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Found 2,433 four-letter words across all Wordscapes levels.
This is the complete list of every four-letter (4-letter) word found in Wordscapes across all 19,999 levels — from required answers to bonus words. Each word links to its definition page showing its meaning, phonetics, and every level it appears in. The ×N count shows how many levels contain that word.
AAHS
AART
ABBE
A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey.
ABET
Fraud or cunning.
ABLE
Easy to use.
ABLY
In an able manner; with great ability.
ABUT
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)
ACED
(US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
ACES
A single point or spot on a playing card or die.
ACHE
Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
ACHY
Suffering from aches, sore.
ACID
A sour substance.
ACME
The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
ACNE
A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection.
ACRE
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
ACRI
ACTS
Something done, a deed.
ADDS
An act or instance of adding.
ADZE
A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
AERO
Aerodynamics.
AFAR
At, to, or from a great distance; far away.
AFRO
A hairstyle characterized by a tightly curled locks and a rounded shape.
AGAR
A gelatinous material obtained from red algae, especially Gracilaria species, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive.
AGED
To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
AGES
The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
AGUE
An acute fever.
AHEM
A use of the interjection, ahem.
AHOY
An utterance of this interjection.
AIDE
An assistant.
AIDS
Help; assistance; succor, relief.
AILS
An ailment; trouble; illness.
AIMS
The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, such as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.
AIRS
The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly:
AIRY
Consisting of air.
AJAR
To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
AKIN
(of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.
ALAS
Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion or grief.
ALES
A beer made without hops.
ALGA
Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.
ALLY
A person, group, or state (etc) which is associated with another for a common cause; one united to another by treaty or common purpose; a confederate.
ALMS
Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
ALOE
(in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica.
ALOG
ALSO
(focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too.
ALTO
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.
ALUM
An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O).
AMAS
AMEN
An instance of saying ‘amen’.
AMID
In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by.
AMMO
Ammunition.
AMOK
AMPS
Short for ampere.
AMYL
Pentyl
ANDS
In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
ANEW
Again, once more; afresh, in a new way, newly.
ANKH
A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the Egyptian triliteral ꜥnḫ and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept.
ANON
Straight away; at once.
ANTE
A price or cost, as in up the ante.
ANTI
A person opposed to a concept or principle.
ANTS
Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
AOUR
APED
To behave like an ape.
APES
A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
APEX
Conical priest cap
APPS
An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.
APSE
A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.
ARBS
The act of or potential for arbitrage.
ARCH
An inverted U shape.
ARCS
That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
AREA
A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
ARIA
A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.
ARID
Very dry.
ARKS
A large box with a flat lid.
ARMS
The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
ARMY
A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.
ARTE
ARTS
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.
ARTY
Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown.
ASHY
Having the color of ashes.
ASKS
To request (information, or an answer to a question).
ATOM
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.
ATOP
On, to, or at the top.
AUNT
The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
AURA
Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something.
AURO
AUTO
An automobile.
AVER
To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner.
AVID
Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something
AVIS
Advice; opinion; deliberation.
AVOW
Avowal
AWAY
To depart; to go to another place.
AWED
To inspire fear and reverence in.
AWES
To inspire fear and reverence in.
AWLS
A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
AWRY
Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.
AXED
To request (information, or an answer to a question).
AXEL
A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air.
AXES
A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
AXIS
An imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or is symmetrically arranged (an axis of symmetry).
AXLE
Shoulder.
AXON
A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.
AYES
An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.
BAAS
An employer, a boss. Frequently as a form of address.
BABE
A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
BABY
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
BACK
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
BADE
To issue a command; to tell.
BADS
BAGS
A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
BAHT
The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.
BAIL
Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
BAIT
Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
BAKE
The act of cooking food by baking.
BALD
A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
BALE
Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
BALK
An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
BALL
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
BALM
Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America.
BAND
A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
BANE
A cause of misery or death.
BANG
A sudden percussive noise.
BANK
An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
BANS
Prohibition.
BARB
The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
BARD
A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
BARE
(‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin.
BARF
Vomit
BARK
The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
BARN
A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
BARS
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
BASE
Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
BASH
A large party; gala event.
BASK
To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.
BASS
A low spectrum of sound tones.
BAST
Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
BATH
A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
BATS
Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
BATT
Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation
BAUD
A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
BAWL
A loud, intense shouting or wailing.
BAYS
A berry.
BEAD
Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
BEAK
Anatomical uses.
BEAL
BEAM
Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
BEAN
A reusable software component written in Java.
BEAR
A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae.
BEAT
A stroke; a blow.
BEAU
A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.
BECK
A stream or small river.
BEDS
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
BEED
BEEF
The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine.
BEEN
A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
BEER
An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
BEES
A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
BEET
Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
BEGS
The act of begging; an imploring request.
BELL
A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
BELT
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.
BEND
A curve.
BENT
To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
BERM
A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope
BEST
The supreme effort one can make, or has made.
BETA
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.
BETS
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).
BEVY
(collective) A group of animals, in particular quail.
BIAS
Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.
BIBS
An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
BIDE
To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
BIDS
To issue a command; to tell.
BIER
A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
BIFF
A sudden, sharp blow or punch.
BIKE
A vehicle that has two wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s feet upon pedals.
BILE
A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
BILK
The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
BILL
Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
BIND
That which binds or ties.
BINS
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
BIOS
Biographical sketch
BIRD
A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs.
BITE
The act of biting.
BITS
A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
BLAB
One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.
BLAD
BLAH
Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
BLAM
A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot
BLED
(of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
BLEN
BLEW
To produce an air current.
BLIP
To emit one or more bleeps.
BLOB
A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
BLOC
A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
BLOG
A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.)
BLOT
A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
BLOW
A strong wind.
BLUE
The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
BLUR
A smear, smudge or blot
BOAR
A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
BOAS
Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico, and the chevalier boa of Peru.
BOAT
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.
BOBS
A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
BODE
An omen; a foreshadowing.
BODS
The body.
BODY
Physical frame.
BOGS
An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
BOIL
A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
BOLA
A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.
BOLD
A dwelling; habitation; building.
BOLE
The trunk or stem of a tree.
BOLL
The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
BOLO
A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
BOLT
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.
BOMB
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
BOND
Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
BONE
A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
BONG
The clang of a large bell.
BONK
A bump on the head.
BONY
Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
BOOK
A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
BOOM
A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
BOON
A prayer; petition.
BOOR
A peasant.
BOOS
A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.
BOOT
A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
BOPS
A very light smack, blow or punch.
BORE
A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
BORN
To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
BOSS
A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
BOTH
Each of the two, or of the two kinds.
BOTS
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
A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant.
BOWL
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
BOWS
A firm branch of a tree.
BOYO
A boy or lad.
BOYS
A young male.
BOZO
A stupid, foolish, or ridiculous person, especially a man.
BRAD
A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
BRAG
A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
BRAN
The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
BRAS
One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket.
BRAT
A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
BRAY
The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel.
BRED
To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
BREW
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as a cup of tea or a brewed beer.
BRIE
A variety of soft, mild French cheese made from cow's milk.
BRIG
A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
BRIM
The sea; ocean; water; flood.
BRIO
Vigour or vivacity.
BRIS
Ritual male circumcision.
BRIT
To break in pieces; divide.
BROS
Brother; a male sibling
BROW
The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.
BUCK
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
BUDS
A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
BUFF
Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
BUGS
An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
BULB
Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
BULE
BULK
Size, specifically, volume.
BULL
An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
BUMP
A light blow or jolting collision.
BUMS
The buttocks.
BUND
A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
BUNK
One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
BUNS
A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.
BUNT
The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
BUOY
A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel.
BURG
A city or town.
BURL
A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.
BURN
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
BURP
A belch.
BURR
A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
BURY
A burrow.
BUSH
A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
BUST
A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
BUSY
A police officer.
BUTS
An instance or example of using the word "but".
BUTT
The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
BUYS
Something which is bought; a purchase.
BUZZ
A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.
BYTE
A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
CABS
Initialism of chest compressions, airway and breathing.
CADS
A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
CAFE
A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items.
CAGE
An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
CAKE
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
CALF
A young cow or bull.
CALL
A telephone conversation.
CALM
(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
CAME
Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
CAMO
A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
CAMP
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
CAMS
A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
CANE
A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
CANS
A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
CAPE
A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
CAPO
A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
CAPS
A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
CARB
Clipping of carburettor / carburetor.
CARD
A playing card.
CARE
Grief, sorrow.
CARP
Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.
CARS
A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation.
CART
A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
CASE
An actual event, situation, or fact.
CASH
Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
CASK
A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
CAST
An act of throwing.
CATE
(in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
CATS
An animal of the family Felidae:
CAUL
A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.
CAVE
A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
CAWS
The harsh cry of a crow.
CAYS
A small, low island largely made of sand or coral.
CEDE
To give up; yield to another.
CELL
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
CELT
A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.
CENT
(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
CESS
An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
CHAD
Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.
CHAP
(obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
CHAR
A charred substance.
CHAT
Informal conversation.
CHAW
Chewing tobacco.
CHEF
The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
CHEW
The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
CHIA
A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.
CHIC
Good form; style.
CHIN
The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
CHIP
A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
CHIT
A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
CHOP
A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
CHUB
One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
CHUG
A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.
CIAO
A greeting or farewell using the word "ciao".
CIGS
Cigarette
CITE
To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
CITY
A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
CLAD
(past tense clad) To clothe.
CLAM
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
CLAN
A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
CLAP
The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
CLAW
A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
CLAY
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
CLEE
CLEF
A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff
CLIP
Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
CLOD
A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
CLOG
A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
CLON
CLOP
The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground.
CLOT
A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
CLUB
An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
CLUE
A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.
CLUT
COAL
A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
COAR
COAT
An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp
COAX
A simpleton; a dupe.
COBS
A male swan.
COCA
Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
COCO
Coconut palm.
CODA
A person born hearing to deaf parents.
CODE
A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
CODS
A small bag or pouch.
COED
A young woman who attends college.
COGS
A tooth on a gear.
COHO
An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean, used as a symbol by several Native American tribes.
COIF
A hairdo.
COIL
Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
COIN
(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
COKE
Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
COLA
The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
COLD
(of a thing) Having a low temperature.
COLT
A young male horse.
COMA
A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
COMB
A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
COME
Coming, arrival; approach.
COMP
Clipping of comprehensive layout, a graphic design showing final proposed layout of text and images.
CONE
A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
CONK
A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
CONS
A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
COOK
A person who prepares food.
COOL
A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
COON
(racial slur) A black person.
COOP
A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
COOS
The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.
COOT
Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.
COPE
To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
COPS
A spider.
COPY
The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
CORD
A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
CORE
The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
CORK
The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
CORM
A short, vertical, swollen underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought.
CORN
The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
COST
To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
COSY
A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.
COTE
A cottage or hut.
COTS
A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
COUP
A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
COVE
A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
COWL
A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
COWS
(properly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.
COYS
COZY
A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.
CRAB
A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
CRAG
A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep rock or cliff.
CRAM
The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
CRAP
The husk of grain; chaff.
CRAW
The stomach of an animal.
CREW
To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
CRIB
A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
CROC
A crocodile.
CROP
A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
CROW
A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
CRUD
Dirt, filth or refuse.
CRUS
The shin (tibia and fibula)
CUBE
A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
CUBS
A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles.
CUED
CUES
CUFF
Glove; mitten
CULL
A selection.
CULT
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.
CUPS
A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
CURB
A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
CURD
The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.
CURE
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
CURL
A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
CURS
A contemptible or inferior dog.
CURT
To cut, cut short, shorten.
CUSP
A sharp point or pointed end.
CUSS
A curse.
CUTE
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.
CUTS
The act of cutting.
CYAN
A vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.
CYST
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.
CZAR
An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.
DABS
A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
DADA
Father, dad.
DADS
A father, a male parent.
DAFT
Foolish, silly, stupid.
DAIL
DAIS
A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from.
DALE
A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
DAME
Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
DAMP
Moisture; humidity; dampness.
DAMS
A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.
DANG
A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration.
DANK
Moisture; humidity; water.
DARE
A challenge to prove courage.
DARK
Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
DARN
Euphemism of damn.
DART
A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin
DASH
Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
DATA
(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.
DATE
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.
DAUB
Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
DAWN
The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
DAYS
Any period of 24 hours.
DAZE
The state of being dazed
DDEN
DEAD
(with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died.
DEAF
A deaf person.
DEAL
A division, a portion, a share.
DEAM
DEAN
A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).
DEAR
A very kind, loving person.
DEBT
An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
DECK
Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
DEED
An action or act; something that is done.
DEEM
An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.
DEEP
(with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
DEER
A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla
DEFT
Quick and neat in action; skillful.
DEFY
A challenge.
DELI
A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
DELL
A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.
DEMO
A demonstration or visual explanation.
DENS
A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
DENT
A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
DENY
To disallow or reject.
DESK
A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
DEWY
Covered by dew.
DHOW
A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail.
DIAL
A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
DICE
Gaming with one or more dice.
DIED
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
DIES
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
DIET
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
DIFT
DIGS
An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
DIKE
Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.
DILL
Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.
DIME
A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar.
DIMS
To make something less bright.
DINE
Dinnertime
DING
Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
DINK
A soft drop shot.
DINT
A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
DIPS
A lower section of a road or geological feature.
DIRE
Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
DIRT
Soil or earth.
DISC
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
DISH
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
DISK
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
DIVA
Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress.
DIVE
A jump or plunge into water.
DOCE
DOCK
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
DOCS
A doctor.
DODO
A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
DOER
Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
DOES
(auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
DOFF
(clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing.
DOGS
A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.
DOIT
A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
DOLE
Money or other goods given as charity.
DOLF
DOLL
A toy in the form of a human.
DOLT
A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
DOME
A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola
DONE
(auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
DONG
The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫
DONS
A title formerly borne by member of the high nobility of Portugal and Brazil
DOOM
Destiny, especially terrible.
DOOR
A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
DOPE
Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
DORK
A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.
DORM
To reside in a dorm.
DORY
A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
DOSE
DOSS
The avoidance of work.
DOTE
A darling, a cutie.
DOTH
(auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
DOTS
A small, round spot.
DOUR
Stern, harsh and forbidding.
DOVE
A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
DOWN
A negative aspect; a downer.
DOZE
A light, short sleep or nap.
DOZY
Quite sleepy or tired.
DRAB
DRAG
Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
DRAM
The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
DRAW
The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
DRAY
A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
DREW
To move or develop something.
DRIE
DRIP
To fall one drop at a time.
DROP
A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape via surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
DRUB
Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
DRUG
A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
DRUM
A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone.
DUAL
Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
DUBS
To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
DUCK
To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
DUCT
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
DUDE
A man, generally a younger man.
DUDS
A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
DUEL
Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
DUES
Deserved acknowledgment.
DUET
A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
DUKE
The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
DULL
To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
DULY
In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it ought to be; properly.
DUMB
Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
DUMP
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
DUNE
A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind.
DUNG
Manure; animal excrement.
DUNK
DUNS
A brownish grey colour.
DUOS
Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together.
DUPE
A person who has been deceived.
DURA
The dura mater, the outer covering of the brain and spinal cord.
DURN
Darn; damn.
DUSK
A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.
DUST
Fine particles
DUTY
That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
DYAD
A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
DYED
To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
DYES
A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
EACH
(operations) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.
EARL
(nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess.
EARN
To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
EARS
The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
EASE
Ability, the means to do something, particularly:
EAST
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.
EASY
Something that is easy
EATE
EATS
To ingest; to be ingested.
EAVE
Eaves: the underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building.
EBBS
The receding movement of the tide.
ECHO
A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
ECRU
A beige colour.
EDDY
A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
EDGE
The boundary line of a surface.
EDGY
Nervous, apprehensive.
EDIT
A change to the text of a document.
EELS
Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
EERY
EEVE
EGAD
A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc.
EGGS
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
EGGY
Covered with or dipped in egg.
EGOS
The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
EKED
Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.
EKES
Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.
ELKS
Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
ELMS
A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
ELSE
(used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
ELSS
EMFS
EMIC
Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture.
EMIR
A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation.
EMIT
To send out or give off
EMUS
A cassowary (genus Casuarius).
ENDS
The terminal point of something in space or time.
ENVY
Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
EONS
Eternity.
EPEE
A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.
EPIC
An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.
ERAS
A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
EREF
ERGO
Consequently, therefore, thus.
ERGS
The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10−7 joules.
ERRE
ERRS
To make a mistake.
ERUE
ETCH
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.
ETEE
ETIC
Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.
EURO
Person living or originating from Europe
EVEN
(diminutive) An even number.
EVER
Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan.
EVES
The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
EVIL
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
EWES
A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
EXAM
The act of examining.
EXEC
Executive, executive officer
EXES
The name of the Latin-script letter X.
EXIT
An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
EXPO
An exposition.
EYED
To observe carefully or appraisingly.
EYES
An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).
FACE
The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose and mouth, and the surrounding area.
FACT
Something actual as opposed to invented.
FADE
A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
FADO
A Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in nature; the structure of the song is of greater importance.
FADS
A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
FAIL
Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
FAIN
Well-pleased, glad.
FAIR
Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
FAKE
Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
FALL
The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
FAME
What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
FANG
A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
FANS
A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
FARE
A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
FARM
A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
FARN
FARO
A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.
FART
An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
FAST
A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations
FATE
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
FATS
A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy.
FAUN
A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
FEAR
A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
FEAT
A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
FEDS
A federal government officer or official, especially FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, and DEA agents.
FEED
Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
FEEL
A quality of an object experienced by touch.
FEES
(feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
FEET
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.
FELL
A cutting-down of timber.
FELS
FELT
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.
FEND
Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being.
FENS
A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
FERN
Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
FESS
To confess; to admit.
FETA
A variety of curd cheese made from sheep’s or goat’s milk and originating from Greece.
FETE
A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
FEUD
A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
FFLU
FIAT
An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
FICE
FIEF
An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior.
FIEN
FIFE
A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
FIGS
A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
FILE
A collection of papers collated and archived together.
FILL
To occupy fully, to take up all of.
FILM
A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
FIND
Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
FINE
Fine champagne; French brandy.
FINK
A contemptible person.
FINO
The driest and palest type of traditional sherry.
FINS
One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
FIRE
A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
FIRM
A business partnership; the name under which it trades.
FIRS
A conifer of the genus Abies.
FISH
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
FIST
A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.
FITS
The degree to which something fits.
FIVE
The digit/figure 5.
FIZZ
An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.
FLAB
Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat.
FLAG
A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
FLAK
Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
FLAM
A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
FLAN
Baked tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case. (Compare quiche.)
FLAP
FLAT
An area of level ground.
FLAW
A flake, fragment, or shiver.
FLAY
A fright; a scare.
FLEA
A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.
FLED
To run away; to escape.
FLEE
To run away; to escape.
FLET
FLEW
(chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip.
FLEX
Flexibility, pliancy.
FLIN
FLIP
A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
FLIR
FLIT
A fluttering or darting movement.
FLOE
A low, flat mass of floating ice.
FLOG
A contemptible, often arrogant person.
FLOP
An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
FLOW
A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
FLUB
An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
FLUE
A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
FLUS
FOAL
A young horse or related animal, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
FOAM
A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains.
FOCI
A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
FOES
An enemy.
FOIL
A very thin sheet of metal.
FOLD
An act of folding.
FOLK
A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
FOND
To have a foolish affection for, to be fond of.
FONS
A fool or idiot.
FONT
A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
FOOD
Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
FOOL
A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
FOOT
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.
FOPS
A vain man; a dandy.
FORA
A place for discussion.
FORD
A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
FORE
The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
FORK
A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
FORM
(heading, physical) To do with shape.
FORT
A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
FOUL
Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
FOUR
The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
FOWL
A bird.
FRAG
A fragmentation grenade.
FRAT
Shortened form for fraternity, college organization. (Often used as a noun modifier.)
FRAY
To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope.
FREE
Free transfer
FRET
Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
FROG
A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops.
FROM
Used to indicate source or provenance.
FUEL
Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
FULL
Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
FUME
A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
FUND
A sum or source of money.
FUNK
Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
FURL
To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)
FURS
The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
FURY
Extreme anger.
FUSE
A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
FUSS
Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.
FUZZ
A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
GAFF
A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.
GAGA
Mentally senile.
GAGS
A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
GAIN
The act of gaining; acquisition.
GAIT
Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
GALA
Pomp, show, or festivity.
GALE
To sing; charm; enchant.
GALL
Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
GALS
A young woman.
GAME
A playful or competitive activity.
GAMS
A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg.
GAMY
Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat).
GANG
To go; walk; proceed.
GAOL
A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
GAPE
An act of gaping; a yawn.
GARB
Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
GARS
A spear.
GASH
A deep cut.
GATE
A doorlike structure outside a house.
GAVE
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
GAYS
(chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.
GAZE
A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
GEAR
Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
GEEK
A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
GEES
A gee-gee, a horse.
GEEZ
An exclamation denoting surprise or frustration.
GELS
A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
GEMS
A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
GENE
A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
GENS
A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium.
GENT
A gentleman.
GERM
The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.
GETS
Offspring.
GGOD
GHAT
A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.
GHEE
A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee.
GIBE
Alternative spelling of gybe
GIFT
Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
GIGS
A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role, especially for a musician or performer.
GILD
To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
GILL
(animal anatomy) a breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals
GILT
To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
GIMP
A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
GINS
A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
GIRD
To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
GIRL
A female child, adolescent, or a young woman.
GIST
The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith.
GITS
The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting.
GIVE
The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilence.
GLAD
To make glad
GLAM
Glamour.
GLEE
Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
GLEN
A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.
GLIA
The network of glial cells that supports nervous system tissue.
GLIB
To make glib.
GLOB
A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
GLOG
GLOM
To steal, to grab.
GLOP
To stare in amazement.
GLOW
The state of a glowing object.
GLUE
A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
GLUG
The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle.
GLUM
Despondent; moody; sullen
GLUT
An excess, too much.
GNAR
GNAT
Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera.
GNAW
To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
GNUS
A large antelope of the genus Connochaetes, native to Africa, having curved horns.
GOAD
A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
GOAL
A result that one is attempting to achieve.
GOAT
A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
GOBS
A lump of soft or sticky material.
GOBY
Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker.
GODS
A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe.
GOER
One who, or that which, goes.
GOES
The act of going.
GOGO
An elasticated hair band.
GOLB
GOLD
A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
GOLF
A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.
GONE
To move:
GONG
A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer.
GOOD
(of people)
GOOF
A mistake or error.
GOON
A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').
GOOP
(usually uncountable) A thick, slimy substance; goo.
GOOS
GORE
Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
GORP
A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement for use while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.
GORY
Covered with blood, very bloody
GOSH
(minced oath) A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
GOTH
A punk-derived subculture of people who predominantly dress in black, associated with mournful music and attitudes.
GOUT
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.
GOWN
A loose, flowing upper garment.
GRAB
A sudden snatch at something.
GRAD
A unit of angle equal to 0.9 degrees, so that there are 100 gradians in a right angle.
GRAM
A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g
GRAY
An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
GREW
To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
GREY
Having a color.
GRID
A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
GRIG
A dwarf.
GRIM
Specter, ghost, haunting spirit
GRIN
A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.
GRIP
To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
GRIT
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
GROG
(original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
GROW
To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
GRUB
An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
GUAN
Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas.
GUAR
An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.
GUFF
Nonsensical talk or thinking.
GULF
A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
GULL
A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
GULP
The usual amount swallowed.
GUMS
(often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
GUNS
A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
GURU
A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher.
GUSH
A sudden rapid outflow.
GUST
A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
GUTS
The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
GUYS
An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
GYMS
A sports facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise.
GYRE
A swirling vortex.
GYRO
A gyroscope
HACK
A tool for chopping.
HAFT
The handle of a tool or weapon.
HAGS
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
HAHA
An onomatopoeic representation of laughter.
HAIL
Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
HAIR
A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
HAKE
A hook; a pot-hook.
HALE
Health, welfare.
HALF
One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
HALL
A corridor; a hallway.
HALO
A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
HALT
To limp; move with a limping gait.
HAMS
The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
HAND
The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
HANG
The way in which something hangs.
HARD
A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
HARE
Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
HARK
(Scots) A whisper
HARM
Physical injury; hurt; damage
HARP
A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
HART
A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
HASH
Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
HASP
A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
HAST
To possess, own.
HATE
An object of hatred.
HATS
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.
HAUL
An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
HAVE
A wealthy or privileged person.
HAWK
A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
HAWS
To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
HAZY
Thick or obscured with haze.
HEAD
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
HEAL
A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
HEAN
HEAP
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
HEAR
(stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
HEAT
Thermal energy.
HECK
Hell.
HEED
Careful attention.
HEEL
The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
HEFT
To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
HEIP
HEIR
Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
HELD
To grasp or grip.
HELL
HELM
The steering apparatus of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel.
HELO
Helicopter
HELP
Action given to provide assistance; aid.
HEME
The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen.
HEMP
A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia.
HEMS
An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
HENS
A female chicken (Gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for its eggs.
HERB
Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
HERD
A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
HERE
(abstract) This place; this location.
HERO
Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary or noble deeds.
HERS
A female person or animal.
HEWN
To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
HEWS
To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
HICK
An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
HIDE
To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
HIGH
A high point or position, literally or figuratively; an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
HIKE
A long walk.
HILL
An elevated location smaller than a mountain.
HILT
The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
HIND
Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
HINT
A clue.
HIPS
The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
HIRE
Payment for the temporary use of something.
HISS
A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative.
HITS
A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
HIVE
A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
HOAX
Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
HOBO
A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum.
HOCK
A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
HOED
To care, be anxious, long.
HOES
A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
HOGS
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
HOLD
A grasp or grip.
HOLE
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
HOLY
A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies.
HOME
A dwelling.
HONE
A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
HONK
The sound produced by a typical car horn.
HOOD
A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
HOOF
The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
HOOK
A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
HOOP
A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
HOOT
A derisive cry or shout.
HOPE
To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
HOPS
A short jump.
HORA
A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.
HORN
A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
HOSE
A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
HOST
One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
HOUR
A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
HOVE
To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
HOWL
The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
HUBS
The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
HUED
Coloured; having a hue.
HUES
A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
HUFF
A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
HUGE
Very large.
HUGS
A close embrace, especially when charged with such an emotion as represented by: affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, agression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug").
HULA
A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
HULK
A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation.
HULL
The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
HUMP
A mound of earth.
HUMS
A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
HUNG
To be or remain suspended.
HUNK
A large or dense piece of something.
HUNT
The act of hunting.
HURL
A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
HURT
An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
HUSE
HUSH
A silence, especially after some noise
HUSK
The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside
HUTS
A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
HYMN
A song of praise or worship.
HYPE
Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims.
HYPO
Melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression.
IBEX
A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.
IBIS
Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.
ICED
With ice added.
ICES
Water in frozen (solid) form.
ICKY
Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting.
ICON
An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
ICOY
IDEA
An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
IDES
(often capitalized) The notional full-moon day of a Roman month, occurring on the 15th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 13th day of all other months.
IDLE
An idle animation.
IDLY
In an idle manner.
IDOL
A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
IFFY
Of dubious authenticity, legitimacy or legality.
IKAT
A style of weaving that uses a process similar to tie-dye to dye the threads.
ILLS
(often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
IMAM
(usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
IMPS
A small, mischievous sprite, or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful.
INCH
A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres.
INFO
Information.
INKS
A pigment (or dye)-based fluid used for writing, printing etc.
INKY
Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
INNS
Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
INTO
To or towards the inside of.
IONS
An atom or group of atoms bearing an electrical charge, such as the sodium and chlorine atoms in a salt solution.
IOTA
The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
IRED
IRES
IRIS
A plant of the genus Iris, common in the northern hemisphere, and generally having attractive blooms (See Iris (plant)).
IRKS
To irritate; annoy; bother
IRON
A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.
ISLE
A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.
ISMS
An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.
ITCH
A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
ITEM
A distinct physical object.
JACK
A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
JADE
A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
JAGS
A sharp projection.
JAIL
A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
JAMS
A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
JAWN
To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
JAWS
One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
JEER
A mocking remark or reflection.
JELL
A jelly or gel
JERK
A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
JEST
An act performed for amusement; a joke.
JETS
A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
JIBE
A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.
JIGS
A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
JILT
A woman who jilts a lover.
JINN
(Muslim demonology) A genie and descendant of the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form, equivalent to demons in Jewish demonology.
JINX
A hex; an evil spell.
JJIB
JOBS
A task.
JOCK
A common man.
JOES
Darling, sweetheart.
JOEY
The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc.
JOIN
An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
JOKE
An amusing story.
JOLT
An act of jolting.
JOTS
Iota; the smallest letter or stroke of any writing.
JUDO
A Japanese martial art and sport adapted from jujutsu.
JUKE
A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
JUMP
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
JUNK
Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
JURY
A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.
JUST
Factually right, correct; factual.
JUTE
The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc.
JUTS
Something that sticks out.
KALE
An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
KART
A go-cart.
KEEL
Red chalk; ruddle.
KEEN
To make cold, to sharpen.
KEEP
The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
KELP
Any of several large brown seaweeds (order Laminariales).
KEPT
To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
KERB
The edge between the pavement and the roadway, consisting of a line of kerbstones.
KERF
The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice.
KEYS
An object designed to open and close a lock.
KICK
A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
KIDS
A young goat.
KILL
The act of killing.
KILN
An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
KILT
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.
KIND
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
KING
A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
KISS
To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
KITE
KITH
Friends and acquaintances.
KITS
A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.
KLIT
KNEE
In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
KNEW
To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
KNIT
A knitted garment.
KNOB
A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
KNOT
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.
KNOW
Knowledge; the state of knowing.
KOAN
A story about a Zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of Zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the Zen student’s mind leading to satori.
KOLA
The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
KYAK
LABS
A laboratory.
LACE
A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. Wp
LACK
A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
LACY
Made of lace or decorated with it.
LADS
A boy or young man.
LADY
An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.
LAGS
A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
LAID
(of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.
LAIM
LAIN
To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
LAIR
A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
LAKE
A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
LAMB
A young sheep.
LAME
A stupid or undesirable person.
LAMP
A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
LAND
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
LANE
(used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
LANK
To become lank.
LAPS
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
LARC
LARD
Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
LARE
LARK
Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
LASH
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
LASS
A young woman or girl.
LAST
Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
LATE
A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.
LATH
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.
LATS
A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind.
LAUD
Praise or glorification.
LAVA
The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides.
LAVE
To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
LAWN
An open space between woods.
LAWS
The body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
LAYS
Arrangement or relationship; layout.
LAZE
An instance of lazing.
LAZY
A lazy person.
LEAD
A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
LEAF
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
LEAK
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
LEAN
(of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
LEAP
The act of leaping or jumping.
LEAR
LEEK
The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
LEER
A significant side glance; a glance expressive of some passion, as malignity, amorousness, etc.; a sly or lecherous look.
LEFT
The left side or direction.
LEGS
A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion.
LEIS
A garland of flowers in Hawaii.
LEKE
LEKS
An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display
LEKU
LEND
The lumbar region; loin.
LENS
An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
LENT
A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.
LESS
A smaller amount or quantity.
LEST
For fear that; that not; in order to prevent something from happening; in case.
LETS
The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
LEVY
The act of levying.
LEWD
To get high on quaalude.
LEYS
An open field, meadow.
LIAR
One who tells lies.
LIBS
Liberal
LICE
A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Psocodea.
LICK
The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
LIDS
A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.
LIED
An art song, sung in German and accompanied on the piano.
LIEN
A tendon.
LIES
The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
LIEU
Place, stead; See in lieu or in lieu of
LIFE
The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
LIFT
An act of lifting or raising.
LIKE
(usually in the plural) Something that a person likes (prefers).
LILA
LILT
Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
LILY
Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which includes a great many ornamental species.
LIMB
A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
LIME
Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).
LIMN
To draw or paint; to delineate.
LIMO
An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
LIMP
An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
LINE
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
LING
Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod.
LINK
Some text or a graphic in an electronic document that can be activated to display another document or trigger an action.
LINT
A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
LION
A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe.
LIPS
Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
LISP
The habit or an act of lisping.
LIST
A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
LITE
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.
LIVE
To be alive; to have life.
LOAD
A burden; a weight to be carried.
LOAF
(also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
LOAM
A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
LOAN
An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
LOAR
LOBE
Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
LOBS
(ball sports) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.
LOCI
A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.
LOCK
Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
LOCO
A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
LODE
A way or path; a road.
LOFT
(except in derivatives) air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
LOGE
A booth or stall.
LOGO
A visual symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of a company or organization.
LOGS
The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
LOGY
Slow to respond or react; lethargic.
LOIN
The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips
LOLL
To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
LONE
Solitary; having no companion.
LONG
A long vowel.
LONS
LOOK
LOOM
A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
LOON
An idler, a lout.
LOOP
A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
LOOS
A half-mask, particularly those velvet half-masks fashionable in the 17th century as a means of protecting women's complexion from the sun.
LOOT
A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.
LOPE
An easy pace with long strides.
LOPS
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
LORD
The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor
LORE
All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
LOSE
To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons.
LOSS
The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
LOST
To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons.
LOTH
Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling.
LOTS
A large quantity or number; a great deal.
LOUD
A loud sound or part of a sound.
LOUT
A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
LOVE
Strong affection.
LOWE
A flame; fire; blaze.
LOWS
Something that is low; a low point.
LUAU
An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.
LUBE
Lubricant
LUCK
Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence, especially a favourable one.
LUGE
A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.
LUGS
The act of hauling or dragging.
LULL
A period of rest or soothing.
LUMP
Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
LUNG
A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
LURE
Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure
LURK
The act of lurking.
LUSH
Juicy, succulent.
LUST
A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
LUTE
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.
LUVS
LYNX
Any of several medium-sized wild cats, mostly of the genus Lynx.
LYRE
An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
MACE
A heavy fighting club.
MADE
A grub or maggot.
MAGE
A magician, wizard or sorcerer.
MAGS
(abbreviation) magazine (publication or ammunition)
MAID
A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
A bag or wallet.
MAIM
A serious wound
MAIN
Short for mainline.
MAKE
Brand or kind; model.
MALE
One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
MALL
A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
MALT
Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
MAMA
(hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.
MANA
Power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people.
MANE
Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion
MANS
An adult male human.
MANY
A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
MAPS
A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.
MARE
An adult female horse.
MARK
(heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
MARL
A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy.
MARM
Madam; a polite term of address for a lady.
MART
A market.
MASH
A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
MASK
A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
MASS
(physical) Matter, material.
MAST
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.
MATE
A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
MATH
A mowing; what is gathered from mowing.
MATS
A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
MAUL
A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
MAWS
The stomach, especially of an animal.
MAXI
A coat or skirt having such a hemline
MAZE
A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way.
MDIP
MEAD
An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
MEAL
Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
MEAN
To lament.
MEAT
The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
MEDS
(chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
MEEK
(of horses) To tame; to break.
MEET
A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).
MEGA
Very large.
MEGS
Any unit having the SI prefix mega-.
MELD
To combine multiple similar objects into one
MELT
Molten material, the product of melting.
MEMO
A short note; a memorandum.
MEND
A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
MENU
The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
MEOW
The cry of a cat.
MERE
A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere.
MESA
Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
MESH
A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
MESS
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; disorder.
METE
To measure.
METH
Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride.
MEWS
An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
MICA
Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.
MICE
Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
MIDE
MIDS
MIEN
Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
MILD
A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale
MILE
The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
MILK
A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
MILL
A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
MILS
An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries.
MIME
A form of acting without words; pantomime.
MIND
The ability for rational thought.
MINE
My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
MINI
Miniature, tiny, small.
MINK
(plural mink or minks) Any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neovison vison) and the European mink (Mustela lutreola).
MINT
A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
MINX
A mink.
MIRE
Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
MISO
A thick paste made by fermentation of soybeans with the mold Aspergillus oryzae, used in making soups and sauces.
MISS
A failure to hit.
MIST
Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
MITE
Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).
MITT
A mitten
MOAN
A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
MOAS
Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world.
MOAT
A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
MOBS
A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
MOCK
An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
MODE
One of several ancient Greek scales.
MODS
An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
MOLD
A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
MOLE
A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.
MOLO
MOLT
The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
MOLY
A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe.
MOMS
(familiar) mother.
MONK
A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
MONO
A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes.
MOOD
A mental or emotional state, composure.
MOON
The Earth's moon Luna; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.
MOOR
An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
MOOS
The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
MOOT
A moot court.
MOPE
A dull, spiritless person.
MOPS
An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
MORE
To a greater degree or extent.
MORN
Morning.
MOSS
Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).
MOST
The greatest amount.
MOTE
A small particle; a speck.
MOTH
A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
MOTS
A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
MOUE
A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness.
MOVE
The act of moving; a movement.
MOWN
To cut down grass or crops.
MOWS
A gull, seagull.
MUCH
Large, great.
MUDS
A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
MUGS
A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
MULE
The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
MULL
A thin, soft muslin.
MUMO
MUMS
Mother.
MUON
An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater.
MUSE
A source of inspiration.
MUSH
A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
MUSK
A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
MUSS
A mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; disorder)
MUST
Something that is mandatory or required.
MUTE
A stopped consonant; a stop.
MUTT
A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
MYNA
One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.
MYTH
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.
NAAN
A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
NABS
To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).
NACH
NAGS
A small horse; a pony.
NAIL
The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
NAME
Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
NANA
A banana
NAPE
The back part of the neck.
NAPS
A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
NARC
A narcotics squad police officer.
NARY
Not, never.
NASE
NAVE
The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
NAVY
A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel.
NAYS
A vote against.
NEAP
The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
NEAR
The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc.
NEAT
An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
NECK
The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
NEED
A requirement for something; something needed.
NEEM
Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield the insecticide azadirachtin.
NEON
The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The lightest of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
NERD
(sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted
NESS
A promontory; a cape or headland. (Frequently used as a suffix in placenames.)
NEST
A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
NETS
A mesh of string, cord or rope.
NEWS
New information of interest.
NEXT
The one that follows after this one.
NFED
NHEN
NIBS
The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
NICE
Niceness.
NICK
A small cut in a surface.
NIGH
To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near
NINE
The digit or figure 9.
NIPS
A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
NITS
A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism.
NOCK
Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.
NODE
A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
NODS
To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
NOEL
Christmas
NONE
A person without religious affiliation.
NOOK
A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.
NOON
The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
NOOR
NOPE
A negative reply, no.
NORM
That which is normal or typical.
NOSE
A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
NOSH
Food; a light meal or snack.
NOSY
A look at something to satisfy one's curiosity.
NOTE
(heading) A symbol or annotation.
NOUN
(grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
NOUR
NOVA
Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star.
NOVE
NOWS
NUBS
NUDE
A painting, sculpture, photograph or other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress.
NUKE
A nuclear weapon.
NULL
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
NUMB
To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally).
NUNS
A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (specifically) those living together in a cloister.
NUTS
A hard-shelled seed.
OAFS
A person, especially a large male, who is clumsy or a simpleton.
OAKS
A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
OARS
A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat .
OATH
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.
OATS
Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
OBEY
To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
OBIT
Death of a person.
OBOA
OBOE
A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.
OCOY
ODDS
(diminutive) An odd number.
ODES
A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
ODOR
Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.
OFFS
To kill.
OGLE
An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
OGRE
A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.
OHMS
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical resistance; the electrical resistance of a device across which a potential difference of one volt causes a current of one ampere. Symbol: Ω
OILS
Liquid fat.
OILY
A marble with an oily lustre.
OKEY
OKRA
The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
OLEO
The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine.
OLIO
A rich, thick, Spanish stew consisting of meat and vegetables.
OMEN
Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
OMIT
To leave out or exclude.
ONCE
(frequency) One and only one time.
ONES
The digit or figure 1.
ONLY
An only child.
ONTO
(of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.
ONUS
A legal obligation.
ONYX
A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
OOPS
A minor mistake or unforseen difficulty.
OOZE
Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
OPAL
A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity, of the chemical formula SiO2·nH2O.
OPEN
Not closed
OPTS
To choose; select.
OPUS
A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works.
ORAL
A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
ORBS
A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
ORCA
A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.
ORCS
Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale.
ORDO
ORES
Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
ORGE
OTIC
Of, relating/pertaining to, or located near the ear
OUCH
An expression of one's own physical pain.
OURS
That which belongs to us; the possessive case of we, used without a following noun.
OUST
To expel; to remove.
OUTS
A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
OVAL
An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse.
OVEN
A chamber used for baking or heating.
OVER
A set of six legal balls bowled.
OVUM
The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.
OWED
To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
OWES
To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
OWLS
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.
OWNS
To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
OXEN
An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus).
PACE
Step.
PACK
A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
PACT
An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
PADS
A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
PAGE
One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
PAID
To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
PAIL
A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).
PAIN
An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
PAIR
Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
PALE
Paleness; pallor.
PALL
Senses relating to cloth.
PALM
Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
PALS
A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with.
PANE
An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
PANG
(often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
PANS
A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
PANT
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
PAPA
Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
PAPS
Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
PARA
A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
PARE
To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
PARK
An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
PARS
Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
PART
A portion; a component.
PASS
To change place.
PATE
(somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown.
PATH
A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
PAVE
To cover something with paving slabs.
PAWN
The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.
PAYS
Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
PEAK
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
PEAL
A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
PEAR
An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem.
PEAS
A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
PEAT
Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
PECK
An act of striking with a beak.
PECS
(usually in the plural) The pectoralis major muscle.
PEED
To urinate.
PEEK
To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
PEEL
(usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
PEEN
The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.
PEEP
A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird.
PEER
A look; a glance.
PEES
Urine.
PEGS
A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
PELT
A blow or stroke from something thrown.
PEND
PENS
An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
PENT
To enclose in a pen.
PEON
A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.
PERK
Perquisite.
PERM
A permanent.
PERN
PERP
(law enforcement) Perpetrator.
PERT
An impudent person.
PERV
A pervert.
PEST
A plague, pestilence, epidemic
PETE
PETS
An animal kept as a companion.
PEWS
One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.
PHEW
Used to express relief of tension, fatigue, or surprise.
PICA
A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand.
PICE
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in various Asian countries.
PICK
A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
PICS
A picture, especially a photographic image.
PIED
Having two or more colors, especially black and white.
PIER
A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
PIES
To spill or mix printing type.
PIGS
Any of several intelligent mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus scrofa.
PIKE
A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
PILE
A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
PILL
A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
PIMP
Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
PINE
Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
PING
A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
PINK
The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
PINO
PINS
To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.
PINT
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
PION
Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.
PIPE
Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
PITA
A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.
PITH
The soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees.
PITS
A hole in the ground.
PITY
A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
PLAN
A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
PLAT
A plot of land; a lot.
PLAY
Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
PLEA
An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
PLED
To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.
PLEP
PLOD
A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
PLOP
A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.
PLOT
(authorship) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
PLOW
The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres.
PLOY
A tactic, strategy, or gimmick.
PLUG
A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
PLUM
The fruit and its tree.
PLUP
PLUS
A positive quantity.
POCK
A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
PODS
A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
POEM
A literary piece written in verse.
POET
A person who writes poems.
POKE
A prod, jab, or thrust.
POKY
A gambling device based on the card game poker.
POLA
POLD
POLE
Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
POLL
A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
POLO
A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
POLS
A politician.
POLY
Polytechnic.
POMP
Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
POND
An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
PONE
A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
PONG
A stench, a bad smell.
PONT
PONY
A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers.
POOF
The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind.
POOL
A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water.
POOP
Fecal matter, feces.
POOR
(with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
POOT
(babytalk) A fart, perhaps a relatively quiet one.
POPE
An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
POPS
(usually as a form of address) Father, dad.
PORE
A tiny opening in the skin.
PORK
The meat of a pig; swineflesh.
PORT
A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
POSE
Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
POSH
Fragments produced by an impact
POST
A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
POTS
A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
POUF
The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind.
POUR
The act of pouring.
POUT
One's facial expression when pouting.
PRAM
A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position; a perambulator.
PRAY
To direct words and/or thoughts to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
PREM
A prematurely born infant.
PREP
A preventative medical regiment of HIV medicines used to protect against HIV seroconversion after an exposure.
PREY
Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war
PRIG
A tinker.
PRIM
To make affectedly precise or proper.
PROD
A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
PROF
The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution, informally also known as "full professor." Abbreviated Prof.
PROG
Progressive rock.
PROM
A promenade concert
PROP
An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.
PROS
An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons).
PROW
The front part of a vessel
PUBS
A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.
PUCE
A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
PUCK
A mischievous or hostile spirit.
PUFF
The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind.
PUGS
A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
PUKE
Vomit.
PULL
An act of pulling (applying force)
PULP
A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
PUMA
The mountain lion or cougar, Puma concolor.
PUMP
A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
PUNK
A person used for sex, particularly:
PUNS
A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.
PUNT
A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.
PUNY
(Oxford University slang) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
PUPA
An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.
PUPS
A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, or shark, or the young of certain other animals.
PURE
One who, or that which, is pure.
PURR
The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented.
PUSH
A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
PUSS
(often as a term of address) A cat.
PUTS
A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
PUTT
The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
PYRE
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
PYRO
A pyromaniac
PYUP
QUAD
Four shots of espresso.
QUAY
A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.
QUID
The inherent nature of something.
QUIP
A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.
QUIT
To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
RACE
A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
RACK
A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
RACY
Mildly risqué.
RADS
A non-SI unit of absorbed dose of radiation, equal to 0.01 gray.
RAFT
A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
RAGA
Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.
RAGE
Violent uncontrolled anger.
RAGS
(in the plural) Tattered clothes.
RAID
A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
RAIL
A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
RAIN
Condensed water falling from a cloud.
RAJA
A Hindu prince or ruler in India.
RAKE
A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
RAMP
An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
RAMS
A male sheep, typically uncastrated
RAND
The border of an area of land, especially marshland.
RANG
Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
RANK
Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).
RANT
A criticism done by ranting.
RAPS
A sharp blow with something hard.
RAPT
An ecstasy; a trance.
RARE
A scarce or uncommon item.
RASH
Acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences; not careful; hasty.
RASP
A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
RATE
The worth of something; value.
RATS
A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
RAVE
An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
RAYS
A beam of light or radiation.
RAZE
To demolish; to level to the ground.
RAZZ
A version of seven card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).
READ
A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
REAL
A commodity; see realty.
REAM
Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
REAP
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
REAR
To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
REBS
A Confederate soldier.
REDD
To free from entanglement.
REDO
A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.
REDS
Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.
REED
Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
REEF
A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.
REEK
A strong unpleasant smell.
REEL
A shaky or unsteady gait.
REFS
A referee.
REIN
A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.
RELY
(with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
REND
A violent separation of parts.
RENT
A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
REPO
Repossession
REPS
Rep.
REST
(of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
RETE
A network of blood vessels or nerves.
RIBS
Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum
RICE
Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
RICH
To enrich.
RIDE
An instance of riding.
RIDS
To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance.
RIFE
Widespread, common, prevalent, current (mainly of unpleasant or harmful things).
RIFF
A repeated instrumental melody line in a song.
RIFT
A chasm or fissure.
RIGS
The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
RILE
To make angry
RILL
A very small brook; a streamlet.
RIME
Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
RIMS
An edge around something, especially when circular.
RIND
Tree bark
RINE
RING
(physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
RINK
A man, especially a warrior or hero.
RION
RIOT
Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
RIPE
A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
RIPS
A tear (in paper, etc.).
RIRE
RISE
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
RISK
A possible adverse event or outcome
RITE
A religious custom.
RIVE
A place torn; a rent; a rift.
ROAD
A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
ROAM
To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
ROAN
An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
ROAR
A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
ROBE
A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
ROBS
To steal from, especially using force or violence.
ROCK
A formation of minerals, specifically:
RODE
To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
RODS
A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
ROES
The eggs of fish.
ROIL
To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
ROLE
A character or part played by a performer or actor.
ROLL
The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
ROMP
Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.
ROND
ROOD
A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
ROOF
The external covering at the top of a building.
ROOK
A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
ROOM
Opportunity or scope (to do something).
ROOT
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.
ROPE
Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
ROPY
Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
ROSE
A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
ROSY
Rose-coloured.
ROTE
Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
ROTS
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
ROUT
A noise, especially a loud one
ROVE
A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
ROWS
A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
RRIM
RTAR
RUBE
A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
RUBS
An act of rubbing.
RUBY
A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
RUCK
A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
RUDE
Bad-mannered.
RUED
To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
RUES
To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
RUFF
A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
RUGS
A partial covering for a floor.
RUIN
(sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
RULE
A regulation, law, guideline.
RULY
Pitiable; miserable.
RUMP
The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs
RUMS
A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.
RUNA
RUNE
A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
RUNG
A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
RUNS
Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
RUNT
The smallest animal of a litter.
RUOE
RUSE
A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.
RUSH
Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
RUST
The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation.
RUTS
Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.
SABE
SACK
A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
SACS
A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
SAFE
A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
SAGA
An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
SAGE
A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
SAGO
A powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener.
SAGS
The state of sinking or bending; a droop.
SAID
Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.
SAIL
A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
SAKE
Cause, interest or account
SALE
A hall.
SALT
A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
SAME
Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
SAND
Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
SANE
Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally.
SANG
To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
SANK
(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
SAPS
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
SARI
The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head.
SASH
A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
SASS
Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm.
SATE
To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
SAVE
In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
SAWN
To cut (something) with a saw.
SAWS
A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
SAYS
A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.
SCAB
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
SCAD
Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
SCAM
A fraudulent deal.
SCAN
Close investigation.
SCAR
A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
SCOW
A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
SCUD
The act of scudding.
SCUM
A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).
SCUT
A hare; a hare as the game in a hunt.
SEAL
A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.
SEAM
A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
SEAR
Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
SEAS
A large body of salt water.
SEAT
Something to be sat upon.
SECT
An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.
SEED
A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
SEEK
The operation of navigating through a stream.
SEEM
To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
SEEN
(stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
SEEP
A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
SEER
One who sees something; an eyewitness.
SEES
(stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
SELF
One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
SELL
An act of selling.
SEMI
A semi-detached house.
SEND
The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement.
SENT
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Estonian kroon.
SERE
Without moisture; dry.
SERF
A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights
SETS
To put (something) down, to rest.
SETT
To put (something) down, to rest.
SEWN
To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.
SEWS
To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.
SHAG
Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
SHAH
A king of Persia or Iran.
SHAM
A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
SHAY
A chaise.
SHED
To part, separate or divide.
SHEW
A play, dance, or other entertainment.
SHIM
A wedge.
SHIN
The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone
SHIP
A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
SHIV
A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
SHOD
Wearing shoes.
SHOE
A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.
SHOO
To induce someone or something to leave.
SHOP
An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
SHOT
To launch a projectile.
SHOW
A play, dance, or other entertainment.
SHUL
The synagogue.
SHUN
To avoid, especially persistently.
SHUT
Closed, shut.
SIBS
Kindred; kin; kinsmen; a body of persons related by blood in any degree.
SICK
Sick people in general as a group.
SIDE
A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
SIFT
SIGH
A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
SIGN
(sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication.
SILE
SILK
A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
SILL
(also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.
SILO
A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.
SILT
Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
SINE
In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
SING
A gathering at which people sing songs.
SINK
A basin used for holding water for washing.
SINS
A violation of God's will or religious law.
SIPS
A small mouthful of drink
SIRE
A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
SIRS
A man of a higher rank or position.
SITE
Sorrow, grief.
SITS
Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
SIZE
(obsolete outside dialectal) An assize.
SKEW
Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
SKID
An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
SKIM
A cursory reading, skipping the details.
SKIN
The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
SKIP
A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
SKIS
One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water
SKIT
A short comic performance.
SLAB
A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
SLAG
Waste material from a coal mine
SLAM
A sudden impact or blow.
SLAP
A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
SLAT
A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath) or metal.
SLAW
Coleslaw.
SLAY
To kill, murder.
SLED
A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.)
SLEW
The act, or process of slewing.
SLID
To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface
SLIM
A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
SLIP
A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
SLIT
A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
SLOB
A lazy and slovenly person.
SLOE
The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).
SLOG
A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
SLOP
A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
SLOT
A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
SLOW
Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
SLUG
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
SLUM
A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
SLUR
An insult or slight.
SMOG
A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.
SMUG
To make smug, or spruce.
SMUT
Soot.
SNAG
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
SNAP
A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
SNIP
The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
SNIT
A temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood.
SNOB
A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes.
SNOT
Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
SNOW
The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
SNUB
A deliberate affront or slight.
SNUG
A small, comfortable back room in a pub.
SOAK
An immersion in water etc.
SOAP
A substance able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning, often in the form of a solid bar or in liquid form, derived from fats or made synthetically.
SOAR
The act of soaring.
SOBS
A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
SOCK
A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
SODA
Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda).
SODE
SODS
To cover with sod.
SOFA
A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
SOFT
A soft or foolish person; an idiot.
SOIL
A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
SOLD
(ditransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
SOLE
A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
SOLF
SOLO
A piece of music for one performer.
SOMA
The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
SOME
Of a measurement: approximately, roughly.
SONG
A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
SONS
One's male offspring.
SOON
Short in length of time from the present.
SOOT
Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
SOPS
Something entirely soaked.
SORE
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
SORT
A general type.
SOUL
The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
SOUP
Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.
SOUR
The sensation of a sour taste.
SOWN
To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
SOYA
A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
SPAM
(rarely countable) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
SPAN
The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom.
SPAR
A rafter of a roof.
SPAS
A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.
SPAY
To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant.
SPEC
A special place (for hiding or viewing)
SPED
To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
SPEW
Vomit
SPIN
Rapid circular motion.
SPIT
A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
SPOT
A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
SPRY
Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
SPUD
A potato.
SPUN
To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
SPUR
A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
STAB
An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
STAG
An adult male deer.
STAR
Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots.
STAT
With no delay; at once.
STAY
Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn.
STEM
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
STEP
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
STES
STEW
A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
STIM
STIR
The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
STOP
A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
STUB
Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
STUD
A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
STUN
The condition of being stunned.
SUBS
A submarine.
SUCH
Something being indicated that is similar to something else.
SUCK
An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
SUDS
Lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water.
SUED
To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
SUES
To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
SUET
The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow.
SUIT
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.
SULK
A state of sulking.
SUMO
A stylised Japanese form of wrestling in which a wrestler loses if he is forced from the ring, or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground.
SUMP
A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
SUMS
A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a somon is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia where it is equivalent to a township.
SUNG
To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
SUNK
(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
SUNS
A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
SUPS
A sip; a small amount of food or drink.
SURA
Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an.
SURE
Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable.
SURF
Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
SUSS
Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.
SWAB
A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
SWAG
(window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
SWAM
To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
SWAN
Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.
SWAT
A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking.
SWAY
The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
SWIG
Drink, liquor.
SWIM
An act or instance of swimming.
SYNC
Harmony.
SYRE
TABS
A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
TACH
Tachometer
TACK
A small nail with a flat head.
TACO
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.
TACT
The sense of touch; feeling.
TAGS
A small label.
TAIL
The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
TAKE
The or an act of taking.
TALC
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.
TALE
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.
TALK
To communicate, usually by means of speech.
TALL
(possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall.
TAME
To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
TAMP
(blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.
TANG
A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
TANK
A closed container for liquids or gases.
TANS
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.
TAOS
The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
TAPA
A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
TAPE
Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
TARE
A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
TARN
A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
TARO
Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
TARP
A tarpaulin.
TARS
(usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
TART
Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
TARY
TAUT
To make taut; to tauten, to tighten.
TAXA
A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
TAXI
A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver.
TEAK
An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.).
TEAL
Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
TEAM
A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
TEAR
A hole or break caused by tearing.
TEAS
A drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, cannabis.
TEAT
The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
TECH
Technology
TEED
To draw; lead.
TEEM
To be stocked to overflowing.
TEEN
A teenager.
TEES
The name of the Latin-script letter T.
TEFF
A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
TELL
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.
TEMP
Abbreviation of tempore.
TEND
(Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
TENS
A set or group with ten elements.
TENT
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.
TERM
That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary.
TERN
Any of various sea birds of the family Sternidae that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.
TEST
A challenge, trial.
TEXT
A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
TGET
THAN
At that time; then.
THAT
Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
THAW
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
THEE
To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
THEM
(plural) Those ones.
THEN
Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
THEY
(the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants or objects previously mentioned.
THIN
A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
THIS
Something being indicated that is here; one of these.
THOU
THRU
From one side of an opening to the other.
THUD
The sound of a dull impact.
THUG
Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire.
THUS
(manner) In this way or manner.
TICK
A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
TICS
A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
TIDE
The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
TIDY
A tabletop container for pens and stationery.
TIED
To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
TIER
One who ties (knots, etc).
TIES
A knot; a fastening.
TIFF
A small argument; a petty quarrel.
TIKE
A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
TIKI
Carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean.
TILE
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.
TILL
Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
TILT
A slope or inclination.
TIME
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
TINE
A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
TING
The sound made when a small bell is struck.
TINS
A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
TINT
A slight coloring.
TINY
A small child; an infant.
TIPI
Alternative form of teepee
TIPS
The tip of the external ear.
TIRE
To become sleepy or weary.
TODE
TOED
(chiefly in combination) Having (a specified number or type of) toes.
TOES
Each of the five digits on the end of the foot.
TOFU
A protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk.
TOGA
A loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome.
TOIL
Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
TOKE
(casinos) A gratuity.
TOLD
(archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
TOLE
A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded
TOLL
Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
TOMB
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.
TOME
One in a series of volumes.
TONE
A specific pitch.
TONG
An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
TONS
A unit of weight (mass) equal to 2240 pounds (a long ton) or 2000 pounds (a short ton) or 1000 kilograms (a metric ton).
TOOK
To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
TOOL
A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
TOON
A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
TOOT
The noise of a horn or whistle.
TOPS
The highest or uppermost part of something.
TORE
Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
TORN
To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
TORR
A unit of pressure that is equal to approximately 0.001316 atmospheres or 133.3 pascals.
TORT
An injury or wrong.
TORY
(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.
TOSS
A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
TOTE
A tote bag.
TOTS
A small child.
TOUR
A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
TOUT
Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
TOWN
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.
TOYS
Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
TRAM
A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America).
TRAP
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.
TRAT
TRAY
A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
TREE
Fast growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem.
TREK
A journey by ox wagon.
TRIG
A dandy; coxcomb.
TRIM
Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
TRIO
A group of three people or things.
TRIP
A journey; an excursion or jaunt
TROD
To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
TROT
Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
TRUE
The state of being in alignment.
TSAR
An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.
TUBA
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.
TUBE
Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
TUBS
A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
TUCK
An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
TUFA
Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring.
TUFF
A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
TUFT
A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
TUGS
A sudden powerful pull.
TUNA
Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
TUNE
A melody.
TURF
A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
TURN
(heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.
TURS
A species of wild goat, Capra caucasica, native to the western Caucasus.
TUSH
A tusk.
TUSK
One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
TUTS
To make a tut tut sound of disapproval.
TUTU
A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
TWEE
Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.
TWIG
A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
TWIN
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.
TWIT
A reproach, gibe or taunt.
TYKE
A mongrel dog.
TYPE
A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
TYPO
A typographical error.
TYRO
A beginner; a novice.
UDON
A Japanese wheat noodle
UGLY
Ugliness.
ULNA
The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate.
UMPS
An umpire.
UNDO
An operation that reverses a previous action.
UNIT
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.
UNTO
Up to, indicating a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it.
UPON
Being the target of an action.
UREA
A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH2)2, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine.
URGE
A strong desire; an itch to do something.
URIC
Pertaining to, contained in, or obtained from urine.
URNS
A vase with a footed base.
USED
To utilize or employ.
USER
One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
USES
The act of using.
VAIN
Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.
VALE
A valley.
VAMP
The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.
VANE
A weather vane
VANS
A covered vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck/lorry.
VARY
Alteration; change.
VASE
An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
VAST
A vast space.
VATS
A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
VEAL
The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.
VEEP
(US politics) The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination.
VEER
To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
VEES
The name of the Latin-script letter V.
VEID
VEIL
Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.
VEIN
A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
VELD
The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries.
VEND
The act of vending or selling; a sale.
VENT
An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
VERB
(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
VERT
A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
VERY
True, real, actual.
VEST
A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
VETA
VETO
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
VETS
A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon.
VIAL
A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical.
VIBE
A vibraphone.
VICE
A bad habit.
VIDS
Videotape
VIED
To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
VIES
To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
VIEW
(physical) Visual perception.
VILE
Morally low; base; despicable.
VINE
The climbing plant that produces grapes.
VINO
Wine.
VIOL
A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold.
VISA
A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
VISE
An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.
VITA
A curriculum vitae.
VIVA
A shout of applause.
VIVE
VOID
An empty space; a vacuum.
VOLE
Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats.
VOLT
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
VOTE
A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities
VOWS
A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.
WACK
An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo.
WADE
An act of wading.
WADI
A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
WADS
An amorphous, compact mass.
WAGE
(often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
WAGS
An oscillating movement.
WAIF
A castaway; a homeless child.
WAIL
A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
WAIT
A delay.
WAKE
The act of waking, or state of being awake.
WALK
To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
WALL
A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
WAND
A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
WANE
A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
WANS
The digit or figure 1.
WANT
A desire, wish, longing.
WARD
A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
WARM
Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
WARN
To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:
WARP
The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
WARS
Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.
WART
A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
WARY
Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent
WASH
The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
WATT
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
WAVE
To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
WAYS
(heading) To do with a place or places.
WEAK
Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
WEAL
Wealth, riches.
WEAN
WEAR
(in combination) clothing
WEDS
To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
WEED
Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
WEEK
Any period of seven consecutive days.
WEEL
A whirlpool.
WEEP
A session of crying.
WEFT
The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
WEIR
An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
WELD
A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
WELL
In good health.
WELT
To roll; revolve
WEND
A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
WENT
To move:
WERE
A man, a husband
WEST
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.
WETS
Liquid or moisture.
WHAM
A forceful blow
WHAP
A blow; a hit; a variation of whop.
WHAT
(Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor.
WHEE
An expression of pleasure or enjoyment, mostly from rapid physical motion.
WHEN
The time at which something happens.
WHET
The act of whetting something.
WHEY
The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained in the process of making cheese.
WHIG
Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
WHIM
A fanciful impulse, or whimsical idea
WHIP
A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
WHIR
A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion.
WHIT
The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.
WHIZ
A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
WHOA
To attempt to slow (an animal) by crying "whoa".
WHYS
Reason
WICK
A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre/fiber, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions.
WIDE
A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
WIFE
A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
WIFI
Any of several standards for short-range wireless data transmission (IEEE 802.11).
WIGS
A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
WILD
The undomesticated state of a wild animal
WILE
To pass (time) idly.
WILL
(now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something).
WILT
The act of wilting or the state of being wilted.
WILY
Sly, cunning, full of tricks
WIND
Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
WINE
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes.
WING
An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
WINK
An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
WINO
A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; a drunk or drunkard.
WINS
To conquer, defeat.
WIPE
The act of wiping something.
WIRE
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
WIRY
Thin, muscular and flexible.
WISE
To become wise.
WISH
A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
WISP
A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
WITH
Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
WITS
(now usually in the plural) Sanity.
WOAD
The plant Isatis tinctoria.
WOES
Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
WOKE
Awake: conscious and not asleep.
WOLF
The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.
WOMB
In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
WONK
An overly studious person, particularly student.
WOOD
The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
WOOF
The set of yarns placed crosswise in a loom, interlaced with the warp, carried by the shuttle; weft.
WOOL
The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
WORD
The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
WORE
To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
WORK
(heading) Employment.
WORM
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
WORN
To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
WORT
A plant; herb; vegetable.
WOVE
To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
WOWS
Anything exceptionally surprising, unbelievable, outstanding, etc.
WRAP
To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
WREN
Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; true wren.
WRIT
A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
WUSS
A weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person.
YAKS
An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Burma, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane.
YAMS
Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
YANK
A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).
YAPS
The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
YARD
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
YARN
A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
YAWL
A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
YAWN
The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.
YAWS
A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries.
YAYS
YEAH
Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc.
YEAR
A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
YEAS
An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken
YELL
A shout.
YELP
An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.
YETI
An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas
YEWS
A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
YIED
YIPS
A sharp, high-pitched bark
YOGA
Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind.
YOGI
A devotee or adherent of yoga.
YOKE
Frame around the neck, and related senses.
YOLK
The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.
YORE
A time long past.
YOUR
YOWL
A prolonged, loud cry, like the sound of an animal; a wail; a howl.
YOWS
YUCK
Something disgusting.
YUKS
Something, such as a joke, that causes such a laugh.
YULE
Alternative letter-case form of Yule
YURT
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).
YYUP
ZANY
A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.
ZEAL
The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
ZEBU
A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos primigenius indicus).
ZEDS
The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
ZERO
The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
ZEST
The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
ZINC
A chemical element (symbol Zn) with an atomic number of 30, a slightly brittle blue-silvery metal.
ZINE
A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.
ZING
A short high-pitched humming sound, such as that made by a bullet or vibrating string.
ZITI
A type of penne pasta in the form of long smooth hollow tubes.
ZITS
Pimple
ZONE
Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).
ZOOS
A park where live animals are exhibited.
There are 2,433 four-letter words found across all Wordscapes levels. They appear in both required answers and bonus word slots.
The most frequently appearing four-letter words are DEER, SEER, REED, RARE, REAR. These appear in the most levels across all groups.