6 Letter 5 Letter 5 Letter Boggle Words Ending With T

ACT (5) [noun] Something done, a deed. | [noun] Actuality. | [noun] Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work. AFT (6) [noun] The stern portion of a vessel. | [adjective] Located at the back of a boat, ship, or airplane | [adverb] At, near, or towards the stern of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel). | [noun] The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm. AIT (3) [noun] An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. | [noun] An oat. ALT (3) [noun] High pitch, of a voice or instrument; especially, the octave above the top line of the treble stave. | [noun] A state of excitement, a heightened emotional condition. | [noun] An alternate or secondary character. ANT (3) [noun] Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females. | [noun] A Web spider. | [verb] To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers. APT (5) [adjective] Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited. | [adjective] (of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards. | [adjective] Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn. | [noun] An apartment; a flat. ART (3) [noun] The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. | [noun] The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc. | [noun] Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus. ATT (3) BAT (5) [noun] Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous. | [noun] An old woman. | [noun] A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket. | [verb] To flutter | [noun] A packsaddle. | [noun] The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang. BET (5) [noun] A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event). | [noun] A degree of certainty. | [verb] To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager. | [noun] The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁 | [preposition] Between BIT (5) [noun] A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal. | [noun] A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes. | [noun] A coin of a specified value. | [adjective] Bitten. | [noun] A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0. BOT (5) [noun] The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses. | [verb] To bugger | [verb] To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes. | [noun] A physical robot. BUT (5) [noun] An instance or example of using the word "but". | [noun] The outer room of a small two-room cottage. | [noun] A limit; a boundary. CAT (5) [noun] An animal of the family Felidae: | [noun] A person: | [noun] A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship. | [noun] A twin-hulled ship or boat. | [noun] A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output. | [adjective] Terrible, disastrous. | [noun] A street name of the drug methcathinone. | [noun] A catapult. | [noun] A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria. | [noun] Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth | [noun] Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.) COT (5) [noun] A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes. | [noun] A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides. | [noun] A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks. | [noun] A cottage or small homestead. | [noun] A small, crudely-formed boat. | [noun] A cover or sheath; a fingerstall. CUT (5) [noun] The act of cutting. | [noun] The result of cutting. | [noun] An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound. DIT (4) [verb] To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit). | [verb] To close up. | [noun] A ditty, a little melody. | [noun] The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code. | [noun] Decimal digit | [adjective] Indicator of a declared surname originating from Canadian French. DOT (4) [noun] A small, round spot. | [noun] (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period. | [noun] A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ. | [noun] A dowry. EAT (3) [noun] Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item. | [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. EFT (6) [noun] A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus). | [adverb] Again; afterwards FAT (6) [noun] A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy. | [noun] A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat. | [noun] That part of an organization deemed wasteful. | [noun] A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern. FET (6) [verb] To fetch | [noun] A piece | [noun] Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. FIT (6) [noun] The degree to which something fits. | [noun] Conformity of elements one to another. | [noun] The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly. | [noun] A section of a poem or ballad. | [noun] A seizure or convulsion. GAT (4) [noun] (in old westerns) A Gatling gun. | [noun] (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol. | [verb] To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm. | [noun] A guitar | [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [noun] An opening between sandbanks; a strait. | [noun] A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen. GET (4) [noun] Offspring. | [noun] Lineage. | [noun] A difficult return or block of a shot. | [noun] A git. | [noun] A Jewish writ of divorce. GIT (4) [noun] A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying or childish person (usually a man). | [verb] To get. | [verb] To get (leave; scram). | [noun] The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting. GOT (4) [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [verb] To receive. | [verb] (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes. GUT (4) [noun] The alimentary canal, especially the intestine. | [noun] The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged | [noun] The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc. HAT (6) [noun] A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration. | [noun] A particular role or capacity that a person might fill. | [noun] Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery. | [verb] (heading, physical) To strike. HET (6) [noun] A heterosexual person. | [noun] Fan fiction based on celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship. | [adjective] Heterosexual. | [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). | [noun] Heterozygote | [noun] The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). HIT (6) [noun] A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. | [noun] Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim. | [noun] An attack on a location, person or people. | [pronoun] It. HOT (6) [verb] (with up) To heat; to make or become hot. | [verb] (with up) To become lively or exciting. | [adjective] (of an object) Having a high temperature. HUT (6) [noun] A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials. | [noun] A small wooden shed. | [noun] A small stack of grain. JET (10) [noun] A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc. | [noun] A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid. | [noun] A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers. | [noun] A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery. JOT (10) [noun] Iota; the smallest letter or stroke of any writing. | [noun] A small amount, bit; the smallest amount. | [noun] Moment, instant. JUT (10) [noun] Something that sticks out. | [verb] To stick out. | [verb] To butt. KAT (7) KIT (7) [noun] A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves. | [noun] A kind of basket made especially from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish; by extension, the contents of such a basket or similar container, used as a measure of weight. | [noun] A collection of items forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack. | [noun] A kitten (young cat). | [noun] A very small long-necked violin that came in a variety of shapes and configurations, meant to be carried in a pocket and intended for instructors (dancing masters) to carry to accompany their students. | [noun] A school of pigeons, especially domesticated, trained pigeons. LAT (3) [noun] A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind. | [noun] A monumental pillar, particularly the Buddhist columns erected in East India. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A latrine: a rudimentary or military facility for urination and defecation. | [noun] The gold-backed monetary unit of Latvia from August 1922 until April 1941, when it was replaced by the Soviet ruble; it was typically pegged at about 25 to the British pound. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A latissimus dorsi muscle. | [noun] Latitude LET (3) [noun] The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent. | [verb] To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). | [verb] To leave. | [verb] To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). LIT (3) [verb] To start (a fire). | [verb] To set fire to; to set burning. | [verb] To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark. | [noun] Little. | [noun] Colour; blee; dye; stain. | [verb] To colour; dye. | [noun] The body of all written works. LOT (3) [noun] A large quantity or number; a great deal. | [noun] A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively. | [noun] One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items. MAT (5) [noun] A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering. | [noun] A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster. | [noun] A floor pad to protect athletes. | [noun] (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal. | [noun] A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon. | [noun] A material or component needed for a crafting recipe. | [noun] A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame. MET (5) [verb] To make contact (with) while in proximity. | [verb] (Of groups) To come together. | [verb] To make physical or perceptual contact. | [verb] To measure. | [verb] To dream. MOT (5) [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. | [noun] A note or brief strain on a bugle. | [noun] A woman; a wife. MUT (5) NET (3) NIT (3) [noun] The egg of a louse. | [noun] A young louse. | [noun] A head louse regardless of its age. | [noun] A candela per square meter. | [noun] A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism. NOT (3) [noun] A unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true. | [adverb] Negates the meaning of the modified verb. | [adverb] To no degree. NUT (3) [noun] A hard-shelled seed. | [noun] A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft. | [noun] A crazy person. | [interjection] No. OAT (3) [noun] Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa. | [noun] Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena. | [noun] (usually as plural) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop. OFT (6) [adverb] (and in combination) often; frequently; not rarely OOT (3) OPT (5) [verb] To choose; select. ORT (3) [noun] (usually in plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse. | [verb] To turn away from with disgust; refuse. OUT (3) [noun] A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc. | [noun] A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc. | [noun] A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball. PAT (5) [noun] The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep | [noun] A light tap or slap, especially with the hands | [noun] A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung. | [noun] Patent. PET (5) [noun] An animal kept as a companion. | [noun] (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.) | [noun] One who is excessively loyal to a superior. | [noun] A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted. | [noun] A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures. | [noun] A term of endearment usually applied to women and children. PHT (8) PIT (5) [noun] A hole in the ground. | [noun] An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race. | [noun] A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed. | [noun] A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit. | [noun] A pit bull terrier. POT (5) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food. | [noun] Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly | [noun] Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave e.g. Rowten Pot | [noun] Marijuana | [noun] A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc. | [noun] A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical. PUT (5) [noun] A right to sell something at a predetermined price. | [noun] A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date. | [noun] The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push. | [noun] An idiot; a foolish person; a duffer. | [noun] A prostitute. QAT (12) [noun] A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant. RAT (3) [noun] A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus. | [noun] Any of the numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) that resemble true rats in appearance, usually having a pointy snout, a long, bare tail, and body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches. | [noun] A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling. | [noun] A scratch or a score. | [noun] A ration. RET (3) [verb] To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem. | [adjective] Retired ROT (3) [noun] The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction. | [noun] Decaying matter. | [noun] Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs. RUT (3) [noun] Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. | [noun] The noise made by deer during sexual excitement. | [noun] Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. | [noun] A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. SAT (3) [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | [verb] (of a person) To move oneself into such a position. | [verb] (of an object) To occupy a given position permanently. | [noun] A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one. SET (3) [verb] To put (something) down, to rest. | [verb] To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. | [verb] To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be. | [noun] A punch for setting nails in wood. | [adjective] Fixed in position. | [noun] A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot. | [verb] To divide a class group in a subject according to ability SIT (3) [noun] Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine. | [noun] An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation. | [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | [noun] Short for situation. SOT (3) [noun] Stupid person; fool | [noun] Drunkard | [verb] To drink until one becomes drunk TAT (3) [noun] Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze. | [noun] Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets. | [noun] Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute). | [verb] To make (something by) tatting. | [noun] A pony. | [noun] A tattoo. TET (3) TIT (3) [noun] A mammary gland, teat. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast. | [noun] An idiot; a fool. | [noun] A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat). | [noun] A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere. TOT (3) [noun] A small child. | [noun] A measure of spirits, especially rum. | [noun] Tater tot. | [noun] A total, an addition of a long column of figures. TUT (3) [verb] To make a tut tut sound of disapproval. | [interjection] Tut tut; an expression of disapproval. | [interjection] Hush; be silent. | [noun] A tutorial. | [noun] An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it. | [noun] A piece of work. VAT (6) [noun] A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning. | [noun] A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry. | [noun] A vessel for holding holy water. VET (6) [noun] A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon. | [noun] A veteran (a former soldier or other member of an armed forces). | [verb] To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval. WAT (6) [noun] A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia. | [noun] A kind of stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea. | [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. | [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. WET (6) [noun] Liquid or moisture. | [noun] Rainy weather. | [noun] Rainy season. (often capitalized) WIT (6) [noun] (now usually in the plural) Sanity. | [noun] (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses. | [noun] Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning. | [verb] Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively). | [preposition] Against. WOT (6) [verb] To know. | [interjection] An expression of surprise or disbelief. | [interjection] What do you want? An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires. | [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. YET (6) [adverb] (usually with negative) Thus far; up to the present; up to some specified time; still | [adverb] Continuously up to the current time; still. | [adverb] At some future time; eventually; still. | [noun] A metal pan or boiler; yetling. | [verb] To get. ZIT (12) [noun] Pimple

ABET (6) [noun] Fraud or cunning. | [noun] An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid. | [verb] To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. ABUT (6) [verb] To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) | [verb] To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to. | [verb] To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. ADIT (5) [noun] A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes. AIRT (4) [noun] A direction or point of the compass, especially in Scottish usage. | [verb] To guide or direct. ALIT (4) AUNT (4) [noun] The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The female cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. BAHT (9) [noun] The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang. | [adverb] Without (Yorkshire dialect, famously part of the song title On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at) BAIT (6) [noun] Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net. | [noun] Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests. | [noun] Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something | [verb] To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport. | [verb] To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey. | [adjective] Obvious; blatant. BAST (6) [noun] Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord. BATT (6) [noun] Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation | [noun] (usually in the plural) A shoe. BEAT (6) [noun] A stroke; a blow. | [noun] A pulsation or throb. | [noun] A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. | [noun] A beatnik. BEET (6) [noun] Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar. | [noun] A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant. | [verb] To improve; to mend. BELT (6) [noun] A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. | [noun] A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt. | [noun] A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power. BENT (6) [verb] To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means. | [verb] To become curved. | [verb] To cause to change direction. | [noun] Any of various stiff or reedy grasses. BEST (6) [noun] The supreme effort one can make, or has made. | [noun] One's best behavior. | [noun] The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent. BHUT (9) [noun] A variety of extremely hot chili pepper, also known as the ghost pepper, native to India. BINT (6) [noun] A woman, a girl. BITT (6) [noun] The bitts. | [noun] A bollard. | [verb] To put round the bitts. BLAT (6) [verb] To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat. | [verb] To make a senseless noise. | [verb] To talk inconsiderately. | [noun] Connections; relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society). BLET (6) [verb] To overripen or decay, as fruit does when it becomes soft and brown. | [noun] The process of fruit becoming overripe. BLOT (6) [noun] A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance. | [noun] (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace. | [noun] A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier. BOAT (6) [noun] A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind. | [noun] A full house. | [noun] A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape. BOLT (6) [noun] A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw. | [noun] A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism. | [noun] A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open. | [noun] A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. BOOT (6) [noun] A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg. | [noun] A blow with the foot; a kick. | [noun] A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc. | [noun] Remedy, amends. | [noun] The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device. | [noun] A bootleg recording. BORT (6) [noun] Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond. BOTT (6) [noun] The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses. BOUT (6) [noun] A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant. | [noun] A boxing match. | [noun] An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept. | [preposition] In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of. BRAT (6) [noun] A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish. | [noun] A son or daughter (at any age) of an active military service member. | [noun] A turbot or flatfish | [noun] Bratwurst | [noun] A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime. | [noun] Acronym of Born, Raised, And Transferred. BRIT (6) [verb] To break in pieces; divide. | [verb] To bruise; indent. | [verb] To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain). | [noun] One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc. | [noun] Brit milah BRUT (6) [adjective] (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet BUNT (6) [noun] The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. | [noun] A push or shove; a butt. | [noun] A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved. BUST (6) [noun] A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders. | [noun] The breasts and upper thorax of a woman. | [noun] The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession. | [noun] The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation. BUTT (6) [noun] The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end | [noun] The waste end of anything | [noun] (generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end. | [noun] A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt. | [noun] (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe. | [noun] Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot | [noun] A heavy two-wheeled cart. CANT (6) [noun] An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup. | [noun] A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group. | [noun] A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta. | [noun] Side, edge, corner, niche. | [noun] A parcel, a division. | [adjective] Lively, lusty. CART (6) [noun] A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers. | [noun] A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart. | [noun] A shopping cart. | [noun] A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements. CAST (6) [noun] An act of throwing. | [noun] An instance of throwing out a fishing line. | [noun] Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc. CELT (6) [noun] A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool. CENT (6) [noun] (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢. | [noun] A small sum of money. | [noun] (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro. CHAT (9) [noun] Informal conversation. | [noun] A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations. | [noun] (totum pro parte, typically with definite article) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a single member thereof. | [noun] A small potato, such as is given to swine. | [noun] (local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines. | [noun] A louse (small, parasitic insect). | [noun] Any savory snack, sold from a roadside stall in India, or served as a starter in an Indian restaurant CHIT (9) [noun] A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. | [noun] A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman. | [noun] The embryonic growing bud of a plant | [noun] A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message. | [noun] A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe. | [noun] Shit. CIST (6) [noun] A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece. | [noun] A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs. CLOT (6) [noun] A thrombus, solidified mass of blood. | [noun] A solidified mass of any liquid. | [noun] A silly person. COAT (6) [noun] An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp | [noun] A covering of material, such as paint.Wp | [noun] The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.Wp COFT (9) COLT (6) [noun] A young male horse. | [noun] A young crane (bird). | [noun] A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice. COOT (6) [noun] Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead. | [noun] A foolish or eccentric fellow | [noun] (with the) A success; something excellent. COST (6) [verb] To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. | [verb] To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. | [verb] To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. | [noun] Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used. | [noun] Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance. | [noun] A rib; a side. CULT (6) [noun] A group or sect of people with a deviant religious, philosophical or cultural identity, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members. | [noun] Devotion to a saint. | [noun] The veneration and religious rites given to a deity, esp. in a historical polytheistic context. CUNT (6) [noun] The female genitalia, especially the vulva. | [noun] An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand more usually a man). | [noun] An objectionable object or item. CURT (6) [verb] To cut, cut short, shorten. | [adjective] Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude. | [adjective] Short or concise. CYST (9) [noun] A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ. | [noun] Of or pertaining to the urinary bladder or gall bladder (in compounds). DAFT (8) [adjective] Foolish, silly, stupid. | [adjective] Crazy, insane, mad. | [adjective] Gentle, meek, mild. DART (5) [noun] A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin | [noun] Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon. | [verb] To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch. DAUT (5) DAWT (8) DEBT (7) [noun] An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another. | [noun] The state or condition of owing something to another. | [noun] Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction. DEET (5) DEFT (8) [adjective] Quick and neat in action; skillful. DENT (5) [noun] A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact. | [noun] A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action | [noun] A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. DIET (5) [noun] The food and beverage a person or animal consumes. | [noun] A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health. | [noun] (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption. | [verb] To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet. | [noun] (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly. DINT (5) [noun] A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight. | [noun] Force, power; especially in by dint of. | [noun] The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. DIPT (7) DIRT (5) [noun] Soil or earth. | [noun] A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance. | [noun] Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person. DOAT (5) DOIT (5) [noun] A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver. | [noun] A small amount; a bit, a jot. | [noun] In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards. | [verb] To stumble; to blunder. DOLT (5) [noun] A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard. | [verb] To behave foolishly. DOST (5) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DRAT (5) [verb] To damn or curse. | [interjection] Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration. DUCT (7) [noun] A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another. | [noun] An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs. | [noun] Guidance; direction. DUET (5) [noun] A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble). | [noun] A song composed for and/or performed by a duo. | [noun] A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant. DUIT (5) DUNT (5) [noun] A stroke; a dull-sounding blow. | [verb] To strike; give a blow to; knock. | [noun] The disease gid or sturdy in sheep. DUST (5) [noun] Fine particles | [noun] The act of cleaning by dusting. | [noun] The earth, as the resting place of the dead. EAST (4) [noun] One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox. Abbreviated as E. | [adjective] Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward. | [adjective] Wind from the east EDIT (5) [noun] A change to the text of a document. | [noun] A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software. | [noun] An interruption or change to an improvised scene. EMIT (6) [verb] To send out or give off ERST (4) [adjective] First. | [adverb] First of all, before (some other specified thing). | [adverb] Sooner (than); before. EXIT (11) [noun] An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. | [noun] A way out. | [noun] The act of departing from life; death. FACT (9) [noun] Something actual as opposed to invented. | [noun] Something which is real. | [noun] Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation. FART (7) [noun] An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. | [noun] (impolite) An irritating person; a fool. | [noun] (impolite, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views. FAST (7) [noun] A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations | [adjective] Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable. | [adjective] Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. | [noun] The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food. FEAT (7) [noun] A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment. | [verb] To form; to fashion. | [adjective] Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty. | [verb] To feature. I FEET (7) [noun] A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. | [noun] Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. | [noun] (often used attributively) Travel by walking. | [noun] Fact; performance; feat. FELT (7) [noun] A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. | [noun] A hat made of felt. | [noun] A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. | [verb] (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch. FIAT (7) [noun] An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree. | [noun] Authorization, permission or (official) sanction. | [noun] (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes. FIST (7) [noun] A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward. | [noun] The pointing hand symbol ☞. | [noun] The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code. | [noun] The act of breaking wind; fise. FIXT (14) FLAT (7) [noun] An area of level ground. | [noun] A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪). | [noun] A flat tyre/tire. | [noun] An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room. | [verb] To beat or strike; pound FLIT (7) [noun] A fluttering or darting movement. | [noun] A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state. | [noun] A homosexual. FONT (7) [noun] A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism. | [noun] A receptacle for oil in a lamp. | [noun] Spring, source, fountain. | [noun] A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters. | [noun] A source, wellspring, fount. FOOT (7) [noun] A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. | [noun] Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. | [noun] (often used attributively) Travel by walking. FORT (7) [noun] A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops. | [noun] Any permanent army post. | [noun] An outlying trading-station, as in British North America. FRAT (7) [noun] Shortened form for fraternity, college organization. (Often used as a noun modifier.) FRET (7) [noun] Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. | [noun] Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation. | [noun] Herpes; tetter. | [noun] An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief. | [noun] A ferrule, a ring. | [noun] A channel, a strait; a fretum. | [noun] A channel or passage created by the sea. | [noun] A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea. FRIT (7) [noun] A fused mixture of materials used to make glass. | [noun] A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age) | [verb] To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture | [adjective] Frightened. | [noun] A frit fly. GAIT (5) [noun] Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. | [noun] One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training. | [verb] To teach a specific gait to a horse. | [noun] A sheaf of corn. GAST (5) GELT (5) [noun] A lunatic. | [noun] Gilding; gilt. | [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). | [noun] Money. | [noun] Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel. GENT (5) [noun] A gentleman. | [adjective] Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful. | [adjective] Neat; pretty; elegant | [noun] Short for gentamicin. GEST (5) GHAT (8) [noun] A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place. | [noun] A mountain range. | [noun] A mountain pass. GIFT (8) [noun] Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. | [noun] A talent or natural ability. | [noun] Something gained incidentally, without effort. GILT (5) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. | [noun] A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding. GIRT (5) [noun] A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts. | [verb] To gird. | [verb] To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. | [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [adjective] Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big. GIST (5) [noun] The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith. | [noun] The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action. | [noun] Resting place (especially of animals), lodging. GLUT (5) [noun] An excess, too much. | [noun] That which is swallowed. | [noun] Something that fills up an opening. GNAT (5) [noun] Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera. GOAT (5) [noun] A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra. | [noun] A lecherous man. | [noun] A scapegoat. GOUT (5) [noun] An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints. | [noun] (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch. | [noun] A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae. | [noun] Taste; relish GRAT (5) GRIT (5) [noun] A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. | [noun] Inedible particles in food. | [noun] A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats. GROT (5) [noun] A grotto. | [noun] Any unpleasant substance or material. | [noun] A miserable person. GUST (5) [noun] A strong, abrupt rush of wind. | [noun] (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.). | [verb] To blow in gusts. | [noun] The physiological faculty of taste. | [verb] To taste. HAET (7) HAFT (10) [noun] The handle of a tool or weapon. | [verb] To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle | [noun] A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted. HALT (7) [verb] To limp; move with a limping gait. | [verb] To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. | [verb] To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. | [noun] A cessation, either temporary or permanent. | [noun] Lameness; a limp. HANT (7) HART (7) [noun] A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year. | [noun] A red deer or one of related species. | [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. HAST (7) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAUT (7) HEAT (7) [noun] Thermal energy. | [noun] The condition or quality of being hot. | [noun] An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. | [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). HEFT (10) [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). | [verb] To throw, cast. | [verb] To rise and fall. | [noun] A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed). | [noun] A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook. HENT (7) HEST (7) [noun] Command, injunction. HILT (7) [noun] The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand. | [noun] The base of the penis. | [verb] To provide with a hilt. HINT (7) [noun] A clue. | [noun] A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement. | [noun] A small, barely detectable amount of. HIST (7) [noun] An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent. | [interjection] An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention. | [interjection] An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard. | [noun] The aggregate of past events. | [verb] To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight). HOLT (7) [noun] A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse. | [noun] The lair of an animal, especially of an otter. HOOT (7) [noun] A derisive cry or shout. | [noun] The cry of an owl. | [noun] A fun event or person. (See hootenanny) HOST (7) [noun] One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially. | [noun] One that provides a facility for an event. | [noun] A person or organization responsible for running an event. | [noun] A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels) | [noun] The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist. HUNT (7) [noun] The act of hunting. | [noun] A hunting expedition. | [noun] An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it. HURT (7) [noun] An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. | [noun] A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise. | [noun] Injury; damage; detriment; harm IKAT (8) [noun] A style of weaving that uses a process similar to tie-dye to dye the threads. | [noun] A work woven in this style. JEST (11) [noun] An act performed for amusement; a joke. | [noun] Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke. | [noun] A deed; an action; a gest. | [adverb] Only, simply, merely. JILT (11) [noun] A woman who jilts a lover. | [verb] To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love. JOLT (11) [noun] An act of jolting. | [noun] A surprise or shock. | [noun] A long prison sentence. JUST (11) [adjective] Factually right, correct; factual. | [adjective] Rationally right, correct. | [adjective] Morally right; upright, righteous, equitable; fair. | [noun] A joust, tournament. KART (8) [noun] A go-cart. | [verb] To ride in a go-cart. KEET (8) KENT (8) [verb] To know, perceive or understand. | [verb] To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry. | [noun] A shepherd's staff. KEPT (10) [verb] To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain. | [verb] (heading) To hold the status of something. | [verb] (heading) To hold or be held in a state. KHAT (11) [noun] A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant. KHET (11) KILT (8) [noun] A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern. | [noun] Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid | [noun] A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA. | [verb] To put to death; to extinguish the life of. KIST (8) [verb] To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting. | [verb] To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact. | [verb] Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion. | [noun] A chest. KNIT (8) [noun] A knitted garment. | [noun] A session of knitting. | [verb] To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine. KNOT (8) [noun] A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops. | [noun] (of hair, etc) A tangled clump. | [noun] A maze-like pattern. | [noun] One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus). KYAT (11) [noun] The official currency of Myanmar. LAST (4) [adjective] Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind. | [adjective] Most recent, latest, last so far. | [adjective] Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable. | [verb] To perform, carry out. | [noun] A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes. | [noun] A burden; load; a cargo; freight. LEET (4) [noun] A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves. | [verb] To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). | [verb] To leave. | [noun] A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction. | [noun] The European pollock. | [noun] An artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace | [noun] Abbreviation of leetspeak. LEFT (7) [noun] The left side or direction. | [noun] The ensemble of left-wing political parties. Those holding left-wing views as a group. | [noun] The left hand or fist. | [verb] To have a consequence or remnant. | [verb] To have a consequence or remnant. LENT (4) [noun] A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures. | [noun] The second term of the academic year at some British schools. | [verb] To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned. LEPT (6) LEST (4) [conjunction] For fear that; that not; in order to prevent something from happening; in case. | [conjunction] (after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension) that (without the negative particle; introduces the reason for an emotion.) LIFT (7) [noun] An act of lifting or raising. | [noun] The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip. | [noun] Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator. | [noun] Air. LILT (4) [noun] Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness. | [noun] A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune. | [noun] A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking. LINT (4) [noun] A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds. | [noun] Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc. | [noun] The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant. | [verb] To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors. LIST (4) [noun] A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth. | [noun] Material used for cloth selvage. | [noun] A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself. | [noun] Art; craft; cunning; skill. | [verb] To listen. | [noun] Desire, inclination. | [noun] A tilt to a building. LOFT (7) [noun] (except in derivatives) air, the air; the sky, the heavens. | [noun] An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building. | [noun] The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure. LOOT (4) [noun] A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks. | [noun] The act of plundering. | [noun] Plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city. LOST (4) [verb] To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons. | [verb] To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from. | [verb] To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc). LOUT (4) [noun] A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob. | [noun] A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. | [verb] To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. | [verb] To bend, bow, stoop. LUNT (4) LUST (4) [noun] A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal. | [noun] A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual. | [noun] A delightful cause of joy, pleasure. MALT (6) [noun] Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise. | [noun] Malt liquor, especially malt whisky. | [noun] A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor. MART (6) [noun] A market. | [noun] A bargain. | [verb] To buy or sell in, or as in a mart. | [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. MAST (6) [noun] A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments ,or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires. | [noun] A non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command. | [verb] To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). | [noun] The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals. | [noun] A type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball. MATT (6) [noun] (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal. | [adjective] Dull; not reflective of light. MAUT (6) MEAT (6) [noun] The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. | [noun] A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. | [noun] Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. MEET (6) [noun] A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet). | [noun] A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. | [noun] A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. | [adjective] Suitable; right; proper. MELT (6) [noun] Molten material, the product of melting. | [noun] The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. | [noun] The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. MILT (6) [noun] The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food. | [noun] The semen of a male fish. | [verb] To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt. MINT (6) [noun] A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence. | [noun] A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc. | [noun] Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. | [noun] Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems. | [noun] (provincial) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor. MIST (6) [noun] Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. | [noun] A layer of fine droplets or particles. | [noun] Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision. MITT (6) [noun] A mitten | [noun] An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt. | [noun] (especially in plural) A hand. MIXT (13) MOAT (6) [noun] A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation. | [noun] An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason. | [noun] A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it. MOLT (6) [noun] The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. | [noun] The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. MOOT (6) [noun] A moot court. | [noun] A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties. | [noun] A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks. | [noun] A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors. | [noun] Vagina. | [noun] The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree. MORT (6) [noun] Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. | [noun] A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. | [noun] The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. | [noun] A great quantity or number. | [noun] A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed. | [noun] A three-year-old salmon. | [noun] A woman; a female. MOST (6) [noun] The greatest amount. | [noun] The greater part. | [noun] A record-setting amount. | [adverb] Almost. MOTT (6) [noun] (chiefly Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm. | [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. MUST (6) [noun] Something that is mandatory or required. | [verb] (modal auxiliary, defective) To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate. | [verb] (modal auxiliary, defective) To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a negative consequence. | [noun] The property of being stale or musty. | [noun] A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness (also spelled musth). MUTT (6) [noun] A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of diverse ancestry. | [noun] An idiot, a stupid person. | [noun] A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram. NEAT (4) [noun] An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy. | [adjective] Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities. | [adjective] Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below. | [noun] A bull or cow. NEST (4) [noun] A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. | [noun] A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young. | [noun] A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation. NETT (4) [noun] The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit. | [adjective] Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear. | [adjective] Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat. NEWT (7) [noun] A small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult. NEXT (11) [noun] The one that follows after this one. | [adjective] Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining. | [adjective] Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order. NOWT (7) [noun] Naught, nothing. | [adverb] Naught, nothing. | [pronoun] Naught, nothing. | [noun] An ox. OAST (4) [noun] A kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops. OBIT (6) [noun] Death of a person. | [noun] A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. | [noun] A record of a person's death. | [noun] An obituary. OMIT (6) [verb] To leave out or exclude. | [verb] To fail to perform. | [verb] To neglect or take no notice of. OUST (4) [verb] To expel; to remove. PACT (8) [noun] An agreement; a compact; a covenant. | [noun] An agreement between two or more nations | [verb] To form a pact; to agree formally. PANT (6) [noun] A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. | [noun] Eager longing. | [noun] A violent palpitation of the heart. | [noun] A pair of pants (trousers or underpants). | [noun] (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain. PART (6) [noun] A portion; a component. | [noun] Duty; responsibility. | [noun] The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. PAST (6) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. PEAT (6) [noun] Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. | [noun] A pet, a darling; a woman. PELT (6) [noun] A blow or stroke from something thrown. | [verb] To bombard, as with missiles. | [verb] To throw; to use as a missile. PENT (6) [verb] To enclose in a pen. | [noun] Confinement; concealment. | [adjective] Confined in a pen, imprisoned. | [noun] A pentatonic scale. | [noun] A pentacle or pentagram. PERT (6) [noun] An impudent person. | [verb] To behave with pertness. | [adjective] (of a person) Attractive. PEST (6) [noun] A plague, pestilence, epidemic | [noun] Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest. | [noun] An annoying person, a nuisance. PFFT (12) [interjection] Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance | [interjection] Used to signify sarcasm or disagreement | [interjection] Used to signify a puffing sound PHAT (9) [adjective] (originally African American Vernacular English) Excellent; cool; very good. | [adjective] Sexy. | [adjective] Rich in texture; prominent. PHOT (9) [noun] A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph). | [verb] To photograph PHUT (9) [verb] To produce such a sound. | [interjection] A sound resembling the release of a blast of steam or exhaust gas. PINT (6) [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to: | [noun] (metonym) A pint of milk. | [noun] (metonymy) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint. PLAT (6) [noun] A plot of land; a lot. | [noun] A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document. | [noun] A plot, a scheme. | [noun] A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.). | [adjective] (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level. PLOT (6) [noun] (authorship) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. | [noun] An area or land used for building on or planting on. | [noun] A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device. POET (6) [noun] A person who writes poems. | [noun] A person with a creative or romantic imagination. PORT (6) [noun] A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. | [noun] A town or city containing such a place, a port city. | [noun] The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board. | [noun] An entryway or gate. | [noun] Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making. | [noun] A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal. | [noun] A suitcase or schoolbag. POST (6) [noun] A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost. | [noun] A stud; a two-by-four. | [noun] A pole in a battery. | [noun] Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route. | [noun] An assigned station; a guard post. | [preposition] After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications. | [noun] Post-production. | [noun] A post mortem (investigation of body's cause of death). POUT (6) [noun] One's facial expression when pouting. | [noun] A fit of sulking or sullenness. | [verb] To push out one's lips. | [noun] Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae). | [noun] A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). PRAT (6) [noun] A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. | [adjective] Cunning, astute. | [noun] A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. PSST (6) [verb] To say psst, to get someone's attention or to communicate with them. | [interjection] Implies that the speaker is sending secret or whispered information to another person. PUNT (6) [noun] A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole. | [verb] To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole. | [noun] A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground. | [noun] A point in the game of faro. | [noun] The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002. PUTT (6) [noun] The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green. | [verb] To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter. | [noun] A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines. | [verb] To place something somewhere. QUIT (13) [verb] To pay (a debt, fine etc.). | [verb] To repay (someone) for (something). | [verb] To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.). | [noun] Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America. RAFT (7) [noun] A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform. | [noun] (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion. | [noun] A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water. | [noun] A large (but unspecified) number, a lot. RANT (4) [noun] A criticism done by ranting. | [noun] A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation. | [noun] A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop. RAPT (6) [noun] An ecstasy; a trance. | [noun] Rapidity. | [verb] To transport or ravish. REFT (7) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. RENT (4) [noun] A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property. | [noun] A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service. | [noun] A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business. | [verb] To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst REST (4) [noun] (of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep. | [noun] Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation. | [noun] Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility. | [verb] To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion. | [noun] That which remains. | [verb] To arrest. RIFT (7) [noun] A chasm or fissure. | [noun] A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through. | [noun] A shallow place in a stream; a ford. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch. RIOT (4) [noun] Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. | [noun] The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. | [noun] A wide and unconstrained variety. 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.) ROUT (4) [noun] A noise, especially a loud one | [noun] A disturbance; tumult. | [noun] Snoring. | [noun] A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke. | [noun] A troop or group, especially of a traveling company or throng. | [verb] To search or root in the ground, like a pig. | [noun] The brent goose. RUNT (4) [noun] The smallest animal of a litter. | [noun] (by extension) The smallest child in the family. | [noun] Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person. RUST (4) [noun] The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation. | [noun] A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust"). | [noun] A reddish-brown color. | [verb] To oxidize, especially of iron or steel. RYOT (7) [noun] A farmer or tiller of the soil. SALT (4) [noun] A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative. | [noun] One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid. | [noun] A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea. SCAT (6) [noun] A tax; tribute. | [noun] A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands. | [noun] Animal excrement; droppings, dung. | [noun] Scat singing. | [verb] To leave quickly (often used in the imperative). | [noun] Any fish in the family Scatophagidae SCOT (6) [noun] A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff. SCUT (6) [noun] A hare; a hare as the game in a hunt. | [noun] A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer. | [noun] (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva. | [noun] A contemptible person. | [noun] Distasteful work; drudgery; specifically some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes. | [verb] (originally Cumbria) To scamper off. SEAT (4) [noun] Something to be sat upon. | [noun] A location or site. | [noun] The starting point of a fire. SECT (6) [noun] An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs. | [noun] A group following a specific ideal or a leader. | [noun] A cutting; a scion. SENT (4) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Estonian kroon. | [noun] A distinctive odour or smell. | [noun] An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing. SEPT (6) [noun] A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland). | [noun] An enclosure; a railing. SETT (4) [verb] To put (something) down, to rest. | [verb] To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. | [verb] To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be. SEXT (11) [noun] Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight. | [noun] The service appointed for this hour. | [noun] A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees. | [noun] An electronic message involving sexual language or images. SHAT (7) [verb] To defecate. | [verb] To excrete (something) through the anus. | [verb] To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful. | [noun] A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter. | [noun] A fragment of anything shattered. SHIT (7) [noun] Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces. | [noun] An instance of defecation. | [noun] Rubbish; worthless matter. | [verb] To defecate. SHOT (7) [verb] To launch a projectile. | [verb] To move or act quickly or suddenly. | [verb] To act or achieve. | [noun] A charge to be paid, a scot or shout. | [interjection] Thank you. SHUT (7) [adjective] Closed, shut. | [adjective] Narrow; confined. | [adjective] At a little distance; near. | [noun] A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets. SIFT (7) SILT (4) [noun] Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water. | [noun] (by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport. | [noun] A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. SKAT (8) [noun] A trick-taking card game for three players, popular in Germany. | [noun] A widow of two cards in the game of skat. SKIT (8) [noun] A short comic performance. | [noun] A jeer or sally; a brief satire. | [noun] A wanton girl; a wench. SLAT (4) [noun] A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath) or metal. | [noun] (aeronautical) A movable control surface at the leading edge of a wing that when moved, changes the chord line of the airfoil, affecting the angle of attack. Employed in conjunction with flaps to allow for a lower stall speed in the landing attitude, facilitating slow flight. | [noun] A ski. SLIT (4) [noun] A narrow cut or opening; a slot. | [noun] The opening of the vagina. | [noun] A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute. SLOT (4) [noun] A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc. | [noun] A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece. | [noun] An implement for baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like. | [noun] A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it. SLUT (4) [noun] A sexually promiscuous woman or girl. | [noun] Any sexually promiscuous person, often a gay man. | [noun] Someone who seeks attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree. SMIT (6) [noun] Fine clay or ochre made up into balls, used for marking sheep. | [noun] An infection. | [noun] A stain. | [verb] To hit, to strike. SMUT (6) [noun] Soot. | [noun] A flake of ash or soot. | [noun] Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. SNIT (4) [noun] A temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood. | [noun] A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters. | [noun] A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois. SNOT (4) [noun] Mucus, especially mucus from the nose. | [noun] A contemptible child. | [noun] A mean fellow. SOFT (7) [noun] A soft or foolish person; an idiot. | [noun] Ellipsis of soft tyre (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.) | [noun] A soft sound or part of a sound. SOOT (4) [noun] Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc. | [verb] To cover or dress with soot. SORT (4) [noun] A general type. | [noun] Manner; form of being or acting. | [noun] Condition above the vulgar; rank. | [verb] To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. SPAT (6) [verb] To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc. | [verb] To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth; specifically, to rain or snow slightly. | [verb] To utter (something) violently. | [noun] The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs. | [noun] (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe. | [noun] A brief argument, falling out, quarrel. | [noun] A light blow with something flat. | [noun] An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres. SPIT (6) [noun] A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire. | [noun] A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula. | [verb] To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object. | [noun] A sudden impact or blow. | [noun] The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade. SPOT (6) [noun] A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape. | [noun] A stain or disfiguring mark. | [noun] A pimple, papule or pustule. STAT (4) [adjective] With no delay; at once. | [adverb] Immediately; now. | [verb] To assign statistics to (a monster, etc. in a game). | [noun] A statutory public holiday (also as stat holiday) STET (4) [noun] A symbol used by proofreaders and typesetters to indicate that a word or phrase that was crossed out should still remain. | [verb] To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was. SUET (4) [noun] The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow. SUIT (4) [noun] A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman. | [noun] (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit. | [noun] (metonym) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor. SWAT (7) [noun] A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking. | [noun] Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution. | [verb] To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. | [verb] To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone). SWOT (7) [noun] One who swots. | [noun] Work. | [noun] Vigorous study at an educational institution. TACT (6) [noun] The sense of touch; feeling. | [noun] The stroke in beating time. | [noun] Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing. 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. TAUT (4) [verb] To make taut; to tauten, to tighten. | [adjective] Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight. | [adjective] (of a body, muscles, etc.) Not flabby; firm, toned; (of a person) having a lean, strong body. TEAT (4) [noun] The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted. | [noun] Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle. | [noun] An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants. TENT (4) [noun] A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather. | [noun] The representation of a tent used as a bearing. | [noun] A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church. | [noun] Attention; regard, care. | [noun] A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges. | [noun] A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta. TEST (4) [noun] A challenge, trial. | [noun] A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. | [noun] (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term. | [noun] A witness. | [noun] (body building) testosterone TEXT (11) [noun] A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences. | [noun] A book, tome or other set of writings. | [noun] A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones. THAT (7) [noun] Something being indicated that is there; one of those. | [adverb] (degree) To a given extent or degree. | [adverb] (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions). TILT (4) [noun] A slope or inclination. | [noun] The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc. | [noun] The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this. | [noun] A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc. TINT (4) [noun] A slight coloring. | [noun] A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade) | [noun] A color considered with reference to other very similar colors. TOFT (7) [noun] A hillock. | [noun] A homestead, especially one on a hill. | [noun] A messuage with right of common. TOIT (4) TOOT (4) [noun] The noise of a horn or whistle. | [noun] (by extension) A fart; flatus. | [noun] Cocaine. | [noun] A toilet. 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). TOST (4) TOUT (4) [noun] Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. | [noun] A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win. | [noun] A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar. | [noun] In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks. 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. 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. TUFT (7) [noun] A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base. | [noun] A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding. | [noun] A small clump of trees or bushes. TWAT (7) [noun] The vagina or vulva. | [noun] A contemptible and stupid person, idiot. | [verb] To hit, slap. TWIT (7) [noun] A reproach, gibe or taunt. | [noun] A foolish or annoying person. | [noun] A euphemism for "twat", a contemptible or stupid person. UNIT (4) [noun] A particular, minute unit of mass, defined differently for different substances, but so that varying substances of the same general type have the property that one international unit of the one has the same effect on the human body as one international unit of the other. | [noun] Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one. | [noun] A standard measure of a quantity. VAST (7) [noun] A vast space. | [adjective] Very large or wide (literally or figuratively). | [adjective] Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent. VENT (7) [noun] An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. | [noun] A small aperture. | [noun] The opening of a volcano from which lava flows. | [noun] Ventriloquism. | [noun] Sale; opportunity to sell; market | [noun] A baiting place; an inn. | [noun] Ventilation or ventilator. VERT (7) [noun] A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise. | [noun] Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer. | [noun] The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest. | [noun] In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition. | [noun] Vertebrate VEST (7) [noun] A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries. | [noun] A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat. | [noun] A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse. VEXT (14) VOLT (7) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V | [noun] A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks. | [noun] A sudden movement to avoid a thrust. WAFT (10) [noun] A light breeze. | [noun] Something (such as an odor or scent like a perfume) that is carried through the air. | [noun] A flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal; a waif, a wheft. WAIT (7) [noun] A delay. | [noun] An ambush. | [noun] One who watches; a watchman. WANT (7) [noun] A desire, wish, longing. | [noun] (often followed by of) Lack, absence. | [noun] Poverty. WART (7) [noun] A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). | [noun] Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads. | [noun] Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation. WAST (7) [noun] The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach. | [noun] A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist. | [noun] The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps). WATT (7) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W WEET (7) WEFT (10) [noun] The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric. | [noun] The yarn used for the weft; the fill. | [noun] (hairdressing) A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair. | [noun] Something cast away; a waif. WELT (7) [verb] To roll; revolve | [noun] A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow; a wheal or weal. | [noun] (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling. | [verb] To decay. WENT (7) [verb] To move: | [verb] (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). | [verb] To start; to begin (an action or process). WEPT (9) [verb] To cry; shed tears. | [verb] To lament; to complain. | [verb] (of a wound or sore) To produce secretions. WERT (7) WEST (7) [noun] One of the four principal compass points, specifically 270°, conventionally directed to the left on maps; the direction of the setting sun at an equinox, abbreviated as W. | [verb] To move to the west; (of the sun) to set. | [adjective] Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward. WHAT (10) [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. | [noun] Something; thing; stuff. | [noun] The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what. WHET (10) [noun] The act of whetting something. | [noun] That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer. | [verb] To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone. WHIT (10) [noun] The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota. | [preposition] Against. | [preposition] In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. WILT (7) [noun] The act of wilting or the state of being wilted. | [noun] Any of various plant diseases characterized by wilting. | [verb] To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower). | [verb] (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something). WIST (7) [verb] Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively). | [verb] To know, be aware of. WONT (7) [noun] One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice. | [verb] To make (someone) used to; to accustom. | [verb] To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something). WORT (7) [noun] A plant; herb; vegetable. | [noun] Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term. | [noun] Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer. WOST (7) 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. XYST (14) YETT (7) YURT (7) [noun] A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger). ZEST (13) [noun] The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish. | [noun] General vibrance of flavour. | [noun] (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.

ABAFT (10) [adverb] On the aft side; in the stern. | [adverb] Backwards. | [preposition] Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. ABBOT (9) [noun] The superior or head of an abbey or monastery. | [noun] The pastor and/or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter. | [noun] A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries. ABORT (7) [noun] A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. | [noun] The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. | [noun] An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission. | [verb] (now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. ABOUT (7) [adjective] Moving around; astir. | [adjective] In existence; being in evidence; apparent. | [adjective] Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood. ADAPT (8) [verb] To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit | [verb] To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust | [verb] To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character ADEPT (8) [noun] One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient | [adjective] Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient ADMIT (8) [verb] To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration | [verb] To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise. | [verb] To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny ADOPT (8) [verb] To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) | [verb] To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally. | [verb] To select and take or approve. ADULT (6) [noun] A fully grown human or animal. | [noun] A person who has reached the legal age of majority. | [verb] To (cause to) be or become an adult. ADUST (6) [adjective] (usually postpositive, of a bodily humour) Abnormally dark or over-concentrated; associated with various states of discomfort or illness (specifically being too hot or dry). | [adjective] (by extension) Hot and dry; thirsty or parched. | [adjective] Burnt or having a scorched color. AFOOT (8) [adjective] (predicative) That is on foot, in motion, in action, in progress. | [adverb] On foot. (means of locomotion, walking) | [adverb] On foot. (support of the body, standing) AFRIT (8) [noun] (Islamic mythology) a kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an. AGENT (6) [noun] One who exerts power, or has the power to act | [noun] One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him/her; someone entrusted to do the business of another | [noun] A person who looks for work for another person AGIST (6) [verb] To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. | [verb] To charge lands etc. with any public burden. AGLET (6) [noun] The cover at the tip of a shoelace, to prevent it from fraying. | [noun] A catkin. | [noun] A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice. ALANT (5) ALERT (5) [noun] An alarm. | [noun] A notification of higher importance than an advisory. | [noun] A state of readiness for potential combat. | [verb] To give warning to. ALIST (5) ALLOT (5) [verb] To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot. | [verb] To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose. ALOFT (8) [adverb] At, to, or in the air or sky. | [adverb] Above, overhead, in a high place; up. | [adverb] In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging. AMBIT (9) [noun] The sphere or area of control and influence of something. | [noun] A circuit, or a boundary around a property. | [noun] The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc. AMENT (7) [noun] A catkin or amentum. | [noun] A congenital idiot. AMORT (7) [adjective] Lifeless, spiritless, or dull in appearance or manner. ANENT (5) [preposition] Concerning, with regard to, about, in respect to, as to, insofar as, inasmuch as., apropos | [preposition] In the opinion or judgment of. | [preposition] Against, in front of, fronting; before; opposite; over against, on the other side. ANGST (6) [noun] Emotional turmoil; painful sadness. | [noun] A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety. | [verb] To suffer angst; to fret. APART (7) [adjective] (Used after a noun or in the predicate) Exceptional, distinct. | [adjective] Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces. | [adverb] Placed separately (in regard to space or time). APORT (7) [adverb] On or toward the port (left side) of a ship. ARGOT (6) [noun] A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds. | [noun] The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers. ARHAT (8) [noun] One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint. | [noun] One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta. ARMET (7) [noun] A close-fitting helmet with a visor and beaver, used in the 15th and 16th centuries. ASCOT (7) [noun] Ascot tie ASSET (5) [noun] Something or someone of any value; any portion of one's property or effects so considered. | [noun] Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused. | [noun] An intelligence asset. ATILT (5) [adjective] At an angle from the vertical or horizontal. | [adverb] At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over. | [adverb] Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust). AUDIT (6) [noun] A judicial examination. | [noun] An examination in general. | [noun] An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures AUGHT (9) [pronoun] Anything whatsoever, any part. | [noun] Whit, the smallest part, iota. | [noun] Zero | [noun] Estimation. | [noun] Property; possession | [numeral] A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine. AVANT (8) [noun] The front of an army; the vanguard. AVAST (8) [interjection] Hold fast!; desist!; stay!. | [interjection] (in imitation of pirates) listen!; pay attention! AVERT (8) [verb] To turn aside or away. | [verb] To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. | [verb] To turn away. AWAIT (8) [noun] A waiting for; ambush. | [noun] Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation. | [verb] To wait for. BEAST (7) [noun] Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones. | [noun] (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. | [noun] A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner. BEAUT (7) [noun] Something or someone that is physically attractive. | [noun] Something that is a remarkable example of its type. | [adjective] Beautiful, splendid. BEFIT (10) [verb] To be fit for BEGAT (8) [noun] An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible | [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. BEGET (8) [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. | [verb] To bring forth. BEGOT (8) [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. | [verb] To bring forth. 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. BESET (7) [verb] To surround or hem in. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To attack or assail, especially from all sides. | [verb] To decorate something with jewels etc. BESOT (7) [verb] To make drunk or foolish; to stupefy or infatuate. | [verb] To soil or stain. BHOOT (10) [noun] A ghost or spirit in Indian folklore and mythology. BIDET (8) [noun] A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus. | [noun] A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. BIGHT (11) [noun] A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow | [noun] An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf | [noun] A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature. BIGOT (8) [noun] One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to one's own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc. | [noun] One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so. BINIT (7) BIONT (7) BLAST (7) [noun] A violent gust of wind. | [noun] A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc. | [noun] A hit from a pipe. | [verb] To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din. | [noun] An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast). | [verb] To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool). BLEAT (7) [noun] The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat. | [verb] Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound. | [verb] Of a person, to complain. BLENT (7) [verb] To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. | [verb] To be mingled or mixed. | [verb] To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. BLEST (7) [adjective] Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing. | [adjective] A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs. | [adjective] Held in veneration; revered. BLOAT (7) [noun] Distention of the abdomen from death. | [noun] Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant. | [noun] Wasteful use of space or other resources. BLUET (7) [noun] Any of several different plants having blue flowers from several genera. | [noun] Common name for several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma. BLUNT (7) [noun] A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip. | [noun] A short needle with a strong point. | [noun] (smoking) A marijuana cigar. | [verb] To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. BLURT (7) [noun] An abrupt outburst. | [verb] To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out. BOART (7) [noun] Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond. BOAST (7) [noun] A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself. | [noun] Something that one brags about. | [noun] A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall. | [verb] To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. BOOST (7) [noun] A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb. | [noun] Something that helps, or adds power or effectiveness; assistance. | [noun] (automotive engineering) A positive intake manifold pressure in cars with turbochargers or superchargers. BRACT (9) [noun] A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises. BRANT (7) [noun] Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla. | [adjective] Steep, precipitous. | [adjective] Smooth; unwrinkled BRENT (7) [noun] A type of goose with a dark plumage, found in northern regions. | [noun] A crude oil variety from the North Sea. BRITT (7) BRUIT (7) [noun] Hearsay, rumour; talk; an instance of this. | [noun] A clamour, an outcry; a noise. | [verb] To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc. | [noun] An abnormal sound in the body heard on auscultation (for example, through using a stethoscope); a murmur. BRUNT (7) [noun] The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event. | [noun] The major part of something; the bulk. | [verb] To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand. BUILT (7) [verb] To form (something) by combining materials or parts. | [verb] To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process. | [verb] To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to. BUNDT (8) [noun] A baking pan with a hollow, circular, raised area in the middle. BURET (7) [noun] A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration. | [noun] An altar cruet. BURNT (7) [verb] To cause to be consumed by fire. | [verb] To be consumed by fire, or in flames. | [verb] To overheat so as to make unusable. BURST (7) [noun] An act or instance of bursting. | [noun] A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display. | [noun] A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm. BUTUT (7) [noun] A unit of currency, worth one hundredth of a Gambian dalasi CADET (8) [noun] A student at a military school who is training to be an officer. | [noun] A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would. | [noun] (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.) CANST (7) [verb] (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to. | [verb] (modal auxiliary verb, defective) May; to be permitted or enabled to. | [verb] (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible. CAPUT (9) [noun] The head or a head-like structure, especially in anatomy. | [noun] A chapter or section of a book or legal document. CARAT (7) [noun] A unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 200 milligrams. | [noun] Any of several units of weight, varying from 189 to 212 mg, the weight of a carob seed. | [noun] A measure of the purity of gold, pure gold being 24 carats. CARET (7) [noun] A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point. | [noun] An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also called a cursor. | [noun] A circumflex, ⟨ ＾ ⟩. | [noun] A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata). CHANT (10) [noun] Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony. | [noun] A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music. | [noun] Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. CHAPT (12) [verb] Past tense and past participle of "chap," meaning to crack or become cracked, especially of skin or lips. | [adjective] Cracked or roughened, typically describing skin. CHART (10) [noun] A map. | [noun] A systematic non-narrative presentation of data. | [noun] A written deed; a charter. CHEAT (10) [verb] To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation. | [verb] To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner. | [verb] To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely. | [noun] Someone who cheats (informal: cheater). CHERT (10) [noun] Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral. | [noun] A flint-like tool made from chert. CHEST (10) [noun] A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid. | [noun] A coffin. | [noun] The place in which public money is kept; a treasury. | [noun] Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity. CHOTT (10) [noun] A shallow salt lake or depression in North Africa, typically dry except in winter. CIVET (10) [noun] A carnivorous catlike animal, Civettictis civetta, that produces a musky secretion. It is two to three feet long, with black bands and spots on the body and tail. | [noun] The musky perfume produced by the animal. | [noun] Any animal in the family Viverridae or the similar family Nandiniidae CLAPT (9) [verb] Past tense and past participle of "clap," meaning to applaud by striking palms together, or to move or strike suddenly and loudly. CLAST (7) [noun] A fragment of rock that was broken from a larger rock or rock unit. CLEAT (7) [noun] A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc. | [noun] A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components. | [noun] A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release. CLEFT (10) [noun] An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting. | [noun] A piece made by splitting. | [noun] A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. | [verb] To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. CLEPT (9) [verb] To give a call; cry out; appeal. | [verb] To call; call upon; cry out to. | [verb] To call to oneself; invite; summon. CLIFT (10) CLIPT (9) CLOOT (7) [noun] A cloth or piece of fabric, especially a patch or rag. | [noun] A lump or clot, particularly of blood or earth. CLOUT (7) [noun] Influence or effectiveness, especially political. | [noun] A blow with the hand. | [noun] A home run. | [verb] To form a clot or mass. COACT (9) [verb] To act together with another or others; to act jointly or in cooperation. COAPT (9) [verb] To fit or come together; to join or adapt closely. COAST (7) [noun] The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake. | [noun] The side or edge of something. | [noun] A region of land; a district or country. COMET (9) [noun] A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun. | [noun] A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body. | [noun] Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes. COMPT (11) COOPT (9) [verb] To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee. | [verb] To commandeer, appropriate or take over. | [verb] To absorb or assimilate into an established group. COSET (7) [noun] The set that results from applying a group's binary operation with a given fixed element of the group on each element of a given subgroup. COUNT (7) [noun] The act of counting or tallying a quantity. | [noun] The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted. | [noun] A countdown. | [noun] The male ruler of a county. COURT (7) [noun] An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. | [noun] (social) Royal society. | [noun] Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone COVET (10) [verb] To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously. | [verb] To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden). | [verb] To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession. CRAFT (10) [noun] Strength; power; might; force . | [noun] Intellectual power; skill; art. | [noun] (obsolete in the general sense) A work or product of art . CREPT (9) [verb] To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. | [verb] Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards. | [verb] To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction. CREST (7) [noun] The summit of a hill or mountain ridge. | [noun] A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. | [noun] The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet. CROFT (10) [noun] An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters. | [verb] To do agricultural work on one or more crofts. | [verb] To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it. | [noun] An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft. | [noun] A carafe. CRUET (7) [noun] A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as salt, pepper, oil, or vinegar, for use at a dining table. | [noun] A stand for these containers. | [noun] A small vessel used to hold wine or water for the Eucharist. CRUST (7) [noun] A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary. | [noun] The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc. | [noun] An outer layer composed of pastry CRYPT (12) [noun] A cave or cavern. | [noun] An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place. | [noun] A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure. CUBIT (9) [noun] Various former units of length notionally based on the distance from a grown man's elbow to his fingertips, standardized in different places and times at values between 35 and 60 cm. | [noun] The ulna. CULET (7) [noun] The small flat facet at the bottom of a cut gemstone, especially a diamond. 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. 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. DAUNT (6) [verb] To discourage, intimidate. | [verb] To overwhelm. DAVIT (9) [noun] A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship. | [noun] A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship. DEALT (6) [verb] To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share. | [verb] To administer or give out, as in small portions. | [verb] To distribute cards to the players in a game. DEBIT (8) [noun] In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account. | [noun] A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer. | [verb] To make an entry on the debit side of an account. DEBUT (8) [noun] A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area. | [noun] The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece. | [noun] The first appearance of a debutante in society. DEFAT (9) [verb] To remove fat from a material, especially by the use of solvents DEIST (6) DELFT (9) [noun] A style of blue and white earthenware. | [noun] A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch. DEMIT (8) [noun] The act of demitting. | [noun] A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge. | [verb] To let fall; to depress; to yield. DEPOT (8) [noun] A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse. | [noun] A bus station or railway station. | [noun] A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units. DERAT (6) DICOT (8) [noun] A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon. DIDST (7) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DIGHT (10) [verb] To deal with, handle. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To dispose, put (in a given state or condition). DIGIT (7) [noun] A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DIVOT (9) [noun] A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof. | [noun] A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour. DIXIT (13) DOEST (6) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DONUT (6) [noun] A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream. | [noun] Anything in the shape of a torus. | [noun] (automobile) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid. DOUBT (8) [noun] Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty. | [noun] A point of uncertainty; a query. | [verb] To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question. DRAFT (9) [noun] A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle. | [noun] Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process. | [noun] An act of drinking. DREST (6) DRIFT (9) [noun] (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved. | [noun] The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. | [noun] A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side. DRIPT (8) DROIT (6) DROPT (8) DUCAT (8) [noun] A gold coin minted by various European nations. | [noun] A coin of the major denomination (dollar, euro, etc.); money in general. | [noun] A ticket. 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 DUVET (9) [noun] A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets. | [noun] A cover for a quilt or comforter. DWELT (9) [verb] To live; to reside. | [verb] To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on). | [verb] To be in a given state. EBBET (9) ECLAT (7) [noun] A brilliant or successful effect; brilliance of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown. EDICT (8) [noun] A proclamation of law or other authoritative command. EDUCT (8) EGEST (6) [verb] To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces). EGRET (6) [noun] Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season. | [noun] A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament. | [noun] The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle. EIGHT (9) [noun] The digit/figure 8. | [noun] Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight. | [noun] A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars. | [noun] An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. EJECT (14) [verb] To compel (a person or persons) to leave. | [verb] To throw out or remove forcefully. | [verb] To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour. | [noun] An inferred object of someone else's consciousness ELECT (7) [noun] One chosen or set apart. | [noun] In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation. | [verb] To choose or make a decision (to do something) ELINT (5) EMMET (9) [noun] An ant. | [noun] (Cornish dialect) A tourist. ENACT (7) [noun] Purpose; determination | [verb] To make (a bill) into law | [verb] To act the part of; to play EPACT (9) [noun] The time (number of days) by which a solar year exceeds twelve lunar months; it is used in the calculation of the date of Easter ERECT (7) [adjective] Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards. | [adjective] (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation. | [adjective] (of a man) Having an erect penis | [verb] To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. ERGOT (6) [noun] Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses. | [noun] The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi. ERUCT (7) [verb] To burp or belch. ERUPT (7) [verb] To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser). | [verb] To burst forth; to break out. | [verb] To spontaneously release pressure or tension. ESCOT (7) EVENT (8) [noun] An occurrence; something that happens. | [noun] A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) | [noun] One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. | [verb] To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate. EVERT (8) [verb] To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. | [verb] To move (someone or something) out of the way. | [verb] To turn upside down; to overturn. EVICT (10) [verb] To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out. EXACT (14) [verb] To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way. | [verb] To make desirable or necessary. | [verb] To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce. EXALT (12) [verb] To honor; to hold in high esteem. | [verb] To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate. | [verb] To elate, or fill with the joy of success. EXERT (12) [verb] To put in vigorous action. | [verb] To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material. EXIST (12) [verb] (stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality EXPAT (14) [noun] An expatriate; a person who lives outside their own country. EXULT (12) [verb] To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph. FACET (10) [noun] Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem. | [noun] One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things. | [noun] One of a series of things, such as steps in a project. FAGOT (9) [noun] (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.) | [noun] Burdensome baggage. | [noun] A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding. FAINT (8) [noun] The act of fainting, syncope. | [noun] The state of one who has fainted; a swoon. | [adjective] (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness | [verb] To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions). FAULT (8) [noun] A defect; something that detracts from perfection. | [noun] A mistake or error. | [noun] A weakness of character; a failing. FEAST (8) [noun] A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature. | [noun] Something delightful | [noun] A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. | [verb] To partake in a feast, or large meal. FEINT (8) [noun] A movement made to confuse the opponent; a dummy. | [noun] That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense or stratagem. | [noun] (war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance | [noun] The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper. FEIST (8) FIGHT (12) [verb] To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. | [noun] An occasion of fighting. FILET (8) [noun] A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration. | [noun] A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses. | [noun] A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet. 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. FIXIT (15) FLEET (8) [noun] A group of vessels or vehicles. | [noun] Any group of associated items. | [noun] A large, coordinated group of people. | [noun] An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek. | [verb] To float. | [noun] Floor; bottom; lower surface. FLINT (8) [noun] A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck. | [noun] A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker. | [noun] A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc. FLIRT (8) [noun] A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion | [noun] Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person. | [noun] An act of flirting. FLOAT (8) [noun] A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid. | [noun] A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. | [noun] A float board. FLOUT (8) [noun] The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law. | [noun] A mockery or insult. | [verb] To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action. FLUYT (11) FOIST (8) [noun] A thief or pickpocket. | [verb] To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant. | [verb] To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit. | [noun] A light and fast-sailing ship. | [noun] A cask for wine. FOUNT (8) [noun] Something from which water flows. | [noun] A device from which poultry may drink. | [noun] That from which something flows or proceeds; a source. | [noun] A typographic font. FRITT (8) FRONT (8) [noun] The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves. | [noun] The side of a building with the main entrance. | [noun] A field of activity. FROST (8) [noun] A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. | [noun] The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form. | [noun] Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. FRUIT (8) [noun] (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals. | [noun] Specifically, a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit. | [noun] A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically: FUMET (10) [noun] A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet. | [noun] A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine. | [noun] The stench or high flavour of game or other meat when kept long. | [noun] The dung of deer, hares, etc. GAMUT (8) [noun] A (normally) complete range. | [noun] All the notes in the musical scale. | [noun] All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer. GAULT (6) [noun] A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks. GAUNT (6) [adjective] Lean, angular and bony | [adjective] Haggard, drawn and emaciated | [adjective] Bleak, barren and desolate GAVOT (9) GEEST (6) GEMOT (8) GENET (6) [noun] Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail. | [noun] The fur of this mammal, or any skin dressed in imitation of it. | [noun] A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi, bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor; a group of ramets. | [noun] A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet. GHAST (9) GHAUT (9) GHOST (9) [noun] The spirit; the soul of man. | [noun] The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death | [noun] Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image GIANT (6) [noun] A mythical human of very great size. | [noun] Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology. | [noun] A very tall and large person. GIGOT (7) [noun] A leg of lamb or mutton. | [noun] Short for gigot sleeve. GLEET (6) [noun] (except Scots) Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk. | [noun] (except Scots) Any slimy, viscous substance. | [noun] A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhoea. GLINT (6) [noun] A short flash of light. | [verb] To flash or gleam briefly. | [verb] To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. GLOAT (6) [noun] An act or instance of gloating. | [verb] To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune. | [verb] To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel. GLOST (6) [noun] Lead glazing used for pottery. GLOUT (6) GODET (7) [noun] A drinking cup. | [noun] A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset. | [noun] A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing. GRAFT (9) [noun] A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. | [noun] A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. | [noun] A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty. | [noun] A ditch, a canal. | [noun] Corruption in official life. GRANT (6) [noun] The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission. | [noun] The yielding or admission of something in dispute. | [noun] The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. GREAT (6) [noun] A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | [noun] The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | [noun] (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships. GREET (6) [verb] To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or over the phone/internet | [verb] To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy) | [verb] To accost; to address. | [adjective] (obsolete outside Scotland) Great. | [noun] Mourning, weeping, lamentation. GRIFT (9) [noun] A confidence game or swindle. | [verb] To obtain illegally, as by con game. | [verb] To obtain money illegally. GRIOT (6) [noun] A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet. | [noun] A Haitian dish of fried pork. GRIPT (8) GRIST (6) [noun] Grain that is to be ground in a mill. | [noun] A group of bees. | [noun] Supply; provision. 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. GROUT (6) [noun] A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry. | [noun] Coarse meal; groats. | [noun] (typically used in the plural) Dregs, sediment. GRUNT (6) [noun] A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak. | [noun] The snorting cry of a pig. | [noun] Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae. GUEST (6) [noun] A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another. | [noun] A patron or customer in a hotel etc. | [noun] An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast. GUILT (6) [noun] Responsibility for wrongdoing. | [noun] The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings. | [noun] The regret of having done wrong. | [verb] To commit offenses; act criminally. GUYOT (9) [noun] A flat-topped seamount. HABIT (10) [noun] An action performed on a regular basis. | [noun] An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness. | [noun] A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns. | [verb] To clothe. HADST (9) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAUNT (8) [noun] A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout. | [noun] A ghost. | [noun] A feeding place for animals. 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. HEIST (8) [noun] A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum. | [noun] A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot. | [verb] To steal, rob or hold up (something). HELOT (8) [noun] A member of the ancient Spartan class of serfs. | [noun] A serf; a slave. HIGHT (12) [verb] To call, name. | [verb] To be called or named. | [verb] To command; to enjoin. | [noun] The distance from the base of something to the top. HOIST (8) [noun] A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane. | [noun] The act of hoisting; a lift. | [noun] The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff. HORST (8) [noun] An area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land. HURST (8) [noun] (rare outside place names) A wood or grove. IDIOT (6) [noun] A person of low general intelligence. | [noun] A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool. | [noun] A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30. INAPT (7) [adjective] Unapt INEPT (7) [adjective] Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence. | [adjective] Unfit; unsuitable. INERT (5) [noun] A substance that does not react chemically. | [verb] To fill with an inert gas to reduce the risk of explosion. | [adjective] Unable to move or act; inanimate. INGOT (6) [noun] A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents. | [verb] To form (scraps of metal) into ingots. INLET (5) [verb] To let in; admit. | [verb] To insert; inlay. | [noun] A body of water let into a coast, such as a bay, cove, fjord or estuary. INPUT (7) [noun] The act or process of putting in; infusion. | [noun] That which is put in, as in an amount. | [noun] Contribution of work or information, as an opinion or advice. INSET (5) [noun] A smaller thing set into a larger thing, such as a small picture inside a larger one. | [noun] Anything inserted. | [noun] A small piece of material used to strengthen a garment. ISLET (5) [noun] A small island | [noun] An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function JABOT (14) [noun] A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc. JAUNT (12) [noun] A wearisome journey. | [noun] A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey. | [verb] To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion. JOINT (12) [noun] The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate. | [noun] The point where two components of a structure join rigidly. | [noun] Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened. JOIST (12) [noun] A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed. | [verb] To fit or furnish with joists. JOUST (12) [noun] A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field. | [verb] To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. | [verb] To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally) JURAT (12) [noun] A sworn statement concerning where, when, and before whom an oath has been made. | [noun] A sworn person, particularly: KAPUT (11) [adjective] Out of order; not working. KARAT (9) [noun] A unit of fineness or concentration of gold equalling 1/24 part of gold in an alloy. KARST (9) [noun] A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage. KEMPT (13) [adjective] Neat and tidy; especially used of hair KNELT (9) [verb] To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position. | [verb] To cause to kneel. | [verb] To rest on (one's) knees KNOUT (9) [noun] A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia. | [verb] To flog or beat with a knout. KORAT (9) 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. LEANT (5) [verb] To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. | [verb] To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. | [verb] Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc. LEAPT (7) [verb] To jump. | [verb] To pass over by a leap or jump. | [verb] To copulate with (a female beast); to cover. LEAST (5) [noun] Something of the smallest possible extent; an indivisible unit. | [adverb] Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est. | [adverb] In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others. LEGIT (6) [noun] A legitimate; a legitimate actor. | [noun] A legitimate child. | [adjective] Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid. LICHT (10) LICIT (7) [adjective] Not forbidden by formal or informal rules. | [adjective] Explicitly established or constituted by law. LIGHT (9) [noun] Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light. | [noun] A source of illumination. | [noun] Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information. | [verb] To start (a fire). | [adjective] Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure. | [noun] A stone that is not thrown hard enough. | [verb] To find by chance. LIMIT (7) [noun] A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. | [noun] A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge). | [noun] Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. | [verb] To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. LIROT (5) LOVAT (8) [noun] A dusty blue-green colour. | [adjective] Of a dusty blue-green colour. LUNET (5) LYART (8) MAGOT (8) MAIST (7) MAYST (10) [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). | [verb] (auxiliary) To be able; can. | [verb] To be able to go. MEANT (7) [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). | [verb] To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says). 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. MIDST (8) [noun] A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location. | [preposition] Among, in the middle of; amid. MIGHT (11) [noun] Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group. | [noun] Physical strength or force. | [noun] The ability to do something. | [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). MOIST (7) [verb] To moisten. | [adjective] Slightly wet; characterised by the presence of moisture, not dry; damp. | [adjective] Of eyes: tearful, wet with tears. MOTET (7) [noun] A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem. MOULT (7) [noun] The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. | [noun] The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. MOUNT (7) [noun] A hill or mountain. | [noun] Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies. | [noun] A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound. | [noun] An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse MULCT (9) [noun] A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one. | [verb] To impose such a fine or penalty. | [verb] To swindle (someone) out of money. NEIST (5) NIGHT (9) [noun] The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark. | [noun] (Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight. | [noun] (Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise. NONET (5) [noun] A composition for nine instruments or nine voices. | [noun] A group of nine nuclear or subatomic particles. | [noun] A byte of nine bits. OBJET (14) OCTET (7) [noun] A group or set of eight of something. | [noun] A group of eight musicians performing together. | [noun] A composition for such a group of musicians. ODIST (6) ONSET (5) [noun] An attack; an assault especially of an army. | [noun] The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent. | [noun] The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus. 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. OUGHT (9) [noun] Property; possession | [noun] Duty; place; office OVERT (8) [adjective] Open and not concealed or secret. OWLET (8) [noun] Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing. | [noun] (by extension) A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active. | [noun] The owl pigeon. PAINT (7) [noun] A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied. | [noun] (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures. | [noun] The free-throw lane, construed with the. PALET (7) PEART (7) [adjective] Lively; active. PETIT (7) [noun] (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy. | [noun] A kind of pigeon. | [adjective] (of size) Petite: small, little. | [noun] The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point. PEWIT (10) [noun] Any of several birds PHPHT (15) PICOT (9) [noun] An embroidery trim made of a series of small loops. PILOT (7) [noun] A person who steers a ship, a helmsman. | [noun] A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast. | [noun] A guide book for maritime navigation. PINOT (7) [noun] Any of several grape varieties grown in Europe and North America. | [noun] (by extension) Any of several wines made from these grapes. PIPET (9) [noun] A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid. | [verb] To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette. PIPIT (9) [noun] Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country. PIVOT (10) [noun] A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle. | [noun] (by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation. | [noun] Act of turning on one foot. PLAIT (7) [noun] A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat. | [noun] A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. | [verb] To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat PLANT (7) [noun] An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree. | [noun] An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism. | [noun] Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall. PLEAT (7) [noun] A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance. | [noun] A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness. | [noun] A plait. POINT (7) [noun] A discrete division of something. | [noun] A sharp extremity. | [noun] One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. | [verb] To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it. | [verb] To appoint. POSIT (7) [noun] Something that is posited; a postulate. | [verb] Assume the existence of; to postulate. | [verb] Propose for consideration or study; to suggest. POULT (7) [noun] A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). PREST (7) PRINT (7) [noun] Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium. | [noun] Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive. | [noun] The letters forming the text of a document. PROST (7) QANAT (14) [noun] An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley QUANT (14) [noun] A quantitative analyst. | [noun] Short for quantity. | [noun] Short for quantifier. | [noun] A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole. QUART (14) [noun] A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S. | [noun] Four successive cards of the same suit. | [noun] A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. QUEST (14) [noun] A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission. | [noun] The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit. | [noun] Request; desire; solicitation. QUIET (14) [noun] The absence of sound; quietness. | [noun] The absence of movement; stillness, tranquility | [verb] To become quiet, silent, still, tranquil, calm. QUILT (14) [noun] A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design. | [noun] A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing. | [noun] A quilted skirt worn by women. QUINT (14) [noun] An interval of one fifth. | [noun] The E string of a violin. | [noun] In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker QUIRT (14) [noun] A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide. | [verb] To strike with a quirt. QUOIT (14) [noun] A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits. | [noun] A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits. | [noun] The flat stone covering a cromlech. RABAT (7) RAMET (7) 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 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. RECUT (7) [verb] To cut again REEST (5) REFIT (8) [noun] The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored. | [verb] To fit again; to put back into its place. | [verb] To prepare for use again; to repair or restore. RELET (5) [noun] A property that has been let again | [verb] To let a property again RELIT (5) [verb] To light or kindle anew. | [verb] To render again with different simulated lighting conditions. REMET (7) REMIT (7) [noun] Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope. | [noun] A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court. | [verb] To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply. REPOT (7) [verb] To move a growing plant from one pot to a larger one to allow for further growth RESET (5) [verb] To set back to the initial state. | [verb] To set to zero. | [verb] To adjust; to set or position differently. | [noun] An act of resetting to the initial state | [noun] The crime of knowingly and dishonestly receiving stolen goods, or harbouring an outlaw. REVET (8) [verb] To face (an embankment, etc.) with masonry, wood, or other material. REWET (8) RIANT (5) 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. RIVET (8) [noun] A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end. | [noun] Any fixed point or certain basis. | [noun] A light kind of footman's armour. ROAST (5) [noun] A cut of meat suited to roasting | [noun] A meal consisting of roast foods. | [noun] The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted. ROBOT (7) [noun] A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed. | [noun] An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal. | [noun] A person who does not seem to have any emotions. ROOST (5) [noun] The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch). | [noun] A group of birds roosting together. | [noun] A bedroom | [noun] A tidal race. | [verb] To rout out of bed; to rouse ROSET (5) ROUST (5) [noun] A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. | [verb] To rout out of bed; to rouse | [verb] To harass, to treat in a rough way. SABOT (7) [noun] A wooden shoe. | [noun] A carrier around projectile(s) in firearms, cannons and artillery which holds the projectile in precision within the barrel SAINT (5) [noun] A person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue. | [noun] (by extension) A person with positive qualities; one who does good. | [noun] One of the blessed in heaven. | [verb] To canonize, to formally recognize someone as a saint. SAULT (5) SAYST (8) SCANT (7) [adjective] Very little, very few. | [adjective] Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough. | [adjective] Sparing; parsimonious; chary. | [verb] To limit in amount or share; to stint. | [noun] A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. | [noun] Scarcity; lack. SCART (7) [noun] A slight wound. | [noun] A dash or stroke. | [noun] A niggard. SCATT (7) SCENT (7) [noun] A distinctive odour or smell. | [noun] An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing. | [noun] The sense of smell. SCOOT (7) [noun] A dollar. | [noun] A scooter. | [noun] A sideways shuffling or sliding motion. | [noun] A sudden flow of water; a squirt. SCOUT (7) [noun] A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground. | [noun] An act of scouting or reconnoitering. | [noun] A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States. | [verb] To reject with contempt. | [noun] A swift sailing boat. | [noun] A projecting rock. | [noun] The guillemot. SHAFT (11) [noun] The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin. | [noun] (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin. SHALT (8) [verb] (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural. | [verb] Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural. | [verb] Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action. SHEET (8) [noun] A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper. | [noun] A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc. | [noun] A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking. SHENT (8) SHIFT (11) [noun] A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously). | [noun] A type of women's undergarment, a slip. | [noun] A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time. SHIRT (8) [noun] An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms. | [noun] An interior lining in a blast furnace. | [noun] A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game. | [verb] To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt. SHIST (8) SHOAT (8) [noun] A young, newly-weaned pig. | [noun] A geep, a sheep-goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating). SHOOT (8) [noun] The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant. | [noun] A photography session. | [noun] A hunt or shooting competition. | [interjection] A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain SHORT (8) [noun] A short circuit. | [noun] A short film. | [noun] A short version of a garment in a particular size. SHOTT (8) SHOUT (8) [noun] A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or animated courage. | [noun] A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks. | [noun] A call-out for an emergency services team. | [noun] A light flat-bottomed boat used in duck-shooting. SHUNT (8) [noun] An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove. | [noun] A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit. | [noun] The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun. SIGHT (9) [noun] (in the singular) The ability to see. | [noun] The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view. | [noun] Something seen. SKEET (9) [noun] A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight. | [noun] A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9. | [noun] The ejaculation of semen. | [noun] (Manx) news or gossip SKINT (9) [adjective] Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke. | [adjective] Skinned SKIRT (9) [noun] An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body. | [noun] The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist. | [noun] A loose edging to any part of a dress. SLANT (5) [noun] A slope; an incline, inclination. | [noun] A sloped surface or line. | [noun] A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam. SLEET (5) [noun] Pellets of ice made of mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes. | [noun] A mixture of rain and snow. | [noun] A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain. SLEPT (7) [verb] To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. | [verb] (of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. | [verb] To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. SLIPT (7) SMALT (7) [noun] A deep blue pigment made from powdered glass mixed with cobalt oxide SMART (7) [verb] To hurt or sting. | [verb] To cause a smart or sting in. | [verb] To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil. | [adjective] Exhibiting social ability or cleverness. | [noun] A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting. SMELT (7) [noun] Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe. | [noun] A fool; a simpleton. | [verb] To sense a smell or smells. | [noun] Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal. SMOLT (7) [adjective] Bright; serene. | [adjective] (of weather) Calm; fine; fair. | [adjective] Smooth and shining. | [noun] A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color. SNOOT (5) [noun] An elitist individual; one who looks down upon lower social classes. | [noun] A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism. | [noun] A nose or snout, especially in derogatory use. SNORT (5) [noun] The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose. | [noun] A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco). | [noun] A consumed portion of alcoholic drink. SNOUT (5) [noun] The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs. | [noun] The front of the prow of a ship or boat. | [noun] A person's nose. SPAIT (7) SPELT (7) [verb] To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort. | [verb] (sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. | [verb] To be able to write or say the letters that form words. | [noun] A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon. | [noun] A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter. SPENT (7) [verb] To pay out (money). | [verb] To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. | [verb] To squander. SPILT (7) [verb] To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour. | [verb] To spread out or fall out, as above. | [verb] To drop something that was intended to be caught. SPIRT (7) [verb] To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet. | [verb] To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet. | [verb] To make a strong effort for a short period of time. SPLAT (7) [noun] The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back. | [noun] The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface. | [noun] The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface. SPLIT (7) [noun] A crack or longitudinal fissure. | [noun] A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. | [noun] A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment. SPORT (7) [noun] Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. | [noun] Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose. | [noun] A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship. SPOUT (7) [noun] A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged. | [noun] A stream of liquid. | [noun] The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale. SPRAT (7) [noun] Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae. SPRIT (7) [noun] A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats. | [noun] A shoot; a sprout. | [verb] To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt. | [verb] To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out. SPURT (7) [noun] A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound. | [noun] Ejaculation of semen. | [noun] A shoot; a bud. | [noun] A moment, a short period of time. SQUAT (14) [noun] Nothing; nothing whatsoever. | [noun] A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet. | [noun] (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee. | [noun] The angel shark (genus Squatina). 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. STILT (5) [noun] Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by entertainers. | [noun] A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water. | [noun] Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, related to the avocet, that have extremely long legs and long thin bills. STINT (5) [noun] A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell. | [noun] Limit; bound; restraint; extent. | [noun] Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. | [noun] Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling. STOAT (5) [noun] Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip. STOPT (7) STOUT (5) [noun] A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain. | [noun] An obese person. | [noun] A large clothing size. | [noun] Gnat. 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. STUNT (5) [noun] A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills. | [noun] Skill | [noun] A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line. | [noun] A check in growth. STURT (5) SUINT (5) [noun] A substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. 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. SWEAT (8) [noun] Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation. | [noun] The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis. | [noun] (especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced). | [verb] To emit sweat. SWEET (8) [noun] The basic taste sensation induced by sugar. | [noun] A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy. | [noun] A food eaten for dessert. SWEPT (10) [verb] To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush. | [verb] To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke. | [verb] To search (a place) methodically. SWIFT (11) [noun] A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight. | [noun] Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus. | [noun] A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth. TACET (7) TACIT (7) [adjective] Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent. | [adjective] Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction. TAINT (5) [noun] A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food | [noun] A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish | [noun] Tincture; hue; colour | [noun] A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. | [noun] The perineum. 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. TAUNT (5) [noun] A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery | [verb] To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner. | [adjective] Very high or tall. TEMPT (9) [verb] To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice. | [verb] To attract; to allure. | [verb] To provoke something; to court. TENET (5) [noun] An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization. THEFT (11) [noun] The act of stealing property. TIGHT (9) TINCT (7) TOAST (5) [noun] Toasted bread. | [noun] A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol. | [noun] A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem. | [verb] To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source. TOROT (5) 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. 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. TRAPT (7) 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. 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. 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. 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. TWEET (8) [noun] The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle. | [noun] An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. | [verb] To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds. TWIST (8) [noun] A twisting force. | [noun] Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. | [noun] The form given in twisting. TWIXT (15) [preposition] Betwixt, between UNAPT (7) [adjective] Not apt, inappropriate, unsuited. | [adjective] Unaccustomed. UNCUT (7) [adjective] Not cut. | [adjective] (of a gemstone) Not cut or ground to the desired shape. | [adjective] (of a book) Not having the page edges trimmed. UNFIT (8) [verb] To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify. | [adjective] Not fit; not having the correct requirements. | [adjective] Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor. UNGOT (6) UNHAT (8) UNLET (5) [adjective] (of property) Not let (not in temporary possession in return for rent) UNLIT (5) [adjective] Not lit UNMET (7) [adjective] Not met; unfulfilled; not achieved UNSET (5) [verb] To make not set. | [adjective] Not set; not fixed or appointed. | [adjective] Not mounted or placed in a setting. UNWIT (8) UPLIT (7) UPSET (7) [noun] Disturbance or disruption. | [noun] An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win. | [noun] (automobile insurance) An overturn. VALET (8) [noun] A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance. | [noun] A hotel employee performing such duties for guests. | [noun] (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience. VAULT (8) [noun] An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building. | [noun] Any arched ceiling or roof. | [noun] Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves. | [noun] An act of vaulting, formerly by deer; a leap or jump. VAUNT (8) [noun] A boast; an instance of vaunting. | [verb] To speak boastfully. | [verb] To speak boastfully about. | [noun] The first part. VELDT (9) [noun] The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries. VERST (8) [noun] A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about 2/3 of a mile. VISIT (8) [noun] A single act of visiting. | [noun] A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home. | [verb] To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) VOMIT (10) [noun] The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus. | [noun] The act of regurgitating. | [noun] That which causes vomiting; an emetic. WAIST (8) [noun] The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach. | [noun] A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist. | [noun] The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps). WECHT (13) WEEST (8) [verb] To waste. | [adjective] Small, little. WHEAT (11) [noun] Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery. | [noun] A light brown colour, like that of wheat. | [adjective] Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat. WHIPT (13) WHIST (11) [noun] Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge. | [noun] A session of playing this card game. | [interjection] (Irish and British) Shush, silence, be quiet! WHORT (11) WIGHT (12) [noun] A living creature, especially a human being. | [noun] A being of one of the Nine Worlds of Heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor. | [noun] A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity. | [adjective] (except in dialects) Brave, valorous, strong. WORST (8) [adjective] Unfavorable; negative; not good. | [adjective] Not suitable or fitting. | [adjective] Not appropriate, of manners etc. 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. WREST (8) [noun] The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion. | [noun] A key to tune a stringed instrument. | [noun] Active or motive power. | [noun] A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined. | [noun] A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself. WRIST (8) [noun] The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense. | [noun] A stud or pin which forms a journal. | [verb] To hit a wrist shot WURST (8) [noun] A German- or Austrian-style sausage. YACHT (13) [noun] A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock. | [noun] Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes. | [verb] To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht. YEAST (8) [noun] An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines. | [noun] A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families. | [noun] A frothy foam. ZIBET (16) ZIZIT (23)

ABDUCT (11) [verb] To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. | [verb] To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body. ABJECT (17) [noun] A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast. | [adjective] Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position. | [adjective] Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit. | [verb] To cast off or out; to reject. ABLAUT (8) [noun] The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get and got; sing and song; hang and hung, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel. | [verb] (of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel. | [verb] To cause to change a vowel. ABLEST (8) [adjective] Easy to use. | [adjective] Suitable; competent. | [adjective] Liable to. ABRUPT (10) [noun] Something which is abrupt; an abyss. | [verb] To tear off or asunder. | [verb] To interrupt suddenly. ABSENT (8) [noun] (with definite article) Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there. | [noun] An absentee; a person who is not there. | [adjective] Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing. | [verb] To keep (oneself) away. ABVOLT (11) [noun] A unit of electrical potential difference equal to one billionth of a volt, used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units. ABWATT (11) [noun] A unit of electrical power equal to one billionth of a watt, used in measuring very small amounts of power. ACCENT (10) [noun] A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it. | [noun] Emphasis or importance in general. | [noun] A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked. | [verb] To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent. ACCEPT (12) [verb] To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval. | [verb] To admit to a place or a group. | [verb] To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in. ACCOST (10) [noun] Address; greeting. | [noun] An attack. | [verb] To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. ACQUIT (17) [verb] To declare or find innocent or not guilty. | [verb] To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil. | [verb] Followed by of (and formerly by from): to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge. ADDICT (10) [noun] A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug | [noun] An adherent or fan (of something) | [verb] To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision. ADDUCT (10) [noun] The product of an addition reaction. | [verb] To draw towards a center or a middle line. ADJUST (14) [verb] To modify. | [verb] To improve or rectify. | [verb] To settle an insurance claim. ADMIXT (16) [verb] Past tense and past participle of admix; to mix with something else. ADRIFT (10) [adjective] Floating at random. | [adjective] (of a seaman) Absent from his watch. | [adjective] (often with of) Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position. ADROIT (7) [adjective] Deft, dexterous, or skillful. ADVECT (12) [verb] To transport (something) by advection. ADVENT (10) [noun] Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears ADVERT (10) [noun] An advertisement, an ad. | [verb] To take notice, to pay attention (to). | [verb] To turn attention to, to take notice of (something). AFFECT (14) [verb] To influence or alter. | [verb] To move to emotion. | [verb] Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body). | [verb] To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of. | [noun] One's mood or inclination; mental state. AFLOAT (9) [adverb] Floating | [adverb] Covered with water bearing floating articles; flooded. | [adverb] Out at sea. AFREET (9) [noun] (Islamic mythology) a kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an. AGEIST (7) [noun] A person who behaves in an ageist manner. | [adjective] Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age. AGHAST (10) [adjective] Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. AGOROT (7) [noun] Since 1960, a monetary unit and coin of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel / sheqel. AIGLET (7) [noun] A metal or plastic tip on the end of a shoelace or cord. AIGRET (7) [noun] A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a head ornament. | [noun] A spray of gems or jewels worn as a brooch or ornament. AIREST (6) [adjective] Superlative form of airy; most airy or most resembling air. | [adjective] Most resembling or characteristic of air; lightest in quality or substance. ALBEIT (8) [conjunction] Although, despite (it) being. ALIGHT (10) [verb] (with from) To get off or exit a vehicle or animal; to descend; to dismount. | [verb] (with on or at) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop. | [verb] (followed by upon) To find by accident; to come upon. | [verb] To make light or less heavy; lighten; alleviate. | [verb] To light; light up; illuminate. | [adjective] Lit, on fire, switched on. ALIYOT (9) ALMOST (8) [noun] Something or someone that doesn't quite make it. | [adverb] Very close to, not quite. AMIDST (9) [preposition] In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among. AMOUNT (8) [noun] The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English). | [noun] A quantity or volume. | [noun] (sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set. AMULET (8) [noun] A kind of protective charm or ornament, often bearing magical symbols, worn for protection against ill will, negative influences or evil spirits. ANENST (6) [preposition] Against; opposite to; facing. ANKLET (10) [noun] A piece of jewelry/jewellery, resembling a bracelet but worn around the ankle. | [noun] An ankle sock. ANOINT (6) [verb] To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. | [verb] To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration. | [verb] To choose or nominate somebody for a leading or otherwise important position, especially formally or officially, or as an intended successor. AORIST (6) [noun] (grammar) A grammatical category of verbs that is often a perfective past: that is, it expresses perfective aspect (also known as aorist aspect) and past tense. The nearest equivalent in English is the simple past. | [noun] (grammar) This grammatical category in a particular language, for instance, Albanian and Ancient and Modern Greek. | [noun] (grammar) A particular verb in the aorist. APTEST (8) [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. ARDENT (7) [adjective] Full of ardor; fervent, passionate. | [adjective] Burning; glowing; shining. ARGENT (7) [noun] The metal silver. | [noun] The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms. | [noun] Whiteness; anything that is white. ARIGHT (10) [adverb] Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form. | [adverb] To or on the right-hand side. | [verb] To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly. ARMLET (8) [noun] A band that is worn on the arm that for ornamental or identification purposes. | [noun] A small arm. ARMPIT (10) [noun] The cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder. | [noun] Somewhere or something considered unpleasant or undesirable. AROINT (6) [verb] To drive away or begone; a command to depart (archaic). AROYNT (9) [verb] To drive away or begone; an archaic command to depart or go away. ARPENT (8) [noun] A pre-metric French unit of length, having various official measures. | [noun] A pre-metric French unit of area, having various official measures. ARRANT (6) [adjective] Utter; complete (with a negative sense). | [adjective] Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits. | [adjective] Wandering; roving around. ARREST (6) [noun] A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something. | [noun] The condition of being stopped, standstill. | [noun] The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc. ARTIST (6) [noun] A person who creates art. | [noun] A person who is skilled at some activity. | [noun] A recording artist. ASCENT (8) [noun] The act of ascending; a motion upwards. | [noun] The way or means by which one ascends. | [noun] An eminence, hill, or high place. ASKANT (10) [adjective] Aslant, or sloping. | [adverb] Aslant, or askance, or sideways ASLANT (6) [adjective] Slanting | [adverb] At a slant | [preposition] Diagonally over or across ASPECT (10) [noun] Any specific feature, part, or element of something. | [noun] The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective. | [noun] The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view. ASSENT (6) [noun] Agreement; act of agreeing | [verb] To agree; to give approval. | [verb] To admit a thing as true. ASSERT (6) [noun] An assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true. | [verb] To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively. | [verb] To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of. ASSIST (6) [noun] A helpful action or an act of giving. | [noun] The act of helping another player score points or goals | [verb] To help. ASSORT (6) [verb] To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class. | [verb] To be of a kind with. | [verb] To be associated with; to consort with. ATTENT (6) ATTEST (6) [verb] To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine. | [verb] To certify by signature or oath. | [verb] To certify in an official capacity. AUGUST (7) [adjective] Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable. | [adjective] Of noble birth. | [verb] To make ripe; ripen. | [noun] A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface. AUKLET (10) [noun] Any of several small seabirds in the genera Aethia, Cerorhinca and Ptychoramphus of the auk family Alcidae. AURIST (6) [noun] A physician who specializes in treating diseases of the ear. AVAUNT (9) [noun] A vaunt; a boast. | [verb] To advance; to move forward; to elevate. | [verb] To depart; to move away. AVOCET (11) [noun] Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, of the family Recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet. AVOSET (9) [noun] A wading bird with a slender upturned bill, found in warm regions. BAGUET (9) BALLET (8) [noun] A classical form of dance. | [noun] A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story. | [noun] The company of persons who perform this dance. BALLOT (8) [noun] Originally, a small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote. | [noun] The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting. | [noun] The total of all the votes cast in an election. BANDIT (9) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. BANNET (8) [noun] A Scottish flat cap or bonnet. | [noun] A woman's close-fitting hat. BARBET (10) [noun] Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes. | [noun] A dog of a small-bodied breed with long curly hair. | [noun] A larva that feeds on aphids. BARBUT (10) [noun] A type of close helmet or visor used in medieval times, characterized by a flat face plate with only a narrow horizontal opening for vision. BAREST (8) [adjective] Minimal; that is or are just sufficient. | [adjective] Naked, uncovered. | [adjective] Having no supplies. BARRET (8) [noun] A flat cap without a stiff brim, typically worn by artists or in certain military contexts. | [noun] A type of medieval armor piece protecting the neck and shoulders. BASALT (8) [noun] A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust. | [noun] A type of unglazed pottery. BASEST (8) [adjective] Low in height; short. | [adjective] Low in place or position. | [adjective] Of low value or degree. BASKET (12) [noun] A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom. | [noun] A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop. | [noun] In an online shop, a notional place to store items before ordering them. BASSET (8) [noun] The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop. | [noun] A basset hound. | [noun] A card game resembling faro. BECKET (14) [noun] A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle | [noun] A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place. | [noun] A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it. BEDSIT (9) [noun] A form of rented accommodation consisting of a single room for use as both sitting room and bedroom; there may also be a small kitchen area and washing and toilet facilities, but these amenities are more commonly outside the room and shared by several tenants. BEFRET (11) [verb] To fret or worry excessively. | [verb] To ornament with frets (decorative designs). BEGIRT (9) [verb] To gird about; to encircle or surround. | [verb] Past tense of begird, meaning to have encircled or girt about. BEHEST (11) [noun] A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request; now usually in the phrase at the behest of. | [noun] A vow; a promise. | [verb] To promise; vow. BEKNOT (12) BEMIST (10) [verb] To cover or obscure with mist. BEMIXT (17) [verb] Past tense of "bemix," meaning to mix together or mingle. BENNET (8) [noun] A grass or herb, especially one of various plants in the genus Carex or similar vegetation. | [noun] A type of small kangaroo found in Australia. BEREFT (11) [verb] To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim. | [verb] To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence. | [verb] To deprive of power; prevent. BESMUT (10) BEWEPT (13) [verb] Past tense and past participle of "beweep," meaning to weep over or lament. BEZANT (17) [noun] (history) A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe. | [noun] The heraldic representation of a gold coin. BILLET (8) [noun] A short informal letter. | [noun] A written order to quarter soldiers. | [noun] A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge. | [noun] A semi-finished length of metal. | [noun] An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. BISECT (10) [noun] A bisector, which divides into two equal parts. | [noun] An envelope, card, or fragment thereof showing an affixed cut half of a regular issued stamp, over which one or more postal markings have been applied. Typically used in wartime when normal lower rate stamps may not be available. | [verb] To cut or divide into two parts. BLIGHT (12) [noun] Any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts. | [noun] The bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition. | [noun] (by extension) Anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life. BLUEST (8) [adjective] Of the colour blue. | [adjective] Depressed, melancholic, sad. | [adjective] Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame. BOBCAT (12) [noun] A North American wild cat, Lynx rufus, having tufted ears and a short tail. | [noun] A multi-purpose construction vehicle, akin to a smaller version of a front-end loader or a backhoe (backhoe loader), with a one-man caged control cabin BONNET (8) [noun] A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin. | [noun] A traditional Scottish woollen brimless cap; a bunnet. | [noun] (by extension) The polishing head of a power buffer, often made of wool. BORSHT (11) [noun] A beet soup, typically served hot or cold, that is a traditional dish in Eastern European cuisine, particularly in Jewish and Ukrainian cooking. BOSKET (12) [noun] A thicket or small wood, especially one planted for ornament in a garden or park. BOUGHT (12) [verb] To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods | [verb] To obtain by some sacrifice. | [verb] To bribe. | [noun] A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle. BOWPOT (13) [noun] A decorative container or vase for displaying flowers or plants. BREAST (8) [noun] Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males. | [noun] The chest, or front of the human thorax. | [noun] A section of clothing covering the breast area. BREVET (11) [noun] A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay. | [noun] A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity, as in France. | [noun] An organized, long-distance bicycle ride — not a race, but a test of endurance — which follows a designated but unmarked route passing through check points. BRIGHT (12) [noun] An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head. | [noun] Splendour; brightness | [noun] A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements. BRULOT (8) [noun] A drink of hot wine or brandy mixed with sugar and spices, sometimes set on fire. | [noun] A satirical or abusive pamphlet or broadside. BRUNET (8) [noun] A man or boy with brown or black hair. | [adjective] Of a man's or boy's hair: brown or black. | [adjective] Of a man or boy, having brown or black hair. BUCKET (14) [noun] A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items. | [noun] The amount held in this container. | [noun] A unit of measure equal to four gallons. BUDGET (10) [noun] The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame. | [noun] An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue. | [noun] A wallet, purse or bag. BUFFET (14) [noun] A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought. | [noun] Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves. | [noun] A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. | [noun] A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind. | [verb] To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap. | [noun] A low stool; a hassock. BULLET (8) [noun] A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed. | [noun] An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc. | [noun] Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use. | [noun] A young or little bull; a male calf. BURBOT (10) [noun] A freshwater fish, taxonomic name Lota lota, which is similar to the ling and the cusk and spawns in the winter. BURNET (8) [noun] Any of the herbs of genus Sanguisorba (syn. Poterium, including | [noun] Any of several species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, typically having black forewings with red spots. BUYOUT (11) [noun] The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock. BYPAST (13) [adjective] Past; bygone. | [noun] The past; time gone by. BYZANT (20) CABLET (10) CACHET (13) [noun] A seal, as of a letter. | [noun] A special characteristic or quality; prestige. | [noun] A commemorative stamped design or inscription on an envelope, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage. CADENT (9) [adjective] Having a rhythmic fall or cadence; falling or sinking. | [adjective] (archaic) Decaying or declining. CAHOOT (11) [noun] A secret partnership or conspiracy, usually for an illicit purpose; often used in the phrase "in cahoots with." CALLET (8) [noun] A woman of loose morals; a prostitute or promiscuous woman. | [verb] To scold or rail at someone abusively. CAMLET (10) [noun] A fabric made from camel hair or a mixture of camel hair and wool, or a similar fabric made from other materials. CANNOT (8) [noun] Something that cannot be done. | [verb] Can not (be unable to). | [verb] Be forbidden or not permitted to CAPLET (10) [noun] A smooth-coated tablet (pill, as in medicine) shaped like a capsule, used as a tamper-resistant alternative to a capsule, or an easy-to-swallow alternative to regular tablets. | [noun] A component of an interest rate cap, a derivative instrument that effectively prevents the interest payments on an otherwise variable-rate loan from exceeding an agreed level (the "cap"). Each "caplet", analysable as a call option, covers one interest accrual period (such as three months); the whole interest rate cap is made up of a series of consecutive caplets. CARNET (8) [noun] A ticket book, a collection of tickets in the form of a booklet often sold at a discount to single tickets. | [noun] A customs document that allows the temporary duty-free importation of a particular article | [noun] An admission pass. CARPET (10) [noun] A fabric used as a complete floor covering. | [noun] Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function. | [noun] Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae CARROT (8) [noun] A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae. | [noun] A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange). | [noun] Any motivational tool. CASKET (12) [noun] A little box, e.g. for jewellery. | [noun] An urn. | [noun] A coffin. CATGUT (9) [noun] A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, especially of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc. | [noun] The material from which such cords are made. | [noun] A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices. CAUGHT (12) [verb] (heading) To capture, overtake. | [verb] (heading) To seize hold of. | [verb] (heading) To intercept. CAVEAT (11) [noun] A warning. | [noun] A qualification or exemption. | [noun] A formal objection. CAVORT (11) [verb] (originally intransitive) To prance, said of mounts | [verb] To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously. CEMENT (10) [noun] A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete. | [noun] The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries. | [noun] Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout. CERMET (10) [noun] A composite material composed of ceramic and metal materials, used in such applications as industrial saws and turbine blades. CHALET (11) [noun] An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves. CHALOT (11) [noun] A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for Yom Tov. | [noun] The commandment to separate a portion of bread or bread dough for the cohanim (Numbers 15:17–21); in contemporary practice, the portion is burned until inedible. | [noun] The portion separated in fulfillment of the above. CHAUNT (11) [verb] To sing or chant, especially in a rhythmic or monotonous manner. CLARET (8) [noun] A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere. | [noun] A deep purplish-red colour, like that of the wine. | [noun] Blood. CLASPT (10) CLIENT (8) [noun] A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services. | [noun] The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server. | [noun] One who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant. CLOSET (8) [noun] Any private area, (particularly) bowers in the open air. | [noun] Any private or inner room, (particularly): | [noun] A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord. COBALT (10) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal. | [noun] Cobalt blue. COBNUT (10) [noun] The nut of the common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut. | [noun] A specific cultivated variety of hazelnut, also known as the Kentish cobnut. | [noun] A game played by children with nuts. COEDIT (9) [verb] To edit jointly with another person or persons. COEMPT (12) [verb] To buy or purchase; to acquire by paying a price. COGENT (9) [adjective] Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence. | [adjective] Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning. | [adjective] Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent. COHORT (11) [noun] A group of people supporting the same thing or person. | [noun] A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic. | [noun] Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men. COHOST (11) [noun] A joint host alongside another (compare costar). | [verb] To act as a joint host. | [verb] To store data or applications on a shared server (as in web hosting). COLLET (8) [noun] A band, flange, ferrule, or collar, designed to grip and hold a tool or a workpiece under proper control, and usually to release it under control thereafter; such a collet usually is made of a hard, springy material, especially a metal. | [noun] In jewelry, the rim (of a ring) within which a jewel is set. Compare bezel. | [noun] In an embryonic plant, the transition zone between the root and the hypocotyl (not clearly distinguishable in most plants.) | [noun] A lower servant in a church. COMBAT (12) [noun] A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used). | [noun] A struggle for victory | [verb] To fight; to struggle against. COMFIT (13) [noun] A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force. COMMIT (12) [noun] The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change. | [verb] To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. | [verb] To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison. CONFIT (11) [noun] Any of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation. | [verb] To prepare (food) in this manner. COPLOT (10) COQUET (17) [noun] A flirtatious female; a coquette. | [noun] A flirtatious male. | [verb] To act as a flirt or coquet. CORNET (8) [noun] A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat. | [noun] A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container. | [noun] A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence an ice cream cone. | [noun] The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity. CORSET (8) [noun] A woman's foundation garment, reinforced with stays, that supports the waistline, hips and bust. | [noun] A tight-fitting gown or basque worn by both men and women during the Middle Ages. | [noun] A regulation that limited the growth of British banks' interest-bearing deposits. CORVET (11) [noun] A light leap or bound of a horse in which all four feet leave the ground together. | [verb] To perform a corvet; to leap or prance. COSSET (8) [noun] A pet, especially a pet lamb. | [noun] Someone indulged or cosseted. | [verb] To treat like a pet; to overly indulge. COVERT (11) [noun] A covering. | [noun] A disguise. | [noun] A hiding place. COWPAT (13) [noun] A dropping of cow dung. COYEST (11) [adjective] Bashful, shy, retiring. | [adjective] Quiet, reserved, modest. | [adjective] Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish. CRAVAT (11) [noun] A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front. | [noun] A decorative fabric band or scarf worn around the neck by women. | [noun] A bandage resembling a cravat, particularly a triangular bandage folded into a strip. CREDIT (9) [noun] Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust. | [noun] Recognition and respect. | [noun] Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts. CRUSET (8) CUBIST (10) [noun] An artist who practices or advocates cubism, a modern art movement emphasizing geometric forms. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or characteristic of cubism or cubists. CULLET (8) [noun] Scrap glass which is melted down for reuse. | [noun] A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. CURVET (11) [noun] A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once. | [noun] A prank; a frolic. | [verb] Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic. CUSHAT (11) [noun] A pigeon, wood pigeon or ring dove. CUTEST (8) [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. CUTLET (8) [noun] A thin slice of meat, usually fried. | [noun] A chop, a specific piece of meat (especially pork, chicken or beef) cut from the side of an animal. | [noun] A piece of fish that has been cut perpendicular to the spine, rather than parallel (as with a fillet); often synonymous with steak. CUTOUT (8) [noun] A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting. | [noun] A piece cut out of something. | [noun] A trusted middleman or intermediary, especially in espionage. CYGNET (12) [noun] The young of a swan. DACOIT (9) [noun] A bandit or armed robber, especially in India, Pakistan, Myanmar, and the surrounding region. | [verb] To commit armed robbery. DAKOIT (11) DAYLIT (10) DECANT (9) [verb] To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment. | [verb] To pour from one vessel into another. | [verb] To flow. DECEIT (9) [noun] An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick. | [noun] An act of deceiving someone. | [noun] The state of being deceitful or deceptive. DECENT (9) [adjective] Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances. | [adjective] (of a person) Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness. | [adjective] Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen. DECOCT (11) [verb] To make an infusion. | [verb] To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down. | [verb] To heat as if by boiling. DEDUCT (10) [verb] To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount. DEFEAT (10) [verb] To overcome in battle or contest. | [verb] To reduce, to nothing, the strength of. | [verb] To nullify | [noun] The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss. DEFECT (12) [noun] A fault or malfunction. | [noun] The quantity or amount by which anything falls short. | [noun] A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient. DEGUST (8) [verb] To taste carefully to fully appreciate it. | [verb] To savour DEHORT (10) [verb] To dissuade. DEJECT (16) [verb] Make sad or dispirited. | [verb] To cast down. DELICT (9) [noun] (Scottish law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law. | [noun] The branch of law dealing in delicts. DELIST (7) [verb] To remove from an official register or list. DEMAST (9) DEMENT (9) [noun] An insane person, or one afflicted with dementia | [verb] To drive mad; to craze | [adjective] Insane, demented DEPART (9) [noun] Division; separation, as of compound substances. | [noun] A going away; departure. | [verb] To leave. DEPICT (11) [verb] To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. | [adjective] Depicted. DEPORT (9) [verb] To comport (oneself); to behave. | [verb] To evict, especially from a country. DESALT (7) [verb] To remove salt from; to desalinate. DESERT (7) [noun] (usually in the plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward | [noun] A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland. | [noun] Any barren place or situation. | [verb] To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake. DESIST (7) [verb] To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from). DESPOT (9) [noun] A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant. | [noun] A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries) DETECT (9) [verb] To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing | [adjective] Detected. DETENT (7) [noun] That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking. | [verb] The action of creating a detent mechanism to lock or unlock movement. DETEST (7) [verb] To dislike intensely; to loathe. | [verb] To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. DEVEST (10) DEVOUT (10) [noun] A devotee. | [noun] A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion. | [adjective] Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious. DICAST (9) DIDACT (10) DIGEST (8) [verb] To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. | [verb] To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. | [verb] To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. | [noun] That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles DIGLOT (8) DIKTAT (11) [noun] A harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor | [noun] A dogmatic decree, especially issued by one who rules without popular consent DIMOUT (9) DIMWIT (12) [noun] A person who is deficient in intelligence. DIPNET (9) [verb] To catch (fish) in a hand net. | [noun] A small net that is equipped with a handle and attached to a rim so that the net forms a pouch. This kind of net is used, eg, for trapping butterflies or individual fish. DIQUAT (16) [noun] A contact herbicide that produces desiccation and defoliation. DIRECT (9) [verb] To manage, control, steer. | [verb] To aim (something) at (something else). | [verb] To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way. DIREST (7) [adjective] Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. | [adjective] Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. | [adjective] Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal DIVERT (10) [verb] To turn aside from a course. | [verb] To distract. | [verb] To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention) DIVEST (10) [verb] To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice). | [verb] To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary. | [verb] To undress. DOCENT (9) [noun] A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.) | [noun] A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc. | [adjective] Instructive; that teaches. DOCKET (13) [noun] A summary; a brief digest. | [noun] A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register. | [noun] A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court. DOPANT (9) [noun] A substance added in small amounts to a pure material, such as semiconductor, to alter its original electrical or optical properties; a doping agent DOUGHT (11) DREAMT (9) [verb] To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping. | [verb] To hope, to wish. | [verb] To daydream. DRIEST (7) [adjective] Free from or lacking moisture. | [adjective] Unable to produce a liquid, as water, oil, or (farming) milk. | [adjective] Built without or lacking mortar. DRYEST (10) DRYLOT (10) DUGOUT (8) [noun] A canoe made from a hollowed-out log. | [noun] A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire. | [noun] A sunken shelter at the side of a baseball or football (soccer) field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game. DULCET (9) [adjective] Sweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious. | [adjective] Generally pleasing; agreeable. | [adjective] Sweet to the taste. DYNAST (10) [noun] A ruler or governor, especially a hereditary ruler or someone who founded or is part of a dynasty. EAGLET (7) [noun] The immature young of an eagle; an eagle chick. EFFECT (14) [noun] The result or outcome of a cause. | [noun] Impression left on the mind; sensation produced. | [noun] Execution; performance; realization; operation. EFFORT (12) [noun] The work involved in performing an activity; exertion. | [noun] An endeavour. | [noun] A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. EGOIST (7) ELDEST (7) [noun] The eldest child in a family, or individual in a group. | [adjective] (of a player) Receiving cards from the dealer first, before any other players. | [adjective] (of a hand) Having higher, or superior cards. ELEGIT (7) ELICIT (8) [verb] To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer. | [verb] To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something. | [verb] To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason ELUANT (6) [noun] The product of elution | [noun] In chromatography, a solvent used in order to effect separation by elution. ELUENT (6) [noun] In chromatography, a solvent used in order to effect separation by elution. ENCYST (11) [verb] To enclose within a cyst. | [verb] To be enclosed within a cyst. ENGIRT (7) ENGLUT (7) ENLIST (6) [noun] One who is enlisted, usually in a military service. | [verb] To enter on a list; to enroll; to register. | [verb] To join a cause or organization, especially military service. ENRAPT (8) [adjective] Fascinated, enraptured ENROOT (6) ERRANT (6) [noun] A knight-errant. | [adjective] Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits. | [adjective] Wandering; roving around. ESCORT (8) [noun] A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission. | [noun] An accompanying person in such a group. | [noun] A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others. ESPRIT (8) [noun] Spirit, enthusiasm. | [noun] A wit. | [noun] Liveliness, or active mind and spirit. EXCEPT (17) [verb] To exclude; to specify as being an exception. | [verb] To take exception, to object (to or against). | [preposition] With the exception of; but. EXEMPT (17) [noun] One who has been released from something. | [noun] A type of French police officer. | [noun] One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon. EXEUNT (13) [noun] A stage direction for more than one actor to leave the stage. | [noun] An act of one or more actors leaving the stage. | [verb] They leave the stage (a stage direction to two or more actors, the plural counterpart of exit). EXHORT (16) [verb] To urge; to advise earnestly. EXPECT (17) [verb] To predict or believe that something will happen | [verb] To consider obligatory or required. | [verb] To consider reasonably due. EXPERT (15) [noun] A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject. | [noun] A player ranking just below master. | [adjective] Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable. EXPORT (15) [noun] Something that is exported | [noun] The act of exporting | [verb] To carry away EXSECT (15) EXSERT (13) [verb] To thrust out; to cause to protrude. | [adjective] Standing out; projecting beyond some other part. EXTANT (13) [adjective] Still in existence. | [adjective] Currently existing; not having disappeared. | [adjective] Still alive; not extinct. EXTENT (13) [noun] A range of values or locations. | [noun] The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends. | [noun] A contiguous area of storage in a file system. EXTORT (13) [verb] To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity | [verb] To obtain by means of the offense of extortion. | [verb] To twist outwards. EYELET (9) [noun] An object that consists of a rim and small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc. An eyelet may reinforce a hole. | [noun] A shaped metal embellishment containing a hole, used in scrapbook. Eyelets are typically set by punching a hole in the page, placing the smooth side of the eyelet on a table, positioning the paper over protruding edge and curling the edge down using a hammer and eyelet setter. | [noun] Cotton fabric with small holes. FAGGOT (11) [noun] (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.) | [noun] Burdensome baggage. | [noun] A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding. FANJET (16) [noun] A turbofan engine. | [noun] An airplane powered by turbofan engines. FAUCET (11) [noun] An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir. | [noun] (game development) One or several systems that inject currency into the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation FERRET (9) [noun] An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals. | [noun] The black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes. | [noun] A diligent searcher. | [noun] A tape of silk, cotton, or ribbon, used to tie documents, clothing, etc. or along the edge of fabric. FEWEST (12) FEYEST (12) FIDGET (11) [noun] A nervous wriggling or twitching motion. | [noun] A person who fidgets, especially habitually. | [noun] A toy intended to be fidgeted with. FILLET (9) [noun] A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration. | [noun] A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses. | [noun] A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet. FINEST (9) [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. FLAUNT (9) [noun] Anything displayed for show. | [verb] To wave or flutter smartly in the wind. | [verb] To parade, display with ostentation. | [verb] To flout. FLIEST (9) FLIGHT (13) [noun] The act of flying. | [noun] An instance of flying. | [noun] The act of fleeing. | [noun] The act of fleeing. FLORET (9) [noun] A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower. FLUENT (9) [noun] A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions. | [adjective] That flows; flowing, liquid. | [adjective] Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way. FOMENT (11) [noun] Fomentation. | [verb] To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate. | [verb] To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge. FOREST (9) [noun] A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods. | [noun] Any dense collection or amount. | [noun] A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas. FORGAT (10) FORGET (10) [verb] To lose remembrance of. | [verb] To unintentionally not do, neglect. | [verb] To unintentionally leave something behind. FORGOT (10) [verb] To lose remembrance of. | [verb] To unintentionally not do, neglect. | [verb] To unintentionally leave something behind. FORINT (9) [noun] The basic unit of currency of Hungary; formerly subdivided into 100 fillér. FORMAT (11) [noun] The layout of a publication or document. | [noun] (hence) The form of presentation of something. | [noun] The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc. FORRIT (9) FOUGHT (13) [verb] To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. FREEST (9) [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. | [verb] To rid of something that confines or oppresses. | [adjective] (social) Unconstrained. FRIGHT (13) [noun] A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm. | [noun] Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion. | [verb] To frighten. | [adjective] Frightened; afraid; affright FROWST (12) [noun] Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room. | [verb] To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place. FUNEST (9) FYLFOT (15) [noun] A swastika, especially one with the arms bent in an anticlockwise direction. GADGET (9) [noun] A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey. | [noun] Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated. | [noun] Any consumer electronics product. GAINST (7) [preposition] Against GALIOT (7) [noun] A light galley. GALLET (7) GALOOT (7) [noun] A clumsy or uncouth person. GAMBIT (11) [noun] An opening in chess, in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage. | [noun] Any ploy or stratagem. | [noun] A remark intended to open a conversation. GAMEST (9) [adjective] Willing to participate. | [adjective] (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely. | [adjective] Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above. GANNET (7) [noun] Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater. | [noun] A voracious eater; a glutton. GARGET (8) [noun] The throat. | [noun] An inflammation on a cow's or sheep's udder. | [noun] A distemper in pigs accompanied by staggering and loss of appetite. GARNET (7) [noun] A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives. | [noun] A dark red color, like that of the gemstone. | [adjective] Of a dark red colour. | [noun] A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out. | [verb] To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused. GARRET (7) [noun] An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house. GASKET (11) [noun] A length of rope used for reefing a sail, or holding a stowed sail in place. | [noun] Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression. | [noun] A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration. GASLIT (7) [verb] To manipulate (someone) psychologically such that they question their own memory, perception, and sanity, thereby evoking in them cognitive dissonance and low self-esteem. | [adjective] Illuminated by burning gas. GAYEST (10) [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Happy, joyful, and lively. | [adjective] Quick, fast. | [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Festive, bright, or colourful. GELANT (7) GERENT (7) GIBBET (11) [noun] An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display. | [noun] The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. | [noun] A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal. GIBLET (9) [noun] (usually in the plural) the edible viscera of a bird GIGLET (8) GIGLOT (8) GIMLET (9) [noun] A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes. | [noun] A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice. | [verb] To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet). GOBBET (11) [noun] A quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch. | [noun] A lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat. | [noun] An extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, discussion, or translation in an examination. GOBLET (9) [noun] A drinking vessel with a foot and stem. GODWIT (11) [noun] Any of four species of long-billed, migratory wading birds in the genus Limosa, of the family Scolopacidae. GOGLET (8) GORGET (8) [noun] A piece of armour for the throat. | [noun] A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple. | [noun] An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc. GRIVET (10) [noun] An Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face. GUGLET (8) GULLET (7) [noun] The throat or esophagus. | [noun] The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested. | [noun] The space between the teeth of a saw blade. GURNET (7) GUSSET (7) [noun] A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet. | [noun] A small piece of mail, providing some protection where two plates of armor are joined, usually at the elbows, under the shoulders, and behind the knees. | [noun] (machinery) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler. HAFFET (15) HAFFIT (15) HAGBUT (12) HALEST (9) HALLOT (9) HAMLET (11) [noun] A small village or a group of houses. | [noun] A village that does not have its own church. | [noun] Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae. HARLOT (9) [noun] A female prostitute. | [noun] A female who is considered promiscuous. | [noun] A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. HASLET (9) [noun] The internal organs of an animal, especially the heart and liver of a pig. | [noun] A meatloaf made of these organs. HEIGHT (13) [noun] The distance from the base of something to the top. | [noun] The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse). | [noun] The highest point or maximum degree. HELMET (11) [noun] A protective head covering, usually part of armour. | [noun] That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc. | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, a helmet. HENBIT (11) [noun] Lamium amplexicaule, an annual plant with pink or purple flowers and deeply crenate leaves. HEPCAT (13) [noun] A jazz performer, especially one from the 1940s and 1950s. | [noun] A person associated with the jazz subculture of the 1940s and 1950s; a hipster. | [noun] A sophisticated person, one who is stylish. HEREAT (9) [adverb] At this time; upon this event. | [adverb] At this; because of this. HERIOT (9) [noun] The return of military equipment | [noun] A payment made to a lord on the death of a tenant | [noun] A tribute HERMIT (11) [noun] A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite. | [noun] A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship. | [noun] A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts. HOBBIT (13) [noun] A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds | [noun] An old unit of volume (2 1/2 bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat). HOGGET (11) [noun] A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth). | [noun] The meat of a young sheep. | [noun] A young boar of the second year. HOGNUT (10) [noun] The pignut or hickory (Carya glabra of family Juglandaceae). | [noun] Conopodium majus, a tuberous plant of the Apiaceae. | [noun] Bunium bulbocastanum (black cumin) of the Apiaceae. HOLIST (9) HONEST (9) [verb] To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable. | [adjective] (of a person or institution) Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright. | [adjective] (of a statement) True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased. HORNET (9) [noun] A large wasp, of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting. | [noun] A person who pesters with petty but ceaseless attacks. HOWLET (12) [noun] An owl; an owlet. HUGEST (10) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. ICIEST (8) [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. IDLEST (7) ILLEST (6) [adjective] Evil; wicked (of people). | [adjective] Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy. | [adjective] Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. IMARET (8) IMPACT (12) [noun] The striking of one body against another; collision. | [noun] The force or energy of a collision of two objects. | [noun] A forced impinging. IMPART (10) [verb] To give or bestow (e.g. a quality or property). | [verb] To give a part or to share. | [verb] To make known; to show (by speech, writing etc.). IMPORT (10) [noun] Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade. | [noun] The practice of importing. | [noun] Significance, importance. | [verb] To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence. IMPOST (10) [noun] A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise. | [noun] The weight that must be carried by a horse in a race, the handicap. | [noun] The top part of a column, pillar, pier, wall, etc. that supports an arch. INCANT (8) [verb] To state solemnly, to chant. | [verb] To recite an incantation. INCEPT (10) [verb] To take in or ingest. | [verb] To begin. | [verb] To begin a Master of Arts degree at a university. INCEST (8) [noun] Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and first cousins, usually considered taboo; in many jurisdictions, close relatives are not allowed to marry, and incest is a crime. | [verb] To engage in incestuous sexual intercourse. INCULT (8) INDENT (7) [noun] A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch. | [noun] A stamp; an impression. | [noun] A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt. INDICT (9) [verb] To accuse of wrongdoing; charge. | [verb] To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury. INDUCT (9) [verb] To bring in as a member; to make a part of. | [verb] To formally or ceremoniously install in an office, position, etc. | [verb] To introduce into (particularly if certain knowledge or experience is required, such as ritual adulthood or cults). INDULT (7) [noun] A permission or privilege granted by the church authority that excepts an individual from what is otherwise a norm of church law, such as a release from monastic vows. INFANT (9) [noun] A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention. | [noun] A minor. | [noun] A noble or aristocratic youth. INFECT (11) [verb] To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen). | [verb] To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion. | [adjective] Infected. INFEST (9) [noun] Hostility. | [verb] To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass. | [verb] (of a parasite) To invade a host plant or animal. INGEST (7) [noun] The process of importing data or other material into a system. | [verb] To take a substance (e.g. food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract. | [verb] To bring or import into a system. INJECT (15) [verb] To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage. | [verb] To introduce (something) suddenly or violently. | [verb] To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs. INKJET (17) INKPOT (12) [noun] A pot for holding ink; inkwell. INMOST (8) [noun] That which is innermost; the core. | [adjective] The very deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost INSECT (8) [noun] An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton. | [noun] Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc | [noun] A contemptible or powerless person. INSERT (6) [noun] An image inserted into text. | [noun] A promotional or instructive leaflet inserted into a magazine, newspaper, tape or disk package, etc. | [noun] A mechanical component inserted into another. INSIST (6) [verb] (with on or upon or (that + ordinary verb form)) To hold up a claim emphatically. | [verb] (sometimes with on or upon or (that + subjunctive)) To demand continually that something happen or be done. | [verb] To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon). INSULT (6) [noun] Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; a particular act or statement having this effect. | [noun] Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality). | [noun] Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused. INTACT (8) [adjective] Left complete or whole; not touched, defiled, sullied or otherwise damaged | [adjective] Of animals, not castrated: an intact bull. | [adjective] Uncircumcised; commonly used to describe a penis with a foreskin in intactivism. INTENT (6) [noun] A purpose; something that is intended. | [noun] The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence. | [adjective] Firmly fixed or concentrated on something. INTORT (6) INTUIT (6) [verb] To know intuitively or by immediate perception. INVENT (9) [verb] To design a new process or mechanism. | [verb] To create something fictional for a particular purpose. | [verb] To come upon; to find; to discover. INVERT (9) [noun] A homosexual. | [noun] An inverted arch (as in a sewer). * | [noun] The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch. INVEST (9) [verb] To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in. | [verb] To clothe or wrap (with garments). | [verb] To put on (clothing). | [noun] An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system. IRRUPT (8) [verb] To break into. | [verb] To enter forcibly or uninvited. | [verb] To rapidly increase or intensify. JACKET (19) [noun] A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length. | [noun] A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US) | [noun] A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.) JENNET (13) [noun] A female ass or donkey; a jenny. | [noun] A small Spanish horse. JESUIT (13) JUNKET (17) [noun] A basket. | [noun] A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet. | [noun] A delicacy. JURANT (13) JURIST (13) [noun] An expert of law or someone who researches jurisprudence. | [noun] A judge. KAINIT (10) KAPUTT (12) KEYSET (13) KISMAT (12) KISMET (12) [noun] Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny. KLEPHT (15) [noun] An anti-Ottoman insurgent living in the mountains when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire. KNIGHT (14) [noun] A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord. | [noun] A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire. | [noun] (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages. | [verb] To confer knighthood upon. KRUBUT (12) LABRET (8) [noun] A body piercing consisting of an adornment attached to the lip. LAMENT (8) [noun] An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret. | [noun] A song expressing grief. | [verb] To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn. LAMEST (8) [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. LANCET (8) [noun] A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc. | [noun] A small, sterile single-use needle used to draw a drop of blood for testing, as with a glucometer. | [noun] An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. LAPPET (10) [noun] A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress. | [noun] A wattle or flap-like structure on the face. | [noun] A head-dress made with lappets for lace pendants. LARIAT (6) [noun] A lasso. | [noun] A tether. | [noun] An attack where the wrestler runs towards an opponent, wraps his arm around their upper chest and neck and then forces them to the ground. LATENT (6) [noun] (forensics) The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder dusting; a latent fingerprint. | [noun] An underlying cause that can be inferred from statistical correlations; factor. | [noun] Anything that is latent. LATEST (6) [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. LAXEST (13) [adjective] Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict. | [adjective] Loose; not tight or taut. | [adjective] Lacking care; neglectful, negligent. LAYOUT (9) [noun] A structured arrangement of items within certain limits. | [noun] A plan for such arrangement. | [noun] The act of laying out something. LEARNT (6) [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 gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve. LEGIST (7) LEVANT (9) [noun] A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet. | [verb] To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts. | [adjective] Rising, of an animal. LIKEST (10) LIMPET (10) [noun] A small mollusc, of the family Patellidae with a conical shell found clinging to rocks in the intertidal zones of rocky shores. | [noun] Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space. LINNET (6) [noun] A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. | [noun] A house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), of North America. LIVEST (9) LOCKET (12) [noun] A pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a photograph or other small item. | [noun] The upper metallic cap of a sword’s scabbard. | [noun] A small white marking on a cat's coat. LOCUST (8) [noun] Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria). | [noun] A fruit or pod of the carob tree. | [noun] Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree. LOMENT (8) [noun] A type of modified legume that breaks apart at constrictions occurring between the segments of the seeds. LOQUAT (15) [noun] The Eriobotrya japonica tree. | [noun] The fruit of this tree. It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. LOWEST (9) [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.) LUCENT (8) [adjective] Emitting light; shining, luminous. | [adjective] Translucent; clear, lucid. LUTIST (6) [noun] One who plays the lute. LYRIST (9) [noun] A person who plays the lyre. | [noun] Lyricist | [noun] A lyrical poet MAGGOT (10) [noun] A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. | [noun] A worthless person. | [noun] A whimsy or fancy. MAGNET (9) [noun] A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism. | [noun] (preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun. MAHOUT (11) [noun] An elephant driver and keeper. | [verb] To drive elephants. MALLET (8) [noun] A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul. | [noun] A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger. | [noun] A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments. MAMMET (12) MARKET (12) [noun] A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic. | [noun] City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise. | [noun] A grocery store MARMOT (10) [noun] Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family. MASCOT (10) [noun] Something thought to bring good luck | [noun] Something, especially a person or animal, used to symbolize a sports team, company, organization or other group MATZOT (17) MAUMET (10) MAYEST (11) [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). | [verb] (auxiliary) To be able; can. | [verb] To be able to go. MEREST (8) [adjective] Pure, unalloyed . | [adjective] Nothing less than; complete, downright . | [adjective] Just, only; no more than , pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected. MERLOT (8) [noun] A dark-blue variety of wine grape. | [noun] A dry red wine of a certain French type, made from Merlot grapes. MIDGET (10) [noun] A little sandfly. | [noun] Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10". MIDGUT (10) [noun] The central loop of the alimentary canal of an embryo between the foregut and the hindgut. MILLET (8) [noun] Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world. | [noun] A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one. MINUET (8) [noun] A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance. | [noun] A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure. | [noun] A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name. MISACT (10) MISCUT (10) MISEAT (8) MISFIT (11) [noun] An ill-fitting garment. | [noun] A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity. | [noun] A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc. MISHIT (11) [noun] An incorrect or bad hit. | [verb] To incorrectly or badly hit. MISLIT (8) MISMET (10) MISSET (8) MODEST (9) [adjective] Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble. | [adjective] Small, moderate in size. | [adjective] Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety. MOLEST (8) [verb] To annoy intentionally. | [verb] To disturb or tamper with. | [verb] To sexually assault or sexually harass, especially a minor. MOMENT (10) [noun] A brief, unspecified amount of time. | [noun] The smallest portion of time; an instant. | [noun] Weight or importance. MONGST (9) MONIST (8) MOPPET (12) [noun] A child. Often used lovingly or in an affectionate way. | [noun] A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth. | [noun] A long-haired pet dog. MOTMOT (10) [noun] Any bird in the taxonomic family Momotidae, endemic to the neotropics. MUDCAT (11) MULLET (8) [noun] A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (the red mullets or goatfish). | [noun] A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (the grey mullets). | [noun] Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, the redhorses) | [noun] A fool | [noun] A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back. | [noun] A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points. MUSCAT (10) [noun] A white grape variety; used as table grapes and for making raisins and sweet wine. | [noun] The muscatel wine made from these grapes. | [noun] The vine bearing this fruit. MUSKET (12) [noun] A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle. | [noun] A male Eurasian sparrowhawk. MUSKIT (12) MUTANT (8) [noun] Something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation. | [noun] Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre. | [adjective] Of, relating to, undergoing (i.e. mutating), or resulting from change or mutation; that has undergone mutation. MUTEST (8) MYSOST (11) NATANT (6) [adjective] Floating or swimming (in water) | [adjective] In a horizontal position, as if swimming NAUGHT (10) [noun] Nothingness. | [numeral] (old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought | [pronoun] Nothing. NEWEST (9) [adjective] Recently made, or created. | [adjective] Additional; recently discovered. | [adjective] Current or later, as opposed to former. NICEST (8) [adjective] Pleasant, satisfactory. | [adjective] Of a person: friendly, attractive. | [adjective] Respectable; virtuous. NIDGET (8) NITWIT (9) [noun] A scatterbrained or stupid person. NOCENT (8) NONART (6) [noun] That which is not art NONFAT (9) [adjective] Containing no fat; fat-free. NOUGAT (7) [noun] A confection of honey or sugar and roasted nuts, often with other ingredients. NOUGHT (10) [noun] Nothing; something which does not exist. | [noun] A thing or person of no worth or value; nil. | [noun] Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game. NUDEST (7) NUDIST (7) [noun] A person who practices nudism. | [adjective] (usually attributive) Relating to nudists and nudism. NUGGET (8) [noun] A small, compact chunk or clump. | [noun] A chicken nugget. | [noun] A tidbit of something valuable. NUMBAT (10) [noun] A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively termites. NUTANT (6) NUTLET (6) [noun] A small nut. OBJECT (17) [noun] A thing that has physical existence. | [noun] Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something. | [noun] (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action. OBLAST (8) [noun] A region or province in Slavic or Slavic-influenced countries. OBOIST (8) OBTECT (10) [adjective] (of a pupa) Having the legs and other appendages more or less strongly cemented to the body. OBTEST (8) OBVERT (11) [verb] To turn so as to show another side. | [verb] To turn towards the front. OCCULT (10) [noun] (usually with "the") Supernatural affairs. | [verb] To cover or hide from view. | [verb] To dissimulate, conceal, or obfuscate. OCELOT (8) [noun] An American feline carnivore (Felis pardalis) covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches which are variously arranged. OCTANT (8) [noun] The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees. | [noun] The aspect of two planets that are 45°, or one-eighth of a circle, apart. | [noun] The eighth part of a disc; a sector of 45 degrees; half a quadrant. ODDEST (8) [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. OFFCUT (14) [noun] A piece that has been cut off of a larger piece when not needed; surplus. | [verb] To cut off. | [adjective] Cut off. OFFSET (12) [noun] Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent. | [noun] A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales. | [noun] (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset. OFTEST (9) OLDEST (7) [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. OMELET (8) [noun] A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with cheese, chives or other foodstuffs. | [noun] A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed. OOCYST (11) [noun] A reproductive cell in certain fungi. | [noun] A thick-walled structure of a parasitic protozoan, that develops into sporozoite. ORGEAT (7) [noun] A sweet syrup made from sugar and almonds (or originally barley) and rose water or orange flower water. ORIENT (6) [proper noun] Usually preceded by the: a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia). | [proper noun] The countries east of the Mediterranean. | [proper noun] A city and town in Illinois. OUTACT (8) [verb] To act (play a role in theatre, film etc.) better than. OUTEAT (6) OUTFIT (9) [noun] A set of clothing (with accessories). | [noun] Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose. | [noun] Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company. OUTHIT (9) [verb] To hit something better or further than another, especially to score better in a game involving hitting a ball with a bat. OUTJUT (13) OUTLET (6) [noun] A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something. | [noun] Something which allows for the release of one's desires. | [noun] A river that runs out of a lake. OUTPUT (8) [noun] Production; quantity produced, created, or completed. | [noun] Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another. | [noun] The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine. OUTSAT (6) [verb] To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay. OUTSET (6) [noun] The beginning or initial stage of something. | [verb] (CSS) To cause (a design element) to extend around the outside of something else, the opposite of being inset. OUTSIT (6) [verb] To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay. OUTWIT (9) [verb] To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits. OXCART (15) PACKET (14) [noun] A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel | [noun] Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia). | [noun] A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet. PALEST (8) [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [verb] To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. PALLET (8) [noun] A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage. | [noun] A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipment. | [noun] (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft. | [noun] A straw bed. | [noun] Paleness; pallor. | [noun] A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours. PANDIT (9) [noun] (Nepal) An honorary title for a learned man or scholar. PAPIST (10) [noun] A Roman Catholic, whose loyalties are seen to be with the papacy in Rome. | [adjective] The quality of being a papist. PARENT (8) [noun] One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father. | [noun] A surrogate mother | [noun] A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material PARGET (9) [noun] Gypsum. | [noun] Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. | [noun] Paint, especially for the face. PARROT (8) [noun] A kind of bird, many species of which are colourful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae. | [noun] A parroter; a person who repeats the words or ideas of others. | [noun] A puffin. PATENT (8) [noun] A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent. | [noun] A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent. | [noun] License; formal permission. | [adjective] Open, unobstructed, expanded. PAYOUT (11) [noun] An amount of money paid out. | [noun] The value of dividends paid to shareholders. PEANUT (8) [noun] A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea. | [noun] A very small clam. | [verb] To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten. PEDANT (9) [noun] A teacher or schoolmaster. | [noun] A person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar. | [noun] A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. PEEWIT (11) [noun] Any of several birds PELLET (8) [noun] A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter. | [noun] A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns. | [noun] Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones. PELMET (10) [noun] An interior decorative item that is placed above a window to hide the curtain mechanisms, visually similar to a cornice or valance. PENULT (8) [noun] The next-to-last syllable of a word. | [noun] The next to the last in a series. PERMIT (10) [noun] An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal. | [noun] Formal permission. | [verb] To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for. | [noun] A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus. PICKET (14) [noun] A stake driven into the ground. | [noun] A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. | [noun] A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls. PIGLET (9) [noun] A young pig PIGNUT (9) [noun] The edible tuber of Conopodium majus, native to western Europe. | [noun] Any of various types of hickory or their fruits; a hognut. | [noun] Simmondsia chinensis, jojoba. PIGOUT (9) PIOLET (8) [noun] An ice axe/ice ax. PIQUET (17) [noun] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. PLACET (10) [noun] A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc. | [noun] The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance. | [interjection] Expression of assent to a vote in the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc. PLAINT (8) [noun] A lament or woeful cry. | [noun] A complaint. | [noun] A sad song. PLANET (8) [noun] Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. | [noun] A body which orbits the Sun directly and is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (effectively meaning a spheroid) and to dominate its orbit; specifically, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Pluto was considered a planet until 2006 and has now been reclassified as a dwarf planet.) | [noun] A large body which directly orbits any star (or star cluster) but which has not attained nuclear fusion. PLIANT (8) [adjective] Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking | [adjective] Easily influenced; tractable. PLIGHT (12) [noun] A dire or unfortunate situation. | [noun] A (neutral) condition or state. | [noun] Good health. | [noun] Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril. | [verb] To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait. | [noun] A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment. POCKET (14) [noun] A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items. | [noun] Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources. | [noun] An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table. PONENT (8) POPPET (12) [noun] (term of endearment) An endearingly sweet or beautiful child. | [noun] (term of endearment) A young woman or girl. | [noun] The stem and valve head in a poppet valve. POSSET (8) [noun] A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine. | [noun] A baby's vomit, comprising curdled milk. | [verb] To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate. POTENT (8) [noun] A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes. | [noun] A prince; a potentate. | [noun] A staff or crutch. PREACT (10) PRECUT (10) [verb] To cut in advance. PRESET (8) [noun] Something that is set in advance. | [verb] To set something in advance. | [adjective] Set in advance, or as a default. PRIEST (8) [noun] A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple | [noun] A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish | [noun] The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood PRIVET (11) [noun] Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum. | [interjection] Hello, hi PROBIT (10) [noun] A unit, derived from a standard distribution, used in measuring the responses to doses PROFIT (11) [noun] Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price. | [noun] Benefit, positive result obtained. | [noun] In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game). PROJET (15) PROMPT (12) [noun] A reminder or cue. | [noun] A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. | [noun] A sequence of characters that appears on a monitor to indicate that the computer is ready to receive input. PROSIT (8) [interjection] Toast to indicate one is drinking to someone's, or to each other's, health. PRUTOT (8) PULLET (8) [noun] A young hen, especially one less than a year old. | [noun] A spineless person; a coward. | [noun] A young girl. PULPIT (10) [noun] A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon. | [noun] Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit. | [noun] A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker. PUNDIT (9) [noun] An expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic. | [noun] A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar. | [noun] A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders. PUNNET (8) [noun] A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries. PUPPET (12) [noun] Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove. | [noun] A person, country, etc, controlled by another. | [noun] A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll. PUREST (8) [adjective] Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied. | [adjective] Free of foreign material or pollutants. | [adjective] Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean. PURIST (8) [noun] An advocate of purism. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to purism. PUTOUT (8) QIVIUT (18) QUAINT (15) [adjective] Of a person: cunning, crafty. | [adjective] Cleverly made; artfully contrived. | [adjective] Strange or odd; unusual. | [noun] The vulva. RABBET (10) [noun] A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of a plank of wood or other material; especially, one intended to fit another member to form a joint. | [verb] To cut a rabbet in a piece of material. RABBIT (10) [noun] A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail. | [noun] The meat from this animal. | [noun] The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur. | [verb] To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly. | [verb] Confound; damn; drat. RACHET (11) RACIST (8) [noun] A person who believes in or supports racism; a person who believes that a particular race is superior to others. | [adjective] Constituting, exhibiting, advocating or pertaining to racism. | [adjective] Discriminatory. RACKET (12) [noun] A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton. | [noun] A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. | [noun] A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground. | [noun] A loud noise. RAGOUT (7) [noun] A stew of meat and vegetables mixed together | [noun] (by extension) any stew, soup, or sauce | [verb] To prepare (food) as a ragout. RAMJET (15) [noun] A jet engine in which forward motion forces air into an inlet, compressing it (as opposed to having a pump type device compressing the air for combustion with fuel), and where combustion is subsonic. RAPIST (8) RAREST (6) [adjective] Very uncommon; scarce. | [adjective] (of a gas) Thin; of low density. | [adjective] Good; enjoyable. RAWEST (9) [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. REBAIT (8) REBOOT (8) [noun] An instance of rebooting. | [noun] The restarting of a series' storyline, discarding all previous continuity. | [verb] To execute a computer's boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, possibly after a system failure. RECANT (8) [verb] To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly. RECAST (8) [noun] The act or process of recasting. | [noun] An utterance translated into another grammatical form. | [verb] To cast or throw again. RECENT (8) [adjective] Having happened a short while ago. | [adjective] Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated. | [adjective] Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called. RECEPT (10) REDACT (9) [verb] To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while releasing the remainder. | [verb] To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process. | [verb] To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit. REDIPT (9) REDOUT (7) [noun] The situation where the body experiences a negative g-force sufficient to cause a blood flow from the lower parts of the body to the head. | [noun] A small, temporary, military fortification. | [noun] A reinforced refuge; a fort. REEDIT (7) [verb] Edit again REEMIT (8) REFECT (11) REFELT (9) REFLET (9) [noun] Lustre; brilliancy of a surface; used especially in ceramics to denote the peculiar metallic brilliancy seen in lustred pottery such as majolica REGENT (7) [noun] A ruler. | [noun] One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled. | [noun] A member of a municipal or civic body of governors, especially in certain European cities. REGILT (7) REGLET (7) [noun] A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title pages and other open matter. | [noun] A flat, narrow moulding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. REGRET (7) [noun] Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing. | [noun] Dislike; aversion. | [verb] To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. REHEAT (9) [noun] An afterburner. | [verb] To heat something after it has cooled off, especially previously cooked food (also in figurative senses). | [verb] To become hot again after having cooled off (also in figurative senses). | [verb] Alternative form of rehete REJECT (15) [noun] Something that is rejected. | [noun] An unpopular person. | [noun] A rejected defective product in a production line REKNIT (10) RELENT (6) [noun] Stay; stop; delay. | [noun] A relenting. | [verb] To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to soften in temper RELICT (8) [noun] Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic. | [adjective] Surviving, remaining. | [adjective] That is a relict; pertaining to a relict. RELIST (6) [verb] To list again. RELUCT (8) REMEET (8) REMELT (8) REMINT (8) REMIXT (15) RENEST (6) RENNET (6) [noun] An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine. | [noun] Any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting. REPAST (8) [noun] A meal. | [noun] The food eaten at a meal. | [verb] To supply food to; to feast. REPEAT (8) [noun] An iteration; a repetition. | [noun] A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun. | [noun] A refill of a prescription. REPENT (8) [verb] To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of". | [verb] To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love. | [verb] To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow. | [adjective] Creeping along the ground. REPLOT (8) REPORT (8) [noun] A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject). | [noun] Reputation. | [noun] The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion. RESEAT (6) [verb] To provide (e.g. a room) with more, or new, seats. | [verb] To seat (someone) again, to give somebody a different seat. | [verb] To sit down again. RESECT (8) [verb] To remove (some part of an organ or structure) by surgical means. RESENT (6) [verb] To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront. | [verb] To express displeasure or indignation at. | [verb] To be sensible of; to feel. | [verb] To send again. RESHOT (9) [verb] To shoot again, especially of video recording. RESIFT (9) RESIST (6) [noun] A protective coating or covering. | [verb] To attempt to counter the actions or effects of. | [verb] To withstand the actions of. RESORT (6) [noun] A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment. | [noun] Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety). | [noun] A place where one goes habitually; a haunt. | [noun] An act of sorting again. | [noun] Active power or movement; spring. RESPOT (8) RESULT (6) [noun] That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect. | [noun] The fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort. | [noun] The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree. RETEST (6) [noun] A repeat test. | [verb] To test again. RETINT (6) RETORT (6) [noun] A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback. | [verb] To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation. | [verb] To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility. | [noun] A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation. REVERT (9) [noun] One who, or that which, reverts. | [noun] One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another | [noun] (due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam. REVEST (9) REVOLT (9) [noun] An act of revolt. | [verb] To rebel, particularly against authority. | [verb] To repel greatly. RIBLET (8) RIDENT (7) RIFEST (9) RILLET (6) [noun] A little rill. RIPEST (8) [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 RIPOST (8) ROBUST (8) [adjective] Evincing strength and health; strong. | [adjective] Violent; rough; rude. | [adjective] Requiring strength or vigor ROCHET (11) [noun] A white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church. | [noun] A frock or outer garment worn in the 13th and 14th centuries. | [noun] The red gurnard. ROCKET (12) [noun] A rocket engine. | [noun] A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine. | [noun] A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine. | [noun] The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria. RODENT (7) [noun] A mammal of the order Rodentia, characterized by long incisors that grow continuously and are worn down by gnawing. | [noun] (bulletin board system slang, leet) A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence; lamer. | [adjective] Gnawing; biting; corroding; applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer. ROQUET (15) [noun] In croquet, the act of hitting another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken. | [verb] In croquet, to hit another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken. ROTGUT (7) [noun] Raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor ROUPET (8) RUBOUT (8) RUDEST (7) [adjective] Bad-mannered. | [adjective] Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive. | [adjective] Tough, robust. RUNLET (6) [noun] A small stream or brook. | [noun] A wine measure, equivalent to 18 gallons. RUNOUT (6) [noun] Something that has been run out. | [noun] A run out, a running out. The method of getting out in which a batsman, in making a run, has not reached the popping crease when a fielder breaks his wicket with the ball. | [noun] A relatively flat portion at the end of a ski run to slow down, or to connect trails. RUSSET (6) [noun] A reddish-brown color. | [noun] A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric; clothes made with such fabric. | [noun] A variety of apple with rough, russet-colored skin. SABBAT (10) [noun] Witches' Sabbath SACBUT (10) SACHET (11) [noun] A small scented cloth bag filled with fragrant material such as herbs or potpourri. | [noun] A cheesecloth bag of herbs and/or spices added during cooking and then removed before serving. | [noun] A small, sealed packet containing a single-use quantity of any material. SADIST (7) [noun] One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others. SAFEST (9) [adjective] Not in danger; out of harm's reach. | [adjective] Free from risk. | [adjective] Providing protection from danger; providing shelter. SAGBUT (9) SAGEST (7) SALLET (6) [noun] A type of light spherical helmet | [noun] A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise. | [noun] A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads. SAMLET (8) SANEST (6) [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. SAVANT (9) [noun] A person of learning, especially one who is versed in literature or science. | [noun] A person who is considered eminent because of their achievements. | [noun] A person with significant mental disabilities who is very gifted in one area of activity, such as playing the piano or mental arithmetic. SAYEST (9) SCHIST (11) [noun] Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates. SCHUIT (11) SCRIPT (10) [noun] A writing; a written document. | [noun] Written characters; style of writing. | [noun] Type made in imitation of handwriting. SCULPT (10) [noun] A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance. | [verb] To form by sculpture. | [verb] To work as a sculptor. SECANT (8) [noun] A straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points. | [noun] In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle. Symbol: sec | [adjective] That cuts or divides. SECRET (8) [noun] A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden. | [noun] The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack. | [noun] Something not understood or known. SEJANT (13) [adjective] Seated, sitting. SELECT (8) [verb] To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options. | [verb] To obtain a set of data from a database using a query. | [adjective] Privileged, specially selected. SENNET (6) [noun] A signal call given on a cornet or trumpet for entrance or exit on a theatrical stage | [noun] The barracuda. | [noun] Braided cord or fabric of such small stuff as plaited rope yarns SENNIT (6) [noun] Braided cord or fabric of such small stuff as plaited rope yarns | [noun] Plaited or braided straw or grass which is used for making hats and for a variety of ornamental crafts SEPTET (8) [noun] A group of seven, often a musical group of seven performers. | [noun] A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices. SEREST (6) SESTET (6) [noun] A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor. | [noun] The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each. SETOUT (6) SEXIST (13) [noun] A person who discriminates on grounds of sex; someone who practises sexism. | [adjective] Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other. SEXPOT (15) [noun] A sexy person. SEXTET (13) [noun] Any group of six people or things. | [noun] A composition for six voices or instruments. | [noun] A group of six singers or instrumentalists. SHIEST (9) SHRIFT (12) [noun] The act of going to or hearing a religious confession. | [noun] Confession to a priest. | [noun] Forgiveness given by a priest after confession; remission. SHYEST (12) [adjective] Easily frightened; timid. | [adjective] Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach. | [adjective] Cautious; wary; suspicious. SIGNET (7) [noun] An object (especially a ring) formerly used to impress a picture into the sealing wax of a document as a proof of its origin SILENT (6) [noun] That which is silent; a time of silence. | [noun] A silent movie | [adjective] Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. SIPPET (10) [noun] A small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy. SKLENT (10) SKYLIT (13) [adjective] Receiving all or most light from the sky | [adjective] Furnished with one or more skylights. SLIEST (6) SLIGHT (10) [noun] The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy. | [noun] Sleight. | [verb] To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of. SLYEST (9) [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 SOBEIT (8) SOCKET (12) [noun] An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket). | [noun] A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint. | [noun] One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network. SOFFIT (12) [noun] The visible underside of an arch, balcony, beam, cornice, staircase, vault or any other architectural element. | [noun] (pipe technology) The top point of the inside open section of a pipe or box conduit. SONANT (6) SONNET (6) [noun] A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes. | [verb] To compose sonnets. | [verb] To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about. SORBET (8) [noun] Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, used as dessert or between courses of a meal. SOREST (6) [adjective] Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive. | [adjective] Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. | [adjective] Dire; distressing. SOUGHT (10) [verb] To try to find; to look for; to search for. | [verb] To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. | [verb] To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at. SOVIET (9) [adjective] (history) Pertaining to the Soviet Union or its constituent republics. | [adjective] Supporting or representing the Soviet Union or Sovietism; Sovietist. | [noun] A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere. SPIGOT (9) [noun] A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask. | [noun] The plug of a faucet or cock. | [noun] A faucet. SPINET (8) [noun] A short, compact harpsichord or piano. | [noun] A spinney. SPIRIT (8) [noun] The soul of a person or other creature. What moves through experience into self-definition as souls purpose. | [noun] A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel. | [noun] Enthusiasm. SPLENT (8) SPLINT (8) [noun] An inferior kind of cannel coal from Scottish collieries, having a slaty structure. | [noun] A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece. | [noun] A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia. SPOILT (8) [verb] To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour. | [verb] To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil. | [verb] To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). SPRENT (8) SPRINT (8) [noun] A short race at top speed. | [noun] A burst of speed or activity. | [noun] In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings. SPROUT (8) [noun] A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts. | [noun] A child. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A Brussels sprout. SQUINT (15) [noun] An expression in which the eyes are partly closed. | [noun] The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus. | [noun] A quick or sideways glance. SQUIRT (15) [noun] An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream. | [noun] A small, quick stream; a jet. | [noun] (hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source. STRAIT (6) [noun] A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water. | [noun] A narrow pass, passage or street. | [noun] A neck of land; an isthmus. STREET (6) [noun] A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town. | [noun] A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings. | [noun] The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood. STRICT (8) [adjective] Strained; drawn close; tight. | [adjective] Tense; not relaxed. | [adjective] Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular. STRIPT (8) STRUNT (6) STYLET (9) [noun] An engraving tool, a stylus. | [noun] A style of a plant's flower. | [noun] A slender medical probe or device. SUBLET (8) [noun] Property leased by one lessee to another. | [verb] To lease or rent all or part of (a property) (to another person). SUBLOT (8) SUBMIT (10) [verb] To yield or give way to another. | [verb] To yield (something) to another, as when defeated. | [verb] To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc. SUBNET (8) [noun] The abstraction of a sequence. | [noun] A portion of a network that shares a network address in which each component is identified by a number. | [verb] To break (a network) into subnets. SUBSET (8) [noun] (of a set S) A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S. | [noun] A group of things or people, all of which are in a specified larger group. | [verb] To take a subset of. SUKKOT (14) [noun] A temporary dwelling or booth used by practising Jews during Tabernacles (Sukkot). SUMMIT (10) [noun] A peak; the topmost point or surface, as of a mountain. | [noun] A gathering or assembly of leaders. | [verb] (hiking) To reach the summit of a mountain. | [pronoun] Something SUNKET (10) SUNLIT (6) [adjective] Illuminated by sunlight. SUNSET (6) [noun] The time of day when the sun disappears below the western horizon. | [noun] The changes in color of the sky at sunset. | [noun] The final period of the life of a person or thing. SUREST (6) [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. SWIVET (12) [noun] A state or condition of haste, flutter; extreme discomposure or distress; irritation, exasperation, annoyance. SYNDET (10) TABLET (8) [noun] A slab of clay used for inscription. | [noun] A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith. | [noun] A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance. TACKET (12) TALENT (6) [noun] A marked natural ability or skill. | [noun] A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East. | [noun] A desire or inclination for something. TALLIT (6) TAMEST (8) [adjective] Not or no longer wild; domesticated | [adjective] (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact | [adjective] Not exciting. TANIST (6) [noun] The heir presumptive to the chieftainship or kingship of a Celtic clan in ancient Ireland, Scotland or Mann. TAPPET (10) [noun] A lever or projection which is moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, in order to produce change or regulate motion. TARGET (7) [noun] A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile. | [noun] A goal or objective. | [noun] A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war. TASSET (6) TAUGHT (10) [verb] To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate. | [verb] (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to. | [verb] To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher. TEAPOT (8) [noun] A vessel for brewing and serving tea. TENANT (6) [noun] One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others. | [noun] One who has possession of any place. | [noun] One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership. TERCET (8) [noun] A three-line stanza in a poem TERRET (6) [noun] One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass. TERRIT (6) [noun] One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass. THEIST (9) [noun] One who believes in the existence of a god or gods. THIRST (9) [noun] A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (such as fear, excitement, etc.) which spots the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane | [noun] The condition producing the sensation of thirst. | [noun] A want and eager desire (for something); a craving or longing. THREAT (9) [noun] An expression of intent to injure or punish another. | [noun] An indication of potential or imminent danger. | [noun] A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace. | [verb] To press; urge; compel. THRIFT (12) [noun] The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money). | [noun] A savings bank. | [noun] Any of various plants of the genus Armeria, particularly Armeria maritima. THROAT (9) [noun] The front part of the neck. | [noun] The gullet or windpipe. | [noun] A narrow opening in a vessel. THRUST (9) [noun] An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point. | [noun] A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.) | [noun] The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine. THWART (12) [noun] A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit. | [noun] A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail. | [noun] An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle. TICKET (12) [noun] A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc. | [noun] A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation | [noun] A citation for a traffic violation. TIDBIT (9) [noun] A tasty morsel (of food). | [noun] A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits). | [noun] A short mention of news or gossip. TIPCAT (10) [noun] An old game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, to make it travel through the air as far as possible. | [noun] The wooden piece used in this game. TIPPET (10) [noun] A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front. | [noun] A stole worn by Anglican ministers or other clergymen. | [noun] A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line. TITBIT (8) [noun] A tasty morsel (of food). | [noun] A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits). | [noun] A short mention of news or gossip. TOILET (6) [noun] A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room. | [noun] The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table. | [noun] Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair. TOMCAT (10) [noun] A tom, a male cat. | [verb] To prowl for sexual gratification. TOMTIT (8) [noun] Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family. TONLET (6) TOQUET (15) TREVET (9) TRICOT (8) [noun] A soft knit fabric. TRIJET (13) [noun] An aircraft powered by three jet engines. | [noun] Three jets of particles from an event or source TRIVET (9) [noun] A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire. | [noun] A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a hot coaster | [noun] A weaver's knife. See trevat. TRUANT (6) [noun] One who is absent without permission, especially from school. | [verb] To play truant. | [verb] To idle away; to waste. TRUEST (6) [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. TRYOUT (9) [noun] A test of the suitability or effectiveness of a person or thing, especially of a performer or athlete (an audition) TUBIST (8) TUCKET (12) [noun] A fanfare played on one or more trumpets. | [noun] A steak; a collop. TUFFET (12) [noun] A clump of grass or similar vegetation. | [noun] (furniture) A large cushion which may have an internal frame, used as a low seat or stool. | [noun] An inflatable cushion serving as landing area for precision accuracy parachuting. TUMULT (8) [noun] Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd. | [noun] Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds. | [noun] A riot or uprising. TURBIT (8) [noun] A kind of pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding, known for its peaked crest, short beak, and frill of feathers on the breast. | [noun] The turbot. TURBOT (8) [noun] A species of flatfish native to Europe (Scophthalmus maximus, earlier Psetta maxima). | [noun] Any of various other flatfishes of family Scophthalmidae that are found in marine or brackish waters. | [noun] Triggerfish, Canthidermis sufflamen. TURRET (6) [noun] A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle. | [noun] A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries. | [noun] A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes). TWILIT (9) [verb] To illuminate faintly. | [adjective] Illuminated by or as if by twilight. TYPIST (11) [noun] A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter. TYRANT (9) [noun] A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession. | [noun] Any monarch or governor. | [noun] A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly. UMLAUT (8) [noun] An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants. | [noun] The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic lūsiz > Old English lȳs(i) > Modern English lice). | [noun] A vowel so assimilated. UNBELT (8) [verb] To remove a belt | [verb] To relax, unwind UNBENT (8) [verb] To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight | [verb] To release (a load) from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax. | [verb] To unfasten sails from the spars or stays to which are attached for use. UNBOLT (8) [verb] To unlock by undoing the bolts of. UNFELT (9) [adjective] Not felt or experienced; without feeling or sensing. | [adjective] Insincere. UNFIXT (16) UNGIRT (7) UNHURT (9) [adjective] Not hurt; unharmed or unscathed UNJUST (13) [adjective] Not fair, just or right. UNKENT (10) UNKEPT (12) [adjective] Not kept (especially of promises). UNKNIT (10) [verb] To unravel. | [verb] To undo knitted stitches by reversing the knitting motion. UNKNOT (10) [noun] In knot theory, a loop that is not knotted. | [verb] To unfasten (a knot). UNMEET (8) UNMIXT (15) UNPENT (8) UNRENT (6) UNREST (6) [noun] A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests. UNROOT (6) [verb] To tear up by the roots; to uproot. UNSEAT (6) [verb] To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat. | [verb] To deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election, or simply by defeating them in an election. UNSENT (6) [adjective] Not yet sent or transmitted. UNSHUT (9) UNVEXT (16) UNWEPT (11) [adjective] Not wept. | [adjective] Unmourned. UPBEAT (10) [noun] An unaccented beat at the start of a musical phrase. | [adjective] Having a fast pace, tempo, or beat. | [adjective] Having a positive, lively, or perky tone, attitude, etc. UPCAST (10) [noun] A cast; a throw. | [noun] The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine. | [noun] A current of air passed along such a shaft. UPDART (9) UPGIRT (9) UPLIFT (11) [noun] The act or result of being uplifted. | [noun] A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building. | [noun] A brassiere that raises the breasts. UPMOST (10) [adjective] Uppermost. UPROOT (8) [verb] To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate. | [verb] (by extension) To remove from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly. | [verb] To destroy utterly; to eradicate, exterminate. UPSENT (8) UPSHOT (11) [noun] A concise summary. | [noun] The final result, or outcome of something. UPTILT (8) UPWAFT (14) URGENT (7) [adjective] Requiring immediate attention. URTEXT (13) [noun] A primitive, seminal, or prototypical example of an artistic genre or the basis of an ideological movement. | [noun] The original version of a piece of music or text, as created by the composer or writer. UTMOST (8) [noun] Maximum; greatest possible amount or quantity. | [adjective] Situated at the most distant limit; farthest. | [adjective] The most extreme; ultimate; greatest. VACANT (11) [adjective] Not occupied; empty. | [adjective] Showing no intelligence or interest. VARLET (9) [noun] A servant or attendant. | [noun] Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood. | [noun] A rogue or scoundrel. VELVET (12) [noun] A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side. | [noun] Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers. | [noun] A female chinchilla; a sow. VERIST (9) VERSET (9) [noun] A very short organ interlude or prelude. | [noun] A verse. VERVET (12) [noun] A small African monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops or Chlorocebus pygerythrus, having a long tail, a black face with white cheek tufts and a greenish-brown coat VIBIST (11) [noun] A vibraphone player; someone that plays the vibraphone. VILEST (9) [adjective] Morally low; base; despicable. | [adjective] Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid. VIOLET (9) [noun] A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice. | [noun] The bulb of such a plant. | [noun] The genus as a whole. VOLANT (9) [adjective] Having extended wings as if flying. | [adjective] Represented as unsupported in the air. | [adjective] Flying, or able to fly. VOLOST (9) WADSET (10) WALLET (9) [noun] A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc. | [noun] (by extension) A person's bank account or assets. | [noun] A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored. WALNUT (9) [noun] A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans. | [noun] A nut of the walnut tree. | [noun] Wood of the walnut tree. WAUCHT (14) WAUGHT (13) WEIGHT (13) [noun] (physical) Matter, material. | [noun] A large quantity; a sum. | [noun] The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism. WESKIT (13) WHILST (12) [conjunction] (rare or literary in North America) While, at the same time. WHISHT (15) [interjection] (Irish and British) Shush, silence, be quiet! | [interjection] A sound often used to calm livestock, cattle, sheep etc. WICKET (15) [noun] A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one. | [noun] A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating. | [noun] A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc. WIDEST (10) [adjective] Having a large physical extent from side to side. | [adjective] Large in scope. | [adjective] Operating at the side of the playing area. WIDGET (11) [noun] A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product. | [noun] Portable code that can be easily installed and executed by an end user. | [noun] A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened. | [noun] Any one of the components of a computer application's graphical user interface, such as a Cancel button or text input box that a user interacts with. WIGLET (10) WILLET (9) [noun] Tringa semipalmata or Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, a large shorebird. WISENT (9) [noun] The European bison, Bison bonasus. WISEST (9) [adjective] Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience. | [adjective] Disrespectful. | [adjective] Aware, informed. WOMBAT (13) [noun] Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia. WORRIT (9) [noun] Worry; anxiety. | [noun] One who worries excessively or unnecessarily. | [verb] To worry; to be anxious. WORSET (9) WRIEST (9) [adjective] Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). | [adjective] Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. | [adjective] Twisted, bent, crooked. WRIGHT (13) [noun] A builder or maker of something. WRYEST (12) [adjective] Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). | [adjective] Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. | [adjective] Twisted, bent, crooked. YAREST (9) YCLEPT (13) [verb] To give a call; cry out; appeal. | [verb] To call; call upon; cry out to. | [verb] To call to oneself; invite; summon. YOGURT (10) [noun] A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring. | [noun] (especially in compounds) Any similar product based on other substances (e.g. soy yogurt). ZEALOT (15) [noun] One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for his own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic | [noun] A member of a radical, warlike, ardently patriotic group of Jews in Judea, particularly prominent in the first century, who advocated the violent overthrow of Roman rule and vigorously resisted the efforts of the Romans and their supporters to convert the Jews. | [noun] A member of an anti-aristocratic political group in Thessalonica from 1342 until 1350.

ABEYANT (12) ABLUENT (9) ABOUGHT (13) ABREACT (11) [verb] To eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences. ABREAST (9) [adjective] Side by side, facing forward. | [adjective] Alongside; parallel to. | [adjective] Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted. ACCOUNT (11) [noun] A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. | [noun] A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal. | [noun] A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done. | [verb] To provide explanation. ACCURST (11) [verb] To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize. | [adjective] (prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome. | [adjective] Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized. ACHIEST (12) [adjective] Suffering from aches, sore. ACQUEST (18) [verb] To acquire or obtain, especially through one's own effort or action. ACROBAT (11) [noun] An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination. ACUTEST (9) [adjective] Brief, quick, short. | [adjective] High or shrill. | [adjective] Intense, sensitive, sharp. ADAMANT (10) [noun] An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness. | [noun] An embodiment of impregnable hardness. | [noun] A lodestone. ADDREST (9) [verb] Archaic past tense and past participle of "address," meaning to direct speech or attention to, or to deal with a matter. ADHIBIT (13) [verb] To allow in; to admit. | [verb] To apply or administer (something, such as a remedy). | [verb] To affix. ADJOINT (15) [noun] The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix. | [noun] (of a matrix) Transpose conjugate. | [noun] (of an operator) Hermitian conjugate. ADJUNCT (17) [noun] An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity. | [noun] A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague. | [noun] An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient. AERIEST (7) [adjective] Superlative form of aery, meaning resembling or characteristic of an aerie (eagle's nest) or situated at a great height. | [adjective] Most airy; having the most air or being most insubstantial. AEROSAT (7) AFFIANT (13) [noun] The individual witness whose statement is contained in an affidavit or sworn deposition. AFFLICT (15) [verb] To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress. | [verb] To strike or cast down; to overthrow. | [verb] To make low or humble. AFFRONT (13) [noun] An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult. | [noun] A hostile encounter or meeting. | [verb] To insult intentionally, especially openly. AFTMOST (12) AGAINST (8) [preposition] In a contrary direction to. | [preposition] In physical opposition to; in collision with. | [preposition] In physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by. AGONIST (8) [noun] Someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon), protagonist. | [noun] The muscle that contracts while the other relaxes. | [noun] A molecule that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction. AILMENT (9) [noun] Something which ails one; a disease; sickness. AIRBOAT (9) [noun] A flat-bottomed boat driven by an in-air propeller and used in shallow water. AIRIEST (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. AIRLIFT (10) [noun] The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency. | [noun] Such a flight. | [noun] A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed. AIRPORT (9) [noun] An airfield (an area designated for the takeoff and landing of aircraft), including one or more runways and (for commercial airports) one or more passenger terminals. AIRPOST (9) [noun] A system or service for transporting mail by aircraft. | [noun] Mail that is transported by aircraft. AKVAVIT (17) [noun] A Scandinavian liquor that is about 40% alcohol by volume; distilled from potato or grain mash and flavored with caraway seeds, anise, fennel, dill and other spices and herbs, depending on variety. ALIMENT (9) [noun] Food. | [noun] Nourishment, sustenance. | [noun] An allowance for maintenance; alimony. ALIQUOT (16) [noun] A portion of a total amount of a solution or suspension. | [verb] To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots. | [adjective] Contained in the whole an integral number of times, a factor or divisor. ALKANET (11) [noun] Alkanna tinctoria, a plant whose root is used as a red dye. | [noun] The dyeing matter extracted from the plant, giving a deep red colour. | [noun] Other plants of the genus Alkanna. ALRIGHT (11) [adjective] Good; in acceptable, if not excellent condition. | [adjective] In good health, unharmed. | [interjection] Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance; OK. ALTOIST (7) [noun] A person playing alto saxophone or some other alto instrument. AMBIENT (11) [noun] Something that surrounds; encompassing material, substance or shape. | [noun] The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc. | [noun] A type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere. AMONGST (10) [preposition] Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. See usage note at amidst. AMORIST (9) [noun] Someone who is in love. | [noun] Someone who writes about love. AMPLEST (11) [adjective] Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended. | [adjective] Fully sufficient; abundant; plenty | [adjective] Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive ANALYST (10) [noun] Someone who analyzes. | [noun] A mathematician who studies real analysis. | [noun] A systems analyst. ANAPEST (9) [noun] In qualitative metre, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two unstressed and one stressed (e.g., the word "interrupt"). | [noun] In quantitative metre, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short and one long (e.g., the word "velveteen"). | [noun] A fragment, phrase or line of poetry or verse using this meter, e.g. ANCIENT (9) [noun] A person who is very old. | [noun] A person who lived in ancient times. | [noun] One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery. | [noun] A flag, banner, standard or ensign. ANIMIST (9) [noun] A person who believes that natural objects, phenomena, and the universe itself possess a spiritual essence or soul. | [noun] A follower of animism, a religious or philosophical belief system that attributes consciousness or divinity to nature and natural phenomena. ANNULET (7) [noun] A small ring. | [noun] A ring-shaped molding at the top of a column | [noun] A small circle borne as a charge in coats of arms. ANTIFAT (10) ANTIPOT (9) APOMICT (13) [noun] Any apomictic plant or organism. APPARAT (11) [noun] The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure. APPOINT (11) [verb] To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement. | [verb] To name (someone to a post or role). | [verb] To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out. APRICOT (11) [noun] A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside. | [noun] The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca | [noun] A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit. AQUAVIT (19) [noun] A Scandinavian liquor that is about 40% alcohol by volume; distilled from potato or grain mash and flavored with caraway seeds, anise, fennel, dill and other spices and herbs, depending on variety. ARIDEST (8) [adjective] Superlative form of arid; extremely dry or having very little rainfall. | [adjective] Lacking interest or liveliness; dull and tedious. ARMREST (9) [noun] Part of the seat of a chair that is designed to support the arm. ARTIEST (7) [adjective] Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown. ASHIEST (10) [adjective] Containing the most ash or resembling ash in appearance or texture. | [adjective] Superlative form of ashy, meaning very pale or grayish in color. ASPHALT (12) [noun] A sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid, composed almost entirely of bitumen, that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits. | [noun] Asphalt concrete, a hard ground covering used for roads and walkways. | [verb] To pave with asphalt. ASQUINT (16) [adjective] Looking sideways, as though warily. | [adverb] With narrowed eyes. ASSAULT (7) [noun] A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc. | [noun] A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, for example words, arguments, appeals, and the like | [noun] An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching his person, as by lifting a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at him and missing him. ASTRICT (9) [verb] To bind or constrict tightly. | [verb] To restrict or confine strictly. ATAVIST (10) [noun] A person who exhibits atavism, showing characteristics or behaviors of remote ancestors. | [noun] An organism that displays atavistic traits or ancestral features. ATHEIST (10) [noun] A person who does not believe in deities. | [noun] A person who does not believe in a particular deity (or any deity in a particular pantheon), notwithstanding that they may believe in another deity. | [adjective] Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic. ATHIRST (10) [adjective] Thirsty. | [adjective] Eager or extremely desirous (for something). ATHWART (13) [adverb] From side to side; across. | [adverb] Across the path (of something). | [adverb] Wrongly; perplexingly. ATOMIST (9) [noun] A person who believes in or advocates atomism, the philosophical doctrine that all matter consists of atoms. | [noun] A person who supports the use of atomic energy or weapons. ATTAINT (7) [noun] A blow or strike, especially in jousting. | [noun] A wound on the leg of a horse caused by a blow | [noun] The giving of a false verdict by a jury; the conviction of such a jury, and the reversal of the verdict ATTEMPT (11) [noun] The action of trying at something. | [noun] An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt. | [verb] To try. ATTRACT (9) [verb] To pull toward without touching. | [verb] To arouse interest. | [verb] To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure. AUDIENT (8) AUGMENT (10) [noun] (grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb. | [noun] (grammar) In some Bantu languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix. | [noun] An increase. AULDEST (8) AWLWORT (13) [noun] A small aquatic plant of the genus Subularia, having narrow awl-shaped leaves and found in shallow water or wet ground. BABBITT (13) [noun] Short for babbitt metal, Babbitt metal (“a soft white alloy of variable composition (for example, nine parts of tin to one of copper, or fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction”). | [verb] To line (something) with babbitt metal to reduce friction. | [noun] A person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals. BACKBIT (17) [verb] To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone. | [verb] To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks. | [verb] To speak badly of an absent individual. BACKFIT (18) BACKLIT (15) [verb] To illuminate something from behind. | [adjective] Lit or illuminated from behind. BACKOUT (15) [noun] A withdrawal from a commitment or agreement. | [verb] To withdraw from a commitment or agreement. BACKSET (15) [noun] A setback or reversal of progress. | [noun] In printing or bookbinding, the indentation or groove along the spine of a book. BADDEST (11) [adjective] Fantastic. BAILOUT (9) [noun] A rescue, especially a financial rescue. | [noun] The process of exiting an aircraft while in flight. | [noun] (underwater diving) A backup supply of air in scuba diving. BALDEST (10) [adjective] Having no hair, fur or feathers. | [adjective] (by extension) Denuded of any hair- or fur-like covering. | [adjective] Of tyres: whose surface is worn away. BALLAST (9) [noun] Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability. | [noun] Anything that steadies emotion or the mind. | [noun] Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete. BANQUET (18) [noun] A large celebratory meal; a feast. | [noun] A dessert; a course of sweetmeats. | [verb] To participate in a banquet; to feast. BAPTIST (11) [noun] A person who baptizes BAREFIT (12) BARONET (9) [noun] A hereditary title, below a peerage and senior to most knighthoods, entitling the bearer to the titular prefix "Sir" (for men) or "Dame" (for women) which is used in conjunction with the holder's Christian name. It is inheritable, usually by the eldest son, although a few baronetcies can also pass through the female line. BASINET (9) [noun] A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor. BASSETT (9) [noun] A short-legged hunting dog of a breed with long ears and a long body, similar to a dachshund but with longer ears. BASSIST (9) [noun] A musician who plays a bass instrument, especially the bass guitar. BATHMAT (14) [noun] A small mat used next to a bathtub to absorb water and thus prevent slipping. BAWSUNT (12) [noun] A warrant officer on a ship responsible for the ship's equipment and crew; also spelled bosun or boatswain. BAYONET (12) [noun] A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offence and defence. Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which needed to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired. | [noun] A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery. | [verb] To stab with a bayonet. BEARCAT (11) [noun] Any member of diverse species of the order Carnivora: BECRUST (11) [verb] To cover or form a crust on the surface of something. BECURST (11) [verb] Past tense and past participle of "becurse," meaning to curse or place a curse upon. BEDFAST (13) [adjective] Confined to bed by illness or infirmity. BEDIGHT (14) [verb] To equip or bedeck. | [adjective] That has been equipped or bedecked. BEDPOST (12) [noun] Any of the four upright supports of a bedstead. | [noun] A post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the bedclothes from falling off; a bedstaff. BEIGNET (10) [noun] A fritter (with a fruit or vegetable filling). | [noun] A Louisiana-style fried doughnut or fritter covered in powdered sugar. BELEAPT (11) BENEFIT (12) [noun] An advantage; help or aid from something. | [noun] A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme. | [noun] An event such as a performance, given to raise funds for some cause. BENEMPT (13) [verb] Past tense and past participle of "bename," meaning to name or call by a particular name. BEPAINT (11) [verb] To paint or cover with paint; to depict or describe in words as if painting a picture. BEQUEST (18) [noun] The act of bequeathing or leaving by will. | [noun] The transfer of property upon the owner's death according to the will of the deceased. | [noun] That which is left by will; a legacy. | [verb] To give as a bequest; bequeath. BESHOUT (12) BETWIXT (19) [preposition] Between. BEVOMIT (14) BEWRAPT (14) [verb] Past tense of bewrap; to wrap up or cover completely. BEZZANT (27) BIBELOT (11) [noun] A bauble, knickknack or trinket. | [noun] A miniature book of an elegant design. BIBLIST (11) BIGFEET (13) [noun] Snowblades; a smaller version of skis. BIGFOOT (13) [verb] (sometimes capitalized) To control or manage forcefully; to exercise authority over. | [verb] (sometimes capitalized) To behave in an authoritative, commanding manner. BIGGEST (11) [adjective] Of great size, large. | [adjective] (of an industry or other field, often capitalized) Thought to have undue influence. | [adjective] Popular. BISCUIT (11) [noun] (rare in the US) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm: a cookie. | [noun] A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet. | [noun] A cracker. BISTORT (9) [noun] Any of several perennial herbs, classified in genera Bistorta, Persicaria, or Polygonum, having spikes of pink flowers. BLANKET (13) [noun] A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting. | [noun] A layer of anything. | [noun] A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed. BLATANT (9) [adjective] Bellowing; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. | [adjective] Obvious, on show; unashamed; loudly obtrusive or offensive. BLOWOUT (12) [noun] A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire. | [noun] A sudden release of oil and gas from a well. | [noun] A social function, especially one with large quantities of food. BOLDEST (10) [adjective] Courageous, daring. | [adjective] Visually striking; conspicuous. | [adjective] (of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface. BOMBAST (13) [noun] Cotton, or cotton wool. | [noun] Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding. | [noun] High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking. BONESET (9) [noun] Any of several plants of the genera Eupatorium and Ageratina. | [noun] The herb common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum). | [noun] Comfrey. BONIEST (9) [adjective] Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous. | [adjective] Full of bones | [adjective] With little flesh; skinny, thin BOOKLET (13) [noun] A small or thin book. BOOMLET (11) [noun] A small or minor boom, especially a brief period of increased activity or prosperity in a limited area or sector. BORSCHT (14) [noun] A beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream. | [noun] Any similar sour soup made of other ingredients such as sorrel, cabbage, hogweed BOSQUET (18) [noun] A small thicket or clump of trees in a garden or landscape. BOUQUET (18) [noun] A bunch of cut flowers. | [noun] The scent of a particular wine. | [noun] The heart note of a perfume. BOWKNOT (16) [noun] A knot that has two loops and two loose ends, either used decoratively, or to tie shoelaces. BOWSHOT (15) [noun] The act of firing an arrow from a bow. | [noun] The distance that the arrow of an average archer can effectively travel. BOXIEST (16) [adjective] Box-like or box-shaped. BOYCOTT (14) [noun] The act of boycotting. | [verb] To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest. BRACHET (14) [noun] A medieval hunting dog, typically a spaniel or similar breed used for hunting by scent. BRACKET (15) [noun] A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf. | [noun] Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part. | [noun] A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support. | [noun] A liquor made of fermented ale and honey with spices. BRAVEST (12) [adjective] Strong in the face of fear; courageous. | [adjective] Having any sort of superiority or excellence. | [adjective] Making a fine show or display. BRAWEST (12) [adjective] Superlative form of "braw," a Scottish word meaning fine, good, or excellent. BRIQUET (18) [noun] A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel. | [noun] A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving. | [noun] A moulded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material. BRISANT (9) [adjective] Brittle or liable to break; used especially of explosives that are highly sensitive to shock or friction. BRISKET (13) [noun] The chest of an animal | [noun] A cut of meat taken from the chest, especially from the section under the first five ribs BROCKET (15) [noun] A stag in its second year, before its horns have started branching. | [noun] A genus, Mazama, of short-horned deer from Brazil. BROUGHT (13) [verb] (ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere. | [verb] To supply or contribute. | [verb] To occasion or bring about. BULBLET (11) [noun] A small bulb that develops from the base or side of a mature bulb, or a small bulblike structure that grows on the stem or leaves of certain plants. BULLBAT (11) [noun] A nightjar, especially the common nighthawk of North America. BUMBOAT (13) [noun] A small boat used for carrying provisions to ships lying at anchor in a harbour. BUMMEST (13) [adjective] Superlative form of bummy; most bummy or shabby in appearance or quality. BUNDIST (10) [noun] A member of the Jewish socialist Bund movement, an organization that advocated for Jewish workers' rights and secular Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe. BUOYANT (12) [adjective] Having buoyancy; able to float. | [adjective] Lighthearted and lively. BURGOUT (10) BURNOUT (9) [noun] The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career. | [noun] A marijuana addict; one whose brains have been burned out. | [noun] The shutoff of a rocket motor following the complete exhaustion of its fuel supply, or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v. BUSHTIT (12) [noun] Any of the long-tailed tits of the family Aegithalidae BUSIEST (9) [verb] To make somebody busy or active; to occupy. | [verb] To rush somebody. | [adjective] Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on. CABARET (11) [noun] Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe. | [noun] The nightclub or restaurant where such entertainment is held. | [noun] A strip club. CABINET (11) [noun] A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall. | [noun] A cupboard. | [noun] The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab. CAGIEST (10) [adjective] Wary, careful, shrewd. | [adjective] Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information. CAJAPUT (18) [noun] A tree native to Malaysia and nearby regions that yields an aromatic oil used in medicine and perfumery, also called cajuput or kayu putih. CAJEPUT (18) [noun] Cajuput oil | [noun] Cajuput tree CAJUPUT (18) [noun] Cajuput oil | [noun] Cajuput tree CAKIEST (13) [adjective] Superlative form of caky; most resembling or containing cake, or having a dry, crumbly texture like cake. CALLANT (9) [noun] A young man or boy, especially a fellow or lad; used chiefly in Scottish English. CALMEST (11) [verb] To make calm. | [verb] To become calm. | [adjective] (of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety. CALUMET (11) [noun] A clay tobacco-pipe used by American Indians, especially as a symbol of truce or peace. CAMBIST (13) [noun] A person who deals in exchange, especially one who trades in bills of exchange or currency. CANDENT (10) [adjective] Glowing or shining with heat; incandescent. CAPELET (11) [noun] A small cape or cloak, typically worn over the shoulders. CARPORT (11) [noun] A roofed structure for automobile storage, usually attached to a house and not fully enclosed like a garage but with at least one side open to the outdoors. CASUIST (9) [noun] A person who resolves cases of conscience or moral duty. | [noun] Someone who attempts to specify exact and precise rules for the direction of every circumstance of behaviour. | [noun] One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry. CATBOAT (11) [noun] A sailing boat with a single sail, usually rigged on a gaff spar, used for fishing in New England and later adapted for racing and cruising. It has a single mast set near to the bow and a long boom which may extend over the stern. CATHECT (14) [verb] To invest emotional energy or desire in a person, object, or idea. | [verb] In psychoanalysis, to direct psychic energy toward something. CATMINT (11) [noun] Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities. | [noun] Something that causes excitement or interest. CELLIST (9) [noun] Someone who plays the cello. CESSPIT (11) [noun] A cesspool; a pit or covered cistern used to collect sewage and waste water. CHALLOT (12) [noun] Plural of challah, a Jewish braided bread traditionally eaten on the Sabbath and holidays. CHAPLET (14) [noun] A wreath or garland for the head. | [noun] A string of beads or a rosary. | [noun] An ornamental molding consisting of a small round convex surface. CHARIOT (12) [noun] A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare. | [noun] A light four-wheeled carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes. | [noun] (xiangqi) rook CHEMIST (14) [noun] A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level. | [noun] A pharmacist. | [noun] A pharmacy. CHEROOT (12) [noun] A cigar with square-cut ends. CHEVIOT (15) [noun] A coarse woolen fabric made from the wool of Cheviot sheep. CHICEST (14) [adjective] Elegant, stylish. CHOLENT (12) [noun] A meat stew traditionally served on the Sabbath by Jews. CHUTIST (12) CHYMIST (17) [noun] An archaic or alternative spelling of chemist, referring to a person who practices chemistry or prepares medicines. CIGARET (10) [noun] Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked. CINEAST (9) [noun] An enthusiast of film and the cinema. | [noun] A person in the filmmaking industry. CIRCLET (11) [noun] A small circle. | [noun] A ring (typically of gold or silver) worn as an ornament on the head | [noun] A crown without arches or a covering. CIRCUIT (11) [noun] The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution | [noun] The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area. | [noun] That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. CLADIST (10) [noun] A biologist or scientist who practices or specializes in cladistics, the study of evolutionary relationships based on shared derived characteristics. CLAMANT (11) [adjective] Urgent. | [adjective] Crying earnestly; beseeching clamorously. CLAUCHT (14) CLAUGHT (13) [verb] Past tense and past participle of "claught," an archaic or dialectal form meaning to clutch, grab, or seize. | [verb] Scottish dialect: to catch or grip. CLEMENT (11) [adjective] Lenient or merciful; charitable. | [adjective] Mild (said of weather and similar circumstances). CLOSEST (9) [verb] (physical) To remove a gap. | [verb] (social) To finish, to terminate. | [verb] To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine. COADMIT (12) [verb] To admit jointly or together with another person or party. COAGENT (10) [noun] A person or agent that acts jointly with another; a joint agent or associate in an action or agency. COALPIT (11) [noun] A pit or mine from which coal is extracted; a coal mine. COCKPIT (17) [noun] The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile). | [noun] The compartment in an aircraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled; an analogous area in a spacecraft. | [noun] A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting. COCOMAT (13) COCONUT (11) [noun] A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed. | [noun] A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity. | [noun] The edible white flesh of this fruit. COENACT (11) [verb] To enact together; to perform jointly or in concert. COERECT (11) COEXERT (16) COEXIST (16) [verb] (of two or more things, people, concepts, etc.) To exist contemporaneously or in the same area. COFFRET (15) [noun] A small ornamental box or case, typically used for holding jewelry or other valuable items. COHABIT (14) [verb] To live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married. | [verb] To coexist in common environs with. | [verb] To engage in sexual intercourse; see coition. COLDEST (10) [adjective] (of a thing) Having a low temperature. | [adjective] (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold. | [adjective] (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort. COLLECT (11) [verb] To gather together; amass. | [verb] To get; particularly, get from someone. | [verb] To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation. | [noun] The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer. COMBUST (13) [noun] That which undergoes burning. | [verb] To burn; to catch fire. | [verb] To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness. COMFORT (14) [noun] Contentment, ease. | [noun] Something that offers comfort. | [noun] A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry. COMMENT (13) [noun] A spoken or written remark. | [noun] A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code. | [verb] To remark. COMMIXT (20) [adjective] Mixed together; blended or combined with other things. COMPACT (15) [noun] An agreement or contract. | [noun] A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into one's pocket. | [noun] A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style. COMPART (13) COMPLOT (13) [noun] A plot (involving more than one person), conspiracy | [verb] To plot together; conspire. COMPORT (13) [noun] Manner of acting; conduct; deportment. | [verb] To tolerate, bear, put up (with). | [verb] To be in agreement (with); to be of an accord. COMPOST (13) [noun] The decayed remains of organic matter that has rotted into a natural fertilizer. | [noun] A mixture; a compound. | [verb] To produce compost, let organic matter decay into fertilizer. CONCEIT (11) [noun] Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. | [noun] The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension. | [noun] Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. CONCENT (11) CONCEPT (13) [noun] An abstract and general idea; an abstraction. | [noun] Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept). | [noun] In generic programming, a description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics. CONCERT (11) [noun] Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action. | [noun] Musical accordance or harmony; concord. | [noun] A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part. CONCOCT (13) [verb] To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking. | [verb] To contrive something using skill or ingenuity. | [verb] To digest. CONDUCT (12) [noun] The act or method of controlling or directing | [noun] Skillful guidance or management; leadership | [noun] Behaviour; the manner of behaving CONDUIT (10) [noun] A pipe or channel for conveying water etc. | [noun] A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled; a type of raceway. | [noun] A means by which something is transmitted. CONFECT (14) [noun] A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit. | [verb] To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct. | [verb] To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like. CONGEST (10) [noun] (history) a farmer whose lands do not support him adequately. | [verb] To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding. CONNECT (11) [verb] (of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object. | [verb] (of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other. | [verb] (of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other. CONSENT (9) [noun] Voluntary agreement or permission. | [noun] Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination. | [noun] Advice; counsel. CONSIST (9) [verb] To be. | [verb] To exist. | [verb] (with in) To be comprised or contained. | [noun] A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit. CONSORT (9) [noun] The spouse of a monarch. | [noun] A husband, wife, companion or partner. | [noun] A ship accompanying another. CONSULT (9) [noun] The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation | [noun] The result of consultation; determination; decision. | [noun] A council; a meeting for consultation. CONTACT (11) [noun] The act of touching physically; being in close association. | [noun] The establishment of communication (with). | [noun] A nodule designed to connect a device with something else. CONTENT (9) [noun] (except in phrases) Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure. | [verb] To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to make happy. | [verb] To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite | [noun] That which is contained. CONTEST (9) [noun] Controversy; debate. | [noun] Struggle for superiority; combat. | [noun] A competition. CONTEXT (16) [noun] The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence. | [noun] The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning. | [noun] The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning. CONTORT (9) [verb] To twist in a violent manner. | [verb] To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression. CONVECT (14) [verb] To carry or convey; to move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer heat or a fluid by convection. CONVENT (12) [noun] A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows. | [noun] The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives. | [noun] A Christian school. CONVERT (12) [noun] A person who has converted to a religion. | [noun] A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked. | [noun] The equivalent of a conversion in rugby CONVICT (14) [noun] A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body. | [noun] A person deported to a penal colony. | [noun] The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform. COOKOUT (13) [noun] A gathering for a meal that is cooked and eaten outside; either a domestic barbecue or a larger social event. COOLANT (9) [noun] A medium, usually fluid, used to draw heat from an object. COOLEST (9) [adjective] Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold. | [adjective] Allowing or suggesting heat relief. | [adjective] Of a color, in the range of violet to green. COPILOT (11) [noun] A backup or assistant pilot of an aircraft. | [verb] To serve as relief or assistant pilot. COPYCAT (16) [noun] One who imitates or plagiarizes others' work. | [noun] A criminal who imitates the crimes of another; specifically, a criminal who commits the same crime, especially a highly-publicized one, that has just been or recently committed by someone else. | [verb] To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way COPYIST (14) [noun] A person who makes manual copies of works such as manuscripts or paintings. CORONET (9) [noun] A small crown, such as is worn by a noble. | [noun] The ring of tissue between a horse's hoof and its leg. | [noun] The traditional lowest regular commissioned officer rank in the cavalry. CORRECT (11) [adjective] Free from error; true; accurate. | [adjective] With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour. | [verb] To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from. CORRUPT (11) [verb] To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert. | [verb] To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot. | [verb] To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify. CORSLET (9) [noun] A piece of armor covering the torso, consisting of a breastplate and backplate fastened together. | [noun] A woman's close-fitting undergarment with stays, similar to a corset. COSIEST (9) [adjective] Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social COSMIST (11) COULDST (10) [verb] Archaic second person singular past tense of "can," meaning "were able to" or "could" in modern English. COUPLET (11) [noun] A pair of lines with rhyming end words. | [noun] A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas. | [noun] A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key. COURANT (9) [noun] A piece of music in triple time. | [noun] A lively dance; a coranto. | [noun] A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper. COWIEST (12) [adjective] Most resembling or characteristic of a cow; bovine in nature or appearance. COZIEST (18) [adjective] Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social CRAMPIT (13) CREDENT (10) CRESSET (9) [noun] A metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination. | [noun] (coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. CRICKET (15) [noun] An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. | [noun] A wooden footstool. | [noun] A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions. | [noun] A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. CROCHET (14) [noun] Needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle. | [noun] A certain crest of enamel on the molar teeth of some rhinoceros. | [verb] To make (a piece of) needlework using a hooked needle; to make interlocking loops of thread. CROCKET (15) [noun] Any of a series of hook-shaped decorative floral elements used in Gothic architecture. CROQUET (18) [noun] (games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets). | [noun] (games) A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet. | [noun] A croquette. CROWNET (12) [noun] A small crown or coronet, especially one worn as a ornament or decoration. CRUDEST (10) [adjective] In a natural, untreated state. | [adjective] Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made. | [adjective] Lacking concealing elements. CRUMPET (13) [noun] A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter. | [noun] A person (or, collectively, persons), usually female, considered sexually desirable. CULPRIT (11) [noun] The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime. | [noun] A prisoner accused but not yet tried. CULTIST (9) [noun] A member of a cult or someone who practices cultism. | [noun] A person who is excessively devoted to a particular person, idea, or activity. CULVERT (12) [noun] A transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water. | [verb] To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert. CUMQUAT (20) [noun] A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia (Citrus japonica, syn. Fortunella japonica). CURRANT (9) [noun] A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4mm diameter when dried. | [noun] The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red. | [noun] A shrub bearing such fruit. CURRENT (9) [noun] The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid. | [noun] The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially short for ocean current. | [noun] The time rate of flow of electric charge. CURTEST (9) [adjective] Superlative form of curt; most rudely brief or abrupt in speech or manner. CYCLIST (14) [noun] A person who rides a cycle, especially a bicycle, or who habitually engages in cycling. | [noun] A user of the software language CycL. CZARIST (18) [adjective] Of, relating to, or characteristic of a czar or czarism; autocratic or authoritarian. DADAIST (9) DAFTEST (11) [adjective] Foolish, silly, stupid. | [adjective] Crazy, insane, mad. | [adjective] Gentle, meek, mild. DAMPEST (12) [adjective] In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist. | [adjective] Despondent; dispirited, downcast. | [adjective] Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale. DANKEST (12) [adjective] Dark, damp and humid. | [adjective] (of marijuana) Highly potent. | [adjective] (often ironic) Great, awesome. DARKEST (12) [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. DASHPOT (13) [noun] A mechanical damping device consisting of a piston that moves through a viscous fluid (usually oil); used, in conjunction with a spring, in shock absorbers. DEADEST (9) [adjective] No longer living. | [adjective] Figuratively, not alive; lacking life. | [adjective] (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored. DEAFEST (11) [adjective] Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear. | [adjective] Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless. | [adjective] Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. DEAREST (8) [adjective] High in price; expensive. | [adjective] Loved; lovable. | [adjective] Loving, affectionate, heartfelt DECRYPT (15) [noun] A decoded communication. | [verb] To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text. DEEPEST (10) [adjective] (of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards. | [adjective] (intellectual, social) Complex, involved. | [adjective] (sound, voice) Low in pitch. DEFAULT (11) [noun] The condition of failing to meet an obligation. | [noun] The original software programming settings as set by the factory | [noun] A loss incurred by failing to compete. DEFIANT (11) [noun] One who defies opposition. | [adjective] Defying. | [adjective] Boldly resisting opposition. DEFICIT (13) [noun] Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack. | [noun] A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds government revenue. DEFLECT (13) [verb] To make (something) deviate from its original path. | [verb] (ball games) To touch the ball, often unwittingly, after a shot or a sharp pass, thereby making it unpredictable for the other players. | [verb] To deviate from its original path. DEFROST (11) [noun] The removal of frost. | [verb] To remove frost from. | [verb] To thaw something. DEFTEST (11) [adjective] Quick and neat in action; skillful. DEFUNCT (13) [noun] The dead person (referred to). | [verb] To make defunct. | [adjective] Deceased, dead. DELIGHT (12) [noun] Joy; pleasure. | [noun] Something that gives great joy or pleasure. | [verb] To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly. DELIMIT (10) [verb] To mark or fix the limits of. | [verb] To demarcate. DEMERIT (10) [noun] A quality of being inadequate; a fault; a disadvantage | [noun] A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army. | [noun] That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert. DEMOUNT (10) [verb] To remove from its mounting; to take down from a mounted position. | [verb] To dismount. DENSEST (8) [adjective] Having relatively high density. | [adjective] Compact; crowded together. | [adjective] Thick; difficult to penetrate. DENTIST (8) [noun] A medical doctor who specializes in dentistry. DEORBIT (10) DEPAINT (10) DEPOSIT (10) [noun] Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems. | [noun] That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care of another. | [noun] Money placed in an account. DESCANT (10) [noun] A lengthy discourse on a subject. | [noun] A counterpoint melody sung or played above the theme | [verb] To discuss at length. DESCENT (10) [noun] An instance of descending; act of coming down. | [noun] A way down. | [noun] A sloping passage or incline. DESSERT (8) [noun] A sweet confection served as the last course of a meal DETRACT (10) [verb] To take away; to withdraw or remove. | [verb] To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry. DEVIANT (11) [noun] A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior. | [noun] A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern. | [adjective] Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard. DEWIEST (11) [adjective] Covered by dew. | [adjective] Having the quality of bearing droplets of water. | [adjective] Fresh and innocent. DIALECT (10) [noun] A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon. | [noun] Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong. | [noun] A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region. DIALIST (8) DIARIST (8) [noun] One who keeps a diary. DICIEST (10) [adjective] Fraught with danger. | [adjective] Of uncertain, risky outcome. | [adjective] Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy. DILUENT (8) [noun] That which dilutes. | [noun] A solvent or other liquid preparation used to dilute a sample prior to testing. | [noun] An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink. DIMMEST (12) [adjective] Not bright or colorful. | [adjective] Not smart or intelligent. | [adjective] Indistinct, hazy or unclear. DINGBAT (11) [noun] A silly, crazy or stupid person. | [noun] A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc. | [noun] An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars. DIPLONT (10) DISCANT (10) DISCEPT (12) DISGUST (9) [noun] An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty. | [verb] To cause an intense dislike for something. DISJECT (17) DISMAST (10) [verb] To break off the mast (of a ship), especially by gunfire. DISPART (10) DISPORT (10) [noun] Anything which diverts one from serious matters; a game, a pastime, a sport. | [noun] Amusement, entertainment, recreation, relaxation. | [noun] The way one carries oneself; bearing, carriage, deportment. DISROOT (8) DISRUPT (10) [verb] To throw into confusion or disorder. | [verb] To interrupt or impede. | [verb] To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market. DISSEAT (8) DISSECT (10) [verb] To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy. | [verb] To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly. | [verb] To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts. DISSENT (8) [noun] Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion. | [noun] An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority. | [noun] (Anglo-American common law) A separate opinion filed in a case by judges who disagree with the outcome of the majority of the court in that case DISSERT (8) DISTANT (8) [adjective] Far off (physically, logically or mentally). | [adjective] Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings. DISTENT (8) DISTORT (8) [verb] To bring something out of shape, to misshape. | [verb] To become misshapen. | [verb] To give a false or misleading account of DOGCART (11) [noun] A cart drawn by a dog. | [noun] A two wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two transverse seats back to back. The rear seat originally closed up to form a box for carrying dogs. DOGTROT (9) [noun] A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog. | [noun] A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house. | [noun] A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house. DONNERT (8) DOORMAT (10) [noun] A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes. | [noun] Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes. DOPIEST (10) [adjective] Stupid, silly. DORMANT (10) [noun] A crossbeam or joist. | [adjective] Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended. | [adjective] In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant. DOTIEST (8) DOUBLET (10) [noun] A pair of two similar or equal things; couple. | [noun] One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English). | [noun] In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event. | [noun] A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s. DOUREST (8) DOVECOT (13) [noun] A dovecote. DOZIEST (17) [adjective] Quite sleepy or tired. | [adjective] Intellectually slow. | [adjective] Decaying, rotten, spongy. DRABBET (12) DRAGNET (9) [noun] A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water. | [noun] (law enforcement) Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects. | [verb] To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water. DRAUGHT (12) [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. DRIBLET (10) [noun] A small portion or part. | [noun] A small or petty sum. DROPLET (10) [noun] A very small drop. DROPOUT (10) [noun] Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course | [noun] Someone who has opted out of conventional society. | [noun] One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so. DROUGHT (12) [noun] A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell. | [noun] (by extension) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport. DRUGGET (10) [noun] An inexpensive coarse woolen cloth, used mainly for clothing. | [noun] A floor covering made of drugget. DUALIST (8) DUELIST (8) [noun] A person who fights a duel. DULLEST (8) [adjective] Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp. | [adjective] Boring; not exciting or interesting. | [adjective] Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness. DUMBEST (12) [adjective] Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind"). | [adjective] Silent; unaccompanied by words. | [adjective] (especially of a person) Extremely stupid. DUNNEST (8) DURMAST (10) EARNEST (7) [noun] Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness. | [noun] Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence) | [verb] To be serious with; use in earnest. | [noun] A sum of money paid in advance as a deposit; hence, a pledge, a guarantee, an indication of something to come. | [verb] To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. EARSHOT (10) [noun] A distance from which sound is still audible. EASIEST (7) [adjective] Comfortable; at ease. | [adjective] Requiring little skill or effort. | [adjective] Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour. EDGIEST (9) [adjective] Nervous, apprehensive. | [adjective] (entertainment) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge. | [adjective] (entertainment) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué. EELIEST (7) EELPOUT (9) [noun] Any fish of the family Zoarcidae. | [noun] A yellow flower of uncertain type, possibly the eel-ware, Ranunculus fluitans. EERIEST (7) [adjective] Strange, weird, fear-inspiring. | [adjective] Frightened, timid. EGOTIST (8) [noun] A person who talks excessively about himself or herself. | [noun] A person who believes in his or her own importance or superiority. | [noun] An egoist. ELEGANT (8) [adjective] Characterised by or exhibiting elegance. | [adjective] Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision. | [adjective] Fine; doing well. ELEGIST (8) ELEMENT (9) [noun] One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. | [noun] A small part of the whole. | [noun] The sky. ELITIST (7) [noun] (usually derogatory) Someone who believes in or is perceived as believing in rule by an elite group. | [adjective] Of or relating to elitism. ELMIEST (9) EMINENT (9) [adjective] High, lofty. | [adjective] Noteworthy, remarkable, great. | [adjective] (of a person) distinguished, important, noteworthy. ENCHANT (12) [verb] To attract and delight, to charm. | [verb] To cast a spell upon (often one that attracts or charms). | [verb] To magically enhance or degrade an item. ENCRUST (9) [verb] To cover with a hard crust. | [verb] To form a crust. | [verb] To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. ENCRYPT (14) [verb] To conceal information by means of a code or cipher. ENDMOST (10) [adjective] Last in a series, furthest away ENGRAFT (11) [verb] To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant | [verb] To fix firmly into place | [adjective] Engrafted. ENTRANT (7) [noun] A participant who enters something, such as a contest. | [noun] A newcomer. ENTREAT (7) [noun] An entreaty. | [verb] To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask for earnestly. | [verb] To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade. ENTRUST (7) [verb] To trust to the care of. ENTWIST (10) EOBIONT (9) EPAULET (9) [noun] An ornamentation, worn on the shoulders of a military uniform, as a sign of rank | [noun] A similar piece of trimming on a lady’s dress | [noun] A plate on the anterior wings of some insects EPEEIST (9) EPITHET (12) [noun] A term used to characterize a person or thing. | [noun] A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person. | [noun] One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing. ERODENT (8) ESCHEAT (12) [noun] The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants. | [noun] The property so reverted. | [noun] Plunder, booty. ESTREAT (7) [noun] A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, especially of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. | [verb] To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; said of a forfeited recognizance. | [verb] To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine. ETATIST (7) ETCHANT (12) [noun] An acid or corrosive chemical used in etching. EVENEST (10) [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To equal. | [verb] To be equal. EVIDENT (11) [adjective] Obviously true by simple observation. EVILEST (10) EXCERPT (18) [noun] A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition. | [verb] To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work. EXHAUST (17) [noun] A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system. | [noun] The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there. | [noun] The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose. EXHIBIT (19) [noun] An instance of exhibiting. | [noun] That which is exhibited. | [noun] A public showing; an exhibition. EXIGENT (15) [noun] Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency. | [noun] The amount that is required. | [noun] A writ in proceedings before outlawry. EXPLANT (16) [noun] Any portion taken from a plant or an animal that will be used to initiate a culture. It can be a portion of the shoot, or of the leaves, or even just some cells. | [verb] To remove something, such as a medical device, that has been implanted. EXPLOIT (16) [noun] A heroic or extraordinary deed. | [noun] An achievement. | [noun] A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software. EXPOSIT (16) EXTINCT (16) [verb] To make extinct; to extinguish or annihilate. | [adjective] Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.) | [adjective] No longer used; obsolete, discontinued. EXTRACT (16) [noun] Something that is extracted or drawn out. | [noun] A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation. | [noun] A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue EYEBOLT (12) [noun] A bolt with a looped head, or an opening in the head. EYESHOT (13) [noun] Range of vision, a distance in which something is visible. | [noun] Range. | [noun] A brief glance. EYESPOT (12) [noun] Any of various primitive light-sensitive organs or regions in many diverse organisms. | [noun] An eye-like marking on the tail of a peacock or the wing of a butterfly. | [noun] Any of a group of fungal infections of grasses that are characterized by oval spots; strawbreaker FADDIST (12) FAINEST (10) FAIREST (10) [adjective] Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality. | [adjective] Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent. | [adjective] Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond hair. FALLOUT (10) [noun] The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc. | [noun] The particles themselves. | [noun] A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence. FALSEST (10) [adjective] Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect. | [adjective] Based on factually incorrect premises. | [adjective] Spurious, artificial. FANTAST (10) [noun] One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful. FANWORT (13) FASCIST (12) FASTEST (10) [adjective] Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable. | [adjective] Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. | [adjective] (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).) FATTEST (10) [adjective] Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin. | [adjective] Thick. | [adjective] Bountiful. FAUVIST (13) FEATEST (10) FEEDLOT (11) [noun] Land on which livestock are fattened for market. FELLEST (10) FELWORT (13) [noun] A European herb, Swertia perennis (star swertia), of the gentian family. | [noun] Any member of any species in genus Swertia. | [noun] Any member of any species in the tribe Gentianeae FERMENT (12) [noun] Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation. | [noun] A state of agitation or of turbulent change. | [noun] A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation. FERVENT (13) [adjective] Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, or belief. | [adjective] Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, or passion. | [adjective] Glowing, burning, very hot. FEUDIST (11) [noun] One who takes part in feuds. | [noun] A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law. FIDEIST (11) FIGMENT (13) [noun] A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious. FIGWORT (14) [noun] Any of various woodland herbs and shrubs of the genus Scrophularia. | [noun] Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria. FILBERT (12) [noun] The hazelnut. | [noun] The hazel tree. | [noun] A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head. FILEMOT (12) FILMSET (12) [noun] The enclosure in which a film scene is shot; includes scenery and props | [verb] To typeset by exposing type characters onto photographic film, which is then used to generate printing plates. | [adjective] Created using a process of filmsetting. FINFOOT (13) [noun] Three species in three monospecific genera of aquatic bird in the family Heliornithidae. FIRELIT (10) [adjective] Illuminated by a fire FIREPOT (12) FIRMEST (12) [adjective] Steadfast, secure, solid (in position) | [adjective] Fixed (in opinion) | [adjective] Durable, rigid (material state) FISHNET (13) [noun] A net used to catch fish. | [noun] A fabric with an open diamond-shaped structure; normally used for stockings etc | [noun] (usually in plural) Stockings made of fishnet fabric. FITCHET (15) FITMENT (12) [noun] Something that suits or fits. | [noun] A thing fitted to another in order to accomplish a specific purpose. | [noun] An item of permanent furniture or equipment. FITTEST (10) [verb] To be suitable for. | [verb] To conform to in size and shape. | [verb] To be of the right size and shape FLASKET (14) FLATLET (10) FLEAPIT (12) [noun] A dilapidated building, stereotypically hosting a low-grade cinema. FLORIST (10) [noun] A person who sells flowers. | [noun] A person who cultivates flowers. | [noun] A person who studies or writes about flowers. FLORUIT (10) [noun] The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak. FLUTIST (10) [noun] One who plays the flute. FLYBELT (15) FLYBOAT (15) FLYPAST (15) [noun] A low-level flight of a ceremonial nature; a flyover (US) FOLDOUT (11) [noun] A gatefold. | [noun] A foldout bed. | [adjective] That folds out from a closed position FOLKMOT (16) FONDANT (11) [noun] (usually uncountable) A flavored, creamy sugar preparation, used for icing cakes or as a base for candies. | [noun] A candy filled with such a preparation. | [noun] A sugar dough, usually prepared as large sheets (rolled fondant), used in place of icing to cover large areas of cakes, composed of sugar, water, gelatin, glycerine. | [adjective] Stooping, as for prey: said of an eagle, a falcon, etc. FONDEST (11) [adjective] (chiefly with of) Having a liking or affection (for). | [adjective] Affectionate. | [adjective] Indulgent. FOREGUT (11) [noun] The anterior part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, from the mouth to the duodenum. FORFEIT (13) [noun] A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor. | [noun] A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc. | [noun] Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game. FORMANT (12) [noun] A band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants. | [noun] A morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem. FORWENT (13) [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. FOULEST (10) [adjective] Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty. | [adjective] (of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive. | [adjective] Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome. FOXHUNT (20) [noun] A hunt for foxes, usually with dogs. | [noun] A hunt for radio transmitters; radiosport. | [verb] To hunt foxes, usually with dogs. FOXIEST (17) [adjective] Having the qualities of a fox. | [adjective] Cunning, sly. | [adjective] Attractive, sexy (of a woman). FOXTROT (17) [noun] A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm. | [noun] A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking. | [noun] The letter F in the ICAO spelling alphabet. FOZIEST (19) FRAUGHT (14) [noun] The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo. | [noun] Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight | [noun] The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat. | [verb] To load (a ship, cargo etc.). FREIGHT (14) [noun] Payment for transportation. | [noun] Goods or items in transport. | [noun] Transport of goods. FRESHET (13) [noun] A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw. | [noun] A small stream, especially one flowing into the sea. FRISKET (14) [noun] A thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask. FUGUIST (11) FULGENT (11) [adjective] Shining brilliantly; radiant. FULLEST (10) [adjective] Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available. | [adjective] Complete; with nothing omitted. | [adjective] Total, entire. FUMIEST (12) FUNNEST (10) [adjective] Enjoyable, amusing | [adjective] Whimsical, flamboyant FUSSPOT (12) [noun] A person who makes a fuss, particularly about trivial things. GABBART (12) GABFEST (13) [noun] An occasion (such as a meeting) where people talk at length. GALIPOT (10) [noun] An unrefined turpentine obtained from some European pines GALLANT (8) [adjective] Brave, valiant. | [adjective] Honorable. | [adjective] Grand, noble. | [noun] A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women. GALLIOT (8) [noun] A light galley. GALLNUT (8) GALLOOT (8) GAMIEST (10) GANTLET (8) GARDANT (9) GARMENT (10) [noun] A single item of clothing. | [noun] Short for temple garment. | [verb] To clothe in a garment. GASHEST (11) GELLANT (8) GESTALT (8) [noun] A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being) | [noun] Shape, form GIGABIT (11) [noun] 109 bits, a thousand million (1,000,000,000) bits. | [noun] 230 (1,073,741,824) bits. GILBERT (10) GILLNET (8) [noun] A vertical net, often resting on the sea floor, which entangles fish in the netting, frequently by the gills. | [verb] To fish using a gillnet. GJETOST (15) [noun] Brunost GLAIKET (12) GLAIKIT (12) [adjective] Senseless; silly, foolish. GLUEPOT (10) [noun] A pot for holding glue. | [noun] A muddy playing field. GLUIEST (8) [adjective] Viscous and adhesive, as glue. GNOMIST (10) GOLDEST (9) GOOIEST (8) [adjective] Of or relating to goo | [adjective] Soft, sticky and viscous GORIEST (8) [adjective] Covered with blood, very bloody | [adjective] Unpleasant GOSPORT (10) GOURMET (10) [noun] A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously. | [adjective] (of food and drink) Fine; of superior quality. GRAVEST (11) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. GRAYEST (11) [adjective] Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember. | [adjective] Dreary, gloomy. | [adjective] Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality. GRAYOUT (11) GREYEST (11) [adjective] Having a color. | [adjective] Having a particular color or kind of color. | [adjective] Having prominent colors; colorful. GROMMET (12) [noun] A reinforced eyelet, or a small metal or plastic ring used to reinforce an eyelet. | [noun] A ring formed of a single strand of rope, laid in three times round, fastening the upper edge of a sail to its stay. | [noun] (flags) An eyelet at the hoist end of a flag, used to fasten the flag to its halyard. GRUMMET (12) GUMBOOT (12) [noun] A type of boot made of rubber. | [noun] A style of popular music traditionally associated with gold miners. | [noun] Generic black tea. GUNBOAT (10) [noun] Any of the various types of small armed vessels GUNSHOT (11) [noun] The act of discharging a firearm. | [noun] The sound made by a discharging firearm. | [noun] The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun; the reach or range of a gun. GURGLET (9) GYMNAST (13) [noun] One who performs gymnastics HABITAT (12) [noun] Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live. | [noun] A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs. | [noun] A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural. HACKBUT (18) HADDEST (12) HAIRCUT (12) [noun] The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician. | [noun] The style into which the hair is cut. | [noun] In a bankruptcy proceeding, the proportional reduction in the debt that will be paid to each creditor, based on an evaluation of the total debt owed and the total assets of the debtor. HAIRNET (10) [noun] A net designed to keep hair up and out of the way, e.g. while cooking. HALBERT (12) [noun] An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form. HALIBUT (12) [noun] A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically. HANDOUT (11) [noun] A worksheet, leaflet, or pamphlet that is given out (usually by hand) for a certain use. | [noun] A gift to the poor or needy. | [noun] A gift, something obtained without effort. HANDSET (11) [noun] The part of a landline telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand. | [noun] A mobile phone. HANGOUT (11) [noun] A place for hanging out; an informal meeting-place. | [noun] A casual meeting for informal chat. HAPLONT (12) HARDEST (11) [adjective] (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | [adjective] (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | [adjective] Unquestionable. HARDHAT (14) [noun] A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects. | [noun] A person who wears a hard hat, such as a construction worker. HARDSET (11) HARICOT (12) [noun] A common bean. | [noun] A stew of lamb and vegetables. HARPIST (12) [noun] Someone who plays a harp, especially a pedal harp. HARSLET (10) [noun] The internal organs of an animal, especially the heart and liver of a pig. | [noun] A meatloaf made of these organs. HARVEST (13) [noun] The third season of the year; autumn; fall. | [noun] The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain. | [noun] The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting. HATCHET (15) [noun] A small light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk. | [verb] To cut with a hatchet. HAYLOFT (16) [noun] The upper storey of a barn used for storing hay HAZIEST (19) [adjective] Thick or obscured with haze. | [adjective] Not clear or transparent. | [adjective] Obscure; confused; not clear. HEADSET (11) [noun] A pair of headphones or earphones, or a singular headphone or earphone, typically with an attached microphone. | [noun] Any electronic device worn on the head. | [noun] On a bicycle, the system of bearings that connects the fork to the frame. HELIAST (10) HELLCAT (12) [noun] A witch. | [noun] A spiteful and violent person, especially a woman. HIDEOUT (11) [noun] A place to hide. | [noun] A hidden headquarters or place to return to. HIGHEST (14) [adjective] Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty. | [adjective] Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. | [adjective] Having a specified elevation or height; tall. HINDGUT (12) HIPPEST (14) [adjective] Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy. HIPSHOT (15) [adjective] Having a dislocated hip. | [adjective] Clumsy, awkward. | [adjective] Standing with one hip lower than the other. HOKIEST (14) [adjective] Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality | [adjective] Corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental HOLDOUT (11) [noun] One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out; one who clings to a cause that has been mostly abandoned. | [noun] A device for cheating at card games by covertly holding a card out of play until it is wanted. HOLIBUT (12) HOLIEST (10) [adjective] Having, or being full of, holes | [adjective] Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god. | [adjective] Revered in a religion. HOMIEST (12) [adjective] Befitting a home; cozy, intimate. HOOKLET (14) HORNIST (10) HORRENT (10) [adjective] Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling. HOTFOOT (13) [noun] The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it. | [verb] To run (a distance). | [adverb] Hastily; without delay. HOTSHOT (13) [noun] Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field. | [noun] A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about. | [noun] A fast freight train. HOTTEST (10) [adjective] (of an object) Having a high temperature. | [adjective] (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot. | [adjective] (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort. HOWBEIT (15) [adverb] Be that as it may; nevertheless. | [conjunction] Although. HUTMENT (12) [noun] An encampment of huts HYDRANT (14) [noun] An outlet from a liquid/fluid main often consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached from which fluid (e.g. water or fuel) can be tapped. HYGEIST (14) HYMNIST (15) ICEBOAT (11) [noun] An ice yacht. | [noun] An icebreaker; a ship that breaks through ice. ICKIEST (13) [adjective] Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting. | [adjective] Excessively sentimental. | [adjective] Unwell or upset; in a bad state of mind or health. IDYLIST (11) IFFIEST (13) [adjective] Of dubious authenticity, legitimacy or legality. | [adjective] Uncertain or chancy. ILLICIT (9) [noun] A banned or unlawful item. | [adjective] Not approved by law, but not invalid. | [adjective] Breaking social norms. IMAGIST (10) IMPAINT (11) IMPLANT (11) [noun] Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants. | [noun] (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client. | [verb] To fix firmly or set securely or deeply. IMPREST (11) [noun] An advance of funds, especially to a government service or employee. | [verb] To advance funds on loan. IMPRINT (11) [noun] An impression; the mark left behind by printing something. | [noun] The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house. | [noun] A distinctive marking, symbol or logo. | [verb] To leave a print, impression, image, etc. INANEST (7) INBUILT (9) [adjective] Existing as an essential constituent; built-in; inherent; integral. INBURST (9) INCIPIT (11) [noun] The first few words of a text, especially its first line. | [noun] The first few bars of a piece of music. INCRUST (9) [verb] To cover with a hard crust. | [verb] To form a crust. | [verb] To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. INDRAFT (11) [noun] A draft or drawing inward. INDWELT (11) [verb] To exist within, especially as a spirit or driving force. INEXACT (16) [adjective] Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect. | [adjective] Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated. | [adjective] (of a differential) having a path-dependent integral INFARCT (12) [noun] An area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis. INFIGHT (14) INFLECT (12) [verb] To cause to curve inwards. | [verb] To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing. | [verb] (grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc. INFLICT (12) [verb] To thrust upon; to impose. INFRACT (12) [verb] To infringe, violate or disobey (a rule). | [verb] To break off. | [adjective] Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole. INGRAFT (11) [verb] To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant | [verb] To fix firmly into place INHABIT (12) [verb] To live or reside in. | [verb] To be present in; to occupy. INHERIT (10) [verb] To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations). | [verb] To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death. | [verb] To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission. INHIBIT (12) [verb] To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain. | [verb] To recuse. INKBLOT (13) [noun] A blot of ink | [noun] A dark, shapeless object | [noun] One of the pictures used as stimuli in the Rorschach inkblot test INKIEST (11) [adjective] Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark. | [adjective] Spattered or stained with ink. | [adjective] Dark-skinned; black. INQUEST (16) [noun] A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death | [noun] An inquiry, typically into an undesired outcome | [noun] The jury hearing such an inquiry, and the result of the inquiry INQUIET (16) INSIGHT (11) [noun] A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into. | [noun] Power of acute observation and deduction | [noun] Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be more appealing to customers INSPECT (11) [verb] To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize. | [verb] To view and examine officially. INSTANT (7) [noun] A very short period of time; a moment. | [noun] A single, usually precise, point in time. | [noun] A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee. | [adjective] Impending; imminent. INSWEPT (12) INTRANT (7) INTREAT (7) INTROIT (7) [noun] A composition of vocal music sung at the opening of a church service. | [noun] An anthem or psalm sung before a Communion service. | [noun] A part of a psalm or other portion of the Bible read or sung at Mass immediately after the priest ascends to the altar. INTRUST (7) [verb] To trust to the care of. INTWIST (10) IRATEST (7) IRONIST (7) [noun] Someone who uses irony in humor | [noun] A supporter of ironism ISOHYET (13) [noun] A line of equal or constant rainfall on a graph or chart, such as a weather map. ISSUANT (7) [adjective] Issuing, emerging | [adjective] (of an animal) Having only the upper half depicted ITERANT (7) JACKPOT (22) [noun] A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won. | [noun] A large cash prize or money. | [noun] An unexpected windfall or reward. | [noun] A difficult situation. JACONET (16) [noun] A type of cotton cloth, especially as dyed and waterproofed. JESSANT (14) JETPORT (16) JIMPEST (18) JIVIEST (17) JOKIEST (18) [adjective] In the nature of a joke; jocular JUDOIST (15) JUJUIST (21) JUSTEST (14) [adjective] Factually right, correct; factual. | [adjective] Rationally right, correct. | [adjective] Morally right; upright, righteous, equitable; fair. KAJEPUT (20) KASHRUT (14) [noun] The Jewish dietary laws, stating which foods are fit to eat (kosher). KEENEST (11) [adjective] Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested. | [adjective] Fierce, intense, vehement. | [adjective] Having a fine edge or point; sharp. KILOBIT (13) [noun] 1000 bits (binary digits) | [noun] 1024 (210) bits KINDEST (12) [adjective] Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others. | [adjective] Affectionate. | [adjective] Favorable. KINGLET (12) [noun] A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory. | [noun] Any of several birds of the family Regulidae. KNESSET (11) KUMQUAT (22) [noun] A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia (Citrus japonica, syn. Fortunella japonica). LACIEST (9) [adjective] Made of lace or decorated with it. | [adjective] Looking like lace. LAKIEST (11) LAMBAST (11) [verb] To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly. | [verb] (dated in UK English but not US English) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely. LAMBENT (11) [adjective] Brushing or flickering gently over a surface. | [adjective] Glowing or luminous, but lacking heat. | [adjective] Exhibiting lightness or brilliance of wit; clever or witty without unkindness. LAMBERT (11) [noun] A cgs unit of luminance; the brightness of a surface that emits one lumen per square centimetre LANGUET (8) LANKEST (11) LARGEST (8) [adjective] Of considerable or relatively great size or extent. | [adjective] Abundant; ample. | [adjective] Full in statement; diffuse; profuse. LATCHET (12) [noun] A small lever action crossbow with the cocking lever built into the top of the stock and a top mounted trigger. | [noun] A thong or cord, especially one used to fasten a shoe. LAWSUIT (10) [noun] In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution. LAZARET (16) [noun] A lazaretto. | [noun] A lazaretto. LAZIEST (16) [adjective] Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion. | [adjective] Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely. | [adjective] Showing a lack of effort or care. LEAFLET (10) [noun] One of the components of a compound leaf. | [noun] A small plant leaf. | [noun] A small sheet of paper containing information, used for dissemination of said information, often an advertisement. LEANEST (7) [verb] To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. | [verb] To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. | [verb] Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc. LEFTEST (10) LEFTIST (10) [noun] A person who holds views associated with the political left. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the political left. LENIENT (7) [noun] A lenitive; an emollient. | [adjective] Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation LEVERET (10) [noun] A young hare. LEWDEST (11) [adjective] Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude. | [adjective] Lay; not clerical. | [adjective] Uneducated. LIEFEST (10) LIEVEST (10) LIMIEST (9) LIMPEST (11) [verb] To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg. | [verb] (of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion. | [verb] To move or proceed irregularly. LINECUT (9) LINIEST (7) LINOCUT (9) [noun] A type of woodcut in which a block of linoleum is used for the relief surface; the design cut into the block. LITHEST (10) [adjective] Mild; calm. | [adjective] Slim but not skinny. | [adjective] Capable of being easily bent; flexible. LOCKNUT (13) [noun] A second nut, screwed down onto another in order to prevent it slipping. LOCKOUT (13) [noun] The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing. | [noun] The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock. | [noun] (by extension) The exclusion of others from a certain place or situation. LOGIEST (8) [adjective] Slow to respond or react; lethargic. LONGEST (8) [verb] To take a long position in. | [adjective] Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below). | [adjective] Having great duration. LOOKOUT (11) [noun] A vantage point with a view of the surrounding area. | [noun] A session of watching for an approaching enemy, police, etc. | [noun] A person on watch for approaching enemy, police, danger, etc. LOOSEST (7) [adjective] Not fixed in place tightly or firmly. | [adjective] Not held or packaged together. | [adjective] Not under control. LOUDEST (8) [adjective] (of a sound) Of great intensity. | [adjective] (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy. | [adjective] (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash. LUNIEST (7) LUSHEST (10) [adjective] Juicy, succulent. | [adjective] Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile. | [adjective] (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant. MADDEST (11) [adjective] Insane; crazy, mentally deranged. | [adjective] (chiefly US; informal in UK) Angry, annoyed. | [adjective] Bizarre; incredible. MADWORT (13) MAILLOT (9) [noun] A one-piece swimsuit (for women) | [noun] A leotard or tights of stretchable jersey fabric, generally worn by dancers and gymnasts. MANCHET (14) [noun] A type of high-quality bread made from flour. MANHUNT (12) [noun] An organized search for a criminal or enemy. MANIHOT (12) MANTLET (9) [noun] A short sleeveless cloak or cape. | [noun] A portable screen or other covering, especially as used to protect the approach of soldiers engaged in a siege. | [noun] A mantelletta. MANUMIT (11) [verb] To release from slavery, to free. MARGENT (10) MARPLOT (11) MARTLET (9) [noun] A bird, the martin. | [noun] A depiction of a bird similar to a house martin or swallow with stylized feet. MATELOT (9) [noun] Sailor; also "mate;" boon companion MAZIEST (18) [adjective] Mazelike; like a maze. | [adjective] Not straight; zigzagging. MEANEST (9) [verb] To lament. | [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). MEDIANT (10) [noun] The third degree of the diatonic scale. | [noun] A rational number whose numerator is the sum of the numerators of two other given rational numbers and whose denominator is the sum of the denominators of those same two other rational numbers. MEEKEST (13) [adjective] Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing. | [adjective] Submissive, dispirited. MEERKAT (13) [noun] Suricata suricatta, a small carnivorous mammal of the mongoose family, from the Kalahari Desert, known for its habit of standing on its hind legs. MEGABIT (12) [noun] 106 = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes) | [noun] 220 = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit | [noun] One megabit per second MEGAHIT (13) MELILOT (9) [noun] A fragrant plant of the genus Melilotus, often having small yellow or white flowers. MESQUIT (18) METRIST (9) MEZQUIT (27) MEZUZOT (27) MIDCULT (12) MIDMOST (12) [adjective] In the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle; middlemost MIGRANT (10) [noun] A migratory bird or other animal. | [noun] Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another. | [noun] An immigrant or refugee. MILDEST (10) [adjective] Gentle and not easily angered. | [adjective] (of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict. | [adjective] Not overly felt or seriously intended. MINARET (9) [noun] The tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque, from which the muezzin recites the adhan (call to prayer). MINDSET (10) [noun] A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one. MIRIEST (9) MIRKEST (13) MISCAST (11) [noun] An erroneous cast or reckoning. | [verb] To cast or reckon incorrectly. | [verb] To cast or direct erroneously or improperly. MISEDIT (10) MISKEPT (15) MISMEET (11) MISPART (11) MISSEAT (9) MISSENT (9) MISSORT (9) MISSOUT (9) MISSUIT (9) MISWRIT (12) MITIEST (9) MONOCOT (11) [noun] Any plant whose seedlings typically have one cotyledon (seed leaf) (in contrast to the two cotyledons typical of dicots), thereby belonging to the taxonomic monocots, formerly variously known as Monocotyledones, Monocotyledonae, or Liliopsida, a class in the angiosperms (Angiospermae), the flowering plants. MOONLET (9) [noun] A very small body orbiting a planet, often as part of a ring. MOONLIT (9) [adjective] Lit by moonlight. MOONSET (9) [noun] The setting of the moon below the horizon MOPIEST (11) MORDANT (10) [noun] Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation. | [noun] Any corrosive substance used in etching. | [noun] A glutinous size used as a ground for gilding, to make the gold leaf adhere. MORDENT (10) [noun] An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it. MOSTEST (9) MUDFLAT (13) [noun] A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a river bed exposed at low tide. MUGWORT (13) [noun] Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia. | [noun] Artemisia vulgaris, traditionally used medicinally. MURKEST (13) MUSKRAT (13) [noun] A large aquatic rodent (Ondatra zibethicus). | [noun] Any of several species of shrews in the family Soricidae, especially the Asian house shrew, Suncus murinus NAILSET (7) [noun] A tool used with a hammer for driving in nails, rather than striking the nail directly at the risk of damaging the surrounding surface. NAIVEST (10) NARCIST (9) NASCENT (9) [adjective] Emerging; just coming into existence. | [adjective] Describing a quantity of object that is starting to grow from zero or an infinitesimal beginning. Also the creation or identification of an infinitesimal delta. | [adjective] Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept. NEAREST (7) [adjective] Physically close. | [adjective] Close in time. | [adjective] Closely connected or related. NEATEST (7) [adjective] Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities. | [adjective] Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below. | [adjective] Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent. NEGLECT (10) [noun] The act of neglecting. | [noun] The state of being neglected. | [noun] Habitual lack of care. NIGHEST (11) NOBLEST (9) [adjective] Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character. | [adjective] Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid. | [adjective] Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn. NONFACT (12) NONMEAT (9) NONPAST (9) [adjective] (grammar, of the tense) Of a tense, not pertaining to the past; in particular, applicable to both the present and the future. NONSUIT (7) [noun] A lawsuit that is dismissed as having been brought without cause, prior to an adjudication on the merits. | [noun] A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff. | [verb] To dismiss (a suit or plaintiff) on the grounds of his or her lawsuit having been brought without cause, prior to an adjudication on the merits. NOSIEST (7) [adjective] Prying, inquisitive or curious in other’s affairs; tending to snoop or meddle. | [adjective] Having a large or elongated nose. NUMBEST (11) NUTMEAT (9) NYMPHET (17) [noun] A small nymph. | [noun] A sexually attractive girl or young woman. OCCIPUT (13) [noun] The back part of the head or skull (contradistinct from sinciput). OCULIST (9) [noun] An ophthalmologist | [noun] An optometrist ODDMENT (11) [noun] A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth. | [noun] Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item. | [noun] An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock. ODORANT (8) [noun] Any substance that has a distinctive smell, especially one added to something (such as household gas) for safety purposes | [adjective] Having an odour/odor. OFFBEAT (15) [noun] The beats not normally accented in a measure. | [noun] An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform. | [adjective] Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary. OFFCAST (15) OILIEST (7) [adjective] Relating to or resembling oil. | [adjective] Covered with or containing oil. | [adjective] Excessively friendly or polite but insincere. OLOGIST (8) ONANIST (7) OOZIEST (16) OPENEST (9) OPERANT (9) [noun] An operative person or thing. | [noun] Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment. | [adjective] That operates to produce an effect. OPULENT (9) [adjective] Luxuriant, and ostentatiously magnificent. | [adjective] Rich, sumptuous and extravagant. ORALIST (7) [noun] A supporter of oralism. ORBIEST (9) OTOCYST (12) [noun] An organ involved in balance and orientation. | [noun] The precursor of the inner ear. OUTCAST (9) [verb] To cast out; to banish. | [adjective] That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. | [noun] One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah. OUTFAST (10) OUTFELT (10) OUTFOOT (10) OUTHUNT (10) OUTKEPT (13) OUTLAST (7) [verb] To live, last or remain longer than. OUTMOST (9) [noun] That which is outmost; the surface; the outside. OUTPLOT (9) OUTPORT (9) [noun] A port city or harbor which is secondary to a main port. | [noun] In Newfoundland and Labrador any city, town, or village having a port, other than the main port of St. John's. OUTPOST (9) [noun] A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops. | [noun] The body of troops manning such a post. | [noun] An outlying settlement. OUTROOT (7) OUTSERT (7) [noun] A piece of promotional material that is placed on the outside of a product. OUTSHOT (10) [verb] To score more goals than the other side in a goal sport such as hockey or soccer | [verb] To fire a gun more accurately than. | [noun] An extension to a building. OUTTROT (7) OUTWAIT (10) [verb] To wait for something to end | [verb] To gain an advantage by simply waiting OUTWENT (10) [verb] To go out, to set forth. | [verb] To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond. | [verb] To overtake; to travel faster than. OUTWEPT (12) OUTWRIT (10) OVERACT (12) [verb] To act in an exaggerated manner. | [verb] To act upon, or influence, unduly. OVERAPT (12) OVERBET (12) OVERCUT (12) OVEREAT (10) [verb] To eat too much. | [verb] To surfeit with eating. OVERFAT (13) OVERHOT (13) OVERLET (10) OVERLIT (10) OVERSET (10) [verb] To set over (something); to cover. | [verb] To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset; to capsize. | [verb] To knock over, capsize, overturn. OVERWET (13) OVIDUCT (13) [noun] A duct through which an ovum passes from an ovary to the uterus or to the exterior. OXHEART (17) OXIDANT (15) [noun] An oxidizing agent OXYSALT (17) PAGEANT (10) [noun] A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive. | [noun] An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume. | [noun] A spectacular ceremony. PALETOT (9) PALIEST (9) PALMIST (11) [noun] A fortuneteller who uses palmistry. PANDECT (12) [noun] Usually in the plural form Pandects: a compendium or digest of writings on Roman law divided in 50 books, compiled in the 6th century C.E. by order of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I (c. 482–565). | [noun] (by extension) Also in the plural form pandects: a comprehensive collection of laws; specifically, the whole body of law of a country; a legal code. | [noun] (by extension) A treatise or similar work that is comprehensive as to a particular topic; specifically a manuscript of the entire Bible. PARAPET (11) [noun] A low protective wall. | [noun] Part of a perimeter that extends above the roof. | [noun] A fortification consisting of a wall. PARFAIT (12) [noun] A French parfait (parfait glacé), an iced dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and flavouring (usually fruit), sometimes with the addition of a liqueur. | [noun] An American parfait, a layered dessert often consisting of fruit, ice cream, pastries, whipped topping, etc. and served in a glass, often a parfait glass. | [noun] A smooth pâté, usually made from liver and flavoured with liqueurs. PARQUET (18) [noun] A wooden floor made of parquetry. | [noun] The part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle. | [noun] In some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions. PARTLET (9) PASSANT (9) [adjective] (of a four-legged animal) Walking, usually to the right, and looking straight ahead with the right forepaw raised from the ground. | [adjective] Currently in use; in vogue. PATIENT (9) [noun] A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person. | [noun] (grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action. | [noun] One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. PATRIOT (9) [noun] A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country. | [noun] A fellow countryman, a compatriot. PAYMENT (14) [noun] The act of paying. | [noun] A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services. PEACOAT (11) [noun] A coat of heavy, navy-coloured wool, originally worn by sailors of European navies. PEASANT (9) [noun] A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture. | [noun] A country person. | [noun] An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person. PECCANT (13) [noun] An offender. | [adjective] Unhealthy; causing disease. | [adjective] Sinful. PELTAST (9) PENDANT (10) [noun] A supporting post attached to the main rafter. | [noun] A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. | [noun] The dangling part of an earring. PENDENT (10) [noun] A supporting post attached to the main rafter. | [noun] A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. | [noun] The dangling part of an earring. PENNANT (9) [noun] A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition. | [noun] The winning of a competition, represented by a flag. | [noun] A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked. PERCENT (11) [noun] A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred). | [noun] One part per hundred; one percent. | [adverb] For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion). PERCEPT (13) [noun] Something perceived; the object of perception. | [noun] A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something. PERFECT (14) [noun] (grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense. | [noun] A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes. | [adjective] Fitting its definition precisely. | [verb] To make perfect; to improve or hone. PERIAPT (11) [noun] A charm worn on a necklace; an amulet. PERIDOT (10) [noun] A transparent olive-green form of olivine, used as a gem. | [noun] A yellow-green colour, like that of the peridot. PERPENT (11) PERSALT (9) PERSIST (9) [verb] To go on stubbornly or resolutely. | [verb] To repeat an utterance. | [verb] To continue to exist. PERTEST (9) PERVERT (12) [noun] One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals. | [noun] A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable. | [verb] To turn another way; to divert. PIANIST (9) [noun] A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra. | [noun] (WWII) A spy using radio or wireless telegraphy to keep in touch with headquarters during the Second World War PICQUET (20) [noun] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. | [noun] A stake driven into the ground. | [noun] A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. PIEFORT (12) PIERROT (9) [noun] Alternative form of Pierrot | [noun] Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Tarucus and Castalia, notable for white contrasting with brown or black on the underwings. | [noun] An 18th-century women's low-cut basque with sleeves. PIETIST (9) PIGBOAT (12) PIGMENT (12) [noun] Any color in plant or animal cells | [noun] A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder | [noun] Wine flavoured with spices and honey. PINIEST (9) PINKEST (13) [adjective] Having a colour between red and white; pale red. | [adjective] Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet. | [adjective] Having conjunctivitis. PIPIEST (11) PIQUANT (18) [adjective] Causing hurt feelings; scathing, severe. | [adjective] Stimulating to the senses; engaging; charming. | [adjective] Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy. PISSANT (9) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) An ant. | [noun] An insignificant person. | [noun] A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances. PITAPAT (11) [noun] A series of quick tapping sounds | [verb] To make a series of quick tapping sounds; to palpitate | [adverb] With a quick tapping sound PLACKET (15) [noun] A slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings | [noun] A petticoat, especially an underpetticoat. | [noun] (by extension) A woman. PLAUDIT (10) [noun] (often in the plural) A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. PLAYACT (14) [verb] To perform on, or as if on, a stage. PLAYLET (12) [noun] A short play (dramatic work). PLEDGET (11) [noun] A small flat absorbent pad of cotton or wool, used to medicate, drain, or protect a wound or sore. | [noun] A string of oakum used in calking. | [verb] To apply a pledget to. PLENIST (9) PLUMMET (13) [noun] A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water, a plumb bob or a plumb line | [noun] Hence, any weight | [noun] A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines) POKIEST (13) [adjective] Slow. | [adjective] Stupid; mentally dull. | [adjective] (of a room or other enclosed space) Small and cramped, and often shabby. POLECAT (11) [noun] A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela. | [noun] A skunk. | [noun] A tubular device used to support lights on a set. POLLIST (9) POLOIST (9) POLYCOT (14) POMFRET (14) [noun] A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species. | [noun] Several species of butterfishes in the genus Pampus. POOREST (9) [adjective] With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. | [adjective] Of low quality. | [adjective] Used to express pity. PORRECT (11) PORTENT (9) [noun] Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen. | [noun] A portending; significance | [noun] Something regarded as portentous; a marvel; prodigy. POSHEST (12) [adjective] Associated with the upper classes. | [adjective] Stylish, elegant, exclusive (expensive). | [adjective] (usually offensive) Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else. POTSHOT (12) [noun] A shot taken at an easy or random target. | [noun] Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot. | [verb] To fire potshots. PRECAST (11) [noun] Structural members made of concrete, ready for installation. | [verb] To cast in a location other than where to be installed. | [adjective] Cast previously in another location. PRECENT (11) [verb] To act as precentor, leading songs or prayers in a place of worship. PRECEPT (13) [noun] A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct. | [noun] A written command, especially a demand for payment. | [noun] An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf. PREDICT (12) [noun] A prediction. | [verb] To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power. | [verb] (of theories, laws, etc.) To imply. PREEDIT (10) PREEMPT (13) [noun] A preemptive bid. | [verb] To appropriate something (before someone else does). | [verb] To displace something, or take precedence over something. PREFECT (14) [noun] An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc. | [noun] The head of a department in France. | [noun] The head of a prefecture in Japan. PREHEAT (12) [verb] To heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking PRELECT (11) PREMEET (11) PREMIXT (18) PREMOLT (11) PRERIOT (9) PRESENT (9) [noun] The current moment or period of time. | [noun] The present tense. | [adjective] Relating to now, for the time being; current. | [noun] A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions. PRESIFT (12) PRESORT (9) PRETEST (9) [noun] A preliminary test, given in advance of instruction or evaluation. | [verb] To administer a pretest to. | [verb] To carry out a pretest. PRETEXT (16) [noun] A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense. | [verb] To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else. PREVENT (12) [verb] To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something). | [verb] To take preventative measures. | [verb] To come before; to precede. PRICKET (15) [noun] A candle. | [noun] A spike for holding a single candle. | [noun] A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched. PRODUCT (12) [noun] A commodity offered for sale. | [noun] Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc. | [noun] Anything that is produced; a result. PROJECT (18) [noun] A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An urban low-income housing building. | [noun] An idle scheme; an impracticable design. PROPHET (14) [noun] Someone who speaks by divine inspiration. | [noun] Someone who predicts the future; a soothsayer. PROPJET (18) PROSECT (11) PROTECT (11) [verb] To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to. | [verb] (travel) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight. PROTEST (9) [noun] A formal objection, especially one by a group. | [noun] A collective gesture of disapproval; a demonstration. | [noun] The noting by a notary public of an unpaid or unaccepted bill. PROTIST (9) [noun] Any of the eukaryotic unicellular organisms including protozoans, slime molds and some algae; historically grouped into the kingdom Protoctista. PROVOST (12) [noun] One placed in charge: a head, a chief, particularly: | [noun] A senior deputy, a superintendent, particularly: | [noun] A provost cell: a military cell or prison. PROWEST (12) PRUDENT (10) [adjective] Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; careful, discreet, sensible; — opposed to rash; directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence | [adjective] Practically wise, judicious, shrewd | [adjective] Frugal; economical; not extravagant; PSCHENT (14) PULLOUT (9) [noun] The practice of luring a whole team of employees away from a competitor and hiring them oneself. | [noun] A quotation taken from the main text and given special visual treatment. | [noun] A withdrawal, especially of armed forces. PULSANT (9) PUNGENT (10) [adjective] Having a strong odor that stings the nose, said especially of acidic or spicy substances. | [adjective] Having a strong taste that stings the tongue, said especially of hot (spicy) food, which has a strong and sharp or bitter taste. | [adjective] Stinging; acerbic. PUNIEST (9) [adjective] Of inferior size, strength or significance; small, weak, ineffective. PUNKEST (13) PURPORT (11) [noun] Import, intention or purpose | [noun] Disguise; covering | [verb] To convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely). PURSUIT (9) [noun] The act of pursuing. | [noun] A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly. | [noun] A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents. QUADRAT (17) [noun] An area of land, marked for studying its plants, animals, soil, natural processes, etc. | [noun] A quad; a blank metal block used to fill space in lines of type. | [noun] A virtual rectangular subdivision of a line or column of hieroglyphs within which a group of hieroglyphs is arranged. QUARTET (16) [noun] A music composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument. | [noun] The set of four musicians who perform a piece of music together in four parts. | [noun] A group of four singers, usually males, who sings together in four-part harmony. QUERIST (16) [noun] A person who asks questions. QUILLET (16) QUINNAT (16) QUINTET (16) [noun] A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians) | [noun] A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together | [noun] Any group of five members RACIEST (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. RACQUET (18) [noun] An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis, or a shuttlecock in badminton. | [verb] To hit with a racquet. | [verb] To play a game that involves using a racquet. RADIANT (8) [noun] A point source from which radiation is emitted. | [noun] The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower. | [noun] A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve. RAGWORT (11) [noun] Any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera. RAIMENT (9) [noun] Clothing, garments, dress, material. RAINOUT (7) [noun] Something which has been cancelled due to interfering rain. | [noun] Such a cancellation. | [noun] Radioactive fallout deposited by means of rain. RAMPANT (11) [adjective] Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended. | [adjective] Rearing up, especially on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile. | [adjective] Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane. RAMPART (11) [noun] A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose. | [noun] A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark. | [noun] That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection. RANKEST (11) [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. RAPPORT (11) [noun] A relationship of mutual trust and respect. A close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well. | [noun] Relation; proportion; conformity. RAREBIT (9) [noun] Welsh rarebit RASHEST (10) [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. RATATAT (7) [noun] A swiftly repeated knocking sound. RATCHET (12) [noun] A pawl, click or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc. | [noun] A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl. | [noun] A ratchet wrench. | [adjective] Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous. READAPT (10) [verb] To adapt again; to adapt for a new purpose READMIT (10) [verb] To admit, or allow to enter, again. READOPT (10) [verb] Adopt again READOUT (8) [noun] A display that presents numerical data. | [noun] An account of the topics discussed in a meeting, especially in diplomatic or political contexts. REAGENT (8) [noun] A compound or mixture of compounds used to treat or test materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting. REALEST (7) [adjective] True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent. | [adjective] Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake. | [adjective] Genuine, unfeigned, sincere. REALIST (7) [noun] An advocate of realism; one who believes that matter, objects etc. have real existence beyond our perception of them. | [noun] One who believes in seeing things the way they really are, as opposed to how they would like them to be. | [noun] An adherent of the realism movement; an artist who seeks to portray real everyday life accurately. REALLOT (7) [verb] To allot for a second or subsequent time REBOANT (9) REBUILT (9) [verb] To build again. | [adjective] Which has been rebuilt RECEIPT (11) [noun] The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received. | [noun] The fact of having received a blow, injury etc. | [noun] (in the plural) A quantity or amount received; takings. RECHART (12) RECHEAT (12) RECOUNT (9) [noun] Narration, account, description, rendering | [verb] To tell; narrate; to relate in detail | [verb] To rehearse; to enumerate. | [noun] A counting again, as of votes. RECRUIT (9) [noun] A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement. | [noun] A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier. | [noun] A hired worker REDBAIT (10) REDCOAT (10) [noun] A British soldier, especially during the American Revolution. | [noun] A member of the entertainment staff at Butlin's holiday camps in the United Kingdom, who wear red blazers. | [noun] A fox. REDDEST (9) [adjective] Having red as its color. | [adjective] (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger. | [adjective] (of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black REDOUBT (10) [noun] A small, temporary, military fortification. | [noun] A reinforced refuge; a fort. | [noun] A place of safety or refuge. | [verb] To dread. | [noun] The return of doubt. REDRAFT (11) [noun] A second or subsequent draft | [noun] A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protested bill draws on the drawer or endorsers, for the amount of the bill, with costs and charges. | [verb] To draft again REDROOT (8) REEJECT (16) REELECT (9) [verb] To elect for a second or subsequent time. REENACT (9) [verb] To enact again. | [verb] To recreate an event, especially a historical battle. REERECT (9) REFIGHT (14) REFLECT (12) [verb] To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface. | [verb] To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface. | [verb] To mirror, or show the image of something. REFLOAT (10) [noun] The process of getting something to float again. | [verb] To cause to float again. REFRACT (12) [verb] (of light) To change direction as a result of entering a different medium | [verb] To cause (light) to change direction as a result of entering a different medium. REFRONT (10) REGNANT (8) [noun] A sovereign or ruler. | [adjective] Reigning, ruling; currently holding power. | [adjective] Dominant; holding sway; having particular power or influence. REGRAFT (11) REGRANT (8) REGREET (8) RELIANT (7) [adjective] Having reliance on somebody or something. RELIGHT (11) [verb] To light or kindle anew. | [verb] To render again with different simulated lighting conditions. REMNANT (9) [noun] The small portion remaining of a larger thing or group. | [noun] The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt. | [noun] An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc. REMOUNT (9) [noun] The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with its equipment. | [noun] The process of mounting a drive or volume again. | [noun] The restaging of a play or film. REPAINT (9) [noun] The act or process of painting something again, especially if recently painted. | [noun] The act of drawing or rendering again on the display. | [verb] To paint anew or again, especially if recently painted. REPLANT (9) [verb] To plant again, especially to plant in a different place, using different plants, or in a different design. REPOSIT (9) REPRINT (9) [noun] A book, pamphlet or other printed matter that has been published once before but is now being released again. | [verb] To print (something) that has been published in print before. | [verb] To renew the impression of. REPTANT (9) [adjective] Creeping along the ground. REQUEST (16) [noun] Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). | [noun] A formal message requesting something. | [noun] Condition of being sought after. RESHOOT (10) [noun] An instance of reshooting. | [verb] To shoot again, especially of video recording. RESIGHT (11) RESMELT (9) RESOJET (14) RESPECT (11) [noun] An attitude of consideration or high regard | [noun] Good opinion, honor, or admiration | [noun] (always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death. RESPELT (9) [verb] To spell again. RESPLIT (9) RESTART (7) [noun] The act of starting something again. | [verb] To start again. | [verb] To reboot. RETRACT (9) [verb] To pull back inside. | [verb] To draw back; to draw up. | [verb] To take back or withdraw something one has said. RETREAT (7) [noun] The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant. | [noun] The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position. | [noun] A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security. | [verb] To treat or deal with (a topic) again or differently. RETWIST (10) REVISIT (10) [noun] An act of revisiting; a second or subsequent visit. | [verb] To visit again. | [verb] To reconsider or re-experience something. REVUIST (10) REWRAPT (12) RIBWORT (12) [noun] Ribgrass; Old World plantain, Plantago lanceolata. RICHEST (12) [adjective] Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions. | [adjective] Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour. | [adjective] Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling. RIMIEST (9) [adjective] Coated in rime. RINGENT (8) RINGGIT (9) [noun] The currency of Malaysia RINGLET (8) [noun] A small ring. | [noun] A lock, tress. | [noun] Any of various butterflies with small rings on the wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae, such as Aphantopus hyperantus. RIPPLET (11) RIVULET (10) [noun] A small brook or stream; a streamlet. | [noun] Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth. ROLLOUT (7) [noun] An act of rolling out; deployment. | [noun] A play in which a quarterback moves toward the sideline before attempting to pass. | [noun] A form of analysis in which the same position is played many times (with different dice rolls) and the various outcomes are recorded. ROMAUNT (9) ROOTLET (7) ROPIEST (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. ROSIEST (7) [adjective] Rose-coloured. | [adjective] Resembling rose, as in scent of perfume. | [adjective] Optimistic. ROWBOAT (12) [noun] A small open boat propelled by oars (by rowing). RUBIEST (9) RULIEST (7) [adjective] Pitiable; miserable. | [adjective] Neat and orderly. RUMMEST (11) [adjective] Fine, excellent, valuable. | [adjective] Strange, peculiar. RUNDLET (8) SACKBUT (15) [noun] A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet. SACRIST (9) [noun] A sacristan. | [noun] A person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir and take care of the books. SADDEST (9) [adjective] (heading) Emotionally negative. | [adjective] Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary. | [adjective] Steadfast, valiant. SAGIEST (8) SALIENT (7) [noun] An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense. | [adjective] Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant. | [adjective] Prominent; conspicuous. SALTANT (7) SALTEST (7) SANDLOT (8) [noun] A vacant lot where children play. SANDPIT (10) [noun] A place or pit from which sand is excavated. | [noun] A children’s play area consisting of a large container filled with sand. | [noun] A small-scale illustrative model of the theater of war in the Middle East. SAPIENT (9) [noun] An intelligent, self-aware being. | [adjective] Attempting to appear wise or discerning. | [adjective] Possessing wisdom and discernment; wise, learned. SARMENT (9) SATINET (7) [noun] A faux satin usually made of synthetic fiber or cotton. SAWDUST (11) [noun] The fine particles (dust) of wood created by sawing. | [verb] To sprinkle with sawdust. SCARLET (9) [noun] A brilliant red colour tinged with orange. | [noun] Cloth of a scarlet color. | [verb] To dye or tinge with scarlet. SEABOOT (9) SEAGIRT (8) SEALANT (7) [noun] Any material used to seal a surface so as to prevent passage of a fluid. | [noun] A mixture of polymers, fillers, and pigments used to fill and seal joints where moderate movement is expected. SEAPORT (9) [noun] A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo. SEAREST (7) SEAWANT (10) SEGMENT (10) [noun] A length of some object. | [noun] One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion. | [noun] A portion. SEJEANT (14) SELLOUT (7) [noun] An action in which principles are compromised for financial gain. | [noun] A person who compromises his or her principles for financial gain. | [noun] The selling of an entire stock of something, especially tickets for an entertainment or sports event. SEMIFIT (12) SEMIMAT (11) SEQUENT (16) [noun] Something that follows in a given sequence. | [noun] A disjunctive set of logical formulae which is partitioned into two subsets; the first subset, called the antecedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as false, and the second subset, called the succedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as true. (The set is written without set brackets and the separation between the two subsets is denoted by a turnstile symbol, which may be read "give(s)".) | [noun] A follower. SERPENT (9) [noun] A snake. | [noun] An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article). | [noun] A subtle, treacherous, malicious person. SERVANT (10) [noun] One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave. | [noun] One who serves another, providing help in some manner. | [noun] A person who dedicates themselves to God. SEXIEST (14) [adjective] (of a person) Having sex appeal; suggestive of sex. | [adjective] That can sexually attract or arouse. | [adjective] (of a thing or concept) interesting, attractive, intriguing, or appealing. SEXTANT (14) [noun] A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude. | [noun] One sixth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 60°. | [noun] One of six groups of adjacent teeth, excluding the wisdom teeth. The front sextants go from canine to canine, and there are sextants on the right and left of these. See w:Periodontal examination. SHALLOT (10) [noun] A vegetable in the onion family. SHERBET (12) [noun] A food of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients. | [noun] An effervescent powder made of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and flavourings, intended to be eaten alone or mixed with water to make a drink. | [noun] A traditional West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals. SHEROOT (10) SHILPIT (12) SHUTOUT (10) [noun] Closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working. | [noun] A game that ends with one side not having scored. SICKEST (13) [adjective] Having an urge to vomit. | [adjective] In poor health. | [adjective] Mentally unstable, disturbed. SICKOUT (13) [noun] A labor action where employees refuse to work claiming they are sick. SINGLET (8) [noun] A vest; a sleeveless garment with a low-cut neck, often worn underneath a shirt. | [noun] A multiplet having a single member, especially a single spectroscopic peak. | [noun] A quantum state having zero spin. SIZIEST (16) SKELPIT (13) SKILLET (11) [noun] A pan for frying, generally large and heavy. | [noun] (sometimes attributive) A dish or meal cooked in such a pan. | [verb] To cook in a skillet. SKIPPET (15) [noun] A small boat; a skiff. | [noun] A small, round box used for keeping documents and seals or for covering seals attached to documents SKIRRET (11) [noun] An umbelliferous plant (Sium sisarum), cultivated for its sweet edible tuberous roots. SLEEKIT (11) [adjective] Specious, flattering; cunning. SLEIGHT (11) [noun] Cunning; craft; artful practice. | [noun] An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. | [noun] Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill. SLIPOUT (9) SLOWEST (10) [adjective] Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed. | [adjective] Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time. | [adjective] Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend. SNIDEST (8) SNIPPET (11) [noun] A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample. | [noun] A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase. | [verb] To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt. SOFTEST (10) [adjective] Easily giving way under pressure. | [adjective] (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh. | [adjective] (of a sound) Quiet. SOLERET (7) SOLICIT (9) [noun] Solicitation | [verb] To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event. | [verb] To woo; to court. SOLOIST (7) [noun] A person who performs a solo. SOLVENT (10) [noun] A liquid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution. | [noun] That which resolves. | [adjective] Able to pay all debts as they become due, and having no more liabilities than assets. SOONEST (7) [adjective] Short in length of time from the present. | [adjective] Early | [adverb] Immediately, instantly. SOPHIST (12) [noun] One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece. | [noun] A teacher who used plausible but fallacious reasoning. | [noun] (by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument. SORBENT (9) [noun] A substance that can enable sorption. SOUREST (7) [adjective] Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste. | [adjective] Made rancid by fermentation, etc. | [adjective] Tasting or smelling rancid. SPAREST (9) [adjective] Scant; not abundant or plentiful. | [adjective] Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money. | [adjective] Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous. SPAVIET (12) SPINOUT (9) [noun] A skid that results in a car rotating so as not to be oriented in the direction of linear motion. | [noun] The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed. SPIRANT (9) [noun] A fricative. SPOTLIT (9) [verb] To illuminate with a spotlight. | [verb] To draw attention to. SPRIEST (9) SPRIGHT (13) SPRYEST (12) STALEST (7) [adjective] (alcohol) Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong. | [adjective] No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc. | [adjective] No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated. STARLET (7) [noun] A young actress with a promising career ahead of her. | [noun] An accomplished and important supporting player in a sports team. | [noun] A small star. STARLIT (7) [adjective] Illuminated by starlight. STATANT (7) [adjective] (of an animal) standing on all four feet or paws STATIST (7) [noun] A skilled politician or one with political power, knowledge or influence. | [noun] A statistician. | [noun] A supporter of statism. STERLET (7) [noun] A smaller, common Eurasian sturgeon, of the species Acipenser ruthenus. STICKIT (13) STUDENT (8) [noun] A person who studies or learns about a particular subject. | [noun] A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution. STYLIST (10) [noun] Designer. | [noun] Hairdresser. | [noun] A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style. SUAVEST (10) [adjective] Charming, confident and elegant. SUBCULT (11) SUBDUCT (12) SUBEDIT (10) [verb] To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor. SUBJECT (18) [adjective] Likely to be affected by or to experience something. | [adjective] Conditional upon. | [adjective] Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation. | [noun] (grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same. | [verb] (construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted. SUBPART (11) SUBPLOT (11) [noun] A plot within a story, subsidiary to the main plot. | [noun] A subdivision of a plot of land, especially one used for an agricultural experiment. | [verb] To provide (a story) with a subplot. SUBRENT (9) SUBSECT (11) SUBSIST (9) [verb] To survive on a minimum of resources. | [verb] To have ontological reality; to exist. | [verb] To retain a certain state; to continue. SUBTEST (9) SUBTEXT (16) [noun] (authorship) The implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue. SUBUNIT (9) [noun] Any subdivision of a larger unit. | [noun] A protein subunit. SUBVERT (12) [verb] To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly. | [verb] To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound. | [verb] To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath). | [noun] An advertisement created by subvertising. SUGGEST (9) [verb] To imply but stop short of saying explicitly. | [verb] To make one suppose; cause one to suppose (something). | [verb] To mention something as an idea, typically in order to recommend it SUNBELT (9) [noun] A geographical region loosely described as the southern and western states of the USA where the weather is typically sunny. | [noun] A political geographical region approximately the same as above, where the voting tendency of the population is right wing. SUNFAST (10) [adjective] Colorfast in a way that will not fade in sunlight. SUNSPOT (9) [noun] A region on the sun's surface with a lower temperature than its surroundings and intense magnetic activity. SUNSUIT (7) [noun] A costume designed to protect a child from the sun. SUPPORT (11) [noun] (sometimes attributive) Something which supports. | [noun] Financial or other help. | [noun] Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold. SURCOAT (9) [noun] A loose garment without sleeves worn over a suit of armor, sometimes colored or embroidered with the wearer's coat of arms. | [noun] An overgarment worn over a woman's gown; a kind of short robe worn over the tunic at the close of the 11th century. SURFEIT (10) [noun] An excessive amount of something. | [noun] Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating. | [noun] A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence. SURTOUT (7) [noun] A man's overcoat; a close-bodied frock coat. | [noun] (fortifications) A raised portion of the parapet of a work at the angles, to protect from enfilade fire. SUSPECT (11) [noun] A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime. | [verb] To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof. | [verb] To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone). SYMBIOT (14) TABARET (9) [noun] A strong fabric consisting of stripes of silk and satin. TABORET (9) [noun] A little drum; a tabret. | [noun] A low stool in the form of a drum. | [noun] A low stand or embroidery frame in the same shape. TACHIST (12) TAKEOUT (11) [noun] Food purchased from a takeaway. | [noun] A stone that hits another stone, removing it from play. | [noun] A double of an opponent's bid, intended to invite one's partner to compete in the auction, rather than to penalise one's opponents. TALIPOT (9) [noun] A tall palm tree, Corypha umbraculifera, from Sri Lanka and southern India, having very large leaves and flowers TALLEST (7) [adjective] (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall. | [adjective] (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high. | [adjective] (of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale. TANGENT (8) [noun] A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there. | [noun] A function of an angle that gives the ratio of the sine to the cosine, in either the real or complex numbers. Symbols: tan, tg. | [noun] A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it. TANNEST (7) TAPROOT (9) [noun] A long, tapering root possessed by many plants (such as carrots and dandelions). TARTEST (7) [adjective] Sharp to the taste; acid; sour. | [adjective] (of wine) high or too high in acidity. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; severe. TARTLET (7) TAUTEST (7) [adjective] Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight. | [adjective] (of a body, muscles, etc.) Not flabby; firm, toned; (of a person) having a lean, strong body. | [adjective] (of music, writing, etc.) Containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled. TEACART (9) TELEOST (7) [noun] A fish of the taxonomic infraclass Teleostei. | [adjective] Of, or relating to the Teleostei - fish with bony skeletons. TEMPEST (11) [noun] A storm, especially one with severe winds. | [noun] Any violent tumult or commotion. | [noun] A fashionable social gathering; a drum. TEMPLET (11) TENNIST (7) TENSEST (7) [adjective] Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed. | [adjective] Pulled taut, without any slack. TERSEST (7) [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. THEREAT (10) [adverb] There; at that place. | [adverb] At that event. THICKET (16) [noun] A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse. | [noun] A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract. | [noun] The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software. THOUGHT (14) [verb] To ponder, to go over in one's head. | [verb] To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem. | [verb] To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on). THRUPUT (12) TIDIEST (8) [adjective] Arranged neatly and in order. | [adjective] Not messy; neat and controlled. | [adjective] Satisfactory; comfortable. TIMEOUT (9) [noun] A short break in the action of a sport, for substitution, consultation, etc. | [noun] A break from a tense, heated or stressful situation (often enforced, sometimes as a disciplinary measure); a cooling-off period. | [noun] (communication) The intentional ending of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally. TINIEST (7) [adjective] Very small. TIPCART (11) TITLIST (7) [noun] The holder of a title in a competitive sport; a champion TITRANT (7) TONIEST (7) [adjective] Stylish, high-toned, upscale. TONIGHT (11) [noun] The nighttime of the current day or date; this night. | [adverb] During the night following the current day. | [adverb] Last night. TOPCOAT (11) [noun] A light overcoat. | [noun] A layer of paint or varnish etc. applied after the undercoat. | [verb] To apply a topcoat to. TOPKNOT (13) [noun] A decorative knot of hair on the crown of the head, sometimes having ribbons or feathers. | [noun] A decorative headdress. | [noun] A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird. TOPMAST (11) [noun] The highest mast in a fore-and-aft-rigged ship. | [noun] The mast below the topgallant mast in a square-rigged ship. TOPMOST (11) [adjective] At or nearest to the top; uppermost; being the very highest. TORMENT (9) [noun] A catapult or other kind of war-engine. | [noun] Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture. | [noun] Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental. TORRENT (7) [noun] A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice. | [noun] A large amount or stream of something. | [adjective] Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream. | [noun] (file sharing) A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent. TOSSPOT (9) [noun] A drunkard, one who drinks alcohol frequently. | [noun] A fool, prat; an idiot. TOURIST (7) [noun] Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business. | [noun] One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement. | [noun] A member of the visiting team in a match. TOWBOAT (12) TOWMONT (12) TOWNLET (10) TRAJECT (16) TRANSIT (7) [noun] The act of passing over, across, or through something. | [noun] The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance. | [noun] The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body. TRIDENT (8) [noun] A three-pronged spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork. | [noun] A curve of third order of the form: TRINKET (11) [noun] A small showy ornament or piece of jewelry | [noun] A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy. | [noun] A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard. TRIOLET (7) [noun] An eight-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are in iambic tetrameter. TRIPART (9) TRIPLET (9) [noun] A group of three. | [noun] One of a group of three. | [noun] One of a group of three siblings born at the same time to the same mother. TRIPPET (11) TRISECT (9) [verb] To cut into three pieces | [verb] To divide a quantity, angle etc into three equal parts TRITEST (7) [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. TRUMPET (11) [noun] A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic. | [noun] Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter. | [noun] The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry. TSARIST (7) TUBAIST (9) TUGBOAT (10) [noun] A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels. TURGENT (8) TURNOUT (7) [noun] The act of coming forth. | [noun] The number of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an election) or are present at a venue. | [noun] A place to pull off a road. TWINJET (17) [noun] An aircraft powered by two jet engines. | [noun] Two jets of particles from an event or source TWINSET (10) [noun] A combination of a cardigan and a jumper, usually knitted in wool or cashmere. | [noun] A pair of cars or locomotives that are permanently coupled and treated as a single unit. | [noun] A pair of cylinders containing air for the diver to breathe. TYPESET (12) [verb] To set or compose written material into type | [verb] To be set or composed into type | [adjective] (of text) Set in type. TYPIEST (12) TZARIST (16) TZITZIT (25) UGLIEST (8) [adjective] Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing. | [adjective] Displeasing to the ear or some other sense. | [adjective] Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality. ULULANT (7) UNADULT (8) UNBLEST (9) [adjective] Not blessed. UNBUILT (9) [adjective] Not built UNBURNT (9) [adjective] Not burnt or burned. UNDREST (8) UNGUENT (8) [noun] Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes. UNJOINT (14) [verb] To dislocate. | [verb] To disjoint. UNKEMPT (15) [adjective] (of hair) Uncombed; dishevelled. | [adjective] (by extension) Disorderly; untidy; messy; not kept up. | [adjective] Rough; unpolished UNMEANT (9) [adjective] Not meant UNPLAIT (9) [verb] To undo or untwist plaited hair; to unbraid UNQUIET (16) [verb] To disturb, disquiet. | [adjective] Uneasy and restless; unable to settle. | [adjective] Causing unease or restlessness. UNSHIFT (13) UNSIGHT (11) UNSMART (9) UNSPENT (9) [adjective] Not spent. UNSPILT (9) [adjective] Not spilt UNSPLIT (9) UNSWEPT (12) [adjective] Not swept UNTWIST (10) [noun] A twist in the opposite direction. | [verb] To remove a twist from. | [verb] To become untwisted. UPBUILT (11) [verb] To build up (literally). | [verb] To build up; to develop (figuratively). UPCOAST (11) [adjective] Upstream in the direction of coastal currents. UPDRAFT (13) [noun] An upward current of air, especially a strong one UPFRONT (12) [noun] A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season | [verb] To bring to the fore; to place up front for consideration | [adjective] Honest, frank and straightforward. UPLEAPT (11) UPLIGHT (13) [noun] A recessed light fixture that directs the light in an upward direction. | [verb] To illuminate from below. UPRIGHT (13) [noun] Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports. | [noun] A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic. | [noun] An upright piano. UPSHIFT (15) [noun] A shift to a higher gear | [noun] A shift to a higher level, such as of frequency, growth, economic level, etc. | [verb] To shift to a higher gear UPSHOOT (12) UPSTART (9) [noun] One who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous. | [noun] The meadow saffron. | [verb] To rise suddenly, to spring UPSWEPT (14) [adjective] Curved or swept upwards UPTIGHT (13) [noun] An uptight person. | [adjective] Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious. | [adjective] Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense. UTOPIST (9) VAGRANT (11) [noun] A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer. | [noun] (specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond. | [noun] Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. | [adjective] Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation. VAGUEST (11) [adjective] Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms. | [adjective] Not having a precise meaning. | [adjective] Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight. VAINEST (10) [adjective] Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason. | [adjective] Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. | [adjective] Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile. VALIANT (10) [noun] A person who acts with valor, showing hero-like characteristics in the midst of danger. | [adjective] Showing courage or determination; brave, heroic. VARIANT (10) [noun] Something that is slightly different from a type or norm. | [noun] A different sequence of a gene (locus). | [noun] A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types. VARMENT (12) VARMINT (12) [noun] A pestering animal such as one that kills or harasses a farmer's livestock or crops. | [noun] (by extension) An obnoxious person or troublemaker. VASTEST (10) [adjective] Very large or wide (literally or figuratively). | [adjective] Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent. | [adjective] Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. VEINLET (10) VERDANT (11) [adjective] Green in colour. | [adjective] Abundant in verdure; lush with vegetation. | [adjective] Fresh. VERDICT (13) [noun] A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest. | [noun] An opinion or judgement. VERIEST (10) [adjective] True, real, actual. | [adjective] The same; identical. | [adjective] With limiting effect: mere. VERSANT (10) [noun] A slope of a mountain or mountain ridge | [noun] The overall slope of a region | [adjective] Experienced, practiced VIADUCT (13) [noun] A bridge with several spans that carries road or rail traffic over a valley or other obstacles. VIBRANT (12) [adjective] Pulsing with energy or activity. | [adjective] Lively and vigorous. | [adjective] Vibrating, resonant or resounding. VILAYET (13) [noun] One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire. VINIEST (10) VIOLENT (10) [noun] An assailant. | [verb] To urge with violence. | [adjective] Involving extreme force or motion. VIOLIST (10) [noun] A person who plays the viol. | [noun] A person who plays the viola. WALKOUT (14) [noun] A sudden stoppage of work. | [noun] A similar mass action of people leaving a place as a form of protest. WANIEST (10) WANNEST (10) [adjective] Pale, sickly-looking. | [adjective] Dim, faint. | [adjective] Bland, uninterested. WARIEST (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 WARMEST (12) [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. WARRANT (10) [noun] Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior. | [noun] Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof. | [noun] An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money. WASHOUT (13) [noun] An appliance designed to wash something out. | [noun] The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid. | [noun] A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to wash out of the person before the second treatment begins. WATTEST (10) WAVELET (13) [noun] A small wave; a ripple. | [noun] A fast-decaying oscillation. WAVIEST (13) [adjective] Rising or swelling in waves. | [adjective] Full of waves. | [adjective] Moving to and fro; undulating. WAXIEST (17) [adjective] Resembling wax in texture or appearance. WEAKEST (14) [adjective] Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability. | [adjective] Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain. | [adjective] Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable. WEBFEET (15) WEBFOOT (15) WERGELT (11) WETTEST (10) [verb] To cover or impregnate with liquid. | [verb] To accidentally urinate in or on. | [verb] To make or become wet. WHATNOT (13) [noun] A small unspecified object; bric-a-brac (in plural) | [noun] Other related objects or ideas. | [noun] A freestanding set of shelves on which ornaments are displayed; an etagere. WHATSIT (13) [noun] A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall, or that one is embarrassed to say) WHEREAT (13) [conjunction] At which, or toward which | [conjunction] Because of which; whereupon WHIFFET (19) WHIPPET (17) [noun] A dog of a certain breed, similar to a small greyhound, originating in Britain and bred for racing. | [noun] A cartridge of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), used as a recreational inhalant drug. WHITEST (13) [adjective] Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light. | [adjective] (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin. | [adjective] Designated for use by Caucasians. WIDEOUT (11) [noun] A wide receiver. WILDCAT (13) [noun] A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically | [noun] A person who acts like a wildcat, (usually) a violent and easily-angered person or a sexually vigorous one. | [noun] An offensive formation with an unbalanced line and a snap directly to the running back rather than the quarterback. WILDEST (11) [adjective] Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated). | [adjective] From or relating to wild creatures. | [adjective] Unrestrained or uninhibited. WILIEST (10) [adjective] Sly, cunning, full of tricks WINGLET (11) [noun] A little wing. | [noun] A winglike structure at a wingtip set at an angle to the plane of the wing designed to reduce drag by its effect on wingtip vortices. | [noun] The bastard wing or alula of a bird. WINIEST (10) WIPEOUT (12) [noun] The act of colliding or crashing. | [noun] Total destruction or elimination. WIRIEST (10) [adjective] Thin, muscular and flexible. WITHOUT (13) [adverb] Outside, externally. This is still used in the names of some civil parishes in England, e.g. St Cuthbert Without. | [adverb] Lacking something. | [adverb] In prostitution: without a condom being worn. WOODCUT (13) [noun] An engraved block of wood, especially one used as a printing form. | [noun] A method of printmaking from such a block. | [noun] A print produced with this method. WOODLOT (11) WOOLHAT (13) WORKOUT (14) [noun] An exercise session; a period of physical exercise. | [noun] A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal. | [noun] (by extension) Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or produces strain. WOULDST (11) [verb] (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something). | [verb] (nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | [verb] (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). WROUGHT (14) [verb] To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. | [verb] To effect by gradual degrees. | [verb] To embroider with thread. YOGHURT (14) [noun] A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring. | [noun] (especially in compounds) Any similar product based on other substances (e.g. soy yogurt). ZANIEST (16) [adjective] Unusual and awkward in a funny, comical manner; outlandish; clownish. | [adjective] Ludicrously or incongruously comical. ZIKURAT (20)