3 Letter 3 Letter Quordle Words Containing R

AIR (3) [noun] The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly: | [noun] (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but now considered to be surrounded by the near vacuum of outer space. | [noun] A breeze; a gentle wind. ARB (5) [noun] The act of or potential for arbitrage. | [noun] One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur. | [noun] An arboretum. ARC (5) [noun] That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. | [noun] A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. | [noun] A curve, in general. ARE (3) [noun] An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a. ARF (6) [interjection] Representing the sound of a dog's bark. ARK (7) [noun] A large box with a flat lid. | [noun] Noah's Ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge. | [noun] Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge ARM (5) [noun] The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand. | [noun] The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow. | [noun] A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal. | [adjective] Poor; lacking in riches or wealth. | [noun] (usually used in the plural) A weapon. ARS (3) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter R. ART (3) [noun] The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. | [noun] The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc. | [noun] Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus. BAR (5) [noun] A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. | [noun] A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1/4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip. | [noun] A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. | [verb] To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). | [noun] A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level. BRA (5) [noun] An item of underwear worn to support the breasts; now commonly shortened to bra. | [noun] One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket. | [noun] Friend BRO (5) [noun] Brother; a male sibling | [noun] Brother; a male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals. | [noun] Brother; usually used to address a male BRR (5) [interjection] An exclamation used to express cold or shivering. BUR (5) [noun] A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants. | [noun] Any of several plants having such husks. | [noun] A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads. CAR (5) [noun] A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation. | [noun] A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot. | [noun] An unpowered unit in a railroad train. | [noun] A turn. | [noun] The first part of a cons in LISP. The first element of a list COR (5) [interjection] Expression of surprise. | [noun] Various former units of volume, particularly: CRY (8) [noun] A shedding of tears; the act of crying. | [noun] A shout or scream. | [noun] Words shouted or screamed. CUR (5) [noun] A contemptible or inferior dog. | [noun] A detestable person. DOR (4) [noun] A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying | [noun] Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee | [noun] A trick, joke, or deception DRY (7) [noun] The process by which something is dried. | [noun] A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages). | [noun] (with "the") The dry season. EAR (3) [noun] The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. | [noun] The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle. | [noun] A police informant. | [noun] The fruiting body of a grain plant. | [verb] To plough. ERA (3) [noun] A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year. | [noun] A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods. ERE (3) [adverb] At an earlier time. | [preposition] Before; sooner than. | [conjunction] Before | [noun] The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. ERG (4) [noun] The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10−7 joules. | [noun] A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara. | [noun] An ergometer. ERN (3) [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) | [noun] An eagle. | [verb] To run; flow. | [verb] To stir with strong emotion; grieve; mourn. ERR (3) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To sin. | [verb] To stray. ERS (3) [verb] To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er. FAR (6) [adjective] Distant; remote in space. | [adjective] Remote in time. | [adjective] Long. | [noun] Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it. | [noun] A litter of piglets; a farrow. FER (6) FIR (6) [noun] A conifer of the genus Abies. | [noun] Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). | [noun] Wood of such trees. FOR (6) FRO (6) [adverb] From; away; back or backward. | [noun] A hairstyle characterized by a tightly curled locks and a rounded shape. FRY (9) [noun] (usually in the plural, fries) A fried strip of potato. | [noun] A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc. | [noun] A state of excitement. | [noun] Offspring; progeny; children; brood. | [noun] A kind of sieve. FUR (6) [noun] The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick. | [noun] The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans. | [noun] A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel. | [preposition] Towards; in the direction of. GAR (4) [noun] A spear. | [noun] Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws. | [noun] A garfish, Belone belone. | [verb] To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done). GOR (4) HER (6) [noun] A female person or animal. | [pronoun] The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc. IRE (3) [noun] Iron. | [noun] Great anger; wrath; keen resentment. | [verb] To anger; to fret; to irritate. IRK (7) [verb] To irritate; annoy; bother JAR (10) [noun] An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial. | [noun] A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes. | [noun] A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful. | [noun] A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality. KIR (7) [noun] A cocktail made with a measure of crème de cassis topped up with white wine. KOR (7) LAR (3) [noun] The lar gibbon. MAR (5) [noun] A blemish. | [verb] To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage. | [noun] A small lake. MIR (5) MOR (5) NOR (3) [conjunction] And not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one). | [conjunction] A function word introducing each except the first term or series, indicating none of them is true. | [conjunction] Used to introduce a further negative statement. | [noun] A binary operator composite of NOT OR; negation of OR function. OAR (3) [noun] 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 . | [noun] An oarsman; a rower. | [noun] An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates. ORA (3) [noun] A mouth; an opening. | [noun] In particular, either end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) or external (to the vagina). | [noun] A unit of money among the Anglo-Saxons. ORB (5) [noun] A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star | [noun] One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions | [noun] A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit | [noun] A blank window or panel. ORC (5) [noun] Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale. | [noun] A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green. | [noun] A porcine humanoid monster larger than humans, sometimes pink. (found in Japanese pop-culture and called "orc" when imported to the West) ORE (3) [noun] Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed. ORS (3) ORT (3) [noun] (usually in plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse. | [verb] To turn away from with disgust; refuse. OUR (3) PAR (5) [noun] A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented. | [noun] A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject. | [noun] An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures. | [preposition] By; with. | [noun] 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. | [noun] Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater. PER (5) [preposition] For each. | [preposition] To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units). | [preposition] By the, by means of the, via the, through the. | [adjective] Belonging to per, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her. PRO (5) [noun] An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons). | [noun] A person who supports a concept or principle. | [preposition] In favor of. | [noun] A professional sportsman. | [noun] A prostitute. | [noun] A proproctor. PRY (8) [noun] The act of prying. | [noun] An excessively inquisitive person. | [verb] To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy. | [noun] A lever. PUR (5) [noun] The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented. | [noun] A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person. | [noun] The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed RAD (4) [noun] A non-SI unit of absorbed dose of radiation, equal to 0.01 gray. | [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angular measure of angle equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle. Symbol: rad | [noun] Anything which radiates or emits rays. RAG (4) [noun] (in the plural) Tattered clothes. | [noun] A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter. | [noun] A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. | [noun] A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone. | [noun] A prank or practical joke. | [noun] An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands. RAH (6) [noun] A person (especially a student) with a posh accent who looks down on those who are "common". | [adjective] Posh. | [interjection] An exclamation of encouragement. | [interjection] An expression of surprise. RAJ (10) [noun] Reign; rule. RAM (5) [noun] A male sheep, typically uncastrated | [noun] A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors. | [noun] A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them. | [verb] To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function. | [adjective] Rancid, offensive in smell or taste. RAN (3) [verb] To run. | [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] (fluids) To flow. | [noun] Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch. | [noun] Open robbery. RAP (5) [noun] A sharp blow with something hard. | [noun] Blame for something. | [noun] A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction. | [verb] To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock. | [noun] A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. | [noun] Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value. | [verb] To seize and carry off. RAS (3) RAT (3) [noun] A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus. | [noun] Any of the numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) that resemble true rats in appearance, usually having a pointy snout, a long, bare tail, and body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches. | [noun] A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling. | [noun] A scratch or a score. | [noun] A ration. RAW (6) [noun] (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such. | [noun] A galled place; an inveterate sore. | [noun] (by extension) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive. RAX (10) RAY (6) [noun] A beam of light or radiation. | [noun] A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin. | [noun] One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran. | [noun] A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail. | [noun] Array; order; arrangement; dress. | [noun] The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand. | [noun] A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale. REB (5) [noun] A Confederate soldier. | [noun] Shortened form of Rebbe. | [noun] An honorific used by traditional Jews, much like sir and mister/Mr. REC (5) [noun] A recommendation or suggestion. | [noun] A recreation ground. | [verb] To recommend. RED (4) [noun] Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc. | [noun] A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. | [noun] One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours. | [verb] To govern, protect. | [verb] To free from entanglement. REE (3) REF (6) [noun] A referee. | [noun] A refrigerator. | [verb] To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game. REG (4) [noun] A regular. | [noun] A regulation. | [noun] Registrar | [noun] A hard surface of rock fragments set in a sandy matrix, found in some hot deserts; regolith, stony desert. REI (3) REM (5) [noun] Rapid movement of the eyes, characterising REM sleep | [noun] A dose of absorbed radiation equivalent to one roentgen of X-rays or gamma rays | [noun] A remark; a programming language statement used for documentation (in BASIC for example); also used in DOS batch files. | [adjective] Remaining | [noun] A unit relative to the declared font size of the root element in a HTML document. REP (5) [verb] To represent; to act as a representative for. | [verb] Repeat | [noun] A repertoire | [noun] A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface. RES (3) [noun] The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back. | [noun] Something that is withheld or kept back. | [noun] (often in the plural) A limiting qualification; a doubt. RET (3) [verb] To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem. | [adjective] Retired REV (6) [verb] To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed. | [noun] Revolution | [noun] A member of the Christian clergy; a minister. REX (10) [noun] An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking. RHO (6) [noun] The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient. | [noun] The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate. RIA (3) [noun] A submergent coastal landform, often known as a drowned river valley RIB (5) [noun] 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 | [noun] A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something | [noun] A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones | [noun] Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale). RID (4) [verb] To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance. | [verb] To banish. | [verb] To kill. | [verb] To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. RIF (6) RIG (4) [noun] The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft. | [noun] Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose. | [noun] A large truck such as a semi-tractor. | [noun] A ridge. | [noun] A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct. | [noun] An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse. RIM (5) [noun] An edge around something, especially when circular. | [noun] A wheelrim. | [noun] A semicircular copydesk. | [noun] A membrane. | [verb] To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act. RIN (3) RIP (5) [noun] A tear (in paper, etc.). | [noun] A type of tide or current. | [noun] A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action. | [noun] A wicker basket for fish. | [noun] A worthless horse; a nag. | [noun] A handful of unthreshed grain. ROB (5) [verb] To steal from, especially using force or violence. | [verb] To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud. | [verb] (used with "of") To deprive (of). | [noun] The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar. ROC (5) [noun] An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend. | [noun] Rocuronium. ROD (4) [noun] A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff. | [noun] A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent. | [noun] A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod. ROE (3) [noun] The eggs of fish. | [noun] The sperm of certain fish. | [noun] The ovaries of certain crustaceans. | [noun] Short for roe deer. ROM (5) [adjective] (of type) upright, as opposed to italic | [adjective] (of text) of or related to the Latin alphabet ROT (3) [noun] The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction. | [noun] Decaying matter. | [noun] Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs. ROW (6) [noun] A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc. | [noun] A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom. | [noun] An act or instance of rowing. | [noun] A noisy argument. RUB (5) [noun] An act of rubbing. | [noun] A difficulty or problem. | [noun] A quip or sarcastic remark. RUE (3) [noun] Sorrow; repentance; regret. | [noun] Pity; compassion. | [verb] To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. | [noun] Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines. RUG (4) [noun] A partial covering for a floor. | [noun] A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. | [noun] A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. RUM (5) [noun] A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses. | [noun] A serving of rum. | [noun] A kind or brand of rum. | [noun] Any odd person or thing. | [noun] The card game rummy. RUN (3) [verb] To run. | [noun] Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet. | [noun] Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip. RUT (3) [noun] Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. | [noun] The noise made by deer during sexual excitement. | [noun] Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. | [noun] A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. RYA (6) RYE (6) [noun] A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. | [noun] The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. | [noun] Rye bread. SER (3) SIR (3) [noun] A man of a higher rank or position. | [noun] A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly: | [noun] A respectful term of address to an adult male (often older), especially if his name or proper title is unknown. SRI (3) TAR (3) [noun] (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal. | [noun] Coal tar. | [noun] A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke. | [noun] A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems. | [noun] A Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus. | [noun] A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East. TOR (3) [noun] A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill, created by the erosion and weathering of rock. | [noun] (South-West England) A hill with such rock formation. | [noun] A tower; a turret. | [adjective] Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious. TRY (6) [noun] An attempt. | [noun] An act of tasting or sampling. | [noun] A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football. | [adjective] Fine, excellent. URB (5) URD (4) URN (3) [noun] A vase with a footed base. | [noun] A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee. | [noun] A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person. VAR (6) [noun] A unit of electrical power, in an AC circuit, equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere. | [noun] Something that is variable. | [noun] Something whose value may be dictated or discovered. WAR (6) [noun] Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces. | [noun] A particular conflict of this kind. | [noun] (by extension) Any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict. WRY (9) [noun] Distortion. | [verb] To turn (away); to swerve or deviate. | [verb] To divert; to cause to turn away. | [verb] To cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide. YAR (6)

ABRI (6) ACRE (6) [noun] An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters. | [noun] Any of various similar units of area in other systems. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A wide expanse. AERO (4) [noun] Aerodynamics. | [noun] An airplane or airship. | [noun] Aerospace. AERY (7) [noun] An eagle's nest, typically built high in a tree or on a cliff. | [noun] A high, secluded place or dwelling. AFAR (7) [adverb] At, to, or from a great distance; far away. AGAR (5) [noun] A gelatinous material obtained from red algae, especially Gracilaria species, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive. | [noun] A culture medium based on this material. AGER (5) [noun] One who ages something. | [noun] A substance used to accelerate aging or maturation processes. AIRN (4) [noun] A direction of the Scottish word "airt," meaning direction or quarter. | [noun] A Scottish or dialectal term for a direction or point of the compass. AIRS (4) [noun] The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly: | [noun] (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but now considered to be surrounded by the near vacuum of outer space. | [noun] A breeze; a gentle wind. AIRT (4) [noun] A direction or point of the compass, especially in Scottish usage. | [verb] To guide or direct. AIRY (7) [adjective] Consisting of air. | [adjective] Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial. | [adjective] Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy. AJAR (11) [verb] To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar. | [adjective] Slightly turned or opened. | [adverb] Slightly turned or opened. | [verb] To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew. ALAR (4) [adjective] Of or relating to the armpit; axillary. | [adjective] Having, resembling, or composed of wings or alae. AMIR (6) [noun] A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. | [noun] A descendant of the prophet Muhammad. APER (6) [noun] One who apes or mimics. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of "ape," meaning to imitate or mimic. ARAK (8) [noun] A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East | [noun] The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica. ARBS (6) [noun] The act of or potential for arbitrage. | [noun] One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur. | [noun] An arboretum. ARCH (9) [noun] An inverted U shape. | [noun] An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward. | [noun] An architectural element having the shape of an arch | [noun] A chief. ARCO (6) [adverb] A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato. ARCS (6) [noun] That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. | [noun] A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. | [noun] A curve, in general. AREA (4) [noun] A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units. | [noun] A particular geographic region. | [noun] Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent. ARES (4) [noun] An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a. ARFS (7) [noun] Plural of arf, which is the sound a dog makes; barks. | [verb] Third person singular of arf, meaning to bark like a dog. ARIA (4) [noun] A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata. ARID (5) [adjective] Very dry. | [adjective] Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually. | [adjective] Devoid of value. ARIL (4) [noun] A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates. ARKS (8) [noun] A large box with a flat lid. | [noun] Noah's Ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge. | [noun] Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge ARMS (6) [noun] The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand. | [noun] The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow. | [noun] A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal. | [verb] To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. ARMY (9) [noun] A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations. | [noun] The governmental agency in charge of a state's army. | [noun] A large group of people working toward the same purpose. ARSE (4) [noun] The buttocks or more specifically, the anus. | [noun] A stupid, mean or despicable person. | [verb] To be silly, act stupid or mess around. ARTS (4) [noun] The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. | [noun] The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc. | [noun] Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus. ARTY (7) [adjective] Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown. ARUM (6) [noun] A flower or plant in the genus Arum ARVO (7) [noun] Afternoon. ARYL (7) [noun] Any univalent organic radical derived from an aromatic hydrocarbon by removing a hydrogen atom. AURA (4) [noun] Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something. | [noun] An invisible force surrounding a living creature. | [noun] Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache. AVER (7) [verb] To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner. | [verb] To prove or justify a plea. | [verb] To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify. | [noun] Possessions, property, belongings, wealth. | [noun] A work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden. AWRY (10) [adjective] Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry. | [adjective] Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss. | [adverb] Obliquely, crookedly; askew. BARB (8) [noun] 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. | [noun] A hurtful or disparaging remark. | [noun] A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. | [noun] The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors. | [noun] A barbiturate. BARD (7) [noun] A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. | [noun] (by extension) A poet. | [noun] A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.) BARE (6) [noun] (‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin. | [noun] Surface; body; substance. | [noun] That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather. | [verb] To uncover; to reveal. | [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. BARF (9) [noun] Vomit | [verb] To vomit. | [verb] Of a system: to fail. BARK (10) [noun] The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals. | [noun] An abrupt loud vocal utterance. | [verb] To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). | [noun] The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree. | [noun] A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge. BARM (8) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) Bosom, lap. | [noun] Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. | [noun] A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread. | [verb] To spurge; foam BARN (6) [noun] A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle. | [noun] A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres. | [noun] An arena. | [noun] A child. BARS (6) [noun] A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. | [noun] A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1/4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip. | [noun] A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. BEAR (6) [noun] A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae. | [noun] A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. | [noun] An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. | [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. | [noun] Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley. | [noun] A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow. BEER (6) [noun] An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor. | [noun] A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. | [noun] A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid. | [noun] One who is or exists. BERG (7) [noun] An iceberg. | [noun] Mountain BERM (8) [noun] A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope | [noun] A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath | [noun] A terrace formed by wave action along a beach BIER (6) [noun] A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person. | [noun] A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed. | [noun] A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth. BIRD (7) [noun] A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs. | [noun] A man, fellow. | [noun] A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive. | [noun] A prison sentence. | [noun] The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended. BIRK (10) BIRL (6) [verb] To pour a drink (for). | [verb] To drink deeply or excessively; carouse. | [noun] A girl of boyish appearance. BIRR (6) [noun] Force, vigor, energy | [noun] A strong wind. | [noun] The force of movement; rush, impetus, momentum, driving force | [noun] The currency of Ethiopia, divided into 100 santims. BLUR (6) [noun] A smear, smudge or blot | [noun] Something that appears hazy or indistinct | [noun] A moral stain or blot. BOAR (6) [noun] A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. | [noun] A male pig. | [noun] A male boar (sense 1). BOOR (6) [noun] A peasant. | [noun] A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent. | [noun] A yokel, country bumpkin. BORA (6) [noun] A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales. | [noun] A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world. BORE (6) [noun] A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter. | [noun] The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter. | [noun] A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring. | [noun] A sudden and rapid flow of tide occuring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave. | [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. BORN (6) [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To support, sustain, or endure. | [verb] To support, keep up, or maintain. | [noun] A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. BORT (6) [noun] Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond. BRAD (7) [noun] A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin. | [noun] (elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet. | [verb] To attach using a brad. BRAE (6) [noun] The sloping bank of a river valley. | [noun] Any hillside or slope. BRAG (7) [noun] A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification. | [noun] The thing which is boasted of. | [noun] (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag. BRAN (6) [noun] 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. | [noun] The European carrion crow. BRAS (6) [noun] One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket. | [noun] Friend | [noun] Female version of bro BRAT (6) [noun] A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish. | [noun] A son or daughter (at any age) of an active military service member. | [noun] A turbot or flatfish | [noun] Bratwurst | [noun] A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime. | [noun] Acronym of Born, Raised, And Transferred. BRAW (9) [adjective] Fine or good; excellent (Scottish English). BRAY (9) [noun] The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel. | [noun] (by extension) Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound. | [verb] Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry. | [verb] To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar. BRED (7) [verb] To produce offspring sexually; to bear young. | [verb] To give birth to; to be the native place of. | [verb] Of animals, to mate. BREE (6) [noun] A type of soft cheese, typically French, with a white rind and creamy interior. | [noun] The sound of wind or a breeze (Scottish/archaic). BREN (6) [verb] To burn (to set ablaze). BREW (9) [noun] The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as a cup of tea or a brewed beer. | [noun] A beer. | [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. | [noun] A hill or overhanging cliff. BRIE (6) [noun] A variety of soft, mild French cheese made from cow's milk. BRIG (7) [noun] A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast | [noun] A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft. | [noun] Bridge. | [noun] Brigadier. BRIM (8) [noun] The sea; ocean; water; flood. | [noun] An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water). | [noun] The topmost rim or lip of a container. | [verb] Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut. | [adjective] Fierce; sharp; cold. BRIN (6) [noun] A single stalk or blade of grass. | [noun] A single strand or fiber. BRIO (6) [noun] Vigour or vivacity. BRIS (6) [noun] Ritual male circumcision. BRIT (6) [verb] To break in pieces; divide. | [verb] To bruise; indent. | [verb] To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain). | [noun] One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc. | [noun] Brit milah BROO (6) BROS (6) [noun] Brother; a male sibling | [noun] Brother; a male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals. | [noun] Brother; usually used to address a male BROW (9) [noun] The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow. | [noun] The first tine of an antler's beam. | [noun] The forehead. BRRR (6) [interjection] Used to express being cold, to show shivering. | [interjection] An expression of disgust or aversion, as if shuddering. BRUT (6) [adjective] (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet BUHR (9) [noun] A hard, siliceous rock used for millstones. | [noun] A millstone made from such rock. BURA (6) [noun] A violent cold northeasterly wind that blows across Central Asia and southeastern Europe. BURD (7) BURG (7) [noun] A city or town. | [noun] A fortified town in medieval Europe. | [noun] Burger BURL (6) [noun] A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. | [noun] Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth. | [noun] A knot or lump in thread or cloth. BURN (6) [noun] A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. | [noun] A sensation resembling such an injury. | [noun] The act of burning something with fire. | [noun] A stream. BURP (8) [noun] A belch. | [verb] To emit a burp. | [verb] To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp. BURR (6) [noun] A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter. | [noun] A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing. | [noun] A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation. | [noun] A rough humming sound. | [noun] A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear. | [noun] A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. BURS (6) [noun] A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants. | [noun] Any of several plants having such husks. | [noun] A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads. BURY (9) [noun] A burrow. | [verb] To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. | [verb] To place in the ground. | [noun] A borough; a manor BYRE (9) [noun] A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in. BYRL (9) CARB (8) [noun] Clipping of carburettor / carburetor. | [noun] (nutrition) A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant. | [noun] (by extension, metonym) Any food rich in starch or other carbohydrates. CARD (7) [noun] A playing card. | [noun] (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game. | [noun] A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose. | [noun] Material with embedded short wire bristles. | [noun] One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.) CARE (6) [noun] Grief, sorrow. | [noun] Close attention; concern; responsibility. | [noun] Worry. | [verb] To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about). CARK (10) [noun] A noxious or corroding worry. | [noun] The state of being filled with worry. | [verb] To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles. | [verb] To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight. | [verb] See cark it. CARL (6) [noun] A rude, rustic man; a churl. | [noun] A stingy person; a niggard. | [verb] To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly. CARN (6) [noun] A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. | [noun] A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. | [noun] A cairn terrier. | [interjection] Come on. CARP (8) [noun] Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. | [verb] To complain about a fault; to harp on. | [verb] To say; to tell. CARR (6) [noun] A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland. | [noun] A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland. | [noun] A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation. CARS (6) [noun] A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation. | [noun] A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot. | [noun] An unpowered unit in a railroad train. CART (6) [noun] A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers. | [noun] A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart. | [noun] A shopping cart. | [noun] A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements. CERE (6) [noun] A waxy protuberance at the base of the upper beak in certain birds. | [verb] To wax; to cover or close with wax. CERO (6) [noun] A large scombroid food fish (Scomberomorus regalis) found chiefly in the West Indies. CHAR (9) [noun] A charred substance. | [verb] To burn something to charcoal. | [verb] To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour. | [noun] A charred substance. | [noun] A time; a turn or occasion. | [noun] A character (text element such as a letter or symbol). | [noun] Tea, sometimes specifically masala chai CIRE (6) [noun] A fabric with a glazed finish. COIR (6) [noun] The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute. CORD (7) [noun] A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. | [noun] A straight line between two points of a curve. | [noun] A horizontal member of a truss. CORE (6) [noun] The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds. | [noun] The heart or inner part of a physical thing | [noun] The center or inner part of a space or area | [noun] A body of individuals; an assemblage. | [noun] A miner's underground working time or shift. | [noun] Various former units of volume, particularly: | [noun] (machinery, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself. CORF (9) [noun] A large basket, especially as used for coal. | [noun] A container (basket, wooden box with holes etc.) used to store live fish underwater. | [noun] A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines. CORK (10) [noun] The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material. | [noun] A bottle stopper made from this or any other material. | [noun] An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork. | [noun] An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead. CORM (8) [noun] 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 (6) [noun] 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. | [noun] Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays. | [noun] A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop. | [noun] A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands. | [noun] Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion. | [noun] A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions. CORY (9) [noun] A tropical freshwater catfish commonly kept in aquariums, typically small and bottom-feeding. CRAB (8) [noun] A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace. | [noun] The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat | [noun] A bad-tempered person. | [noun] The crab apple or wild apple. | [noun] The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America. | [noun] Short for carabiner. CRAG (7) [noun] A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep rock or cliff. | [noun] A rough broken fragment of rock. | [noun] A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age. | [noun] The neck or throat. CRAM (8) [noun] The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something). | [noun] Information hastily memorized. | [noun] A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. CRAP (8) [noun] The husk of grain; chaff. | [noun] (mildly) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk. | [noun] (mildly) Nonsense; something untrue. | [noun] A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps. CRAW (9) [noun] The stomach of an animal. | [noun] The crop of a bird. | [verb] To caw, crow. CREW (9) [verb] To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance. | [verb] To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. | [verb] To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it. | [noun] A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs | [noun] The Manx shearwater. CRIB (8) [noun] A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet. | [noun] A bed for a child older than a baby. | [noun] A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel CRIS (6) CROC (8) [noun] A crocodile. | [noun] A plastic slip-on shoe. CROP (8) [noun] A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose. | [noun] The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants. | [noun] A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time. | [verb] To remove the top end of something, especially a plant. CROW (9) [noun] A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call. | [noun] The cry of the rooster. | [noun] Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea. | [verb] To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance. CRUD (7) [noun] Dirt, filth or refuse. | [noun] (by extension) Something of poor quality. | [noun] A contemptible person. CRUS (6) [noun] The shin (tibia and fibula) | [noun] A leglike part; shank | [noun] A vineyard or group of vineyards in France, especially one having a high reputation. CRUX (13) [noun] The basic, central, or essential point or feature. | [noun] The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point. | [noun] A puzzle or difficulty. CURB (8) [noun] A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand) | [noun] A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening. | [noun] Something that checks or restrains; a restraint. CURD (7) [noun] The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc. | [noun] The coagulated part of any liquid. | [noun] The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants. CURE (6) [noun] A method, device or medication that restores good health. | [noun] Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury. | [noun] A solution to a problem. | [verb] To restore to health. CURF (9) CURL (6) [noun] A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet. | [noun] A curved stroke or shape. | [noun] A spin making the trajectory of an object curve. CURN (6) CURR (6) [noun] A purring sound, or the act of making such a sound. | [verb] To make a purring or whirring sound. CURS (6) [noun] A contemptible or inferior dog. | [noun] A detestable person. CURT (6) [verb] To cut, cut short, shorten. | [adjective] Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude. | [adjective] Short or concise. CZAR (15) [noun] An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area. | [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. DARB (7) DARE (5) [noun] A challenge to prove courage. | [noun] The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. | [noun] Defiance; challenge. | [verb] To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified. | [noun] A small fish, the dace. DARK (9) [adjective] Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light. | [adjective] (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light. | [adjective] Hidden, secret, obscure. | [noun] A complete or (more often) partial absence of light. | [verb] To grow or become dark, darken. DARN (5) [verb] Euphemism of damn. | [adjective] Damn. | [adverb] (degree) Damned. | [noun] A place mended by darning. DART (5) [noun] A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin | [noun] Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon. | [verb] To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch. DEAR (5) [noun] A very kind, loving person. | [noun] A beloved person. | [noun] An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife. | [adjective] Severe, or severely affected; sore. DEER (5) [noun] A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla | [noun] (in particular) one of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk | [noun] The meat of such an animal; venison. DERE (5) [noun] Hurt; harm; injury. | [verb] To hurt; harm; injure; wound. | [verb] To annoy, trouble, grieve. | [noun] That place. DERM (7) [noun] The integument of animal; the skin. | [noun] The tissue of the skin underlying the epidermis. | [noun] A person who is skilled in, professes or practices dermatology. | [noun] (usually in the plural) guts DIRE (5) [adjective] Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. | [adjective] Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. | [adjective] Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal DIRK (9) [noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. | [noun] (Midwest US) A penis; dork. | [noun] (Midwest US) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. DIRL (5) DIRT (5) [noun] Soil or earth. | [noun] A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance. | [noun] Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person. DOER (5) [noun] Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent. DOOR (5) [noun] A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key. | [noun] Any flap, etc. that opens like a door. | [noun] (immigration) An entry point. DORE (5) DORK (9) [noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. | [noun] (Midwest US) A penis; dork. | [noun] (Midwest US) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. DORM (7) [verb] To reside in a dorm. | [noun] A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. | [noun] A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities. DORP (7) [noun] A village or small town; a town considered provincial. DORR (5) DORS (5) [noun] A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying | [noun] Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee | [noun] A trick, joke, or deception DORY (8) [noun] A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers. | [noun] Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish. | [adjective] Of a bright yellow or golden color. | [noun] A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand. DOUR (5) [adjective] Stern, harsh and forbidding. | [adjective] Unyielding and obstinate. | [adjective] Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy. DRAB (7) DRAG (6) [noun] Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it. | [noun] (foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold. | [noun] A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing. | [noun] Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment. DRAM (7) [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. | [noun] An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams. | [noun] The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma. DRAT (5) [verb] To damn or curse. | [interjection] Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration. DRAW (8) [noun] The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie. | [noun] The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined. | [noun] Something that attracts e.g. a crowd. DRAY (8) [noun] A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads. | [noun] A kind of sledge or sled. | [noun] A squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree. DREE (5) [verb] (North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo. | [verb] (North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue. | [adjective] Long; large; ample; great. | [noun] Length; extension; the longest part. DREG (6) DREK (9) [noun] Trash; worthless merchandise. DREW (8) [verb] To move or develop something. | [verb] To exert or experience force. | [verb] (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace. DRIB (7) DRIP (7) [verb] To fall one drop at a time. | [verb] To leak slowly. | [verb] To let fall in drops. | [noun] A drop of a liquid. | [noun] A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing. DROP (7) [noun] A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape via surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. | [noun] A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything. | [noun] (now especially with "the") Alcoholic spirits in general. DRUB (7) [noun] Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal. | [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. DRUG (6) [noun] A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. | [noun] A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. | [noun] Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted. | [verb] To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty. | [noun] A drudge. DRUM (7) [noun] A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone. | [noun] Any similar hollow, cylindrical object. | [noun] A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage. | [noun] A small hill or ridge of hills. | [noun] A social gathering or assembly held in the evening. DRYS (8) [noun] The process by which something is dried. | [noun] A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages). | [noun] (with "the") The dry season. DURA (5) [noun] The dura mater, the outer covering of the brain and spinal cord. | [noun] A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor). DURE (5) DURN (5) [adjective] Darn; damn. | [adverb] Darn; damned; extremely. | [interjection] Darn; damn | [verb] Rhoticized pronunciation of doing. | [noun] A secret; secrecy. DURO (5) DURR (5) DYER (8) [noun] One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation. EARL (4) [noun] (nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts. EARN (4) [verb] To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To curdle, as milk. | [verb] To long; to yearn. | [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) EARS (4) [noun] The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. | [noun] The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle. | [noun] A police informant. ECRU (6) [noun] A beige colour. | [adjective] Of a beige colour. EERY (7) EGER (5) EMIR (6) [noun] A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. | [noun] A descendant of the prophet Muhammad. ERAS (4) [noun] A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year. | [noun] A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods. ERGO (5) [adverb] Consequently, therefore, thus. | [conjunction] Therefore (especially in syllogisms). | [noun] An ergometer (rowing machine). ERGS (5) [noun] The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10−7 joules. | [noun] A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara. | [noun] An ergometer. ERNE (4) [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) | [noun] An eagle. | [verb] To long; to yearn. ERNS (4) EROS (4) ERRS (4) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To sin. | [verb] To stray. ERST (4) [adjective] First. | [adverb] First of all, before (some other specified thing). | [adverb] Sooner (than); before. EURO (4) [noun] Person living or originating from Europe | [noun] Person who resides within the European Union | [noun] The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: € | [noun] Macropus robustus, a wallaroo (macropod species). EVER (7) [adjective] Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan. | [adverb] Always, frequently, forever. | [adverb] Continuously, constantly, all the time (for the complete duration). EWER (7) [noun] A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle. EYER (7) EYRA (7) [noun] A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. EYRE (7) [noun] A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere). EYRY (10) FAIR (7) [noun] Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective). | [noun] A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women. | [noun] Fairness, beauty. | [noun] A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements. FARD (8) [noun] Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint. | [verb] To paint, as the cheeks or face. | [verb] To embellish or gloss over. | [noun] Force of movement, impetus, rush; hence, a violent onset. | [noun] A commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfil; a religious duty or obligation. FARE (7) [noun] A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage. | [noun] Money paid for a transport ticket. | [noun] A paying passenger, especially in a taxi. | [verb] To go, travel. FARL (7) [noun] A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake. | [noun] Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls. | [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) FARM (9) [noun] A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock. | [noun] A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation. | [noun] (usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures | [verb] To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out FARO (7) [noun] 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 (7) [noun] An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. | [noun] (impolite) An irritating person; a fool. | [noun] (impolite, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views. FEAR (7) [noun] A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. | [noun] A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. | [noun] Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. | [adjective] Able; capable; stout; strong; sound. FERE (7) FERN (7) [noun] Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations. FIAR (7) FIRE (7) [noun] A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering. | [noun] An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire). | [noun] The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger. | [verb] To set (something, often a building) on fire. | [adjective] Amazing; excellent. FIRM (9) [noun] A business partnership; the name under which it trades. | [noun] A business enterprise, however organized. | [noun] A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism. | [verb] To make firm or strong; fix securely. FIRN (7) [noun] A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles and thus is made of numerous small icy grains, though it is not nearly as saturated with water as snow-cone slush is; can be hard or somewhat soft depending on recent and current weather conditions. FIRS (7) [noun] A conifer of the genus Abies. | [noun] Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). | [noun] Wood of such trees. FORA (7) [noun] A place for discussion. | [noun] A gathering for the purpose of discussion. | [noun] A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. FORB (9) [noun] Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush). FORD (8) [noun] A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing. | [noun] A stream; a current. | [verb] To cross a stream using a ford. FORE (7) [noun] The front; the forward part of something; the foreground. | [adjective] Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous. | [adjective] Forward; situated towards the front (of something). | [verb] To go, travel. FORK (11) [noun] A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc. | [noun] A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil. | [noun] A gallows. | [noun] The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains. FORM (9) [noun] (heading, physical) To do with shape. | [noun] (social) To do with structure or procedure. | [noun] A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. FORT (7) [noun] A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops. | [noun] Any permanent army post. | [noun] An outlying trading-station, as in British North America. FOUR (7) [noun] The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof. | [noun] Anything measuring four units, as length. | [noun] A person who is four years old. FRAE (7) FRAG (8) [noun] A fragmentation grenade. | [noun] A successful kill in a deathmatch game. | [verb] To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade. FRAP (9) [verb] To draw together tightly; to secure by many turns of a lashing. | [verb] To strike. | [noun] An iced cappuccino. FRAT (7) [noun] Shortened form for fraternity, college organization. (Often used as a noun modifier.) FRAY (10) [verb] To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope. | [verb] To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength). | [verb] Frighten; alarm | [noun] A fight or argument FREE (7) [noun] Free transfer | [noun] The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed. | [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. FRET (7) [noun] Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. | [noun] Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation. | [noun] Herpes; tetter. | [noun] An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief. | [noun] A ferrule, a ring. | [noun] A channel, a strait; a fretum. | [noun] A channel or passage created by the sea. | [noun] A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea. FRIG (8) [noun] An act of frigging. | [noun] A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed). | [noun] A fuck. | [noun] An insulated bin, box or cabinet used to keep food or beverages cold. FRIT (7) [noun] A fused mixture of materials used to make glass. | [noun] A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age) | [verb] To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture | [adjective] Frightened. | [noun] A frit fly. FRIZ (16) FROE (7) [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [noun] A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. FROG (8) [noun] A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops. | [noun] The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached. | [noun] Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad. | [noun] A French person. | [noun] A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt. | [verb] To unravel part of (a knitted garment) while knitting it in order to correct a mistake. FROM (9) [preposition] Used to indicate source or provenance. | [preposition] Originating at (a year, time, etc.) | [preposition] Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference. FROW (10) [noun] A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one. | [noun] A slovenly woman; a wench; a lusty woman. | [noun] A big, fat woman; a slovenly, coarse, or untidy woman; a woman of low character. | [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [adjective] Brittle; tender; crisp | [noun] A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower. FRUG (8) [noun] (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s. | [verb] To perform this dance. FURL (7) [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) FURS (7) [noun] The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick. | [noun] The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans. | [noun] A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel. FURY (10) [noun] Extreme anger. | [noun] Strength or violence in action. | [noun] An angry or malignant person. | [noun] A thief. GARB (7) [noun] Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. | [noun] A type of dress or clothing. | [noun] A guise, external appearance. | [noun] A wheat sheaf. GARS (5) [noun] A spear. | [noun] Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws. | [noun] A garfish, Belone belone. GAUR (5) [noun] An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition. GEAR (5) [noun] Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. | [noun] Clothing; garments. | [noun] Goods; property; household items. GERM (7) [noun] The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore. | [noun] A pathogenic microorganism. | [noun] The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. GIRD (6) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. | [noun] A sarcastic remark. GIRL (5) [noun] A female child, adolescent, or a young woman. | [noun] A young female animal. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young woman GIRN (5) [noun] A vocalization similar to a cat's purring. | [verb] To grimace; to snarl. | [verb] To whinge, moan, complain. GIRO (5) [noun] (in Europe) A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions. | [noun] An unemployment benefit cheque. | [verb] To transfer funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions. GIRT (5) [noun] A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts. | [verb] To gird. | [verb] To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. | [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [adjective] Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big. GNAR (5) GOER (5) [noun] One who, or that which, goes. | [noun] Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully. | [noun] A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity. GORE (5) [noun] Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. | [noun] Murder, bloodshed, violence. | [noun] Dirt; mud; filth. | [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [noun] A triangular piece of land where roads meet. GORP (7) [noun] 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 (8) [adjective] Covered with blood, very bloody | [adjective] Unpleasant GRAB (7) [noun] A sudden snatch at something. | [noun] An acquisition by violent or unjust means. | [noun] A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. | [noun] A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast. GRAD (6) [noun] A unit of angle equal to 0.9 degrees, so that there are 100 gradians in a right angle. | [noun] A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. | [noun] A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school. | [noun] A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this. GRAM (7) [noun] A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g | [noun] A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea. | [noun] The seeds of these plants. | [noun] Grandmother | [adjective] Angry | [noun] A photograph or video shared on this service. GRAN (5) [noun] (usually affectionate) a grandmother | [noun] A grandfather GRAT (5) GRAY (8) [noun] An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. | [noun] An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. | [noun] An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head. | [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy GREE (5) GREW (8) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. | [verb] To be frightened; to shudder with fear. GREY (8) [adjective] Having a color. | [adjective] Having a particular color or kind of color. | [adjective] Having prominent colors; colorful. GRID (6) [noun] A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle. | [noun] A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire. | [noun] A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters). GRIG (6) [noun] A dwarf. | [noun] A cricket or grasshopper. | [noun] A small or young eel. | [noun] Heath or heather. | [verb] To irritate or annoy. GRIM (7) [noun] Specter, ghost, haunting spirit | [verb] To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. | [adjective] Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding | [noun] Anger, wrath. GRIN (5) [noun] A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth. | [verb] To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. | [verb] To express by grinning. | [noun] A snare; a gin. GRIP (7) [verb] To take hold of, particularly with the hand. | [verb] To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense. | [verb] To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief. | [noun] A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand. | [noun] A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain. | [noun] The griffin. GRIT (5) [noun] A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. | [noun] Inedible particles in food. | [noun] A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats. GROG (6) [noun] (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy. | [noun] (by extension) Any alcoholic beverage. | [noun] A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage. GROT (5) [noun] A grotto. | [noun] Any unpleasant substance or material. | [noun] A miserable person. GROW (8) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GRUB (7) [noun] An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A short, thick man; a dwarf. GRUE (5) GRUM (7) GUAR (5) [noun] An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans. GURU (5) [noun] A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher. | [noun] (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor. GYRE (8) [noun] A swirling vortex. | [noun] A circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current. | [noun] A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. GYRI (8) [noun] A ridge or fold on the cerebral cortex. GYRO (8) [noun] A gyroscope | [noun] A gyrocompass | [noun] An autogyro | [noun] A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce. HAAR (7) [noun] Coastal fog along the coast of North East England and Scotland bordering the North Sea. HAIR (7) [noun] A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals. | [noun] The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body. | [noun] A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. HARD (8) [noun] A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water. | [noun] A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums. | [noun] Crack cocaine. HARE (7) [noun] Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears. | [noun] The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed. | [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. | [adjective] Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people). HARK (11) [noun] (Scots) A whisper | [verb] To listen attentively; often used in the imperative. HARL (7) HARM (9) [noun] Physical injury; hurt; damage | [noun] Emotional or figurative hurt | [noun] Detriment; misfortune. HARP (9) [noun] 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 | [noun] A harmonica. | [noun] A grain sieve. HART (7) [noun] A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year. | [noun] A red deer or one of related species. | [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. HEAR (7) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEIR (7) [noun] Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another. | [noun] One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office. | [noun] A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor. HERB (9) [noun] Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food. | [noun] A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine. | [noun] Marijuana. HERD (8) [noun] A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. | [noun] Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. | [noun] (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. | [noun] Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman. HERE (7) [noun] (abstract) This place; this location. | [noun] (abstract) This time, the present situation. | [adjective] Filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis. HERL (7) [noun] A strand of hair | [noun] The fibrous shaft or barb of a feather (especially that of the ostrich or peacock) used to make artificial flies for angling | [noun] An artificial fly made with this barb HERM (9) [noun] A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A hermaphrodite. | [adjective] (of an individual organism) Having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads. HERN (7) HERO (7) [noun] Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary or noble deeds. | [noun] A role model. | [noun] The protagonist in a work of fiction. HERS (7) [noun] A female person or animal. | [pronoun] That which belongs to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. HIRE (7) [noun] Payment for the temporary use of something. | [noun] Reward, payment. | [noun] The state of being hired, or having a job; employment. | [verb] To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. HOAR (7) [noun] A white or greyish-white colour. | [noun] Hoariness; antiquity. | [verb] To become mouldy or musty. HOER (7) HORA (7) [noun] A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide. | [noun] A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods. HORN (7) [noun] A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired. | [noun] Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar. | [noun] An antler. HOUR (7) [noun] A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day. | [noun] A season, moment, or time. | [noun] The time. HURL (7) [noun] A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling. | [noun] The act of vomiting. | [noun] The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley. HURT (7) [noun] An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. | [noun] A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise. | [noun] Injury; damage; detriment; harm INRO (4) [noun] A small decorative box, hung from the sash of a kimono, for holding small objects IRED (5) IRES (4) IRID (5) IRIS (4) [noun] A plant of the genus Iris, common in the northern hemisphere, and generally having attractive blooms (See Iris (plant)). | [noun] The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, which adjusts to control the amount of light reaching the retina, and which forms the colored portion of the eye (See Iris (anatomy)). | [noun] A diaphragm used to regulate the size of a hole, especially as a way of controlling the amount of light reaching a lens. IRKS (8) [verb] To irritate; annoy; bother IRON (4) [noun] A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel. | [noun] A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe. | [noun] Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron. IZAR (13) JARL (11) [noun] A medieval Scandinavian nobleman, especially in Norway and Denmark. JARS (11) [noun] An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial. | [noun] A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes. | [noun] A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful. JEER (11) [noun] A mocking remark or reflection. | [verb] (jeer at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language. | [noun] A gear; a tackle. JERK (15) [noun] A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body. | [noun] A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. | [noun] A dull or stupid person. | [noun] A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade. JURA (11) JURY (14) [noun] A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law. | [noun] A group of judges in a competition. | [noun] The audience attending the first night of a performance, whose reaction may determine whether it succeeds or fails. | [adjective] For temporary use; applied to a temporary contrivance. KARN (8) KART (8) [noun] A go-cart. | [verb] To ride in a go-cart. KBAR (10) KEIR (8) KERB (10) [noun] The edge between the pavement and the roadway, consisting of a line of kerbstones. | [noun] A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb. | [verb] To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb. KERF (11) [noun] The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice. | [noun] The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision. | [noun] The distance between diverging saw teeth. KERN (8) [noun] A corn; grain; kernel. | [noun] The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest. | [noun] The harvest home. | [noun] Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter. | [noun] A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt. | [noun] A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones. | [noun] A churn. KIER (8) [noun] A bleaching vat. KIRK (12) [noun] A church. KIRN (8) KIRS (8) [noun] A cocktail made with a measure of crème de cassis topped up with white wine. KNAR (8) [noun] A knot or burl in a tree; a knurl, a gnarl. KNUR (8) [noun] A knurl. | [noun] The small wooden ball in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell. KORE (8) [noun] An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle. KORS (8) KRIS (8) [noun] An Indonesian or Malay dagger with a wavy, or rigid serpentine blade. | [noun] A Moro sword with an asymmetrical blade. | [verb] To stab with a kris. KURU (8) [noun] A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism. KYAR (11) LAIR (4) [noun] A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground. | [noun] A shed or shelter for domestic animals. | [noun] A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway. | [noun] A bog; a mire. | [noun] A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off. LARD (5) [noun] Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy. | [noun] Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork. | [verb] To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking. LARI (4) [noun] The national currency of Georgia, divided into 100 tetri. LARK (8) [noun] Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae. | [noun] Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark. | [noun] (by extension) One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks. | [noun] A romp, frolic, some fun. LARS (4) LEAR (4) LEER (4) [noun] A significant side glance; a glance expressive of some passion, as malignity, amorousness, etc.; a sly or lecherous look. | [noun] An arch or affected glance or cast of countenance. | [verb] To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent. | [noun] The cheek. | [adjective] Empty; unoccupied; clear. | [verb] To teach. | [noun] A long oven or kiln, often having a moving belt, used for annealing glass. LEHR (7) [noun] A long oven or kiln, often having a moving belt, used for annealing glass. LIAR (4) [noun] One who tells lies. | [noun] A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week. LIER (4) LIRA (4) [noun] The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel. | [noun] The basic unit of currency in Turkey. | [noun] The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar) | [noun] A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy. | [noun] Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs LIRE (4) [noun] Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin. | [noun] The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint. | [noun] The cheek. | [noun] The Manx shearwater (bird). | [noun] The basic unit of currency in Turkey. LIRI (4) LORD (5) [noun] The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor | [noun] One possessing similar mastery over others; any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron) | [noun] One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~) LORE (4) [noun] All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience. | [noun] The backstory created around a fictional universe. | [noun] Workmanship. | [noun] The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians. | [verb] To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons. LORN (4) [adjective] Doomed; lost. | [adjective] Abandoned, forlorn, lonely. LORY (7) [noun] Any of various small, brightly coloured, parrots native to Australasia. They are usually classified in the subfamily Loriinae. LOUR (4) [noun] A frown, a scowl; an angry or sullen look. | [noun] Of the sky, the weather, etc.: a dark, gloomy, and threatening appearance. | [verb] To frown; to look sullen. LURE (4) [noun] Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure | [noun] An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish | [noun] A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk | [noun] A trumpet with long curved tube, used for calling cattle, etc. LURK (8) [noun] The act of lurking. | [noun] A swindle. | [verb] To remain concealed in order to ambush. LYRE (7) [noun] An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke. | [noun] A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical. | [noun] A composer of lyric poetry. MAAR (6) [noun] A broad volcanic crater, usually filled with water to form a lake. MAIR (6) MARC (8) [noun] The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed. | [noun] An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes. | [noun] A weight of various commodities, especially of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces. MARE (6) [noun] An adult female horse. | [noun] A foolish woman. | [noun] A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit. | [noun] A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea. MARK (10) [noun] (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary. | [noun] (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression. | [noun] (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc. | [noun] A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz. | [verb] To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does. MARL (6) [noun] 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. | [verb] To cover with the earthy substance called marl. | [verb] To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. MARS (6) [noun] A blemish. | [verb] To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage. | [noun] A small lake. MART (6) [noun] A market. | [noun] A bargain. | [verb] To buy or sell in, or as in a mart. | [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. MERE (6) [noun] A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere. | [noun] Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line. | [verb] To limit; bound; divide or cause division in. | [adjective] Famous. | [adjective] Pure, unalloyed . | [noun] A Maori war-club. MERK (10) MERL (6) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MIRE (6) [noun] Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. | [noun] An undesirable situation, a predicament. | [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [noun] An ant. MIRI (6) MIRK (10) [noun] Archaic spelling of murk. | [verb] Archaic spelling of murk. | [adjective] Dark, murky MIRS (6) MIRY (9) [adjective] Relating to a mire; swampy, boggy. MOOR (6) [noun] An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath | [noun] A game preserve consisting of moorland. | [verb] To cast anchor or become fastened. MORA (6) MORE (6) [adverb] To a greater degree or extent. | [adverb] Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. | [adverb] In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. | [noun] A carrot; a parsnip. | [verb] To root up. MORN (6) [noun] Morning. MORS (6) MORT (6) [noun] Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. | [noun] A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. | [noun] The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. | [noun] A great quantity or number. | [noun] A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed. | [noun] A three-year-old salmon. | [noun] A woman; a female. MURA (6) MURE (6) [noun] Wall | [noun] Husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh | [verb] To wall in or fortify MURK (10) [adjective] Dark, murky | [noun] Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment. | [verb] To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured. | [verb] To murder or seriously injure. MURR (6) NARC (6) [noun] A narcotics squad police officer. | [noun] A police spy or informer. | [noun] An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others. | [verb] (underwater diving) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (for example, while scuba diving). | [noun] A narcissist. NARD (5) [noun] Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine. | [noun] A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized. | [noun] American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root. | [noun] (1980s, usually plural) Testicles. NARK (8) [noun] A police spy or informer. | [noun] An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others. | [verb] To watch; to observe. | [noun] A narcotics squad police officer. NARY (7) [adjective] Not, never. NEAR (4) [noun] The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc. | [verb] To come closer to; to approach. | [adjective] Physically close. NERD (5) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. | [noun] An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork. NOIR (4) [noun] Film noir. | [noun] A production in the style of film noir. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre NORI (4) [noun] A type of seaweed, a red alga, laver (genus Pyropia, including species P. yezoensis and P. tenera). | [noun] The seaweed, chopped and formed into sheets, used in the preparation of sushi. | [noun] An improvised rail vehicle from Cambodia; a bamboo train. NORM (6) [noun] That which is normal or typical. | [noun] A rule that is enforced by members of a community. | [noun] A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition. | [verb] To endow (a vector space, etc) with a norm. NURD (5) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. | [noun] An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork. NURL (4) OARS (4) [noun] 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 . | [noun] An oarsman; a rower. | [noun] An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates. ODOR (5) [noun] Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive. | [noun] A strong, pervasive quality. | [noun] Esteem. OGRE (5) [noun] A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh. | [noun] A brutish man reminiscent of the mythical ogre. OKRA (8) [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. | [noun] The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones. OMER (6) [noun] A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts. | [noun] A vessel of one omer. | [noun] The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover. | [noun] The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot. ORAD (5) ORAL (4) [noun] A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class. | [noun] A physical examination of the mouth. | [noun] Oral sex. ORBS (6) [noun] A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star | [noun] One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions | [noun] A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit ORBY (9) ORCA (6) [noun] A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale. ORCS (6) [noun] Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale. | [noun] A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green. | [noun] A porcine humanoid monster larger than humans, sometimes pink. (found in Japanese pop-culture and called "orc" when imported to the West) ORDO (5) ORES (4) [noun] Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed. ORGY (8) [noun] Originally, secret rites or ceremonies, typically involving riotous and dissolute behaviour, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honour of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc). | [noun] A gathering of people to engage in group sex. | [noun] Excessive indulgence in a specified activity. ORLE (4) [noun] A bordure that runs around the outline of a shield without touching the edge | [noun] The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest; a torse | [noun] A fillet under the ovolo of a capital ORRA (4) [adjective] Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over. | [adjective] Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable. ORTS (4) [noun] (usually in plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse. ORYX (14) [noun] Any of several antelopes, of the genus Oryx, native to Africa, which have long, straight horns. ORZO (13) [noun] A form of pasta the size and shape of grains of rice or barley; often used in soups. OSAR (4) OURS (4) [pronoun] That which belongs to us; the possessive case of we, used without a following noun. OVER (7) [noun] A set of six legal balls bowled. | [noun] Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc. | [verb] To go over, or jump over. | [noun] A shore, riverbank. OYER (7) PAIR (6) [noun] Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of. | [noun] Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship. | [noun] Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts) | [verb] To impair, to make worse. PARA (6) [noun] A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions. | [noun] A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word. | [noun] A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented. | [noun] A paratrooper. | [adjective] Very drunk | [noun] Short for paraprofessional educator. PARD (7) [noun] A leopard; a panther. | [noun] Partner; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation PARE (6) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PARK (10) [noun] An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation. | [noun] A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region. | [noun] An area used for specific purposes. PARR (6) [noun] Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater. | [noun] A young leveret. PARS (6) [noun] 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. | [noun] Equality of condition or circumstances. | [noun] (mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole. PART (6) [noun] A portion; a component. | [noun] Duty; responsibility. | [noun] The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. PEAR (6) [noun] An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem. | [noun] A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis). | [noun] The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood). PEER (6) [noun] A look; a glance. | [verb] To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. | [verb] To come in sight; to appear. | [noun] Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else). | [noun] Someone who pees, someone who urinates. PERI (6) [noun] (Persian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being. PERK (10) [noun] Perquisite. | [noun] A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up. | [noun] A percolator, particularly of coffee. | [verb] To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of. | [verb] To peer; to look inquisitively. | [verb] To perch. PERM (8) [noun] A permanent. | [noun] A permanent wave. | [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. | [noun] A permutation. PERT (6) [noun] An impudent person. | [verb] To behave with pertness. | [adjective] (of a person) Attractive. PIER (6) [noun] A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty. | [noun] A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment. | [noun] A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided. PIRN (6) POOR (6) [noun] (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group. | [adjective] With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. | [adjective] Of low quality. PORE (6) [noun] A tiny opening in the skin. | [noun] By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid. | [verb] To study meticulously; to go over again and again. PORK (10) [noun] The meat of a pig; swineflesh. | [noun] Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or his or her constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole. | [verb] (usually of a male) To have sex with (someone). PORN (6) [noun] Pornography. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A pornographic work. | [noun] Material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a sensational manner. PORT (6) [noun] A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. | [noun] A town or city containing such a place, a port city. | [noun] The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board. | [noun] An entryway or gate. | [noun] Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making. | [noun] A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal. | [noun] A suitcase or schoolbag. POUR (6) [noun] The act of pouring. | [noun] Something, or an amount, poured. | [noun] A downpour, or flood of precipitation. PRAM (8) [noun] A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position; a perambulator. | [noun] A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. | [noun] A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. PRAO (6) PRAT (6) [noun] A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. | [adjective] Cunning, astute. | [noun] A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. PRAU (6) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PRAY (9) [verb] To direct words and/or thoughts to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc. | [verb] To humbly beg a person for aid or their time. | [verb] To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. PREE (6) PREP (8) [noun] A preventative medical regiment of HIV medicines used to protect against HIV seroconversion after an exposure. | [noun] Preparation. | [noun] A prep school. PREX (13) [noun] (college slang) A president, especially of a university. | [noun] Prefix. PREY (9) [noun] Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war | [noun] That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim. | [noun] A living thing that is eaten by another living thing. PREZ (15) [noun] President. PRIG (7) [noun] A tinker. | [noun] A petty thief or pickpocket. | [noun] A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner. PRIM (8) [verb] To make affectedly precise or proper. | [verb] To dress or act smartly. | [adjective] Prudish, straight-laced | [noun] (plants) privet PROA (6) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PROD (7) [noun] A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving. | [noun] A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument. | [noun] A poke. | [noun] A production. PROF (9) [noun] The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution, informally also known as "full professor." Abbreviated Prof. | [noun] A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank. | [noun] One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine. PROG (7) [noun] Progressive rock. | [noun] A program. | [noun] (university slang) A proctor. | [noun] Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. PROM (8) [noun] A promenade concert | [noun] (abbreviation) promenade | [noun] A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions, e.g. near the end of the academic year PROP (8) [noun] An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports. | [noun] The player on either side of the hooker in a scrum. | [noun] One of the seashells in the game of props. | [noun] An item placed on a stage or set to create a scene or scenario in which actors perform. | [noun] The propeller of an aircraft. | [noun] A proposition, especially on an election-day ballot. | [noun] Propellant PROS (6) [noun] An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons). | [noun] A person who supports a concept or principle. | [noun] A professional sportsman. PROW (9) [noun] The front part of a vessel | [noun] A vessel | [adjective] Brave, valiant, gallant. | [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PURE (6) [noun] One who, or that which, is pure. | [verb] To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately | [verb] To cleanse; to refine. | [noun] Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins. PURI (6) [noun] A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried. | [noun] In Bali and other parts of Indonesia, a palace, or other residence of a member of the royal family or ruling class. PURL (6) [noun] A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance. | [noun] The edge of lace trimmed with loops. | [noun] An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. | [noun] A heavy or headlong fall; an upset. | [noun] A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple. | [noun] Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic. | [noun] A tern. PURR (6) [noun] The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented. | [noun] A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person. | [noun] The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed PURS (6) PYRE (9) [noun] A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned. | [noun] Any heap or pile of combustibles. RACE (6) [noun] A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins | [noun] Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed. | [noun] A race condition. | [noun] A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics: | [noun] A rhizome or root, especially of ginger. | [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. RACK (10) [noun] A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other | [noun] Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel. | [noun] A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits. | [verb] To stretch a person's joints. | [noun] Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky. | [verb] To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs. | [noun] A fast amble. | [noun] A wreck; destruction. | [noun] A young rabbit, or its skin. | [noun] A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East RACY (9) [adjective] Mildly risqué. | [adjective] Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil. | [adjective] (by extension) Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively. RADS (5) [noun] A non-SI unit of absorbed dose of radiation, equal to 0.01 gray. | [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angular measure of angle equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle. Symbol: rad | [noun] Anything which radiates or emits rays. RAFF (10) RAFT (7) [noun] A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform. | [noun] (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion. | [noun] A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water. | [noun] A large (but unspecified) number, a lot. RAGA (5) [noun] Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form. | [noun] Passion, love, lust. RAGE (5) [noun] Violent uncontrolled anger. | [noun] A current fashion or fad. | [noun] Any vehement passion. RAGI (5) [noun] A type of grain, Eleusine coracana, cultivated as a cereal in arid areas of Africa and Asia; finger millet. | [noun] A type of yeast traditionally used in winemaking, baking, and brewing, now identified as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. RAGS (5) [noun] (in the plural) Tattered clothes. | [noun] A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter. | [noun] A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. RAIA (4) RAID (5) [noun] A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle. | [noun] An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering | [noun] An attacking movement. RAIL (4) [noun] A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing. | [noun] The metal bar that makes the track for a railroad. | [noun] A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation. | [noun] Any of several birds in the family Rallidae. | [verb] To complain violently (against, about). | [noun] An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress. | [verb] (of a liquid) To gush, flow. RAIN (4) [noun] Condensed water falling from a cloud. | [noun] Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops. | [noun] An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air. RAJA (11) [noun] A Hindu prince or ruler in India. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Charaxes. RAKE (8) [noun] A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor. | [noun] (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes. | [noun] The act of raking. | [noun] A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey. | [noun] Rate of progress; pace, speed. | [noun] A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope. | [noun] A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct. RAKI (8) [noun] A Turkish liqueur flavored with anise. RALE (4) [noun] (now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema. RAMI (6) [noun] A small spray or twig. | [noun] A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels. | [noun] The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend. RAMP (8) [noun] An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline. | [noun] A road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway. | [noun] A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport | [noun] An American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion; a wild leek. RAMS (6) [noun] A male sheep, typically uncastrated | [noun] A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors. | [noun] A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them. | [noun] A French trick-taking card game related to nap and loo. RAND (5) [noun] The border of an area of land, especially marshland. | [noun] A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak. | [noun] A border, edge or rim. | [noun] A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand | [verb] To rant; to storm. RANG (5) [verb] Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. | [verb] To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound. | [verb] To produce (a sound) by ringing. RANI (4) [noun] The wife of a rajah. | [noun] A Hindu princess or female ruler in India. RANK (8) [adjective] Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things). | [adjective] Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross. | [adjective] Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric. | [noun] A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"]. RANT (4) [noun] A criticism done by ranting. | [noun] A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation. | [noun] A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop. RAPE (6) RAPS (6) [noun] A sharp blow with something hard. | [noun] Blame for something. | [noun] A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction. RAPT (6) [noun] An ecstasy; a trance. | [noun] Rapidity. | [verb] To transport or ravish. RARE (4) [noun] A scarce or uncommon item. | [adjective] Very uncommon; scarce. | [adjective] (of a gas) Thin; of low density. | [adjective] (particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense). | [verb] To rear, rise up, start backwards. | [adjective] Early RASE (4) [noun] A scratching out, or erasure | [noun] A slight wound; a scratch | [noun] A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it RASH (7) [adjective] Acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences; not careful; hasty. | [adjective] So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. | [adjective] Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. | [noun] An area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin. | [noun] An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted. | [verb] To pull off or pluck violently. RASP (6) [noun] 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. | [noun] The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound. | [verb] To use a rasp. | [noun] The raspberry. RATE (4) [noun] The worth of something; value. | [noun] The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. | [noun] Speed. | [verb] To berate, scold. RATH (7) [noun] A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age. | [noun] A Burmese carriage of state. | [adjective] Alternative form of rathe. RATO (4) RATS (4) [noun] A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus. | [noun] Any of the numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) that resemble true rats in appearance, usually having a pointy snout, a long, bare tail, and body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches. | [noun] A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling. RAVE (7) [noun] An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). | [noun] An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use. | [noun] The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties. | [noun] One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh. | [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. RAWS (7) RAYA (7) RAYS (7) [noun] A beam of light or radiation. | [noun] A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin. | [noun] One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran. RAZE (13) [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. | [verb] To scrape as if with a razor. | [noun] A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins | [noun] A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through. RAZZ (22) [noun] A version of seven card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball). | [verb] To tease playfully; to heckle. | [verb] To drive an automobile around. READ (5) [noun] A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play. | [noun] (in combination) Something to be read; a written work. | [noun] A person's interpretation or impression of something. | [verb] To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. REAL (4) [noun] A commodity; see realty. | [noun] (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages. | [noun] A real number. | [noun] Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies. | [noun] A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942. REAM (6) [noun] Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general. | [verb] To cream; mantle; foam; froth. | [verb] To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider. | [noun] A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets. REAP (6) [noun] A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. | [verb] To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine | [verb] To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting. REAR (4) [verb] To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. | [verb] (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. | [verb] To rise up on the hind legs | [verb] To move; stir. | [adjective] (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw. | [noun] The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front. REBS (6) [noun] A Confederate soldier. RECK (10) [verb] To make account of; to care for; to heed, regard, consider. | [verb] To concern, to be important or earnest. | [verb] To think. RECS (6) [noun] A recommendation or suggestion. | [noun] A recreation ground. | [noun] Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates. REDD (6) [verb] To free from entanglement. | [verb] To free from embarrassment. | [verb] To fix boundaries. | [verb] To clean, tidy up, to put in order. | [noun] A spawning nest made by a fish. | [verb] To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. REDE (5) [noun] Help, advice, counsel. | [noun] Decision, a plan. | [verb] To govern, protect. REDO (5) [noun] A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc. | [verb] To do again. REDS (5) [noun] Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc. | [noun] A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. | [noun] One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours. REED (5) [noun] Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water. | [noun] The hollow stem of these plants. | [noun] Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it. | [verb] To thatch. | [verb] To become extremely excited; fly into a rage. | [noun] The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. REEF (7) [noun] A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water. | [noun] A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore. | [noun] A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind. | [noun] The itch; any eruptive skin disorder. REEK (8) [noun] A strong unpleasant smell. | [noun] Vapour; steam; smoke; fume. | [verb] To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell. | [noun] A hill; a mountain. REEL (4) [noun] A shaky or unsteady gait. | [noun] A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel. | [noun] A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound. REES (4) REFS (7) [noun] A referee. | [noun] A refrigerator. | [verb] To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game. REFT (7) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. REGS (5) [noun] A regular. | [noun] A regulation. | [noun] Registrar | [noun] Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana. REIF (7) REIN (4) [noun] A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child. | [noun] An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing. | [verb] To direct or stop a horse by using reins. | [noun] (chiefly in plural) A kidney. REIS (4) RELY (7) [verb] (with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend. REMS (6) REND (5) [noun] A violent separation of parts. | [verb] To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst | [verb] To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate. RENT (4) [noun] A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property. | [noun] A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service. | [noun] A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business. | [verb] To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst REPO (6) [noun] Repossession | [noun] A repurchase agreement: a type of derivative which allows a borrower to use a financial security as collateral for a cash loan at a fixed interest rate | [noun] A repository usually containing software, in either source code or precompiled form. REPP (8) [noun] A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface. REPS (6) [noun] Rep. | [verb] To represent; to act as a representative for. | [verb] Repeat RESH (7) REST (4) [noun] (of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep. | [noun] Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation. | [noun] Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility. | [verb] To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion. | [noun] That which remains. | [verb] To arrest. RETE (4) [noun] A network of blood vessels or nerves. | [noun] An anatomical part resembling or including a network. | [noun] A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features. RETS (4) [verb] To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem. REVS (7) [noun] Revolution | [noun] A member of the Christian clergy; a minister. RHEA (7) [noun] A large flightless bird of the genus Rhea, native to South America. | [noun] Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a fiber-yielding plant. RHOS (7) [noun] The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient. | [noun] The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate. RHUS (7) RIAL (4) [noun] The official currencies of Iran, Oman, and Yemen. | [noun] An old gold coin of England. RIAS (4) [noun] A submergent coastal landform, often known as a drowned river valley RIBS (6) [noun] 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 | [noun] A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something | [noun] A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones RICE (6) [noun] Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food. | [noun] A specific variety of this plant. | [noun] The seeds of this plant used as food. | [noun] (now chiefly) A twig or stick. RICH (9) [verb] To enrich. | [verb] To become rich. | [adjective] Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions. RICK (10) [noun] Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch. | [noun] A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet. | [verb] To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks. | [verb] To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc. | [noun] A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee. RIDE (5) [noun] An instance of riding. | [noun] A vehicle. | [noun] An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. RIDS (5) [verb] To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance. | [verb] To banish. | [verb] To kill. RIEL (4) [noun] The monetary unit of Cambodia, equivalent to 100 sen or 10 kak. Symbol: ៛ RIFE (7) [adjective] Widespread, common, prevalent, current (mainly of unpleasant or harmful things). | [adjective] Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful. | [adjective] Full of (mostly unpleasant or harmful things). RIFF (10) [noun] A repeated instrumental melody line in a song. | [noun] A clever or witty remark. | [noun] A variation on something. | [noun] The belly; the bowels. RIFS (7) RIFT (7) [noun] A chasm or fissure. | [noun] A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through. | [noun] A shallow place in a stream; a ford. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch. RIGS (5) [noun] The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft. | [noun] Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose. | [noun] A large truck such as a semi-tractor. RILE (4) [verb] To make angry | [verb] To stir or move from a state of calm or order RILL (4) [noun] A very small brook; a streamlet. | [verb] To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream. | [noun] A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies. RIME (6) [noun] Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface. | [noun] A coating or sheet of ice so formed. | [noun] A film or slimy coating. | [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [noun] A step of a ladder; a rung. | [noun] A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. RIMS (6) [noun] An edge around something, especially when circular. | [noun] A wheelrim. | [noun] A semicircular copydesk. RIMY (9) [adjective] Coated in rime. RIND (5) [noun] Tree bark | [noun] A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc | [noun] (usually "the") The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind" | [noun] An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill. RING (5) [noun] (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle. | [noun] (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle. | [noun] A piece of food in the shape of a ring. | [noun] The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it. | [noun] An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation. RINK (8) [noun] A man, especially a warrior or hero. | [noun] A ring; a circle. | [noun] A sheet of ice prepared for playing certain sports, such as hockey or curling. RINS (4) RIOT (4) [noun] Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. | [noun] The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. | [noun] A wide and unconstrained variety. RIPE (6) [noun] A fruit or vegetable which has ripened. | [verb] To ripen or mature | [adjective] (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature | [noun] The bank of a river. | [verb] To search; to rummage. RIPS (6) [noun] A tear (in paper, etc.). | [noun] A type of tide or current. | [noun] A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action. RISE (4) [verb] To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. | [verb] To increase in value or standing. | [verb] To begin; to develop. | [noun] The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater. | [noun] (now chiefly) A twig or stick. RISK (8) [noun] A possible adverse event or outcome | [noun] The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event. | [noun] The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event. RITE (4) [noun] A religious custom. | [noun] (by extension) A prescribed behavior. | [adjective] Straight, not bent. RITZ (13) [noun] (usually preceded by the) A display of ostentatious elegance. RIVE (7) [noun] A place torn; a rent; a rift. | [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. | [noun] A bank or shore. ROAD (5) [noun] A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane. | [noun] A road; or particularly a car, as a means of transportation. | [noun] A path chosen in life or career. ROAM (6) [verb] To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination. | [verb] To use a network or service from different locations or devices. | [verb] To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them. ROAN (4) [noun] An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in. | [noun] The color of such an animal. | [noun] A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco. | [noun] Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan. ROAR (4) [noun] A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open. | [noun] The cry of the lion. | [noun] The deep cry of the bull. ROBE (6) [noun] A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature. | [noun] The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap. | [noun] A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom. ROBS (6) [verb] To steal from, especially using force or violence. | [verb] To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud. | [verb] (used with "of") To deprive (of). ROCK (10) [noun] A formation of minerals, specifically: | [noun] A large hill or island having no vegetation. | [noun] Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another. | [noun] An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway. | [noun] A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals. | [noun] Distaff. | [noun] An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend. ROCS (6) [noun] An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend. RODE (5) [verb] To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. | [verb] To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. | [verb] (chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. | [noun] The line from a vessel to its anchor. | [noun] A raid; an incursion. RODS (5) [noun] A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff. | [noun] A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent. | [noun] A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod. ROES (4) [noun] The eggs of fish. | [noun] The sperm of certain fish. | [noun] The ovaries of certain crustaceans. ROIL (4) [verb] To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of. | [verb] To annoy; to make someone angry. | [verb] To bubble, seethe. ROLE (4) [noun] A character or part played by a performer or actor. | [noun] The expected behaviour of an individual in a society. | [noun] The function or position of something. | [noun] An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment. ROLF (7) [verb] To apply the Rolfing massage technique to. ROLL (4) [noun] The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled. | [noun] A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble. | [noun] Something which rolls. | [noun] That which is rolled up. ROMP (8) [noun] Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy. | [noun] A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit. | [noun] An enjoyable, fast-paced but essentially inconsequential film, play, or other piece of entertainment. ROMS (6) ROOD (5) [noun] A crucifix, cross, especially in a church. | [noun] A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre. | [noun] A measure of five and a half yards in length. ROOF (7) [noun] The external covering at the top of a building. | [noun] The top external level of a building. | [noun] The upper part of a cavity. | [verb] To cover or furnish with a roof. ROOK (8) [noun] A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family. | [noun] A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays. | [noun] A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name. | [noun] A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling. | [noun] A rookie. | [noun] Mist; fog; roke | [verb] To squat; to ruck. | [verb] Pronunciation spelling of look. ROOM (6) [noun] Opportunity or scope (to do something). | [noun] Space for something, or to carry out an activity. | [noun] A particular portion of space. | [adjective] Wide; spacious; roomy. | [adverb] Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent. | [noun] A deep blue dye. ROOT (4) [noun] The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction. | [noun] A root vegetable. | [noun] The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place. | [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. | [verb] (with "for" or "on") To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.) ROPE (6) [noun] Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. | [noun] An individual length of such material. | [noun] A cohesive strand of something. ROPY (9) [adjective] Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch. | [adjective] Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures. | [adjective] Of poor quality; in poor health. ROSE (4) [noun] A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers. | [noun] A flower of the rose plant. | [noun] A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae) | [verb] To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. | [noun] A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation. ROSY (7) [adjective] Rose-coloured. | [adjective] Resembling rose, as in scent of perfume. | [adjective] Optimistic. | [noun] Tea ROTA (4) [noun] A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar. | [noun] A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music. ROTE (4) [noun] Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure. | [verb] To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate. | [verb] To learn or repeat by rote. | [noun] The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore. | [noun] A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. ROTI (4) [noun] A kind of unleavened flatbread commonly consumed in South Asia and the Caribbean. ROTL (4) ROTO (4) ROTS (4) [noun] The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction. | [noun] Decaying matter. | [noun] Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs. ROUE (4) ROUP (6) [noun] An outcry. | [noun] A sale of goods by auction. | [verb] To cry or shout. | [noun] An infectious disease of poultry caused by Trichomonas gallinae. ROUT (4) [noun] A noise, especially a loud one | [noun] A disturbance; tumult. | [noun] Snoring. | [noun] A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke. | [noun] A troop or group, especially of a traveling company or throng. | [verb] To search or root in the ground, like a pig. | [noun] The brent goose. ROUX (11) [noun] A mixture of fat (usually butter) and flour used to thicken sauces and stews. ROVE (7) [noun] A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding. | [noun] A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving. | [noun] The act of wandering; a ramble. | [verb] To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it. ROWS (7) [noun] A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc. | [noun] A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom. | [noun] An act or instance of rowing. RUBE (6) [noun] A person of rural heritage; a yokel. | [noun] An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person. RUBS (6) [noun] An act of rubbing. | [noun] A difficulty or problem. | [noun] A quip or sarcastic remark. RUBY (9) [noun] A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone. | [noun] A red spinel. | [noun] A deep red colour. | [noun] A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters. RUCK (10) [noun] A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack. | [noun] In Australian rules football | [noun] The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum. | [noun] A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric. | [verb] To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs. | [noun] An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend. | [noun] A rucksack; a large backpack. | [noun] A small heifer. RUDD (6) [noun] Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius RUDE (5) [adjective] Bad-mannered. | [adjective] Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive. | [adjective] Tough, robust. RUED (5) [verb] To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. | [verb] To cause to feel sorrow or pity. | [verb] To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place. RUER (4) RUES (4) [verb] To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. | [verb] To cause to feel sorrow or pity. | [verb] To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place. RUFF (10) [noun] A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s). | [noun] Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill. | [noun] Senses relating to animals. | [noun] Arripis georgianus, a fish found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia; the Australian herring or tommy ruff. | [noun] An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit. | [noun] A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle. | [adjective] Not smooth; uneven. RUGA (5) RUGS (5) [noun] A partial covering for a floor. | [noun] A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. | [noun] A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. RUIN (4) [noun] (sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle. | [noun] The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed. | [noun] Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction. RULE (4) [noun] A regulation, law, guideline. | [noun] A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure. | [noun] A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing. | [verb] To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over. | [noun] Revelry. RULY (7) [adjective] Pitiable; miserable. | [adverb] Pitiably; miserably. | [adjective] Neat and orderly. RUMP (8) [noun] The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs | [noun] A cut of meat from the rump of an animal. | [noun] The buttocks. RUMS (6) [noun] A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses. | [noun] A serving of rum. | [noun] A kind or brand of rum. RUNE (4) [noun] A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons. | [noun] A Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala. | [noun] A letter or mark used as mystical or magic symbol. RUNG (5) [noun] A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round. | [noun] A crosspiece between legs of a chair. | [noun] A position in a hierarchy. | [verb] Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. RUNS (4) [noun] Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet. | [noun] Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip. | [noun] A pleasure trip. RUNT (4) [noun] The smallest animal of a litter. | [noun] (by extension) The smallest child in the family. | [noun] Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person. RUSE (4) [noun] A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs. | [noun] (by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick. | [noun] Cunning, guile, trickery. RUSH (7) [noun] 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. | [noun] The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc. | [noun] The merest trifle; a straw. | [noun] A sudden forward motion. RUSK (8) [noun] A rectangular, hard, dry biscuit | [noun] A twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback) | [noun] A weaning food for children RUST (4) [noun] The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation. | [noun] A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust"). | [noun] A reddish-brown color. | [verb] To oxidize, especially of iron or steel. RUTH (7) [noun] Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy. | [noun] Repentance; regret; remorse. | [noun] Sorrow; misery; distress. RUTS (4) [noun] Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. | [noun] The noise made by deer during sexual excitement. | [noun] Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. RYAS (7) RYES (7) [noun] A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. | [noun] The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. | [noun] Rye bread. RYKE (11) RYND (8) RYOT (7) [noun] A farmer or tiller of the soil. SARD (5) [noun] A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. | [noun] Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with (a woman). SARI (4) [noun] The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head. SARK (8) [noun] A shirt. | [verb] To cover with sarking, or thin boards. SCAR (6) [noun] A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound. | [noun] (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience. | [noun] Any permanent mark resulting from damage. | [noun] A cliff or rock outcrop. | [noun] A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae). SCRY (9) [verb] To predict the future using crystal balls or other objects. | [verb] To descry; to see. | [noun] A cry or shout. SEAR (4) [adjective] Dry; withered, especially of vegetation. | [noun] A scar produced by searing | [noun] Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled. SEER (4) [noun] One who sees something; an eyewitness. | [noun] One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner. | [noun] Unit of mass or volume in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent. SERA (4) [noun] The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. | [noun] Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum. | [noun] A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. SERE (4) [adjective] Without moisture; dry. | [adjective] Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out. | [noun] A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved. | [noun] A claw, a talon. | [adjective] Individual, separate, set apart. SERF (7) [noun] A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights | [noun] A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe | [noun] (strategy games) a worker unit SERS (4) SHRI (7) SIRE (4) [noun] A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign. | [noun] A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another. | [noun] A father; the head of a family; the husband. SIRS (4) [noun] A man of a higher rank or position. | [noun] A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly: | [noun] A respectful term of address to an adult male (often older), especially if his name or proper title is unknown. SLUR (4) [noun] An insult or slight. | [noun] A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation. | [noun] The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie). SOAR (4) [noun] The act of soaring. | [noun] An upward flight. | [verb] To fly high with little effort, like a bird. SORA (4) [noun] A rail (Porzana carolina) of North, Central, and northern South America. SORB (6) [noun] The service tree, Sorbus domestica. | [noun] Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia. | [noun] The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree. | [verb] To absorb or adsorb. SORD (5) [noun] A flock of mallards | [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. | [noun] An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. SORE (4) [noun] An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin. | [noun] Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. | [verb] To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait. | [noun] A group of ducks on land. | [noun] A young hawk or falcon in its first year. SORI (4) [noun] Any reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungi, that produces spores. | [noun] A cluster of sporangia on the edge or underside of a fern frond. | [noun] Copper sulphate SORN (4) SORT (4) [noun] A general type. | [noun] Manner; form of being or acting. | [noun] Condition above the vulgar; rank. | [verb] To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. SOUR (4) [noun] The sensation of a sour taste. | [noun] A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar. | [noun] (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice. SPAR (6) [noun] A rafter of a roof. | [noun] A thick pole or piece of wood. | [noun] A bar of wood used to fasten a door. | [noun] A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting. | [noun] Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft. SPRY (9) [adjective] Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active. | [adjective] Vigorous; lively; cheerful. SPUR (6) [noun] 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. | [noun] A jab given with the spurs. | [noun] Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse. | [noun] A tern. | [noun] A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal. | [noun] The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor. | [verb] To ask, to inquire SRIS (4) STAR (4) [noun] Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots. | [noun] A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included. | [noun] A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points. STIR (4) [noun] The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.) | [noun] Agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. | [noun] Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. | [noun] Jail; prison. SUER (4) SURA (4) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. | [noun] The sap of the palmyra or of the coconut palm, palm wine. SURD (5) [noun] An irrational number, especially one expressed using the √ symbol. | [noun] A voiceless consonant. | [adjective] Lacking the sense of hearing; deaf. SURE (4) [adjective] Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable. | [adjective] Certain in one's knowledge or belief. | [adjective] Certain to act or be a specified way. SURF (7) [noun] Waves that break on an ocean shoreline. | [noun] An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf. | [noun] The bottom of a drain. TAHR (7) [noun] Any of three genera of large Asian ungulates belonging to the subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes). TARE (4) [noun] A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa) | [noun] Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel. | [noun] A damaging weed growing in fields of grain. | [noun] The empty weight of a container; the tare weight or unladen weight. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [noun] Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce. TARN (4) [noun] A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England. | [noun] (chiefly Montana) One of many small mountain lakes or ponds. TARO (4) [noun] Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato. | [noun] Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc. | [noun] Food from a taro plant. TARP (6) [noun] A tarpaulin. | [verb] To cover something with a tarpaulin. TARS (4) [noun] (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal. | [noun] Coal tar. | [noun] A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke. TART (4) [adjective] Sharp to the taste; acid; sour. | [adjective] (of wine) high or too high in acidity. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; severe. | [noun] A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie. | [noun] A prostitute. TEAR (4) [noun] A hole or break caused by tearing. | [noun] A rampage. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [noun] A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation. TERM (6) [noun] That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary. | [noun] A chronological limitation or restriction. | [noun] Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. | [noun] A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. | [noun] One whose employment has been terminated TERN (4) [noun] Any of various sea birds of the family Sternidae that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail. | [noun] That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together. | [noun] A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw. THIR (7) THRO (7) [preposition] Through | [adjective] Eager; earnest; vehement. | [adjective] Bold. THRU (7) [preposition] From one side of an opening to the other. | [preposition] Entering, then later leaving. | [preposition] Surrounded by (while moving). TIER (4) [noun] One who ties (knots, etc). | [noun] Something that ties. | [noun] A child's apron. | [noun] A layer or rank, especially of seats or a wedding cake. TIRE (4) [verb] To become sleepy or weary. | [verb] To make sleepy or weary. | [verb] To become bored or impatient (with). | [noun] Accoutrements, accessories. | [verb] To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. | [noun] A tier, row, or rank. TIRL (4) TIRO (4) [noun] A newly recruited soldier. TORA (4) TORC (6) [noun] A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples. TORE (4) [adjective] Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious. | [adjective] Strong, sturdy; great, massive. | [adjective] Full; rich. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [noun] The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane. | [noun] The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. TORI (4) [noun] A topological space which is a product of two circles. | [noun] The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a shape consisting of a ring with a circular cross-section: the shape of an inner tube or hollow doughnut. | [noun] (in combination, n-torus, 4-torus, etc.) The product of the specified number of circles. | [noun] One who executes a technique against the training partner, or uke. TORN (4) [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [verb] To injure as if by pulling apart. | [verb] To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional. TORO (4) [noun] A traditional Japanese lantern. | [noun] Rapanea salicina, a species of shrub or small tree native to New Zealand. TORR (4) [noun] A unit of pressure that is equal to approximately 0.001316 atmospheres or 133.3 pascals. TORS (4) [noun] A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill, created by the erosion and weathering of rock. | [noun] (South-West England) A hill with such rock formation. | [noun] A tower; a turret. TORT (4) [noun] An injury or wrong. | [noun] A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages. | [noun] (only in the plural torts) Tort law (the area of law dealing with such wrongful acts). | [adjective] Tart; sharp. | [adjective] Stretched tight; taut. | [noun] A tortoise. | [noun] A tortoiseshell (animal with coloured markings on fur). TORY (7) [noun] (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party, which evolved from Royalist politicians; historically associated with upholding the rights of the monarchy and the privileges of the established Church. | [noun] (by extension) One who is like a British Tory; someone politically conservative. | [noun] (Canadian politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, one of that party's predecessors, or an affiliated provincial political party. TOUR (4) [noun] A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc. | [noun] A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place. | [noun] A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts. | [noun] A tower. | [verb] To toot a horn. TRAD (5) [noun] Traditional climbing. | [noun] Irish traditional music | [noun] A traditionalist. TRAM (6) [noun] A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America). | [noun] A similar vehicle for carrying materials. | [noun] A people mover. | [noun] A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods. TRAP (6) [noun] A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. | [noun] A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. | [noun] A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor. | [noun] A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock. | [verb] To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses). | [noun] The trapezius muscle. TRAY (7) [noun] A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. | [noun] A flat carrier for items being transported. | [noun] The items on a full tray. | [noun] Trouble; annoyance; anger | [verb] To grieve; to annoy | [verb] To betray | [noun] A playing card or die with the rank of three. TREE (4) [noun] Fast growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem. | [noun] A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage. | [noun] Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense). TREF (7) TREK (8) [noun] A journey by ox wagon. | [noun] The Boer migration of 1835-1837. | [noun] A slow or difficult journey. TRET (4) [noun] An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare is deducted. TREY (7) [noun] A playing card or die with the rank of three. | [noun] A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes. | [noun] A three-pointer. TRIG (5) [noun] A dandy; coxcomb. | [adjective] True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful. | [adjective] Safe; secure. | [noun] Trigonometry. | [noun] A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid. | [verb] To fill; to stuff; to cram. | [noun] Triglyceride TRIM (6) [noun] Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders. | [noun] A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style. | [noun] Dress; gear; ornaments. TRIO (4) [noun] A group of three people or things. | [noun] A group of three musicians. | [noun] A piece of music written for three musicians. TRIP (6) [noun] A journey; an excursion or jaunt | [noun] A stumble or misstep | [noun] An error; a failure; a mistake | [noun] A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc. TROD (5) [verb] To step or walk (on or over something); to trample. | [verb] To step or walk upon. | [verb] To beat or press with the feet. | [verb] To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread | [noun] A track or pathway. TROP (6) TROT (4) [noun] Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. | [noun] Equipment with legs. | [noun] Type of equipment. | [noun] A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections. | [noun] A supporter of Trotskyism. TROW (7) [noun] Trust or faith. | [verb] To trust or believe. | [verb] To have confidence in, or to give credence to. | [noun] Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods. TROY (7) [adjective] Of, or relating to, troy weight. TRUE (4) [noun] The state of being in alignment. | [noun] Truth. | [noun] A pledge or truce. TRUG (5) [noun] A shallow, oval basket used for gardening | [noun] A trough or tray. | [noun] A hod for mortar. TSAR (4) [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. TURD (5) [noun] (mildly) A piece of solid animal or human feces. | [noun] A worthless person or thing. TURF (7) [noun] A layer of earth covered with grass; sod. | [noun] A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc. | [noun] A sod of peat used as fuel. TURK (8) TURN (4) [verb] (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement. | [verb] (heading) To change condition or attitude. | [verb] To change one's course of action; to take a new approach. | [noun] A change of direction or orientation. TYER (7) TYRE (7) [noun] The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid. | [noun] The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railway vehicle. | [verb] To fit tyres to (a vehicle). | [noun] Curdled milk. | [noun] Attire. TYRO (7) [noun] A beginner; a novice. TZAR (13) [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. URBS (6) [noun] A walled city in Ancient Rome. URDS (5) UREA (4) [noun] A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH2)2, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine. | [noun] Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R1R2N)CO(NR3R4). URGE (5) [noun] A strong desire; an itch to do something. | [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. URIC (6) [adjective] Pertaining to, contained in, or obtained from urine. URNS (4) [noun] A vase with a footed base. | [noun] A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee. | [noun] A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person. URSA (4) URUS (4) [noun] The aurochs. USER (4) [noun] One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser. | [noun] A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs. | [noun] A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account. VAIR (7) [noun] A type of fur from a squirrel with a black back and white belly, much used on garments in the Middle Ages. | [noun] An heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of bell shapes in two colours, (for example in the image, blue and white). VARA (7) VARS (7) [noun] A unit of electrical power, in an AC circuit, equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere. | [noun] Something that is variable. | [noun] Something whose value may be dictated or discovered. VARY (10) [noun] Alteration; change. | [verb] To change with time or a similar parameter. | [verb] To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify. VEER (7) [verb] To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out. | [noun] A turn or swerve; an instance of veering. | [verb] To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve. VERA (7) VERB (9) [noun] (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state. | [noun] Any word; a vocable. | [noun] An action as opposed to a trait or thing. VERT (7) [noun] A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise. | [noun] Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer. | [noun] The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest. | [noun] In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition. | [noun] Vertebrate VERY (10) [adjective] True, real, actual. | [adjective] The same; identical. | [adjective] With limiting effect: mere. VIER (7) VIRL (7) VROW (10) WAIR (7) WARD (8) [noun] A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman. | [noun] Protection, defence. | [noun] A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision. | [verb] To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard. WARE (7) [noun] The state of being aware; heed. | [adjective] Aware. | [noun] (usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use. | [verb] To be ware or mindful of something. | [noun] Seaweed. | [verb] To wear, or veer. WARK (11) WARM (9) [adjective] Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot. | [adjective] Caring and friendly, of relations to another person. | [adjective] Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum. | [noun] The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating. WARN (7) [verb] To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially: | [verb] To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. | [verb] (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away. WARP (9) [noun] The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally: | [noun] A distortion: | [noun] The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft. | [verb] To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally: WARS (7) [noun] Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces. | [noun] A particular conflict of this kind. | [noun] (by extension) Any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict. WART (7) [noun] A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). | [noun] Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads. | [noun] Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation. WARY (10) [adjective] Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent | [adjective] Characterized by caution; guarded; careful; on one's guard | [adjective] Thrifty, provident WAUR (7) WEAR (7) [noun] (in combination) clothing | [noun] Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time | [noun] Fashion | [verb] To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion. | [noun] An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream. WEER (7) [adjective] Small, little. WEIR (7) [noun] An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream. | [noun] A fence placed across a river to catch fish. WERE (7) [noun] A man, a husband | [noun] A fine for slaying a man; weregild. | [noun] The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf. WERT (7) WHIR (10) [noun] A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion. | [noun] A bustle of noise and excitement. | [verb] To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound. WIRE (7) [noun] Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die. | [noun] A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable. | [noun] A metal conductor that carries electricity. WIRY (10) [adjective] Thin, muscular and flexible. WORD (8) [noun] The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) | [noun] Something like such a unit of language: | [noun] The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. . | [verb] (except in set phrases) To be, become, betide. WORE (7) [verb] To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc. | [verb] To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. | [verb] To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. WORK (11) [noun] (heading) Employment. | [noun] (heading) Effort. | [noun] Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles. | [verb] To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. WORM (9) [noun] A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm. | [noun] More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. | [noun] A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent. WORN (7) [verb] To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc. | [verb] To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. | [verb] To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. WORT (7) [noun] A plant; herb; vegetable. | [noun] Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term. | [noun] Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer. WRAP (9) [verb] To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper. | [verb] To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping. | [verb] To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide. | [noun] A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm. | [noun] A sharp blow with something hard. WREN (7) [noun] Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; true wren. | [noun] Small bird of similar appearance to a true wren. WRIT (7) [noun] A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. | [noun] Authority, power to enforce compliance. | [noun] That which is written; writing. YARD (8) [noun] A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building. | [noun] The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn. | [noun] An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc. | [noun] A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK). | [noun] 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard. YARE (7) [adjective] Ready; prepared. | [adjective] Ready, alert, prepared, prompt. | [adjective] Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble. YARN (7) [noun] A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving. | [noun] Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope. | [noun] A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible. YEAR (7) [noun] A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference). | [noun] (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star. | [noun] A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar. | [noun] (abstract) This place; this location. YERK (11) [noun] A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk. | [verb] To stab. | [verb] To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk. YIRD (8) YIRR (7) YORE (7) [noun] A time long past. | [adverb] In time long past; long ago. YOUR (7) YURT (7) [noun] A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger). ZARF (16) ZERK (17) ZERO (13) [noun] The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero. | [noun] The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems. | [noun] Nothing, or none. ZORI (13) [noun] A Japanese sandal made from rice straw or lacquered wood, worn with a kimono for formal occasions. | [noun] (especially Southeast US) A sandal, usually of rubber, secured to the foot by two straps mounted between the big toe and its neighbour, a flip-flop

AARGH (9) [interjection] Expressing annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration. ABHOR (10) [verb] To regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. | [verb] To fill with horror or disgust. | [verb] To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject. ABLER (7) [adjective] Easy to use. | [adjective] Suitable; competent. | [adjective] Liable to. ABORT (7) [noun] A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. | [noun] The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. | [noun] An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission. | [verb] (now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. ABRIS (7) ACARI (7) [noun] (acarology) Any member of the subclass Acari (aka Acarina): thus, a mite or a tick; specifically, any mite of the genus Acarus. ACERB (9) [adjective] Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit. | [adjective] Sharp and harsh in expressing oneself. ACORN (7) [noun] The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule. | [noun] A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head. | [noun] See acorn-shell. ACRED (8) [adjective] Having acres; measured or valued in acres. ACRES (7) [noun] An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters. | [noun] Any of various similar units of area in other systems. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A wide expanse. ACRID (8) [adjective] Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste. | [adjective] Causing heat and irritation. | [adjective] Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating. ACTOR (7) [noun] A person who performs, plays a part in a theatrical play or film. | [noun] One who acts; a doer. | [noun] One who takes part in a situation. ADDER (7) [noun] Any snake. | [noun] A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper. | [noun] Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers. ADORE (6) [verb] To worship. | [verb] To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection. | [verb] To be very fond of. ADORN (6) [noun] Adornment | [verb] To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate. | [adjective] Adorned; ornate AERIE (5) [noun] A local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. | [noun] The nest of a bird of prey. | [noun] Any high and remote but commanding place. AFARS (8) [noun] Plural of afar, meaning at or to a distance; from a distance. | [noun] Members of a pastoral people of the Horn of Africa. AFIRE (8) [adjective] On fire (often metaphorically). | [adverb] On fire (often metaphorically). AFORE (8) [adverb] Before. | [adverb] In the fore part of a ship. | [preposition] Before; in advance of the time of. AFRIT (8) [noun] (Islamic mythology) a kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an. AFTER (8) [adjective] Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent | [adjective] (where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship. | [adverb] Behind; later in time; following. AGARS (6) [noun] Plural of agar, a gelatinous substance derived from seaweed used in laboratories and cooking as a gelling agent. | [noun] Plural of agar, a culture medium used in microbiology. AGERS (6) [noun] Plural of ager, one who ages or something that causes aging. | [noun] Plural of ager, a person or thing that ages something else. AGGER (7) [noun] One who aggers; specifically, a person who operates an agger (a Roman battering ram or siege weapon). | [noun] In geology, a ridge or mound of material deposited by glacial action. AGGRO (7) [noun] Aggravation; bother. | [noun] Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent. | [noun] A measure of how belligerent a player is – a high value may inspire either avoidance or preemptive hostile action from enemies. AGORA (6) [noun] A place for gathering. | [noun] A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece. | [noun] Since 1960, a monetary unit and coin of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel / sheqel. AGREE (6) [verb] To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur. | [verb] To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to. | [verb] To yield assent to; to approve. AGRIA (6) AIDER (6) [noun] One who aids or helps. | [verb] Third person singular present of "aid," meaning to help or assist. AIMER (7) [noun] One who aims; a person who takes aim. | [verb] Third person singular present of "aim" (archaic/dialectal form). AIRED (6) [verb] To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it. | [verb] To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate. | [verb] To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic. AIRER (5) [noun] A framework upon which laundry is aired; a clotheshorse. AIRNS (5) [noun] Plural of airn, a Scottish word for direction or point of the compass. | [noun] Plural of airn, a Scots word for an eagle or bird of prey. AIRTH (8) [noun] A direction or point of the compass, specifically the cardinal direction between north and east; also used in Scottish English to mean direction or quarter. | [noun] The earth or ground. AIRTS (5) [noun] Directions or points of the compass, particularly in Scottish usage. | [noun] Plural of airt, meaning directions or quarters. AIVER (8) ALARM (7) [noun] A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. | [noun] Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. | [noun] A sudden attack; disturbance. ALARY (8) [adjective] Relating to or resembling wings. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the axilla (armpit area). ALDER (6) [noun] Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family. | [noun] An alderman or alderwoman. ALERT (5) [noun] An alarm. | [noun] A notification of higher importance than an advisory. | [noun] A state of readiness for potential combat. | [verb] To give warning to. ALGOR (6) ALTAR (5) [noun] A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites. | [noun] A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary. | [noun] Anything that is worshipped or sacrificed to. ALTER (5) [verb] To change the form or structure of. | [verb] To become different. | [verb] To tailor clothes to make them fit. | [noun] (especially in the plural) An identity or headmate of a person with dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder). | [noun] A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites. AMBER (9) [noun] Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. | [noun] A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. | [noun] A yellow-orange colour. AMBRY (12) [noun] A bookcase; a library or archive. | [noun] A storehouse, especially a niche or recess in a wall used for storage. | [noun] A pantry, or place to store food. AMEER (7) AMIRS (7) [noun] A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. | [noun] A descendant of the prophet Muhammad. AMORT (7) [adjective] Lifeless, spiritless, or dull in appearance or manner. AMOUR (7) [noun] Love, affection. | [noun] Courtship; flirtation. | [noun] A love affair. ANEAR (5) [preposition] Near or close to. | [verb] To approach or draw near to. ANGER (6) [noun] A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm. | [noun] Pain or stinging. | [verb] To cause such a feeling of antagonism in. ANGRY (9) [adjective] Displaying or feeling anger. | [adjective] (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful. | [adjective] (said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing. ANTRA (5) [noun] A bodily cavity, especially one having bony walls, especially one in the sinuses. ANTRE (5) [noun] A cave or cavern. AORTA (5) [noun] The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system. | [noun] The liveliest part of something. APART (7) [adjective] (Used after a noun or in the predicate) Exceptional, distinct. | [adjective] Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces. | [adverb] Placed separately (in regard to space or time). APERS (7) [verb] Third person singular present of "ape," meaning to imitate or mimic someone or something, often in a mocking way. APERY (10) [noun] A place where apes are kept. | [noun] The practice of aping; an apish action. APORT (7) [adverb] On or toward the port (left side) of a ship. APRES (7) [preposition] After | [noun] Such activities or events that occur after skiing. APRON (7) [noun] An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion. | [noun] The short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops. | [noun] A hard surface bordering a structure or area. APTER (7) [adjective] Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited. | [adjective] (of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards. | [adjective] Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn. ARAKS (9) ARBOR (7) [noun] A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation. | [noun] A grove of trees. | [noun] An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe. ARCED (8) [verb] To move following a curved path. | [verb] To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc. | [verb] To form an electrical arc. ARCUS (7) [noun] An arch or bow-shaped anatomical structure. | [noun] A curved line or arc in geometry. ARDEB (8) [noun] An Egyptian unit of dry measure, equal to about 5.6 bushels. ARDOR (6) [noun] Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion. | [noun] Spirit; enthusiasm; passion. | [noun] Intense heat. AREAE (5) [noun] Plural of area; multiple regions or surfaces. AREAL (5) [adjective] Relating to or denoting an area or surface. | [noun] A unit of metric land area equal to 100 square meters. AREAS (5) [noun] A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units. | [noun] A particular geographic region. | [noun] Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent. ARECA (7) [noun] Any member of the genus Areca of about fifty species of single-stemmed palms in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests. AREIC (7) [adjective] Relating to or denoting a region or drainage system that has no outlet to the sea and no permanent streams. ARENA (5) [noun] An enclosed area, often outdoor, for the presentation of sporting events (sports arena) or other spectacular events; earthen area, often oval, specifically for rodeos (North America) or circular area for bullfights (especially Hispanic America). | [noun] The building housing such an area; specifically, a very large, often round building, often topped with a dome, designated for indoor sporting or other major events, such as concerts. | [noun] The sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre where contests were held in Ancient Rome. ARETE (5) [noun] (Classical philosophy) Virtue, excellence. | [noun] (Classical philosophy) The proper state or condition for a human. | [noun] A very thin ridge of rock. ARGAL (6) [noun] A crust of tartar formed during the fermentation of wine. | [adverb] Therefore; consequently (archaic). ARGIL (6) [noun] Potter's clay. ARGLE (6) ARGOL (6) [noun] Potassium tartrate ARGON (6) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Ar) with an atomic number of 18. The third most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, it is a colourless, odourless, inert noble gas. | [noun] A single atom of this element. ARGOT (6) [noun] A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds. | [noun] The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers. ARGUE (6) [verb] To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. | [verb] To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. | [verb] To have an argument, a quarrel. ARGUS (6) [noun] A watchful guardian. | [noun] An alert, observant person. | [noun] Either of two species of pheasant of Southeast Asia having large ocellated tails. ARHAT (8) [noun] One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint. | [noun] One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta. ARIAS (5) [noun] A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata. ARIEL (5) [noun] A kind of mountain gazelle, native to Arabia. ARILS (5) [noun] A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates. ARISE (5) [verb] To come up from a lower to a higher position. | [verb] To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up. | [verb] To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself. ARLES (5) [noun] Earnest money or a deposit given as a pledge to secure a bargain or contract. ARMED (8) [verb] To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. | [verb] To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons. | [verb] To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate. | [adjective] (chiefly in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type. ARMER (7) [noun] One who arms or equips with weapons. | [noun] A person who makes or sells arms/weapons. ARMET (7) [noun] A close-fitting helmet with a visor and beaver, used in the 15th and 16th centuries. ARMOR (7) [noun] A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces. | [noun] A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body. | [noun] Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft. AROID (6) [noun] Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics. AROMA (7) [noun] A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one. AROSE (5) [verb] To come up from a lower to a higher position. | [verb] To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up. | [verb] To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself. ARPEN (7) ARRAS (5) [noun] A tapestry or wall hanging. ARRAY (8) [noun] Clothing and ornamentation. | [noun] A collection laid out to be viewed in full. | [noun] An orderly series, arrangement or sequence. ARRIS (5) [noun] A sharp edge or ridge formed by the intersection of two surfaces | [noun] A sharp edge or ridge formed by the intersection of two curved surfaces | [noun] A ridge formed on the surface of flaked stone that results from the intersection of two or more flake removals. The arris marks the location of flake scars on the dorsal surface of chipped stone. http//books.google.com/books?id=L6LAsLpx46IC&pg=PA252&lpg=PA252&dq=arris+lithic&source=web&ots=VMpCZX_xc-&sig=sW0DjBW6Lg_NdAGKi8ML875OcfI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA252,M1 | [noun] Buttocks, arse. ARROW (8) [noun] A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow. | [noun] A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. →). | [noun] A directed edge. ARSES (5) [noun] The buttocks or more specifically, the anus. | [noun] A stupid, mean or despicable person. | [verb] To be silly, act stupid or mess around. ARSIS (5) [noun] The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat. | [noun] The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter. | [noun] The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis. ARSON (5) [noun] The crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage. | [verb] To illegally set fire to; to burn down in a criminal manner ARTAL (5) [noun] A unit of weight used in some Muslim countries, typically equal to about 2.8 pounds or roughly 1.3 kilograms. ARTEL (5) [noun] A Russian or Soviet craftsmen's collective. ARTSY (8) [adjective] (sometimes derogatory) Inclined towards the arts; arty. ARUMS (7) [noun] A flower or plant in the genus Arum ARVAL (8) [adjective] Relating to plowed land or fields; of or pertaining to arable land. ARVOS (8) [noun] Afternoon. ARYLS (8) [noun] Plural of aryl; chemical groups derived from aromatic hydrocarbons by removal of one hydrogen atom. ASKER (9) [noun] One who asks a question or makes a request. ASPER (7) [noun] A monetary unit formerly used in Turkey and some other Ottoman territories. | [adjective] Rough or harsh to the touch. ASTER (5) [noun] Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers. | [noun] A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell. | [noun] A star. ASTIR (5) [adjective] In motion; characterized by motion. | [adjective] Out of bed; up and about. ATRIA (5) [noun] A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings. | [noun] A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels. | [noun] A cavity, entrance, or passage. ATRIP (7) [adjective] (nautical) With the anchor just clear of the bottom of the sea. | [adjective] In a state of readiness or preparation. ATTAR (5) [noun] An essential oil extracted from flowers. | [noun] A perfume made from this oil. AUGER (6) [noun] A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet. | [noun] A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool). | [noun] A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts AUGUR (6) [noun] A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences. | [noun] An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events. | [verb] To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events. AURAE (5) [noun] Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something. | [noun] An invisible force surrounding a living creature. | [noun] Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache. AURAL (5) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the ear. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to sound. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to an aura. AURAR (5) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Icelandic króna AURAS (5) [noun] Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something. | [noun] An invisible force surrounding a living creature. | [noun] Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache. AUREI (5) [noun] A gold coin, minted in the Roman Empire from approximately 100 B.C.E. to 309 C.E., equal to 25 denarii. AURES (5) [noun] Plural of "aura," which refers to distinctive atmospheres or qualities surrounding a person or thing. | [noun] Plural of "auris," a Latin term for ears used in anatomical contexts. AURIC (7) [adjective] Of or pertaining to trivalent gold. | [adjective] Of, or pertaining to the ear; aural | [adjective] Pertaining to an aura. AURIS (5) [noun] The ear, or an ear-shaped anatomical structure. AURUM (7) [noun] The Latin name for the element gold, atomic number 79. AVERS (8) [verb] To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner. | [verb] To prove or justify a plea. | [verb] To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify. AVERT (8) [verb] To turn aside or away. | [verb] To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. | [verb] To turn away. AWARD (9) [noun] A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted. | [noun] The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded. | [noun] A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit. AWARE (8) [adjective] Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty. | [adjective] Conscious or having knowledge of something. AZURE (14) [noun] A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines. | [noun] The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour. | [noun] The unclouded sky; the blue vault above. BAIRN (7) [noun] A child or baby. BAKER (11) [noun] A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items. | [noun] A portable oven for baking. BALER (7) [noun] A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton. | [noun] A person who creates bales, either by operating or feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand. BARBE (9) BARBS (9) [noun] 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. | [noun] A hurtful or disparaging remark. | [noun] A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. BARDE (8) [noun] A piece of armor for a horse. | [verb] To cover a horse with armor. BARDS (8) [noun] A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. | [noun] (by extension) A poet. | [noun] A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.) BARED (8) [verb] To uncover; to reveal. BARER (7) [adjective] Minimal; that is or are just sufficient. | [adjective] Naked, uncovered. | [adjective] Having no supplies. BARES (7) [verb] To uncover; to reveal. BARFS (10) [verb] To vomit. | [verb] Of a system: to fail. BARGE (8) [noun] A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo. | [noun] A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions. | [noun] A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel. BARIC (9) [adjective] Relating to or containing barium, or relating to atmospheric pressure. BARKS (11) [noun] The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals. | [noun] An abrupt loud vocal utterance. | [verb] To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). BARKY (14) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of bark; having a rough texture like tree bark. | [adjective] Inclined to bark; prone to making barking sounds (used of dogs). BARMS (9) [noun] The froth or foam that rises on fermenting beer or other liquids. | [noun] Plural of barm, a fungus used in baking and brewing. BARMY (12) [adjective] Odd, strange, or crazy. | [adjective] Containing barm, i.e. froth from fermented yeast. BARNS (7) [noun] A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle. | [noun] A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres. | [noun] An arena. BARNY (10) BARON (7) [noun] The male ruler of a barony. | [noun] A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord). | [noun] A particular cut of beef, made up of a double sirloin. BARRE (7) [noun] A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises. | [noun] Short for barre chord. BARYE (10) [noun] A unit of pressure in the centimeter-gram-second system, equal to one dyne per square centimeter. BASER (7) [adjective] Low in height; short. | [adjective] Low in place or position. | [adjective] Of low value or degree. BAZAR (16) [noun] A marketplace or shopping area, especially in Middle Eastern countries. | [noun] A sale of goods, typically for charity. BEARD (8) [noun] Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck. | [noun] The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds. | [noun] The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. BEARS (7) [noun] A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae. | [noun] A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. | [noun] An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. BEERS (7) [noun] An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor. | [noun] A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. | [noun] A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid. BEERY (10) [adjective] Smelling or tasting of beer. | [adjective] Under the influence of beer. BERET (7) [noun] A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France. BERGS (8) [noun] An iceberg. | [noun] Mountain BERME (9) BERMS (9) [noun] A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope | [noun] A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath | [noun] A terrace formed by wave action along a beach BERRY (10) [noun] A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties. | [noun] A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits. | [noun] A coffee bean. | [noun] A mound; a barrow. | [noun] A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow. | [verb] To beat; give a beating to; thrash. BERTH (10) [noun] A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc). | [noun] Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.) | [noun] A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park. BERYL (10) [noun] A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone. | [noun] An example (a stone) of the mineral beryl. | [noun] A dull blueish green colour. BEVOR (10) [noun] A piece of armor that protects the lower face and chin, often hinged to the visor of a helmet. BIDER (8) [noun] One who bides; a person who waits or remains in a place. | [noun] In Scottish usage, a resident or inhabitant. BIERS (7) [noun] A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person. | [noun] A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed. | [noun] A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth. BIKER (11) [noun] A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club. | [noun] Cyclist BIRCH (12) [noun] Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere. | [noun] A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture. | [noun] A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment. BIRDS (8) [noun] A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs. | [noun] A man, fellow. | [noun] A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive. BIRKS (11) [noun] Plural of birk, a variant spelling of birch, a type of tree. | [noun] Plural of birk, meaning to move quickly or to run. BIRLE (7) [verb] To spin or rotate a log in water. | [verb] To pour drinks, especially whiskey. BIRLS (7) [noun] A girl of boyish appearance. BIRRS (7) [noun] Force, vigor, energy | [noun] A strong wind. | [noun] The force of movement; rush, impetus, momentum, driving force BIRSE (7) [noun] A bristle or stiff hair, especially on an animal or plant. BIRTH (10) [noun] The process of childbearing; the beginning of life. | [noun] An instance of childbirth. | [noun] A beginning or start; a point of origin. BITER (7) [noun] The act of biting. | [noun] The wound left behind after having been bitten. | [noun] The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. | [noun] (in combination) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits. BLARE (7) [noun] A loud sound. | [noun] Dazzling, often garish, brilliance. | [verb] To make a loud sound. BLEAR (7) [adjective] (of eyes or vision) Dim, unclear from water or rheum. | [adjective] Causing or caused by dimness of sight. | [verb] To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes. BLUER (7) [adjective] Of the colour blue. | [adjective] Depressed, melancholic, sad. | [adjective] Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame. | [noun] A blue blazer, part of the school uniform at Harrow School. | [noun] The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this. BLURB (9) [noun] A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes. | [verb] To write or quote in a blurb. | [verb] To supply with a blurb. BLURS (7) [noun] A smear, smudge or blot | [noun] Something that appears hazy or indistinct | [noun] A moral stain or blot. BLURT (7) [noun] An abrupt outburst. | [verb] To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out. BOARD (8) [noun] A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making. | [noun] A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc. | [noun] A flat surface with markings for playing a board game. | [noun] A rebound. BOARS (7) [noun] A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. | [noun] A male pig. | [noun] A male boar (sense 1). BOART (7) [noun] Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond. BOLAR (7) [adjective] Of or relating to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey. BONER (7) [noun] An erect penis. | [noun] One who or that which bones (removes bones). | [noun] A blunder; a silly mistake. BOORS (7) [noun] A peasant. | [noun] A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent. | [noun] A yokel, country bumpkin. BORAL (7) BORAS (7) [noun] A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales. BORAX (14) [noun] A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc. | [noun] The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate. | [noun] (sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design. BORED (8) [verb] To inspire boredom in somebody. | [verb] To make a hole through something. | [verb] To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool. BORER (7) [noun] A tedious person. | [noun] A person who bores, who drills. | [noun] A tool used for drilling. BORES (7) [noun] A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter. | [noun] The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter. | [noun] A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring. BORIC (9) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or containing the element boron. BORNE (7) [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To support, sustain, or endure. | [verb] To support, keep up, or maintain. BORON (7) [noun] The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5, which is a metalloid found in its pure form as a dark amorphous powder. | [noun] A single atom of this element. BORTS (7) [noun] Industrial-grade diamonds used for cutting, grinding, and polishing tools. | [noun] Plural of bort, a poorly crystallized or imperfectly formed diamond. BORTY (10) BORTZ (16) [noun] Industrial-grade diamond used as an abrasive in cutting tools and grinding wheels. BOURG (8) [noun] A market town or borough, especially in France or other European countries. BOURN (7) [noun] A small stream or brook. | [noun] Destination. | [noun] Limit. BOWER (10) [noun] A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle. | [noun] A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat. | [noun] A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods. | [noun] A peasant; a farmer. | [noun] Either of the two highest trumps in euchre. | [noun] A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow. | [noun] One who bows or bends. | [noun] One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow. | [noun] A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. BOXER (14) [noun] A participant (fighter) in a boxing match. | [noun] A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle. | [noun] A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft. BOYAR (10) [noun] A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania. BRACE (9) [noun] Armor for the arm; vambrace. | [noun] A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms. | [noun] A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock. BRACH (12) [noun] A female hunting dog, especially a pointer or setter. | [noun] A woman or girl (archaic or dialectal). BRACT (9) [noun] A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises. BRADS (8) [noun] A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin. | [noun] (elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet. BRAES (7) [noun] The sloping bank of a river valley. | [noun] Any hillside or slope. BRAGS (8) [verb] To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself. | [verb] To boast of. BRAID (8) [noun] A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. | [noun] A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. | [noun] A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together | [adjective] Deceitful. BRAIL (7) [noun] A small rope used to truss up sails. | [noun] A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. | [noun] A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. BRAIN (7) [noun] The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action. | [noun] An intelligent person. | [noun] (in the plural) Intellect. BRAKE (11) [noun] A fern; bracken. | [noun] A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc. | [noun] A tool used for breaking flax or hemp. | [noun] An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. | [noun] A cage. | [verb] To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. BRAKY (14) BRAND (8) [noun] A conflagration; a flame. | [noun] A piece of burning wood or peat, or a glowing cinder. | [noun] A torch used for signaling. BRANK (11) [noun] A scold's bridle; an iron framework fitted over the head as a punishment for gossip or slander. | [verb] To restrain or silence with a brank. BRANS (7) [noun] The hard outer layers of cereal grains that are separated during milling. | [noun] Plural of bran, referring to multiple types or quantities of bran. BRANT (7) [noun] Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla. | [adjective] Steep, precipitous. | [adjective] Smooth; unwrinkled BRASH (10) [noun] A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness. | [noun] A sudden burst of rain. | [noun] An attack or assault. | [noun] Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge. BRASS (7) [noun] A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications. | [noun] A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments | [noun] Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired. | [noun] Brass in pocket; money. BRATS (7) [noun] A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish. | [noun] A son or daughter (at any age) of an active military service member. | [noun] A turbot or flatfish BRAVA (10) [interjection] An exclamation of approval or praise, typically used to express appreciation for a performance. | [noun] A shout of "brava" as an expression of acclaim. BRAVE (10) [noun] A Native American warrior. | [noun] A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. | [noun] A challenge; a defiance; bravado. BRAVI (10) BRAVO (10) [noun] A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado. | [noun] A shout of "bravo!" | [noun] The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet. BRAWL (10) [noun] A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved. | [verb] To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel. | [verb] To create a disturbance; to complain loudly. | [verb] To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake. | [noun] A dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance. BRAWN (10) [noun] Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb. | [noun] Physical strength; muscularity. | [noun] Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat. BRAWS (10) [noun] Plural of braw, a Scottish word meaning fine, good, or excellent. | [noun] Plural of braw, Scottish dialect for braws meaning clothes or trousers. BRAXY (17) [noun] An inflammatory disease of sheep. | [noun] Meat from sheep that have died from this disease, or that have died from accident or disease in general. | [adjective] Sick with braxy BRAYS (10) [noun] The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel. | [noun] (by extension) Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound. BRAZA (16) [noun] A unit of length used in Spanish-speaking countries, approximately equivalent to a fathom or about 1.67 meters. BRAZE (16) [noun] A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore. | [verb] To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness. | [verb] To burn or temper in fire. BREAD (8) [noun] A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. | [noun] Any variety of bread. | [noun] Money. | [noun] Breadth. | [verb] To make broad; spread. | [noun] A piece of embroidery; a braid. BREAK (11) [noun] An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces. | [noun] A physical space that opens up in something or between two things. | [noun] A rest or pause, usually from work. | [noun] A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music. BREAM (9) [noun] A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. | [noun] A species in that genus, Abramis brama. | [noun] An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. | [verb] To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping. BREDE (8) [noun] A broad piece of cloth or embroidery. | [noun] Breadth or width. BREED (8) [noun] All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies. | [noun] A race or lineage; offspring or issue. | [noun] A group of people with shared characteristics. BREES (7) [noun] Plural of bree, a Scottish word for broth or soup. | [verb] Third person singular of bree, meaning to brew or ferment. BRENS (7) [verb] To burn (to set ablaze). BRENT (7) [noun] A type of goose with a dark plumage, found in northern regions. | [noun] A crude oil variety from the North Sea. BREVE (10) [noun] A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short. | [noun] A double whole note. | [noun] Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court. BREWS (10) [noun] The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as a cup of tea or a brewed beer. | [noun] A beer. | [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. BRIAR (7) [noun] Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera. | [noun] Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. | [noun] The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub. BRIBE (9) [noun] Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty. | [noun] That which seduces; seduction; allurement. | [verb] To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble. BRICK (13) [noun] A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. | [noun] Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material. | [noun] Something shaped like a brick. BRIDE (8) [noun] A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married. | [noun] An object ardently loved. | [verb] To make a bride of | [noun] An individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework BRIEF (10) [noun] A writ summoning one to answer to any action. | [noun] An answer to any action. | [noun] A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case. BRIER (7) [noun] Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera. | [noun] Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. | [noun] The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub. BRIES (7) [noun] Plural of brie, a soft creamy cheese with a white rind. BRIGS (8) [noun] A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast | [noun] A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft. | [noun] Bridge. BRILL (7) [noun] A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus. | [adjective] Wonderful, amusing. Denotes approval of the noun it is applied to, comparable to "cool". BRIMS (9) [noun] The sea; ocean; water; flood. | [noun] An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water). | [noun] The topmost rim or lip of a container. BRINE (7) [noun] Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. | [noun] The sea or ocean; the water of the sea. | [verb] To preserve food in a salt solution. BRING (8) [verb] (ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere. | [verb] To supply or contribute. | [verb] To occasion or bring about. | [interjection] The sound of a telephone ringing. BRINK (11) [noun] The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge. | [noun] The edge or border BRINS (7) [noun] Plural of brin; individual stalks or blades of grass. | [noun] Single strands or fibers, as of flax or hemp. BRINY (10) [noun] The sea. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty. BRIOS (7) [noun] Plural of brio, meaning vigor, vivacity, or enthusiastic energy, especially in musical performance or artistic expression. BRISK (11) [verb] (often with "up") To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate. | [adjective] Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action | [adjective] Full of spirit of life; effervescing BRITS (7) [noun] Brit milah BRITT (7) BROAD (8) [noun] A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk. | [noun] A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. | [noun] A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. | [noun] A prostitute, a woman of loose morals. BROCK (13) [noun] A male badger. | [noun] (possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old. | [noun] A dirty, stinking fellow. BROIL (7) [noun] Food prepared by broiling. | [verb] To cook by direct, radiant heat. | [verb] To expose to great heat. | [noun] A brawl; a rowdy disturbance. BROKE (11) [verb] To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. | [verb] To divide (something, often money) into smaller units. | [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of. | [noun] (papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process. | [verb] To act as a broker; to transact business for another. | [adjective] Broke off, rich, wealthy BROME (9) [noun] Any grass of the genus Bromus. | [noun] Bromine BROMO (9) [noun] A dose of a proprietary sedative containing bromide (a bromo-seltzer) BRONC (9) [noun] A bronco. BROOD (8) [noun] The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. | [noun] The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. | [noun] The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony. BROOK (11) [verb] To use; enjoy; have the full employment of. | [verb] To earn; deserve. | [verb] To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object). | [noun] A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream. BROOM (9) [noun] A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping. | [noun] An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper. | [noun] Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves. | [verb] To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping. BROOS (7) [noun] Plural of broo, a Scottish word for broth or soup. BROSE (7) [noun] Oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk. BROSY (10) BROTH (10) [noun] Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled. | [noun] A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat. BROWN (10) [noun] A colour like that of chocolate or coffee. | [noun] One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points. | [noun] Black tar heroin. BROWS (10) [noun] The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow. | [noun] The first tine of an antler's beam. | [noun] The forehead. BRUGH (11) [noun] A fairy mound or underground dwelling in Irish mythology. BRUIN (7) [noun] A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos. BRUIT (7) [noun] Hearsay, rumour; talk; an instance of this. | [noun] A clamour, an outcry; a noise. | [verb] To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc. | [noun] An abnormal sound in the body heard on auscultation (for example, through using a stethoscope); a murmur. BRUME (9) [noun] Mist, fog, vapour. BRUNT (7) [noun] The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event. | [noun] The major part of something; the bulk. | [verb] To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand. BRUSH (10) [noun] An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair. | [noun] The act of brushing something. | [noun] A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine. BRUSK (11) BRUTE (7) [noun] An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. | [noun] A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. | [noun] (Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated. | [verb] To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc. BUHRS (10) BURAN (7) [noun] A violent cold northeasterly wind that blows across central Asia and Russia. BURAS (7) BURBS (9) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A suburb. BURDS (8) BURET (7) [noun] A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration. | [noun] An altar cruet. BURGH (11) [noun] A small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names). | [noun] A borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland). BURGS (8) [noun] A city or town. | [noun] A fortified town in medieval Europe. | [noun] Burger BURIN (7) [noun] A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver. | [noun] A prehistoric flint tool BURKE (11) [noun] (sometimes affectionate) A fool, prat, twit. | [noun] Cunt. | [verb] To murder by suffocation BURLS (7) [noun] A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. | [noun] Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth. | [noun] A knot or lump in thread or cloth. BURLY (10) [adjective] (usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular. | [adjective] (East End of London) Great, amazing, unbelievable. | [adjective] (surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both. | [adjective] Full of burls or knots; knotty. BURNS (7) [noun] A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. | [noun] A sensation resembling such an injury. | [noun] The act of burning something with fire. BURNT (7) [verb] To cause to be consumed by fire. | [verb] To be consumed by fire, or in flames. | [verb] To overheat so as to make unusable. BURPS (9) [noun] A belch. | [verb] To emit a burp. | [verb] To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp. BURRO (7) [noun] A small donkey BURRS (7) [noun] A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. | [noun] Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth. | [noun] A knot or lump in thread or cloth. BURRY (10) [adjective] Prickly or covered with burrs. | [verb] To remove burrs from something. BURSA (7) [noun] Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces. BURSE (7) [noun] A purse. | [noun] A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies. | [noun] An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use. BURST (7) [noun] An act or instance of bursting. | [noun] A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display. | [noun] A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm. BUYER (10) [noun] A person who makes one or more purchases. | [noun] (retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment. | [noun] A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products. BYRES (10) [noun] A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in. BYRLS (10) [noun] Plural of byrl; a drinking custom where participants pass a drink around while standing on one leg, or a festive drinking bout. | [verb] Third person singular of byrl; to participate in such a drinking custom. CABER (9) [noun] A long, thick log held upright at one end and tossed in the Highland games. CADRE (8) [noun] A frame or framework. | [noun] The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. | [noun] The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group. CAGER (8) [noun] A basketball player. | [noun] One who cages or confines animals. CAIRD (8) [noun] A person of low social status or a beggar, particularly in Scotland. | [noun] A tinker or traveling mender in Scotland. CAIRN (7) [noun] A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. | [noun] A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. | [noun] A cairn terrier. CANER (7) [noun] One who canes, or a person who makes or works with canes. | [noun] A tool or implement used for caning. CAPER (9) [noun] A playful leap or jump. | [noun] A jump while dancing. | [noun] A prank or practical joke. | [noun] A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer. | [noun] The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten. | [noun] The capercaillie. CARAT (7) [noun] A unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 200 milligrams. | [noun] Any of several units of weight, varying from 189 to 212 mg, the weight of a carob seed. | [noun] A measure of the purity of gold, pure gold being 24 carats. CARBO (9) [noun] Carbohydrate CARBS (9) [noun] Clipping of carburettor / carburetor. | [noun] (nutrition) A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant. | [noun] (by extension, metonym) Any food rich in starch or other carbohydrates. CARDS (8) [noun] A playing card. | [noun] (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game. | [noun] A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose. CARED (8) [verb] To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about). | [verb] (polite) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards. | [verb] (with for) To look after or look out for. CARER (7) [noun] Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities. CARES (7) [noun] Grief, sorrow. | [noun] Close attention; concern; responsibility. | [noun] Worry. CARET (7) [noun] A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point. | [noun] An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also called a cursor. | [noun] A circumflex, ⟨ ＾ ⟩. | [noun] A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata). CAREX (14) [noun] Any member of the genus Carex of sedges. CARGO (8) [noun] Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle. | [noun] (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods. CARKS (11) [noun] A noxious or corroding worry. | [noun] The state of being filled with worry. CARLE (7) [noun] A man or fellow, especially a peasant or man of low social status; a churl or rustic man. CARLS (7) [noun] A rude, rustic man; a churl. | [noun] A stingy person; a niggard. CARNS (7) CARNY (10) [noun] A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud). | [noun] The jargon used by carnival workers. | [noun] A carnival. | [noun] Flattery. CAROB (9) [noun] An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region. | [noun] The fruit of that tree. | [noun] A sweet chocolate-like confection made with the pulp of the fruit. CAROL (7) [noun] A small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. | [noun] Hence, a partially partitioned space for studying or reading, often in a library. CAROM (9) [noun] (cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. | [noun] A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a (one meter by one meter square) board. | [verb] To make a carom (shot in billiards). | [noun] (spices) ajwain CARPI (9) [noun] The group of bones that make up the wrist. CARPS (9) [noun] Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. | [verb] To complain about a fault; to harp on. | [verb] To say; to tell. CARRS (7) [noun] A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation. | [noun] A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot. | [noun] An unpowered unit in a railroad train. CARRY (10) [noun] A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried. | [noun] A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage. | [noun] The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation. CARSE (7) [noun] Low, fertile land; a river valley. CARTE (7) [noun] A bill of fare; a menu. | [noun] A visiting card. | [noun] A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person). | [noun] The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards. CARTS (7) [noun] A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers. | [noun] A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart. | [noun] A shopping cart. CARVE (10) [noun] A carucate. | [noun] The act of carving | [verb] To cut. CATER (7) [noun] Caterer | [verb] To provide, particularly: | [noun] A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food. | [verb] To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally. | [noun] Four. CAVER (10) [noun] A person who explores caves. | [noun] A person who makes concessions or retreats from a position. CEDAR (8) [noun] A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae. | [noun] A coniferous tree of the family Cupressaceae, especially of the genera Juniperus, Cupressus, Calocedrus, or Thuja. | [noun] A flowering tree of the family Meliaceae, especially of the genera Cedrela or Toona. CEDER (8) [noun] One who cedes or yields something, especially territory or rights. CEORL (7) [noun] An Anglo-Saxon churl. CERCI (9) [noun] Structures on the end of on the end of the abdomen of most insects, sometimes long, hairlike sensory organs and sometimes smaller and rigid. CERED (8) [verb] Past tense of "cere," meaning to wrap in a cerecloth or to cover with wax. CERES (7) [noun] A waxy protuberance at the base of the upper beak in certain birds. CERIA (7) [noun] A white powdery oxide of cerium, used in polishing compounds and as a catalyst. CERIC (9) [adjective] Of or relating to cerium, a chemical element. | [adjective] Relating to or containing cerium in the trivalent state. CEROS (7) [noun] A large scombroid food fish (Scomberomorus regalis) found chiefly in the West Indies. CHAIR (10) [noun] An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench. | [noun] The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra. | [noun] An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices. CHARD (11) [noun] An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste. | [noun] Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat. CHARE (10) [verb] To do chores or work as a hired hand. | [noun] A chore or task. CHARK (14) [verb] To char or burn; to reduce to charcoal. | [noun] Charred material or charcoal. CHARM (12) [noun] An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation). | [noun] The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural. | [noun] A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer. | [noun] The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children. CHARR (10) [noun] One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus. CHARS (10) [noun] A charred substance. | [verb] To burn something to charcoal. | [verb] To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour. CHART (10) [noun] A map. | [noun] A systematic non-narrative presentation of data. | [noun] A written deed; a charter. CHARY (13) [adverb] In a chary manner. | [adjective] Careful, cautious, shy, wary. | [adjective] Excessively particular or fussy about details; fastidious. CHEER (10) [noun] A cheerful attitude; happiness; a good, happy, or positive mood. | [noun] That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment. | [noun] A cry expressing joy, approval or support such as "hurray". | [noun] Cheerleading. CHERT (10) [noun] Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral. | [noun] A flint-like tool made from chert. CHIRK (14) [verb] To make a shrill sound or chirp. | [verb] To cheer or encourage. CHIRM (12) [noun] A din or confused noise, as of many voices, birdsong, etc. | [verb] To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does. CHIRO (10) [noun] A chiropractor. | [noun] Chiropractic. CHIRP (12) [noun] A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect. | [noun] (radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) A pulse of signal whose frequency sweeps through a band of frequencies for the duration of the pulse. | [verb] To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets CHIRR (10) [noun] The trilled sound made by an insect. | [verb] To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada). CHOIR (10) [noun] Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together. | [noun] The part of a church where the choir assembles for song. | [noun] (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels. CHORD (11) [noun] A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. | [noun] A straight line between two points of a curve. | [noun] A horizontal member of a truss. CHORE (10) [noun] A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one. | [verb] To do chores. | [verb] To steal. | [noun] A choir or chorus. CHURL (10) [noun] A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a free peasant (as opposed to a serf). | [noun] A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor. | [noun] A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. CHURN (10) [noun] A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter. | [noun] Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company. | [noun] The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider. CHURR (10) [noun] The trilled sound made by an insect. | [verb] To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada). | [noun] A low vocal sound made by some birds. CIDER (8) [noun] An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples; hard cider; apple cider | [noun] A non-alcoholic still beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; apple cider; sweet cider (without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice). | [noun] A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples. CIGAR (8) [noun] Tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked. | [noun] Penis CIRCA (9) [preposition] Approximately, about, around (typically in relation to time) CIRES (7) CIRRI (7) [noun] A tendril. | [noun] A thin tendril-like appendage. | [noun] A principal high-level cloud type characterised by white, delicate filaments or wisps, of white (or mostly white) patches, or of narrow bands, found at an altitude of above 7000 metres. CITER (7) [noun] One who cites or quotes. | [noun] One who summons or calls upon. CLARO (7) [adjective] Clear or bright, especially in reference to cigars made from light-colored tobacco. | [interjection] Of course; certainly (used in Spanish but sometimes appears in English text). CLARY (10) [noun] Clary sage (Salvia sclarea) CLEAR (7) [noun] Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls. | [noun] The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game. | [noun] A person who is free from the influence of engrams. CLERK (11) [noun] One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker. | [noun] A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs. | [noun] In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk). CLOUR (7) COBRA (9) [noun] Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae. CODER (8) [noun] A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses. | [noun] A person who assigns codes or classifications. | [noun] A programmer. COIRS (7) [noun] The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute. COLOR (7) [noun] The spectral composition of visible light | [noun] A subset thereof: | [noun] A paint. COMER (9) [noun] One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning. | [noun] One who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory. | [noun] One who arrives. COOER (7) [noun] One who coos, especially a person or animal that makes soft murmuring sounds. | [noun] A device or container used for cooling. COPER (9) [noun] One who copes. | [noun] A floating grog shop supplying the North Sea fishing industry. COPRA (9) [noun] The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded. CORAL (7) [noun] A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps. | [noun] A colony of marine polyps. | [noun] A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral. CORBY (12) [noun] A raven or crow, particularly used in Scottish and Northern English dialect. CORDS (8) [noun] A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. | [noun] A straight line between two points of a curve. | [noun] A horizontal member of a truss. | [noun] Corduroys. CORED (8) [verb] To remove the core of an apple or other fruit. | [verb] To extract a sample with a drill. CORER (7) [noun] A tool or device used to remove the core from fruits or vegetables. | [noun] A person or thing that cores. CORES (7) [noun] Various former units of volume, particularly: | [noun] The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds. | [noun] The heart or inner part of a physical thing CORGI (8) [noun] A dog of a breed having a small body, short legs and fox-like features. CORIA (7) CORKS (11) [noun] The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material. | [noun] A bottle stopper made from this or any other material. | [noun] An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork. CORKY (14) [adjective] Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork. | [adjective] Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled. | [noun] A deep bruise, usually on the leg or buttock, caused by a blow; a haematoma. CORMS (9) [noun] 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. CORNS (7) [noun] 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. | [noun] Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays. | [noun] A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop. CORNU (7) [noun] A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn. CORNY (10) [adjective] Boring and unoriginal. | [adjective] Hackneyed or excessively sentimental. | [adjective] Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn. | [adjective] Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn. CORPS (9) [noun] A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions. | [noun] An organized group of people united by a common purpose. | [noun] A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private. CORSE (7) [noun] A (living) body. | [noun] A dead body, a corpse. COURT (7) [noun] An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. | [noun] (social) Royal society. | [noun] Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone COVER (10) [noun] A lid. | [noun] Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view. | [noun] The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc. COWER (10) [verb] To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear. | [verb] To crouch in general. | [verb] To cause to cower; to frighten into submission. | [verb] To cherish with care. COWRY (13) [noun] A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell. | [noun] (by extension) Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell. | [noun] (by extension) Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell. COYER (10) [adjective] Bashful, shy, retiring. | [adjective] Quiet, reserved, modest. | [adjective] Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish. CRAAL (7) CRABS (9) [noun] A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace. | [noun] The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat | [noun] A bad-tempered person. CRACK (13) [noun] A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. | [noun] A narrow opening. | [noun] A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack. | [adjective] Highly trained and competent. CRAFT (10) [noun] Strength; power; might; force . | [noun] Intellectual power; skill; art. | [noun] (obsolete in the general sense) A work or product of art . CRAGS (8) [noun] A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep rock or cliff. | [noun] A rough broken fragment of rock. | [noun] A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age. CRAKE (11) [noun] Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills. | [verb] To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake. | [noun] A crack; a boast. CRAMP (11) [noun] A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled. | [noun] That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance. | [noun] A clamp for carpentry or masonry. CRAMS (9) [noun] The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something). | [noun] Information hastily memorized. | [noun] A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. CRANE (7) [noun] Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight. | [noun] Ardea herodias, the great blue heron. | [noun] A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes. | [noun] The cranium. CRANK (11) [noun] A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. | [noun] The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft. | [noun] Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage. CRAPE (9) [noun] Mourning garments, especially an armband or hatband. | [verb] To form into ringlets; to curl or crimp. | [verb] To clothe in crape. CRAPS (9) [noun] A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap. | [noun] The husk of grain; chaff. | [noun] (mildly) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk. | [verb] To defecate. CRASH (10) [noun] A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals. | [noun] An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident. | [noun] A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable. | [noun] (fibre) A type of rough linen. CRASS (7) [adjective] Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination | [adjective] Materialistic | [adjective] Dense CRATE (7) [noun] A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods. | [noun] (mildly) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable. | [noun] In the Rust programming language, a binary or library. CRAVE (10) [noun] A formal application to a court to make a particular order. | [verb] To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for. | [verb] To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim. CRAWL (10) [noun] The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops. | [noun] A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick. | [noun] A very slow pace. | [noun] A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish. CRAWS (10) [noun] The stomach of an animal. | [noun] The crop of a bird. CRAZE (16) [noun] Craziness; insanity. | [noun] A strong habitual desire or fancy. | [noun] A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad CRAZY (19) [noun] An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot. | [noun] Eccentric behaviour; lunacy. | [adjective] Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle. CREAK (11) [noun] The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking. | [verb] To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances. | [verb] To produce a creaking sound with. CREAM (9) [noun] The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. | [noun] A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream. | [noun] Frosting, custard, creamer or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream. CREDO (8) [noun] A belief system. | [noun] The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services. CREED (8) [noun] That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to. | [noun] (specifically) A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive. | [noun] The fact of believing; belief, faith. CREEK (11) [noun] A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats. | [noun] A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook. | [noun] Any turn or winding. CREEL (7) [noun] An osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish. | [noun] A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule. | [verb] To place (fish) in a creel. CREEP (9) [verb] To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. | [verb] Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards. | [verb] To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction. | [noun] The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails) CREME (9) [noun] A very sugary, fluffy white cream derivative. | [noun] Cream CREPE (9) [noun] A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat. | [noun] A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface. | [noun] Crepe paper; thin, crinkled tissue paper. CREPT (9) [verb] To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. | [verb] Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards. | [verb] To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction. CREPY (12) [adjective] Having a crepe-like texture; wrinkled or crinkled. | [adjective] Resembling or made of crepe fabric. CRESS (7) [noun] (plants) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. CREST (7) [noun] The summit of a hill or mountain ridge. | [noun] A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. | [noun] The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet. CREWS (10) [noun] A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs | [noun] The Manx shearwater. CRIBS (9) [noun] A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet. | [noun] A bed for a child older than a baby. | [noun] A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel CRICK (13) [noun] A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected. (Compare catch.) | [noun] A small jackscrew. | [verb] To develop a crick (cramp, spasm). | [noun] A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats. | [noun] The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. CRIED (8) [verb] To shed tears; to weep. | [verb] To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly. | [verb] To shout, scream, yell. CRIER (7) [noun] One who cries. | [noun] An officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation, such as a town crier. CRIES (7) [noun] A shedding of tears; the act of crying. | [noun] A shout or scream. | [noun] Words shouted or screamed. CRIME (9) [noun] A specific act committed in violation of the law. | [noun] Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity. | [noun] That which occasions crime. CRIMP (11) [noun] A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts. | [noun] The natural curliness of wool fibres. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks. | [noun] An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them. CRIPE (9) CRISP (9) [noun] A thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack. | [noun] A baked dessert made with fruit and crumb topping | [noun] Anything baked or fried and eaten as a snack CROAK (11) [noun] A faint, harsh sound made in the throat. | [noun] The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit) | [noun] The harsh cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures. CROCI (9) [noun] A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus. | [noun] Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus. | [noun] A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour. CROCK (13) [noun] A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container. | [noun] A piece of broken pottery, a shard. | [noun] A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury. | [noun] The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut. CROCS (9) [noun] A crocodile. | [noun] A plastic slip-on shoe. CROFT (10) [noun] An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters. | [verb] To do agricultural work on one or more crofts. | [verb] To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it. | [noun] An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft. | [noun] A carafe. CRONE (7) [noun] An old woman. | [noun] An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman. | [noun] An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag. CRONY (10) [noun] (originally Cambridge University) Close friend. | [noun] Trusted companion or partner in a criminal organization. | [noun] An old woman; a crone. CROOK (11) [noun] A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure. | [noun] A bending of the knee; a genuflection. | [noun] A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything). | [adjective] Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard. CROON (7) [noun] A soft or sentimental hum or song. | [verb] To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner. | [verb] To say softly or gently CROPS (9) [noun] A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose. | [noun] The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants. | [noun] A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time. CRORE (7) [noun] Ten million; 10,000,000. Often used with units of money. CROSS (7) [noun] A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other. | [noun] Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross. | [noun] A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion). CROUP (9) [noun] An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty. | [verb] (obsolete outside dialectal) To croak, make a hoarse noise. CROWD (11) [noun] A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. | [noun] Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. | [noun] (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar. | [noun] (now dialectal) A fiddle. CROWN (10) [noun] A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem. | [noun] A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor. | [noun] (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor. | [verb] To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance. CROWS (10) [noun] A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call. | [noun] The cry of the rooster. | [noun] Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea. CROZE (16) [noun] A groove at the ends of the staves of a barrel into which the edge of the head is fitted. | [noun] A cooper's tool for making these grooves. CRUCK (13) [noun] A sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a timber house, usually used in pairs. | [verb] To make lame. | [noun] A vehicle that has features of both a car and a truck. CRUDE (8) [noun] Any substance in its natural state. | [noun] Crude oil. | [adjective] In a natural, untreated state. CRUDS (8) [noun] Dirt, filth or refuse. | [noun] (by extension) Something of poor quality. | [noun] A contemptible person. CRUEL (7) [verb] To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success) | [verb] To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive. | [adjective] Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless. | [noun] Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery. CRUET (7) [noun] A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as salt, pepper, oil, or vinegar, for use at a dining table. | [noun] A stand for these containers. | [noun] A small vessel used to hold wine or water for the Eucharist. CRUMB (11) [noun] A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). | [noun] A small piece of other material, such as rubber. | [noun] A bit, small amount. CRUMP (11) [noun] The sound of a muffled explosion. | [verb] To produce such a sound. | [verb] For one's health to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash). | [adjective] Hard or crusty; dry baked | [adjective] Crooked; bent. CRUOR (7) [noun] The colouring matter of the blood. | [noun] The clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the colouring matter; gore. CRURA (7) [noun] The shin (tibia and fibula) | [noun] A leglike part; shank CRUSE (7) [noun] A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water. | [noun] An oil lamp or similar emblem. CRUSH (10) [noun] A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. | [noun] Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd. | [noun] A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure. CRUST (7) [noun] A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary. | [noun] The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc. | [noun] An outer layer composed of pastry CRWTH (13) [noun] A bowed stringed instrument of Welsh origin, similar to a violin, with a flat body and typically six strings. CRYPT (12) [noun] A cave or cavern. | [noun] An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place. | [noun] A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure. CUBER (9) [noun] A person who solves Rubik's cubes or other cube puzzles. | [noun] A device or tool used for cutting food into cubes. CURBS (9) [noun] A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand) | [noun] A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening. | [noun] Something that checks or restrains; a restraint. CURCH (12) CURDS (8) [noun] The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc. | [noun] The coagulated part of any liquid. | [noun] The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants. CURDY (11) [adjective] Resembling or containing curds; having the texture or consistency of curdled milk. CURED (8) [verb] To restore to health. | [verb] To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end. | [verb] To cause to be rid of (a defect). CURER (7) [noun] One who cures, such as a person who preserves food or treats diseases. | [noun] A clergyman or member of the clergy responsible for spiritual care in a parish. CURES (7) [noun] A method, device or medication that restores good health. | [noun] Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury. | [noun] A solution to a problem. CURET (7) [noun] A surgical instrument with a scoop or loop at the end, used for scraping or removing tissue from body cavities. | [verb] To scrape or clean with a curet. CURFS (10) [noun] Plural of curf, an archaic or dialectal term for a turf or piece of grass-covered ground. CURIA (7) [noun] A division of the ancient Roman people, or a Roman senate house; also, a court or judicial assembly in medieval times. CURIE (7) [noun] 3.7×1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci. CURIO (7) [noun] A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity. CURLS (7) [noun] A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet. | [noun] A curved stroke or shape. | [noun] A spin making the trajectory of an object curve. CURLY (10) [noun] A person or animal with curly hair. | [adjective] Having curls. | [adjective] Curling in a direction, as opposed to straight (quotation marks or apostrophes) CURNS (7) CURRS (7) CURRY (10) [noun] One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce. | [noun] A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder. | [noun] Curry powder. | [verb] To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb. | [verb] To perform currying upon. | [verb] To scurry; to ride or run hastily | [noun] A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate. CURSE (7) [noun] A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane. | [noun] A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone. | [noun] The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment. | [verb] To place a curse upon (a person or object). CURST (7) [verb] To place a curse upon (a person or object). | [verb] To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. | [verb] To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet. CURVE (10) [noun] A gentle bend, such as in a road. | [noun] A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line. | [noun] A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject. CURVY (13) [adjective] Having curves. | [adjective] Buxom or curvaceous. CUTER (7) [adjective] Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior. | [adjective] Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way. | [adjective] Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy. CYDER (11) [noun] An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples; hard cider; apple cider | [noun] A non-alcoholic still beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; apple cider; sweet cider (without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice). | [noun] A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples. CYMAR (12) [noun] A woman's close-fitting undergarment or jacket worn in the 16th and 17th centuries. | [noun] A type of loose garment or chemise. CZARS (16) [noun] An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area. | [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. DAIRY (9) [noun] (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk. | [noun] A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese. | [noun] A dairy farm. DAMAR (8) [noun] A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis. | [noun] A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea (Dipterocarpaceae family) and Symplocos (Symplocaceae family), used in varnishes and inks | [noun] Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (Araucariaceae family) and Hopea (Dipterocarpaceae family), native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers. DARBS (8) DARED (7) [verb] To have enough courage (to do something). | [verb] To defy or challenge (someone to do something) | [verb] To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to DARER (6) [noun] One who dares; a person who is bold or courageous. | [noun] A challenge or dare issued to someone. DARES (6) [noun] A challenge to prove courage. | [noun] The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. | [noun] Defiance; challenge. DARIC (8) [noun] An ancient Persian gold coin. DARKS (10) [noun] A complete or (more often) partial absence of light. | [noun] Ignorance. | [noun] Nightfall. DARKY (13) [noun] A person with dark skin. | [noun] A dark lantern. DARNS (6) [verb] Euphemism of damn. | [verb] To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric. DARTS (6) [noun] A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin | [noun] Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon. DATER (6) [noun] One who dates. | [noun] A date-stamping device. DEAIR (6) [verb] To remove air from something. | [verb] To expel air or gas from a container or system. DEARS (6) [noun] A very kind, loving person. | [noun] A beloved person. | [noun] An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife. DEARY (9) [noun] A person who is dear or beloved; used as a term of endearment. | [adjective] Variant spelling of "dearie," expressing affection or used as a form of address. DEBAR (8) [verb] To exclude or shut out; to bar. | [verb] To hinder or prevent. | [verb] To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program. DECOR (8) [noun] The style of decoration of a room or building. | [noun] A stage setting; scenery; set; backdrop. DECRY (11) [verb] To denounce as harmful. | [verb] To blame for ills. DEERS (6) [noun] Plural of deer, referring to multiple hoofed mammals of the family Cervidae. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of the verb "deer," meaning to veer or move suddenly to avoid something. DEFER (9) [verb] To delay or postpone | [verb] After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half). | [verb] To delay, to wait. | [verb] To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority. DEMUR (8) [noun] Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple. | [verb] To linger; to stay; to tarry | [verb] To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. DERAT (6) [verb] To rid of rats. DERAY (9) [noun] Disorder or disarray; a state of confusion or disturbance. DERBY (11) [noun] Any of several annual horse races. | [noun] (by extension) Any organized race. | [noun] A bowler hat. DERMA (8) [noun] The inner layer of the skin; the dermis | [noun] A Jewish dish of roast or boiled seasoned meat and flour etc. in a casing, especially kishke DERMS (8) [noun] Plural of derm, informal term for dermatologists or relating to skin. DERRY (9) [verb] To mock or ridicule someone. | [adjective] Worthless or contemptible. DETER (6) [verb] To prevent something from happening. | [verb] To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage. | [verb] To distract someone from something. DEWAR (9) [noun] A vacuum flask; a vessel which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than their environment without the need to modify the pressure, by interposing an evacuated region to provide thermal insulation between the contents and the environment. DIARY (9) [noun] A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer. | [noun] A personal organizer or appointment diary. | [verb] To keep a diary or journal. DICER (8) [noun] A person or device that dices food into small cubes. | [noun] In gaming, a player who relies heavily on chance or luck. DIKER (10) [noun] One who dikes; a person who builds or maintains dikes. | [noun] A lesbian (slang, often considered offensive). DIMER (8) [noun] A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two identical molecules, sometimes with a single atom acting as a bridge. DINAR (6) [noun] The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia and Tunisia. | [noun] An ancient Arab gold coin of 65 grains in weight. DINER (6) [noun] One who dines. | [noun] A dining car in a railroad train. | [noun] A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades. DIRER (6) [adjective] Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. | [adjective] Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. | [adjective] Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal DIRGE (7) [noun] A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. | [noun] A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring. | [verb] To sing dirges DIRKS (10) [noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. | [noun] (Midwest US) A penis; dork. | [noun] (Midwest US) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. DIRLS (6) DIRTS (6) DIRTY (9) [verb] To make (something) dirty. | [verb] To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor. | [verb] To debase by distorting the real nature of (something). DIVER (9) [noun] Someone who dives, especially as a sport. | [noun] Someone who works underwater; a frogman. | [noun] The loon (bird). DOBRA (8) [noun] The official or principal currency of São Tomé and Príncipe, divided into 100 cêntimos. DOERS (6) [noun] Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent. DOLOR (6) [noun] Sorrow, grief, misery or anguish. | [noun] A unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes. DONOR (6) [noun] One who makes a donation. | [noun] A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor. DOORS (6) [noun] A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key. | [noun] Any flap, etc. that opens like a door. | [noun] (immigration) An entry point. DOPER (8) DORKS (10) [noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. | [noun] (Midwest US) A penis; dork. | [noun] (Midwest US) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. DORKY (13) [adjective] Like a dork. DORMS (8) [noun] A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. | [noun] A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities. | [noun] A dormitory town. DORMY (11) [adjective] In match play, leading the match by the same number of holes as remain to be played. DORPS (8) [noun] A village or small town; a town considered provincial. DORRS (6) DORSA (6) [noun] The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants. | [noun] The top of the foot or the back of the hand. | [noun] The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal. DORTY (9) DOSER (6) DOTER (6) DOURA (6) DOWER (9) [noun] The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate. | [noun] Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry. | [noun] That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift. DOWRY (12) [noun] Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. | [noun] Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price. | [noun] Dower. DOZER (15) [noun] One who dozes. | [noun] A bulldozer. DRABS (8) DRAFF (12) [noun] Dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash or waste matter. DRAFT (9) [noun] A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle. | [noun] Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process. | [noun] An act of drinking. DRAGS (7) [noun] Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it. | [noun] (foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold. | [noun] A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing. DRAIL (6) [noun] A hook with a lead shank. | [noun] The piece of lead around the shank of such a hook. | [noun] The iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw. DRAIN (6) [noun] A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK) | [noun] An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods. | [noun] Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return. DRAKE (10) [noun] A male duck. | [noun] A mayfly used as fishing bait. | [noun] A dragon. DRAMA (8) [noun] A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue | [noun] Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy) | [noun] Theatrical plays in general DRAMS (8) [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. | [noun] An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams. DRANK (10) [noun] Dextromethorphan | [noun] A drink, usually alcoholic | [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [noun] Wild oats, or darnel grass. DRAPE (8) [noun] A curtain; a drapery. | [noun] The way in which fabric falls or hangs. | [noun] A member of a youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square DRATS (6) DRAVE (9) DRAWL (9) [noun] A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots. | [verb] To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently. | [verb] To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. DRAWN (9) [verb] To move or develop something. | [verb] To exert or experience force. | [verb] (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace. DRAWS (9) [noun] The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie. | [noun] The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined. | [noun] Something that attracts e.g. a crowd. DRAYS (9) [noun] A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads. | [noun] A kind of sledge or sled. | [noun] A squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree. DREAD (7) [noun] Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. | [noun] Reverential or respectful fear; awe. | [noun] Somebody or something dreaded. DREAM (8) [noun] Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping. | [noun] A hope or wish. | [noun] A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy. DREAR (6) [adjective] Dreary. | [noun] Gloom; sadness. DRECK (12) [noun] Trash; worthless merchandise. DREED (7) [verb] (North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo. | [verb] (North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue. DREES (6) [verb] (North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo. | [verb] (North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue. DREGS (7) [noun] (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine. | [noun] (the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something. DREKS (10) DRESS (6) [noun] An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist. | [noun] Apparel, clothing. | [noun] The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. DREST (6) DRIBS (8) DRIED (7) [adjective] Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been wet or moist; resulting from the process of drying. | [adjective] Usually of foods: cured, preserved by drying. | [adjective] Sold raw and unprocessed. DRIER (6) [noun] One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative. | [noun] A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion. | [noun] An electric hair dryer. | [adjective] Free from or lacking moisture. DRIES (6) [noun] The process by which something is dried. | [noun] A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages). | [noun] (with "the") The dry season. DRIFT (9) [noun] (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved. | [noun] The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. | [noun] A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side. DRILL (6) [noun] A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece. | [noun] The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit. | [noun] An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence. | [noun] An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. | [noun] A small trickling stream; a rill. | [verb] To entice or allure; to decoy; with on. | [noun] An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face. | [noun] A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave. DRILY (9) [adverb] In a dry manner DRINK (10) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. | [noun] A beverage. DRIPS (8) [noun] A drop of a liquid. | [noun] A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. | [noun] An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream. DRIPT (8) DRIVE (9) [noun] Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition. | [noun] Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business. | [noun] An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc. DROIT (6) DROLL (6) [noun] A funny person; a buffoon, a wag. | [verb] To jest, to joke. | [adjective] Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish. DRONE (6) [noun] A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee. | [noun] Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler. | [noun] One who performs menial or tedious work. | [noun] A low-pitched hum or buzz. DROOL (6) [noun] Saliva trickling from the mouth. | [noun] Stupid talk. | [verb] To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food. DROOP (8) [noun] Something which is limp or sagging | [noun] A condition or posture of drooping | [verb] To hang downward; to sag. DROPS (8) [noun] A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape via surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. | [noun] A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything. | [noun] (now especially with "the") Alcoholic spirits in general. DROPT (8) DROSS (6) [noun] Waste or impure matter. | [noun] Residue that forms on the surface of a metal from oxidation. | [noun] The impurities in metal. DROUK (10) DROVE (9) [noun] A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively). | [noun] (collective) A group of hares. | [verb] To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. DROWN (9) [verb] To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. | [verb] To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. | [verb] To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. DRUBS (8) [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. | [verb] To forcefully teach something. DRUGS (7) [noun] A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. | [noun] A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. | [noun] Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted. DRUID (7) [noun] One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions. DRUMS (8) [noun] A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone. | [noun] Any similar hollow, cylindrical object. | [noun] A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage. DRUNK (10) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. DRUPE (8) [noun] A stone fruit. DRUSE (6) [noun] An inner surface with a crust of tiny crystals. | [noun] An aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants. | [noun] A tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye. DRYAD (10) [noun] In Greek myth, a female tree spirit. DRYER (9) [noun] One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative. | [noun] A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion. | [noun] An electric hair dryer. | [adjective] Free from or lacking moisture. DRYLY (12) [adverb] In a dry manner. DUPER (8) [noun] A person who dupes another DURAL (6) DURAS (6) DURED (7) DURES (6) DURNS (6) [noun] A secret; secrecy. | [noun] A secret place; hiding. | [noun] An obscure language. DUROC (8) [noun] A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America. DUROS (6) DURRA (6) [noun] A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor). DURRS (6) DURST (6) [verb] To have enough courage (to do something). | [verb] To defy or challenge (someone to do something) | [verb] To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to DURUM (8) [noun] Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum (hard wheat), the flour of which is used to make pasta and bread. DWARF (12) [noun] Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves. | [noun] A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with normal adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition. | [noun] An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort. DYERS (9) [noun] One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation. EAGER (6) [adjective] Sharp; sour; acid. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. | [adjective] Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. | [noun] A tidal bore EAGRE (6) [adjective] Sharp; sour; acid. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. | [adjective] Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. | [noun] A tidal bore EARED (6) EARLS (5) [noun] (nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts. EARLY (8) [noun] A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day. | [adjective] At a time in advance of the usual or expected event. | [adjective] Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time. EARNS (5) [verb] To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. EARTH (8) [proper noun] The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live. | [proper noun] The personification of the Earth or earth, as a fertile woman or goddess. | [noun] Soil. EATER (5) [noun] One who eats. | [noun] An eating apple. | [noun] One who performs fellatio or cunnilingus. ECRUS (7) EDGER (7) EERIE (5) [adjective] Strange, weird, fear-inspiring. | [adjective] Frightened, timid. EGERS (6) EGGAR (7) [noun] Any moth of the family Lasiocampidae. EGGER (7) [noun] One who gathers eggs. | [noun] Any of various species of moth, especially the oak egger-moth, Lasiocampa quercus. | [noun] One who eggs or incites. EGRET (6) [noun] Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season. | [noun] A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament. | [noun] The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle. EIDER (6) [noun] Any of the species of the genera Polysticta or Somateria, in the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies). ELDER (6) [noun] An older person or an older member, usually a leader, of some community. | [noun] One who is older than another. | [noun] One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor. | [noun] A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries ELVER (8) [noun] A young eel. EMBAR (9) EMBER (9) [noun] A glowing piece of coal or wood. | [noun] Smoldering ash. | [adjective] Making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer. EMEER (7) EMERY (10) [noun] An impure type of corundum, often used for sanding or polishing. | [verb] To sand or polish with emery. | [verb] To coat with emery. EMIRS (7) [noun] A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. | [noun] A descendant of the prophet Muhammad. EMMER (9) [noun] A species of wheat, Triticum dicoccon, one of a group of hulled wheats that are important food grains. ENDER (6) ENORM (7) ENROL (5) [verb] To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list | [verb] To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of | [verb] To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something) ENTER (5) [noun] The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard. | [noun] A stroke of the Enter key. | [verb] To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space. ENTRY (8) [noun] The act of entering. | [noun] Permission to enter. | [noun] A doorway that provides a means of entering a building. ENURE (5) [verb] To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative; used with to. EPHOR (10) [noun] One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings. | [noun] (in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator. ERASE (5) [noun] The operation of deleting data. | [verb] To remove markings or information | [verb] To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. ERECT (7) [adjective] Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards. | [adjective] (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation. | [adjective] (of a man) Having an erect penis | [verb] To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. ERGOT (6) [noun] Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses. | [noun] The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi. ERICA (7) [noun] Any of many heathers, of the genus Erica, used as garden plants ERNES (5) [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) | [noun] An eagle. ERODE (6) [verb] To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction. | [verb] To destroy gradually by an ongoing process. EROSE (5) ERRED (6) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To sin. | [verb] To stray. | [verb] To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er. ERROR (5) [noun] The state, quality, or condition of being wrong. | [noun] A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately. | [noun] Sin; transgression. ERSES (5) ERUCT (7) [verb] To burp or belch. ERUGO (6) ERUPT (7) [verb] To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser). | [verb] To burst forth; to break out. | [verb] To spontaneously release pressure or tension. ERVIL (8) ESCAR (7) ESKAR (9) ESKER (9) [noun] A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier. ESTER (5) [noun] A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond joined via carbon to another oxygen atom. ETHER (8) [noun] The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities. | [noun] Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955). | [noun] The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace. | [verb] To viciously humiliate or insult. EUROS (5) [noun] Person living or originating from Europe | [noun] Person who resides within the European Union | [noun] The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: € EVERT (8) [verb] To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. | [verb] To move (someone or something) out of the way. | [verb] To turn upside down; to overturn. EVERY (11) EWERS (8) [noun] A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle. EXERT (12) [verb] To put in vigorous action. | [verb] To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material. EXTRA (12) [noun] Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill. | [noun] An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle. | [noun] A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball. EXURB (14) [noun] A residential area beyond the suburbs. EYERS (8) EYRAS (8) [noun] A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. EYRES (8) [noun] A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere). EYRIE (8) [noun] The nest of a bird of prey. | [noun] Any high and remote but commanding place. EYRIR (8) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Icelandic króna FACER (10) [noun] An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat. | [noun] One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. | [noun] A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy. FADER (9) [adjective] Weak; insipid; tasteless. | [adjective] Strong; bold; doughty. | [noun] A device used to control sound volume. FAERY (11) [noun] The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion. | [noun] A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism. | [noun] An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm. FAIRS (8) [noun] A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements. | [noun] An event for public entertainment and trade, a market. | [noun] An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair. FAIRY (11) [noun] The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion. | [noun] A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism. | [noun] An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm. FAKER (12) [noun] One who fakes something. | [noun] An impostor or impersonator. | [noun] A thief. FAKIR (12) [noun] A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms. | [noun] (Hindu) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. | [noun] Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. FAQIR (17) [noun] A religious mendicant who owns no personal property. FARAD (9) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical capacitance; the capacitance of a capacitor in which one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt across the capacitor. Symbol: F FARCE (10) [noun] A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method. | [noun] A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor. | [noun] A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents. | [noun] Forcemeat, stuffing. FARCI (10) FARCY (13) [noun] A contagious disease of horses, resembling glanders FARDS (9) [noun] Force of movement, impetus, rush; hence, a violent onset. | [noun] Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint. | [verb] To paint, as the cheeks or face. FARED (9) [verb] To go, travel. | [verb] To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events. | [verb] To eat, dine. FARER (8) FARES (8) [noun] A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage. | [noun] Money paid for a transport ticket. | [noun] A paying passenger, especially in a taxi. FARLE (8) FARLS (8) [noun] A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake. | [noun] Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls. FARMS (10) [noun] A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock. | [noun] A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation. | [noun] (usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures FAROS (8) FARTS (8) [noun] An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. | [noun] (impolite) An irritating person; a fool. | [noun] (impolite, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views. FAVOR (11) [noun] A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). | [noun] Goodwill; benevolent regard. | [noun] A small gift; a party favor. FEARS (8) [noun] A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. | [noun] A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. | [noun] Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. FEMUR (10) [noun] A thighbone. | [noun] The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia. | [noun] A segment of the leg of an arachnid. FERAL (8) [noun] A domesticated animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans. | [noun] A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly. | [noun] A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle. FERES (8) FERIA (8) [noun] A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed. FERLY (11) FERMI (10) [noun] An obsolete unit of length equal to one femtometer or femtometre (10−15 m). FERNS (8) [noun] Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations. FERNY (11) FERRY (11) [noun] A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule. | [noun] A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship. | [noun] The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service. FETOR (8) [noun] An unpleasant smell. FEUAR (8) FEVER (11) [noun] A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease. | [noun] (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases. | [noun] A state of excitement or anxiety. FEWER (11) FEYER (11) FIARS (8) FIBER (10) [noun] A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread. | [noun] A material in the form of fibers. | [noun] A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width. FIBRE (10) [noun] A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread. | [noun] Material in the form of fibres. | [noun] Dietary fibre. FIERY (11) [adjective] Of or relating to fire. | [adjective] Burning or glowing. | [adjective] Inflammable or easily ignited. FIFER (11) FILAR (8) FILER (8) FINER (8) [adjective] Senses referring to subjective quality. | [adjective] Senses referring to objective quality. | [adjective] Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets. FIORD (9) [noun] A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs. FIRED (9) [verb] To set (something, often a building) on fire. | [verb] To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc. | [verb] To drive away by setting a fire. FIRER (8) FIRES (8) [noun] A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering. | [noun] An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire). | [noun] The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger. FIRMS (10) [noun] A business partnership; the name under which it trades. | [noun] A business enterprise, however organized. | [noun] A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism. FIRNS (8) FIRRY (11) FIRST (8) [noun] The person or thing in the first position. | [noun] The first gear of an engine. | [noun] Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence. | [noun] Time; time granted; respite. FIRTH (11) [noun] An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. | [noun] An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. | [noun] Peace; security. FIVER (11) [noun] A banknote with a value of five units of currency. | [noun] (by extension) The value in money that this represents. | [noun] A clenched fist. FIXER (15) [noun] Agent noun of fix; one who, or that which, fixes. | [noun] A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions. | [noun] (criminal justice) A person who arranges immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion, especially as a business endeavor for profit. FJORD (16) [noun] A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs. FLAIR (8) [noun] A natural or innate talent or aptitude. | [noun] Distinctive style or elegance. | [noun] Smell; odor. FLARE (8) [noun] A sudden bright light. | [noun] A source of brightly burning light or intense heat. | [noun] A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up. FLEER (8) [noun] Mockery; derision | [verb] To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn | [verb] To grin with an air of civility; to leer. | [noun] One who flees FLIER (8) [noun] That which flies, as a bird or insect. | [noun] A machine that flies. | [noun] An airplane pilot. FLIRT (8) [noun] A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion | [noun] Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person. | [noun] An act of flirting. FLOOR (8) [noun] The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. | [noun] Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground). | [noun] The lower inside surface of a hollow space. FLORA (8) [noun] Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc. | [noun] A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc. | [noun] The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body FLOUR (8) [noun] Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry. | [noun] The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid and certain bleaching agents. | [noun] Powder of other material. FLUOR (8) FLYER (11) [noun] That which flies, as a bird or insect. | [noun] A machine that flies. | [noun] An airplane pilot. FORAM (10) FORAY (11) [noun] A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. | [noun] A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere. | [verb] To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc. FORBS (10) [noun] Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush). FORBY (13) [adjective] Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior. | [adverb] Past; by; beyond. | [adverb] Uncommonly; exceptionally. FORCE (10) [noun] Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect. | [noun] Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. | [noun] Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing. | [noun] A waterfall or cascade. | [verb] To stuff; to lard; to farce. FORDO (9) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FORDS (9) [noun] A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing. | [noun] A stream; a current. | [verb] To cross a stream using a ford. FORES (8) FORGE (9) [noun] Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape. | [noun] Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them. | [noun] The act of beating or working iron or steel. | [verb] To shape a metal by heating and hammering. | [verb] (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty. FORGO (9) [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. | [verb] To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo. FORKS (12) [noun] A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc. | [noun] A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil. | [noun] A gallows. FORKY (15) FORME (10) [noun] (heading, physical) To do with shape. | [noun] (social) To do with structure or procedure. | [noun] A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. FORMS (10) [noun] (heading, physical) To do with shape. | [noun] (social) To do with structure or procedure. | [noun] A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. FORTE (8) [noun] A strength or talent. | [noun] The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt. | [noun] A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music. FORTH (11) [adverb] Forward in time, place or degree. | [adverb] Out into view; from a particular place or position. | [adverb] Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. FORTS (8) [noun] A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops. | [noun] Any permanent army post. | [noun] An outlying trading-station, as in British North America. FORTY (11) [noun] A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces. | [numeral] The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one. FORUM (10) [noun] A place for discussion. | [noun] A gathering for the purpose of discussion. | [noun] A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. FOURS (8) [noun] The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof. | [noun] Anything measuring four units, as length. | [noun] A person who is four years old. FOYER (11) [noun] A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc. | [noun] The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal. | [noun] A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people. FRAGS (9) [noun] A fragmentation grenade. | [noun] A successful kill in a deathmatch game. | [verb] To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade. FRAIL (8) [noun] A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins. | [noun] The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail. | [noun] A rush for weaving baskets. FRAME (10) [noun] The structural elements of a building or other constructed object. | [noun] Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure. | [noun] The structure of a person's body; the human body. FRANC (10) [noun] A former unit of currency of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, replaced by the euro. | [noun] Any of several units of currency, some of which are multi-national (West African CFA Franc (XOF), Central African CFA Franc (XAF), the Swiss franc (CHF)) while others are national currencies. FRANK (12) [noun] Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article). | [noun] The notice on an envelope where a stamp would normally be found. | [verb] To place a frank on an envelope. | [noun] A hot dog or sausage. | [noun] The grey heron. | [noun] A pigsty. FRAPS (10) [verb] To draw together tightly; to secure by many turns of a lashing. | [verb] To strike. | [noun] An iced cappuccino. FRASS (8) [noun] The droppings or excrement of insects. | [adjective] Under the influence of marijuana, stoned FRATS (8) [noun] Shortened form for fraternity, college organization. (Often used as a noun modifier.) FRAUD (9) [noun] The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. | [noun] Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain. | [noun] The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end. FRAYS (11) [verb] To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope. | [verb] To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength). | [verb] Frighten; alarm FREAK (12) [noun] A sudden change of mind | [noun] Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable. | [noun] A hippie. | [noun] A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man. FREED (9) [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. | [verb] To rid of something that confines or oppresses. FREER (8) [adjective] (social) Unconstrained. | [adjective] Obtainable without any payment. | [adjective] (abstract) Unconstrained. FREES (8) [noun] Free transfer | [noun] The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed. | [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. FREMD (11) FRENA (8) FRERE (8) FRESH (11) [noun] A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood. | [noun] A stream or spring of fresh water. | [noun] The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea. | [adjective] Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward. FRETS (8) [noun] Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. | [noun] Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation. | [noun] Herpes; tetter. FRIAR (8) [noun] A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars). | [noun] A white or pale patch on a printed page. | [noun] An American fish, the silverside. FRIED (9) [adjective] Cooked by frying. | [adjective] (specifically, of an egg) Fried with the yolk unbroken. | [adjective] Cooked in a deep fryer or pressure fryer or the like after being coated (breaded) in batter; compare deep-fried. FRIER (8) [noun] A container for frying food. | [noun] A young chicken suitable for frying; a pullet | [noun] A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars). FRIES (8) [noun] (usually in the plural, fries) A fried strip of potato. | [noun] A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc. | [noun] A state of excitement. FRIGS (9) [noun] An act of frigging. | [noun] A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed). | [noun] A fuck. FRILL (8) [noun] A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim. | [noun] A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric. | [noun] A wrinkled edge to a film. | [verb] To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk). FRISE (8) FRISK (12) [noun] A frolic; a fit of wanton gaiety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. | [verb] To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap. | [verb] To search somebody by feeling his or her body and clothing. FRITH (11) [noun] Peace; security. | [noun] Sanctuary, asylum. | [verb] To protect; guard. | [noun] A forest or wood; woodland generally. | [noun] An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. FRITS (8) [noun] A fused mixture of materials used to make glass. | [noun] A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age) | [verb] To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture FRITT (8) FRITZ (17) [noun] The state of being defective. | [noun] (chiefly South Australia) A type of processed meat sausage; devon | [verb] To go wrong or become defective. FRIZZ (26) [verb] Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls. | [verb] To curl; to make frizzy. | [verb] To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth. | [noun] A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair. FROCK (14) [noun] A dress, a piece of clothing for a female, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body. | [noun] An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals; a habit. | [noun] A sailor's jersey. | [noun] A frog. FROES (8) [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [noun] A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. FROGS (9) [noun] A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops. | [noun] The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached. | [noun] Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad. FROND (9) [noun] The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf. | [noun] Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf. FRONS (8) [noun] In vertebrates, especially mammals, the forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex. | [noun] The front part of the epicranium or head capsule of many insects; generally speaking the frons is the area below or between the antennae and above the clypeus. Generally it lies between the genal or "cheek" areas on either side of the head. | [noun] (of Diptera) the postfrons FRONT (8) [noun] The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves. | [noun] The side of a building with the main entrance. | [noun] A field of activity. FRORE (8) [verb] Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. | [verb] To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. | [verb] To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. FROSH (11) [noun] A frog. | [noun] A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities. | [verb] To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way. FROST (8) [noun] A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. | [noun] The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form. | [noun] Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. FROTH (11) [noun] Foam | [noun] Unimportant events or actions; drivel | [verb] To create froth in (a liquid). FROWN (11) [noun] A facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration. | [noun] A facial expression in which the corners of the mouth are pointed down. | [verb] To have a frown on one's face. FROWS (11) [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [noun] A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. | [noun] A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one. FROZE (17) [verb] Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. | [verb] To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. | [verb] To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. FRUGS (9) [noun] (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s. FRUIT (8) [noun] (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals. | [noun] Specifically, a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit. | [noun] A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically: FRUMP (12) [noun] A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy. | [noun] The clothes that such a person would wear. | [noun] A bad-tempered person. FRYER (11) [noun] A container for frying food. | [noun] A young chicken suitable for frying; a pullet FUMER (10) FURAN (8) [noun] Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom; especially the simplest one, C4H4O. FURLS (8) [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) FUROR (8) [noun] A general uproar or commotion | [noun] Violent anger or frenzy | [noun] A state of intense excitement FURRY (11) [noun] An animal character with human-like characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture. | [noun] A member of the furry fandom. | [noun] Someone who roleplays or identifies with a furry character. (Compare therianthrope.) FURZE (17) [noun] A thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of which Ulex europaeus is particularly common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland. FURZY (20) GAGER (7) GAMER (8) [noun] A person who plays any kind of game. | [noun] A person whose hobby is video games. | [noun] A person who games the system. | [adjective] Willing to participate. GAPER (8) [noun] One who gapes; a starer. | [noun] Any of several species of burrowing clams. | [noun] The comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla. GARBS (8) [noun] Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. | [noun] A type of dress or clothing. | [noun] A guise, external appearance. GARNI (6) GARTH (9) [noun] A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters | [noun] A close; a yard; a croft; a garden. | [noun] A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England GATOR (6) [noun] Alligator. GAURS (6) [noun] An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition. GAYER (9) [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Happy, joyful, and lively. | [adjective] Quick, fast. | [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Festive, bright, or colourful. GAZAR (15) [noun] A silk organza, a lightweight fabric with a plain weave. GAZER (15) GEARS (6) [noun] Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. | [noun] Clothing; garments. | [noun] Goods; property; household items. GENRE (6) [noun] A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks. GENRO (6) GERAH (9) GERMS (8) [noun] The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore. | [noun] A pathogenic microorganism. | [noun] The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. GERMY (11) [adjective] That carries germs. GIBER (8) GIRDS (7) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. GIRLS (6) [noun] A female child, adolescent, or a young woman. | [noun] A young female animal. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young woman GIRLY (9) [noun] Girl. | [adjective] Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, sweet; unmasculine. GIRNS (6) [verb] To grimace; to snarl. | [verb] To whinge, moan, complain. | [verb] To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition. GIRON (6) GIROS (6) [noun] (in Europe) A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions. | [noun] An unemployment benefit cheque. | [verb] To transfer funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions. | [noun] A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce. GIRSH (9) GIRTH (9) [noun] A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place. | [noun] The part of an animal around which the girth fits. | [noun] One's waistline circumference, most often a large one. GIRTS (6) [noun] A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts. | [verb] To gird. | [verb] To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. GIVER (9) [noun] One who gives; a donor or contributor. GLAIR (6) [noun] Egg-white, especially as used in various industrial preparations. | [noun] Any viscous, slimy substance. | [noun] A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd. GLARE (6) [noun] An intense, blinding light. | [noun] Showy brilliance; gaudiness. | [noun] An angry or fierce stare. GLARY (9) GLORY (9) [noun] Great or overwhelming beauty or splendour. | [noun] Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown. | [noun] That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour. GLUER (6) GNARL (6) [noun] A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree. | [noun] Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs. | [verb] To knot or twist something. | [verb] To snarl or growl; to gnar. GNARR (6) GNARS (6) GOERS (6) [noun] One who, or that which, goes. | [noun] Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully. | [noun] A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity. GOFER (9) [noun] A worker who runs errands; an errand boy. GONER (6) [noun] Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case. GORAL (6) [noun] A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus. GORED (7) [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [verb] To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear. | [verb] To cut in a triangular form. GORES (6) [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [verb] To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear. | [noun] A triangular piece of land where roads meet. GORGE (7) GORPS (8) GORSE (6) [noun] Evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having spiny leaves and yellow flowers. GORSY (9) GOURD (7) [noun] Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae). | [noun] A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita. | [noun] The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration. GRAAL (6) GRABS (8) [noun] A sudden snatch at something. | [noun] An acquisition by violent or unjust means. | [noun] A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. GRACE (8) [noun] Charming, pleasing qualities. | [noun] A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal. | [noun] In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules. GRADE (7) [noun] A rating. | [noun] The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score. | [noun] A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality. GRADS (7) [noun] A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this. | [noun] A unit of angle equal to 0.9 degrees, so that there are 100 gradians in a right angle. | [noun] A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. GRAFT (9) [noun] A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. | [noun] A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. | [noun] A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty. | [noun] A ditch, a canal. | [noun] Corruption in official life. GRAIL (6) [noun] The Holy Grail. | [noun] The object of an extended or difficult quest.http//www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grail | [noun] A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. | [noun] Small particles of earth; gravel. | [noun] One of the small feathers of a hawk. GRAIN (6) [noun] The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley. | [noun] Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa. | [noun] A single seed of grass food crops. | [noun] A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant. GRAMA (8) GRAMP (10) [noun] Grandpa, grandfather. GRAMS (8) [noun] A photograph or video shared on this service. | [noun] A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g | [noun] Grandmother | [noun] Grandmother GRANA (6) [noun] A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis. GRAND (7) [noun] (plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.) | [noun] (plural "grands") A grand piano | [adjective] Of a large size or extent; great. | [noun] A grandparent or grandchild. GRANS (6) [noun] (usually affectionate) a grandmother | [noun] A grandfather GRANT (6) [noun] The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission. | [noun] The yielding or admission of something in dispute. | [noun] The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. GRAPE (8) [noun] A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis. | [noun] A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis. | [noun] A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes. GRAPH (11) [noun] (applied mathematics) A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers. | [noun] A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m, y)\in\R^{m+1}, where y=f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m) for a given function f: \R^m\rightarrow\R. | [noun] (formally) An ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V; (less formally) a set of vertices (or nodes) together with a set of edges that connect (some of) the vertices. GRAPY (11) GRASP (8) [noun] (sometimes figurative) Grip. | [noun] Understanding. | [noun] That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability. GRASS (6) [noun] Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. | [noun] Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses. | [noun] A lawn. GRATE (6) [noun] A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot | [noun] A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning | [verb] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars | [verb] To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater | [adjective] Serving to gratify; agreeable. | [adjective] Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big. GRAVE (9) [noun] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial | [noun] Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. | [noun] (by extension) Death, destruction. | [verb] To dig. | [noun] A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`). | [noun] A count, prefect, or person holding office. | [verb] To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose. GRAVY (12) [noun] A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked. | [noun] A type of gravy. | [noun] (Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta. GRAYS (9) [noun] An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. | [noun] An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. | [noun] An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head. GRAZE (15) [noun] The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. | [noun] A light abrasion; a slight scratch. | [noun] The act of animals feeding from pasture. GREAT (6) [noun] A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | [noun] The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | [noun] (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships. GREBE (8) [noun] Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes. GREED (7) [noun] A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions. | [verb] To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire. GREEK (10) [noun] An inhabitant, resident, or person of descent from Greece. | [noun] Unintelligible speech or text, such as foreign speech or text, or regarding subjects the listener is not familiar with, such as mathematics or technical jargon; or statements that the listener does not understand or agree with. | [noun] A member of a college fraternity or sorority, which are characterised by being named after Greek letters. (See also Greek system.) GREEN (6) [adjective] Having green as its color. | [adjective] (of people) Sickly, unwell. | [adjective] Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. | [noun] The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. | [verb] To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. GREES (6) GREET (6) [verb] To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or over the phone/internet | [verb] To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy) | [verb] To accost; to address. | [adjective] (obsolete outside Scotland) Great. | [noun] Mourning, weeping, lamentation. GREGO (7) GREYS (9) [noun] An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. | [noun] An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. | [noun] An extraterrestrial humanoid with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head. GRIDE (7) GRIDS (7) [noun] A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle. | [noun] A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire. | [noun] A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters). GRIEF (9) [noun] Suffering, hardship. | [noun] Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. | [noun] Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial. GRIFF (12) [noun] Griffin, (white) newcomer | [noun] Grasp; reach | [noun] An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods. | [noun] Marijuana. GRIFT (9) [noun] A confidence game or swindle. | [verb] To obtain illegally, as by con game. | [verb] To obtain money illegally. GRIGS (7) [noun] A dwarf. | [noun] A cricket or grasshopper. | [noun] A small or young eel. GRILL (6) [noun] A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack. | [noun] On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it. | [noun] A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English | [verb] To make angry; provoke; incite. | [noun] Harm. GRIME (8) [noun] Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove. | [noun] A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop. | [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIMY (11) [adjective] Stained or covered with grime. | [adjective] From the urban musical genre called grime. GRIND (7) [noun] The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. | [noun] Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground. | [noun] A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans. | [noun] A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands. GRINS (6) [noun] A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth. | [verb] To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. | [verb] To express by grinning. GRIOT (6) [noun] A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet. | [noun] A Haitian dish of fried pork. GRIPE (8) [noun] A complaint, often a petty or trivial one. | [noun] A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems. | [noun] Grasp; clutch; grip GRIPS (8) [verb] To take hold of, particularly with the hand. | [verb] To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense. | [verb] To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief. GRIPT (8) GRIPY (11) GRIST (6) [noun] Grain that is to be ground in a mill. | [noun] A group of bees. | [noun] Supply; provision. GRITH (9) GRITS (6) [noun] (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge. | [verb] Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger. GROAN (6) [noun] A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief. | [noun] A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration, disapproval, or ecstasy. | [noun] (of an object) A low creaking sound from applied pressure or weight. GROAT (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain. | [noun] Any of various old coins of England and Scotland. | [noun] A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins. GROGS (7) [noun] (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy. | [noun] (by extension) Any alcoholic beverage. | [noun] A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage. GROIN (6) [noun] The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region. | [noun] The area adjoining this fold or depression. | [noun] The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults | [verb] To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur. | [noun] An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater. GROOM (8) [noun] A man who is about to marry. | [noun] A person who cares for horses. | [noun] One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department. GROPE (8) [noun] An act of groping, especially sexually. | [noun] An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel | [verb] To feel with or use the hands; to handle. GROSS (6) [noun] Twelve dozen = 144. | [noun] The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net. | [noun] The bulk, the mass, the masses. GROSZ (15) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Polish zloty. GROTS (6) [noun] A grotto. | [noun] Any unpleasant substance or material. | [noun] A miserable person. GROUP (8) [noun] A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. | [noun] A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. | [noun] An effective divisor on a curve. GROUT (6) [noun] A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry. | [noun] Coarse meal; groats. | [noun] (typically used in the plural) Dregs, sediment. GROVE (9) [noun] A small forest. | [noun] An orchard of fruit trees. | [noun] (Druidism) A place of worship. GROWL (9) [noun] A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal. | [noun] (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a person's stomach when hungry. | [noun] (by extension) An aggressive grumbling. GROWN (9) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GROWS (9) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GRUBS (8) [noun] An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A short, thick man; a dwarf. GRUEL (6) [noun] A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill. | [verb] To exhaust; use up; disable; to punish. GRUES (6) GRUFF (12) [verb] To speak gruffly. | [adjective] Having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature. | [adjective] Hoarse-voiced. GRUME (8) [noun] A thick semisolid | [noun] A clot (of blood) GRUMP (10) [noun] A habitually grumpy or complaining person. | [noun] A grumpy mood. | [verb] To complain. GRUNT (6) [noun] A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak. | [noun] The snorting cry of a pig. | [noun] Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae. GUARD (7) [noun] A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something. | [noun] A garda; a police officer. | [noun] A squad responsible for protecting something. GUARS (6) [noun] An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans. GUIRO (6) [noun] A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound. | [noun] A genre of traditional Cuban music, used in santería rituals. | [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a gourd surrounded by a net of beads. GULAR (6) [noun] A plate or scale in the throat region of the body of a fish or reptile (especially a snake). | [adjective] Particularly of an animal: of, pertaining to, or located at the gula or the throat. | [noun] Ficus racemosa, a species of plant native to India, southeast Asia, and Australia. GURGE (7) GURRY (9) [noun] A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time. | [noun] The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour. | [noun] A small fort. | [noun] Fishing offal GURSH (9) GURUS (6) [noun] A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher. | [noun] (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor. GYRAL (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a gyrus | [adjective] Moving circularly or spirally; gyratory; whirling. GYRED (10) [verb] To whirl GYRES (9) [noun] A swirling vortex. | [noun] A circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current. | [noun] A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. GYRON (9) [noun] A triangular form having an angle at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon. GYROS (9) [noun] A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce. | [noun] A gyroscope | [noun] A gyrocompass | [noun] A gyroscope GYRUS (9) [noun] A ridge or fold on the cerebral cortex. HAARS (8) [noun] Coastal fog along the coast of North East England and Scotland bordering the North Sea. HAIRS (8) [noun] A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals. | [noun] The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body. | [noun] A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. HAIRY (11) [adjective] Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body. | [adjective] Of an animal, having a lot of fur. | [adjective] Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it. HALER (8) [adjective] Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired. | [noun] A German coin equivalent to half a pfennig, later used widely as a small coin in Central Europe and the German Empire. | [noun] A subdivision of the Czech, Slovakian and Czechoslovakian koruna. 100 hellers make up one koruna. HARDS (9) [noun] A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water. | [noun] A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums. | [noun] Crack cocaine. | [noun] The short coarser fibers of flax or hemp; tow. HARDY (12) [noun] (usually in the plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy. | [noun] A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole. | [adjective] Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. HARED (9) [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. HAREM (10) [noun] The private part of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers. | [noun] A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household. | [noun] A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals. HARES (8) [noun] Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears. | [noun] The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed. | [verb] To move swiftly. HARKS (12) [verb] To listen attentively; often used in the imperative. HARLS (8) HARMS (10) [noun] Physical injury; hurt; damage | [noun] Emotional or figurative hurt | [noun] Detriment; misfortune. HARPS (10) [noun] 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 | [noun] A harmonica. | [noun] A grain sieve. HARPY (13) [noun] A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture. | [noun] A shrewish woman. | [noun] One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. HARRY (11) [verb] To plunder, pillage, assault. | [verb] To make repeated attacks on an enemy. | [verb] To strip, lay waste, ravage. HARSH (11) [verb] To negatively criticize. | [verb] To put a damper on (a mood). | [adjective] Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses. HARTS (8) [noun] A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year. | [noun] A red deer or one of related species. | [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. HATER (8) [noun] One who hates. | [noun] One who expresses unfounded or inappropriate hatred or dislike, particularly if motivated by envy. HAVER (11) [verb] To hem and haw | [verb] To talk foolishly; to chatter. | [noun] Oats (the cereal). | [noun] One who has something; a possessor. HAYER (11) HAZER (17) [noun] One who administers acts of hazing, or abusive initiation. | [noun] The rodeo performer who hazes the steer. HEARD (9) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEARS (8) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEART (8) [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. | [noun] Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general. | [noun] The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality. HEDER (9) [noun] An elementary school in which students are taught to read Hebrew texts. HEIRS (8) [noun] Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another. | [noun] One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office. | [noun] A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor. HENRY (11) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical inductance; the inductance induced in a circuit by a rate of change of current of one ampere per second and a resulting electromotive force of one volt. Symbol: H | [noun] A turd. | [noun] A quantity of marijuana weighing one-eighth of an ounce. HERBS (10) [noun] Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food. | [noun] A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine. | [noun] Marijuana. HERBY (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to herbs HERDS (9) [noun] A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. | [noun] Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. | [noun] (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. HERES (8) HERLS (8) [noun] A strand of hair | [noun] The fibrous shaft or barb of a feather (especially that of the ostrich or peacock) used to make artificial flies for angling | [noun] An artificial fly made with this barb HERMA (10) HERMS (10) [noun] A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A hermaphrodite. HERNS (8) HERON (8) [noun] A long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae. HEROS (8) HERRY (11) HERTZ (17) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of frequency; one (period or cycle of any periodic event) per second. Symbol: Hz HEWER (11) [noun] One who hews. HEXER (15) HIDER (9) HIKER (12) [noun] One who hikes, especially frequently. HILAR (8) [adjective] Relating to or near a hilum. HIRED (9) [verb] To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. | [verb] To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job. | [verb] To exchange the services of for remuneration. HIRER (8) HIRES (8) [noun] Payment for the temporary use of something. | [noun] Reward, payment. | [noun] The state of being hired, or having a job; employment. HOARD (9) [noun] A hidden supply or fund. | [noun] A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove. | [verb] To amass, usually for one's own private collection. | [noun] A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction). HOARS (8) HOARY (11) [adjective] White, whitish, or greyish-white. | [adjective] White or grey with age. | [adjective] Of a pale silvery grey. HOERS (8) HOMER (10) [noun] Various former units of volume, particularly: | [noun] A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6 1/2 US bushels. | [noun] A four-base hit; a home run HONER (8) HONOR (8) [noun] Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful) | [noun] The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity | [noun] A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen HOPER (10) HORAH (11) [noun] A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide. | [noun] A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods. HORAL (8) [adjective] Of or relating to an hour, or to hours. HORAS (8) [noun] A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide. HORDE (9) [noun] A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. | [noun] A large number of people. | [verb] To travel en masse, to flock HORNS (8) [noun] A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired. | [noun] Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar. | [noun] An antler. HORNY (11) [adjective] Hard or bony, like an animal's horn. | [adjective] Having horns. | [adjective] Sexually aroused. HORSE (8) [noun] Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. | [noun] Equipment with legs. | [noun] Type of equipment. | [verb] To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".) | [noun] Heroin (drug). HORST (8) [noun] An area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land. HORSY (11) [noun] A child's term or name for a horse. | [noun] A game where a child rides on the back of another, who is on all fours. | [adjective] Of or relating to horses. HOURI (8) [noun] A nymph in the form of a beautiful virgin supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful. | [noun] (by extension) Any voluptuous, beautiful woman. HOURS (8) [noun] A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day. | [noun] A season, moment, or time. | [noun] The time. HOVER (11) [noun] The act of hovering | [verb] To float in the air. | [verb] To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner. | [noun] A cover; a shelter; a protection. HUGER (9) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. HUMOR (10) [noun] The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. | [noun] A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. | [noun] Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. HURDS (9) HURLS (8) [verb] To throw (something) with force. | [verb] To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. | [verb] To participate in the sport of hurling. HURLY (11) HURRY (11) [noun] Rushed action. | [noun] Urgency. | [noun] An incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play. HURST (8) [noun] (rare outside place names) A wood or grove. HURTS (8) [noun] An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. | [noun] A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise. | [noun] Injury; damage; detriment; harm HYDRA (12) [noun] Any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera, having a naked cylindrical body and an oral opening surrounded by tentacles. | [noun] A dragon-like creature with many heads and the ability to regrow them when maimed. | [noun] A complex, multifarious problem or situation that cannot be solved easily and rapidly. HYDRO (12) [noun] Hydroelectric power | [noun] Electrical power supply; specifically, electrical power provided by a utility (as a publicly-owned one); payment or bills for this. | [noun] A spa. HYPER (13) [noun] Hyperextension exercise | [noun] Hyperspace | [adjective] Hyperactive | [noun] A wrestler who uses the hipe technique. HYRAX (18) [noun] Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors, native to Africa and the Middle East. ICHOR (10) [noun] The liquid that in Greek mythology was said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods | [noun] Any bloodlike fluid | [noun] A watery, fetid discharge from a sore ICIER (7) [adjective] Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty. | [adjective] Covered with ice, wholly or partially. | [adjective] Characterized by coldness of manner; frigid; cold. ICKER (11) IDLER (6) [noun] One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction. | [noun] One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard. | [noun] Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch IHRAM (10) ILLER (5) [adjective] Evil; wicked (of people). | [adjective] Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy. | [adjective] Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. INARM (7) INCUR (7) [verb] To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to | [verb] To enter or pass into | [verb] To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger INDRI (6) [noun] One of the largest living lemurs (Indri indri), native to Madagascar. INERT (5) [noun] A substance that does not react chemically. | [verb] To fill with an inert gas to reduce the risk of explosion. | [adjective] Unable to move or act; inanimate. INFER (8) [verb] To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence. | [verb] To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply. (Now often considered incorrect, especially with a person as subject.) | [verb] To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone. INFRA (8) [adverb] Discussed later. | [noun] Infrastructure. INKER (9) INNER (5) [noun] An inner part. | [noun] A duvet, excluding the cover. | [noun] A forward who plays in or near the center of the field. INTER (5) [verb] To bury in a grave. | [verb] To confine, as in a prison. INTRO (5) [noun] An introduction. | [noun] The opening sequence at beginning of a film, television program, etc. | [noun] A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition. INURE (5) [verb] To cause someone to become accustomed to something (usually) unpleasant. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative. | [verb] To commit. INURN (5) [verb] To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container. | [verb] To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died). INVAR (8) [noun] An alloy of iron containing 35.5% nickel, and having a very low coefficient of expansion. IRADE (6) [noun] A decree issued by a Muslim ruler. IRATE (5) [adjective] Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged. IRIDS (6) IRING (6) IRKED (10) [verb] To irritate; annoy; bother | [adjective] Annoyed. IROKO (9) [noun] A hardwood obtained from several African trees of the genus Chlorophora. | [noun] The tree itself. IRONE (5) IRONS (5) [noun] A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel. | [noun] A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe. | [noun] Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron. IRONY (8) [noun] A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context. | [noun] Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play. | [noun] Ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist; Socratic irony. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the metal iron. ITHER (8) IVORY (11) [noun] The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals. | [noun] A creamy white color, the color of ivory. | [noun] Something made from or resembling ivory. IXORA (12) IZARS (14) JAGER (13) JAGRA (13) JAPER (14) JARLS (12) [noun] A medieval Scandinavian nobleman, especially in Norway and Denmark. JEERS (12) [noun] A mocking remark or reflection. | [verb] (jeer at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language. | [noun] A gear; a tackle. JERID (13) JERKS (16) [noun] A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body. | [noun] A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. | [noun] A dull or stupid person. JERKY (19) [adjective] Characterized by physical jerking. | [adjective] Having the behavior of a jerk (unpleasant person). | [noun] Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun. JERRY (15) [noun] A chamber pot. | [adjective] Jerry-built. | [noun] A German, particularly a male German. JIBER (14) JIVER (15) JOKER (16) [noun] A person who makes jokes. | [noun] A funny person. | [noun] A jester. JORAM (14) JORUM (14) [noun] A large vessel for drinking (usually alcoholic beverages). | [noun] A large quantity. | [noun] The contents, or quantity of the contents, of such a vessel. JOWAR (15) [noun] Sorghum JURAL (12) [adjective] Of or pertaining to law. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to moral rights and obligations. JURAT (12) [noun] A sworn statement concerning where, when, and before whom an oath has been made. | [noun] A sworn person, particularly: JUREL (12) JUROR (12) [noun] A member of a jury. KABAR (11) KAFIR (12) [noun] A disbeliever, a denier: someone who denies the truths from Allah; or more broadly any non-Muslim. KARAT (9) [noun] A unit of fineness or concentration of gold equalling 1/24 part of gold in an alloy. KARMA (11) [noun] The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth. | [noun] A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate. | [noun] A distinctive feeling, aura, or atmosphere. KARNS (9) KAROO (9) KARST (9) [noun] A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage. KARTS (9) [noun] A go-cart. KAURI (9) [noun] A conifer of the genus Agathis, family Araucariaceae, found in Australasia and Melanesia. | [noun] Agathis australis, a large conifer of the family Araucariaceae. | [noun] A resinous product of the kauri tree, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber. KAURY (12) KBARS (11) KEBAR (11) KEFIR (12) [noun] A fermented milk drink from the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, similar to yogurt but more liquidy. | [noun] A disbeliever, a denier: someone who denies the truths from Allah; or more broadly any non-Muslim. KEIRS (9) KERBS (11) [noun] The edge between the pavement and the roadway, consisting of a line of kerbstones. | [noun] A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb. KERFS (12) [noun] The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice. | [noun] The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision. | [noun] The distance between diverging saw teeth. KERNE (9) [noun] Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter. | [noun] A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt. | [noun] A boor; a low person. KERNS (9) [noun] A corn; grain; kernel. | [noun] The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest. | [noun] The harvest home. KERRY (12) KIERS (9) [noun] A bleaching vat. KIRKS (13) [noun] A church. KIRNS (9) KITER (9) KNARS (9) [noun] A knot or burl in a tree; a knurl, a gnarl. KNAUR (9) KNURL (9) [noun] A contorted knot in wood. | [noun] A crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection. | [noun] A lined or crossgrained pattern of ridges or indentations rolled or pressed into a part for grip. KNURS (9) [noun] A knurl. | [noun] The small wooden ball in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell. KORAI (9) [noun] An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle. KORAT (9) KORUN (9) KRAAL (9) [noun] In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community. | [noun] In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade. | [noun] An enclosure for livestock. KRAFT (12) [noun] A kind of strong, smooth brown wrapping paper. KRAIT (9) [noun] Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia. KRAUT (9) [noun] A dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage. | [noun] A German person. | [noun] A German. KREEP (11) KRILL (9) [noun] Any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca. KRONA (9) [noun] The official currency of Sweden. KRONE (9) [noun] The currency of Iceland, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and Norway, divided into 100 øre, except in Iceland where 1 króna = 100 aurar. KROON (9) [noun] The former currency of Estonia, divided into 100 senti KRUBI (11) KUKRI (13) [noun] A curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters. KURTA (9) [noun] A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women. KURUS (9) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Turkish lira KYARS (12) KYRIE (12) [noun] A short prayer or petition including the phrase kyrie eleison, meaning “Lord, have mercy”. | [noun] A setting of the traditional kyrie text to music for a Mass. LAARI (5) LABOR (7) [noun] Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work. | [noun] That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. | [noun] Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour. LABRA (7) [noun] The uppermost of the mouthparts (trophi) of a typical insect, such as a cockroach. Typically resembles an upper lip and forms part of the roof of the mouth in such insects. | [noun] Any of several lip-like projections. | [noun] A large basin of warm water, with an overhanging lip, in a Roman bath. LACER (7) LADER (6) LAGER (6) [noun] A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast. | [verb] To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification. | [noun] A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers. LAHAR (8) [noun] A volcanic mudflow. LAIRD (6) [noun] The owner of a Scottish estate; a member of the landed gentry, a landowner. | [noun] Often in the form Laird of, followed by a patronymic: a Scottish clan chief. | [verb] Chiefly as laird it over: to behave like a laird, particularly to act haughtily or to domineer; to lord (it over). LAIRS (5) [noun] A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground. | [noun] A shed or shelter for domestic animals. | [noun] A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway. LAKER (9) [noun] One engaged in sport; a player; an actor. | [noun] A wharfman who resides near a lake. | [noun] A ship used on the Great Lakes. LAMER (7) [adjective] Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs. | [adjective] Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function. | [adjective] (by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. LARCH (10) [noun] A coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles. | [noun] The wood of the larch. LARDS (6) [verb] To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking. | [verb] To smear with fat or lard. | [verb] To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing. LARDY (9) LAREE (5) LARES (5) LARGE (6) [noun] An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves. | [noun] Liberality, generosity. | [noun] (plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds. LARGO (6) [noun] A very slow tempo | [noun] A musical piece or movement in such a tempo | [adjective] Strong and stately LARIS (5) [noun] The national currency of Georgia, divided into 100 tetri. LARKS (9) [verb] To catch larks (type of bird). | [verb] To sport, engage in harmless pranking. | [verb] To frolic, engage in carefree adventure. LARKY (12) LARUM (7) LARVA (8) [noun] An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish. | [noun] An animal in the aforementioned stage. | [noun] A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage. LASER (5) [noun] A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light. | [noun] A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam. | [noun] A laser printer. | [noun] A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants. LATER (5) [adjective] Near the end of a period of time. | [adjective] Specifically, near the end of the day. | [adjective] (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period. LAURA (5) LAVER (8) [noun] A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable. | [noun] Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially: | [noun] One who laves: a washer. LAXER (12) [adjective] Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict. | [adjective] Loose; not tight or taut. | [adjective] Lacking care; neglectful, negligent. | [noun] Lacrosse player LAYER (8) [noun] A single thickness of some material covering a surface. | [noun] A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum. | [noun] One of the items in a hierarchy. | [noun] A person who lays things, such as tiles. LAZAR (14) [noun] A sufferer of an infectious disease, especially leprosy. LEARN (5) [noun] The act of learning something | [verb] To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something. | [verb] To attend a course or other educational activity. | [verb] To teach. LEARS (5) LEARY (8) LEERS (5) [noun] A significant side glance; a glance expressive of some passion, as malignity, amorousness, etc.; a sly or lecherous look. | [noun] An arch or affected glance or cast of countenance. | [verb] To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent. LEERY (8) [adjective] Cautious, suspicious, wary, hesitant, or nervous about something; having reservations or concerns. LEGER (6) LEHRS (8) [noun] A long oven or kiln, often having a moving belt, used for annealing glass. LEMUR (7) [noun] Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands. | [noun] Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta). | [noun] A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ. LEPER (7) [noun] A person who has leprosy. | [noun] A person who is shunned; a pariah. LEVER (8) [noun] (except in generalized senses below) A crowbar. | [noun] A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. | [noun] A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button). | [adverb] Rather. | [noun] A levee. LIARD (6) [noun] A small French coin, equivalent to a quarter of a sou. LIARS (5) [noun] One who tells lies. | [noun] A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week. LIBER (7) LIBRA (7) [noun] A Roman unit of weight equal to about 327 grams. | [noun] Any of various units of weight in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries approximately equal to 460 grams or a little more than a US or UK pound. | [noun] Alternative spelling of libbra, an Italian unit of weight. LIBRI (7) LIDAR (6) [noun] The optical analogue of radar, using intense pulses of laser light to measure the composition and structure of the atmosphere. LIERS (5) LIFER (8) [noun] A prisoner sentenced to life in prison. | [noun] A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life. | [noun] A person with a singular career path, especially in the military. LIGER (6) [noun] An animal born to a male lion and a tigress. LIKER (9) LINER (5) [noun] Someone who fits a lining to something. | [noun] A removable cover or lining | [noun] The pamphlet which is contained inside an album of music or movie | [noun] A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner. LIRAS (5) LIROT (5) LITER (5) [noun] The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ℓ | [noun] A measure of volume equivalent to a litre. LITRE (5) [noun] The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ℓ | [noun] A measure of volume equivalent to a litre. LIVER (8) [noun] A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions. | [noun] This organ, as taken from animals used as food. | [noun] A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver. | [noun] Someone who lives (usually in a specified way). LIVRE (8) LOBAR (7) [adjective] Of or relating to a lobe. LONER (5) [noun] One who is alone, lacking or avoiding the company of others. LOPER (7) LORAL (5) LORAN (5) LORDS (6) [noun] The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor | [noun] One possessing similar mastery over others; any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron) | [noun] One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~) LORES (5) [noun] All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience. | [noun] The backstory created around a fictional universe. | [noun] Workmanship. LORIS (5) [noun] Any of several small, slow-moving primates, of the family Lorisidae, found in India and southeast Asia. LORRY (8) [noun] A motor vehicle for transporting goods, and in some cases people; a truck. | [noun] A barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations. | [noun] A small cart or wagon used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish. LOSER (5) [noun] A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive. | [noun] Something of poor quality. | [noun] A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life. LOURS (5) [verb] To frown; to look sullen. | [verb] To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. LOURY (8) LOVER (8) [noun] One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse. | [noun] A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair. | [noun] A person who loves something. | [noun] A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. LOWER (8) [adjective] Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty. | [adjective] Of less than normal height; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. | [adjective] Not high in status, esteem or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.) | [verb] To frown; to look sullen. LUCRE (7) [noun] Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner. LUGER (6) [noun] Someone who competes in the luge. LUNAR (5) [noun] The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus in the wrist, which is shaped like a half-moon. | [noun] An observation of a lunar distance, especially for establishing the longitude of a ship at sea. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon); Lunar. LURCH (10) [noun] A sudden or unsteady movement. | [verb] To make such a sudden, unsteady movement. | [verb] To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. | [noun] An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables. LURED (6) [verb] To attract by temptation etc.; to entice | [verb] To recall a hawk with a lure LURER (5) LURES (5) [noun] Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure | [noun] An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish | [noun] A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk LURID (6) [adjective] Shocking, horrifying. | [adjective] Melodramatic. | [adjective] Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance. LURKS (9) [verb] To remain concealed in order to ambush. | [verb] To remain unobserved. | [verb] To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself. LYARD (9) LYART (8) LYRES (8) [noun] An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke. | [noun] A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical. | [noun] A composer of lyric poetry. LYRIC (10) [noun] A lyric poem. | [noun] (also in plural) The words of a song or other vocal music. The singular form often refers to a part of the words, whereas the plural form can refer to all of the words. | [adjective] Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style MAARS (7) [noun] A broad volcanic crater, usually filled with water to form a lake. MACER (9) [noun] A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland. MACRO (9) [adjective] Very large in scope or scale. | [adjective] Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself. | [adjective] Long-lived. | [noun] A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program. | [noun] Macro lens MADRE (8) MAIRS (7) MAJOR (14) [noun] A military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel. | [noun] The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university. | [noun] A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study. MAKAR (11) [noun] A poet writing in Scots. MAKER (11) [noun] Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something. | [noun] (usually capitalized and preceded by the) God. | [noun] A poet. MALAR (7) [noun] The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit. | [adjective] Pertaining to the cheek. MANOR (7) [noun] A landed estate. | [noun] The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion. | [noun] A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe. MARCH (12) [noun] A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies. | [noun] A political rally or parade | [noun] Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music) | [noun] A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary. | [noun] Smallage. MARCS (9) [noun] The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed. | [noun] An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes. | [noun] A weight of various commodities, especially of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces. MARES (7) [noun] An adult female horse. | [noun] A foolish woman. | [noun] A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit. MARGE (8) [noun] Margin; edge; verge. | [noun] Margarine. MARIA (7) [noun] A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea. | [noun] On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons. MARKS (11) [noun] (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary. | [noun] (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression. | [noun] (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc. MARLS (7) [verb] To cover with the earthy substance called marl. | [verb] To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. MARLY (10) MARRY (10) [verb] To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. | [verb] (in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom. | [verb] To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. | [interjection] Indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration. MARSE (7) MARSH (10) [noun] An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass. MARTS (7) [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. | [noun] A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). | [noun] A ship commissioned for making captures. MARVY (13) [adjective] Great, awesome, brilliant MASER (7) [noun] A device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems | [noun] Any celestial object that generates microwaves using the same method | [noun] The maple tree, or maple wood. MATER (7) [noun] Mother. | [noun] A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain. | [noun] Someone or something that mates. | [noun] Tomato. MAYOR (10) [noun] The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, &c., formerly usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally. | [noun] Short for mayor of the palace, the royal stewards of the Frankish Empire. | [noun] Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland. MAZER (16) [noun] The maple tree, or maple wood. | [noun] A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl. MBIRA (9) [noun] A thumb piano, a musical instrument having a small sound box fitted with a row of tuned tabs that are plucked with the thumbs, originating among the Shona of southern Africa; any type of plucked lamellophone of the same type as the Shona instrument. MERCY (12) [noun] Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another. | [noun] Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate. | [noun] A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion. MERDE (8) [noun] (quaint) shit MERER (7) MERES (7) [noun] A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere. | [noun] Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line. | [noun] A Maori war-club. MERGE (8) [noun] The joining together of multiple sources. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. MERIT (7) [noun] A claim to commendation or a reward. | [noun] A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence. | [noun] Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward. MERKS (11) MERLE (7) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MERLS (7) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MERRY (10) [adjective] Jolly and full of high spirits. | [adjective] Festive and full of fun and laughter. | [adjective] Brisk | [noun] An English wild cherry. METER (7) [noun] (always meter) A device that measures things. | [noun] (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. | [noun] (always meter) One who metes or measures. METRE (7) [verb] To measure with a metering device. | [verb] To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter. | [verb] To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath). | [noun] The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition. METRO (7) [noun] An underground railway. | [noun] A train that runs on such an underground railway. | [noun] An urban rapid transit light railway | [noun] A metropolitan area MICRA (9) MICRO (9) [noun] (gaming slang) micromanagement | [verb] (gaming slang) to micromanage | [adjective] Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified. MIKRA (11) MILER (7) [noun] (often in combination) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles. | [noun] (in combination) A race whose length is the specified number of miles. MIMER (9) MINER (7) [noun] A person who works in a mine. | [noun] An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives. | [noun] Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina. MINOR (7) [noun] A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities. | [noun] A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration. | [noun] Determinant of a square submatrix MIRED (8) [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [verb] To sink into mud. | [verb] To weigh down. | [noun] A unit of measurement for color temperature. MIRES (7) [noun] Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. | [noun] An undesirable situation, a predicament. | [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. MIREX (14) [noun] The pesticide and fire retardant perchloropentacyclodecane, which is a persistent organic pollutant. MIRKS (11) MIRKY (14) [adjective] Hard to see through, as a fog or mist. | [adjective] Dark, dim, gloomy. | [adjective] Cloudy, indistinct, obscure. MIRTH (10) [noun] The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety. | [noun] That which causes merriment. MIRZA (16) MISER (7) [noun] A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious. | [noun] A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated. MITER (7) [noun] A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. | [noun] The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. MITRE (7) [noun] A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. | [noun] The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. MIXER (14) [noun] One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together. | [noun] One who mixes or socializes. | [noun] A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below. MOHUR (10) MOIRA (7) MOIRE (7) [noun] Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat. | [noun] Any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given. MOLAR (7) [noun] A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food. | [adjective] Of or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding. | [noun] A unit of concentration equal to one mole per litre. MOORS (7) [noun] An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath | [noun] A game preserve consisting of moorland. | [verb] To cast anchor or become fastened. MOORY (10) MOPER (9) MORAE (7) MORAL (7) [noun] (of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct. | [noun] A morality play. MORAS (7) MORAY (10) [noun] Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae. MOREL (7) [noun] Any of several edible mushrooms, especially the common morel or yellow morel. | [noun] Any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. | [noun] A variety of cultivated cherry, Prunus cerasus 'austera', having a dark skin MORES (7) [noun] A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws. | [noun] A carrot; a parsnip. | [noun] A root; stock. | [verb] To root up. MORNS (7) [noun] Morning. MORON (7) [noun] A stupid person; an idiot; a fool. | [noun] A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70. MORPH (12) [noun] (grammar) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds. | [noun] An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts. | [noun] Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour. | [noun] A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another. MORRO (7) MORSE (7) [noun] A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative. | [noun] A walrus. MORTS (7) [noun] Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. | [noun] A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. | [noun] The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. MOTOR (7) [noun] A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion. | [noun] A motor car, or automobile. | [noun] A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force. MOURN (7) [noun] Sorrow, grief. | [noun] A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting. | [verb] To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). MOVER (10) [noun] Someone who or something that moves. | [noun] A dancer. | [noun] A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another. MOWER (10) [noun] A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass. | [noun] A person who cuts grass. MUCOR (9) MUCRO (9) [noun] A pointed end, often sharp, abruptly terminating an organ, such as a projection at the tip of a leaf; the posterior tip of a cuttlebone; or the distal part of the furcula in Collembola. MUDRA (8) [noun] Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography. | [noun] Any of the formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation. MURAL (7) [noun] A large painting, usually drawn on a wall. | [verb] To create a mural. | [adjective] Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall. MURAS (7) MURED (8) [verb] To wall in or fortify | [verb] To enclose or imprison within walls. MURES (7) [noun] Wall | [noun] Husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh MUREX (14) [noun] Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods. MURID (8) [noun] Any rodent in the family Muridae. MURKS (11) MURKY (14) [adjective] Hard to see through, as a fog or mist. | [adjective] Dark, dim, gloomy. | [adjective] Cloudy, indistinct, obscure. MURRA (7) MURRE (7) [noun] Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks). MURRS (7) MURRY (10) MUSER (7) MUTER (7) MYRRH (13) [noun] A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha. | [noun] The herb chervil. NACRE (7) [noun] A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl. | [noun] A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl. NADIR (6) [noun] The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation. | [noun] The lowest point; time of greatest depression. | [noun] The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down. NAIRA (5) [noun] The official currency of Nigeria, which replaced the pound in 1973; the principal denomination of the currency, equal to 100 kobo. NAMER (7) NARCO (7) [noun] Narcotics. | [noun] A South American drug baron. | [noun] A police officer specializing in drug crimes | [noun] Someone suffering from narcolepsy NARCS (7) [noun] A narcotics squad police officer. | [verb] (underwater diving) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (for example, while scuba diving). | [noun] A narcissist. NARDS (6) [noun] Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine. | [noun] A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized. | [noun] American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root. NARES (5) [noun] A nostril | [noun] A nostril NARIC (7) NARIS (5) [noun] A nostril NARKS (9) [noun] A narcotics squad police officer. | [noun] A narcissist. | [noun] A police spy or informer. NARKY (12) [adjective] Irritated, in a bad mood; disparaging. NAVAR (8) NEARS (5) [noun] The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc. | [verb] To come closer to; to approach. NERDS (6) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. | [noun] An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork. NERDY (9) [adjective] (of a person) Being or like a nerd. | [adjective] (of a quality or interest) Of, pertaining to, in the style of, or appealing to nerds. NEROL (5) NERTS (5) NERTZ (14) NERVE (8) [noun] A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics. | [noun] A neuron. | [noun] A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood NERVY (11) [adjective] Having nerve; bold; brazen. | [adjective] Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated. | [adjective] Strong; sinewy. NEVER (8) [adverb] At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance. | [adverb] Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously. | [adverb] Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely). NEWER (8) [adjective] Recently made, or created. | [adjective] Additional; recently discovered. | [adjective] Current or later, as opposed to former. NICER (7) [adjective] Pleasant, satisfactory. | [adjective] Of a person: friendly, attractive. | [adjective] Respectable; virtuous. NITER (5) [noun] Native sodium carbonate; natron. | [noun] A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making gunpowder. NITRE (5) [noun] Native sodium carbonate; natron. | [noun] A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making gunpowder. NITRO (5) [noun] The univalent NO2 functional group. | [noun] Nitroglycerin, especially as medication. | [noun] A beer that is nitrogenated to give it a more creamy head. NOIRS (5) [noun] Film noir. | [noun] A production in the style of film noir. NORIA (5) [noun] A water wheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water. | [noun] Any machine using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct. NORIS (5) NORMS (7) [noun] That which is normal or typical. | [noun] A rule that is enforced by members of a community. | [noun] A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition. NORTH (8) [noun] One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map, abbreviated as N. | [noun] The up or positive direction. | [noun] The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole). NOTER (5) NUDER (6) NURDS (6) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. | [noun] An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork. NURLS (5) NURSE (5) [noun] A wet nurse. | [noun] A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young. | [noun] A person trained to provide care for the sick. OARED (6) [adjective] Having oars. | [verb] To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars. OATER (5) [noun] (entertainment) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie. OCCUR (9) [verb] To happen or take place. | [verb] To present or offer itself. | [verb] To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself. OCHER (10) [noun] An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide | [noun] A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour | [noun] The stop codon sequence "UAA." OCHRE (10) [noun] An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide | [noun] A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour | [noun] The stop codon sequence "UAA." | [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. OCHRY (13) OCKER (11) [noun] Interest on money; usury; increase. | [verb] To increase (in price); add to. | [noun] A boorish or uncultivated Australian. OCREA (7) [noun] A sheath around a plant stem forming from the stipule of a leaf and extending above the point of insertion of the leaf. ODDER (7) [adjective] Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected. | [adjective] Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched. | [adjective] Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped. ODORS (6) [noun] Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive. | [noun] A strong, pervasive quality. | [noun] Esteem. ODOUR (6) [noun] Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive. | [noun] A strong, pervasive quality. | [noun] Esteem. OFFER (11) [noun] A proposal that has been made. | [noun] Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered. | [noun] An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation. | [verb] To propose or express one's willingness (to do something). | [noun] (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off OFTER (8) OGLER (6) OGRES (6) [noun] A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh. | [noun] A brutish man reminiscent of the mythical ogre. OILER (5) [noun] One who or that which oils. | [noun] An oil tanker. | [noun] An oil well. OKRAS (9) OLDER (6) [adjective] Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time. | [adjective] Having been used and thus no longer new or unused. | [adjective] Having existed or lived for the specified time. OMBER (9) OMBRE (9) [noun] A large Mediterranean food fish Umbrina cirrosa | [noun] (colors) A gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark. OMERS (7) [noun] A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts. | [noun] A vessel of one omer. | [noun] The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover. ONERY (8) OORIE (5) OPERA (7) [noun] A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance. | [noun] The score for such a work. | [noun] A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house. | [noun] A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works. ORACH (10) [noun] The saltbush: any of several plants, of the genus Atriplex, especially Atriplex hortensis or Atriplex patula, found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach. ORALS (5) [noun] A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class. | [noun] A physical examination of the mouth. | [noun] Oral sex. ORANG (6) [noun] An orangutan. ORATE (5) [verb] To speak formally; to give a speech. | [verb] To speak passionately; to preach for or against something. | [adjective] Competent in oracy; having good speaking skills. ORBED (8) ORBIT (7) [noun] A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object, particularly in astronomy and space travel. | [noun] A sphere of influence; an area of control. | [noun] The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range. ORCAS (7) [noun] A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale. ORCIN (7) [noun] The organic compound 3,5-dihydroxytoluene, found in many lichens and synthesizable from toluene. ORDER (6) [noun] Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | [noun] A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | [noun] The state of being well arranged. ORDOS (6) OREAD (6) [noun] A mountain nymph; an anthropomorphic appearance of the spirit of a mountain. ORGAN (6) [noun] A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions. | [noun] (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions. | [noun] A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such. ORGIC (8) ORIBI (7) [noun] Ourebia ourebi, a species of antelope. ORIEL (5) [noun] A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a protrusion on the outer wall. | [noun] A gallery for minstrels. | [noun] A small apartment next to a hall, used for dining. ORLES (5) [noun] A bordure that runs around the outline of a shield without touching the edge | [noun] The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest; a torse | [noun] A fillet under the ovolo of a capital ORLOP (7) [noun] The platform over the hold of a ship that makes up the fourth or lowest deck, hence in full called orlop deck, especially of a warship. ORMER (7) [noun] An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the Channel Islands. ORNIS (5) ORPIN (7) [noun] Any of several temperate succulent plants of the family Crassulaceae, that have clusters of purple flowers, especially Hylotelephium telephium. | [noun] A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, sometimes approaching red. ORRIS (5) [noun] Any of several irises that have a fragrant root, especially Iris × germanica. | [noun] The fragrant root of such an iris. | [noun] A type of gold or silver lace. ORTHO (8) [noun] An isomer of a benzene derivative having two substituents adjacent on the ring. | [noun] A certain type of flat eyepiece. | [noun] An orthochromatic plate. ORZOS (14) OSIER (5) [noun] A kind of willow, Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow. | [noun] One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants. OTHER (8) [noun] An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another. | [noun] The other one; the second of two. | [verb] To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien. OTTAR (5) OTTER (5) [noun] An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae of the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, and others. | [noun] A hairy man with a slender physique, in contrast with a bear, who is more thickset. | [noun] Annatto (dye) OURIE (5) OUTER (5) [noun] An outer part. | [noun] The 4th circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie. | [noun] A shot which strikes the outer of a target. | [noun] Someone who admits to something publicly. OUTRE (5) [adjective] Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant. | [adjective] Very unconventional. OVARY (11) [noun] A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone. | [noun] The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit. OVERS (8) [noun] A set of six legal balls bowled. | [noun] Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc. | [noun] A shore, riverbank. OVERT (8) [adjective] Open and not concealed or secret. OWNER (8) [noun] One who owns something. | [noun] The captain of a ship. OXTER (12) [noun] The armpit. | [verb] To hug with the arms, or support by taking the arm of. OYERS (8) PACER (9) [noun] One who paces. | [noun] In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter. | [noun] A pacemaker. | [noun] A mechanical pencil. PADRE (8) [noun] A military clergyman | [noun] A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest PADRI (8) PAGER (8) [noun] A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages. | [noun] A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time. | [noun] (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages. PAIRS (7) [noun] Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of. | [noun] Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship. | [noun] Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts) PALER (7) [adjective] Light in color. | [adjective] (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.). | [adjective] Feeble, faint. PAPER (9) [noun] A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water. | [noun] A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine). | [noun] Wallpaper. PARAS (7) [noun] A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions. | [noun] A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word. | [noun] A paratrooper. PARCH (12) [noun] The condition of being parched. | [verb] To burn the surface of, to scorch. | [verb] To roast, as dry grain. PARDI (8) PARDS (8) [noun] A leopard; a panther. | [noun] Partner; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation PARDY (11) PARED (8) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PAREO (7) [noun] A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong. PARER (7) PARES (7) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PAREU (7) PARGE (8) [noun] A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls. | [verb] To apply a parge on to a surface. PARGO (8) PARIS (7) PARKA (11) [noun] A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind. PARKS (11) [noun] An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation. | [noun] A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region. | [noun] An area used for specific purposes. PARLE (7) PAROL (7) [noun] A word; an oral utterance. | [noun] Oral declaration; word of mouth. | [noun] A writing not under seal. | [noun] An ornamental star-like Christmas lantern from the Philippines. PARRS (7) PARRY (10) [noun] A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying. | [noun] A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade. | [noun] (combat sports and martial arts) A defensive move intended to change the direction of an incoming strike to make it miss its intended target, rather than block and absorb it; and typically performed with an open hand in a downward or sideways slapping motion. PARSE (7) [noun] An act of parsing. | [noun] The result of such an act. | [verb] To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically. PARTS (7) [noun] A portion; a component. | [noun] Duty; responsibility. | [noun] The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. PARTY (10) [noun] A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action. | [noun] A person. | [noun] A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc. | [adjective] (except in compounds) Divided; in part. PARVE (10) [adjective] Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient. | [adjective] (by extension) Neutral, bland, inoffensive. PARVO (10) PATER (7) [noun] Father PAVER (10) [noun] A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home. | [noun] One who paves; one who lays pavement. PAWER (10) PAYER (10) [noun] One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid. | [noun] A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg. PAYOR (10) PEARL (7) [noun] A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery. | [noun] Something precious. | [noun] A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application. PEARS (7) [noun] An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem. | [noun] A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis). | [noun] The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood). PEART (7) [adjective] Lively; active. PEDRO (8) PEERS (7) [noun] A look; a glance. | [verb] To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. | [verb] To come in sight; to appear. PEERY (10) [adjective] That tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to peers or the peerage. | [noun] Spinning top PERCH (12) [noun] Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca. | [noun] Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially: | [noun] Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper. | [noun] Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca. PERDU (8) PERDY (11) PEREA (7) PERIL (7) [noun] A situation of serious and immediate danger. | [noun] Something that causes, contains, or presents danger. | [noun] An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event. PERIS (7) [noun] (Persian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being. PERKS (11) [noun] Perquisite. | [noun] A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up. | [noun] A percolator, particularly of coffee. PERKY (14) [adjective] Lively or enthusiastic. | [adjective] Standing upright; firm. PERMS (9) [noun] A permanent. | [noun] A permanent wave. | [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. PERRY (10) [noun] A fermented alcoholic beverage made from pears; somewhat analogous to cider. PERSE (7) [noun] A dark blue-gray colour. | [noun] A cloth of this colour. | [adjective] Dark greyish blue or purple. PETER (7) [noun] The penis. | [noun] A safe. | [verb] (most often used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing. | [verb] In whist, to play a blue peter. PIERS (7) [noun] A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty. | [noun] A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment. | [noun] A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided. PIKER (11) [noun] A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman. | [noun] One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money. | [noun] A stingy person; a cheapskate. PILAR (7) PIPER (9) [noun] A musician who plays a pipe. | [noun] A bagpiper. | [noun] A baby pigeon. | [noun] A plant of the family Piperaceae. PIRNS (7) PIROG (8) [noun] A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe. PLIER (7) PLYER (10) POKER (11) [noun] A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick. | [noun] A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings. | [noun] One who pokes. | [noun] Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game. | [noun] Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear. POLAR (7) [noun] The line joining the points of contact of tangents drawn to meet a curve from a point called the pole of the line. | [adjective] Of or having a pole or polarity. | [adjective] Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles. POLER (7) [noun] One who propels a boat using a pole. | [noun] A horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle. | [noun] An extortioner. POORI (7) [noun] A type of unleavened bread from Indian and Pakistan. PORCH (12) [noun] A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. | [noun] A portico; a covered walk. | [noun] The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft. PORED (8) [verb] To study meticulously; to go over again and again. | [verb] To meditate or reflect in a steady way. | [adjective] Having or furnished with pores PORES (7) [noun] A tiny opening in the skin. | [noun] By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid. | [verb] To study meticulously; to go over again and again. PORGY (11) [noun] Any of several fish of the family Sparidae; the sea bream. PORKS (11) [verb] (usually of a male) To have sex with (someone). PORKY (14) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of pork. | [adjective] Rather fat; chubby. | [noun] A lie. PORNO (7) [noun] Pornography. | [noun] A pornographic film. | [adjective] Pornographic PORNS (7) PORNY (10) [adjective] Reminiscent of pornography; somewhat pornographic. PORTS (7) [noun] A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. | [noun] A town or city containing such a place, a port city. | [noun] The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board. POSER (7) [noun] A particularly difficult question or puzzle. | [noun] Someone who asks a question or sets a problem. | [noun] Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting. POURS (7) [noun] The act of pouring. | [noun] Something, or an amount, poured. | [noun] A downpour, or flood of precipitation. POWER (10) [noun] Ability to do or undergo something. | [noun] (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. | [noun] (physical) Effectiveness. PRAAM (9) [noun] A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. | [noun] A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. | [noun] A type of dinghy with a flat bow. PRAHU (10) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PRAMS (9) [noun] A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position; a perambulator. | [noun] A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. | [noun] A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. PRANG (8) [noun] An aeroplane crash. | [noun] A bombing raid. | [noun] An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties. | [noun] A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Thailand and Cambodia. PRANK (11) [noun] A practical joke or mischievous trick. | [noun] An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception. | [verb] To perform a practical joke on; to trick. PRAOS (7) PRASE (7) [noun] A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green colour. PRATE (7) [noun] Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity. | [verb] To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly. PRATS (7) [noun] A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. | [noun] A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. | [noun] A fool. PRAUS (7) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PRAWN (10) [noun] A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata. | [noun] A crustacean sometimes confused with shrimp. | [noun] A woman with a very toned body, but an unattractive face. | [noun] Pornography. PRAYS (10) [verb] To direct words and/or thoughts to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc. | [verb] To humbly beg a person for aid or their time. | [verb] To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. PREED (8) PREEN (7) [noun] A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth. | [noun] (dialectal) pin | [noun] (dialectal) bodkin; brooch | [verb] (of birds) To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers. PREES (7) PREPS (9) [noun] A preventative medical regiment of HIV medicines used to protect against HIV seroconversion after an exposure. | [noun] Preparation. | [noun] A prep school. PRESA (7) PRESE (7) PRESS (7) [noun] A device used to apply pressure to an item. | [noun] A printing machine. | [noun] (collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers). | [verb] To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon. PREST (7) PREXY (17) [noun] A president, especially of a college or university. PREYS (10) [verb] To act as a predator. PRICE (9) [noun] The cost required to gain possession of something. | [noun] The cost of an action or deed. | [noun] Value; estimation; excellence; worth. PRICK (13) [noun] A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing. | [noun] An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object. | [noun] A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point. | [verb] To pierce or puncture slightly. PRICY (12) [adjective] Expensive, dear. PRIDE (8) [noun] The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others. | [noun] (often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. | [noun] Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris. PRIED (8) [verb] To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy. | [verb] To keep asking about something that does not concern one. | [verb] To look closely and curiously at (something closed or not public). PRIER (7) PRIES (7) [verb] To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy. | [verb] To keep asking about something that does not concern one. | [verb] To look closely and curiously at (something closed or not public). PRIGS (8) [noun] A tinker. | [noun] A petty thief or pickpocket. | [noun] A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner. PRILL (7) [noun] A rill, a small stream | [noun] A spinning top | [verb] To flow, spurt | [noun] A pellet, a granule, a small bead | [noun] The brill, a kind of flatfish. | [verb] To grow sour. PRIMA (9) PRIME (9) [noun] The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour. | [noun] The religious service appointed to this hour. | [noun] The early morning generally. | [verb] To prepare a mechanism for its main work. | [noun] An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points. PRIMI (9) PRIMO (9) [noun] The principal part of a duet. | [adjective] Best; first-class. PRIMP (11) [verb] To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror. | [verb] To dress in an affected manner. PRIMS (9) [verb] To make affectedly precise or proper. | [verb] To dress or act smartly. PRINK (11) [verb] To give a wink; to wink. | [noun] The act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up | [verb] To look, gaze. PRINT (7) [noun] Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium. | [noun] Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive. | [noun] The letters forming the text of a document. PRION (7) [noun] A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue. | [noun] A petrel of the genus Pachyptila. PRIOR (7) [noun] A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot. | [noun] A chief magistrate in Italy. | [noun] (law enforcement) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record. PRISE (7) [noun] The cost required to gain possession of something. | [noun] The cost of an action or deed. | [noun] Value; estimation; excellence; worth. PRISM (9) [noun] A polyhedron with parallel ends of the same size and shape, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides. | [noun] A transparent block in the shape of a prism (typically with triangular ends), used to split or reflect light. | [noun] A crystal in which the faces are parallel to the vertical axis. PRISS (7) PRIVY (13) [noun] An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse). | [noun] A lavatory: a room with a toilet. | [noun] A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation. PRIZE (16) [noun] That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power. | [noun] Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel. | [noun] An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort. | [verb] To consider highly valuable; to esteem. | [adjective] Having won a prize; award-winning. | [noun] The cost required to gain possession of something. PROAS (7) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PROBE (9) [noun] Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. | [noun] Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. | [noun] An act of probing; a prod, a poke. PRODS (8) [verb] To poke, to push, to touch. | [verb] To encourage, to prompt. | [verb] To prick with a goad. PROEM (9) [noun] An introduction, preface or preamble. PROFS (10) [noun] The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution, informally also known as "full professor." Abbreviated Prof. | [noun] A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank. | [noun] One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine. PROGS (8) [noun] Progressive rock. | [noun] A program. | [noun] (university slang) A proctor. PROLE (7) [noun] A member of the proletariat; a proletarian | [noun] A pleb (ordinary person). PROMO (9) [noun] An interview or monologue intended to promote a character or an upcoming match. | [verb] To promote; to publicize. | [noun] An advancement in rank or position. PROMS (9) [noun] A promenade concert | [noun] (abbreviation) promenade | [noun] A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions, e.g. near the end of the academic year PRONE (7) [adjective] Lying face downward. | [adjective] Having a downward inclination or slope. | [adjective] Predisposed, liable, inclined. PRONG (8) [noun] A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool. A tine. | [noun] A branch; a fork. | [noun] The penis. PROOF (10) [noun] An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. | [noun] The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration. | [noun] The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies. PROPS (9) [noun] An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports. | [noun] The player on either side of the hooker in a scrum. | [noun] One of the seashells in the game of props. | [noun] Respect for, or recognition of, another person; an expression of approval or a special acknowledgment; accolades; praise. PROSE (7) [noun] Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry. | [noun] Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse. | [noun] A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. PROSO (7) PROSS (7) PROST (7) PROSY (10) [adjective] Unpoetic (of speech or writing); dull and unimaginative. | [adjective] Behaving in a dull way (of a person); boring, tedious. PROUD (8) [adjective] Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified. | [adjective] Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth. | [adjective] Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious. PROVE (10) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. | [verb] To proofread. PROWL (10) [noun] The act of prowling. | [verb] To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty. | [verb] To idle; to go about aimlessly. PROWS (10) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. | [noun] The front part of a vessel | [noun] A vessel PROXY (17) [noun] An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person. | [noun] The authority to act for another, especially when written. | [noun] The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. | [noun] A proximity mine; a mine that explodes when something approaches within a certain distance. PRUDE (8) [noun] A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature. | [adjective] Prudish. PRUNE (7) [noun] A plum. | [noun] The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum. | [noun] An old woman, especially a wrinkly one. | [verb] To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. PRUTA (7) PRYER (10) PULER (7) PURDA (8) PUREE (7) [noun] A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid. | [verb] To crush or grind food into a puree. | [noun] A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan. PURER (7) [adjective] Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied. | [adjective] Free of foreign material or pollutants. | [adjective] Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean. PURGE (8) [noun] An act of purging. | [noun] An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting. | [noun] A cleansing of pipes. PURIN (7) PURIS (7) [noun] A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried. | [noun] In Bali and other parts of Indonesia, a palace, or other residence of a member of the royal family or ruling class. PURLS (7) [noun] A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance. | [noun] The edge of lace trimmed with loops. | [noun] An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. PURRS (7) [noun] The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented. | [noun] A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person. | [noun] The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed PURSE (7) [noun] A small bag for carrying money. | [noun] A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items) | [noun] A quantity of money given for a particular purpose. PURSY (10) [adjective] Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness. | [adjective] Fat and short. | [adjective] Puckered. PYRAN (10) PYRES (10) [noun] A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned. | [noun] Any heap or pile of combustibles. PYRIC (12) QUARE (14) [adjective] Queer, strange (suggesting an Irish accent) | [adjective] (used to suggest emphasis such as "a lot of" or "very" (suggesting an Irish accent).) QUARK (18) [noun] In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons. | [noun] (X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string. | [noun] A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, and eastern Europe, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet. | [noun] (Falkland Islands) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax. QUART (14) [noun] A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S. | [noun] Four successive cards of the same suit. | [noun] A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. QUEER (14) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity. QUERN (14) [noun] A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones. | [verb] To grind; to use a quern. QUERY (17) [noun] A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK). | [noun] A question mark. | [noun] A set of instructions passed to a database. QUIRE (14) [noun] One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold. | [noun] A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures. | [noun] A book, poem, or pamphlet. | [noun] A choir. QUIRK (18) [noun] An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone | [noun] An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit | [noun] A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge. QUIRT (14) [noun] A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide. | [verb] To strike with a quirt. QURSH (17) [noun] A monetary unit in Saudi Arabia equivalent to a twentieth of a rial. RABAT (7) RABBI (9) [noun] A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions. | [noun] A Jew who is or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation. | [noun] (police) A senior officer who acts as a mentor. RABIC (9) RABID (8) [noun] A human or animal infected with rabies. | [noun] Someone who is fanatical in opinion. | [adjective] Affected with rabies. RACED (8) [verb] To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest). | [verb] To compete against in such a race. | [verb] To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed. RACER (7) [noun] Someone who takes part in a race. | [noun] A racehorse. | [noun] An animal known for its fast speed, or suitable for racing; applied especially to a number of North American snakes, certain kinds of lake trout, etc. RACES (7) [noun] A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins | [noun] Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed. | [noun] A race condition. RACKS (11) [noun] A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other | [noun] Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel. | [noun] A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits. RACON (7) [noun] A beacon that, on detecting a radar signal, responds by transmitting a coded navigation signal. RADAR (6) [noun] A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces | [noun] A type of system using such method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes. | [noun] An installation of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus. RADII (6) [noun] The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb. | [noun] The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal. | [noun] One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell. RADIO (6) [noun] The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves. | [noun] A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound. | [noun] On-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media. RADIX (13) [noun] A root. | [noun] A primitive word, from which other words may be derived. | [noun] The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal. RADON (6) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Rn, formerly Ro) with atomic number 86. It is an odorless, colorless, chemically inert but radioactive noble gas. RAFFS (11) RAFTS (8) [noun] A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform. | [noun] (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion. | [noun] A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water. RAGAS (6) [noun] Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form. | [noun] Passion, love, lust. RAGED (7) [verb] To act or speak in heightened anger. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc. | [verb] To enrage. RAGEE (6) RAGES (6) [noun] Violent uncontrolled anger. | [noun] A current fashion or fad. | [noun] Any vehement passion. RAGGY (10) [adjective] Raglike; like a rag. | [adjective] Scruffy; tending to dress in rags. | [adjective] Similar in style to ragtime music. RAGIS (6) RAIAS (5) RAIDS (6) [noun] A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle. | [noun] An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering | [noun] An attacking movement. RAILS (5) [noun] A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing. | [noun] The metal bar that makes the track for a railroad. | [noun] A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation. RAINS (5) [noun] Condensed water falling from a cloud. | [noun] Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops. | [noun] An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air. RAINY (8) [adjective] Pouring with rain; wet; showery RAISE (5) [noun] An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK). | [noun] A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance. | [noun] A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward. | [noun] A cairn or pile of stones. RAJAH (15) [noun] A Hindu prince or ruler in India. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Charaxes. RAJAS (12) [noun] A Hindu prince or ruler in India. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Charaxes. | [noun] One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are active, excitable, or passionate. RAJES (12) RAKED (10) [verb] To walk; to roam, to wander. | [verb] Of animals (especially sheep): to graze. | [verb] To roam or wander through (somewhere). RAKEE (9) RAKER (9) RAKES (9) [noun] A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey. | [noun] The movement of animals while grazing. | [noun] The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray. RAKIS (9) RALES (5) [noun] (now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema. | [noun] Abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound heard from the lungs, often audible only with a stethoscope. RALLY (8) [noun] A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause. | [noun] A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America. | [noun] A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point. | [noun] Good-humoured raillery. RALPH (10) [verb] To vomit. | [noun] A raven. RAMEE (7) RAMET (7) RAMIE (7) [noun] (usually countable) A tall, tropical Asian perennial herb, Boehmeria nivea, cultivated for its fibrous stems. | [noun] (usually uncountable) fibre extracted from this plant, resembling flax. RAMMY (12) [adjective] Of a food, taste, odour etc.: like a ram; pungent, rank. | [adjective] Frisky, lecherous. | [noun] A disorderly argument or disturbance; a fracas. RAMPS (9) [noun] An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline. | [noun] A road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway. | [noun] A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport RAMUS (7) [noun] A small spray or twig. | [noun] A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels. | [noun] The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend. RANCE (7) RANCH (10) [noun] A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock. | [noun] A small farm that cultivates vegetables and/or livestock, especially one in the Southwestern United States. | [noun] A house or property on a plot of ranch land. RANDS (6) [noun] The border of an area of land, especially marshland. | [noun] A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak. | [noun] A border, edge or rim. RANDY (9) [noun] Impudent beggar | [noun] Boisterous, coarse, loose woman | [noun] Virago RANEE (5) [noun] The wife of a rajah. | [noun] A Hindu princess or female ruler in India. RANGE (6) [noun] A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc. | [noun] A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates. | [noun] Selection, array. RANGY (9) [adjective] Slender and long of limb; lanky | [adjective] Prone to roaming around. | [adjective] Having or permitting range or scope; roomy; commodious. RANID (6) RANIS (5) [noun] The wife of a rajah. | [noun] A Hindu princess or female ruler in India. RANKS (9) [noun] A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"]. | [noun] In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal. | [noun] One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality RANTS (5) [noun] A criticism done by ranting. | [noun] A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation. | [noun] A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop. RAPED (8) RAPER (7) [noun] A person who has raped someone; a rapist. RAPES (7) RAPHE (10) [noun] A ridge or seam on an organ, bodily tissue, or other structure, especially at the join between two halves or sections. RAPID (8) [noun] (often in the plural) a rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water. | [noun] A burst of rapid fire. | [adjective] Very swift or quick. RARED (6) RARER (5) [adjective] Very uncommon; scarce. | [adjective] (of a gas) Thin; of low density. | [adjective] Good; enjoyable. RARES (5) RASED (6) [verb] To rub along the surface of; to graze | [verb] To rub or scratch out; to erase | [verb] To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze RASER (5) RASES (5) [noun] A scratching out, or erasure | [noun] A slight wound; a scratch | [noun] A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it RASPS (7) [noun] 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. | [noun] The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound. | [verb] To use a rasp. RASPY (10) [adjective] (of sound) Rough, raw, especially used to describe vocal quality. | [adjective] Irritable. RATAL (5) RATAN (5) RATCH (10) RATED (6) [verb] To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level. | [verb] To evaluate or estimate the value of. | [verb] To consider or regard. RATEL (5) [noun] A carnivorous mammal, Mellivora capensis, found in Africa and some parts of Asia; the honey badger. RATER (5) RATES (5) [noun] The worth of something; value. | [noun] The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. | [noun] Speed. RATHE (8) [adjective] Ripening or blooming early. | [adverb] Quickly. | [adverb] Early in the morning. RATIO (5) [noun] A number representing a comparison between two named things. | [noun] The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient). | [noun] Short for ratio decidendi. RATOS (5) RATTY (8) [adjective] Similar to a rat; ratlike. | [adjective] Infested with rats. | [adjective] In poor condition or repair RAVED (9) [verb] To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. | [verb] To speak or write wildly or incoherently. | [verb] To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on. RAVEL (8) [noun] A snarl; a complication. | [noun] A ravelled thread. | [verb] To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse. RAVEN (8) [noun] Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax. | [noun] A jet-black colour. | [adjective] Of the color of the raven; jet-black | [noun] Rapine; rapacity. RAVER (8) [noun] A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture. | [noun] A person who raves or rants. RAVES (8) [noun] An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). | [noun] An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use. | [noun] The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties. RAVIN (8) [noun] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. | [verb] To dine or feast upon plunder or goods seized by violence. | [adjective] Ravenous. RAWER (8) [adjective] (of food) Not cooked. | [adjective] (of materials, products, etc.) Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. | [adjective] Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. RAWIN (8) RAWLY (11) RAXED (13) RAXES (12) RAYAH (11) RAYAS (8) RAYED (9) [verb] To emit something as if in rays. | [verb] To radiate as if in rays. | [verb] To arrange. RAYON (8) [noun] A manufactured regenerated cellulosic fiber. | [noun] An administrative unit of some Eastern European and Asian states. | [noun] A ray or beam. RAZED (15) [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. | [verb] To scrape as if with a razor. | [adjective] Slashed or striped in patterns. RAZEE (14) RAZER (14) RAZES (14) [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. | [verb] To scrape as if with a razor. RAZOR (14) [noun] A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body. | [noun] Any tool or instrument designed for shaving. | [noun] The sharp tusk of a wild boar. REACH (10) [noun] The act of stretching or extending; extension. | [noun] The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown. | [noun] The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. REACT (7) [noun] An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media. | [verb] To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact. | [verb] To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force READD (7) READS (6) [noun] A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play. | [noun] (in combination) Something to be read; a written work. | [noun] A person's interpretation or impression of something. READY (9) [noun] Ready money; cash | [verb] To prepare; to make ready for action. | [adjective] Prepared for immediate action or use. REALM (7) [noun] An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined. | [noun] The domain of a certain abstraction. | [noun] A scope of operation in networking or security. REALS (5) [noun] A commodity; see realty. | [noun] (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages. | [noun] A real number. REAMS (7) [verb] To cream; mantle; foam; froth. | [verb] To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider. | [verb] To shape or form, especially using a reamer. REAPS (7) [verb] To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine | [verb] To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting. | [verb] To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense. REARM (7) [verb] To replace or restore the weapons or arms of a previously defeated, or disarmed army, country, person or other body. REARS (5) [verb] To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. | [verb] (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. | [verb] To rise up on the hind legs REATA (5) REAVE (8) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. REBAR (7) [noun] A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure. | [noun] A grid-shaped system of such bars. | [verb] To reinforce with bars of this kind. | [verb] To bar again. REBBE (9) [noun] The spiritual leader of a Chassidic Jewish community. REBEC (9) [noun] An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras. REBEL (7) [noun] A person who resists an established authority, often violently | [noun] A person from the Confederate States of America | [verb] To resist or become defiant toward an authority. REBID (8) [noun] A second or subsequent (normally higher) bid. | [verb] To bid again on something. | [verb] To require a new set of bids for. REBOP (9) REBUS (7) [noun] A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. | [noun] A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. | [verb] To mark or indicate by a rebus. REBUT (7) [verb] To drive back or beat back; to repulse. | [verb] To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it. REBUY (10) RECAP (9) [noun] A tire that has had new tread glued on. | [verb] To seal (something) again with a cap. | [verb] To replace the worn tread on a tire by gluing a new outer portion. (US English only - Retread in UK English) | [noun] A recapitulation. | [noun] A leveraged recapitalization accomplished by increasing the debt to equity ratio. | [verb] To replace capacitors in electronic equipment. RECCE (9) [noun] Reconnaissance. | [verb] Reconnoitre. | [adjective] Relating to reconnaissance. RECKS (11) [verb] To make account of; to care for; to heed, regard, consider. | [verb] To concern, to be important or earnest. | [verb] To think. RECON (7) [noun] Reconnaissance. | [verb] Reconnoiter. | [noun] The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination. RECTA (7) [noun] The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon. RECTI (7) [noun] Any of several straight muscles in various parts of the body, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye etc. RECTO (7) [noun] The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal. | [noun] The right-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an odd page number. | [noun] A writ of right. RECUR (7) [verb] To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc. | [verb] To happen again. | [verb] To recurse. RECUT (7) [verb] To cut again REDAN (6) [noun] A defensive fortification work in the shape of a V. REDDS (7) [verb] To free from entanglement. | [verb] To free from embarrassment. | [verb] To fix boundaries. REDED (7) REDES (6) [verb] To govern, protect. | [verb] To discuss, deliberate. | [verb] To advise. REDIA (6) REDID (7) [verb] To do again. REDIP (8) REDLY (9) REDON (6) REDOS (6) [noun] A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc. REDOX (13) [noun] A reaction in which an oxidation and a reduction occur simultaneously; a reaction in which electrons are transferred. | [verb] To subject to a redox reaction. | [adjective] Of or relating to any reaction in which oxidation and reduction occur simultaneously. REDRY (9) REDUB (8) REDUX (13) [adjective] (of a topic) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited. REDYE (9) REEDS (6) [noun] Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water. | [noun] The hollow stem of these plants. | [noun] Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it. REEDY (9) [adjective] Full of, or edged with, reeds. | [adjective] (of a sound or voice) High and thin in tone. | [adjective] (of a person) Tall and thin. REEFS (8) [noun] A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water. | [noun] A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore. | [noun] A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind. REEFY (11) REEKS (9) [noun] A strong unpleasant smell. | [noun] Vapour; steam; smoke; fume. | [verb] To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell. REEKY (12) REELS (5) [noun] A shaky or unsteady gait. | [noun] A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel. | [noun] A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound. REEST (5) REEVE (8) [noun] Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities. | [noun] The president of a township or municipal district council. | [noun] The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander. | [verb] To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it. | [noun] A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff. REFED (9) REFEL (8) REFER (8) [verb] To direct the attention of. | [verb] To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere. | [verb] To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation. REFIT (8) [noun] The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored. | [verb] To fit again; to put back into its place. | [verb] To prepare for use again; to repair or restore. REFIX (15) [verb] To fix again. REFLY (11) REFRY (11) REGAL (6) [adjective] Of or relating to royalty. | [adjective] Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress. | [noun] A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; today it has been revived for the performance of music from those times. REGES (6) REGMA (8) REGNA (6) REHAB (10) [noun] Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs. | [noun] An institution for rehabilitation. | [verb] To rehabilitate. REHEM (10) REIFS (8) REIFY (11) [verb] To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing REIGN (6) [noun] The exercise of sovereign power. | [noun] The period during which a monarch rules. | [noun] The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled. REINK (9) REINS (5) [noun] A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child. | [noun] An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing. | [verb] To direct or stop a horse by using reins. | [noun] The kidneys. REIVE (8) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. REKEY (12) [verb] To enter information into a device, such as a keyboard or keypad, after it has been done at least once before. | [verb] To modify (a lock or its cylinder) to change which keys will open it. | [verb] To change the key or tenor of; to reframe. RELAX (12) [verb] To calm down. | [verb] To make something loose. | [verb] To become loose. RELAY (8) [noun] A new set of hounds. | [noun] A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired. | [noun] (by extension) A new set of anything. | [verb] To lay (for example, flooring or railroad track) again. RELET (5) [noun] A property that has been let again | [verb] To let a property again RELIC (7) [noun] That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion. | [noun] Something old and outdated, possibly kept for sentimental reasons. | [noun] A part of the body of a saint, or an ancient religious object, kept for veneration. RELIT (5) [verb] To light or kindle anew. | [verb] To render again with different simulated lighting conditions. REMAN (7) [verb] To supply with new personnel. | [adjective] Having the property of having undergone remanufacture REMAP (9) [verb] To assign differently; to relabel or repurpose. | [verb] To map again. REMET (7) REMEX (14) [noun] Quill | [noun] The flight feather of a bird. REMIT (7) [noun] Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope. | [noun] A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court. | [verb] To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply. REMIX (14) [noun] A rearrangement of an older piece of music, possibly including various cosmetic changes. | [noun] A piece of music formed by combining existing pieces of music together, possibly including various other cosmetic changes | [verb] To mix again. RENAL (5) [adjective] Pertaining to the kidneys. RENDS (6) [verb] To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst | [verb] To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate. | [verb] To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split. RENEW (8) [verb] To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. | [verb] To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of. | [verb] To make new spiritually; to regenerate. RENIG (6) RENIN (5) [noun] A circulating enzyme released by mammalian kidneys that converts angiotensinogen to angiotensin-I. Because its activity ultimately leads to formation of angiotensin-II and aldosterone, this hormone plays a role in maintaining blood pressure. RENTE (5) RENTS (5) [noun] A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property. | [noun] A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service. | [noun] A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business. REOIL (5) REPAY (10) [verb] To pay back. REPEG (8) REPEL (7) [verb] To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc. | [verb] To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.). | [verb] To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.). REPIN (7) REPLY (10) [noun] A written or spoken response; part of a conversation. | [noun] Something given in reply. | [noun] A counterattack. REPOS (7) [noun] Repossession | [noun] A repurchase agreement: a type of derivative which allows a borrower to use a financial security as collateral for a cash loan at a fixed interest rate | [noun] A repository usually containing software, in either source code or precompiled form. REPOT (7) [verb] To move a growing plant from one pot to a larger one to allow for further growth REPPS (9) REPRO (7) [noun] The proof prepared in offset printing, with all elements positioned on the page. | [verb] To reproduce (a bug or problem). | [noun] The act of reproducing new individuals biologically. RERAN (5) [verb] To run (a previously broadcast television program) again. | [verb] To run (a race) again. | [verb] To run (a computer program) again. RERIG (6) RERUN (5) [noun] A television program shown after its initial presentation — particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat. | [noun] Another printing run (impression; batch of copies of a given edition) of a book, cartoon, etc. | [noun] A political candidate who holds the same political agenda or doctrine as a past or incumbent holder of a given political office. RESAW (8) RESAY (8) RESEE (5) RESET (5) [verb] To set back to the initial state. | [verb] To set to zero. | [verb] To adjust; to set or position differently. | [noun] An act of resetting to the initial state | [noun] The crime of knowingly and dishonestly receiving stolen goods, or harbouring an outlaw. RESEW (8) RESID (6) RESIN (5) [noun] A viscous hydrocarbon secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees. | [noun] Any of various yellowish viscous liquids or soft solids of plant origin; used in lacquers, varnishes and many other applications; chemically they are mostly hydrocarbons, often polycyclic. | [noun] Any synthetic compound of similar properties. RESOD (6) RESOW (8) RESTS (5) [noun] (of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep. | [noun] Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation. | [noun] Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility. RETAG (6) RETAX (12) RETCH (10) [noun] An unsuccessful effort to vomit. | [verb] To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting. | [verb] To reck | [verb] To reach RETEM (7) RETIA (5) [noun] A network of blood vessels or nerves. | [noun] An anatomical part resembling or including a network. | [noun] A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features. RETIE (5) [verb] To tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied before. RETRO (5) [noun] Past fashions or trends. | [adjective] Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were. | [adjective] Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto. RETRY (8) [noun] Another attempt. | [verb] To try or attempt again. | [verb] To try judicially a second time. REUSE (5) [noun] The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable. | [noun] The act of using again, or in another place. | [verb] To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else). REVEL (8) [noun] An instance of merrymaking; a celebration. | [noun] A kind of dance. | [noun] A wake for the dead. | [noun] The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb. REVET (8) [verb] To face (an embankment, etc.) with masonry, wood, or other material. REVUE (8) [noun] A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied. Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs. REWAN (8) REWAX (15) REWED (9) REWET (8) REWIN (8) REWON (8) REXES (12) [noun] An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking. RHEAS (8) [noun] A large flightless bird of the genus Rhea, native to South America. RHEUM (10) [noun] Watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease. | [noun] Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism. | [noun] Tears. RHINO (8) [noun] A rhinoceros. | [noun] Money RHOMB (12) [noun] A rhombus. | [noun] A rhombohedron. RHUMB (12) [noun] A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle | [noun] One of the 32 points of the compass (compass points) | [noun] A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32 of a circle or 11.25° RHYME (13) [noun] Rhyming verse (poetic form) | [noun] A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse. | [noun] A word that rhymes with another. RHYTA (11) [noun] A container from which fluids are intended to be drunk, having one handle and usually a base in the form of a head. | [noun] A Thracian drinking horn. RIALS (5) [noun] The official currencies of Iran, Oman, and Yemen. | [noun] An old gold coin of England. RIANT (5) RIATA (5) RIBBY (12) [adjective] Pertaining to or having ribs; ribbed. | [adjective] Specifically, thin so as to have prominent ribs; emaciated. | [adjective] Shabby, in poor condition. RIBES (7) RICED (8) [verb] To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes). | [verb] To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.) | [verb] To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding). RICER (7) [noun] A person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests rice. | [noun] A utensil used to extrude soft foods (such as, and especially, cooked potato) through holes about the diameter of a grain of rice. | [noun] An imported automobile from an Oriental country, deemed inferior because it is low-powered and/or cheap. RICES (7) [noun] Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food. | [noun] A specific variety of this plant. | [noun] The seeds of this plant used as food. RICIN (7) [noun] An extremely toxic protein extracted from the castor bean. RICKS (11) [noun] Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch. | [noun] A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet. | [verb] To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks. RIDER (6) [noun] One who rides, often on a horse or a motorcycle. | [noun] A provision annexed to a bill under the consideration of a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill. | [noun] (by extension) Something extra or burdensome that is imposed. RIDES (6) [noun] An instance of riding. | [noun] A vehicle. | [noun] An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. RIDGE (7) [noun] The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. | [noun] Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip. | [noun] The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground. RIDGY (10) RIELS (5) [noun] The monetary unit of Cambodia, equivalent to 100 sen or 10 kak. Symbol: ៛ RIFER (8) RIFFS (11) [noun] A repeated instrumental melody line in a song. | [noun] A clever or witty remark. | [noun] A variation on something. RIFLE (8) [noun] A shouldered firearm with a long, rifled barrel to improve range and accuracy. | [noun] (usually plural) A rifleman. | [noun] An artillery piece with a rifled barrel. RIFTS (8) [noun] A chasm or fissure. | [noun] A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through. | [noun] A shallow place in a stream; a ford. RIGHT (9) [adjective] Straight, not bent. | [adjective] Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines. | [adjective] Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc. | [adverb] On the right side. | [noun] That which complies with justice, law or reason. | [verb] To correct. RIGID (7) [noun] A bicycle with no suspension system. | [adjective] Stiff, rather than flexible. | [adjective] Fixed, rather than moving. RIGOR (6) [noun] Short for rigor mortis. | [noun] Severity or strictness. | [noun] Harshness, as of climate. RILED (6) [verb] To make angry | [verb] To stir or move from a state of calm or order RILES (5) [verb] To make angry | [verb] To stir or move from a state of calm or order RILEY (8) [adjective] Angry, upset. RILLE (5) [noun] A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies. RILLS (5) [noun] A very small brook; a streamlet. | [noun] A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies. RIMED (8) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. RIMER (7) RIMES (7) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. RINDS (6) [noun] Tree bark | [noun] A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc | [noun] (usually "the") The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind" RINGS (6) [noun] (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle. | [noun] (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle. | [noun] A piece of food in the shape of a ring. RINKS (9) [noun] A man, especially a warrior or hero. | [noun] A ring; a circle. | [noun] A sheet of ice prepared for playing certain sports, such as hockey or curling. RINSE (5) [noun] The action of rinsing. | [noun] A liquid used to rinse, now particularly a hair dye. | [verb] To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap. RIOJA (12) [noun] The wine (mostly red) of that region RIOTS (5) [noun] Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. | [noun] The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. | [noun] A wide and unconstrained variety. RIPED (8) RIPEN (7) [verb] To grow ripe; to become mature (said of grain, fruit, flowers etc.) | [verb] To approach or come to perfection. | [verb] To cause to mature; to make ripe RIPER (7) [adjective] (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature | [adjective] (of foods) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow | [adjective] Having attained its full development; mature; perfected RIPES (7) RISEN (5) [verb] To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. | [verb] To increase in value or standing. | [verb] To begin; to develop. RISER (5) [noun] Someone or something which rises. | [noun] A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something. | [noun] The vertical part of a step on a staircase. RISES (5) [verb] To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. | [verb] To increase in value or standing. | [verb] To begin; to develop. RISHI (8) [noun] A Vedic poet and seer who composed Rigvedic hymns, who alone or with others invokes the deities with poetry of a sacred character. | [noun] (post-Vedic) A Hindu sage or saint occupying the same position in India history as the patriarchs of other countries, constituting a peculiar class of beings in the early mythical system, as distinct from Asuras, Devas and mortal men. RISKS (9) [noun] A possible adverse event or outcome | [noun] The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event. | [noun] The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event. RISKY (12) [adjective] Dangerous, involving risks. RISUS (5) RITES (5) [noun] That which complies with justice, law or reason. | [noun] A legal, just or moral entitlement. | [noun] The right side or direction. RITZY (17) [adjective] Elegant and luxurious. RIVAL (8) [noun] A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor. | [noun] Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another. | [noun] One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. RIVED (9) [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. RIVEN (8) [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. | [adjective] Torn apart. RIVER (8) [noun] A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea. | [noun] Any large flow of a liquid in a single body. | [noun] The last card dealt in a hand. | [noun] One who rives or splits. RIVES (8) [noun] A place torn; a rent; a rift. | [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. RIVET (8) [noun] A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end. | [noun] Any fixed point or certain basis. | [noun] A light kind of footman's armour. RIYAL (8) [noun] The official currency of Qatar and Saudi Arabia. ROACH (10) [noun] Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including: | [noun] A cockroach. | [noun] An extra curve of material added to the leech (aft edge) of a sail to increase the sail area. | [noun] (smoking) Marijuana; cannabis used as a drug. | [noun] A bed or stratum of some mineral. ROADS (6) [noun] A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane. | [noun] A road; or particularly a car, as a means of transportation. | [noun] A path chosen in life or career. ROAMS (7) [verb] To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination. | [verb] To use a network or service from different locations or devices. | [verb] To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them. ROANS (5) [noun] An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in. | [noun] The color of such an animal. | [noun] A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco. ROARS (5) [noun] A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open. | [noun] The cry of the lion. | [noun] The deep cry of the bull. ROAST (5) [noun] A cut of meat suited to roasting | [noun] A meal consisting of roast foods. | [noun] The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted. ROBED (8) [verb] To clothe; to dress. | [verb] To put on official vestments. | [adjective] Wearing a robe. ROBES (7) [noun] A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature. | [noun] The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap. | [noun] A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom. ROBIN (7) [noun] Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast. | [noun] A trimming in front of a dress. ROBLE (7) ROBOT (7) [noun] A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed. | [noun] An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal. | [noun] A person who does not seem to have any emotions. ROCKS (11) [noun] An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend. | [noun] Rocuronium. | [noun] A formation of minerals, specifically: ROCKY (14) [adjective] Unstable; easily rocked. | [adjective] In the style of rock music. | [adjective] Troubled; or difficult; in danger or distress. | [adjective] Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks. RODEO (6) [noun] A gathering of cattle to be branded. | [noun] A North American sport involving skills with horses, cows and other livestock. | [noun] An entertainment event associated with the sport. ROGER (6) [interjection] (radio telecommunications) Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood) | [verb] Of a man, to have sexual intercourse with (someone), especially in a rough manner. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse. ROGUE (6) [noun] A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person. | [noun] A mischievous scamp. | [noun] A vagrant. ROILS (5) [verb] To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of. | [verb] To annoy; to make someone angry. | [verb] To bubble, seethe. ROILY (8) [adjective] (of water) muddy, cloudy (having lots of sediment) | [adjective] Turbulent ROLES (5) [noun] A character or part played by a performer or actor. | [noun] The expected behaviour of an individual in a society. | [noun] The function or position of something. ROLFS (8) [verb] To apply the Rolfing massage technique to. ROLLS (5) [noun] The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled. | [noun] A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble. | [noun] Something which rolls. ROMAN (7) [noun] One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight. | [noun] A novel. | [adjective] (of type) upright, as opposed to italic ROMEO (7) ROMPS (9) [noun] Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy. | [noun] A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit. | [noun] An enjoyable, fast-paced but essentially inconsequential film, play, or other piece of entertainment. RONDO (6) [noun] A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. | [noun] A small, disk-shaped piece of food, especially a single-serving dessert or small piece of candy. | [noun] A dark-skinned grape, a hybrid of Vitis vinifera with Vitis amurensis and others. ROODS (6) [noun] A crucifix, cross, especially in a church. | [noun] A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre. | [noun] A measure of five and a half yards in length. ROOFS (8) [noun] The external covering at the top of a building. | [noun] The top external level of a building. | [noun] The upper part of a cavity. ROOKS (9) [noun] A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family. | [noun] A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays. | [noun] A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name. ROOKY (12) ROOMS (7) [noun] Opportunity or scope (to do something). | [noun] Space for something, or to carry out an activity. | [noun] A particular portion of space. ROOMY (10) [noun] A roommate. | [adjective] Spacious, expansive, comfortable. ROOSE (5) ROOST (5) [noun] The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch). | [noun] A group of birds roosting together. | [noun] A bedroom | [noun] A tidal race. | [verb] To rout out of bed; to rouse ROOTS (5) [noun] The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction. | [noun] A root vegetable. | [noun] The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place. ROOTY (8) ROPED (8) [verb] To tie (something) with rope. | [verb] To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something). | [verb] To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread. ROPER (7) [noun] An accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster. | [noun] Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso. | [noun] A maker of ropes. ROPES (7) [noun] Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. | [noun] An individual length of such material. | [noun] A cohesive strand of something. ROPEY (10) [adjective] Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch. | [adjective] Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures. | [adjective] Of poor quality; in poor health. ROQUE (14) [noun] A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard surface ROSED (6) [verb] To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush. | [verb] To perfume, as with roses. | [adjective] Having taken on a crimson colour. ROSES (5) [noun] A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers. | [noun] A flower of the rose plant. | [noun] A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae) ROSET (5) ROSIN (5) [noun] A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its volatile components. | [noun] Resin. | [verb] To apply rosin to (something); to rub or cover with rosin. ROTAS (5) [noun] A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar. | [noun] A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music. ROTCH (10) ROTES (5) ROTIS (5) [noun] A kind of unleavened flatbread commonly consumed in South Asia and the Caribbean. ROTLS (5) ROTOR (5) [noun] A rotating part of a mechanical device, for example in an electric motor, generator, alternator or pump. | [noun] The wing of a helicopter or similar aircraft. | [noun] A quantity having magnitude, direction and position. ROTOS (5) ROTTE (5) ROUEN (5) ROUES (5) ROUGE (6) [noun] Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher. | [noun] Any reddish pink colour. | [noun] A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored. (This scoring term is not often used in Canada, with the term single being more commonly used.) ROUGH (9) [noun] The unmowed part of a golf course. | [noun] A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. | [noun] A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce. ROUND (6) [adverb] So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof. | [adverb] So as to surround or be near. | [adverb] Nearly; approximately; about. | [verb] To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel. | [noun] A whisper; whispering. ROUPS (7) [noun] An outcry. | [noun] A sale of goods by auction. | [verb] To cry or shout. ROUPY (10) ROUSE (5) [noun] An arousal. | [noun] The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse. | [verb] To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy. | [noun] An official ceremony over drinks. ROUST (5) [noun] A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. | [verb] To rout out of bed; to rouse | [verb] To harass, to treat in a rough way. ROUTE (5) [noun] A course or way which is traveled or passed. | [noun] A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation. | [noun] A road or path; often specifically a highway. | [verb] To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. ROUTH (8) ROUTS (5) [noun] A noise, especially a loud one | [noun] A disturbance; tumult. | [noun] Snoring. ROVED (9) [verb] To shoot with arrows (at). | [verb] To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area. | [verb] To roam or wander through. ROVEN (8) ROVER (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) A randomly selected target. | [noun] One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad. | [noun] A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry. | [noun] A pirate. ROVES (8) [verb] To shoot with arrows (at). | [verb] To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area. | [verb] To roam or wander through. ROWAN (8) [noun] Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan. | [noun] Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus Sorbus, belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries. | [noun] A second crop of hay; aftermath. ROWDY (12) [noun] A boisterous person; a brawler. | [adjective] Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous. ROWED (9) [verb] To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars. | [verb] To transport in a boat propelled with oars. | [verb] To be moved by oars. | [adjective] Formed into a row, or rows; having a specified number of rows. ROWEL (8) [noun] The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur. | [noun] A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit. | [noun] A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery. ROWEN (8) [noun] A second crop of hay; aftermath. | [noun] A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle. ROWER (8) [noun] One who rows. | [noun] A rowing machine. ROWTH (11) ROYAL (8) [noun] A royal person; a member of a royal family. | [noun] A standard size of printing paper, measuring 25 by 20 inches. | [noun] A standard size of writing paper, measuring 24 by 19 inches. RUANA (5) RUBES (7) [noun] A person of rural heritage; a yokel. | [noun] An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person. RUBLE (7) [noun] The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: копе́йка, Belarusian: капе́йка). The Russian ruble's symbol is ₽. RUBUS (7) RUCHE (10) [noun] A strip of fabric which has been fluted or pleated. | [noun] A small ruff of fluted or pleated fabric worn at neck or wrist. | [noun] A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn. RUCKS (11) [noun] An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend. | [noun] Rocuronium. | [noun] A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack. RUDDS (7) RUDDY (10) [noun] A ruddy duck. | [noun] A ruddy ground dove. | [verb] To make reddish in colour. RUDER (6) [adjective] Bad-mannered. | [adjective] Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive. | [adjective] Tough, robust. RUERS (5) RUFFE (11) [noun] Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish. | [noun] Other species in the same genus. RUFFS (11) [noun] A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s). | [noun] Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill. | [noun] Senses relating to animals. RUGAE (6) RUGAL (6) RUGBY (11) [noun] (usually uncountable) A form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar. | [noun] A loose fitting shirt with a collar, as worn by rugby players. | [noun] Rubber cement, contact cement. RUING (6) [verb] To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. | [verb] To cause to feel sorrow or pity. | [verb] To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place. RUINS (5) [noun] (sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle. | [noun] The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed. | [noun] Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction. RULED (6) [verb] To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over. | [verb] To excel. | [verb] To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines). RULER (5) [noun] A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a straightedge with markings. | [noun] A person who rules or governs; someone or something that exercises dominion or controlling power over others. | [verb] To beat with a ruler (as a traditional school punishment). RULES (5) [noun] A regulation, law, guideline. | [noun] A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure. | [noun] A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing. RUMBA (9) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba RUMEN (7) [noun] The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants. RUMMY (12) [noun] A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong. | [noun] A rum-drinking alcoholic. | [adjective] Resembling or tasting of rum. RUMOR (7) [noun] A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth. | [noun] Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims. | [verb] (usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip. RUMPS (9) [noun] The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs | [noun] A cut of meat from the rump of an animal. | [noun] The buttocks. RUNES (5) [noun] A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons. | [noun] A Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala. | [noun] A letter or mark used as mystical or magic symbol. RUNGS (6) [noun] A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round. | [noun] A crosspiece between legs of a chair. | [noun] A position in a hierarchy. RUNIC (7) RUNNY (8) [adjective] Fluid; capable of flowing. | [adjective] Liable to run or drip. RUNTS (5) [noun] The smallest animal of a litter. | [noun] (by extension) The smallest child in the family. | [noun] Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person. RUNTY (8) RUPEE (7) [noun] The common name for the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka, often abbreviated ₨. | [noun] A silver coin circulating in India between the 16th and 20th centuries, weighing one tola (formerly 170–180 troy grains; from 1833, 180 troy grains). RURAL (5) [noun] A person from the countryside; a rustic. | [adjective] Relating to the countryside or to agriculture. RUSES (5) [noun] A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs. | [noun] (by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick. | [noun] Cunning, guile, trickery. RUSHY (11) RUSKS (9) [noun] A rectangular, hard, dry biscuit | [noun] A twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback) | [noun] A weaning food for children RUSTS (5) [noun] The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation. | [noun] A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust"). | [noun] A reddish-brown color. RUSTY (8) [adjective] Marked or corroded by rust. | [adjective] Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown. | [adjective] Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity. | [adjective] Discolored and rancid; reasty. RUTHS (8) RUTIN (5) [noun] A flavonoid, found in many plants, that is a glycoside of quercetin and rutinose. RUTTY (8) RYKED (13) RYKES (12) RYNDS (9) RYOTS (8) [noun] A farmer or tiller of the soil. SABER (7) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. | [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SABIR (7) SABRA (7) [noun] A native-born Israeli. SABRE (7) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. | [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SACRA (7) [noun] Sacral artery | [noun] A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood. SAFER (8) [adjective] Not in danger; out of harm's reach. | [adjective] Free from risk. | [adjective] Providing protection from danger; providing shelter. SAGER (6) SAKER (9) [noun] A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia. | [noun] A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century. SANER (5) [adjective] Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally. | [adjective] Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner. | [adjective] Rational; reasonable; sensible. SAPOR (7) SARAN (5) [noun] A plastic resin used to make packaging films. SARDS (6) [noun] A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. | [noun] Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with (a woman). SAREE (5) [noun] The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head. SARGE (6) [noun] Sergeant | [verb] (pickup community) to go out and engage women in order to pick them up SARIN (5) [noun] The neurotoxin O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical weapon. SARIS (5) [noun] The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head. SARKS (9) [noun] A shirt. SARKY (12) [adjective] Sarcastic SAROD (6) [noun] A fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music. SAROS (5) [noun] (history, Babylon) A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years. | [noun] A period of 223 synodic months (approximately 18 years 11 days 8 hours), after which the relative positions of the earth, sun and moon recur, used to predict eclipses. SATYR (8) [noun] A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis. | [noun] A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection. SAURY (8) [noun] A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins. SAVER (8) [noun] One who saves. | [noun] One who keeps savings more than usual. SAVOR (8) [noun] The specific taste or smell of something. | [noun] A distinctive sensation. | [noun] Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. | [verb] To possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality. SAWER (8) SAYER (8) SCARE (7) [noun] A minor fright. | [noun] A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread. | [noun] A device or object used to frighten. | [verb] To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. | [adjective] Lean; scanty SCARF (10) [noun] A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck. | [noun] A headscarf. | [noun] A neckcloth or cravat. | [noun] A type of joint in woodworking. | [verb] To eat very quickly. | [noun] A cormorant. SCARP (9) [noun] The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet | [noun] A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment | [verb] (earth science) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment SCARS (7) [noun] A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound. | [noun] (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience. | [noun] Any permanent mark resulting from damage. SCART (7) [noun] A slight wound. | [noun] A dash or stroke. | [noun] A niggard. SCARY (10) [adjective] Causing or able to cause fright. | [adjective] Uncannily striking or surprising. | [adjective] Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened. | [noun] Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. SCAUR (7) [noun] A steep cliff or bank. SCORE (7) [noun] The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game. | [noun] The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers. | [noun] The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade. SCORN (7) [noun] Contempt or disdain. | [noun] A display of disdain; a slight. | [noun] An object of disdain, contempt, or derision. SCOUR (7) [noun] The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water. | [noun] A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a waterfall. | [noun] A place where wool is washed to remove grease and impurities prior to processing. | [verb] To search an area thoroughly. SCRAG (8) [noun] A thin or scrawny person or animal. | [noun] The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. | [noun] The neck, especially of a sheep. SCRAM (9) [verb] Leave in a hurry, go away. | [noun] The emergency shutdown device of a nuclear reactor, originally specifically by insertion of one or more safety control rods. | [noun] An activation of the emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor. | [noun] A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails. SCRAP (9) [noun] A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Leftover food. | [noun] The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat. | [noun] A fight, tussle, skirmish. SCREE (7) [noun] Loose stony debris on a slope. | [noun] (by extension) Similar debris made up of broken building material such as bricks, concrete, etc. | [noun] A slope made up of loose stony debris at the base of a cliff, mountain, etc. | [noun] A harsh, high-pitched sound or cry (as of a hawk). | [verb] To flatten or level concrete while still wet, and remove protruding gravel and stones from the surface. | [noun] A coarse sieve. SCREW (10) [noun] A device that has a helical function. | [noun] The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side. | [noun] A prison guard. SCRIM (9) [noun] A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,. | [noun] A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf. | [noun] A woven, nonwoven or knitted fabric composed of continuous strands of material used for reinforcing or strengthening membranes. | [noun] A practice match between one or more organized teams usually in preparation for a more competitive format, such as a tournament. SCRIP (9) [noun] A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc. | [noun] Small change. | [noun] A scrap of paper. | [noun] A share certificate. | [noun] A medical prescription. SCROD (8) [noun] (sometimes New York) Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish. | [verb] To shred. SCRUB (9) [noun] One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. | [noun] One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. | [noun] A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant | [noun] An instance of scrubbing. SCRUM (9) [noun] A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people. | [noun] Specifically used in the Canadian media to describe a tightly-packed group of reporters surrounding a member of the Canadian House of Commons while in the Parliament Buildings. | [noun] In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way. Also known as a scrummage. SCURF (10) [noun] A skin disease. | [noun] The flakes of skin that fall off as a result of a skin disease. | [noun] Any crust-like formations on the skin, or in general. | [noun] A grey bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus). SEARS (5) [verb] To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument. | [verb] To wither; to dry up. | [verb] To make callous or insensible. SEDER (6) [noun] The ceremonial meal held on the first night or two nights of Passover. | [noun] One of the 54 parts into which the Torah is divided. SEERS (5) [noun] One who sees something; an eyewitness. | [noun] One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner. | [noun] Unit of mass or volume in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent. SENOR (5) [noun] A Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or an older man. SERAC (7) [noun] Often sérac: a hard, cone-shaped, pale green, strongly flavoured cheese from Switzerland made from skimmed cowmilk and blue fenugreek (Trigonella caerulea); Schabziger, Sapsago. It is usually eaten grated, mixed with butter, or in a fondue. | [noun] (glaciology) A sharp tower of ice formed by intersecting crevasses of a glacier. SERAI (5) [noun] (In Turkish or Muslim Asian contexts) A palace. | [noun] A seraglio. | [noun] A caravanserai; an inn. SERAL (5) SERED (6) SERER (5) SERES (5) [noun] A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved. | [noun] A claw, a talon. SERFS (8) [noun] A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights | [noun] A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe | [noun] (strategy games) a worker unit SERGE (6) [noun] A type of worsted cloth. | [noun] (by metonymy) A garment made of this fabric. | [verb] To overlock. | [noun] A large wax candle used in some church ceremonies. SERIF (8) [noun] A short line added to the end of a stroke in traditional typefaces, such as Times New Roman. | [adjective] Of a typeface, provided with serifs. SERIN (5) [noun] Any of various small finches in the genus Serinus, with largely yellow plumage. SEROW (8) [noun] Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis. SERRY (8) SERUM (7) [noun] The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. | [noun] Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum. | [noun] A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. SERVE (8) [noun] An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games. | [noun] A portion of food or drink, a serving. | [verb] (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). SERVO (8) [noun] A servomechanism or servomotor. | [verb] To control by means of a servocontrol | [noun] A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities. SEVER (8) [verb] To cut free. | [verb] To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated. | [verb] To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. SEWAR (8) SEWER (8) [noun] A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage. | [verb] To provide (a place) with a system of sewers. | [noun] A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc. | [noun] One who sews. SHARD (9) [noun] A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. | [noun] (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. | [noun] A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle. | [noun] The plant chard. SHARE (8) [noun] A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone. | [noun] A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability. | [noun] A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network. | [noun] The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine. SHARK (12) [noun] A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head. | [verb] To fish for sharks. | [noun] Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion. | [verb] To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly. SHARN (8) SHARP (10) [noun] The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher. | [noun] A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯. | [noun] A note that is sharp in a particular key. SHEAR (8) [noun] A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger. | [noun] The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing. | [noun] Forces that push in opposite directions. SHEER (8) [noun] A sheer curtain or fabric. | [adjective] Very thin or transparent. | [adjective] Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated. | [noun] The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern. SHERD (9) [noun] A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. | [noun] (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. | [noun] A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle. SHIER (8) SHIRE (8) [noun] Physical area administered by a sheriff. | [noun] Former administrative area of Britain; a county. | [noun] The general area in which a person lives or comes from, used in the context of travel within the United Kingdom. SHIRK (12) [noun] One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility. | [verb] To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from. | [verb] To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. | [noun] The unforgivable sin of idolatry. SHIRR (8) [noun] A shirring. | [verb] To make gathers in textiles by drawing together parallel threads. | [verb] To bake (a raw egg removed from its shell) in a baking dish. SHIRT (8) [noun] An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms. | [noun] An interior lining in a blast furnace. | [noun] A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game. | [verb] To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt. SHOER (8) SHORE (8) [noun] Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond. | [noun] (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port. | [verb] To set on shore. | [noun] A prop or strut supporting the weight or flooring above it. | [verb] To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears. | [noun] (Obsolete except in Hiberno-English) A sewer. | [verb] To warn or threaten. SHORL (8) SHORN (8) [verb] To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears. | [verb] To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping. | [verb] To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions. SHORT (8) [noun] A short circuit. | [noun] A short film. | [noun] A short version of a garment in a particular size. SHRED (9) [noun] A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip. | [noun] In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount. | [verb] To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips. SHREW (11) [noun] Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha). | [noun] Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews (order Soricomorpha). | [noun] An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold. | [verb] To beshrew; to curse. SHRIS (8) SHRUB (10) [noun] A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base. | [verb] To lop; to prune. | [verb] (Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation. | [noun] A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur. SHRUG (9) [noun] A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge. | [noun] A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted. | [verb] To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc. SHYER (11) [adjective] Easily frightened; timid. | [adjective] Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach. | [adjective] Cautious; wary; suspicious. SIEUR (5) SIKER (9) SIMAR (7) SIRED (6) [verb] (of a male) to procreate; to father, beget, impregnate. SIREE (5) [noun] (used as an intensifier, emphatically, after yes or no) Sir. SIREN (5) [noun] One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks. | [noun] One who sings sweetly and charms. | [noun] A dangerously seductive woman. SIRES (5) [noun] A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign. | [noun] A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another. | [noun] A father; the head of a family; the husband. SIRRA (5) SIRUP (7) [noun] Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring. | [noun] (by extension) Any viscous liquid. | [noun] (shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig. SITAR (5) [noun] A Hindustani/Indian classical stringed instrument, typically having a gourd as its resonating chamber. SIVER (8) SIZAR (14) [noun] At certain universities, e.g. Cambridge and Dublin, a student who receives an allowance for his college expenses (a study grant), originally in return for serving other (paying) students. SIZER (14) SKIER (9) [noun] One who skis. | [noun] A ball hit high in the air, often leading to a catch. SKIRL (9) [noun] A shrill sound, as of bagpipes. | [verb] To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes. SKIRR (9) [noun] A tern. | [verb] To leave hastily; to flee, especially with a whirring sound | [verb] To make a whirring sound. SKIRT (9) [noun] An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body. | [noun] The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist. | [noun] A loose edging to any part of a dress. SLIER (5) SLURB (7) SLURP (7) [noun] A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking | [noun] A mouthful of liquid | [verb] To eat or drink noisily. SLURS (5) [noun] An insult or slight. | [noun] A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation. | [noun] The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie). SLYER (8) [adjective] Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. | [adjective] (having a positive sense) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice | [adjective] Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle SMARM (9) [noun] Smarmy language or behavior. | [noun] A style of fan fiction in which characters are warm and caring toward each other but without sexual overtones. | [verb] To fawn, to be unctuous. SMART (7) [verb] To hurt or sting. | [verb] To cause a smart or sting in. | [verb] To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil. | [adjective] Exhibiting social ability or cleverness. | [noun] A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting. SMEAR (7) [noun] A mark made by smearing. | [noun] Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear. | [noun] A Pap smear. SMERK (11) SMIRK (11) [noun] An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied or scornful | [noun] A forced or affected smile; a simper | [verb] To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous. SNARE (5) [noun] A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather). | [noun] A mental or psychological trap. | [noun] A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal. SNARK (9) [noun] Snide remarks. | [verb] To express oneself in a snarky fashion. | [verb] To snort. | [noun] A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point. SNARL (5) [noun] A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle. | [noun] An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation. | [noun] A slow-moving traffic jam. | [noun] The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention. SNEER (5) [noun] A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn. | [noun] A display of contempt; scorn. | [verb] To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn SNORE (5) [noun] The act of snoring, and the noise produced. | [noun] An extremely boring person or event. | [verb] To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate. SNORT (5) [noun] The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose. | [noun] A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco). | [noun] A consumed portion of alcoholic drink. SOARS (5) [noun] The act of soaring. | [noun] An upward flight. | [verb] To fly high with little effort, like a bird. SOBER (7) [verb] (often with up) To make or become sober. | [verb] (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication. | [verb] To moderate one's feelings SOFAR (8) [noun] A system for determining the position of vessels lost at sea by means of explosive sounds. SOLAR (5) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun | [adjective] Born under the predominant influence of the sun. | [adjective] Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year. | [noun] A loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room. SONAR (5) [noun] Echolocation | [noun] A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater. SOPOR (7) [noun] An unnaturally deep sleep. SORAS (5) [noun] A rail (Porzana carolina) of North, Central, and northern South America. SORBS (7) [noun] The service tree, Sorbus domestica. | [noun] Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia. | [noun] The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree. SORDS (6) [noun] A flock of mallards | [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. | [noun] An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. SOREL (5) [noun] A young buck (deer) in the third year. | [noun] A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel. | [noun] Any of various plants with acidic leaves, especially SORER (5) [adjective] Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive. | [adjective] Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. | [adjective] Dire; distressing. SORES (5) [noun] An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin. | [noun] Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. | [noun] A group of ducks on land. SORGO (6) SORNS (5) SORRY (8) [noun] The act of saying sorry; an apology. | [adjective] (of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone. | [adjective] Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable. SORTS (5) [noun] A general type. | [noun] Manner; form of being or acting. | [noun] Condition above the vulgar; rank. SORUS (5) [noun] Any reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungi, that produces spores. | [noun] A cluster of sporangia on the edge or underside of a fern frond. SOURS (5) [noun] The sensation of a sour taste. | [noun] A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar. | [noun] (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice. SOWAR (8) SOWER (8) SPARE (7) [noun] The act of sparing; moderation; restraint. | [noun] Parsimony; frugal use. | [noun] An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket. | [verb] To show mercy. SPARK (11) [noun] A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire. | [noun] A short or small burst of electrical discharge. | [noun] A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle. | [noun] A gallant; a foppish young man. SPARS (7) [noun] A rafter of a roof. | [noun] A thick pole or piece of wood. | [noun] A bar of wood used to fasten a door. SPEAR (7) [noun] A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion. | [noun] A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman. | [noun] A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish. SPEER (7) SPEIR (7) SPERM (9) [noun] The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon. | [noun] Semen; the generative substance of male animals. | [noun] Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti. SPIER (7) SPIRE (7) [noun] The stalk or stem of a plant. | [noun] A young shoot of a plant; a spear. | [noun] Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc. | [verb] To breathe. | [noun] One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. SPIRT (7) [verb] To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet. | [verb] To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet. | [verb] To make a strong effort for a short period of time. SPIRY (10) SPOOR (7) [noun] The track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal | [verb] To track an animal by following its spoor SPORE (7) [noun] A reproductive particle, usually a single cell, released by a fungus, alga, or plant that may germinate into another. | [noun] A thick resistant particle produced by a bacterium or protist to survive in harsh or unfavorable conditions. | [verb] To produce spores. SPORT (7) [noun] Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. | [noun] Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose. | [noun] A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship. SPRAG (8) [adjective] Lively, full of energy | [noun] A billet of wood; a piece of timber, a similar solid object or constructed unit used as a prop. | [verb] To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep slope, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel. | [noun] A young salmon. SPRAT (7) [noun] Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae. SPRAY (10) [noun] A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. | [noun] A pressurized container; an atomizer. | [noun] Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner. | [noun] A small branch of flowers or berries. SPREE (7) [noun] A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic. | [noun] Uninhibited activity. | [verb] To engage in a spree. SPRIG (8) [noun] A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray. | [noun] An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig. | [noun] One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace. SPRIT (7) [noun] A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats. | [noun] A shoot; a sprout. | [verb] To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt. | [verb] To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out. SPRUE (7) [noun] A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis. | [noun] (founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. | [noun] (founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold. SPRUG (8) SPURN (7) [noun] An act of spurning; a scornful rejection. | [noun] A kick; a blow with the foot. | [noun] Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment. SPURS (7) [verb] To ask, to inquire | [noun] 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. | [noun] A jab given with the spurs. SPURT (7) [noun] A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound. | [noun] Ejaculation of semen. | [noun] A shoot; a bud. | [noun] A moment, a short period of time. STAIR (5) [noun] A single step in a staircase. | [noun] A series of steps; a staircase. STARE (5) [noun] A persistent gaze. | [verb] (construed with at) To look fixedly (at something). | [verb] To influence in some way by looking fixedly. | [noun] A starling. STARK (9) [adjective] Hard, firm; obdurate. | [adjective] Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather). | [adjective] Strong; vigorous; powerful. | [verb] To stiffen. STARS (5) [noun] Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots. | [noun] A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included. | [noun] A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points. START (5) [noun] The beginning of an activity. | [noun] A sudden involuntary movement. | [noun] The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc. | [verb] To begin, commence, initiate. | [noun] A tail, or anything projecting like a tail. STEER (5) [noun] A suggestion about a course of action. | [noun] A helmsman; a pilot. | [verb] To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). | [noun] The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production. STERE (5) [noun] A measure of volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to one cubic metre. STERN (5) [adjective] Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner. | [adjective] Grim and forbidding in appearance. | [noun] The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel. | [noun] A bird, the black tern. STIRK (9) [noun] A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer. STIRP (7) STIRS (5) [noun] The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.) | [noun] Agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. | [noun] Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. STORE (5) [noun] A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept. | [noun] A supply held in storage. | [noun] (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop. STORK (9) [noun] A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae. | [noun] (children's folklore) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news. | [noun] The seventeenth Lenormand card. STORM (7) [noun] Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather. | [noun] A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak. | [noun] A wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale). | [verb] (with adverbial of direction) To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger. STORY (8) [noun] A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence. | [noun] A lie, fiction. | [noun] (usually pluralized) A soap opera. | [noun] A building; an edifice. STOUR (5) [adjective] (now rare outside dialectal) Tall; large; stout. | [adjective] (now rare outside dialectal) Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy. | [adjective] (now rare outside dialectal) Bold; audacious. | [noun] A stake. | [verb] To move; stir. STRAP (7) [noun] A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like. | [noun] A strip of thick leather used in flogging. | [noun] Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use. STRAW (8) [noun] A dried stalk of a cereal plant. | [noun] Such dried stalks considered collectively. | [noun] A drinking straw. STRAY (8) [noun] Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. | [noun] One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically. | [noun] The act of wandering or going astray. | [verb] To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. | [adjective] Having gone astray; strayed; wandering STREP (7) [noun] A strep throat. | [noun] A streptococcus. | [noun] Any of several plants of the genus Streptocarpus. the Cape primroses. STREW (8) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STRIA (5) [noun] A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes. | [noun] One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc. | [noun] A stretch mark. STRIP (7) [noun] A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area. | [noun] (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively. | [noun] A comic strip. | [noun] The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease. STROP (7) [noun] A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor, in this sense also called razor strop. | [noun] A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.) | [noun] A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it. | [verb] To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO. | [noun] A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond. STROW (8) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STROY (8) STRUM (7) [noun] The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously. | [noun] The act of strumming. | [verb] To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously. STRUT (5) [noun] Protuberance, air pressure | [verb] To swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out. | [verb] (originally said of fowl) To stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out. | [noun] A proud step or walk, with the head erect; affected dignity in walking. | [adjective] Swelling out; protuberant; bulging. | [noun] A support rod. STURT (5) SUBER (7) SUCRE (7) [noun] The former currency of Ecuador, divided into 100 centavos. SUDOR (6) SUERS (5) SUGAR (6) [noun] Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink. | [noun] A specific variety of sugar. | [noun] Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy. SUPER (7) [adjective] Of excellent quality, superfine. | [adjective] Better than average, better than usual; wonderful. | [adverb] Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-). | [noun] Short for superannuation. SUPRA (7) [adverb] Used to indicate that the current citation is from the same source as the previous one. | [noun] A traditional Georgian feast. SURAH (8) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. | [noun] Soft twilled silk SURAL (5) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg. SURAS (5) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. SURDS (6) [noun] An irrational number, especially one expressed using the √ symbol. | [noun] A voiceless consonant. SURER (5) [adjective] Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable. | [adjective] Certain in one's knowledge or belief. | [adjective] Certain to act or be a specified way. SURFS (8) [noun] Waves that break on an ocean shoreline. | [noun] An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf. | [noun] The bottom of a drain. SURFY (11) SURGE (6) [noun] A sudden transient rush, flood or increase. | [noun] The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation | [noun] A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current. SURGY (9) SURLY (8) [adjective] Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly. | [adjective] Threatening, menacing, gloomy. | [adjective] Lordly, arrogant, supercilious. SURRA (5) [noun] A disease of vertebrate animals caused by protozoan trypanosomes, involving fever, weakness, and lethargy. SUTRA (5) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SWARD (9) [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. | [noun] An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. | [noun] Skin; covering. | [noun] A homosexual man. SWARE (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [noun] A swear word. SWARF (11) [noun] The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone. | [noun] A particular waste chip or shaving. | [verb] To grind down. | [noun] A faint or swoon. SWARM (10) [noun] A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony. | [noun] A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil. | [noun] A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network. SWART (8) [noun] Black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker. | [adjective] Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. | [adjective] Black. | [verb] To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan. | [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. SWEAR (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [noun] A swear word. | [verb] To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours. SWEER (8) SWIRL (8) [noun] A whirling eddy. | [noun] A twist or coil of something. | [noun] The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait. SWORD (9) [noun] A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack. | [noun] A suit in the minor arcana in tarot. | [noun] A card of this suit. SWORE (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. SWORN (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [adjective] Given or declared under oath. SYREN (8) SYRUP (10) [noun] Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring. | [noun] (by extension) Any viscous liquid. | [noun] (shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig. TABER (7) TABOR (7) [noun] A small drum. | [verb] To make (a sound) with a tabor. | [verb] To strike lightly and frequently. | [noun] A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources. TAHRS (8) [noun] Any of three genera of large Asian ungulates belonging to the subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes). TAKER (9) [noun] One who takes something. | [noun] A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives. | [noun] One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something. TALAR (5) TALER (5) TAMER (7) [adjective] Not or no longer wild; domesticated | [adjective] (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact | [adjective] Not exciting. TAPER (7) [noun] A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle | [noun] (by extension) a small light. | [noun] A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object | [noun] One who operates a tape machine. TAPIR (7) [noun] Any one of the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus. TARDO (6) TARDY (9) [noun] A piece of paper given to students who are late to class. | [noun] An instance of a student being marked as tardy by a teacher in his or her attendance sheet. | [verb] To make tardy. TARED (6) TARES (5) [noun] A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa) | [noun] Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel. | [noun] A damaging weed growing in fields of grain. TARGE (6) [noun] A small shield | [noun] A tassel or pendant TARNS (5) [noun] A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England. | [noun] (chiefly Montana) One of many small mountain lakes or ponds. TAROC (7) TAROK (9) TAROS (5) [noun] Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato. | [noun] Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc. | [noun] Food from a taro plant. TAROT (5) [noun] (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations. | [noun] Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination. TARPS (7) [noun] A tarpaulin. TARRE (5) TARRY (8) [noun] A sojourn. | [verb] To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything. | [verb] To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens. | [adjective] Resembling tar. TARSI (5) [noun] The part of the foot between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus. | [noun] Any of the seven bones in this part of the foot. | [noun] A plate of dense connective tissue found in each eyelid, attached to either the superior tarsal muscle (in the upper eyelid) or inferior tarsal muscle (lower eyelid), which aid with sympathetic control. TARTS (5) [noun] A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie. | [noun] A prostitute. | [noun] By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals. TARTY (8) [adjective] Like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish. TATAR (5) TATER (5) [noun] A potato. | [noun] A home run TAWER (8) TAXER (12) TEARS (5) [noun] A hole or break caused by tearing. | [noun] A rampage. | [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. TEARY (8) [adjective] Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry. | [adjective] Of eyes, filled with tears. TENOR (5) [noun] A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto. | [noun] A person, instrument or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range. | [noun] A musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies. TERAI (5) [noun] A belt of marshy land, which lies between the foothills of the Himalayas and the plains. | [noun] A terai hat. TERCE (7) [noun] The third hour of daylight (about 9 am). | [noun] The service appointed for this hour. | [noun] A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property. TERGA (6) [noun] The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod. TERMS (7) [noun] That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary. | [noun] A chronological limitation or restriction. | [noun] Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. TERNE (5) [noun] An alloy coating made of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin) and used to cover steel. TERNS (5) [noun] Any of various sea birds of the family Sternidae that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail. | [noun] That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together. | [noun] A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw. TERRA (5) [noun] (astrogeology) A rough upland or mountainous region of the Moon with a relatively high albedo. TERRY (8) [noun] A type of coarse cotton fabric covered in many small raised loops that is used to make towels, bathrobes and some types of nappy/diaper. TERSE (5) [adjective] (by extension) Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point. | [adjective] (by extension) Of manner or speech: abruptly or brusquely short; curt. | [adjective] Burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce. TETRA (5) [noun] Any of numerous species of small South American freshwater fish of the family Characidae, popular in home aquariums. THARM (10) THEIR (8) THERE (8) [noun] That place. | [noun] That status; that position. | [adverb] (location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here). THERM (10) [noun] A former unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units. Symbol: thm. THIRD (9) [noun] The person or thing in the third position. | [noun] One of three equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The third gear of a gearbox. THIRL (8) THORN (8) [noun] A sharp protective spine of a plant. | [noun] Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn. | [noun] That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome. THORO (8) THORP (10) [noun] (now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village. THRAW (11) THREE (8) [noun] The digit/figure 3. | [noun] Anything measuring three units, as length. | [noun] A person who is three years old. THREW (11) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. THRIP (10) [noun] Optional singular for thrips, an insect of the order Thysanoptera. THROB (10) [noun] A beating, vibration or palpitation. | [verb] To pound or beat rapidly or violently. | [verb] To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm. THROE (8) [noun] A pang, spasm. | [noun] (usually plural) A hard struggle. | [noun] A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow. THROW (11) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. | [noun] Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe. | [noun] A moment, time, occasion. THRUM (10) [noun] A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. | [noun] A spicy taste; a tang. | [verb] To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking. | [noun] The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut. THURL (8) TIARA (5) [noun] The papal crown. | [noun] An ornamental coronet. TIERS (5) [noun] One who ties (knots, etc). | [noun] Something that ties. | [noun] A child's apron. TIGER (6) [noun] Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia. | [noun] A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms. | [noun] A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress. | [noun] A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer. TILER (5) [noun] A person who sets tiles. | [noun] A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons. TIMER (7) [noun] Someone or something which times. | [noun] A device used to measure amounts of time. | [noun] Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time. TIRED (6) [verb] To become sleepy or weary. | [verb] To make sleepy or weary. | [verb] To become bored or impatient (with). TIRES (5) [verb] To become sleepy or weary. | [verb] To make sleepy or weary. | [verb] To become bored or impatient (with). TIRLS (5) TIROS (5) [noun] A newly recruited soldier. TITER (5) [noun] The concentration of a substance as determined by titration. | [verb] To measure a concentration, especially by means of titration TITRE (5) [noun] The strength or concentration of a solution that has been determined by titration. | [verb] To determine a titre, especially by titration TOKER (9) TONER (5) [noun] Powder used in laser printers and photocopiers to form the text and images on the printed paper. | [noun] Cosmetic lotion designed to cleanse the skin and shrink pores, usually used on the face. | [noun] A musician, particularly one that plays a wind instrument. TOPER (7) TORAH (8) TORAS (5) TORCH (10) [noun] A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material. | [noun] A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight. | [noun] An arsonist. TORCS (7) [noun] A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples. TORES (5) [noun] The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane. | [noun] The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring. | [noun] A topological space which is a product of two circles. TORIC (7) [adjective] Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal. TORII (5) [noun] A traditional Japanese gate at Shinto shrines, symbolically marking the transition from the profane to the sacred. TOROS (5) TOROT (5) TORSE (5) [noun] A twist of cloth or wreath underneath and forming part of a crest; an orle, a wreath. It is customarily shown with six twists, the first tincture being the tincture of the field, the second the tincture of the metal, and so on. | [noun] The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs. TORSI (5) [noun] The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs. TORSK (9) [noun] An edible fish, Brosme brosme. TORSO (5) [noun] The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs. TORTE (5) [noun] A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau). TORTS (5) [noun] An injury or wrong. | [noun] A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages. | [noun] (only in the plural torts) Tort law (the area of law dealing with such wrongful acts). TORUS (5) [noun] A topological space which is a product of two circles. | [noun] The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a shape consisting of a ring with a circular cross-section: the shape of an inner tube or hollow doughnut. | [noun] (in combination, n-torus, 4-torus, etc.) The product of the specified number of circles. TOTER (5) TOURS (5) [noun] A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc. | [noun] A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place. | [noun] A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts. TOWER (8) [noun] A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast. | [noun] A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc. | [noun] A water tower. | [verb] To be very tall. | [noun] One who tows. TOYER (8) TRACE (7) [noun] An act of tracing. | [noun] An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package. | [noun] A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal. | [verb] To follow the trail of. TRACK (11) [noun] A mark left by something that has passed along. | [noun] A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal. | [noun] The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc. TRACT (7) [noun] An area or expanse. | [noun] A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract. | [noun] A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses. | [verb] To pursue, follow; to track. TRADE (6) [noun] Buying and selling of goods and services on a market. | [noun] A particular instance of buying or selling. | [noun] An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another. TRAGI (6) [noun] The small piece of thick cartilage of the external ear that is immediately in front of the ear canal. TRAIK (9) TRAIL (5) [noun] The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky. | [noun] A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc. | [noun] A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme. TRAIN (5) [noun] Elongated portion. | [noun] Connected sequence of people or things. | [verb] To practice an ability. | [noun] Treachery; deceit. TRAIT (5) [noun] An identifying characteristic, habit or trend. | [noun] An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface. TRAMP (9) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond. | [noun] A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut. | [noun] Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call. TRAMS (7) [noun] A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America). | [noun] A similar vehicle for carrying materials. | [noun] A people mover. TRANK (9) [noun] An oblong piece of skin from which the pieces for a glove are cut. | [noun] A tranquilizer. | [verb] To tranquilize. TRANQ (14) [noun] A tranquilizer. | [verb] To tranquilize. TRANS (5) [verb] To cross from one side to another of (gender, sex or something in that vein). | [adjective] In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond. | [adjective] Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum. | [noun] (sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person. | [noun] The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans). | [noun] (sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person. TRAPS (7) [noun] A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. | [noun] A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. | [noun] A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor. TRAPT (7) TRASH (8) [noun] Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. | [noun] A container into which things are discarded. | [noun] Something worthless or of poor quality. TRASS (5) [noun] A white to grey volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders, sometimes used as a cement. | [noun] A coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water. TRAVE (8) TRAWL (8) [noun] A net or dragnet used for trawling. | [noun] A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline. | [verb] To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl. TRAYS (8) [noun] A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. | [noun] A flat carrier for items being transported. | [noun] The items on a full tray. TREAD (6) [verb] To step or walk (on or over something); to trample. | [verb] To step or walk upon. | [verb] To beat or press with the feet. | [noun] A step taken with the foot. TREAT (5) [noun] An entertainment, outing, food, drink, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others. | [noun] An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure. | [noun] A snack food item designed to be given to pets. TREED (6) [verb] To chase (an animal or person) up a tree. | [verb] To place in a tree. | [verb] To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree. TREEN (5) [noun] Fast growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem. | [noun] A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage. | [noun] Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense). | [noun] Household articles made of wood. | [noun] A territorial division in the Isle of Man. TREES (5) [noun] Fast growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem. | [noun] A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage. | [noun] Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense). TREKS (9) [noun] A journey by ox wagon. | [noun] The Boer migration of 1835-1837. | [noun] A slow or difficult journey. TREND (6) [noun] An inclination in a particular direction. | [noun] A tendency. | [noun] A fad or fashion style. | [noun] Clean wool. TRESS (5) [noun] A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet. | [noun] A long lock of hair | [noun] (by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers. TRETS (5) TREWS (8) [noun] Trousers, especially if close fitting and tartan. TREYS (8) [noun] A playing card or die with the rank of three. | [noun] A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes. | [noun] A three-pointer. TRIAC (7) [noun] A three-terminal electronic component that conducts current in either direction when triggered; a bidirectional triode thyristor. TRIAD (6) [noun] A grouping of three. | [noun] A word of three syllables. | [noun] A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong. TRIAL (5) [noun] An opportunity to test something out; a test. | [noun] Appearance at judicial court in order to be examined. | [noun] A difficult or annoying experience. | [adjective] Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components. TRIBE (7) [noun] A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people. | [noun] A society larger than a band but smaller than a state. | [noun] A group of apes who live and work together. TRICE (7) [verb] To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply. | [verb] To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope. | [noun] Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; an instant, a moment. | [noun] A pulley, a windlass. TRICK (11) [noun] Something designed to fool or swindle. | [noun] A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick. | [noun] An entertaining difficult physical action. TRIED (6) [adjective] Tested, hence, proven to be firm or reliable. | [adjective] Put on trial, taken before a lawcourt. | [verb] To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive. TRIER (5) [noun] One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard. | [noun] An instrument used for sampling something. | [noun] One who tries judicially. TRIES (5) [noun] An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings. | [noun] An attempt. | [noun] An act of tasting or sampling. TRIGO (6) TRIGS (6) [noun] A dandy; coxcomb. | [noun] Trigonometry. | [noun] A trigonometric point, trig point. TRIKE (9) [noun] A tricycle. | [noun] A three-wheeled motorbike. | [noun] A kind of railroad maintenance vehicle: a speeder or jigger. | [noun] A triceratops. TRILL (5) [noun] A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it, in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff. | [noun] A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish rr. | [noun] A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats. | [verb] To trickle. | [verb] To twirl. TRIMS (7) [noun] Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders. | [noun] A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style. | [noun] Dress; gear; ornaments. TRINE (5) [noun] A group of three things. | [noun] An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart. | [verb] To put in the aspect of a trine. TRIOL (5) TRIOS (5) [noun] A group of three people or things. | [noun] A group of three musicians. | [noun] A piece of music written for three musicians. TRIPE (7) [noun] The lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food. | [noun] The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural. | [noun] (chiefly plural) Something disparaged as valueless, especially written works and popular entertainment (movies, television). TRIPS (7) [noun] A journey; an excursion or jaunt | [noun] A stumble or misstep | [noun] An error; a failure; a mistake TRITE (5) [adjective] Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed. | [adjective] So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law. | [noun] A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater. TROAK (9) TROCK (11) TRODE (6) TROIS (5) TROKE (9) TROLL (5) [noun] A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges. | [noun] An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences. | [noun] Optical ejections from the top of the electrically active core regions of thunderstorms that are red in color that seem to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward toward the cloud tops. | [noun] An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line. | [noun] The act of moving round; routine; repetition. TROMP (9) [verb] To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot. | [verb] To utterly defeat an opponent. | [noun] A blowing apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. TRONA (5) [noun] A saline evaporite, consisting of mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, Na3HCO3CO3·2H2O. TRONE (5) TROOP (7) [noun] (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general). | [noun] A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry. | [noun] A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers. TROOZ (14) TROPE (7) [noun] Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif. | [noun] A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor. | [noun] Mathematical senses. TROTH (8) [noun] An oath, pledge, or promise. | [noun] Truth; something true. | [verb] To pledge to marry somebody. TROTS (5) [noun] A supporter of Trotskyism. | [noun] Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. | [noun] Equipment with legs. TROUT (5) [noun] Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once. | [noun] An objectionable elderly woman. | [verb] To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly. TROVE (8) [noun] A treasure trove; a collection of treasure. | [noun] A collection of things. TROWS (8) [noun] Trust or faith. | [noun] Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods. | [noun] Troll. TROYS (8) TRUCE (7) [noun] A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties | [noun] An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time TRUCK (11) [noun] A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage. | [noun] The ball on top of a flagpole. | [noun] On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck". | [verb] To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate. | [verb] To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down). | [noun] (often in the plural) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter. TRUED (6) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. TRUER (5) [adjective] (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct. | [adjective] Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate. | [adjective] Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result. TRUES (5) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. TRUGS (6) [noun] A shallow, oval basket used for gardening | [noun] A trough or tray. | [noun] A hod for mortar. TRULL (5) [noun] A female prostitute or harlot. | [noun] A set of three special trump cards used in some Tarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps. TRULY (8) [adverb] (manner) In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately. | [adverb] (modal) Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really. | [adverb] (degree) Very. TRUMP (9) [noun] The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others. | [noun] A playing card of that suit. | [noun] Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve. | [noun] A trumpet. | [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones. TRUNK (9) [noun] (heading, biological) Part of a body. | [noun] (heading) A container. | [noun] (heading) A channel for flow of some kind. TRUSS (5) [noun] A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place. | [noun] A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge. | [noun] A triangular bracket. TRUST (5) [noun] Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality. | [noun] Dependence upon something in the future; hope. | [noun] Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit. TRUTH (8) [noun] True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality. | [noun] Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy. | [noun] The state or quality of being true to someone or something. TRYMA (10) TRYST (8) [noun] A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time. | [noun] A mutual agreement, a covenant. | [verb] To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place. TSARS (5) [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. TUBER (7) [noun] A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot. | [noun] A thickened rootstock. | [noun] A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body. TUMOR (7) [noun] An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia. TUNER (5) [noun] A person who tunes a piano or organ. | [noun] A device, electronic or mechanical, that helps a person tune a musical instrument by showing the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch. | [noun] On a musical instrument, a peg or mechanical device that changes the tension, and hence pitch, of a string. | [noun] (entertainment industry) A musical. TURBO (7) [noun] Turbocharger. | [noun] Turbojet. | [noun] Turbomolecular pump. | [noun] A turban shell. TURDS (6) [noun] (mildly) A piece of solid animal or human feces. | [noun] A worthless person or thing. TURFS (8) [noun] A layer of earth covered with grass; sod. | [noun] A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc. | [noun] A sod of peat used as fuel. TURFY (11) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or constructed of turf. | [adjective] Relating to or involved with horses or horse-racing. TURKS (9) TURNS (5) [verb] (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement. | [verb] (heading) To change condition or attitude. | [verb] To change one's course of action; to take a new approach. TURPS (7) [noun] Turpentine or turpentine substitute. | [noun] Any alcoholic drink. TUTOR (5) [noun] One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction. | [noun] A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall. | [noun] One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian. TUYER (8) TWERP (10) [noun] A fool, a twit. | [noun] A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. | [noun] A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling). TWIER (8) TWIRL (8) [noun] A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette. | [noun] Any rotating movement; a spin. | [noun] A little twist of some substance; a swirl. TWIRP (10) [interjection] An imitation of the sound of a bird or a horn. | [noun] A fool, a twit. | [noun] A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. TWYER (11) [noun] A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge TYERS (8) TYRED (9) TYRES (8) [noun] The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid. | [noun] The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railway vehicle. | [verb] To fit tyres to (a vehicle). TYROS (8) [noun] A beginner; a novice. TZARS (14) [noun] An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states. | [noun] A person with great power; an autocrat. UDDER (7) [noun] An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer. | [noun] (impolite) A woman's breast. ULCER (7) [noun] An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection. | [noun] Peptic ulcer | [noun] Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character. ULNAR (5) ULTRA (5) [noun] An ultraroyalist in France. | [noun] An extremist, especially an ultranationalist. | [noun] An especially devoted football fan, typically associated with the intimidating use of extremist slogans, pyrotechnics and sometimes hooligan violence. UMBER (9) [noun] A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides. | [noun] A grayling. | [noun] A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop. UMBRA (9) [noun] The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. | [noun] The central region of a sunspot. | [noun] A shadow. UNARM (7) [verb] To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from. | [verb] To remove one's armour. UNARY (8) [noun] The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system. | [noun] Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers. | [adjective] Consisting of or involving a single element or component. UNBAR (7) [verb] To remove an impediment that obstructs the passage of (someone or something). | [verb] To remove a prohibition. | [verb] To unlock or unbolt a door that had been locked or bolted with a bar. UNDER (6) [adjective] Being lower; being beneath something. | [adjective] Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated. | [adverb] In a way lower or less than. UNRIG (6) [verb] To remove the rigging from (a vessel, etc.). | [verb] To disable. | [verb] To undress (someone). UNRIP (7) [verb] To open something by ripping/tearing. UPDRY (11) UPPER (9) [noun] A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite. | [noun] The upper portion of something | [noun] Someone with higher social standing URAEI (5) [noun] A representation of the sacred asp, symbolising supreme power in ancient Egypt. URARE (5) URARI (5) URASE (5) URATE (5) [noun] Any salt of uric acid. URBAN (7) [adjective] Related to the (or any) city. | [adjective] Characteristic of city life. | [adjective] Relating to contemporary African American culture. URBIA (7) UREAL (5) UREAS (5) UREDO (6) UREIC (7) URGED (7) [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. | [verb] To provoke; to exasperate. URGER (6) [noun] One who urges. URGES (6) [noun] A strong desire; an itch to do something. | [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. URIAL (5) [noun] A bearded reddish sheep, subspecies of Ovis orientalis (including Ovis orientalis vignei), previously classified as Ovis vignei, being endemic to southern Asia and believed to be a wild ancestor of domestic sheep. URINE (5) [noun] Liquid waste consisting of water, salts and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra. | [verb] To urinate. URSAE (5) USERS (5) [noun] One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser. | [noun] A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs. | [noun] A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account. USHER (8) [noun] A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats. | [noun] A male escort at a wedding. | [noun] A doorkeeper in a courtroom. USURP (7) [verb] To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means. | [verb] To use and assume the coat of arms of another person. | [verb] To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else. USURY (8) [noun] An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally. | [noun] The practice of lending money at such rates. | [noun] The practice of lending money at interest. UTERI (5) [noun] The womb, an organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth. UTTER (5) [adjective] Outer; furthest out, most remote. | [adjective] Outward. | [adjective] Absolute, unconditional, total, complete. | [verb] To produce (speech or other sounds) with one's voice. VAIRS (8) VALOR (8) [noun] Value; worth. | [noun] Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a person to encounter danger with firmness VAPOR (10) [noun] Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. | [noun] The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid. | [noun] Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. VARAS (8) VARIA (8) VARIX (15) [noun] A varicose, i.e. swollen and knotted, vein | [noun] In mollusks, a particular ridge on the shell, corresponding to a former position of the aperture. VARNA (8) [noun] Any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes VARUS (8) [noun] A deformity in which the foot is turned inward. | [noun] Acne. VARVE (11) [noun] An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock. VEERS (8) [noun] A turn or swerve; an instance of veering. VEERY (11) [noun] An American thrush (Catharus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. VELAR (8) [noun] A sound articulated at the soft palate | [adjective] Articulated at the velum or soft palate. | [adjective] Referring to a veil or velum. VERBS (10) [noun] (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state. | [noun] Any word; a vocable. | [noun] An action as opposed to a trait or thing. VERGE (9) [noun] A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. | [noun] An edge or border. | [noun] The phallus. | [verb] To be or come very close; to border; to approach. VERSE (8) [noun] A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme. | [noun] Poetic form in general. | [noun] One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed. | [verb] To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game. VERSO (8) [noun] The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal; | [noun] The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number. VERST (8) [noun] A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about 2/3 of a mile. VERTS (8) [noun] A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise. | [noun] Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer. | [noun] The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest. VERTU (8) [noun] The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities. | [noun] Objets d'art collectively. | [noun] Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power. VERVE (11) [noun] Excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing | [noun] Artistic energy and enthusiasm | [noun] Vigour, vitality and liveliness VEXER (15) VICAR (10) [noun] In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes. | [noun] In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy. | [noun] A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person. VIERS (8) VIGOR (9) [noun] Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy. | [noun] Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action. | [noun] Strength; efficacy; potency. VILER (8) [adjective] Morally low; base; despicable. | [adjective] Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid. VIPER (10) [noun] A venomous snake in the family Viperidae. | [noun] A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person. | [noun] A person who smokes marijuana. VIRAL (8) [noun] A video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humorous, political or marketing purposes. | [adjective] Of or relating to a biological virus. | [adjective] Caused by a virus. VIREO (8) [noun] Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage. | [noun] Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireo, greenlets and peppershrikes. | [noun] (in plural) The family Vireonidae. VIRES (8) VIRGA (9) [noun] A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone. | [noun] A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer. | [noun] (measurement) A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch. VIRID (9) VIRLS (8) VIRTU (8) [noun] The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities. | [noun] Objets d'art collectively. | [noun] Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power. VIRUS (8) [noun] A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism. | [noun] A disease caused by these organisms. | [noun] Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc. VISOR (8) [noun] A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it. | [noun] A mask for the face. | [noun] The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes. VIZIR (17) VIZOR (17) [noun] A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it. | [noun] A mask for the face. | [noun] The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes. VOLAR (8) [adjective] Pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot. VOMER (10) [noun] The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils. VOTER (8) [noun] Someone who votes. VOWER (11) VROOM (10) [noun] The sound of an engine revving up. | [verb] To move with great speed; to zoom. | [interjection] The sound of an engine revving up. VROUW (11) [noun] A Dutchwoman. VROWS (11) WADER (9) [noun] One who wades. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A waterproof boot that comes up to the hip, used by fishermen, etc. | [noun] A long-legged bird associated with wetland or coastal environments. WAFER (11) [noun] A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie. | [noun] (christianity) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion. | [noun] A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc. WAGER (9) [noun] Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. | [noun] That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. | [noun] A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. | [noun] Agent noun of wage; one who wages. WAIRS (8) WAKER (12) WALER (8) [noun] A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse. | [noun] (structural engineering) A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress. WARDS (9) [noun] A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman. | [noun] Protection, defence. | [noun] A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision. WARED (9) [verb] To be ware or mindful of something. | [verb] To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary. | [verb] To wear, or veer. WARES (8) [noun] (usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use. | [noun] (in the plural) See wares. | [noun] Pottery or metal goods. WARKS (12) [noun] Pain; ache. | [noun] A building. WARMS (10) [noun] The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating. | [verb] To make or keep warm. | [verb] To become warm, to heat up. WARNS (8) [verb] To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially: | [verb] To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. | [verb] (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away. WARPS (10) [verb] To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally: | [verb] (ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred. | [verb] To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving. WARTS (8) [noun] A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). | [noun] Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads. | [noun] Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation. WARTY (11) WATER (8) [noun] A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam. | [noun] The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy. | [noun] Water in a body; an area of open water. | [verb] To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants). WAVER (11) [noun] An act of wavering, vacillating, etc. | [noun] Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc. | [noun] Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment). WAXER (15) WEARS (8) [verb] To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc. | [verb] To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. | [verb] To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. WEARY (11) [verb] To make or to become weary. | [adjective] Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued. | [adjective] Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick. WEBER (10) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb. WEIRD (9) [noun] Fate; destiny; luck. | [noun] A prediction. | [noun] A spell or charm. WEIRS (8) [noun] An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream. | [noun] A fence placed across a river to catch fish. WHARF (14) [noun] A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank. | [noun] The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea. | [verb] To secure by a wharf. WHERE (11) [noun] The place in which something happens. | [adverb] Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: at what place; to what place; what place. | [adverb] In what situation. WHIRL (11) [noun] An act of whirling. | [noun] Something that whirls. | [noun] A confused tumult. WHIRR (11) [noun] A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion. | [noun] A bustle of noise and excitement. | [verb] To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound. WHIRS (11) [noun] A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion. | [noun] A bustle of noise and excitement. WHORE (11) [noun] Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood. | [noun] A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage. | [noun] A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut. WHORL (11) [noun] A pattern of concentric circles. | [noun] A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem. | [noun] A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell. WHORT (11) WIDER (9) [adjective] Having a large physical extent from side to side. | [adjective] Large in scope. | [adjective] Operating at the side of the playing area. WIPER (10) [noun] Someone who wipes. | [noun] Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping. | [noun] Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping. WIRED (9) [verb] To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing. | [verb] To string on a wire. | [verb] To equip with wires for use with electricity. WIRER (8) WIRES (8) [noun] Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die. | [noun] A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable. | [noun] A metal conductor that carries electricity. WIRRA (8) [interjection] Exclamation of dismay. WISER (8) [adjective] Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience. | [adjective] Disrespectful. | [adjective] Aware, informed. WIVER (11) WOOER (8) WORDS (9) [noun] The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) | [noun] Something like such a unit of language: | [noun] The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. . WORDY (12) [adjective] Using an excessive number of words. WORKS (12) [noun] (heading) Employment. | [noun] (heading) Effort. | [noun] Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles. WORLD (9) [noun] (with "the") Human collective existence; existence in general. | [noun] The Universe. | [noun] (with "the") The Earth. WORMS (10) [noun] A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm. | [noun] More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. | [noun] A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent. WORMY (13) [adjective] Of or like a worm or worms; shaped like a worm or worms. | [adjective] Infested with worms. WORRY (11) [noun] A strong feeling of anxiety. | [noun] An instance or cause of such a feeling. | [verb] To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt. WORSE (8) [adjective] Unfavorable; negative; not good. | [adjective] Not suitable or fitting. | [adjective] Not appropriate, of manners etc. WORST (8) [adjective] Unfavorable; negative; not good. | [adjective] Not suitable or fitting. | [adjective] Not appropriate, of manners etc. WORTH (11) [noun] Value. | [noun] Merit, excellence. | [noun] Wealth, fortune, riches, property, possessions. | [verb] (except in set phrases) To be, become, betide. WORTS (8) [noun] A plant; herb; vegetable. | [noun] Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term. WRACK (14) [noun] Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble. | [noun] (except in dialects) Ruin; destruction. | [noun] The remains; a wreck. | [verb] To place in or hang on a rack. WRANG (9) WRAPS (10) [noun] A sharp blow with something hard. | [noun] Blame for something. | [noun] A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction. WRAPT (10) [verb] To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper. | [verb] To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping. | [verb] To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide. WRATH (11) [noun] Great anger. | [noun] Punishment. | [verb] To anger; to enrage. WREAK (12) [verb] To cause something harmful; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injury; to let out something harmful; . | [verb] To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite. | [verb] To inflict or take vengeance on. | [noun] Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. WRECK (14) [noun] Something or someone that has been ruined. | [noun] The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down. | [noun] An event in which something is damaged through collision. WRENS (8) [noun] Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; true wren. | [noun] Small bird of similar appearance to a true wren. WREST (8) [noun] The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion. | [noun] A key to tune a stringed instrument. | [noun] Active or motive power. | [noun] A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined. | [noun] A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself. WRICK (14) WRIED (9) WRIER (8) [adjective] Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). | [adjective] Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. | [adjective] Twisted, bent, crooked. WRIES (8) WRING (9) [noun] A powerful squeezing or twisting action. | [noun] Pain or distress. | [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. | [noun] A device for pressing or compressing, especially for cider. WRIST (8) [noun] The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense. | [noun] A stud or pin which forms a journal. | [verb] To hit a wrist shot WRITE (8) [noun] The act or style of writing. | [noun] The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk. | [verb] To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate. WRITS (8) [noun] A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. | [noun] Authority, power to enforce compliance. | [noun] That which is written; writing. WRONG (9) [noun] Something that is immoral or not good. | [noun] An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer). | [noun] The incorrect or unjust position or opinion. WROTE (8) [verb] To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate. | [verb] To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.). | [verb] To send written information to. WROTH (11) [adjective] Full of anger; wrathful. WRUNG (9) [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. | [verb] To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it. | [verb] To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force. WRYER (11) [adjective] Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). | [adjective] Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. | [adjective] Twisted, bent, crooked. WRYLY (14) [adverb] In a wry manner. WURST (8) [noun] A German- or Austrian-style sausage. XERIC (14) [adjective] Extremely dry, lacking humidity and water. | [adjective] Adapted to live in a very dry habitat. XEROX (19) [noun] A photocopy. | [noun] A photocopier. | [verb] To make a paper copy or copies by means of a photocopier. XERUS (12) YAGER (9) YAIRD (9) YARDS (9) [noun] A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building. | [noun] The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn. | [noun] An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc. YARER (8) YARNS (8) [noun] A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving. | [noun] Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope. | [noun] A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible. YEARN (8) [verb] To long, have a strong desire (for something). | [verb] To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically. | [verb] To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone). | [verb] To curdle, as milk. | [noun] Yearning; yen. YEARS (8) [noun] A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference). | [noun] (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star. | [noun] A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar. YERBA (10) [noun] Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage mate. YERKS (12) [verb] To stab. | [verb] To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk. | [verb] To strike or lash with a whip or stick. YIRDS (9) YIRRS (8) YIRTH (11) YORES (8) YOURN (8) [pronoun] (obsolete outside Britain and United States dialectal) Yours. YOURS (8) [pronoun] That which belongs to you (singular); the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun. | [pronoun] That which belongs to you (plural); the possessive second-person plural pronoun used without a following noun. | [pronoun] Written at the end of a letter, before the signature. YURTA (8) YURTS (8) [noun] A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger). ZAIRE (14) [noun] The unit of currency of Zaire. ZARFS (17) ZEBRA (16) [noun] Any of three species of genus Equus: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa. | [noun] A referee. | [noun] An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".) ZERKS (18) ZEROS (14) [noun] The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero. | [noun] The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems. | [noun] Nothing, or none. ZIRAM (16) ZONER (14) ZORIL (14) ZORIS (14) [noun] A Japanese sandal made from rice straw or lacquered wood, worn with a kimono for formal occasions. | [noun] (especially Southeast US) A sandal, usually of rubber, secured to the foot by two straps mounted between the big toe and its neighbour, a flip-flop