer. | [verb] To make an entry on the debit side of an account. DEBTS (8) [noun] An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another. | [noun] The state or condition of owing something to another. | [noun] Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction. DEBUT (8) [noun] A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area. | [noun] The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece. | [noun] The first appearance of a debutante in society. DEETS (6) [noun] Details. DEFAT (9) [verb] To remove fat from a material, especially by the use of solvents DEIST (6) DEITY (9) [noun] A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. | [noun] The state, position, or fact of being a god or God. [from 14th c.] | [noun] A celestial being inferior to a supreme God but superior to man. DELFT (9) [noun] A style of blue and white earthenware. | [noun] A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch. DELTA (6) [noun] The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ. | [noun] A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water. | [noun] The letter D in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet. DEMIT (8) [noun] The act of demitting. | [noun] A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge. | [verb] To let fall; to depress; to yield. DENTS (6) [noun] A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact. | [noun] A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action DEPOT (8) [noun] A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse. | [noun] A bus station or railway station. | [noun] A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units. DEPTH (11) [noun] The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep | [noun] The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet | [noun] The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc. DERAT (6) DETER (6) [verb] To prevent something from happening. | [verb] To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage. | [verb] To distract someone from something. DETOX (13) [noun] Detoxification, especially of the body from alcohol or illegal, addictive drugs. | [noun] A detoxification unit. | [verb] To detoxify, especially from alcohol or recreational drugs. DHOTI (9) [noun] A long loincloth worn by Hindu men in India. | [noun] The cotton fabric used for such loincloths. DHUTI (9) DICOT (8) [noun] A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon. DICTA (8) [noun] An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm. | [noun] A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. | [noun] The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. DICTY (11) [noun] An upper-class black. | [adjective] Stylish and respectable; high-class | [adjective] Striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious DIDST (7) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DIETS (6) [noun] The food and beverage a person or animal consumes. | [noun] A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health. | [noun] (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption. DIGHT (10) [verb] To deal with, handle. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To dispose, put (in a given state or condition). DIGIT (7) [noun] A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DINTS (6) [noun] A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight. | [noun] Force, power; especially in by dint of. | [noun] The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. DIRTS (6) DIRTY (9) [verb] To make (something) dirty. | [verb] To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor. | [verb] To debase by distorting the real nature of (something). DITAS (6) DITCH (11) [noun] A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. | [verb] To discard or abandon. | [verb] To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. | [noun] Dirt ingrained on the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc. DITES (6) DITSY (9) [adjective] Silly or scatterbrained, usually of a young woman. DITTO (6) [noun] That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise. | [noun] A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator. | [noun] A copy; an imitation. DITTY (9) [noun] A short verse or tune. | [noun] A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated. | [verb] To sing; to warble a little tune. DITZY (18) [adjective] Silly or scatterbrained, usually of a young woman. DIVOT (9) [noun] A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof. | [noun] A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour. DIXIT (13) DOATS (6) DOEST (6) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DOETH (9) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DOITS (6) DOLTS (6) [noun] A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard. DONUT (6) [noun] A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream. | [noun] Anything in the shape of a torus. | [noun] (automobile) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid. DORTY (9) DOTAL (6) DOTED (7) [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. | [verb] To act in a foolish manner; to be senile. | [adjective] Stupid; foolish DOTER (6) DOTES (6) [noun] A darling, a cutie. | [noun] An imbecile; a dotard. | [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. DOTTY (9) [adjective] Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile. | [adjective] Having an unsteady gait. | [noun] A shotgun. DOUBT (8) [noun] Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty. | [noun] A point of uncertainty; a query. | [verb] To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question. DRAFT (9) [noun] A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle. | [noun] Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process. | [noun] An act of drinking. DRATS (6) DREST (6) DRIFT (9) [noun] (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved. | [noun] The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. | [noun] A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side. DRIPT (8) DROIT (6) DROPT (8) DUCAT (8) [noun] A gold coin minted by various European nations. | [noun] A coin of the major denomination (dollar, euro, etc.); money in general. | [noun] A ticket. DUCTS (8) [noun] A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another. | [noun] An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs. | [noun] Guidance; direction. DUETS (6) [noun] A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble). | [noun] A song composed for and/or performed by a duo. | [noun] A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant. DUITS (6) DUNTS (6) [noun] A stroke; a dull-sounding blow. DURST (6) [verb] To have enough courage (to do something). | [verb] To defy or challenge (someone to do something) | [verb] To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to DUSTS (6) [noun] Fine particles | [noun] The act of cleaning by dusting. | [noun] The earth, as the resting place of the dead. DUSTY (9) [adjective] Covered with dust. | [adjective] Powdery and resembling dust. | [adjective] Grey in parts. DUTCH (11) [noun] Wife | [verb] To treat cocoa beans or powder with an alkali solution to darken the color and lessen the bitterness of the flavor. DUVET (9) [noun] A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets. | [noun] A cover for a quilt or comforter. DWELT (9) [verb] To live; to reside. | [verb] To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on). | [verb] To be in a given state. EARTH (8) [proper noun] The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live. | [proper noun] The personification of the Earth or earth, as a fertile woman or goddess. | [noun] Soil. EASTS (5) EATEN (5) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. EATER (5) [noun] One who eats. | [noun] An eating apple. | [noun] One who performs fellatio or cunnilingus. EBBET (9) ECLAT (7) [noun] A brilliant or successful effect; brilliance of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown. EDICT (8) [noun] A proclamation of law or other authoritative command. EDITS (6) [noun] A change to the text of a document. | [noun] A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software. | [noun] An interruption or change to an improvised scene. EDUCT (8) EGEST (6) [verb] To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces). EGRET (6) [noun] Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season. | [noun] A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament. | [noun] The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle. EIGHT (9) [noun] The digit/figure 8. | [noun] Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight. | [noun] A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars. | [noun] An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. EJECT (14) [verb] To compel (a person or persons) to leave. | [verb] To throw out or remove forcefully. | [verb] To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour. | [noun] An inferred object of someone else's consciousness ELATE (5) [verb] To make joyful or proud. | [verb] To lift up; raise; elevate. | [adjective] Elated; exultant ELECT (7) [noun] One chosen or set apart. | [noun] In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation. | [verb] To choose or make a decision (to do something) ELINT (5) ELITE (5) [noun] A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society. | [noun] Someone who is among the best at a certain task. | [adjective] Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician. ELUTE (5) [verb] To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse. EMITS (7) [verb] To send out or give off EMMET (9) [noun] An ant. | [noun] (Cornish dialect) A tourist. EMOTE (7) [noun] A virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than a direct message. | [noun] (Twitch-speak) Short for emoticon. | [verb] To display emotions openly, especially while acting. EMPTY (12) [noun] (usually plural) A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty. | [verb] To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of. | [verb] Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination. ENACT (7) [noun] Purpose; determination | [verb] To make (a bill) into law | [verb] To act the part of; to play ENATE (5) ENTER (5) [noun] The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard. | [noun] A stroke of the Enter key. | [verb] To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space. ENTIA (5) ENTRY (8) [noun] The act of entering. | [noun] Permission to enter. | [noun] A doorway that provides a means of entering a building. EPACT (9) [noun] The time (number of days) by which a solar year exceeds twelve lunar months; it is used in the calculation of the date of Easter ERECT (7) [adjective] Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards. | [adjective] (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation. | [adjective] (of a man) Having an erect penis | [verb] To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. ERGOT (6) [noun] Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses. | [noun] The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi. ERUCT (7) [verb] To burp or belch. ERUPT (7) [verb] To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser). | [verb] To burst forth; to break out. | [verb] To spontaneously release pressure or tension. ESCOT (7) ESTER (5) [noun] A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond joined via carbon to another oxygen atom. ESTOP (7) [verb] To impede or bar by estoppel. | [verb] To stop up, to plug ETAPE (7) ETHER (8) [noun] The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities. | [noun] Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955). | [noun] The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace. | [verb] To viciously humiliate or insult. ETHIC (10) [noun] A set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual. | [noun] The morality of an action. | [adjective] Moral, relating to morals. ETHOS (8) [noun] The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement. | [noun] A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct. | [noun] (aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos. ETHYL (11) [noun] The univalent hydrocarbon radical, C2H5, formally derived from ethane by the loss of a hydrogen atom. ETNAS (5) ETUDE (6) [noun] A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill. ETUIS (5) [noun] A small, ornamental bag or rigid container used for holding articles such as needles. ETWEE (8) ETYMA (10) [noun] The source word, or words, of a given word or expression. EVENT (8) [noun] An occurrence; something that happens. | [noun] A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) | [noun] One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. | [verb] To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate. EVERT (8) [verb] To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. | [verb] To move (someone or something) out of the way. | [verb] To turn upside down; to overturn. EVICT (10) [verb] To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out. EVITE (8) [verb] To avoid. EXACT (14) [verb] To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way. | [verb] To make desirable or necessary. | [verb] To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce. EXALT (12) [verb] To honor; to hold in high esteem. | [verb] To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate. | [verb] To elate, or fill with the joy of success. EXERT (12) [verb] To put in vigorous action. | [verb] To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material. EXIST (12) [verb] (stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality EXITS (12) [noun] An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. | [noun] A way out. | [noun] The act of departing from life; death. EXPAT (14) [noun] An expatriate; a person who lives outside their own country. EXTOL (12) [verb] To praise; to make high. EXTRA (12) [noun] Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill. | [noun] An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle. | [noun] A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball. EXULT (12) [verb] To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph. FACET (10) [noun] Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem. | [noun] One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things. | [noun] One of a series of things, such as steps in a project. FACTS (10) [noun] Something actual as opposed to invented. | [noun] Something which is real. | [noun] Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation. FAGOT (9) [noun] (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.) | [noun] Burdensome baggage. | [noun] A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding. FAINT (8) [noun] The act of fainting, syncope. | [noun] The state of one who has fainted; a swoon. | [adjective] (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness | [verb] To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions). FAITH (11) [noun] A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence. | [noun] The process of forming or understanding abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience or observation. | [noun] A religious or spiritual belief system. FARTS (8) [noun] An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. | [noun] (impolite) An irritating person; a fool. | [noun] (impolite, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views. FASTS (8) [noun] A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations | [noun] The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food. | [noun] The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food. FATAL (8) [noun] A fatality; an event that leads to death. | [noun] A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate. | [adjective] Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny. FATED (9) [verb] To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable. | [adjective] Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate. FATES (8) [noun] The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. | [noun] The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. | [noun] An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time. FATLY (11) FATSO (8) [noun] Someone who is overweight. FATTY (11) [adjective] Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat. | [adjective] Like fat; greasy. | [adjective] Literally or figuratively large. | [noun] An obese person. FATWA (11) [noun] A legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic lawyer. | [verb] To make somebody the subject of a fatwa, especially a ban or death sentence. FAULT (8) [noun] A defect; something that detracts from perfection. | [noun] A mistake or error. | [noun] A weakness of character; a failing. FEAST (8) [noun] A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature. | [noun] Something delightful | [noun] A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. | [verb] To partake in a feast, or large meal. FEATS (8) [noun] A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment. | [verb] To form; to fashion. | [verb] To feature. I FEINT (8) [noun] A movement made to confuse the opponent; a dummy. | [noun] That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense or stratagem. | [noun] (war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance | [noun] The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper. FEIST (8) FELTS (8) [verb] To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, felt. | [verb] To cause a player to lose all their chips. FETAL (8) [adjective] Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus. FETAS (8) FETCH (13) [noun] An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance. | [noun] The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts. | [noun] A stratagem or trick; an artifice. | [noun] (originally Ireland) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith. FETED (9) [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). | [adjective] Honoured; celebrated. FETES (8) [noun] A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity. | [noun] A feast, celebration or carnival. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). FETID (9) [noun] The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts. | [adjective] Foul-smelling, stinking. FETOR (8) [noun] An unpleasant smell. FETUS (8) [noun] An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. | [noun] A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation. FIATS (8) [noun] An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree. | [noun] Authorization, permission or (official) sanction. | [noun] (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes. FIFTH (14) [noun] The person or thing in the fifth position. | [noun] One of five equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The fifth gear of an engine. FIFTY (14) [noun] A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50. | [noun] A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs. | [numeral] The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one. FIGHT (12) [verb] To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. | [noun] An occasion of fighting. FILET (8) [noun] A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration. | [noun] A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses. | [noun] A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet. FILTH (11) [noun] Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles. | [noun] Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution. | [noun] (with definite article) The police. FIRST (8) [noun] The person or thing in the first position. | [noun] The first gear of an engine. | [noun] Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence. | [noun] Time; time granted; respite. FIRTH (11) [noun] An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. | [noun] An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. | [noun] Peace; security. FISTS (8) [noun] A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward. | [noun] The pointing hand symbol ☞. | [noun] The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code. FITCH (13) [noun] The European polecat, Mustela putorius. | [noun] The skin of the polecat | [noun] A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads "spelt". FITLY (11) FIXIT (15) FLATS (8) [noun] An area of level ground. | [noun] A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪). | [noun] A flat tyre/tire. FLEET (8) [noun] A group of vessels or vehicles. | [noun] Any group of associated items. | [noun] A large, coordinated group of people. | [noun] An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek. | [verb] To float. | [noun] Floor; bottom; lower surface. FLINT (8) [noun] A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck. | [noun] A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker. | [noun] A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc. FLIRT (8) [noun] A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion | [noun] Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person. | [noun] An act of flirting. FLITE (8) FLITS (8) [noun] A fluttering or darting movement. | [noun] A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state. | [noun] A homosexual. FLOAT (8) [noun] A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid. | [noun] A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. | [noun] A float board. FLOTA (8) FLOUT (8) [noun] The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law. | [noun] A mockery or insult. | [verb] To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action. 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. FLUTY (11) [adjective] Resembling the sound of a flute. FLUYT (11) FLYTE (11) FOIST (8) [noun] A thief or pickpocket. | [verb] To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant. | [verb] To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit. | [noun] A light and fast-sailing ship. | [noun] A cask for wine. FONTS (8) [noun] A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism. | [noun] A receptacle for oil in a lamp. | [noun] Spring, source, fountain. FOOTS (8) [verb] To use the foot to kick (usually a ball). | [verb] To pay (a bill). | [verb] To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. FOOTY (11) [adjective] Having foots, or settlings. | [adjective] Poor; mean 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. FORTH (11) [adverb] Forward in time, place or degree. | [adverb] Out into view; from a particular place or position. | [adverb] Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. FORTS (8) [noun] A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops. | [noun] Any permanent army post. | [noun] An outlying trading-station, as in British North America. FORTY (11) [noun] A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces. | [numeral] The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one. FOUNT (8) [noun] Something from which water flows. | [noun] A device from which poultry may drink. | [noun] That from which something flows or proceeds; a source. | [noun] A typographic font. FRATS (8) [noun] Shortened form for fraternity, college organization. (Often used as a noun modifier.) FRETS (8) [noun] Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. | [noun] Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation. | [noun] Herpes; tetter. FRITH (11) [noun] Peace; security. | [noun] Sanctuary, asylum. | [verb] To protect; guard. | [noun] A forest or wood; woodland generally. | [noun] An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. FRITS (8) [noun] A fused mixture of materials used to make glass. | [noun] A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age) | [verb] To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture FRITT (8) FRITZ (17) [noun] The state of being defective. | [noun] (chiefly South Australia) A type of processed meat sausage; devon | [verb] To go wrong or become defective. FRONT (8) [noun] The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves. | [noun] The side of a building with the main entrance. | [noun] A field of activity. FROST (8) [noun] A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. | [noun] The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form. | [noun] Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. FROTH (11) [noun] Foam | [noun] Unimportant events or actions; drivel | [verb] To create froth in (a liquid). FRUIT (8) [noun] (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals. | [noun] Specifically, a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit. | [noun] A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically: FUMET (10) [noun] A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet. | [noun] A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine. | [noun] The stench or high flavour of game or other meat when kept long. | [noun] The dung of deer, hares, etc. FUSTY (11) [adjective] Moldy or musty. | [adjective] Stale-smelling or stuffy. | [adjective] (by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update. FUTON (8) [noun] A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed. | [noun] A round cushion used for Zen meditation, traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves. 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. GAITS (6) [noun] Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. | [noun] One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training. | [verb] To teach a specific gait to a horse. GAMUT (8) [noun] A (normally) complete range. | [noun] All the notes in the musical scale. | [noun] All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer. GARTH (9) [noun] A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters | [noun] A close; a yard; a croft; a garden. | [noun] A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England GASTS (6) GATED (7) [verb] To keep something inside by means of a closed gate. | [verb] To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out. | [verb] To open a closed ion channel. GATES (6) [noun] A doorlike structure outside a house. | [noun] Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. | [noun] Movable barrier. GATOR (6) [noun] Alligator. GAULT (6) [noun] A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks. GAUNT (6) [adjective] Lean, angular and bony | [adjective] Haggard, drawn and emaciated | [adjective] Bleak, barren and desolate GAVOT (9) GEEST (6) GELTS (6) GEMOT (8) GENET (6) [noun] Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail. | [noun] The fur of this mammal, or any skin dressed in imitation of it. | [noun] A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi, bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor; a group of ramets. | [noun] A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet. GENTS (6) [noun] A gentleman. | [noun] A men's room: a lavatory intended for use by men. | [adjective] Men's: intended for use by men. GESTE (6) GESTS (6) GETAS (6) GETUP (8) [noun] Enthusiastic and energetic drive or ambition | [noun] A costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual. | [noun] A fight or altercation. GHAST (9) GHATS (9) [noun] A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place. | [noun] A mountain range. | [noun] A mountain pass. GHAUT (9) GHOST (9) [noun] The spirit; the soul of man. | [noun] The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death | [noun] Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image GIANT (6) [noun] A mythical human of very great size. | [noun] Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology. | [noun] A very tall and large person. GIFTS (9) [noun] Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. | [noun] A talent or natural ability. | [noun] Something gained incidentally, without effort. GIGOT (7) [noun] A leg of lamb or mutton. | [noun] Short for gigot sleeve. GILTS (6) [noun] Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding. | [noun] Money. | [noun] A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged) GIRTH (9) [noun] A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place. | [noun] The part of an animal around which the girth fits. | [noun] One's waistline circumference, most often a large one. GIRTS (6) [noun] A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts. | [verb] To gird. | [verb] To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. GISTS (6) [noun] The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith. | [noun] The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action. | [noun] Resting place (especially of animals), lodging. GLEET (6) [noun] (except Scots) Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk. | [noun] (except Scots) Any slimy, viscous substance. | [noun] A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhoea. GLINT (6) [noun] A short flash of light. | [verb] To flash or gleam briefly. | [verb] To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. GLITZ (15) [noun] Garish, brilliant showiness. GLOAT (6) [noun] An act or instance of gloating. | [verb] To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune. | [verb] To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel. GLOST (6) [noun] Lead glazing used for pottery. GLOUT (6) GLUTS (6) [noun] An excess, too much. | [noun] That which is swallowed. | [noun] Something that fills up an opening. GNATS (6) [noun] Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera. GOATS (6) [noun] A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra. | [noun] A lecherous man. | [noun] A scapegoat. GODET (7) [noun] A drinking cup. | [noun] A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset. | [noun] A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing. GOUTS (6) [noun] An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints. | [noun] (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch. | [noun] A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae. GOUTY (9) [adjective] Suffering from gout. GRAFT (9) [noun] A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. | [noun] A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. | [noun] A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty. | [noun] A ditch, a canal. | [noun] Corruption in official life. GRANT (6) [noun] The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission. | [noun] The yielding or admission of something in dispute. | [noun] The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. 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. GREAT (6) [noun] A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | [noun] The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | [noun] (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships. GREET (6) [verb] To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or over the phone/internet | [verb] To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy) | [verb] To accost; to address. | [adjective] (obsolete outside Scotland) Great. | [noun] Mourning, weeping, lamentation. GRIFT (9) [noun] A confidence game or swindle. | [verb] To obtain illegally, as by con game. | [verb] To obtain money illegally. GRIOT (6) [noun] A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet. | [noun] A Haitian dish of fried pork. GRIPT (8) GRIST (6) [noun] Grain that is to be ground in a mill. | [noun] A group of bees. | [noun] Supply; provision. GRITH (9) GRITS (6) [noun] (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge. | [verb] Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger. GROAT (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain. | [noun] Any of various old coins of England and Scotland. | [noun] A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins. GROTS (6) [noun] A grotto. | [noun] Any unpleasant substance or material. | [noun] A miserable person. GROUT (6) [noun] A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry. | [noun] Coarse meal; groats. | [noun] (typically used in the plural) Dregs, sediment. GRUNT (6) [noun] A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak. | [noun] The snorting cry of a pig. | [noun] Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae. GUEST (6) [noun] A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another. | [noun] A patron or customer in a hotel etc. | [noun] An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast. GUILT (6) [noun] Responsibility for wrongdoing. | [noun] The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings. | [noun] The regret of having done wrong. | [verb] To commit offenses; act criminally. GUSTO (6) [noun] Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor. GUSTS (6) [noun] A strong, abrupt rush of wind. | [noun] (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.). | [verb] To blow in gusts. GUSTY (9) [adjective] (of wind) Blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous. | [adjective] (by extension, metaphoric) Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression | [adjective] (metaphoric) Bombastic, verbose. | [adjective] With gusto GUTSY (9) [adjective] Marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; having guts | [adjective] Not showing due respect GUTTA (6) GUTTY (9) [adjective] Charged or sprinkled with drops. | [noun] One who works in a slaughterhouse cutting out the internal organs. | [adjective] Gutsy; brave. | [noun] An urchin or delinquent. GUYOT (9) [noun] A flat-topped seamount. HABIT (10) [noun] An action performed on a regular basis. | [noun] An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness. | [noun] A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns. | [verb] To clothe. HADST (9) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAETS (8) HAFTS (11) [noun] The handle of a tool or weapon. | [verb] To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle | [noun] A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted. HALTS (8) [verb] To limp; move with a limping gait. | [verb] To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. | [verb] To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. HANTS (8) [noun] A ghost; a supernatural being. HARTS (8) [noun] A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year. | [noun] A red deer or one of related species. | [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. HASTE (8) [noun] Speed; swiftness; dispatch. | [noun] Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence. | [verb] To urge onward; to hasten. HASTY (11) [adjective] Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick HATCH (13) [noun] A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling. | [noun] A trapdoor. | [noun] An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through. | [noun] The act of hatching. | [verb] To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch). HATED (9) [verb] To dislike intensely or greatly. | [verb] To experience hatred. | [adjective] Disliked; odious; reviled. HATER (8) [noun] One who hates. | [noun] One who expresses unfounded or inappropriate hatred or dislike, particularly if motivated by envy. HATES (8) [noun] An object of hatred. | [noun] Hatred. | [noun] Negative feedback, abusive behaviour. HAUNT (8) [noun] A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout. | [noun] A ghost. | [noun] A feeding place for animals. HAUTE (8) HEART (8) [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. | [noun] Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general. | [noun] The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality. HEATH (11) [noun] A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland. | [noun] Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. | [noun] Certain butterflies and moths HEATS (8) [noun] Thermal energy. | [noun] The condition or quality of being hot. | [noun] An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. HEFTS (11) [noun] Weight. | [noun] Heaviness, the feel of weight. | [noun] The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion. HEFTY (14) [adjective] Heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive. | [adjective] Strong; bulky. | [adjective] (of a person) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built. HEIST (8) [noun] A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum. | [noun] A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot. | [verb] To steal, rob or hold up (something). HELOT (8) [noun] A member of the ancient Spartan class of serfs. | [noun] A serf; a slave. HENTS (8) HERTZ (17) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of frequency; one (period or cycle of any periodic event) per second. Symbol: Hz HESTS (8) [noun] Command, injunction. HETHS (11) HIGHT (12) [verb] To call, name. | [verb] To be called or named. | [verb] To command; to enjoin. | [noun] The distance from the base of something to the top. HILTS (8) [noun] The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand. | [noun] The base of the penis. | [verb] To provide with a hilt. HINTS (8) [noun] A clue. | [noun] A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement. | [noun] A small, barely detectable amount of. HISTS (8) HITCH (13) [noun] A sudden pull. | [noun] Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope. | [noun] A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer. HOIST (8) [noun] A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane. | [noun] The act of hoisting; a lift. | [noun] The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff. HOLTS (8) [noun] A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse. | [noun] The lair of an animal, especially of an otter. HOOTS (8) [noun] A derisive cry or shout. | [noun] The cry of an owl. | [noun] A fun event or person. (See hootenanny) HOOTY (11) HORST (8) [noun] An area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land. HOSTA (8) [noun] Any of several herbaceous Asiatic plants of the genus Hosta. HOSTS (8) [noun] One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially. | [noun] One that provides a facility for an event. | [noun] A person or organization responsible for running an event. HOTCH (13) [verb] To move irregularly up and down. | [verb] To swarm (with). HOTEL (8) [noun] A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France. | [noun] An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain. | [noun] A restaurant; any dining establishment. HOTLY (11) [adverb] With great amounts of heat | [adverb] In a heated manner; intensely or vehemently HUNTS (8) [noun] The act of hunting. | [noun] A hunting expedition. | [noun] An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it. HURST (8) [noun] (rare outside place names) A wood or grove. HURTS (8) [noun] An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. | [noun] A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise. | [noun] Injury; damage; detriment; harm HUTCH (13) [noun] A cage for keeping rabbits, guinea pigs, etc. | [noun] A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed. | [noun] A measure of two Winchester bushels. ICTIC (9) ICTUS (7) [noun] The pulse. | [noun] A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc. | [noun] The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis. IDIOT (6) [noun] A person of low general intelligence. | [noun] A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool. | [noun] A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30. IKATS (9) [noun] A style of weaving that uses a process similar to tie-dye to dye the threads. | [noun] A work woven in this style. INAPT (7) [adjective] Unapt INEPT (7) [adjective] Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence. | [adjective] Unfit; unsuitable. INERT (5) [noun] A substance that does not react chemically. | [verb] To fill with an inert gas to reduce the risk of explosion. | [adjective] Unable to move or act; inanimate. INGOT (6) [noun] A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents. | [verb] To form (scraps of metal) into ingots. INLET (5) [verb] To let in; admit. | [verb] To insert; inlay. | [noun] A body of water let into a coast, such as a bay, cove, fjord or estuary. INPUT (7) [noun] The act or process of putting in; infusion. | [noun] That which is put in, as in an amount. | [noun] Contribution of work or information, as an opinion or advice. INSET (5) [noun] A smaller thing set into a larger thing, such as a small picture inside a larger one. | [noun] Anything inserted. | [noun] A small piece of material used to strengthen a garment. INTER (5) [verb] To bury in a grave. | [verb] To confine, as in a prison. INTIS (5) [noun] The currency of Peru between 1985 and 1991, replacing the sol. INTRO (5) [noun] An introduction. | [noun] The opening sequence at beginning of a film, television program, etc. | [noun] A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition. IOTAS (5) [noun] The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. | [noun] A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity. IRATE (5) [adjective] Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged. ISLET (5) [noun] A small island | [noun] An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function 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. ITCHY (13) [adjective] Having or creating an itch, causing a person or animal to tend to want to scratch. ITEMS (7) [noun] A distinct physical object. | [noun] (by extension) An object that can be picked up for later use. | [noun] A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account. ITHER (8) 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. JABOT (14) [noun] A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc. JANTY (15) JATOS (12) [noun] An auxiliary jet engine in a detachable unit that provides extra power for the takeoff of an aircraft | [noun] A takeoff assisted by such a unit | [noun] A RATO unit or RATO takeoff - a rocket assisted take-off JAUNT (12) [noun] A wearisome journey. | [noun] A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey. | [verb] To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion. JESTS (12) [noun] An act performed for amusement; a joke. | [noun] Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke. | [noun] A deed; an action; a gest. JETES (12) [noun] A leap from one foot to the other in which one leg appears to be "thrown" in the direction of the movement. JETON (12) JETTY (15) [noun] A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach. | [noun] A wharf or dock extending from the shore. | [noun] A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below. | [adjective] Made of jet, or like jet in color. JILTS (12) [noun] A woman who jilts a lover. | [verb] To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love. JOINT (12) [noun] The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate. | [noun] The point where two components of a structure join rigidly. | [noun] Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened. JOIST (12) [noun] A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed. | [verb] To fit or furnish with joists. JOLTS (12) [noun] An act of jolting. | [noun] A surprise or shock. | [noun] A long prison sentence. JOLTY (15) JOTAS (12) [noun] A traditional popular dance of the Iberian peninsula with regional variations. | [noun] The music to which this dance is set, normally of 3/4 or 6/8 time. JOTTY (15) JOUST (12) [noun] A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field. | [verb] To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. | [verb] To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally) JUNTA (12) [noun] A council, convention, tribunal or assembly; especially, the grand council of state in Spain. | [noun] The ruling council of a military dictatorship. JUNTO (12) [noun] A group of men assembled for some common purpose; a club, or cabal. JURAT (12) [noun] A sworn statement concerning where, when, and before whom an oath has been made. | [noun] A sworn person, particularly: JUSTS (12) JUTES (12) [noun] The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc. | [noun] The plants from which this fibre is obtained. JUTTY (15) KAPUT (11) [adjective] Out of order; not working. KARAT (9) [noun] A unit of fineness or concentration of gold equalling 1/24 part of gold in an alloy. KARST (9) [noun] A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage. KARTS (9) [noun] A go-cart. KATAS (9) [noun] A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries. | [noun] Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts. | [noun] (in combination) A drop (in temperature). KEETS (9) KEMPT (13) [adjective] Neat and tidy; especially used of hair KETCH (14) [noun] A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post. | [verb] (heading) To capture, overtake. | [verb] (heading) To seize hold of. | [noun] A hangman. KETOL (9) KHATS (12) [noun] A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant. KHETH (15) KHETS (12) KILTS (9) [noun] A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern. | [noun] Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid | [noun] A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA. KILTY (12) KISTS (9) [noun] A chest. | [noun] A coffin. | [verb] To place in a coffin. KITED (10) KITER (9) KITES (9) KITHE (12) KITHS (12) [noun] Friends and acquaintances. | [noun] (rural) An acquaintance or a friend. KITTY (12) [noun] A kitten or young cat. | [noun] (sometimes capitalized) A pet name for a cat. | [noun] A money pool, as for a card game, or for shared expenses. KLUTZ (18) [noun] A clumsy or stupid person. KNELT (9) [verb] To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position. | [verb] To cause to kneel. | [verb] To rest on (one's) knees KNITS (9) [noun] A knitted garment. | [noun] A session of knitting. | [verb] To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine. | [noun] Small particles of ore. KNOTS (9) [noun] A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops. | [noun] (of hair, etc) A tangled clump. | [noun] A maze-like pattern. KNOUT (9) [noun] A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia. | [verb] To flog or beat with a knout. KORAT (9) KOTOS (9) [noun] A Japanese stringed instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand. KOTOW (12) KRAFT (12) [noun] A kind of strong, smooth brown wrapping paper. KRAIT (9) [noun] Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia. KRAUT (9) [noun] A dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage. | [noun] A German person. | [noun] A German. KURTA (9) [noun] A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women. KYATS (12) [noun] The official currency of Myanmar. KYTES (12) [noun] Obsolete form of kite. | [noun] Alternative spelling of kite KYTHE (15) LAITH (8) LAITY (8) [noun] People of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics. | [noun] The common man or woman. | [noun] The unlearned, untrained or ignorant. LASTS (5) [verb] To perform, carry out. | [verb] To endure, continue over time. | [verb] To hold out, continue undefeated or entire. LATCH (10) [verb] To close or lock as if with a latch. | [verb] To catch; lay hold of. | [noun] A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side. | [verb] To smear; to anoint. LATED (6) LATEN (5) LATER (5) [adjective] Near the end of a period of time. | [adjective] Specifically, near the end of the day. | [adjective] (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period. LATEX (12) [noun] A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph) | [noun] The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber. | [noun] An emulsion of rubber in water, used in adhesives and the like. LATHE (8) [verb] To invite; bid; ask. | [noun] An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century. | [noun] A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool. LATHI (8) [noun] A heavy stick or club, usually used by policemen. | [noun] A martial art based on stick fighting originally practiced in India. LATHS (8) [noun] A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc. LATHY (11) LATKE (9) [noun] A pancake fried in oil, usually made from potatoes and sometimes also onions, traditionally served on Hanukkah. LATTE (5) [noun] A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam. | [noun] A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea). | [noun] A pillar capped by a hemispherical stone capital with the flat side facing up, used as building supports by the ancient Chamorro people and now used as a sign of Chamorro identity. LEANT (5) [verb] To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. | [verb] To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. | [verb] Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc. LEAPT (7) [verb] To jump. | [verb] To pass over by a leap or jump. | [verb] To copulate with (a female beast); to cover. LEAST (5) [noun] Something of the smallest possible extent; an indivisible unit. | [adverb] Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est. | [adverb] In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others. LEETS (5) [noun] An artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace | [noun] A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves. | [noun] A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction. LEFTS (8) [noun] The left side or direction. | [noun] The ensemble of left-wing political parties. Those holding left-wing views as a group. | [noun] The left hand or fist. LEFTY (11) [noun] One who is left-handed. | [noun] One who has left-wing political views. | [noun] One's left testicle. LEGIT (6) [noun] A legitimate; a legitimate actor. | [noun] A legitimate child. | [adjective] Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid. LENTO (5) [noun] A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played very slowly. | [adjective] Very slow. | [adverb] Very slowly. LEPTA (7) [noun] A coin used since ancient times in Greece, serving in modern times as one hundredth of a phoenix, a drachma, and a euro (as the Greek form of the Eurocent). | [noun] A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century B.C.E., considered by some to be the widow's mite. | [noun] An elementary particle that has a spin of 1/2 (i.e., is a fermion) and does not interact via the strong nuclear force; examples include the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon. LETCH (10) [noun] Strong desire; passion. | [noun] A lecher. | [noun] A stream or pool in boggy land. | [noun] A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. LETHE (8) LETUP (7) [noun] A pause or period of slackening. LICHT (10) LICIT (7) [adjective] Not forbidden by formal or informal rules. | [adjective] Explicitly established or constituted by law. LIFTS (8) [noun] An act of lifting or raising. | [noun] The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip. | [noun] Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator. LIGHT (9) [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. | [verb] To start (a fire). | [adjective] Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure. | [noun] A stone that is not thrown hard enough. | [verb] To find by chance. LILTS (5) [noun] Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness. | [noun] A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune. | [noun] A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking. LIMIT (7) [noun] A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. | [noun] A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge). | [noun] Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. | [verb] To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. LINTS (5) LINTY (8) LIROT (5) LISTS (5) [noun] A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth. | [noun] Material used for cloth selvage. | [noun] A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself. LITAI (5) LITAS (5) [noun] The former currency or money of Lithuania, divided into 100 centai. LITER (5) [noun] The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ℓ | [noun] A measure of volume equivalent to a litre. LITHE (8) [verb] To go. | [adjective] Mild; calm. | [adjective] Slim but not skinny. | [verb] To become calm. | [verb] To attend; listen, hearken. | [noun] Shelter. LITHO (8) [verb] To lithograph. | [adjective] Related to the method of lithography. 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. LOATH (8) [adjective] Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling. | [adjective] Angry, hostile. | [adjective] Loathsome, unpleasant. | [verb] To detest, hate, revile. LOFTS (8) [noun] (except in derivatives) air, the air; the sky, the heavens. | [noun] An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building. | [noun] The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure. LOFTY (11) [adjective] High, tall, having great height or stature | [adjective] Idealistic, implying over-optimism | [adjective] Extremely proud; arrogant; haughty LOOTS (5) [verb] To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence. | [verb] To steal from. | [verb] To examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot. LOTAH (8) LOTAS (5) [noun] A spherical pot, specifically a water pot used for washing and ablution, typically made of brass. | [noun] A person who switches loyalties, especially from one political party to another. LOTIC (7) [adjective] Characterised by flowing water; swiftly flowing; concerned with flowing rivers, streams, etc. | [adjective] Living in flowing water; adapted to life in flowing water. LOTOS (5) LOTTE (5) LOTTO (5) [noun] A game of chance similar to bingo | [noun] A lottery LOTUS (5) [noun] A kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae. | [noun] A water lily, genus Nymphaea, especially those of Egypt or India. | [noun] A legendary plant eaten by the Lotophagi of the Odyssey that caused drowsiness and euphoria. LOUTS (5) [noun] A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob. | [noun] A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. | [verb] To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. LOVAT (8) [noun] A dusty blue-green colour. | [adjective] Of a dusty blue-green colour. LUNET (5) LUNTS (5) LUSTS (5) [verb] (usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature. LUSTY (8) [adjective] Exhibiting lust (in the obsolete sense meaning "vigor"); strong, healthy, robust; vigorous; full of sap or vitality. | [adjective] Hearty, merry, gleesome, enthusiastic, lively, stirring. | [adjective] Given to experiencing lust; enjoying physical sensations; lustful. LUTEA (5) LUTED (6) [verb] To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. | [verb] To fix or fasten something with lute. LUTES (5) [noun] A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. | [verb] To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. | [noun] Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight. LYART (8) LYTIC (10) [adjective] Of, relating to, or causing lysis | [adjective] Of or relating to lysin LYTTA (8) MAGOT (8) MAIST (7) MALTS (7) [noun] Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise. | [noun] Malt liquor, especially malt whisky. | [noun] A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor. MALTY (10) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of malt MANTA (7) [noun] A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States. | [noun] Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head. MARTS (7) [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. | [noun] A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). | [noun] A ship commissioned for making captures. MASTS (7) [noun] A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments ,or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires. | [noun] A non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command. | [verb] To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). MATCH (12) [noun] A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match. | [noun] Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority. | [noun] Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison. | [noun] A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface. MATED (8) [verb] To put the king of an opponent into checkmate. | [verb] (by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape. | [verb] To match, fit together without space between. MATER (7) [noun] Mother. | [noun] A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain. | [noun] Someone or something that mates. | [noun] Tomato. MATES (7) [noun] The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture. | [noun] (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat. | [verb] To put the king of an opponent into checkmate. MATEY (10) [noun] The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture. | [noun] (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat. | [noun] A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate. MATHS (10) [noun] An abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure, change and the relationships between these concepts. | [noun] A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels. MATIN (7) [noun] Morning | [adjective] Of or relating to matins MATTE (7) [noun] A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame. | [noun] A background, often painted or created with computers | [noun] (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals. MATTS (7) MATZA (16) MATZO (16) [noun] Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. | [noun] A piece of the above bread. MAUTS (7) MAYST (10) [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). | [verb] (auxiliary) To be able; can. | [verb] To be able to go. MEANT (7) [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). | [verb] To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says). MEATS (7) [noun] The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. | [noun] A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. | [noun] Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. MEATY (10) [adjective] Of, relating to, or containing meat. | [adjective] Resembling meat in flavour, etc. | [adjective] Of a person or a body part, large and solid. MEETS (7) [noun] A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet). | [noun] A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. | [noun] A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. MELTS (7) [noun] Molten material, the product of melting. | [noun] The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. | [noun] The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. MENTA (7) MERIT (7) [noun] A claim to commendation or a reward. | [noun] A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence. | [noun] Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward. METAL (7) [noun] (heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from. | [noun] A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent and or. | [noun] Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects. METED (8) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). METER (7) [noun] (always meter) A device that measures things. | [noun] (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. | [noun] (always meter) One who metes or measures. METES (7) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). | [noun] A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere. METHS (10) [noun] Methylated spirits. | [noun] Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride. | [noun] Methadone. METIS (7) [noun] A person of mixed-race ancestry. | [noun] A person of mixed European and Indigenous descent. | [noun] A person who self-identifies as Métis. | [noun] (knowledge management) Practical intelligence; street smarts. METRE (7) [verb] To measure with a metering device. | [verb] To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter. | [verb] To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath). | [noun] The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition. METRO (7) [noun] An underground railway. | [noun] A train that runs on such an underground railway. | [noun] An urban rapid transit light railway | [noun] A metropolitan area MIDST (8) [noun] A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location. | [preposition] Among, in the middle of; amid. MIGHT (11) [noun] Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group. | [noun] Physical strength or force. | [noun] The ability to do something. | [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). MILTS (7) [noun] The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food. | [noun] The semen of a male fish. MILTY (10) MINTS (7) [noun] A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence. | [noun] A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc. | [noun] Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. MINTY (10) MIRTH (10) [noun] The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety. | [noun] That which causes merriment. MISTS (7) [noun] Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. | [noun] A layer of fine droplets or particles. | [noun] Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision. MISTY (10) [adjective] Covered in mist; foggy. | [adjective] Dim; vague; obscure. | [adjective] With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed. MITER (7) [noun] A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. | [noun] The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. MITES (7) [noun] Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari). | [noun] A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. | [noun] A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. MITIS (7) MITRE (7) [noun] A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. | [noun] The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. MITTS (7) [noun] A mitten | [noun] An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt. | [noun] (especially in plural) A hand. MOATS (7) [noun] A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation. | [noun] An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason. | [noun] A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it. MOIST (7) [verb] To moisten. | [adjective] Slightly wet; characterised by the presence of moisture, not dry; damp. | [adjective] Of eyes: tearful, wet with tears. MOLTO (7) MOLTS (7) [noun] The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. | [noun] The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. MONTE (7) [noun] A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt. | [noun] (Latin America) A wood or forest; timberland. MONTH (10) [noun] A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon. | [noun] A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof. | [noun] (in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge. MOOTS (7) [noun] A moot court. | [noun] A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties. | [noun] A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks. MORTS (7) [noun] Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. | [noun] A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. | [noun] The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. MOSTE (7) MOSTS (7) MOTEL (7) [noun] A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there. | [noun] A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel. | [verb] To stay in a motel or motels. MOTES (7) [noun] A small particle; a speck. | [noun] A meeting for discussion. | [noun] A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs. MOTET (7) [noun] A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem. MOTEY (10) MOTHS (10) [noun] A small particle; a speck. | [noun] A meeting for discussion. | [noun] A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs. MOTHY (13) [adjective] Infested with moths | [adjective] Moth-eaten MOTIF (10) [noun] A recurring or dominant element; a theme. | [noun] A short melodic passage that is repeated in several parts of a work. | [noun] A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern. MOTOR (7) [noun] A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion. | [noun] A motor car, or automobile. | [noun] A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force. MOTTE (7) [noun] A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch. | [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. MOTTO (7) [noun] A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement. | [noun] A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim. | [noun] A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto. MOTTS (7) MOULT (7) [noun] The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. | [noun] The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. MOUNT (7) [noun] A hill or mountain. | [noun] Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies. | [noun] A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound. | [noun] An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse MOUTH (10) [noun] The opening of a creature through which food is ingested. | [noun] The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water. | [noun] An outlet, aperture or orifice. MUFTI (10) [noun] A Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa. | [noun] A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform. MULCT (9) [noun] A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one. | [verb] To impose such a fine or penalty. | [verb] To swindle (someone) out of money. MUSTH (10) [noun] A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness and often secrete leaking temporin from the sides of their heads. MUSTS (7) [noun] Something that is mandatory or required. | [noun] The property of being stale or musty. | [noun] Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty. MUSTY (10) [adjective] Having a stale odor. MUTCH (12) [noun] A nightcap (hat worn to bed). | [noun] A linen or muslin hat, especially one of a type once commonly worn by elderly women and young children. MUTED (8) [verb] To silence, to make quiet. | [verb] To turn off the sound of. | [verb] Of a bird: to defecate. MUTER (7) MUTES (7) [noun] A stopped consonant; a stop. | [noun] An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. | [noun] A person who does not have the power of speech. MUTON (7) [noun] A unit of mutation forming part of a recon. MUTTS (7) [noun] A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram. | [noun] A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of diverse ancestry. MYTHS (13) [noun] A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc. | [noun] Such stories as a genre. | [noun] A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality. MYTHY (16) NASTY (8) [noun] Something nasty. | [noun] (preceded by "the") Sexual intercourse. | [noun] A video nasty. NATAL (5) [adjective] Of or relating to birth. | [adjective] Of or relating to the buttocks. NATCH (10) [adverb] Naturally; of course. | [noun] The rump of beef, especially the lower and back part of the rump. | [noun] A notch. NATES (5) [noun] The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes. | [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] The umbones of a bivalve shell. NATTY (8) [adjective] Smart and fashionable. | [adjective] Knotty. | [noun] Someone whose muscle gains are natural and not aided by the use of steroids. NEATH (8) [preposition] Beneath. NEATS (5) [noun] An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy. NEIST (5) NERTS (5) NERTZ (14) NESTS (5) [noun] A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. | [noun] A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young. | [noun] A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation. NETOP (7) NETTS (5) [noun] The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit. NETTY (8) [adjective] Neat, well-groomed, natty. | [adjective] Netted: made of or employing a net. | [adjective] Netlike. | [noun] An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. NEWTS (8) [noun] A small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult. NIFTY (11) [adjective] Good, smart; useful or beneficial. | [adjective] Stylish. NIGHT (9) [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. NINTH (8) [noun] The person or thing in the ninth position. | [noun] One of nine equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth). NITER (5) [noun] Native sodium carbonate; natron. | [noun] A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making gunpowder. NITES (5) [noun] The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark. | [noun] (Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight. | [noun] (Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise. NITID (6) [adjective] Bright; lustrous; shining. | [adjective] (of a person) Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine. NITON (5) NITRE (5) [noun] Native sodium carbonate; natron. | [noun] A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making gunpowder. NITRO (5) [noun] The univalent NO2 functional group. | [noun] Nitroglycerin, especially as medication. | [noun] A beer that is nitrogenated to give it a more creamy head. NITTY (8) NONET (5) [noun] A composition for nine instruments or nine voices. | [noun] A group of nine nuclear or subatomic particles. | [noun] A byte of nine bits. NORTH (8) [noun] One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map, abbreviated as N. | [noun] The up or positive direction. | [noun] The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole). NOTAL (5) NOTCH (10) [noun] A V-shaped cut. | [noun] An indentation. | [noun] A mountain pass; a defile. NOTED (6) [verb] To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed. | [verb] To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. | [verb] To denote; to designate. NOTER (5) NOTES (5) [noun] (heading) A symbol or annotation. | [noun] (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment. | [noun] (heading) A sound. NOTUM (7) [noun] The back; the dorsal aspect of the thorax in insects. NOWTS (8) NUTSY (8) [adjective] Crazy NUTTY (8) [adjective] Containing nuts. | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of nuts. | [adjective] Barmy, crazy, mad. OASTS (5) [noun] A kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops. OATEN (5) [adjective] Made of oats OATER (5) [noun] (entertainment) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie. OATHS (8) [noun] A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise. | [noun] A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge. | [noun] A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity. OBITS (7) [noun] Death of a person. | [noun] A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. | [noun] A record of a person's death. OBJET (14) OCTAD (8) [noun] A group of eight things. | [noun] Hundred million = myriad myriad; 100,000,000 = 108 OCTAL (7) [noun] The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. | [noun] A digit or value in the octal number system. | [adjective] Concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematical calculations performed using octal. OCTAN (7) OCTET (7) [noun] A group or set of eight of something. | [noun] A group of eight musicians performing together. | [noun] A composition for such a group of musicians. OCTYL (10) [noun] Any of very many isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C8H17, formally derived from octane by the loss of a hydrogen atom ODIST (6) OFTEN (8) [adjective] Frequent. | [adverb] Frequently, many times. OFTER (8) OMITS (7) [verb] To leave out or exclude. | [verb] To fail to perform. | [verb] To neglect or take no notice of. ONSET (5) [noun] An attack; an assault especially of an army. | [noun] The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent. | [noun] The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus. ONTIC (7) [adjective] Ontological. | [adjective] Pertaining to being generally, as opposed to some theory of it (which would be ontology). OOTID (6) [noun] The haploid cell, produced by meiotic division of a secondary oocyte, that is a nearly mature ovum. OPTED (8) [verb] To choose; select. OPTIC (9) [noun] An eye. | [noun] A lens or other part of an optical instrument that interacts with light. | [noun] A measuring device with a small window, attached to an upside-down bottle, used to dispense alcoholic drinks in a bar. 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. ORBIT (7) [noun] A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object, particularly in astronomy and space travel. | [noun] A sphere of influence; an area of control. | [noun] The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range. ORTHO (8) [noun] An isomer of a benzene derivative having two substituents adjacent on the ring. | [noun] A certain type of flat eyepiece. | [noun] An orthochromatic plate. OSTIA (5) [noun] A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage. | [noun] Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge. | [noun] The mouth of a river. OTHER (8) [noun] An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another. | [noun] The other one; the second of two. | [verb] To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien. OTTAR (5) OTTER (5) [noun] An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae of the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, and others. | [noun] A hairy man with a slender physique, in contrast with a bear, who is more thickset. | [noun] Annatto (dye) OTTOS (5) [noun] An essential oil extracted from flowers. | [noun] A perfume made from this oil. OUGHT (9) [noun] Property; possession | [noun] Duty; place; office OUSTS (5) [verb] To expel; to remove. OUTBY (10) OUTDO (6) [verb] To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass. OUTED (6) [verb] To eject; to expel. | [verb] To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc). | [verb] To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective. OUTER (5) [noun] An outer part. | [noun] The 4th circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie. | [noun] A shot which strikes the outer of a target. | [noun] Someone who admits to something publicly. OUTGO (6) [noun] The act or process of going out. | [noun] A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow. | [noun] An expenditure, cost or outlay. 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. OVERT (8) [adjective] Open and not concealed or secret. OWLET (8) [noun] Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing. | [noun] (by extension) A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active. | [noun] The owl pigeon. OXTER (12) [noun] The armpit. | [verb] To hug with the arms, or support by taking the arm of. PACTS (9) [noun] An agreement; a compact; a covenant. | [noun] An agreement between two or more nations | [verb] To form a pact; to agree formally. PAINT (7) [noun] A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied. | [noun] (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures. | [noun] The free-throw lane, construed with the. PALET (7) PANTO (7) [noun] A mechanical linkage based on parallelograms causing two objects to move in parallel; notably as a drawing aid. | [noun] By extension, a structure of crosswise bars linked in such a way that it can extend and compress like an accordion, such as in a pantograph mirror or a scissor lift. | [noun] A pattern printed on a document to reduce the ease of photocopying. PANTS (7) [noun] (Manchester) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. | [noun] An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants. | [noun] Rubbish; something worthless. | [verb] To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants. | [noun] A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. | [verb] To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. PANTY (10) [noun] (in the plural) Short trousers for men, or more usually boys. | [noun] (usually in the plural, or in compounds) An article of clothing worn as underpants by women. | [noun] A helmet cover. PARTS (7) [noun] A portion; a component. | [noun] Duty; responsibility. | [noun] The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. PARTY (10) [noun] A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action. | [noun] A person. | [noun] A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc. | [adjective] (except in compounds) Divided; in part. PASTA (7) [noun] Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating. | [noun] A dish or serving of pasta. | [noun] A type of pasta. PASTE (7) [noun] A soft moist mixture, in particular: | [noun] A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid | [noun] A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass. PASTS (7) [noun] The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future. | [noun] (grammar) The past tense. PASTY (10) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers. | [adjective] Like paste, sticky. | [adjective] Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor | [noun] A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape. PATCH (12) [noun] A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole. | [noun] A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc. | [noun] A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future. | [noun] A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. PATED (8) PATEN (7) [noun] The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist. | [noun] Any shallow dish found in an archaeological site. PATER (7) [noun] Father PATES (7) [noun] (somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown. | [noun] Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities. | [noun] The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color. PATHS (10) [noun] A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians. | [noun] A course taken. | [noun] A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry. PATIN (7) PATIO (7) [noun] A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation. | [noun] An inner courtyard typical of traditional houses in some regions of Spain. PATLY (10) PATSY (10) [noun] A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something. PATTY (10) [noun] (US, Australia, New Zealand) A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape. | [noun] A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric. PEART (7) [adjective] Lively; active. PEATS (7) [noun] Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. | [noun] A pet, a darling; a woman. PEATY (10) PELTS (7) [noun] A blow or stroke from something thrown. | [verb] To bombard, as with missiles. | [verb] To throw; to use as a missile. PESTO (7) [noun] A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region in Italy, made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil and cheese (usually pecorino) PESTS (7) [noun] A plague, pestilence, epidemic | [noun] Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest. | [noun] An annoying person, a nuisance. PESTY (10) PETAL (7) [noun] One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored. | [noun] Term of endearment. PETER (7) [noun] The penis. | [noun] A safe. | [verb] (most often used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing. | [verb] In whist, to play a blue peter. PETIT (7) [noun] (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy. | [noun] A kind of pigeon. | [adjective] (of size) Petite: small, little. | [noun] The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point. PETTI (7) PETTO (7) PETTY (10) [noun] (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size. | [noun] A class or school for young schoolboys. | [noun] An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. PEWIT (10) [noun] Any of several birds PHOTO (10) [noun] A photograph. | [noun] A photo finish. | [verb] To take a photograph of. PHOTS (10) [verb] To photograph PHPHT (15) PHUTS (10) PICOT (9) [noun] An embroidery trim made of a series of small loops. PIETA (7) [noun] A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus. PIETY (10) [noun] Reverence and devotion to God. | [noun] Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country. | [noun] A devout act or thought. PILOT (7) [noun] A person who steers a ship, a helmsman. | [noun] A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast. | [noun] A guide book for maritime navigation. PINOT (7) [noun] Any of several grape varieties grown in Europe and North America. | [noun] (by extension) Any of several wines made from these grapes. PINTA (7) [noun] A pint of milk. | [noun] A human skin disease endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America, caused by infection with a spirochete, Treponema pallidum carateum, which is morphologically and serologically indistinguishable from the organism that causes syphilis. | [noun] (Chicano) prison PINTO (7) [noun] A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white. | [adjective] Pied, mottled. PINTS (7) [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to: | [noun] (metonym) A pint of milk. | [noun] (metonymy) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint. PIPET (9) [noun] A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid. | [verb] To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette. PIPIT (9) [noun] Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country. PISTE (7) [noun] A downhill trail. | [noun] The field of play of a fencing match. | [noun] The track left by somebody riding a horse. PITAS (7) [noun] A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels. | [noun] A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper. | [noun] The plant which yields the fiber. PITCH (12) [noun] A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap. | [noun] A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar. | [noun] Pitchstone. | [noun] A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand. | [noun] The perceived frequency of a sound or note. PITHS (10) [verb] To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree). | [verb] To kill (especially cattle or laboratory animals) by cutting or piercing the spinal cord. PITHY (13) [adjective] Concise and meaningful. | [adjective] Of, like, or abounding in pith. PITON (7) [noun] A spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber). | [verb] To put pitons into a rock/ice to facilitate climbing. PIVOT (10) [noun] A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle. | [noun] (by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation. | [noun] Act of turning on one foot. PLAIT (7) [noun] A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat. | [noun] A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. | [verb] To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat PLANT (7) [noun] An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree. | [noun] An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism. | [noun] Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall. PLATE (7) [noun] A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten. | [noun] Such dishes collectively. | [noun] The contents of such a dish. | [noun] Precious metal, especially silver. PLATS (7) [noun] A plot of land; a lot. | [noun] A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document. | [noun] A plot, a scheme. PLATY (10) [adjective] Resembling plates. | [adjective] Of a field semy of plates. | [adjective] Composed of thin plate-like pieces of rock or mineral. | [noun] Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails). PLEAT (7) [noun] A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance. | [noun] A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness. | [noun] A plait. PLOTS (7) [noun] (authorship) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. | [noun] An area or land used for building on or planting on. | [noun] A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device. PLOTZ (16) [verb] To flop down wearily. | [verb] To faint. | [verb] To fall down dead. POETS (7) [noun] A person who writes poems. | [noun] A person with a creative or romantic imagination. POINT (7) [noun] A discrete division of something. | [noun] A sharp extremity. | [noun] One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. | [verb] To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it. | [verb] To appoint. PORTS (7) [noun] A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. | [noun] A town or city containing such a place, a port city. | [noun] The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board. POSIT (7) [noun] Something that is posited; a postulate. | [verb] Assume the existence of; to postulate. | [verb] Propose for consideration or study; to suggest. POSTS (7) [noun] A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost. | [noun] A stud; a two-by-four. | [noun] A pole in a battery. POTSY (10) POTTO (7) [noun] A small primate, Perodicticus potto, native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. | [noun] The kinkajou. POTTY (10) [verb] To go and use the potty: to leave in order to urinate or defecate. | [verb] To go crazy: to become insane. | [noun] (diminutive) A chamber pot, particularly (children) the pot used when toilet-training children. | [adjective] Insane. POULT (7) [noun] A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). POUTS (7) [noun] A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). | [noun] One's facial expression when pouting. | [noun] A fit of sulking or sullenness. POUTY (10) [adjective] Tending to pout; angry in a childish or cute way; showing mock anger. PRATE (7) [noun] Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity. | [verb] To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly. PRATS (7) [noun] A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. | [noun] A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. | [noun] A fool. PREST (7) PRINT (7) [noun] Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium. | [noun] Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive. | [noun] The letters forming the text of a document. PROST (7) PRUTA (7) PUNTO (7) PUNTS (7) [noun] A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole. | [verb] To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole. | [noun] A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground. PUNTY (10) [noun] A metal rod used in the glassblowing process. After a glass vessel has been blown to approximate size and the bottom of the piece has been finalized, the rod, which is tipped with a wad of hot glass, is attached to the bottom of the vessel to hold it while the top is finalized. It often leaves an irregular or ring-shaped scar on the base when removed called the "pontil mark". PUTON (7) PUTTI (7) [noun] A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub. PUTTO (7) [noun] A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub. PUTTS (7) [verb] To place something somewhere. | [verb] To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition. | [verb] To exercise a put option. PUTTY (10) [noun] A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass. | [noun] Any of a range of similar substances. | [noun] A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha. | [adjective] (pronunciation spelling) pretty; purdy | [noun] A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc. QANAT (14) [noun] An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley QUANT (14) [noun] A quantitative analyst. | [noun] Short for quantity. | [noun] Short for quantifier. | [noun] A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole. QUART (14) [noun] A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S. | [noun] Four successive cards of the same suit. | [noun] A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. QUATE (14) QUEST (14) [noun] A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission. | [noun] The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit. | [noun] Request; desire; solicitation. QUIET (14) [noun] The absence of sound; quietness. | [noun] The absence of movement; stillness, tranquility | [verb] To become quiet, silent, still, tranquil, calm. QUILT (14) [noun] A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design. | [noun] A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing. | [noun] A quilted skirt worn by women. QUINT (14) [noun] An interval of one fifth. | [noun] The E string of a violin. | [noun] In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker QUIRT (14) [noun] A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide. | [verb] To strike with a quirt. 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. QUITS (14) [verb] To pay (a debt, fine etc.). | [verb] To repay (someone) for (something). | [verb] To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.). | [noun] Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America. QUOIT (14) [noun] A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits. | [noun] A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits. | [noun] The flat stone covering a cromlech. QUOTA (14) [noun] A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. | [noun] A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal. | [noun] A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity. 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. QUOTH (17) [verb] To say or declare. | [verb] (defective, modal, auxiliary) to say RABAT (7) RAFTS (8) [noun] A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform. | [noun] (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion. | [noun] A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water. RAMET (7) RANTS (5) [noun] A criticism done by ranting. | [noun] A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation. | [noun] A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop. RATAL (5) RATAN (5) RATCH (10) RATED (6) [verb] To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level. | [verb] To evaluate or estimate the value of. | [verb] To consider or regard. RATEL (5) [noun] A carnivorous mammal, Mellivora capensis, found in Africa and some parts of Asia; the honey badger. RATER (5) RATES (5) [noun] The worth of something; value. | [noun] The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. | [noun] Speed. RATHE (8) [adjective] Ripening or blooming early. | [adverb] Quickly. | [adverb] Early in the morning. RATIO (5) [noun] A number representing a comparison between two named things. | [noun] The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient). | [noun] Short for ratio decidendi. RATOS (5) RATTY (8) [adjective] Similar to a rat; ratlike. | [adjective] Infested with rats. | [adjective] In poor condition or repair REACT (7) [noun] An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media. | [verb] To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact. | [verb] To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force REATA (5) REBUT (7) [verb] To drive back or beat back; to repulse. | [verb] To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it. RECTA (7) [noun] The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon. RECTI (7) [noun] Any of several straight muscles in various parts of the body, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye etc. RECTO (7) [noun] The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal. | [noun] The right-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an odd page number. | [noun] A writ of right. RECUT (7) [verb] To cut again REEST (5) REFIT (8) [noun] The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored. | [verb] To fit again; to put back into its place. | [verb] To prepare for use again; to repair or restore. RELET (5) [noun] A property that has been let again | [verb] To let a property again RELIT (5) [verb] To light or kindle anew. | [verb] To render again with different simulated lighting conditions. REMET (7) REMIT (7) [noun] Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope. | [noun] A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court. | [verb] To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply. RENTE (5) RENTS (5) [noun] A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property. | [noun] A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service. | [noun] A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business. REPOT (7) [verb] To move a growing plant from one pot to a larger one to allow for further growth RESET (5) [verb] To set back to the initial state. | [verb] To set to zero. | [verb] To adjust; to set or position differently. | [noun] An act of resetting to the initial state | [noun] The crime of knowingly and dishonestly receiving stolen goods, or harbouring an outlaw. RESTS (5) [noun] (of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep. | [noun] Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation. | [noun] Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility. RETAG (6) RETAX (12) RETCH (10) [noun] An unsuccessful effort to vomit. | [verb] To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting. | [verb] To reck | [verb] To reach RETEM (7) RETIA (5) [noun] A network of blood vessels or nerves. | [noun] An anatomical part resembling or including a network. | [noun] A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features. RETIE (5) [verb] To tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied before. RETRO (5) [noun] Past fashions or trends. | [adjective] Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were. | [adjective] Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto. RETRY (8) [noun] Another attempt. | [verb] To try or attempt again. | [verb] To try judicially a second time. REVET (8) [verb] To face (an embankment, etc.) with masonry, wood, or other material. REWET (8) RHYTA (11) [noun] A container from which fluids are intended to be drunk, having one handle and usually a base in the form of a head. | [noun] A Thracian drinking horn. RIANT (5) RIATA (5) RIFTS (8) [noun] A chasm or fissure. | [noun] A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through. | [noun] A shallow place in a stream; a ford. RIGHT (9) [adjective] Straight, not bent. | [adjective] Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines. | [adjective] Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc. | [adverb] On the right side. | [noun] That which complies with justice, law or reason. | [verb] To correct. RIOTS (5) [noun] Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. | [noun] The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. | [noun] A wide and unconstrained variety. RITES (5) [noun] That which complies with justice, law or reason. | [noun] A legal, just or moral entitlement. | [noun] The right side or direction. RITZY (17) [adjective] Elegant and luxurious. RIVET (8) [noun] A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end. | [noun] Any fixed point or certain basis. | [noun] A light kind of footman's armour. ROAST (5) [noun] A cut of meat suited to roasting | [noun] A meal consisting of roast foods. | [noun] The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted. ROBOT (7) [noun] A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed. | [noun] An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal. | [noun] A person who does not seem to have any emotions. ROOST (5) [noun] The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch). | [noun] A group of birds roosting together. | [noun] A bedroom | [noun] A tidal race. | [verb] To rout out of bed; to rouse ROOTS (5) [noun] The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction. | [noun] A root vegetable. | [noun] The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place. ROOTY (8) ROSET (5) ROTAS (5) [noun] A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar. | [noun] A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music. ROTCH (10) ROTES (5) ROTIS (5) [noun] A kind of unleavened flatbread commonly consumed in South Asia and the Caribbean. ROTLS (5) ROTOR (5) [noun] A rotating part of a mechanical device, for example in an electric motor, generator, alternator or pump. | [noun] The wing of a helicopter or similar aircraft. | [noun] A quantity having magnitude, direction and position. ROTOS (5) ROTTE (5) ROUST (5) [noun] A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. | [verb] To rout out of bed; to rouse | [verb] To harass, to treat in a rough way. 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. ROUTH (8) ROUTS (5) [noun] A noise, especially a loud one | [noun] A disturbance; tumult. | [noun] Snoring. ROWTH (11) RUNTS (5) [noun] The smallest animal of a litter. | [noun] (by extension) The smallest child in the family. | [noun] Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person. RUNTY (8) RUSTS (5) [noun] The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation. | [noun] A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust"). | [noun] A reddish-brown color. RUSTY (8) [adjective] Marked or corroded by rust. | [adjective] Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown. | [adjective] Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity. | [adjective] Discolored and rancid; reasty. RUTHS (8) RUTIN (5) [noun] A flavonoid, found in many plants, that is a glycoside of quercetin and rutinose. RUTTY (8) RYOTS (8) [noun] A farmer or tiller of the soil. SABOT (7) [noun] A wooden shoe. | [noun] A carrier around projectile(s) in firearms, cannons and artillery which holds the projectile in precision within the barrel SAINT (5) [noun] A person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue. | [noun] (by extension) A person with positive qualities; one who does good. | [noun] One of the blessed in heaven. | [verb] To canonize, to formally recognize someone as a saint. SAITH (8) [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. | [verb] To tell, either verbally or in writing. | [noun] The pollock or coalfish or coley (Pollachius virens). SALTS (5) [noun] A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative. | [noun] One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid. | [noun] A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea. SALTY (8) [adjective] Tasting of salt. | [adjective] Containing salt. | [adjective] Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language. SANTO (5) SATAY (8) [noun] A dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and served with a spicy peanut sauce, originating from Indonesia and Malaysia. SATED (6) [verb] To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up. | [adjective] In a state of complete and thorough satisfaction; having ones appetite fully satisfied, by having enough of something. | [adjective] Quelled of thirst or hunger. SATEM (7) SATES (5) SATIN (5) [noun] A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen). | [verb] To make (paper, silver, etc.) smooth and glossy like satin. | [adjective] Semigloss. SATIS (5) [adjective] In a state of satisfaction. | [verb] To do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of. | [verb] To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe. SATYR (8) [noun] A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis. | [noun] A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection. SAULT (5) 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. SAYST (8) SCANT (7) [adjective] Very little, very few. | [adjective] Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough. | [adjective] Sparing; parsimonious; chary. | [verb] To limit in amount or share; to stint. | [noun] A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. | [noun] Scarcity; lack. SCART (7) [noun] A slight wound. | [noun] A dash or stroke. | [noun] A niggard. SCATS (7) [noun] A tax; tribute. | [noun] A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands. | [noun] Scat singing. SCATT (7) SCENT (7) [noun] A distinctive odour or smell. | [noun] An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing. | [noun] The sense of smell. SCOOT (7) [noun] A dollar. | [noun] A scooter. | [noun] A sideways shuffling or sliding motion. | [noun] A sudden flow of water; a squirt. SCOTS (7) [noun] A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff. SCOUT (7) [noun] A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground. | [noun] An act of scouting or reconnoitering. | [noun] A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States. | [verb] To reject with contempt. | [noun] A swift sailing boat. | [noun] A projecting rock. | [noun] The guillemot. SCUTA (7) [noun] A scutum. 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. SCUTS (7) [noun] A hare; a hare as the game in a hunt. | [noun] A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer. | [noun] (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva. SEATS (5) [noun] Something to be sat upon. | [noun] A location or site. | [noun] The starting point of a fire. SECTS (7) [noun] An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs. | [noun] A group following a specific ideal or a leader. | [noun] A cutting; a scion. SENTE (5) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Lesotho loti. | [noun] (Go) first move, initiative SENTI (5) SEPTA (7) [noun] A wall separating two cavities; a partition | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus. SEPTS (7) [noun] A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland). | [noun] An enclosure; a railing. SETAE (5) [noun] A bristle or hair | [noun] The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort. SETAL (5) SETON (5) [noun] A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen etc., introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to induce suppuration; also, the issue so formed. SETTS (5) [noun] The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger. | [noun] The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan. | [noun] A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging. SETUP (7) [noun] Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus. | [noun] The fashion in which something is organized or arranged. | [noun] A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody. SEXTO (12) SEXTS (12) [noun] Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight. | [noun] The service appointed for this hour. | [noun] A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees. SHAFT (11) [noun] The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin. | [noun] (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin. SHALT (8) [verb] (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural. | [verb] Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural. | [verb] Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action. SHEET (8) [noun] A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper. | [noun] A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc. | [noun] A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking. SHENT (8) SHIFT (11) [noun] A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously). | [noun] A type of women's undergarment, a slip. | [noun] A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time. SHIRT (8) [noun] An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms. | [noun] An interior lining in a blast furnace. | [noun] A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game. | [verb] To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt. SHIST (8) SHITS (8) [noun] A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very fluid or watery bowel movements. | [noun] The watery or very soft excrement that comes from such bowel movements. | [noun] Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces. SHOAT (8) [noun] A young, newly-weaned pig. | [noun] A geep, a sheep-goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating). SHOOT (8) [noun] The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant. | [noun] A photography session. | [noun] A hunt or shooting competition. | [interjection] A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain SHORT (8) [noun] A short circuit. | [noun] A short film. | [noun] A short version of a garment in a particular size. SHOTE (8) [noun] A young, newly-weaned pig. | [noun] A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus). SHOTS (8) [noun] The result of launching a projectile or bullet. | [noun] The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal. | [noun] The heavy iron ball used for the shot put. SHOTT (8) SHOUT (8) [noun] A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or animated courage. | [noun] A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks. | [noun] A call-out for an emergency services team. | [noun] A light flat-bottomed boat used in duck-shooting. SHTIK (12) SHUNT (8) [noun] An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove. | [noun] A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit. | [noun] The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun. SHUTE (8) SHUTS (8) [noun] The act or time of shutting; close. | [noun] A door or cover; a shutter. | [noun] The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together. SIFTS (8) SIGHT (9) [noun] (in the singular) The ability to see. | [noun] The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view. | [noun] Something seen. SILTS (5) [verb] To clog or fill with silt. | [verb] To become clogged with silt. | [verb] To flow through crevices; to percolate. SILTY (8) SITAR (5) [noun] A Hindustani/Indian classical stringed instrument, typically having a gourd as its resonating chamber. SITED (6) [verb] To situate or place a building. SITES (5) [noun] Sorrow, grief. | [noun] The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position | [noun] A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation SITUP (7) SITUS (5) [noun] The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant. | [noun] The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged. | [noun] The location of a property as used for taxation or other legal purposes. SIXTE (12) [noun] The sixth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at eye level. SIXTH (15) [noun] (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the sixth position. | [noun] One of six equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale, for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth. (Note that the interval covers six notes counting inclusively, for example C-D-E-F-G-A.) SIXTY (15) [numeral] The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60. SKATE (9) [noun] A light boot, fitted with a blade, used for ice skating. | [noun] A boot having small wheels or casters attached to its sole; used for roller skating | [noun] A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice. | [noun] A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body. | [noun] A worn-out horse. SKATS (9) SKEET (9) [noun] A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight. | [noun] A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9. | [noun] The ejaculation of semen. | [noun] (Manx) news or gossip SKINT (9) [adjective] Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke. | [adjective] Skinned SKIRT (9) [noun] An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body. | [noun] The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist. | [noun] A loose edging to any part of a dress. SKITE (9) [noun] A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow. | [noun] A trick. | [noun] A contemptible person. | [noun] A kind of hermitage SKITS (9) [noun] A short comic performance. | [noun] A jeer or sally; a brief satire. | [noun] A wanton girl; a wench. SLANT (5) [noun] A slope; an incline, inclination. | [noun] A sloped surface or line. | [noun] A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam. SLATE (5) [noun] A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers. | [noun] The bluish-grey colour of most slate. | [noun] A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools | [verb] To cover with slate. SLATS (5) [noun] A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath) or metal. | [noun] (aeronautical) A movable control surface at the leading edge of a wing that when moved, changes the chord line of the airfoil, affecting the angle of attack. Employed in conjunction with flaps to allow for a lower stall speed in the landing attitude, facilitating slow flight. | [noun] A ski. SLATY (8) SLEET (5) [noun] Pellets of ice made of mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes. | [noun] A mixture of rain and snow. | [noun] A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain. SLEPT (7) [verb] To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. | [verb] (of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. | [verb] To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. SLIPT (7) SLITS (5) [noun] A narrow cut or opening; a slot. | [noun] The opening of the vagina. | [noun] A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute. SLOTH (8) [noun] Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour. | [noun] A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity. | [noun] A collective term for a group of bears. SLOTS (5) [noun] A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc. | [noun] A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece. | [noun] An implement for baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like. SLUTS (5) [noun] A sexually promiscuous woman or girl. | [noun] Any sexually promiscuous person, often a gay man. | [noun] Someone who seeks attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree. SMALT (7) [noun] A deep blue pigment made from powdered glass mixed with cobalt oxide SMART (7) [verb] To hurt or sting. | [verb] To cause a smart or sting in. | [verb] To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil. | [adjective] Exhibiting social ability or cleverness. | [noun] A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting. SMELT (7) [noun] Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe. | [noun] A fool; a simpleton. | [verb] To sense a smell or smells. | [noun] Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal. SMITE (7) [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To strike down or kill with godly force. | [verb] To injure with divine power. SMITH (10) [noun] A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith. | [noun] (by extension) One who makes anything; wright. | [noun] An artist. | [verb] To forge, to form, usually on an anvil; by heating and pounding. SMOLT (7) [adjective] Bright; serene. | [adjective] (of weather) Calm; fine; fair. | [adjective] Smooth and shining. | [noun] A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color. SMOTE (7) [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To strike down or kill with godly force. | [verb] To injure with divine power. SMUTS (7) [noun] Soot. | [noun] A flake of ash or soot. | [noun] Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. SNATH (8) SNITS (5) [noun] A temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood. | [noun] A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters. | [noun] A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois. SNOOT (5) [noun] An elitist individual; one who looks down upon lower social classes. | [noun] A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism. | [noun] A nose or snout, especially in derogatory use. SNORT (5) [noun] The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose. | [noun] A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco). | [noun] A consumed portion of alcoholic drink. SNOTS (5) [noun] Mucus, especially mucus from the nose. | [noun] A contemptible child. | [noun] A mean fellow. SNOUT (5) [noun] The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs. | [noun] The front of the prow of a ship or boat. | [noun] A person's nose. SOFTA (8) [noun] A religious student, especially in Turkey | [noun] (by extension) A fanatic adherent, blind follower SOFTS (8) SOFTY (11) [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. SOOTH (8) [noun] Truth. | [noun] Augury; prognostication. | [noun] Blandishment; cajolery. SOOTS (5) [noun] Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc. | [verb] To cover or dress with soot. SOOTY (8) [verb] To blacken or make dirty with soot. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or producing soot. | [adjective] Soiled with soot SORTS (5) [noun] A general type. | [noun] Manner; form of being or acting. | [noun] Condition above the vulgar; rank. SOTHS (8) SOTOL (5) [noun] Any of several species of North American desert plants of the genus Dasylirion, of the asparagus family. | [noun] A distilled spirit made from the sap of some of these plants, especially Dasylirion wheeleri. SOUTH (8) [noun] One of the four major compass points, specifically 180°, directed toward the South Pole, and conventionally downwards on a map, abbreviated as S. | [noun] The side of a church on the right hand of a person facing the altar. | [verb] To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south. SPAIT (7) SPATE (7) [noun] A river flood; an overflow or inundation. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden rush or increase. SPATS (7) [noun] (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe. | [noun] A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car. | [noun] A brief argument, falling out, quarrel. SPELT (7) [verb] To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort. | [verb] (sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. | [verb] To be able to write or say the letters that form words. | [noun] A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon. | [noun] A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter. SPENT (7) [verb] To pay out (money). | [verb] To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. | [verb] To squander. SPILT (7) [verb] To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour. | [verb] To spread out or fall out, as above. | [verb] To drop something that was intended to be caught. SPIRT (7) [verb] To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet. | [verb] To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet. | [verb] To make a strong effort for a short period of time. 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. SPITS (7) [noun] A sudden impact or blow. | [noun] The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object. | [noun] A slam dunk. SPITZ (16) [noun] Any of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed SPLAT (7) [noun] The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back. | [noun] The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface. | [noun] The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface. SPLIT (7) [noun] A crack or longitudinal fissure. | [noun] A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. | [noun] A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment. SPORT (7) [noun] Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. | [noun] Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose. | [noun] A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship. SPOTS (7) [noun] A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape. | [noun] A stain or disfiguring mark. | [noun] A pimple, papule or pustule. SPOUT (7) [noun] A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged. | [noun] A stream of liquid. | [noun] The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale. SPRAT (7) [noun] Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae. SPRIT (7) [noun] A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats. | [noun] A shoot; a sprout. | [verb] To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt. | [verb] To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out. SPURT (7) [noun] A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound. | [noun] Ejaculation of semen. | [noun] A shoot; a bud. | [noun] A moment, a short period of time. SPUTA (7) SQUAT (14) [noun] Nothing; nothing whatsoever. | [noun] A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet. | [noun] (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee. | [noun] The angel shark (genus Squatina). STABS (7) [noun] An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object. | [noun] A wound made by stabbing. | [noun] Pain inflicted on a person's feelings. STACK (11) [noun] (heading) A pile. | [noun] A smokestack. | [noun] (heading) In computing. STADE (6) STAFF (11) [noun] (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking. | [noun] (plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave. | [noun] (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business. STAGE (6) [noun] A phase. | [noun] A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given. | [noun] A floor or storey of a house. STAGS (6) [noun] An adult male deer. | [noun] A colt, or filly. | [noun] (by extension) A romping girl; a tomboy. STAGY (9) [adjective] Theatrical | [adjective] Unnaturally showy | [adjective] Melodramatic; sensationalized STAID (6) [adjective] Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober. | [adjective] Always fixed in the same location; stationary. STAIG (6) STAIN (5) [noun] A discoloured spot or area. | [noun] A blemish on one's character or reputation. | [noun] A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it. STAIR (5) [noun] A single step in a staircase. | [noun] A series of steps; a staircase. STAKE (9) [noun] A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay. | [noun] A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet. | [noun] A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off. STALE (5) [noun] Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh. | [verb] (of alcohol) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer). | [verb] To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption. | [noun] A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) | [noun] A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line. | [noun] (livestock) Urine, especially used of horses and cattle. | [noun] A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap. STALK (9) [noun] The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts. | [noun] The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant. | [noun] Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill. | [noun] A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone. | [noun] A haughty style of walking. STALL (5) [noun] A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed. | [noun] A stable; a place for cattle. | [noun] A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale. | [noun] An action that is intended to cause or actually causes delay. STAMP (9) [noun] An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof. | [noun] An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping. | [noun] A device for stamping designs. STAND (6) [noun] The act of standing. | [noun] A defensive position or effort. | [noun] A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition. STANE (5) STANG (6) STANK (9) [verb] To have a strong bad smell. | [verb] To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. | [verb] To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth. | [adjective] Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean. | [noun] Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water. | [adjective] Weak; worn out | [verb] To sigh. STAPH (10) [noun] Staphylococcus bacteria and the infection it causes. STARE (5) [noun] A persistent gaze. | [verb] (construed with at) To look fixedly (at something). | [verb] To influence in some way by looking fixedly. | [noun] A starling. STARK (9) [adjective] Hard, firm; obdurate. | [adjective] Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather). | [adjective] Strong; vigorous; powerful. | [verb] To stiffen. STARS (5) [noun] Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots. | [noun] A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included. | [noun] A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points. START (5) [noun] The beginning of an activity. | [noun] A sudden involuntary movement. | [noun] The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc. | [verb] To begin, commence, initiate. | [noun] A tail, or anything projecting like a tail. STASH (8) [noun] A collection, sometimes hidden; a reserve. | [noun] A place where drugs are stored. | [verb] To hide or store away for later use. | [noun] Mustache STATE (5) [noun] A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. | [noun] High social standing or circumstance. | [noun] A polity. STATS (5) [noun] A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation. | [noun] A systematic collection of data on measurements or observations, often related to demographic information such as population counts, incomes, population counts at different ages, etc. | [noun] Attributes of a unit in a game (e.g. health, damage output) STAVE (8) [noun] One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc. | [noun] One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel | [noun] A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. STAYS (8) [noun] Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn. | [noun] A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment. | [noun] A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress. STEAD (6) [noun] A place, or spot, in general. | [noun] A place where a person normally rests; a seat. | [noun] An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc. | [noun] One's partner in a romantic relationship. STEAK (9) [noun] Beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling. | [noun] (by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc. | [noun] (seafood) A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish. STEAL (5) [noun] The act of stealing. | [noun] A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price. | [noun] A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team. STEAM (7) [noun] The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase. | [noun] Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy. | [noun] Internal energy for motive power. STEED (6) [noun] A stallion, especially in the sense of mount. | [noun] A bicycle. STEEK (9) STEEL (5) [noun] An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness. | [noun] Any item made of this metal, particularly including: | [noun] Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment. | [proper noun] Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877. STEEP (7) [noun] The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity. | [adjective] Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical. | [adjective] Expensive | [noun] A liquid used in a steeping process STEER (5) [noun] A suggestion about a course of action. | [noun] A helmsman; a pilot. | [verb] To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). | [noun] The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production. STEIN (5) [noun] A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass. STELA (5) [noun] An obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone STELE (5) [noun] Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh. | [noun] A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) | [noun] The posts and rungs composing a ladder. | [noun] An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela. | [noun] The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome. STEMS (7) [noun] Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics. | [noun] An electron microscope that transmits a very narrow beam of electrons through a sample; it can detect individual large or heavy atoms. | [noun] A gleam of light; a flame. STENO (5) [noun] A stenographer, someone whose job is to take dictation in shorthand | [noun] Stenography STEPS (7) [noun] An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace. | [noun] A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder. | [noun] A distinct part of a process; stage; phase. STERE (5) [noun] A measure of volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to one cubic metre. STERN (5) [adjective] Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner. | [adjective] Grim and forbidding in appearance. | [noun] The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel. | [noun] A bird, the black tern. STETS (5) [verb] To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was. STEWS (8) [noun] A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron. | [noun] A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. | [noun] A brothel. STICH (10) STICK (11) [noun] An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton. | [noun] Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance. | [noun] Material or objects attached to a stick or the like. | [noun] The traction of tires on the road surface. | [noun] Criticism or ridicule. STIED (6) [verb] To place in, or as if in, a sty | [verb] To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place | [verb] To ascend, rise up, climb. STIES (5) [noun] A pen or enclosure for swine. | [noun] A messy, dirty or debauched place. | [verb] To place in, or as if in, a sty STIFF (11) [noun] An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff or lucky stiff. | [noun] A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle. | [noun] A cadaver; a dead person. 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. STILL (5) [noun] A period of calm or silence. | [noun] A photograph, as opposed to movie footage. | [noun] A resident of the Falkland Islands. | [noun] A device for distilling liquids. | [verb] To calm down, to quiet | [verb] To trickle, drip. STILT (5) [noun] Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by entertainers. | [noun] A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water. | [noun] Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, related to the avocet, that have extremely long legs and long thin bills. STIME (7) STIMY (10) STING (6) [noun] A bump left on the skin after having been stung. | [noun] A bite by an insect. | [noun] A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack. | [verb] To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both. STINK (9) [noun] A strong bad smell. | [noun] A complaint or objection. | [verb] To have a strong bad smell. STINT (5) [noun] A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell. | [noun] Limit; bound; restraint; extent. | [noun] Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. | [noun] Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling. 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 STIRK (9) [noun] A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer. STIRP (7) STIRS (5) [noun] The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.) | [noun] Agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. | [noun] Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. STOAE (5) STOAI (5) STOAS (5) [noun] In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; specifically, the Great Hall in Athens. STOAT (5) [noun] Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip. STOBS (7) [noun] A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting. | [noun] A small post for supporting paling. | [noun] A wedge in coal-mining. STOCK (11) [noun] A store or supply. | [noun] The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder. | [noun] The raw material from which things are made; feedstock. | [noun] A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. STOGY (9) [noun] A type of sturdy work boot; a brogan. STOIC (7) [noun] Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering. | [noun] A person indifferent to pleasure or pain. | [adjective] Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas. 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. STOMA (7) [noun] One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass. | [noun] A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy. | [noun] A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode. STOMP (9) [noun] A deliberate heavy footfall; a stamp. | [noun] A dance having a heavy, rhythmic step. | [noun] The jazz music for this dance. 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. STONY (8) [adjective] As hard as stone. | [adjective] Containing or made up of stones. | [adjective] Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion. STOOD (6) [verb] (heading) To position or be positioned physically. | [verb] (heading) To position or be positioned mentally. | [verb] (heading) To position or be positioned socially. STOOK (9) [noun] A pile or bundle, especially of straw. | [noun] (specifically) A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, obsolete since the advent of the combine harvester (mid 20th century). | [verb] To make stooks. STOOL (5) [noun] A seat, especially for one person and without armrests. | [noun] A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet. | [noun] A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth. | [noun] A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. STOOP (7) [noun] The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence. | [noun] The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep. | [noun] A stooping, bent position of the body. | [noun] A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine. | [noun] A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon. 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. STOPS (7) [noun] A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station. | [noun] An action of stopping; interruption of travel. | [noun] That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment. STOPT (7) 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. STORK (9) [noun] A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae. | [noun] (children's folklore) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news. | [noun] The seventeenth Lenormand card. STORM (7) [noun] Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather. | [noun] A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak. | [noun] A wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale). | [verb] (with adverbial of direction) To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger. STORY (8) [noun] A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence. | [noun] A lie, fiction. | [noun] (usually pluralized) A soap opera. | [noun] A building; an edifice. STOSS (5) STOUP (7) [noun] A bucket. | [noun] A mug or drinking vessel. | [noun] A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church. STOUR (5) [adjective] (now rare outside dialectal) Tall; large; stout. | [adjective] (now rare outside dialectal) Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy. | [adjective] (now rare outside dialectal) Bold; audacious. | [noun] A stake. | [verb] To move; stir. STOUT (5) [noun] A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain. | [noun] An obese person. | [noun] A large clothing size. | [noun] Gnat. 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. STOWP (10) STOWS (8) [verb] To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. | [verb] To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. | [verb] To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely. STRAP (7) [noun] A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like. | [noun] A strip of thick leather used in flogging. | [noun] Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use. STRAW (8) [noun] A dried stalk of a cereal plant. | [noun] Such dried stalks considered collectively. | [noun] A drinking straw. STRAY (8) [noun] Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. | [noun] One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically. | [noun] The act of wandering or going astray. | [verb] To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. | [adjective] Having gone astray; strayed; wandering STREP (7) [noun] A strep throat. | [noun] A streptococcus. | [noun] Any of several plants of the genus Streptocarpus. the Cape primroses. STREW (8) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STRIA (5) [noun] A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes. | [noun] One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc. | [noun] A stretch mark. STRIP (7) [noun] A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area. | [noun] (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively. | [noun] A comic strip. | [noun] The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease. STROP (7) [noun] A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor, in this sense also called razor strop. | [noun] A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.) | [noun] A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it. | [verb] To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO. | [noun] A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond. STROW (8) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STROY (8) STRUM (7) [noun] The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously. | [noun] The act of strumming. | [verb] To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously. STRUT (5) [noun] Protuberance, air pressure | [verb] To swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out. | [verb] (originally said of fowl) To stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out. | [noun] A proud step or walk, with the head erect; affected dignity in walking. | [adjective] Swelling out; protuberant; bulging. | [noun] A support rod. STUBS (7) [noun] Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump. | [noun] A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes. | [noun] A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. STUCK (11) [verb] To become or remain attached; to adhere. | [verb] To jam; to stop moving. | [verb] To tolerate, to endure, to stick with. | [noun] A thrust. STUDS (6) [noun] A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding. | [noun] A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding. | [noun] (also by extension) A group of such animals. STUDY (9) [verb] (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination. | [verb] (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject. | [verb] To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice. | [noun] Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning. STUFF (11) [noun] Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects. | [noun] Unspecified things or matters. | [noun] The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object. STULL (5) STUMP (9) [noun] The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. | [noun] The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting. | [noun] A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration. STUMS (7) [noun] Unfermented grape juice; must. | [noun] Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must. | [verb] To ferment. STUNG (6) [verb] To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both. | [verb] (of an insect) To bite. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain. STUNK (9) [verb] To have a strong bad smell. | [verb] To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. | [verb] To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth. STUNS (5) [noun] The condition of being stunned. | [noun] That which stuns; a shock; a stupefying blow. | [noun] A person who lacks intelligence. STUNT (5) [noun] A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills. | [noun] Skill | [noun] A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line. | [noun] A check in growth. STUPA (7) [noun] A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha. | [noun] A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge). 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. STURT (5) STYED (9) STYES (8) [noun] A ladder. | [noun] An inflammation of the eyelid. | [noun] A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid. STYLE (8) [noun] Senses relating to a thin, pointed object. | [noun] (by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good. | [noun] A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art. STYLI (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. STYMY (13) SUETS (5) SUETY (8) SUINT (5) [noun] A substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. 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. SUITS (5) [noun] A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman. | [noun] (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit. | [noun] (metonym) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor. SUTRA (5) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SUTTA (5) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SWART (8) [noun] Black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker. | [adjective] Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. | [adjective] Black. | [verb] To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan. | [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. SWATH (11) [noun] The track cut out by a scythe in mowing. | [noun] A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people. SWATS (8) [noun] A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking. | [noun] Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution. | [verb] To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. SWEAT (8) [noun] Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation. | [noun] The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis. | [noun] (especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced). | [verb] To emit sweat. SWEET (8) [noun] The basic taste sensation induced by sugar. | [noun] A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy. | [noun] A food eaten for dessert. SWEPT (10) [verb] To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush. | [verb] To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke. | [verb] To search (a place) methodically. SWIFT (11) [noun] A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight. | [noun] Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus. | [noun] A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth. SWITH (11) SWOTS (8) [noun] One who swots. | [noun] Work. | [noun] Vigorous study at an educational institution. SYNTH (11) [noun] A musical synthesizer. | [verb] To play on a musical synthesizer. TABBY (12) [noun] A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering. | [noun] A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock. | [noun] A brindled cat. TABER (7) TABES (7) [noun] A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease. TABID (8) TABLA (7) [noun] A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos. TABLE (7) [noun] Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. | [noun] A two-dimensional presentation of data. | [noun] The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate. TABOO (7) [noun] An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. | [noun] (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. | [verb] To mark as taboo. TABOR (7) [noun] A small drum. | [verb] To make (a sound) with a tabor. | [verb] To strike lightly and frequently. | [noun] A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources. TABUN (7) [noun] An extremely toxic nerve agent; a clear, tasteless liquid, molecular formula C5H11N2O2P. | [noun] A clay oven, shaped like a truncated cone, with an opening at the bottom for stoking the fire. TABUS (7) [noun] An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. | [noun] (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. TACES (7) TACET (7) TACHE (10) [noun] Moustache, mustache. | [noun] A spot, stain, or blemish. | [noun] Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button. TACHS (10) [noun] Tachometer TACIT (7) [adjective] Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent. | [adjective] Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction. TACKS (11) [noun] A small nail with a flat head. | [noun] A thumbtack. | [noun] A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth. TACKY (14) [adjective] Of a substance, slightly sticky. | [noun] A scrubby, neglected horse. | [noun] A person in a similar condition. TACOS (7) [noun] A Mexican snack food; a small tortilla (soft or hard shelled), with typically some type of meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables (usually tomatoes and lettuce, as served in the United States, and cilantro, onion, and avocado, as served in México) and salsa. | [noun] The vulva. | [noun] A yellow stain on a shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant. TACTS (7) TAELS (5) [noun] Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams. | [noun] Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver. | [noun] Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms TAFFY (14) [noun] A soft, chewy candy made from boiled molasses or brown sugar. | [noun] Flattery. TAFIA (8) [noun] A variety of rum. TAHRS (8) [noun] Any of three genera of large Asian ungulates belonging to the subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes). TAIGA (6) [noun] A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere. TAILS (5) [noun] The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus. | [noun] An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails. | [noun] The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything. TAINS (5) TAINT (5) [noun] A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food | [noun] A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish | [noun] Tincture; hue; colour | [noun] A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. | [noun] The perineum. TAJES (12) [noun] A tall brimless hat, usually conical or curved on top, worn in Muslim countries as a sign of distinction and prestige. | [noun] A crown worn by Indian princes as a sign of high rank. TAKEN (9) [verb] To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force. | [verb] To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc). | [verb] To remove. TAKER (9) [noun] One who takes something. | [noun] A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives. | [noun] One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something. TAKES (9) [noun] The or an act of taking. | [noun] Something that is taken; a haul. | [noun] An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective. TAKIN (9) [noun] A goat-antelope, species Budorcas taxicolor. TALAR (5) TALAS (5) [noun] The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene. | [noun] A rhythmic pattern in Indian music. TALCS (7) [noun] Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Mediaeval writers adopted the term from the Arabic. | [noun] A microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium. | [noun] A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses. TALER (5) TALES (5) [noun] Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams. | [noun] Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver. | [noun] Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms | [noun] A person available to fill vacancies in a jury. TALKS (9) [verb] To communicate, usually by means of speech. | [verb] To discuss; to talk about. | [verb] To speak (a certain language). TALKY (12) [adjective] (of a person) Talkative or loquacious | [adjective] (of a book etc.) Containing a great deal of dialogue or talking in general TALLY (8) [interjection] Target sighted. | [noun] (by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept. | [noun] (by extension) Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate. | [verb] To count something. | [adverb] In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit. TALON (5) [noun] A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal. | [noun] One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth. | [noun] A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.) TALUK (9) [noun] A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district. TALUS (5) [noun] The bone of the ankle. | [noun] A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice. | [noun] The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top. TAMAL (7) TAMED (8) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. TAMER (7) [adjective] Not or no longer wild; domesticated | [adjective] (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact | [adjective] Not exciting. TAMES (7) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. TAMIS (7) TAMMY (12) [noun] A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc. | [noun] A culinary strainer, originally made from worsted cloth | [noun] The cloth itself; tammy. | [noun] A tam o’shanter hat. TAMPS (9) [verb] (blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock. | [verb] To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes | [verb] To reduce the intensity of. TANGO (6) [noun] A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango. | [noun] A piece of music suited to such a dance. | [noun] The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet. TANGS (6) [noun] A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor. | [noun] A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself. | [noun] A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. TANGY (9) [adjective] Having a sharp, pungent flavor TANKA (9) [noun] A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 morae. | [noun] A strong, forceful expression | [noun] A Tibetan painting of the Buddha on fabric. | [noun] An ethnic group of boat people in the Canton area. | [noun] A coin and unit of currency of varying value, formerly used in parts of India and Central Asia. TANKS (9) [noun] A closed container for liquids or gases. | [noun] An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids. | [noun] A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial. | [interjection] Thanks TANSY (8) [noun] A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare. | [noun] A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish. "Originally flavoured with tansy, but by Pepys's time generally having spinach as its predominant flavouring." TANTO (5) [noun] A common type of Japanese dagger or knife. Alternative spelling of tantō | [adverb] So much; too much. TAPAS (7) [noun] A variety of Spanish small food items or snacks, originally served with sherry. | [noun] (by extension) Small food items generally. TAPED (8) [verb] To bind with adhesive tape. | [verb] To record, particularly onto magnetic tape. | [verb] (passive) To understand, figure out. TAPER (7) [noun] A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle | [noun] (by extension) a small light. | [noun] A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object | [noun] One who operates a tape machine. TAPES (7) [noun] Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. | [noun] Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. | [noun] Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race. TAPIR (7) [noun] Any one of the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus. TAPIS (7) [noun] A tapestry. | [noun] Carpeting. | [noun] The cover of a council table. TARDO (6) TARDY (9) [noun] A piece of paper given to students who are late to class. | [noun] An instance of a student being marked as tardy by a teacher in his or her attendance sheet. | [verb] To make tardy. TARED (6) TARES (5) [noun] A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa) | [noun] Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel. | [noun] A damaging weed growing in fields of grain. TARGE (6) [noun] A small shield | [noun] A tassel or pendant TARNS (5) [noun] A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England. | [noun] (chiefly Montana) One of many small mountain lakes or ponds. TAROC (7) TAROK (9) TAROS (5) [noun] Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato. | [noun] Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc. | [noun] Food from a taro plant. TAROT (5) [noun] (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations. | [noun] Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination. TARPS (7) [noun] A tarpaulin. TARRE (5) TARRY (8) [noun] A sojourn. | [verb] To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything. | [verb] To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens. | [adjective] Resembling tar. TARSI (5) [noun] The part of the foot between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus. | [noun] Any of the seven bones in this part of the foot. | [noun] A plate of dense connective tissue found in each eyelid, attached to either the superior tarsal muscle (in the upper eyelid) or inferior tarsal muscle (lower eyelid), which aid with sympathetic control. TARTS (5) [noun] A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie. | [noun] A prostitute. | [noun] By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals. TARTY (8) [adjective] Like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish. TASKS (9) [noun] A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. | [noun] A difficult or tedious undertaking. | [noun] An objective. TASSE (5) TASTE (5) [noun] One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation. | [noun] The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation. | [noun] A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs. TASTY (8) [adjective] Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor; delicious. | [adjective] Having or showing good taste; tasteful. | [adjective] Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing. TATAR (5) TATER (5) [noun] A potato. | [noun] A home run TATES (5) TATTY (8) [noun] Potato | [adjective] Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn | [noun] A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters. TAUNT (5) [noun] A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery | [verb] To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner. | [adjective] Very high or tall. TAUPE (7) [noun] A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin. | [adjective] Of a dark brownish-grey colour. TAUTS (5) TAWED (9) [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [verb] To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them. TAWER (8) TAWIE (8) TAWNY (11) [noun] A light brown to brownish orange colour. | [adjective] Of a light brown to brownish orange color. | [adjective] A sweet, fortified wine which is blended and matured in wood. TAWSE (8) [noun] A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically three) tails, used for corporal punishment in schools, applied to the palm of the hands or buttocks. | [verb] To beat with a tawse. TAXED (13) [verb] To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company). | [verb] To impose and collect a tax on (something). | [verb] To make excessive demands on. TAXER (12) TAXES (12) [noun] Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services. | [noun] A burdensome demand. | [noun] A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. | [noun] The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus. TAXIS (12) [noun] The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus. | [noun] The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury. | [noun] The arrangement of the parts of a topic. | [noun] A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver. TAXON (12) [noun] A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. TAXUS (12) TAZZA (23) [noun] A shallow saucer-like dish, mounted either on a stem and foot or on a foot alone. TAZZE (23) TEACH (10) [verb] To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate. | [verb] (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to. | [verb] To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher. | [noun] (usually as a term of address) teacher TEAKS (9) [noun] An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.). | [noun] A tree of the species in the genus Tectona | [noun] A yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood. TEALS (5) [noun] Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks. | [noun] A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan. TEAMS (7) [noun] A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. | [noun] Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work. | [noun] A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks. TEARS (5) [noun] A hole or break caused by tearing. | [noun] A rampage. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. TEARY (8) [adjective] Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry. | [adjective] Of eyes, filled with tears. TEASE (5) [noun] One who teases. | [noun] A single act of teasing. | [noun] One who deliberately arouses others (usually men) sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal. TEATS (5) [noun] The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted. | [noun] Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle. | [noun] An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants. TECHY (13) [adjective] Technical | [adjective] Easily annoyed or irritated; peevish, testy or irascible. TECTA (7) [noun] The dorsal portion of the midbrain of vertebrates; in mammals, containing the superior colliculus and inferior colliculus | [noun] The interconnected outer surface of a spore. TEDDY (10) [noun] By extension, any stuffed toy. | [noun] A type of all-in-one piece of women's underwear. | [noun] A plush toy in the shape of a bear. TEELS (5) TEEMS (7) [verb] To be stocked to overflowing. | [verb] To be prolific; to abound; to be rife. | [verb] To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. TEENS (5) [noun] A teenager. | [noun] Grief; sorrow; trouble. | [noun] Vexation; anger; hate. TEENY (8) [adjective] Very small; tiny. | [adjective] Fretful; peevish; cross TEETH (8) [noun] The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect. | [verb] To grow teeth. | [verb] To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth. TEFFS (11) TEGUA (6) TEIID (6) TEIND (6) TELAE (5) TELES (5) [noun] Television. | [noun] A television set. | [noun] A hotel or motel. TELEX (12) [noun] A communications system consisting of a network of teletypewriters. | [noun] A message sent through such a network. | [noun] The machine used to send and receive such messages. TELIA (5) TELIC (7) [adjective] Tending or directed towards a goal or specific end. | [adjective] (grammar) That expresses an end or purpose. | [adjective] That expresses the perfective aspect. TELLS (5) [noun] A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold. | [noun] That which is told; a tale or account. | [noun] A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper. TELLY (8) [noun] Television. | [noun] A television set. | [noun] A hotel or motel. TELOI (5) [noun] The aim or goal. TELOS (5) [noun] The aim or goal. TEMPI (9) [noun] A frequency or rate. | [noun] A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use for him (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another. | [noun] The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side. TEMPO (9) [noun] A frequency or rate. | [noun] A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use for him (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another. | [noun] The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side. TEMPS (9) [noun] A temporary employee, usually in an office. | [noun] A temporary storage location. | [verb] To work as a temporary employee. TEMPT (9) [verb] To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice. | [verb] To attract; to allure. | [verb] To provoke something; to court. TENCH (10) [noun] A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca. TENDS (6) [verb] (Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender. | [verb] (followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. | [verb] To contribute to or toward some outcome. TENET (5) [noun] An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization. TENIA (5) [noun] A ribbon worn in the hair in ancient Greece. | [noun] (Doric architecture) A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order. | [noun] Any of several ribbon-like bands of tissue. TENON (5) [noun] A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame. | [verb] To make into a tenon. | [verb] To fit with tenons. TENOR (5) [noun] A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto. | [noun] A person, instrument or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range. | [noun] A musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies. TENSE (5) [noun] (grammar) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. | [noun] (grammar) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense. | [noun] The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. | [verb] To make or become tense. TENTH (8) [noun] The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position. | [noun] One of ten equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third. TENTS (5) [noun] A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather. | [noun] The representation of a tent used as a bearing. | [noun] A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church. TENTY (8) TEPAL (7) [noun] Any component of the perianth (outermost whorls of flower parts, not involved in reproduction), especially when the components are not distinguished into sepals and petals. TEPAS (7) TEPEE (7) [noun] Alternative form of teepee TEPID (8) [adjective] Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool. | [adjective] Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness. TEPOY (10) TERAI (5) [noun] A belt of marshy land, which lies between the foothills of the Himalayas and the plains. | [noun] A terai hat. TERCE (7) [noun] The third hour of daylight (about 9 am). | [noun] The service appointed for this hour. | [noun] A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property. TERGA (6) [noun] The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod. TERMS (7) [noun] That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary. | [noun] A chronological limitation or restriction. | [noun] Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. TERNE (5) [noun] An alloy coating made of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin) and used to cover steel. TERNS (5) [noun] Any of various sea birds of the family Sternidae that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail. | [noun] That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together. | [noun] A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw. TERRA (5) [noun] (astrogeology) A rough upland or mountainous region of the Moon with a relatively high albedo. TERRY (8) [noun] A type of coarse cotton fabric covered in many small raised loops that is used to make towels, bathrobes and some types of nappy/diaper. TERSE (5) [adjective] (by extension) Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point. | [adjective] (by extension) Of manner or speech: abruptly or brusquely short; curt. | [adjective] Burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce. TESLA (5) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity. Symbol: T TESTA (5) [noun] A seed coat. | [noun] The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test. TESTS (5) [noun] A challenge, trial. | [noun] A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. | [noun] (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term. TESTY (8) [adjective] Easily annoyed, irritable. | [adjective] Marked by impatience or ill humor. TETHS (8) TETRA (5) [noun] Any of numerous species of small South American freshwater fish of the family Characidae, popular in home aquariums. TEUCH (10) TEUGH (9) TEWED (9) TEXAS (12) TEXTS (12) [noun] A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences. | [noun] A book, tome or other set of writings. | [noun] A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones. THACK (14) THANE (8) [noun] A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron. THANK (12) [noun] An expression of appreciation; a thought. | [verb] To express gratitude or appreciation toward. | [verb] To feel gratitude or appreciation toward. THARM (10) THAWS (11) [noun] The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost | [noun] A warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen | [verb] To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen THEBE (10) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Botswanan pula. THECA (10) [noun] Any external case or sheath. | [noun] The pollen-producing organ usually found in pairs and forming an anther. | [noun] The twin layers of cells surrounding the basal lamina of an ovarian follicle. THEFT (11) [noun] The act of stealing property. THEGN (9) [noun] A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron. THEIN (8) THEIR (8) THEME (10) [noun] A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic. | [noun] A recurring idea; a motif. | [noun] An essay written for school. THENS (8) THERE (8) [noun] That place. | [noun] That status; that position. | [adverb] (location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here). THERM (10) [noun] A former unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units. Symbol: thm. THESE (8) [pronoun] The thing, item, etc. being indicated. THETA (8) [noun] The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ. | [noun] The measure of an angle. | [noun] The sensitivity of the value of a derivative with respect to time; the "time decay". THEWS (11) [noun] A bondman; a slave. | [verb] To oppress; enslave. | [noun] Muscle or sinew. THEWY (14) THICK (14) [noun] The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something. | [noun] A thicket. | [noun] A stupid person; a fool. THIEF (11) [noun] One who carries out a theft. | [noun] One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence. | [noun] A waster in the snuff of a candle. THIGH (12) [noun] The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. | [noun] That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect. THILL (8) [noun] One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft. | [noun] The shallow stratum of underclay that lies under a seam of coal; the bottom of a coal-seam. THINE (8) [pronoun] Singular second person possessive pronoun; yours THING (9) [noun] That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept. | [noun] A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity. | [noun] An individual object or distinct entity. THINK (12) [noun] An act of thinking; consideration (of something). | [verb] To ponder, to go over in one's head. | [verb] To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem. | [verb] To seem, to appear. THINS (8) [noun] A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole. | [noun] Any food produced or served in thin slices. | [verb] To make thin or thinner. THIOL (8) [noun] A univalent organic radical (-SH) containing a sulphur and a hydrogen atom; a compound containing such a radical. THIRD (9) [noun] The person or thing in the third position. | [noun] One of three equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The third gear of a gearbox. THIRL (8) 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. THONG (9) [noun] A strip of leather. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour. | [noun] An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more. THORN (8) [noun] A sharp protective spine of a plant. | [noun] Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn. | [noun] That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome. THORO (8) THORP (10) [noun] (now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village. 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. THOUS (8) THRAW (11) THREE (8) [noun] The digit/figure 3. | [noun] Anything measuring three units, as length. | [noun] A person who is three years old. THREW (11) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. THRIP (10) [noun] Optional singular for thrips, an insect of the order Thysanoptera. THROB (10) [noun] A beating, vibration or palpitation. | [verb] To pound or beat rapidly or violently. | [verb] To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm. THROE (8) [noun] A pang, spasm. | [noun] (usually plural) A hard struggle. | [noun] A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow. THROW (11) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. | [noun] Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe. | [noun] A moment, time, occasion. THRUM (10) [noun] A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. | [noun] A spicy taste; a tang. | [verb] To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking. | [noun] The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut. THUDS (9) [noun] The sound of a dull impact. | [noun] Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter. THUGS (9) [noun] Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire. | [noun] One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her. | [noun] In gardening, an over-vigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed. THUJA (15) [noun] A tree of the genus Thuja. THUMB (12) [noun] The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers. | [noun] The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider. | [noun] A thumbnail picture. THUMP (12) [noun] A blow that produces a muffled sound. | [noun] The sound of such a blow; a thud. | [noun] Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases. THUNK (12) [verb] To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound. | [interjection] Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact. | [noun] (functional programming) A delayed computation. THURL (8) THUYA (11) [noun] Any member of the genus Thuya. THYME (13) [noun] Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as the garden thyme, Thymus vulgaris, a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups. THYMI (13) [noun] A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes. THYMY (16) TIARA (5) [noun] The papal crown. | [noun] An ornamental coronet. TIBIA (7) [noun] The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone | [noun] The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus. | [noun] The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus. TICAL (7) TICKS (11) [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. TIDAL (6) [adjective] Relating to tides TIDED (7) [verb] To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream. | [verb] To pour a tide or flood. | [verb] To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse. TIDES (6) [noun] The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon. | [noun] A stream, current or flood. | [noun] (chronology, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast. TIERS (5) [noun] One who ties (knots, etc). | [noun] Something that ties. | [noun] A child's apron. TIFFS (11) [noun] A small argument; a petty quarrel. | [noun] Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. | [verb] To quarrel. TIGER (6) [noun] Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia. | [noun] A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms. | [noun] A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress. | [noun] A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer. TIGHT (9) TIGON (6) [noun] A cross between a male tiger and a lioness. TIKES (9) [noun] A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida. | [noun] A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery. | [noun] A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement. TIKIS (9) [noun] Carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean. TILAK (9) [noun] A mark or symbol worn on the forehead by Hindus, ornamentally or as an indication of status. TILDE (6) [noun] The grapheme of character ~. | [noun] The character used to represent negation, usually ~ or ¬. TILED (6) [verb] To cover with tiles. | [verb] To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface). | [verb] To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique. TILER (5) [noun] A person who sets tiles. | [noun] A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons. TILES (5) [noun] A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile etc. | [noun] A rectangular graphic. | [noun] Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong. TILLS (5) [noun] A cash register. | [noun] A removable box within a cash register containing the money. | [noun] The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift. TILTH (8) [noun] Agricultural labour; husbandry. | [noun] The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture. | [noun] Rich cultivated soil. TILTS (5) [noun] A slope or inclination. | [noun] The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc. | [noun] The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this. TIMED (8) [verb] To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. | [verb] To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. | [verb] To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. TIMER (7) [noun] Someone or something which times. | [noun] A device used to measure amounts of time. | [noun] Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time. TIMES (7) [noun] The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. | [noun] A duration of time. | [noun] An instant of time. TIMID (8) [adjective] Lacking in courage or confidence. TINCT (7) TINEA (5) [noun] A fungal infection of the skin, known generally as ringworm. TINED (6) TINES (5) [noun] A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb. | [noun] A small branch, especially on an antler or horn. | [noun] A wild vetch or tare. TINGE (6) [noun] A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing. | [noun] The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint. | [verb] To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing. TINGS (6) [noun] The sound made when a small bell is struck. | [noun] An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid. | [noun] The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept. TINNY (8) [adjective] Of or pertaining to or resembling tin. | [adjective] Pertaining to the thinness and cheapness of tin or similar-looking metals, in contrast to a heavier, more valuable metal. | [adjective] Pertaining to a thin, unpleasant sound recalling that of tin being rapped. | [noun] A can of beer. TINTS (5) [noun] A slight coloring. | [noun] A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade) | [noun] A color considered with reference to other very similar colors. TIPIS (7) [noun] Alternative form of teepee TIPPY (12) [noun] A dandy. | [adjective] Fashionable, tip-top. | [adjective] (absolute, with the) In the height of fashion, excellent, cool. | [adjective] Tending to tip or tilt over; unstable. TIPSY (10) [adjective] Slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages | [adjective] (metonymy) unsteady, askew TIRED (6) [verb] To become sleepy or weary. | [verb] To make sleepy or weary. | [verb] To become bored or impatient (with). TIRES (5) [verb] To become sleepy or weary. | [verb] To make sleepy or weary. | [verb] To become bored or impatient (with). TIRLS (5) TIROS (5) [noun] A newly recruited soldier. TITAN (5) [noun] Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness. TITER (5) [noun] The concentration of a substance as determined by titration. | [verb] To measure a concentration, especially by means of titration TITHE (8) [noun] A tenth. | [noun] The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. | [noun] A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church) | [noun] A boon (a grant or concession). TITIS (5) [noun] A New World monkey of the genus Callicebus, native to South America, distinguished by their long soft fur. | [noun] Mutton bird. | [noun] A tree of the southern United States (Cliftonia monophylla) having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers succeeded by one-seeded drupes. 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 TITTY (8) [noun] A breast | [noun] A nipple | [noun] A kitten TIZZY (26) [noun] A state of nervous excitement, confusion, or distress; a dither. | [noun] A sixpence; a tester. TOADS (6) [noun] An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae. | [noun] A contemptible or unpleasant person. | [noun] An ugly person. TOADY (9) [noun] A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage or an obsequious lackey or minion | [noun] A coarse, rustic woman. | [verb] (construed with to) To behave like a toady (to someone). | [adjective] Toadlike TOAST (5) [noun] Toasted bread. | [noun] A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol. | [noun] A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem. | [verb] To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source. TODAY (9) [noun] A current day or date. | [noun] From 6am to 6pm on the current day. | [adverb] On the current day or date. TODDY (10) [noun] A drink made from alcoholic liquor mixed with sugar, spice and hot water. | [noun] The sweet sap from any of several tropical trees fermented to make an alcoholic drink. TOFFS (11) [noun] An elegantly dressed person. | [noun] A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it, who usually communicates an air of superiority. TOFFY (14) [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 | [adjective] Posh, upper-class; snooty. TOFTS (8) [noun] A hillock. | [noun] A homestead, especially one on a hill. | [noun] A messuage with right of common. TOFUS (8) TOGAE (6) TOGAS (6) [noun] A loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome. | [noun] A loose wrap gown. | [noun] An academic gown. TOGUE (6) TOILE (5) [noun] Plain or simple twilled fabric TOILS (5) [noun] Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature. | [noun] Trouble, strife. | [noun] (usually in plural) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey. TOITS (5) TOKAY (12) [noun] A variety of grape grown in eastern Hungary and in eastern Slovakia. | [noun] Any of a variety of white wines made from this grape. | [noun] The tokay gecko, a spotted lizard native to Asia and some Pacific islands. TOKED (10) [verb] To give a gratuity to. | [verb] To smoke marijuana. | [verb] To inhale a puff of marijuana TOKEN (9) [noun] Something serving as an expression of something else. | [noun] A keepsake. | [noun] A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services. TOKER (9) TOKES (9) [noun] (casinos) A gratuity. | [noun] A puff of marijuana. | [noun] A piece of bread. TOLAN (5) TOLAS (5) TOLED (6) TOLES (5) TOLLS (5) [noun] Loss or damage incurred through a disaster. | [noun] A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc. | [noun] A fee for using any kind of material processing service. TOLUS (5) TOLYL (8) TOMAN (7) TOMBS (9) [noun] A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed. | [noun] A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave. | [noun] One who keeps secrets. TOMES (7) [noun] One in a series of volumes. | [noun] A large or scholarly book. TOMMY (12) [noun] Bread, generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance | [noun] A truck, or barter; the exchange of labour for goods instead of money. | [verb] To pay (employees) according to the truck system, with goods instead of money. TONAL (5) [adjective] Of or relating to tones or tonality. | [adjective] Of or relating to the general character, mood, or trend of something. | [adjective] Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic. | [noun] An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death. TONDI (6) [noun] A round picture or other work of art. TONDO (6) [noun] A round picture or other work of art. TONED (6) [verb] To give a particular tone to | [verb] To change the colour of | [verb] To make (something) firmer TONER (5) [noun] Powder used in laser printers and photocopiers to form the text and images on the printed paper. | [noun] Cosmetic lotion designed to cleanse the skin and shrink pores, usually used on the face. | [noun] A musician, particularly one that plays a wind instrument. TONES (5) [noun] A specific pitch. | [noun] (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second. | [noun] (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody. TONEY (8) TONGA (6) [noun] A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. | [noun] A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum. TONGS (6) [noun] An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips. | [noun] (by extension) A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs. | [noun] An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands. | [verb] To use tongs. | [noun] An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands. TONIC (7) [noun] A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate. | [noun] Tonic water. | [noun] (Massachusetts) Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop. | [noun] The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote. TONNE (5) [noun] A metric unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. Symbol: t | [noun] A score of 100. TONUS (5) [noun] Tonicity; tone TOOLS (5) [noun] A mechanical device intended to make a task easier. | [noun] Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade. | [noun] Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means. TOONS (5) [noun] A cartoon, especially an animated television show. | [noun] A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. | [noun] A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye. TOOTH (8) [noun] A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating. | [noun] A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement. | [noun] A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain. TOOTS (5) [noun] The noise of a horn or whistle. | [noun] (by extension) A fart; flatus. | [noun] Cocaine. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) Babe, sweetie: a term used when addressing a young woman, besties, sisters. TOPAZ (16) [noun] A silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine, usually tinted by impurities. | [noun] An often clear, yellowish-brown gemstone cut from this. | [noun] A yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone. TOPED (8) [verb] To drink excessively; to get drunk. TOPEE (7) [noun] A pith helmet. TOPER (7) TOPES (7) [verb] To drink excessively; to get drunk. | [noun] A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout. | [noun] A grove of trees. TOPHE (10) TOPHI (10) [noun] A deposit of monosodium urate crystals in the body, caused by high levels of uric acid in the blood. TOPHS (10) TOPIC (9) [noun] Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest. | [noun] Discussion thread. | [noun] A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre. TOPIS (7) [noun] An antelope of the species Damaliscus korrigum. | [noun] A taqiyah (skullcap worn by Muslims etc.) TOPOI (7) [noun] A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula. | [noun] An elementary topos | [noun] A Grothendieck topos TOPOS (7) [noun] A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula. | [noun] An elementary topos | [noun] A Grothendieck topos 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. TORAH (8) TORAS (5) TORCH (10) [noun] A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material. | [noun] A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight. | [noun] An arsonist. TORCS (7) [noun] A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples. TORES (5) [noun] The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane. | [noun] The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring. | [noun] A topological space which is a product of two circles. TORIC (7) [adjective] Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal. TORII (5) [noun] A traditional Japanese gate at Shinto shrines, symbolically marking the transition from the profane to the sacred. TOROS (5) TOROT (5) 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. TORSI (5) [noun] The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs. TORSK (9) [noun] An edible fish, Brosme brosme. TORSO (5) [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). TORTS (5) [noun] An injury or wrong. | [noun] A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages. | [noun] (only in the plural torts) Tort law (the area of law dealing with such wrongful acts). TORUS (5) [noun] A topological space which is a product of two circles. | [noun] The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a shape consisting of a ring with a circular cross-section: the shape of an inner tube or hollow doughnut. | [noun] (in combination, n-torus, 4-torus, etc.) The product of the specified number of circles. TOTAL (5) [noun] An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts. | [noun] Sum. | [verb] To add up; to calculate the sum of. TOTED (6) [verb] To carry or bear. | [verb] To add up; to calculate a total. TOTEM (7) [noun] Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family. | [noun] The representation of such object or creature. | [noun] The clan whose kinship is defined in reference to such an object or creature. TOTER (5) TOTES (5) [noun] A tote bag. | [noun] A heavy burden. | [noun] (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods. | [adverb] To the fullest extent or degree. TOUCH (10) TOUGH (9) [noun] A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully. | [verb] To endure. | [verb] To toughen. TOURS (5) [noun] A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc. | [noun] A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place. | [noun] A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts. TOUSE (5) TOUTS (5) [noun] Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. | [noun] A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win. | [noun] A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar. TOWED (9) TOWEL (8) [noun] A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath. | [verb] To hit with a towel. | [verb] To dry by using a towel. TOWER (8) [noun] A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast. | [noun] A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc. | [noun] A water tower. | [verb] To be very tall. | [noun] One who tows. TOWIE (8) TOWNS (8) [noun] A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city. | [noun] Any more urbanized center than the place of reference. | [noun] A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week. TOWNY (11) [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. TOXIC (14) [adjective] Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities. | [adjective] Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems. | [adjective] Severely negative or harmful. TOXIN (12) [noun] A toxic or poisonous substance produced by the biological processes of biological organisms. TOYED (9) [verb] To play (with) in an idle or desultory way. | [verb] To ponder or consider. | [verb] To stimulate with a sex toy. TOYER (8) TOYON (8) [noun] A chiefly Californian ornamental evergreen shrub (Heteromeles arbutifolia) of the rose family having white flowers succeeded by red berries. TOYOS (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. TRACK (11) [noun] A mark left by something that has passed along. | [noun] A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal. | [noun] The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc. TRACT (7) [noun] An area or expanse. | [noun] A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract. | [noun] A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses. | [verb] To pursue, follow; to track. TRADE (6) [noun] Buying and selling of goods and services on a market. | [noun] A particular instance of buying or selling. | [noun] An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another. TRAGI (6) [noun] The small piece of thick cartilage of the external ear that is immediately in front of the ear canal. TRAIK (9) TRAIL (5) [noun] The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky. | [noun] A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc. | [noun] A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme. TRAIN (5) [noun] Elongated portion. | [noun] Connected sequence of people or things. | [verb] To practice an ability. | [noun] Treachery; deceit. TRAIT (5) [noun] An identifying characteristic, habit or trend. | [noun] An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface. TRAMP (9) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond. | [noun] A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut. | [noun] Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call. TRAMS (7) [noun] A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America). | [noun] A similar vehicle for carrying materials. | [noun] A people mover. TRANK (9) [noun] An oblong piece of skin from which the pieces for a glove are cut. | [noun] A tranquilizer. | [verb] To tranquilize. TRANQ (14) [noun] A tranquilizer. | [verb] To tranquilize. TRANS (5) [verb] To cross from one side to another of (gender, sex or something in that vein). | [adjective] In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond. | [adjective] Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum. | [noun] (sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person. | [noun] The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans). | [noun] (sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person. TRAPS (7) [noun] A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. | [noun] A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. | [noun] A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor. TRAPT (7) TRASH (8) [noun] Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. | [noun] A container into which things are discarded. | [noun] Something worthless or of poor quality. TRASS (5) [noun] A white to grey volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders, sometimes used as a cement. | [noun] A coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water. TRAVE (8) TRAWL (8) [noun] A net or dragnet used for trawling. | [noun] A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline. | [verb] To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl. TRAYS (8) [noun] A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. | [noun] A flat carrier for items being transported. | [noun] The items on a full tray. TREAD (6) [verb] To step or walk (on or over something); to trample. | [verb] To step or walk upon. | [verb] To beat or press with the feet. | [noun] A step taken with the foot. TREAT (5) [noun] An entertainment, outing, food, drink, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others. | [noun] An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure. | [noun] A snack food item designed to be given to pets. TREED (6) [verb] To chase (an animal or person) up a tree. | [verb] To place in a tree. | [verb] To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree. TREEN (5) [noun] Fast growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem. | [noun] A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage. | [noun] Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense). | [noun] Household articles made of wood. | [noun] A territorial division in the Isle of Man. TREES (5) [noun] Fast growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem. | [noun] A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage. | [noun] Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense). TREKS (9) [noun] A journey by ox wagon. | [noun] The Boer migration of 1835-1837. | [noun] A slow or difficult journey. TREND (6) [noun] An inclination in a particular direction. | [noun] A tendency. | [noun] A fad or fashion style. | [noun] Clean wool. TRESS (5) [noun] A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet. | [noun] A long lock of hair | [noun] (by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers. TRETS (5) TREWS (8) [noun] Trousers, especially if close fitting and tartan. TREYS (8) [noun] A playing card or die with the rank of three. | [noun] A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes. | [noun] A three-pointer. TRIAC (7) [noun] A three-terminal electronic component that conducts current in either direction when triggered; a bidirectional triode thyristor. TRIAD (6) [noun] A grouping of three. | [noun] A word of three syllables. | [noun] A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong. TRIAL (5) [noun] An opportunity to test something out; a test. | [noun] Appearance at judicial court in order to be examined. | [noun] A difficult or annoying experience. | [adjective] Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components. 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. TRICK (11) [noun] Something designed to fool or swindle. | [noun] A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick. | [noun] An entertaining difficult physical action. TRIED (6) [adjective] Tested, hence, proven to be firm or reliable. | [adjective] Put on trial, taken before a lawcourt. | [verb] To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive. TRIER (5) [noun] One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard. | [noun] An instrument used for sampling something. | [noun] One who tries judicially. TRIES (5) [noun] An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings. | [noun] An attempt. | [noun] An act of tasting or sampling. TRIGO (6) TRIGS (6) [noun] A dandy; coxcomb. | [noun] Trigonometry. | [noun] A trigonometric point, trig point. TRIKE (9) [noun] A tricycle. | [noun] A three-wheeled motorbike. | [noun] A kind of railroad maintenance vehicle: a speeder or jigger. | [noun] A triceratops. TRILL (5) [noun] A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it, in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff. | [noun] A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish rr. | [noun] A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats. | [verb] To trickle. | [verb] To twirl. TRIMS (7) [noun] Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders. | [noun] A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style. | [noun] Dress; gear; ornaments. 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. TRIOL (5) TRIOS (5) [noun] A group of three people or things. | [noun] A group of three musicians. | [noun] A piece of music written for three musicians. 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). TRIPS (7) [noun] A journey; an excursion or jaunt | [noun] A stumble or misstep | [noun] An error; a failure; a mistake 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. TROAK (9) TROCK (11) TRODE (6) TROIS (5) TROKE (9) TROLL (5) [noun] A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges. | [noun] An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences. | [noun] Optical ejections from the top of the electrically active core regions of thunderstorms that are red in color that seem to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward toward the cloud tops. | [noun] An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line. | [noun] The act of moving round; routine; repetition. TROMP (9) [verb] To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot. | [verb] To utterly defeat an opponent. | [noun] A blowing apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. TRONA (5) [noun] A saline evaporite, consisting of mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, Na3HCO3CO3·2H2O. TRONE (5) TROOP (7) [noun] (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general). | [noun] A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry. | [noun] A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers. TROOZ (14) 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. TROTH (8) [noun] An oath, pledge, or promise. | [noun] Truth; something true. | [verb] To pledge to marry somebody. TROTS (5) [noun] A supporter of Trotskyism. | [noun] Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. | [noun] Equipment with legs. TROUT (5) [noun] Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once. | [noun] An objectionable elderly woman. | [verb] To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly. TROVE (8) [noun] A treasure trove; a collection of treasure. | [noun] A collection of things. TROWS (8) [noun] Trust or faith. | [noun] Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods. | [noun] Troll. TROYS (8) 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 TRUCK (11) [noun] A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage. | [noun] The ball on top of a flagpole. | [noun] On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck". | [verb] To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate. | [verb] To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down). | [noun] (often in the plural) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter. TRUED (6) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. TRUER (5) [adjective] (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct. | [adjective] Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate. | [adjective] Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result. TRUES (5) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. TRUGS (6) [noun] A shallow, oval basket used for gardening | [noun] A trough or tray. | [noun] A hod for mortar. TRULL (5) [noun] A female prostitute or harlot. | [noun] A set of three special trump cards used in some Tarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps. TRULY (8) [adverb] (manner) In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately. | [adverb] (modal) Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really. | [adverb] (degree) Very. TRUMP (9) [noun] The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others. | [noun] A playing card of that suit. | [noun] Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve. | [noun] A trumpet. | [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones. TRUNK (9) [noun] (heading, biological) Part of a body. | [noun] (heading) A container. | [noun] (heading) A channel for flow of some kind. TRUSS (5) [noun] A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place. | [noun] A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge. | [noun] A triangular bracket. TRUST (5) [noun] Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality. | [noun] Dependence upon something in the future; hope. | [noun] Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit. TRUTH (8) [noun] True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality. | [noun] Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy. | [noun] The state or quality of being true to someone or something. TRYMA (10) TRYST (8) [noun] A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time. | [noun] A mutual agreement, a covenant. | [verb] To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place. TSADE (6) TSADI (6) TSARS (5) [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. TSKED (10) TSUBA (7) [noun] The guard at the end of the grip of a sword. TUBAE (7) TUBAL (7) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a tube, especially an anatomical one TUBAS (7) [noun] A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys. | [noun] A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba. | [noun] A large reed stop in organs. TUBBY (12) [noun] (often used teasingly) An overweight person. | [adjective] Stout, rotund | [adjective] Resembling a tub; sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound. TUBED (8) [verb] To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. | [verb] To ride an inner tube. | [verb] To intubate. TUBER (7) [noun] A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot. | [noun] A thickened rootstock. | [noun] A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body. TUBES (7) [noun] Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. | [noun] An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances. | [noun] (often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.) TUCKS (11) [noun] An act of tucking; a pleat or fold. | [noun] A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece. | [noun] A curled position. TUFAS (8) TUFFS (11) TUFTS (8) [noun] A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base. | [noun] A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding. | [noun] A small clump of trees or bushes. TUFTY (11) TULES (5) [noun] Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus | [noun] A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin TULIP (7) [noun] A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa. | [noun] The flower of this plant. TULLE (5) [noun] A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc. TUMID (8) [adjective] Swollen, enlarged, bulging | [adjective] Cancerous, unhealthy | [adjective] Pompous, bombastic TUMMY (12) [noun] (often childish) Stomach or belly. | [noun] Protruding belly, paunch. TUMOR (7) [noun] An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia. TUMPS (9) [noun] A mound or hillock. | [noun] A tumpline. TUNAS (5) [noun] Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae. | [noun] The edible flesh of the tuna. | [noun] The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia. TUNED (6) [verb] To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches. | [verb] To adjust or modify (esp. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally. | [verb] To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel. TUNER (5) [noun] A person who tunes a piano or organ. | [noun] A device, electronic or mechanical, that helps a person tune a musical instrument by showing the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch. | [noun] On a musical instrument, a peg or mechanical device that changes the tension, and hence pitch, of a string. | [noun] (entertainment industry) A musical. TUNES (5) [noun] A melody. | [noun] A song, or short musical composition. | [noun] The act of tuning or maintenance. TUNGS (6) TUNIC (7) [noun] A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles. | [noun] Any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane. TUNNY (8) [noun] Tuna. TUPIK (11) [noun] A tent or other building made from animal skins, used by the Inuit during the summer. 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. TURBO (7) [noun] Turbocharger. | [noun] Turbojet. | [noun] Turbomolecular pump. | [noun] A turban shell. TURDS (6) [noun] (mildly) A piece of solid animal or human feces. | [noun] A worthless person or thing. TURFS (8) [noun] A layer of earth covered with grass; sod. | [noun] A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc. | [noun] A sod of peat used as fuel. TURFY (11) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or constructed of turf. | [adjective] Relating to or involved with horses or horse-racing. TURKS (9) TURNS (5) [verb] (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement. | [verb] (heading) To change condition or attitude. | [verb] To change one's course of action; to take a new approach. TURPS (7) [noun] Turpentine or turpentine substitute. | [noun] Any alcoholic drink. TUSHY (11) [noun] Buttocks, bottom TUSKS (9) [noun] One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar. | [noun] A small projection on a (tusk) tenon. | [noun] A tusk shell. TUTEE (5) [noun] A student of a tutor. TUTOR (5) [noun] One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction. | [noun] A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall. | [noun] One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian. TUTTI (5) [noun] A passage in which all members of an orchestra are playing | [adjective] All together; with all playing at once. | [adverb] All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage with a reduced number of voices. TUTTY (8) TUTUS (5) [noun] A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting. | [noun] Any of the genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand. TUXES (12) [noun] A tuxedo. TUYER (8) TWAES (8) TWAIN (8) [noun] Pair, couple | [adjective] Twofold | [numeral] Two | [verb] To part in twain; divide; sunder. TWANG (9) [noun] The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument. | [noun] A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars. | [noun] A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice. TWATS (8) [noun] The vagina or vulva. | [noun] A contemptible and stupid person, idiot. | [verb] To hit, slap. TWEAK (12) [noun] A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch. | [noun] A slight adjustment or modification. | [noun] Trouble; distress; tweag. TWEED (9) [noun] A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing. TWEEN (8) [noun] An action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening. | [verb] To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement. | [noun] A person in their twenties, between 20 and 29 years old. Possibly including 30-32. | [noun] A child, usually a girl, in the age range between young childhood and adolescence, normally between eight and thirteen years of age. TWEET (8) [noun] The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle. | [noun] An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. | [verb] To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds. TWERP (10) [noun] A fool, a twit. | [noun] A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. | [noun] A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling). TWICE (10) [adverb] Two times. | [adverb] (usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree. TWIER (8) TWIGS (9) [noun] A small thin branch of a tree or bush. | [verb] To beat with twigs. | [verb] To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something. TWILL (8) [noun] A pattern, characterised by diagonal ridges, created by the regular interlacing of threads of the warp and weft during weaving. | [noun] A cloth or portion of cloth woven in such a pattern. | [verb] To weave (cloth, etc.) so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface. 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. TWINS (8) [noun] Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling. | [noun] Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc. | [noun] A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room. TWINY (11) [adjective] Tending to twine; twisting around. | [adjective] Made of twine; having the appearance of twine. | [adjective] (North Country) fretful; uneasy TWIRL (8) [noun] A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette. | [noun] Any rotating movement; a spin. | [noun] A little twist of some substance; a swirl. TWIRP (10) [interjection] An imitation of the sound of a bird or a horn. | [noun] A fool, a twit. | [noun] A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. TWIST (8) [noun] A twisting force. | [noun] Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. | [noun] The form given in twisting. TWITS (8) [noun] A reproach, gibe or taunt. | [noun] A foolish or annoying person. | [noun] A euphemism for "twat", a contemptible or stupid person. TWIXT (15) [preposition] Betwixt, between TWYER (11) [noun] A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge TYEES (8) TYERS (8) TYING (9) [verb] To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely. | [verb] To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like. | [verb] To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like. TYKES (12) [noun] A mongrel dog. | [noun] A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one | [noun] A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement TYNED (9) TYNES (8) TYPAL (10) TYPED (11) [verb] To put text on paper using a typewriter. | [verb] To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard. | [verb] To determine the blood type of. TYPES (10) [noun] A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. | [noun] An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc. | [noun] An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment. TYPEY (13) TYPIC (12) TYPOS (10) [noun] A typographical error. | [noun] A compositor; a typographer. TYPPS (12) TYRED (9) TYRES (8) [noun] The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid. | [noun] The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railway vehicle. | [verb] To fit tyres to (a vehicle). TYROS (8) [noun] A beginner; a novice. TYTHE (11) TZARS (14) [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. ULTRA (5) [noun] An ultraroyalist in France. | [noun] An extremist, especially an ultranationalist. | [noun] An especially devoted football fan, typically associated with the intimidating use of extremist slogans, pyrotechnics and sometimes hooligan violence. UNAPT (7) [adjective] Not apt, inappropriate, unsuited. | [adjective] Unaccustomed. UNCUT (7) [adjective] Not cut. | [adjective] (of a gemstone) Not cut or ground to the desired shape. | [adjective] (of a book) Not having the page edges trimmed. UNFIT (8) [verb] To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify. | [adjective] Not fit; not having the correct requirements. | [adjective] Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor. UNGOT (6) UNHAT (8) 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. UNITS (5) [noun] A particular, minute unit of mass, defined differently for different substances, but so that varying substances of the same general type have the property that one international unit of the one has the same effect on the human body as one international unit of the other. | [noun] Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one. | [noun] A standard measure of a quantity. UNITY (8) [noun] Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity. | [noun] Agreement; harmony. | [noun] A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself. UNLET (5) [adjective] (of property) Not let (not in temporary possession in return for rent) UNLIT (5) [adjective] Not lit UNMET (7) [adjective] Not met; unfulfilled; not achieved UNSET (5) [verb] To make not set. | [adjective] Not set; not fixed or appointed. | [adjective] Not mounted or placed in a setting. 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. UNTIL (5) [preposition] Up to the time of (something happening). | [preposition] Up to (a certain place) | [preposition] Before (a time). UNWIT (8) UPLIT (7) UPSET (7) [noun] Disturbance or disruption. | [noun] An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win. | [noun] (automobile insurance) An overturn. URATE (5) [noun] Any salt of uric acid. UTERI (5) [noun] The womb, an organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth. UTILE (5) [noun] A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction. | [adjective] Useful. UTTER (5) [adjective] Outer; furthest out, most remote. | [adjective] Outward. | [adjective] Absolute, unconditional, total, complete. | [verb] To produce (speech or other sounds) with one's voice. VALET (8) [noun] A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance. | [noun] A hotel employee performing such duties for guests. | [noun] (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience. VASTS (8) [noun] A vast space. VASTY (11) VATIC (10) [adjective] Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular. VATUS (8) VAULT (8) [noun] An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building. | [noun] Any arched ceiling or roof. | [noun] Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves. | [noun] An act of vaulting, formerly by deer; a leap or jump. VAUNT (8) [noun] A boast; an instance of vaunting. | [verb] To speak boastfully. | [verb] To speak boastfully about. | [noun] The first part. VELDT (9) [noun] The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries. VENTS (8) [noun] An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. | [noun] A small aperture. | [noun] The opening of a volcano from which lava flows. VERST (8) [noun] A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about 2/3 of a mile. VERTS (8) [noun] A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise. | [noun] Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer. | [noun] The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest. VERTU (8) [noun] The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities. | [noun] Objets d'art collectively. | [noun] Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power. VESTA (8) [noun] A short match, made of wood or wax VESTS (8) [noun] A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries. | [noun] A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat. | [noun] A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse. VETCH (13) [noun] Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds | [noun] Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae VIRTU (8) [noun] The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities. | [noun] Objets d'art collectively. | [noun] Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power. VISIT (8) [noun] A single act of visiting. | [noun] A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home. | [verb] To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) VISTA (8) [noun] A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage. | [noun] A site offering such a view. | [noun] A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination. VITAE (8) VITAL (8) [adjective] Relating to, or characteristic of life. | [adjective] Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends. | [adjective] Invigorating or life-giving. VITTA (8) [noun] A fillet, or garland for the head. | [noun] A longitudinal stripe. | [noun] An oil tube in the fruit of some plants. VOLTA (8) 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. VOLTI (8) VOLTS (8) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V | [noun] A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks. | [noun] A sudden movement to avoid a thrust. VOMIT (10) [noun] The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus. | [noun] The act of regurgitating. | [noun] That which causes vomiting; an emetic. VOTED (9) [verb] To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election | [verb] To choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent VOTER (8) [noun] Someone who votes. VOTES (8) [noun] A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities | [noun] An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot | [noun] An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer WAFTS (11) [verb] To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air. | [verb] To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float. | [verb] To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. WAIST (8) [noun] The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach. | [noun] A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist. | [noun] The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps). WAITS (8) [noun] A delay. | [noun] An ambush. | [noun] One who watches; a watchman. WALTZ (17) [noun] A ballroom dance in 3/4 time. | [noun] A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time). | [noun] A simple task. WANTS (8) [noun] A desire, wish, longing. | [noun] (often followed by of) Lack, absence. | [noun] Poverty. WARTS (8) [noun] A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). | [noun] Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads. | [noun] Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation. WARTY (11) WASTE (8) [noun] Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish. | [noun] Excrement or urine. | [noun] A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert. | [adjective] Uncultivated, uninhabited. | [verb] To devastate, destroy WASTS (8) WATAP (10) WATCH (13) [noun] A portable or wearable timepiece. | [noun] The act of guarding and observing someone or something. | [noun] A particular time period when guarding is kept. | [verb] To look at, see, or view for a period of time. WATER (8) [noun] A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam. | [noun] The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy. | [noun] Water in a body; an area of open water. | [verb] To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants). WATTS (8) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W WECHT (13) WEEST (8) [verb] To waste. | [adjective] Small, little. WEETS (8) WEFTS (11) [noun] The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric. | [noun] The yarn used for the weft; the fill. | [noun] (hairdressing) A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair. WELTS (8) [verb] To roll; revolve | [noun] A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow; a wheal or weal. | [noun] (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling. WESTS (8) WETLY (11) WHATS (11) WHEAT (11) [noun] Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery. | [noun] A light brown colour, like that of wheat. | [adjective] Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat. WHETS (11) [verb] To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone. | [verb] To stimulate or make more keen. | [verb] To preen. WHIPT (13) WHIST (11) [noun] Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge. | [noun] A session of playing this card game. | [interjection] (Irish and British) Shush, silence, be quiet! 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. WHITS (11) [noun] The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota. WHITY (14) [noun] A white person, a person of European descent. | [noun] A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use. | [adjective] Close to white in colour. WHORT (11) WIDTH (12) [noun] The state of being wide. | [noun] The measurement of the extent of something from side to side. | [noun] A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric. WIFTY (14) WIGHT (12) [noun] A living creature, especially a human being. | [noun] A being of one of the Nine Worlds of Heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor. | [noun] A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity. | [adjective] (except in dialects) Brave, valorous, strong. WILTS (8) [noun] The act of wilting or the state of being wilted. | [noun] Any of various plant diseases characterized by wilting. | [verb] To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower). WISTS (8) WITAN (8) [noun] The Anglo-Saxon national council or witenagemot. WITCH (13) [noun] A person who practices witchcraft; a woman or man who practices witchcraft. | [noun] An ugly or unpleasant woman. | [noun] One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person. | [noun] A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper. WITED (9) WITES (8) WITHE (11) [noun] A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy. | [noun] A band of twisted twigs. | [noun] An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows. WITHY (14) [noun] The osier (Salix viminalis), a type of willow. | [noun] A long flexible twig of the osier; a withe. | [adjective] Flexible, like a withe. WITTY (11) [adjective] Wise, having good judgement. | [adjective] Possessing a strong intellect or intellectual capacity; intelligent, skilful, ingenious. | [adjective] Clever; amusingly ingenious. WONTS (8) [verb] To make (someone) used to; to accustom. | [verb] To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something). WORST (8) [adjective] Unfavorable; negative; not good. | [adjective] Not suitable or fitting. | [adjective] Not appropriate, of manners etc. WORTH (11) [noun] Value. | [noun] Merit, excellence. | [noun] Wealth, fortune, riches, property, possessions. | [verb] (except in set phrases) To be, become, betide. WORTS (8) [noun] A plant; herb; vegetable. | [noun] Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term. WRAPT (10) [verb] To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper. | [verb] To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping. | [verb] To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide. WRATH (11) [noun] Great anger. | [noun] Punishment. | [verb] To anger; to enrage. WREST (8) [noun] The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion. | [noun] A key to tune a stringed instrument. | [noun] Active or motive power. | [noun] A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined. | [noun] A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself. WRIST (8) [noun] The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense. | [noun] A stud or pin which forms a journal. | [verb] To hit a wrist shot 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. WRITS (8) [noun] A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. | [noun] Authority, power to enforce compliance. | [noun] That which is written; writing. 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. WROTH (11) [adjective] Full of anger; wrathful. WURST (8) [noun] A German- or Austrian-style sausage. WYTED (12) WYTES (11) XYSTI (15) [noun] (in Ancient Greece) A long and open portico within the gymnasium. XYSTS (15) YACHT (13) [noun] A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock. | [noun] Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes. | [verb] To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht. YEAST (8) [noun] An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines. | [noun] A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families. | [noun] A frothy foam. YENTA (8) [noun] A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger. | [noun] (Jewish) A matchmaker; a woman who specializes in finding spouses. YENTE (8) YETIS (8) [noun] An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas YETTS (8) YIRTH (11) YOUTH (11) [noun] The quality or state of being young. | [noun] The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood. | [noun] A young person. YURTA (8) YURTS (8) [noun] A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger). ZESTS (14) [noun] The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish. | [noun] General vibrance of flavour. | [noun] (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto. ZESTY (17) ZETAS (14) [noun] The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ, ζ) preceded by epsilon (Ε, ε) and followed by eta, (Η, η); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ, ϝ) | [noun] A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function. ZIBET (16) ZITIS (14) ZIZIT (23) ZLOTE (14) ZLOTY (17) [noun] Złoty, the currency unit of Poland, divided into 100 groszy. ZOOTY (17)