Quordle Words Containing U

AMU (5) [noun] A unit of mass equal to 1/12 the mass of an atom of the 12C isotope of carbon. AUK (7) [noun] Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. BUB (7) [noun] An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer. | [noun] A woman's breast. | [noun] A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby. | [noun] A baby. | [noun] Champagne; bubbly. BUD (6) [noun] A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. | [noun] Something that has begun to develop. | [noun] A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. | [noun] Buddy, friend. BUG (6) [noun] An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). | [noun] Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug. | [noun] Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest. BUM (7) [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] The anus. | [verb] To sodomize; to engage in anal sex. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man. | [verb] To depress; to make unhappy. | [noun] A humming noise. | [noun] A bumbailiff. BUN (5) [noun] A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced. | [noun] A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head. | [noun] A cupcake. | [noun] A rabbit or sometimes a squirrel. | [noun] Marijuana cigarette, joint | [noun] A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm. BUR (5) [noun] A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants. | [noun] Any of several plants having such husks. | [noun] A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads. BUS (5) [noun] A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads. | [noun] An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components. | [noun] (medical industry) An ambulance. 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. BUY (8) [noun] Something which is bought; a purchase. | [verb] To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods | [verb] To obtain by some sacrifice. CUB (7) [noun] A young fox. | [noun] (by extension) The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger. | [noun] A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy. | [noun] A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles. CUD (6) [noun] The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time. | [verb] To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time. CUE (5) CUM (7) [preposition] Used in indicating a thing with two roles, functions, or natures, or a thing that has changed from one to another. | [conjunction] Used in indicating a thing with two or more roles, functions, or natures, or a thing that has changed from one to another. | [noun] Semen. | [adjective] Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating CUP (7) [noun] A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle. | [noun] The contents of said vessel; a cupful. | [noun] A customary unit of measure CUR (5) [noun] A contemptible or inferior dog. | [noun] A detestable person. CUT (5) [noun] The act of cutting. | [noun] The result of cutting. | [noun] An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound. DUB (6) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. | [noun] A blow, thrust, or poke. | [noun] An unskillful, awkward person. | [noun] A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed. | [noun] A pool or puddle. | [noun] A twenty dollar sack of marijuana. | [noun] A lock. DUD (5) [noun] A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile. | [noun] A failure of any kind. | [noun] Clothes, now always used in plural form duds. DUE (4) [noun] Deserved acknowledgment. | [noun] (in plural dues) A membership fee. | [noun] That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty. DUG (5) [verb] To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way. | [verb] To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up. | [verb] To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts. DUI (4) [noun] Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together. | [noun] Any pair of two people. | [noun] Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur. DUN (4) [noun] A brownish grey colour. | [adjective] Of a brownish grey colour. | [noun] A collector of debts. | [noun] A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago. | [noun] An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland. | [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance. | [noun] A mound or small hill. | [interjection] Imitating suspenseful music. DUO (4) [noun] Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together. | [noun] Any pair of two people. | [noun] Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur. DUP (6) EAU (3) [proper noun] Misspelling of Eau ECU (5) [noun] The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European Community before the euro. EMU (5) [noun] A cassowary (genus Casuarius). | [noun] A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae. | [noun] Any of the various units to measure electricity and magnetism in the CGS (now replaced by SI) system of units; abbreviated emu or EMU. | [noun] A person or thing that emulates. FEU (6) [noun] Land held in feudal tenure. | [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FLU (6) [noun] Influenza. | [noun] Stomach flu. FOU (6) [adjective] Drunk. FUB (8) FUD (7) FUG (7) [noun] A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area. | [noun] A state of lethargy and confusion; daze. | [noun] A state of chaos or confusion. | [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. FUN (6) [noun] Amusement, enjoyment or pleasure | [noun] Playful, often noisy, activity. | [verb] To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of. FUR (6) [noun] The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick. | [noun] The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans. | [noun] A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel. | [preposition] Towards; in the direction of. GNU (4) [noun] A large antelope of the genus Connochaetes, native to Africa, having curved horns. GUL (4) GUM (6) [noun] (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth. | [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. | [noun] Any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants. GUN (4) [noun] A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon. | [noun] A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm. | [noun] A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower). | [verb] Nonstandard spelling of going to. 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. GUV (7) [noun] A form of address, usually to an unknown male or a superior. An informal form of sir. GUY (7) [noun] An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November). | [noun] A person of eccentric appearance or dress; a "fright". | [noun] A man, fellow. | [noun] A guide; a leader or conductor. HUB (8) [noun] The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. | [noun] A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted. | [noun] A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub HUE (6) [noun] A color, or shade of color; tint; dye. | [noun] The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta. | [noun] A character; aspect. | [noun] A shout or cry. HUG (7) [noun] A close embrace, especially when charged with such an emotion as represented by: affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, agression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug"). | [noun] A particular grip in wrestling. | [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. HUH (9) [interjection] (with falling pitch) used to express amusement or subtle surprise. | [interjection] Used to express doubt or confusion. | [interjection] (with rising pitch) Used to reinforce a question. HUM (8) [interjection] Indicating thinking or pondering. | [interjection] A demand for an answer to a question. | [noun] A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. HUN (6) [noun] (used only to address someone) Honey, sweetheart, a term of endearment; a friendly term of address. | [noun] A grey partridge. HUP (8) [interjection] The first beat of a 4/4 military cadence, commanding either the lead-off step in a march or some other action. 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. JEU (10) JUG (11) [noun] A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top. | [noun] The amount that a jug can hold. | [noun] Jail. | [noun] A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug. JUN (10) [noun] A monetary unit of North Korea and formerly of South Korea, equal to one hundredth of a won. JUS (10) [noun] The juices given off as meat is cooked. | [noun] A lightly-reduced gravy or stock made from jus. JUT (10) [noun] Something that sticks out. | [verb] To stick out. | [verb] To butt. KUE (7) LEU (3) [noun] The unit of currency of Romania, equal to one hundred bani. | [noun] The unit of currency of Moldova, equal to one hundred bani. LUG (4) [noun] The act of hauling or dragging. | [noun] That which is hauled or dragged. | [noun] Anything that moves slowly. LUM (5) [noun] A chimney. | [noun] A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine. | [noun] A woody valley. LUV (6) LUX (10) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx | [verb] To put out of joint; to luxate. MUD (6) [noun] A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment. | [noun] A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall. | [noun] (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured. | [verb] To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon. MUG (6) [noun] A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer. | [noun] The face, often used deprecatingly. | [noun] A gullible or easily-cheated person. | [noun] Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug") MUM (7) [noun] Mother. | [noun] Ma'am; a term of respect for an older woman. | [noun] A chrysanthemum. | [noun] Silence | [noun] A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany. MUN (5) [verb] (Northern English, modal auxiliary, defective) Must. | [noun] The mouth, jaw. | [noun] Man | [noun] The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one. MUS (5) [noun] The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet. MUT (5) NUB (5) NUN (3) [noun] A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (specifically) those living together in a cloister. | [noun] (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions. | [noun] A prostitute. | [noun] The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). NUS (3) 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. OUD (4) [noun] A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin. | [noun] (perfume) Agarwood. OUR (3) 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. PIU (5) PUB (7) [noun] A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television. | [noun] A public server. | [verb] To go to one or more public houses. | [noun] The act of publishing printed or other matter. | [verb] To publish PUD (6) [noun] Pudding (either sweet or savoury). | [noun] Penis. | [noun] Child's hand; child's fist. | [noun] An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds). PUG (6) [noun] A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. | [noun] A bargeman. | [noun] Chaff; the refuse of grain | [noun] An elf or hobgoblin. | [noun] One who fights with fists; a boxer. | [noun] Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil) | [noun] The pawprint or footprint of an animal | [noun] A term of endearment. PUL (5) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Afghan afghani. PUN (5) [noun] A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused. | [verb] To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize. | [verb] To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words. | [noun] A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm. PUP (7) [noun] A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, or shark, or the young of certain other animals. | [noun] A young, inexperienced person. | [noun] Any cute dog, regardless of age. PUR (5) [noun] The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented. | [noun] A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person. | [noun] The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed PUS (5) [noun] A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection. | [verb] To emit pus. 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. QUA (12) [preposition] As; in the capacity of RUB (5) [noun] An act of rubbing. | [noun] A difficulty or problem. | [noun] A quip or sarcastic remark. RUE (3) [noun] Sorrow; repentance; regret. | [noun] Pity; compassion. | [verb] To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. | [noun] Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines. RUG (4) [noun] A partial covering for a floor. | [noun] A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. | [noun] A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. RUM (5) [noun] A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses. | [noun] A serving of rum. | [noun] A kind or brand of rum. | [noun] Any odd person or thing. | [noun] The card game rummy. RUN (3) [verb] To run. | [noun] Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet. | [noun] Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip. RUT (3) [noun] Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. | [noun] The noise made by deer during sexual excitement. | [noun] Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. | [noun] A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. SAU (3) SOU (3) [noun] An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound. | [noun] Cent; pocket money. | [noun] A thing of the smallest value; a whit; a jot. SUB (5) [noun] A submarine. | [noun] A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun. | [noun] A substitute, often in sports. | [verb] To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating. SUE (3) [verb] To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action. | [verb] To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. | [verb] (of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.). SUM (5) [noun] A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation. | [noun] (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition). | [noun] A quantity of money. | [noun] The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan. | [pronoun] A certain number, at least two. | [noun] A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a somon is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia where it is equivalent to a township. SUN (3) [noun] A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system. | [noun] The light and warmth which is received from the sun. | [noun] Something like the sun in brightness or splendor. | [noun] A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches). | [noun] Crotalaria juncea, an East Indian leguminous plant yielding a fiber. SUP (5) [noun] A sip; a small amount of food or drink. | [verb] To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon. | [verb] To take supper. | [interjection] What's up (either as a greeting or actual question) | [adjective] Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark. | [noun] Superintendent. | [noun] Upper limit. | [noun] A stand-up paddleboard SUQ (12) [noun] A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods. TAU (3) [noun] The letter Τ/τ in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek. | [noun] A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol. | [noun] A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon. TUB (5) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in. | [noun] The contents or capacity of such a vessel. | [noun] A bathtub. TUG (4) [noun] A sudden powerful pull. | [noun] A tugboat. | [noun] A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles. TUI (3) [noun] A New Zealand honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae TUN (3) [noun] A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. | [noun] A fermenting vat. | [noun] An old English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes. | [noun] A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days. TUP (5) [noun] A male sheep, a ram. | [noun] The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer. | [verb] To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe. | [noun] Two pence. TUT (3) [verb] To make a tut tut sound of disapproval. | [interjection] Tut tut; an expression of disapproval. | [interjection] Hush; be silent. | [noun] A tutorial. | [noun] An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it. | [noun] A piece of work. TUX (10) [noun] A tuxedo. UDO (4) UGH (7) [interjection] Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance. | [interjection] Used to express inarticulate vocalisations, such as used by a caveman. UKE (7) [noun] A small four-stringed guitar. | [noun] The training partner against whom tori performs a move. | [noun] (Japanese fiction) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom. ULU (3) [noun] An all-purpose knife traditionally used by Yup'ik, Inuit, and Aleut women. | [noun] Anglicized spelling of ʻulu (Hawaiian for breadfruit) UMM (7) UMP (7) [noun] An umpire. | [verb] To act as an umpire. UNS (3) UPO (5) UPS (5) [noun] The direction opposed to the pull of gravity. | [noun] A positive thing. | [noun] An upstairs room of a two story house. URB (5) URD (4) URN (3) [noun] A vase with a footed base. | [noun] A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee. | [noun] A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person. USE (3) [noun] The act of using. | [noun] The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics. | [noun] (followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit. UTA (3) UTS (3) VAU (6) VUG (7) [noun] A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes. WUD (7) YOU (6) [verb] To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal). | [pronoun] (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. | [pronoun] (reflexive pronoun) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. YUK (10) [noun] Something, such as a joke, that causes such a laugh. | [verb] To laugh exuberantly. | [interjection] An exuberant laugh. YUM (8) [adjective] Delicious. | [proper noun] Yellowdog Updater, Modified, a popular package manager in Linux | [interjection] Indicating delight at the flavor of food. YUP (8) [noun] A yes; an affirmative answer. | [interjection] Yes. | [noun] A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.

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. AGUE (5) [noun] An acute fever. | [noun] An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. | [noun] The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever ALUM (6) [noun] An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O). | [noun] Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations. | [verb] To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. | [noun] (shortening) A past attendee or graduate (of either gender) of a college, university or other educational institution. AMUS (6) ANUS (4) [noun] The lower orifice of the alimentary canal, through which feces and flatus are ejected. AQUA (13) [noun] The compound water. | [noun] A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green similar to the colour turquoise. | [adjective] Of a greenish-blue colour. ARUM (6) [noun] A flower or plant in the genus Arum AUKS (8) [noun] Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. AULD (5) [adjective] Old 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. AURA (4) [noun] Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something. | [noun] An invisible force surrounding a living creature. | [noun] Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache. AUTO (4) [noun] An automobile. | [noun] A setting for automatic operation. | [noun] An automatic gearbox / transmission. | [noun] An autorickshaw. BABU (8) [noun] (Indian English) A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man | [noun] (Indian English) (Originally) a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official. BAUD (7) [noun] A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second. | [noun] Bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol. BEAU (6) [noun] A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. | [noun] A male lover; a boyfriend. | [noun] A male escort. BEDU (7) [noun] A member of the nomadic Arab peoples of the desert regions of North Africa and the Middle East, also spelled Bedouin. BHUT (9) [noun] A variety of extremely hot chili pepper, also known as the ghost pepper, native to India. BLUB (8) [noun] The act of blubbing. | [verb] To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval). | [verb] To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. BLUE (6) [noun] The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this. | [noun] A blue dye or pigment. | [noun] Any of several processes to protect metal against rust. | [adjective] (entertainment) Pornographic or profane. BLUR (6) [noun] A smear, smudge or blot | [noun] Something that appears hazy or indistinct | [noun] A moral stain or blot. 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. BRUT (6) [adjective] (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet BUBO (8) [noun] An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or the groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis or syphilis. BUBS (8) [noun] Plural of bub, an informal term for brother or a friendly form of address for a man or boy. BUCK (12) [noun] A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad. | [noun] An uncastrated sheep, a ram. | [noun] A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man. | [verb] To bend; buckle. | [noun] The beech tree. | [noun] Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. BUDS (7) [noun] A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. | [noun] Something that has begun to develop. | [noun] A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. BUFF (12) [noun] Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals. | [noun] A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing. | [noun] A brownish yellow colour. | [noun] A buffet; a blow. | [noun] A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo. BUGS (7) [noun] An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). | [noun] Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug. | [noun] Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest. BUHL (9) [noun] A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works. | [noun] Furniture having ornamentation of this kind. BUHR (9) [noun] A hard, siliceous rock used for millstones. | [noun] A millstone made from such rock. BULB (8) [noun] Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end. | [noun] A light bulb. | [noun] The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown. BULK (10) [noun] Size, specifically, volume. | [noun] Any huge body or structure. | [noun] The major part of something. BULL (6) [noun] An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen. | [noun] A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age. | [noun] Any adult male bovine. | [verb] To force oneself (in a particular direction). | [noun] A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope. | [noun] A lie. | [noun] (16th century) A bubble. BUMF (11) [noun] Toilet paper. | [noun] Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc. BUMP (10) [noun] A light blow or jolting collision. | [noun] The sound of such a collision. | [noun] A protuberance on a level surface. BUMS (8) [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] The anus. | [verb] To sodomize; to engage in anal sex. BUND (7) [noun] A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states. | [noun] A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks. | [noun] A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding. BUNG (7) [noun] A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc. | [noun] A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal. | [noun] A bribe. | [adjective] Broken, not in working order. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A purse. BUNK (10) [noun] One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers. | [noun] A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other. | [noun] A cot. | [noun] Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense. | [verb] To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off'). BUNN (6) [noun] A small bread roll, typically slightly sweet. | [noun] Hair arranged in a coil or knot at the back of the head. BUNS (6) [noun] A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced. | [noun] A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head. | [noun] A cupcake. 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. BUOY (9) [noun] A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel. | [noun] A life-buoy; a life preserver. | [verb] To keep afloat or aloft; used with up. BURA (6) [noun] A violent cold northeasterly wind that blows across Central Asia and southeastern Europe. BURD (7) BURG (7) [noun] A city or town. | [noun] A fortified town in medieval Europe. | [noun] Burger BURL (6) [noun] A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. | [noun] Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth. | [noun] A knot or lump in thread or cloth. BURN (6) [noun] A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. | [noun] A sensation resembling such an injury. | [noun] The act of burning something with fire. | [noun] A stream. BURP (8) [noun] A belch. | [verb] To emit a burp. | [verb] To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp. BURR (6) [noun] A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter. | [noun] A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing. | [noun] A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation. | [noun] A rough humming sound. | [noun] A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear. | [noun] A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. BURS (6) [noun] A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants. | [noun] Any of several plants having such husks. | [noun] A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads. BURY (9) [noun] A burrow. | [verb] To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. | [verb] To place in the ground. | [noun] A borough; a manor BUSH (9) [noun] A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category. | [noun] A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree. | [noun] A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself. | [noun] A tavern or wine merchant. | [noun] (often with "the") Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated. | [noun] Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior" | [noun] A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal. BUSK (10) [noun] A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it. | [noun] (by extension) A corset. | [noun] A kind of linen. | [verb] To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. | [verb] To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport BUSS (6) [noun] A kiss. | [verb] To kiss. 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. BUSY (9) [noun] A police officer. | [verb] To make somebody busy or active; to occupy. | [verb] To rush somebody. BUTE (6) [noun] Phenylbutazone. BUTS (6) [noun] An instance or example of using the word "but". | [noun] The outer room of a small two-room cottage. | [noun] A limit; a boundary. BUTT (6) [noun] The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end | [noun] The waste end of anything | [noun] (generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end. | [noun] A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt. | [noun] (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe. | [noun] Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot | [noun] A heavy two-wheeled cart. BUYS (9) [noun] Something which is bought; a purchase. | [verb] To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods | [verb] To obtain by some sacrifice. BUZZ (24) [noun] A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones. | [noun] A whisper. | [noun] The audible friction of voice consonants. CAUL (6) [noun] A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen. | [noun] (often capitalized, used on maps) An entry to a mill lead taken from a burn or stream (a mill lead (or mill waterway) is generally smaller than a canal but moves a large volume of water). | [noun] A membrane. CHUB (11) [noun] One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially: | [noun] (by extension) Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes. | [noun] A chubby, plump person. CHUG (10) [noun] A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine. | [noun] A large gulp of drink. | [noun] A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival. | [noun] A dog; a cross between a pug and a chihuahua. | [verb] To solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner. | [noun] (racial slur) A person of Native American descent. CHUM (11) [noun] A friend; a pal. | [noun] A roommate, especially in a college or university. | [verb] To share rooms with someone; to live together. | [noun] A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks | [noun] A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually. CLUB (8) [noun] An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation. | [noun] A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything. | [noun] A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. CLUE (6) [noun] A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide. | [noun] Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion. | [noun] An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence. COUP (8) [noun] A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act. | [noun] (of Native Americans) A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery. | [noun] A coup d'état. CRUD (7) [noun] Dirt, filth or refuse. | [noun] (by extension) Something of poor quality. | [noun] A contemptible person. CRUS (6) [noun] The shin (tibia and fibula) | [noun] A leglike part; shank | [noun] A vineyard or group of vineyards in France, especially one having a high reputation. CRUX (13) [noun] The basic, central, or essential point or feature. | [noun] The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point. | [noun] A puzzle or difficulty. CUBE (8) [noun] A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces. | [noun] Any object more or less in the form of a cube. | [noun] The third power of a number, value, term or expression. | [noun] A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices. CUBS (8) [noun] A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles. | [noun] A young fox. | [noun] (by extension) The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger. CUDS (7) CUED (7) CUES (6) CUFF (12) [noun] Glove; mitten | [noun] The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist | [noun] The end of a pants leg, folded up | [noun] A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap. | [noun] The scruff of the neck. CUIF (9) CUKE (10) [noun] A cucumber. | [noun] A cucoloris. CULL (6) [noun] A selection. | [noun] An organised killing of selected animals. | [noun] (farming) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded. | [noun] A fool, gullible person; a dupe. CULM (8) [noun] Waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack. | [noun] Anthracite, especially when found in small masses | [noun] The stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge 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. CUPS (8) [noun] A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle. | [noun] The contents of said vessel; a cupful. | [noun] A customary unit of measure CURB (8) [noun] A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand) | [noun] A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening. | [noun] Something that checks or restrains; a restraint. CURD (7) [noun] The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc. | [noun] The coagulated part of any liquid. | [noun] The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants. CURE (6) [noun] A method, device or medication that restores good health. | [noun] Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury. | [noun] A solution to a problem. | [verb] To restore to health. CURF (9) CURL (6) [noun] A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet. | [noun] A curved stroke or shape. | [noun] A spin making the trajectory of an object curve. CURN (6) CURR (6) CURS (6) [noun] A contemptible or inferior dog. | [noun] A detestable person. CURT (6) [verb] To cut, cut short, shorten. | [adjective] Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude. | [adjective] Short or concise. CUSK (10) [noun] A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme. CUSP (8) [noun] A sharp point or pointed end. | [noun] An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events. | [noun] A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point. CUSS (6) [noun] A curse. | [noun] A curse word. | [verb] To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely. | [noun] A fellow, person. CUTE (6) [adjective] Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior. | [adjective] Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way. | [adjective] Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy. CUTS (6) [noun] The act of cutting. | [noun] The result of cutting. | [noun] An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound. DAUB (7) [noun] Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. | [noun] A soft coating of mud, plaster etc. | [noun] A crude or amateurish painting. DAUT (5) DOUM (7) DOUR (5) [adjective] Stern, harsh and forbidding. | [adjective] Unyielding and obstinate. | [adjective] Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy. DOUX (12) DRUB (7) [noun] Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal. | [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. DRUG (6) [noun] A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. | [noun] A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. | [noun] Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted. | [verb] To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty. | [noun] A drudge. DRUM (7) [noun] A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone. | [noun] Any similar hollow, cylindrical object. | [noun] A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage. | [noun] A small hill or ridge of hills. | [noun] A social gathering or assembly held in the evening. DUAD (6) [noun] A pair or couple. | [noun] Dwadasama. | [noun] An unordered pair. DUAL (5) [noun] Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair. | [noun] Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces. | [noun] (grammar) dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything (a couple of, exactly two of), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number. DUBS (7) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. DUCE (7) DUCI (7) DUCK (11) [verb] To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. | [noun] An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet. | [noun] A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth. | [noun] A term of endearment; pet; darling. 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. DUDE (6) [noun] A man, generally a younger man. | [noun] (used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning him or offering him advice. | [noun] An inexperienced cowboy. DUDS (6) [noun] A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile. | [noun] A failure of any kind. | [noun] Clothes, now always used in plural form duds. DUEL (5) [noun] Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor. | [noun] Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat) | [noun] Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas. DUES (5) [noun] Deserved acknowledgment. | [noun] (in plural dues) A membership fee. | [noun] That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty. 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. DUFF (11) [noun] Dough. | [noun] A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed. | [noun] A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums. | [noun] Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor. | [noun] The buttocks. | [verb] To disguise something to make it look new. | [noun] A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East. DUGS (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts. DUIT (5) DUKE (9) [noun] The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess). | [noun] The sovereign of a small state. | [noun] A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom. DULL (5) [verb] To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. | [verb] To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy. | [verb] To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. DULY (8) [adverb] In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it ought to be; properly. | [adverb] Regularly; at the proper time. DUMA (7) [noun] A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament). | [noun] A drink mixing wine and vodka. DUMB (9) [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. | [verb] To silence. DUMP (9) [noun] A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. | [noun] A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. | [noun] That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. | [noun] A thick, ill-shapen piece. | [noun] A deep hole in a river bed; a pool. DUNE (5) [noun] A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind. DUNG (6) [noun] Manure; animal excrement. | [noun] A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. | [verb] To fertilize with dung. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out. DUNK (9) DUNS (5) [noun] A brownish grey colour. | [noun] A collector of debts. | [noun] An urgent request or demand of payment. 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. DUOS (5) [noun] Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together. | [noun] Any pair of two people. | [noun] Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur. DUPE (7) [noun] A person who has been deceived. | [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [noun] A duplicate of a photographic image. DUPS (7) DURA (5) [noun] The dura mater, the outer covering of the brain and spinal cord. | [noun] A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor). DURE (5) DURN (5) [adjective] Darn; damn. | [adverb] Darn; damned; extremely. | [interjection] Darn; damn | [verb] Rhoticized pronunciation of doing. | [noun] A secret; secrecy. DURO (5) DURR (5) DUSK (9) [noun] A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight. | [noun] A darkish colour. | [verb] To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk. DUST (5) [noun] Fine particles | [noun] The act of cleaning by dusting. | [noun] The earth, as the resting place of the dead. DUTY (8) [noun] That which one is morally or legally obligated to do. | [noun] The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task. | [noun] A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff. EAUX (11) ECRU (6) [noun] A beige colour. | [adjective] Of a beige colour. ECUS (6) [noun] The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European Community before the euro. EMEU (6) EMUS (6) [noun] A cassowary (genus Casuarius). | [noun] A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae. | [noun] A person or thing that emulates. ETUI (4) [noun] A small, ornamental bag or rigid container used for holding articles such as needles. EURO (4) [noun] Person living or originating from Europe | [noun] Person who resides within the European Union | [noun] The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: € | [noun] Macropus robustus, a wallaroo (macropod species). FAUN (7) [noun] A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis. FAUX (14) [adjective] Fake or artificial FEUD (8) [noun] A state of long-standing mutual hostility. | [noun] A staged rivalry between wrestlers. | [noun] A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. | [noun] An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service. FEUS (7) [noun] Land held in feudal tenure. | [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FLUB (9) [noun] An error; a mistake in the performance of an action. | [verb] To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action. FLUE (7) [noun] A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace). | [noun] An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along. | [noun] A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this. | [adjective] Shallow; flat FLUS (7) FLUX (14) [noun] The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream. | [noun] A state of ongoing change. | [noun] A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding. FOUL (7) [adjective] Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty. | [adjective] (of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive. | [adjective] Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome. | [noun] A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball. FOUR (7) [noun] The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof. | [noun] Anything measuring four units, as length. | [noun] A person who is four years old. FRUG (8) [noun] (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s. | [verb] To perform this dance. FUBS (9) FUCI (9) [noun] Any alga of the genus Fucus. FUCK (13) [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. | [noun] A sexual partner, especially a casual one. | [noun] A highly contemptible person. FUDS (8) FUEL (7) [noun] Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction. | [noun] Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food. | [noun] Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action. FUGS (8) [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. | [noun] A sexual partner, especially a casual one. | [noun] A highly contemptible person. FUGU (8) [noun] Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins. FUJI (14) [noun] A plain spun silk fabric. | [noun] A Nigerian musical genre. FULL (7) [adjective] Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available. | [adjective] Complete; with nothing omitted. | [adjective] Total, entire. | [noun] Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill. | [verb] To baptise. | [verb] To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk FUME (9) [noun] A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale. | [noun] A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state. | [noun] Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control. FUMY (12) FUND (8) [noun] A sum or source of money. | [noun] An organization managing such money. | [noun] A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund. FUNK (11) [noun] Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor. | [noun] A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the one, and much syncopation. | [verb] To emit an offensive smell; to stink. | [noun] Spark. | [noun] Mental depression. FUNS (7) [verb] To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of. FURL (7) [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) FURS (7) [noun] The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick. | [noun] The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans. | [noun] A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel. FURY (10) [noun] Extreme anger. | [noun] Strength or violence in action. | [noun] An angry or malignant person. | [noun] A thief. FUSE (7) [noun] A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device. | [noun] The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device. | [noun] A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it. | [verb] To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. FUSS (7) [noun] Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something. | [noun] A complaint or noise; a scene. | [noun] An exhibition of affection or admiration. FUTZ (16) [noun] An objectionable woman | [verb] To be frivolous and waste time | [verb] To experiment by trial and error FUZE (16) [noun] (professional usage) An auxiliary device with explosive components, used to detonate a munition. | [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. FUZZ (25) [noun] A frizzy mass of hair or fibre. | [noun] Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image. | [noun] The random data used in fuzz testing. | [noun] (with "the") The police. GAUD (6) [noun] A cheap showy trinket | [noun] Trick; jest; sport | [noun] Deceit; fraud; artifice | [verb] To sport or keep festival. GAUM (7) GAUN (5) GAUR (5) [noun] An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition. GENU (5) [noun] Knee | [noun] A knee-like bend. GEUM (7) [noun] Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants. GLUE (5) [noun] A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance. | [noun] Anything that binds two things or people together. | [noun] Birdlime. GLUG (6) [noun] The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle. | [noun] The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard. | [verb] To flow in noisy bursts. GLUM (7) [adjective] Despondent; moody; sullen | [noun] Sullenness | [verb] To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. GLUT (5) [noun] An excess, too much. | [noun] That which is swallowed. | [noun] Something that fills up an opening. GNUS (5) [noun] A large antelope of the genus Connochaetes, native to Africa, having curved horns. 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 GRUB (7) [noun] An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A short, thick man; a dwarf. GRUE (5) GRUM (7) GUAN (5) [noun] Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas. GUAR (5) [noun] An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans. GUCK (11) [noun] The hybrid offspring of a goose and a duck | [noun] An unpleasant sticky substance; goo, gunk. GUDE (6) GUFF (11) [noun] Nonsensical talk or thinking. | [noun] Superfluous information. | [noun] Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks. GUID (6) GULF (8) [noun] A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin. | [noun] That which swallows; the gullet. | [noun] That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. GULL (5) [noun] A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae. | [noun] Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora. | [noun] A cheating trick; a fraud. GULP (7) [noun] The usual amount swallowed. | [noun] The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear. | [noun] An unspecified small number of bytes, often two. GULS (5) GUMS (7) [noun] (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth. | [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. GUNK (9) [noun] Dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance | [noun] A subculture of 21st century American males, combining elements of modern gothic culture with punk rock. | [noun] A member of the gunk subculture. GUNS (5) [noun] A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon. | [noun] A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm. | [noun] A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower). GURU (5) [noun] A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher. | [noun] (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor. GUSH (8) [noun] A sudden rapid outflow. | [verb] To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. | [verb] To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. GUST (5) [noun] A strong, abrupt rush of wind. | [noun] (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.). | [verb] To blow in gusts. | [noun] The physiological faculty of taste. | [verb] To taste. GUTS (5) [noun] The alimentary canal, especially the intestine. | [noun] The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged | [noun] The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc. GUVS (8) GUYS (8) [noun] An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November). | [noun] A person of eccentric appearance or dress; a "fright". | [noun] A man, fellow. HABU (9) HAUL (7) [noun] An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug. | [noun] The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long. | [noun] An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip. HAUT (7) HOUR (7) [noun] A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day. | [noun] A season, moment, or time. | [noun] The time. HUBS (9) [noun] The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. | [noun] A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted. | [noun] A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub HUCK (13) [noun] (Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length. | [noun] A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice. | [verb] To throw or chuck. | [noun] A person's hip. | [verb] To haggle in trading. HUED (8) [adjective] Coloured; having a hue. HUES (7) [noun] A color, or shade of color; tint; dye. | [noun] The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta. | [noun] A character; aspect. HUFF (13) [noun] A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh. | [noun] An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc. | [noun] One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster. HUGE (8) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. HUGS (8) [noun] A close embrace, especially when charged with such an emotion as represented by: affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, agression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug"). | [noun] A particular grip in wrestling. | [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. HUIC (9) HULA (7) [noun] A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. | [verb] To dance the hula. HULK (11) [noun] A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation. | [noun] Any large ship that is difficult to maneuver. | [noun] A large structure with a dominating presence. | [verb] To remove the entrails of; to disembowel. HULL (7) [noun] The outer covering of a fruit or seed. | [noun] Any covering. | [verb] To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed. | [noun] The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane. HUMP (11) [noun] A mound of earth. | [noun] A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine. | [noun] (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu. HUMS (9) [noun] A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. | [noun] An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. | [noun] Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive. HUNG (8) [verb] To be or remain suspended. | [verb] To float, as if suspended. | [verb] (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. HUNH (10) HUNK (11) [noun] A large or dense piece of something. | [noun] A sexually attractive boy or man, especially one who is muscular. | [noun] A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks. | [noun] A goal or base in children's games. HUNS (7) [noun] (used only to address someone) Honey, sweetheart, a term of endearment; a friendly term of address. | [noun] A grey partridge. HUNT (7) [noun] The act of hunting. | [noun] A hunting expedition. | [noun] An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it. HURL (7) [noun] A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling. | [noun] The act of vomiting. | [noun] The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley. HURT (7) [noun] An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. | [noun] A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise. | [noun] Injury; damage; detriment; harm HUSH (10) [noun] A silence, especially after some noise | [noun] A mining method using water | [verb] To become quiet. HUSK (11) [noun] The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside | [noun] Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something | [noun] The supporting frame of a run of millstones. | [noun] An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm HUTS (7) [noun] A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials. | [noun] A small wooden shed. | [noun] A small stack of grain. IGLU (5) JAUK (15) JAUP (13) JEHU (14) JEUX (18) JOUK (15) [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [verb] To stab JUBA (13) [noun] The mane of an animal. | [noun] A loose panicle whose axis falls to pieces, as in certain grasses. | [noun] An American dance of West African origin that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks. JUBE (13) [noun] A type of gelatine-based confection; its ingredients and consistency vary between countries. | [noun] A rood screen. | [noun] An open drainage channel of a type common in Tehran. JUDO (12) [noun] A Japanese martial art and sport adapted from jujutsu. JUGA (12) [noun] One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants. | [noun] A pair of opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant. JUGS (12) [noun] A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top. | [noun] The amount that a jug can hold. | [noun] Jail. JUJU (18) [noun] A fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers. | [noun] The magical or supernatural power of such a charm. | [noun] The (usually negative) karmic consequences of an action or behavior. | [noun] A marijuana cigarette; a joint. | [noun] A genre of popular Nigerian music that comes from traditional Yoruba percussion traditions. JUKE (15) [noun] A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution. | [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [noun] A feint. JUMP (15) [noun] The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. | [noun] An effort; an attempt; a venture. | [noun] A dislocation in a stratum; a fault. | [noun] A kind of loose jacket for men. JUNK (15) [noun] Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash. | [noun] A collection of miscellaneous items of little value. | [noun] Any narcotic drug, especially heroin. | [noun] A Chinese sailing vessel. JUPE (13) JURA (11) JURY (14) [noun] A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law. | [noun] A group of judges in a competition. | [noun] The audience attending the first night of a performance, whose reaction may determine whether it succeeds or fails. | [adjective] For temporary use; applied to a temporary contrivance. JUST (11) [adjective] Factually right, correct; factual. | [adjective] Rationally right, correct. | [adjective] Morally right; upright, righteous, equitable; fair. | [noun] A joust, tournament. JUTE (11) [noun] The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc. | [noun] The plants from which this fibre is obtained. JUTS (11) [noun] Something that sticks out. KAGU (9) [noun] A New Caledonian endemic bird species, Rhynochetos jubatus, the only surviving member of the family Rhynochetidae. KNUR (8) [noun] A knurl. | [noun] The small wooden ball in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell. KUDO (9) KUDU (9) [noun] A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (the lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (the greater kudu). KUES (8) KURU (8) [noun] A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism. LAUD (5) [noun] Praise or glorification. | [noun] Hymn of praise. | [noun] (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins. LEKU (8) LEUD (5) LIEU (4) [noun] Place, stead; See in lieu or in lieu of LITU (4) LOUD (5) [noun] A loud sound or part of a sound. | [noun] High-quality marijuana. | [adjective] (of a sound) Of great intensity. | [adverb] Loudly. LOUP (6) [noun] A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls. LOUR (4) [noun] A frown, a scowl; an angry or sullen look. | [noun] Of the sky, the weather, etc.: a dark, gloomy, and threatening appearance. | [verb] To frown; to look sullen. 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. LUAU (4) [noun] An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment. LUBE (6) [noun] Lubricant | [verb] To lubricate LUCE (6) [noun] The pike, Esox lucius, when fully grown. LUCK (10) [noun] Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence, especially a favourable one. | [noun] A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success. | [noun] Success. LUDE (5) LUES (4) [verb] To sift using a sieve, particularly in mining tin or silver. LUFF (10) [noun] The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind. | [noun] The act of sailing a ship close to the wind. | [noun] The roundest part of a ship's bow. LUGE (5) [noun] A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back. | [noun] The sport of racing on luges. | [noun] A piece of ice, bone or other material with a channel down which a (usually alcoholic) drink can be poured into someone's mouth. LUGS (5) [noun] The act of hauling or dragging. | [noun] That which is hauled or dragged. | [noun] Anything that moves slowly. LULL (4) [noun] A period of rest or soothing. | [noun] A period of reduced activity; a respite | [noun] A period without waves or wind. LULU (4) [noun] A remarkable person, object or idea. | [noun] A very attractive or alluring person. | [noun] A very bad mistake or error. LUMP (8) [noun] Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape. | [noun] A group, set, or unit. | [noun] A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful. LUMS (6) [noun] A chimney. | [noun] A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine. | [noun] A woody valley. LUNA (4) LUNE (4) [noun] A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. | [noun] A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles. | [noun] Anything crescent-shaped. | [noun] (hawking) A leash for a hawk. LUNG (5) [noun] A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood. | [noun] (plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath. | [noun] That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place. LUNK (8) [noun] A fool; an idiot; a lunkhead. LUNT (4) LUNY (7) LURE (4) [noun] Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure | [noun] An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish | [noun] A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk | [noun] A trumpet with long curved tube, used for calling cattle, etc. LURK (8) [noun] The act of lurking. | [noun] A swindle. | [verb] To remain concealed in order to ambush. LUSH (7) [adjective] Juicy, succulent. | [adjective] Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile. | [adjective] (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant. | [noun] Drunkard, sot, alcoholic. LUST (4) [noun] A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal. | [noun] A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual. | [noun] A delightful cause of joy, pleasure. LUTE (4) [noun] A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. | [verb] To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. | [noun] Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight. LUTZ (13) [noun] A jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, rotates counterclockwise and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate. LUVS (7) LUXE (11) [noun] Luxury MAUD (7) [noun] A grey plaid once worn by shepherds in Scotland and Northumbria. MAUL (6) [noun] A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat. | [noun] A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier. | [verb] To handle someone or something in a rough way. MAUN (6) [verb] To have to; must. MAUT (6) MENU (6) [noun] The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. | [noun] A list of dishes offered in a restaurant. | [noun] A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface MEOU (6) MOUE (6) [noun] A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness. MUCH (11) [adjective] Large, great. | [adjective] Long in duration. | [adverb] To a great extent. MUCK (12) [noun] (slimy) mud, sludge. | [noun] Soft (or slimy) manure. | [noun] Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. MUDS (7) [noun] A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment. | [noun] A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall. | [noun] (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured. MUFF (12) [noun] A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm. | [noun] Female pubic hair; female genitals. | [noun] A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet. | [noun] A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person. | [noun] A muffin. MUGG (8) MUGS (7) [noun] A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer. | [noun] The face, often used deprecatingly. | [noun] A gullible or easily-cheated person. MULE (6) [noun] The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. | [noun] The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals. | [noun] A hybrid plant. | [noun] A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot. MULL (6) [noun] A thin, soft muslin. | [noun] Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. | [noun] A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. | [noun] A promontory. | [noun] Dirt; rubbish MUMM (10) MUMP (10) MUMS (8) [noun] Mother. | [noun] Ma'am; a term of respect for an older woman. | [noun] A chrysanthemum. MUMU (8) MUNI (6) [noun] A municipal bond. | [noun] A facility operated by a municipal government, such as a golf course or train line. | [noun] The municipal government / municipality | [noun] (often italicized) A Jain or Buddhist ascetic who has taken a vow of silence MUNS (6) MUON (6) [noun] An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater. MURA (6) MURE (6) [noun] Wall | [noun] Husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh | [verb] To wall in or fortify MURK (10) [adjective] Dark, murky | [noun] Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment. | [verb] To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured. | [verb] To murder or seriously injure. MURR (6) MUSE (6) [noun] A source of inspiration. | [noun] A poet; a bard. | [noun] An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness. | [noun] A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset. MUSH (9) [noun] A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance. | [noun] A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations. | [noun] The foam of a breaker. | [noun] A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge. | [noun] A walk, especially across the snow with dogs. | [noun] A magic mushroom. | [noun] (chiefly Southern England) A form of address to a man. | [verb] To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp. MUSK (10) [noun] A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes. | [noun] A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet. | [noun] A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above. MUSS (6) [noun] A mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; disorder) | [noun] A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle. | [verb] To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. | [noun] A term of endearment. MUST (6) [noun] Something that is mandatory or required. | [verb] (modal auxiliary, defective) To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate. | [verb] (modal auxiliary, defective) To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a negative consequence. | [noun] The property of being stale or musty. | [noun] A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness (also spelled musth). MUTE (6) [noun] A stopped consonant; a stop. | [noun] An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. | [noun] A person who does not have the power of speech. | [noun] The faeces of a hawk or falcon. | [verb] To cast off; to moult. MUTS (6) MUTT (6) [noun] A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of diverse ancestry. | [noun] An idiot, a stupid person. | [noun] A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram. NEUK (8) NEUM (6) [noun] Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation. | [noun] A sequence of notes to be sung to one syllable. NOUN (4) [noun] (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English. | [noun] (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun. | [verb] To convert a word to a noun. NOUS (4) [noun] The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional | [noun] In Neoplatonism, the divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation. | [noun] Common sense; practical intelligence. NUBS (6) NUDE (5) [noun] A painting, sculpture, photograph or other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress. | [noun] (with article, "the nude") The state of total nudity. | [noun] A color that resembles or evokes bare flesh; a paint, dye, etc. of such color. NUKE (8) [noun] A nuclear weapon. | [noun] (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale. | [noun] A nuclear power station. | [noun] A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony. | [noun] The spinal cord. | [noun] A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove. NUMB (8) [verb] To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally). | [verb] To cause (a feeling) to be less intense. | [verb] To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute. NUNS (4) [noun] A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (specifically) those living together in a cloister. | [noun] (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions. | [noun] A prostitute. NURD (5) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. | [noun] An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork. NURL (4) NUTS (4) [noun] A hard-shelled seed. | [noun] A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft. | [noun] A crazy person. ONUS (4) [noun] A legal obligation. | [noun] Burden of proof, onus probandi | [noun] Stigma. OPUS (6) [noun] A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works. | [noun] A work, especially of art. OUCH (9) [interjection] An expression of one's own physical pain. | [interjection] An expression in sympathy at another's pain. | [interjection] A reply to an insult seen as savage (frequently one that is tongue-in-cheek or joking). | [noun] A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels. OUDS (5) [noun] A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin. | [noun] (perfume) Agarwood. OUPH (9) OURS (4) [pronoun] That which belongs to us; the possessive case of we, used without a following noun. OUST (4) [verb] To expel; to remove. OUTS (4) [noun] A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc. | [noun] A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc. | [noun] A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball. OUZO (13) [noun] An anise-flavoured aperitif, originating in Greece. | [noun] A serving of this drink. OVUM (9) [noun] The female gamete in animals; the egg cell. PFUI (9) [interjection] An exclamation indicating disagreement or rejection of an argument; contempt PHUT (9) [verb] To produce such a sound. | [interjection] A sound resembling the release of a blast of steam or exhaust gas. PLUG (7) [noun] A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. | [noun] Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole. | [noun] A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. PLUM (8) [noun] The fruit and its tree. | [noun] Extended senses. | [adjective] Of a dark bluish-red colour. | [verb] To plumb. PLUS (6) [noun] A positive quantity. | [noun] An asset or useful addition. | [noun] A plus sign: +. POUF (9) [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. | [noun] A headdress for women popular in 18th century France. | [interjection] Onomatopoeia indicating a cloud of smoke or wind; caused by a deflating object, or a magical disappearance. POUR (6) [noun] The act of pouring. | [noun] Something, or an amount, poured. | [noun] A downpour, or flood of precipitation. 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.). PRAU (6) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PUBS (8) [noun] A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television. | [noun] A public server. | [verb] To go to one or more public houses. PUCE (8) [noun] A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish. | [adjective] Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish. PUCK (12) [noun] A mischievous or hostile spirit. | [noun] A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game. | [noun] An object shaped like a puck. | [noun] (rural) billy goat PUDS (7) [noun] An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds). | [noun] A Russian unit of mass used for kettlebells, now rounded off to 16 kg (about 35.274 pounds). | [noun] Pudding (either sweet or savoury). PUFF (12) [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. | [noun] A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth. | [verb] To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs. PUGH (10) PUGS (7) [noun] A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. | [noun] A bargeman. | [noun] Chaff; the refuse of grain PUJA (13) [noun] A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship. PUKE (10) [noun] Vomit. | [noun] A drug that induces vomiting. | [noun] A worthless, despicable person. | [adjective] A fine grade of woolen cloth. PULA (6) [noun] Rain, used as an expression of greeting or good luck. | [noun] The currency of Botswana, divided into 100 thebe. PULE (6) [noun] A plaintive melancholy whine. | [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. | [noun] A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk. PULI (6) [noun] One of a breed of Hungarian sheepdog with a distinctive thick, corded coat. PULL (6) [noun] An act of pulling (applying force) | [noun] An attractive force which causes motion towards the source | [noun] Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope PULP (8) [noun] A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. | [noun] A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. | [verb] To make or be made into pulp. PULS (6) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Afghan afghani. PUMA (8) [noun] The mountain lion or cougar, Puma concolor. | [noun] A woman in her 20s or 30s who seeks relationships with younger men; a younger cougar. PUMP (10) [noun] A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas. | [noun] An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping | [noun] A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel. | [noun] A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker. PUNA (6) [noun] An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population. PUNG (7) PUNK (10) [noun] A person used for sex, particularly: | [noun] A worthless person, particularly: | [noun] Short for punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums. | [noun] Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi. PUNS (6) [noun] A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm. | [noun] A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused. | [verb] To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize. 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. PUNY (9) [noun] (Oxford University slang) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student. | [noun] A younger person. | [noun] A beginner, a novice. PUPA (8) [noun] An insect in the development stage between larva and adult. PUPS (8) [noun] A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, or shark, or the young of certain other animals. | [noun] A young, inexperienced person. | [noun] Any cute dog, regardless of age. PURE (6) [noun] One who, or that which, is pure. | [verb] To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately | [verb] To cleanse; to refine. | [noun] Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins. PURI (6) [noun] A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried. | [noun] In Bali and other parts of Indonesia, a palace, or other residence of a member of the royal family or ruling class. PURL (6) [noun] A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance. | [noun] The edge of lace trimmed with loops. | [noun] An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. | [noun] A heavy or headlong fall; an upset. | [noun] A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple. | [noun] Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic. | [noun] A tern. PURR (6) [noun] The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented. | [noun] A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person. | [noun] The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed PURS (6) PUSH (9) [noun] A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing. | [noun] An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents. | [noun] A great effort (to do something). | [noun] A pustule; a pimple. PUSS (6) [noun] (often as a term of address) A cat. | [noun] A girl or young woman, or any child. | [noun] A hare. | [noun] The mouth. PUTS (6) [noun] A right to sell something at a predetermined price. | [noun] A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date. | [noun] The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push. PUTT (6) [noun] The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green. | [verb] To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter. | [noun] A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines. | [verb] To place something somewhere. PUTZ (15) [noun] Fool, idiot. | [noun] Jerk. | [noun] Penis. | [noun] A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree. QUAD (14) [noun] Four shots of espresso. | [noun] A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once. | [noun] The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume. | [noun] A quadrangle (courtyard). | [noun] A quad bike (from quadricycle) | [noun] A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type. QUAG (14) [noun] Quagmire; marsh; bog. QUAI (13) QUAY (16) [noun] A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf. | [verb] To land or tie up at a quay or similar structure, especially used in the phrase "quay up". QUEY (16) QUID (14) [noun] The inherent nature of something. | [noun] A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid). | [noun] A sovereign or guinea. | [noun] A piece of chewing tobacco. QUIN (13) [noun] A quintuplet. | [noun] A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food. QUIP (15) [noun] A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe. | [verb] To make a quip. | [verb] To taunt; to treat with quips. 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. QUIZ (22) [noun] An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing. | [noun] A competition in the answering of questions. | [noun] A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course. QUOD (14) [noun] A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison. | [noun] Confinement in a prison. RHUS (7) ROUE (4) ROUP (6) [noun] An outcry. | [noun] A sale of goods by auction. | [verb] To cry or shout. | [noun] An infectious disease of poultry caused by Trichomonas gallinae. ROUT (4) [noun] A noise, especially a loud one | [noun] A disturbance; tumult. | [noun] Snoring. | [noun] A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke. | [noun] A troop or group, especially of a traveling company or throng. | [verb] To search or root in the ground, like a pig. | [noun] The brent goose. ROUX (11) [noun] A mixture of fat (usually butter) and flour used to thicken sauces and stews. RUBE (6) [noun] A person of rural heritage; a yokel. | [noun] An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person. RUBS (6) [noun] An act of rubbing. | [noun] A difficulty or problem. | [noun] A quip or sarcastic remark. RUBY (9) [noun] A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone. | [noun] A red spinel. | [noun] A deep red colour. | [noun] A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters. RUCK (10) [noun] A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack. | [noun] In Australian rules football | [noun] The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum. | [noun] A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric. | [verb] To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs. | [noun] An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend. | [noun] A rucksack; a large backpack. | [noun] A small heifer. RUDD (6) [noun] Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius RUDE (5) [adjective] Bad-mannered. | [adjective] Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive. | [adjective] Tough, robust. RUED (5) [verb] To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. | [verb] To cause to feel sorrow or pity. | [verb] To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place. RUER (4) RUES (4) [verb] To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. | [verb] To cause to feel sorrow or pity. | [verb] To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place. RUFF (10) [noun] A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s). | [noun] Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill. | [noun] Senses relating to animals. | [noun] Arripis georgianus, a fish found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia; the Australian herring or tommy ruff. | [noun] An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit. | [noun] A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle. | [adjective] Not smooth; uneven. RUGA (5) RUGS (5) [noun] A partial covering for a floor. | [noun] A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. | [noun] A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. RUIN (4) [noun] (sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle. | [noun] The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed. | [noun] Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction. RULE (4) [noun] A regulation, law, guideline. | [noun] A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure. | [noun] A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing. | [verb] To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over. | [noun] Revelry. RULY (7) [adjective] Pitiable; miserable. | [adverb] Pitiably; miserably. | [adjective] Neat and orderly. RUMP (8) [noun] The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs | [noun] A cut of meat from the rump of an animal. | [noun] The buttocks. RUMS (6) [noun] A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses. | [noun] A serving of rum. | [noun] A kind or brand of rum. RUNE (4) [noun] A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons. | [noun] A Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala. | [noun] A letter or mark used as mystical or magic symbol. RUNG (5) [noun] A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round. | [noun] A crosspiece between legs of a chair. | [noun] A position in a hierarchy. | [verb] Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. RUNS (4) [noun] Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet. | [noun] Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip. | [noun] A pleasure trip. RUNT (4) [noun] The smallest animal of a litter. | [noun] (by extension) The smallest child in the family. | [noun] Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person. RUSE (4) [noun] A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs. | [noun] (by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick. | [noun] Cunning, guile, trickery. RUSH (7) [noun] Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water. | [noun] The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc. | [noun] The merest trifle; a straw. | [noun] A sudden forward motion. RUSK (8) [noun] A rectangular, hard, dry biscuit | [noun] A twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback) | [noun] A weaning food for children RUST (4) [noun] The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation. | [noun] A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust"). | [noun] A reddish-brown color. | [verb] To oxidize, especially of iron or steel. RUTH (7) [noun] Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy. | [noun] Repentance; regret; remorse. | [noun] Sorrow; misery; distress. RUTS (4) [noun] Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. | [noun] The noise made by deer during sexual excitement. | [noun] Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. SAUL (4) SCUD (7) [noun] The act of scudding. | [noun] Clouds or rain driven by the wind. | [noun] A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer. SCUM (8) [noun] A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water). | [noun] A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds | [noun] The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank. SCUP (8) [noun] A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy. | [noun] A swing. 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. SHUL (7) [noun] The synagogue. SHUN (7) [verb] To avoid, especially persistently. | [verb] To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc). | [verb] To screen, hide. 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. SKUA (8) [noun] Any of various predatory seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that often chase other seabirds to steal their catches. SLUB (6) [noun] A small thickened portion or knot found on linen yarn, caused by defects. | [noun] Fabric fiber produced by slubbing. | [verb] To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning. SLUE (4) [noun] The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued. | [noun] A slough; a run or wet place. | [verb] To rotate something on an axis. SLUG (5) [noun] Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. | [noun] A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. | [noun] A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. | [noun] A hard blow, usually with the fist. SLUM (6) [noun] A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty. | [noun] Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game. | [verb] To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own. | [noun] Slumgullion; a meat-based stew SLUR (4) [noun] An insult or slight. | [noun] A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation. | [noun] The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie). 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. SMUG (7) [verb] To make smug, or spruce. | [verb] To seize; to confiscate. | [verb] To hush up. 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. SNUB (6) [noun] A deliberate affront or slight. | [noun] A sudden checking of a cable or rope. | [noun] A knot; a protuberance; a snag. | [verb] To sob with convulsions. SNUG (5) [noun] A small, comfortable back room in a pub. | [noun] A lug. | [verb] To make secure or snug. SOUK (8) [noun] A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods. SOUL (4) [noun] The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death. | [noun] The spirit or essence of anything. | [noun] Life, energy, vigor. | [verb] To afford suitable sustenance. SOUP (6) [noun] Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture. | [noun] Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. | [verb] To feed: to provide with soup or a meal. | [verb] Alternative form of sup | [noun] Alternative form of sup | [verb] To sup or swallow. | [verb] To breathe out; to draw out. SOUR (4) [noun] The sensation of a sour taste. | [noun] A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar. | [noun] (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice. SOUS (4) [noun] An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound. | [noun] Cent; pocket money. | [noun] A thing of the smallest value; a whit; a jot. | [noun] An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound. | [noun] An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound. SPUD (7) [noun] A potato. | [noun] A hole in a sock. | [noun] A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends. SPUE (6) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SPUN (6) [verb] To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction. | [verb] To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together. | [verb] To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance. SPUR (6) [noun] A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight. | [noun] A jab given with the spurs. | [noun] Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse. | [noun] A tern. | [noun] A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal. | [noun] The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor. | [verb] To ask, to inquire STUB (6) [noun] Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump. | [noun] A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes. | [noun] A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. STUD (5) [noun] A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding. | [noun] A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding. | [noun] (also by extension) A group of such animals. | [noun] A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob. | [noun] A person who studies or learns about a particular subject. STUM (6) [noun] Unfermented grape juice; must. | [noun] Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must. | [verb] To ferment. STUN (4) [noun] The condition of being stunned. | [noun] That which stuns; a shock; a stupefying blow. | [noun] A person who lacks intelligence. SUBA (6) SUBS (6) [noun] A submarine. | [noun] A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun. | [noun] A substitute, often in sports. SUCH (9) [noun] Something being indicated that is similar to something else. | [pronoun] A person, a thing, people or things like the one or ones already mentioned. SUCK (10) [noun] An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling. | [noun] Milk drawn from the breast. | [noun] A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser. SUDD (6) [noun] (Central Africa) A floating mass of plant matter, such as reeds, which obstructs the passage of boats. SUDS (5) [noun] Lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water. | [noun] Beer | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds. SUED (5) [verb] To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action. | [verb] To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. | [verb] (of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.). SUER (4) SUES (4) [verb] To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action. | [verb] To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. | [verb] (of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.). 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. SUGH (8) 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. SULK (8) [noun] A state of sulking. | [verb] To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn. | [noun] A furrow. SULU (4) [noun] An all-purpose skirt-like garment worn by men and women in Fiji. SUMO (6) [noun] A stylised Japanese form of wrestling in which a wrestler loses if he is forced from the ring, or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground. | [noun] A rikishi (sumo wrestler) SUMP (8) [noun] A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink. | [noun] The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains. | [noun] A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving. SUMS (6) [noun] A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a somon is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia where it is equivalent to a township. | [noun] A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation. | [noun] (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition). SUNG (5) [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. | [verb] To soothe with singing. SUNK (8) [verb] (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something. | [verb] (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished. | [verb] To conceal and appropriate. SUNN (4) [noun] Crotalaria juncea, an East Indian leguminous plant yielding a fiber. SUNS (4) [noun] A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system. | [noun] The light and warmth which is received from the sun. | [noun] Something like the sun in brightness or splendor. SUPE (6) SUPS (6) [noun] A sip; a small amount of food or drink. | [noun] Superintendent. | [noun] Upper limit. SUQS (13) [noun] A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods. SURA (4) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. | [noun] The sap of the palmyra or of the coconut palm, palm wine. SURD (5) [noun] An irrational number, especially one expressed using the √ symbol. | [noun] A voiceless consonant. | [adjective] Lacking the sense of hearing; deaf. SURE (4) [adjective] Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable. | [adjective] Certain in one's knowledge or belief. | [adjective] Certain to act or be a specified way. SURF (7) [noun] Waves that break on an ocean shoreline. | [noun] An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf. | [noun] The bottom of a drain. SUSS (4) [noun] Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle. | [noun] Suspicious behaviour; the act of loitering with intent. | [verb] To arrest for suspicious behaviour. | [noun] Social nous. SWUM (9) [verb] To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. | [verb] To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid | [verb] To move around freely because of excess space. TABU (6) [noun] An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. | [noun] (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. | [verb] To mark as taboo. TAUS (4) [noun] The letter Τ/τ in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek. | [noun] A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol. | [noun] A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon. TAUT (4) [verb] To make taut; to tauten, to tighten. | [adjective] Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight. | [adjective] (of a body, muscles, etc.) Not flabby; firm, toned; (of a person) having a lean, strong body. THOU (7) THRU (7) [preposition] From one side of an opening to the other. | [preposition] Entering, then later leaving. | [preposition] Surrounded by (while moving). THUD (8) [noun] The sound of a dull impact. | [noun] Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter. | [verb] To make the sound of a dull impact. THUG (8) [noun] Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire. | [noun] One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her. | [noun] In gardening, an over-vigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed. THUS (7) [adverb] (manner) In this way or manner. | [adverb] As a result. | [noun] Frankincense obtained from conifers such as the Norway spruce, or long-leaved pine. TOFU (7) [noun] A protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk. | [noun] A box or rectangle, empty or with a question mark or hexadecimal code inside, displayed by some systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts. (such as □ or ժ) TOLU (4) [noun] The resinous secretion of Myroxylon balsamum, used in cough syrups and perfumery. TOUR (4) [noun] A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc. | [noun] A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place. | [noun] A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts. | [noun] A tower. | [verb] To toot a horn. TOUT (4) [noun] Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. | [noun] A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win. | [noun] A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar. | [noun] In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks. TRUE (4) [noun] The state of being in alignment. | [noun] Truth. | [noun] A pledge or truce. TRUG (5) [noun] A shallow, oval basket used for gardening | [noun] A trough or tray. | [noun] A hod for mortar. TUBA (6) [noun] A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys. | [noun] A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba. | [noun] A large reed stop in organs. | [noun] A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis. | [noun] A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap. | [noun] A tube or tubular organ. TUBE (6) [noun] Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. | [noun] An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances. | [noun] (often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.) TUBS (6) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in. | [noun] The contents or capacity of such a vessel. | [noun] A bathtub. TUCK (10) [noun] An act of tucking; a pleat or fold. | [noun] A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece. | [noun] A curled position. | [noun] A rapier, a sword. | [noun] The beat of a drum. | [noun] Food, especially snack food. TUFA (7) [noun] Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring. | [noun] A variety of volcanic rock, tuff. TUFF (10) [noun] A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel. | [adjective] Strong and resilient; sturdy. | [adjective] (of food) Difficult to cut or chew. TUFT (7) [noun] A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base. | [noun] A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding. | [noun] A small clump of trees or bushes. TUGS (5) [noun] A sudden powerful pull. | [noun] A tugboat. | [noun] A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles. TUIS (4) [noun] A New Zealand honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae TULE (4) [noun] Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus | [noun] A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin TUMP (8) [noun] A mound or hillock. | [verb] To form a mass of earth or a hillock around. | [verb] To bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump") | [noun] A tumpline. TUNA (4) [noun] Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae. | [noun] The edible flesh of the tuna. | [noun] The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia. TUNE (4) [noun] A melody. | [noun] A song, or short musical composition. | [noun] The act of tuning or maintenance. TUNG (5) TUNS (4) [noun] A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. | [noun] A fermenting vat. | [noun] An old English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes. TUPS (6) [noun] A male sheep, a ram. | [noun] The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer. TURD (5) [noun] (mildly) A piece of solid animal or human feces. | [noun] A worthless person or thing. TURF (7) [noun] A layer of earth covered with grass; sod. | [noun] A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc. | [noun] A sod of peat used as fuel. TURK (8) TURN (4) [verb] (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement. | [verb] (heading) To change condition or attitude. | [verb] To change one's course of action; to take a new approach. | [noun] A change of direction or orientation. TUSH (7) [noun] A tusk. | [noun] A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant. | [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] Nonsense; tosh. | [verb] To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log. | [noun] A half-crown coin; its value TUSK (8) [noun] One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar. | [noun] A small projection on a (tusk) tenon. | [noun] A tusk shell. | [noun] A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme). TUTS (4) [verb] To make a tut tut sound of disapproval. | [verb] To work by the piece; to carry out tut-work. TUTU (4) [noun] A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting. | [noun] Any of the genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand. UDOS (5) UGHS (8) UGLY (8) [noun] Ugliness. | [noun] An ugly person or thing. | [noun] A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet. UKES (8) [noun] The training partner against whom tori performs a move. | [noun] (Japanese fiction) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom. | [noun] A small four-stringed guitar. ULAN (4) ULNA (4) [noun] The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate. ULUS (4) [noun] An all-purpose knife traditionally used by Yup'ik, Inuit, and Aleut women. | [noun] Anglicized spelling of ʻulu (Hawaiian for breadfruit) | [noun] An administrative division of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, similar to райо́н in Russia proper. ULVA (7) UMBO (8) [noun] A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane. For example the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear. | [noun] One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell. | [noun] A bump or protrusion on the top of the cap. UMPS (8) [noun] An umpire. | [verb] To act as an umpire. UNAI (4) UNAU (4) UNBE (6) UNCI (6) UNCO (6) [adjective] Strange, weird. | [adverb] Very. | [adjective] Uncoordinated. UNDE (5) UNDO (5) [noun] An operation that reverses a previous action. | [verb] To reverse the effects of an action. | [verb] To unfasten. UNDY (8) [adjective] Waving or wavy; applied to ordinaries, or division lines. UNIT (4) [noun] A particular, minute unit of mass, defined differently for different substances, but so that varying substances of the same general type have the property that one international unit of the one has the same effect on the human body as one international unit of the other. | [noun] Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one. | [noun] A standard measure of a quantity. UNTO (4) [preposition] Up to, indicating a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it. | [preposition] To, indicating an indirect object. | [conjunction] Up to the time or degree that; until. UPAS (6) [noun] (usually countable) A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions. | [noun] A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree. | [noun] A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute. UPBY (11) UPDO (7) [noun] A woman's hairdo in which most hair is kept above the neck UPON (6) [adverb] Being the target of an action. | [preposition] Physically above and in contact with. | [preposition] Physically directly supported by. URBS (6) [noun] A walled city in Ancient Rome. URDS (5) UREA (4) [noun] A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH2)2, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine. | [noun] Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R1R2N)CO(NR3R4). URGE (5) [noun] A strong desire; an itch to do something. | [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. URIC (6) [adjective] Pertaining to, contained in, or obtained from urine. URNS (4) [noun] A vase with a footed base. | [noun] A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee. | [noun] A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person. URSA (4) URUS (4) [noun] The aurochs. USED (5) [verb] To utilize or employ. | [verb] To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.) | [verb] (except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.) USER (4) [noun] One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser. | [noun] A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs. | [noun] A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account. USES (4) [noun] The act of using. | [noun] The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics. | [noun] (followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit. UTAS (4) UVEA (7) [noun] The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris. VATU (7) [noun] The national currency of Vanuatu. VAUS (7) VUGG (9) VUGH (11) VUGS (8) [noun] A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes. WAUK (11) WAUL (7) [verb] To wail, to cry plaintively. WAUR (7) WUSS (7) [noun] A weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person. YAUD (8) YAUP (9) YEUK (11) YOUR (7) YUAN (7) [noun] The basic unit of money in China. YUCA (9) [noun] Cassava | [noun] Cassava root YUCH (12) YUCK (13) [noun] Something disgusting. | [noun] The sound made by a laugh. | [interjection] Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour. | [verb] To itch. YUGA (8) [noun] In Hindu theology, an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years. YUKS (11) [noun] Something, such as a joke, that causes such a laugh. | [noun] Laughter, amusement YULE (7) [noun] Alternative letter-case form of Yule YUPS (9) [noun] A yes; an affirmative answer. | [noun] A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle. 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). ZEBU (15) [noun] A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos primigenius indicus).

ABOUT (7) [adjective] Moving around; astir. | [adjective] In existence; being in evidence; apparent. | [adjective] Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood. ABUSE (7) [noun] Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. | [noun] Misuse; improper use; perversion. | [noun] A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception. | [verb] To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert ABUTS (7) [verb] To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) | [verb] To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to. | [verb] To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. ABUZZ (25) [adjective] Characterized by a high level of activity or gossip; in a buzz, buzzing. ACUTE (7) [noun] A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia. | [noun] An accent or tone higher than others. | [noun] An acute accent (´). ADIEU (6) [noun] A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell. | [interjection] Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye. 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. ADUNC (8) [adjective] Hooked or curved inward; having a hooked shape. 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. AFOUL (8) [adverb] (principally nautical) In a state of collision or entanglement. | [adverb] (with of) In a state of entanglement or conflict (with). AGUES (6) [verb] To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. AHULL (8) [adverb] On or toward the hull of a ship; in or toward the direction of the hull. AJUGA (13) [noun] Any plant in the genus Ajuga, especially the ornamental ground cover Ajuga reptans. ALBUM (9) [noun] A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs. | [noun] A collection, especially of literary items | [noun] A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks ALGUM (8) ALMUD (8) ALMUG (8) ALOUD (6) [adjective] Spoken out loud. | [adverb] With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly. | [adverb] Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly. ALULA (5) [noun] A small projection of three or four feathers on the first digit of the wing on some birds. | [noun] A flower, a species of Hawaiian lobelioid ALUMS (7) [noun] An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O). | [noun] Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations. | [noun] (shortening) A past attendee or graduate (of either gender) of a college, university or other educational institution. AMOUR (7) [noun] Love, affection. | [noun] Courtship; flirtation. | [noun] A love affair. AMPUL (9) [noun] A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection. | [noun] An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel. | [noun] A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil. AMUCK (13) [adverb] In a violently raging manner; in a state of frenzied attack or behavior. | [noun] A state of violent frenzy. AMUSE (7) [verb] To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions. | [verb] To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny. | [verb] To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude. ANKUS (9) [noun] The hooked goad that is used in India to control elephants. ANNUL (5) [verb] To formally revoke the validity of. | [verb] To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid. AQUAE (14) [noun] Plural of aqua, meaning waters or bodies of water, used in Latin phrases and scientific nomenclature. AQUAS (14) [noun] Plural of aqua, referring to water or water-based solutions. | [noun] Plural of aqua, a light bluish-green color. ARCUS (7) [noun] An arch or bow-shaped anatomical structure. | [noun] A curved line or arc in geometry. ARGUE (6) [verb] To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. | [verb] To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. | [verb] To have an argument, a quarrel. ARGUS (6) [noun] A watchful guardian. | [noun] An alert, observant person. | [noun] Either of two species of pheasant of Southeast Asia having large ocellated tails. ARUMS (7) [noun] A flower or plant in the genus Arum ASCUS (7) [noun] A sac-shaped cell present in ascomycete fungi; it is a reproductive cell in which meiosis and an additional cell division produce eight spores. AUDAD (7) AUDIO (6) [noun] A sound, or a sound signal | [adjective] Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight. 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 AUGER (6) [noun] A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet. | [noun] A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool). | [noun] A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts 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. AUGUR (6) [noun] A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences. | [noun] An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events. | [verb] To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events. AULIC (7) [adjective] Relating to a royal court or palace; characteristic of a court. AUNTS (5) [noun] The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The female cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. AUNTY (8) [noun] The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The female cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. AURAE (5) [noun] Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something. | [noun] An invisible force surrounding a living creature. | [noun] Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache. AURAL (5) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the ear. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to sound. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to an aura. AURAR (5) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Icelandic króna AURAS (5) [noun] Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something. | [noun] An invisible force surrounding a living creature. | [noun] Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache. AUREI (5) [noun] A gold coin, minted in the Roman Empire from approximately 100 B.C.E. to 309 C.E., equal to 25 denarii. AURES (5) [noun] Plural of "aura," which refers to distinctive atmospheres or qualities surrounding a person or thing. | [noun] Plural of "auris," a Latin term for ears used in anatomical contexts. AURIC (7) [adjective] Of or pertaining to trivalent gold. | [adjective] Of, or pertaining to the ear; aural | [adjective] Pertaining to an aura. AURIS (5) [noun] The ear, or an ear-shaped anatomical structure. AURUM (7) [noun] The Latin name for the element gold, atomic number 79. AUTOS (5) [noun] An automobile. | [noun] A setting for automatic operation. | [noun] An automatic gearbox / transmission. AUXIN (12) [noun] A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant life cycle. AWFUL (11) [adjective] Very bad. | [adjective] Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. | [adjective] Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible. AZURE (14) [noun] A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines. | [noun] The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour. | [noun] The unclouded sky; the blue vault above. BABUL (9) [noun] A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica. BABUS (9) [noun] (Indian English) A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man | [noun] (Indian English) (Originally) a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official. BATTU (7) [adjective] Beaten or struck, used in ballet to describe a movement where the legs are beaten together in the air. | [verb] Past tense of "bat" in some contexts, particularly in ballet terminology. BAUDS (8) [noun] A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second. | [noun] Bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol. BAULK (11) [noun] An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. | [noun] The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation. | [noun] Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks". BAYOU (10) [noun] A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river. | [noun] A swamp, a marshy (stagnant) body of water. BEAUS (7) [noun] A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. | [noun] A male lover; a boyfriend. | [noun] A male escort. BEAUT (7) [noun] Something or someone that is physically attractive. | [noun] Something that is a remarkable example of its type. | [adjective] Beautiful, splendid. BEAUX (14) [noun] A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. | [noun] A male lover; a boyfriend. | [noun] A male escort. BEGUM (10) [verb] To daub or cover with gum. | [noun] A high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in India and Pakistan | [noun] The form of address for such a woman BEGUN (8) [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation | [verb] To come into existence. BHUTS (10) BIJOU (14) [noun] A jewel. | [noun] A piece of jewelry; a trinket. | [noun] A small intricate piece of metalwork. | [adjective] Small, little (often implying affection) BLUBS (9) [verb] To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval). | [verb] To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. BLUED (8) [verb] To make or become blue. | [verb] To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust. | [verb] (laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid) BLUER (7) [adjective] Of the colour blue. | [adjective] Depressed, melancholic, sad. | [adjective] Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame. | [noun] A blue blazer, part of the school uniform at Harrow School. | [noun] The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this. BLUES (7) [noun] The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this. | [noun] A blue dye or pigment. | [noun] Any of several processes to protect metal against rust. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A feeling of sadness or depression. | [verb] To make or become blue. 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. BLUEY (10) [noun] The metal lead. | [noun] A bushman's blanket. | [noun] A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag. BLUFF (13) [noun] An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate; braggadocio. | [noun] An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does. | [noun] The card game poker. | [noun] A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face. | [verb] To fluff, puff or swell up. BLUME (9) 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. BLURB (9) [noun] A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes. | [verb] To write or quote in a blurb. | [verb] To supply with a blurb. BLURS (7) [noun] A smear, smudge or blot | [noun] Something that appears hazy or indistinct | [noun] A moral stain or blot. BLURT (7) [noun] An abrupt outburst. | [verb] To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out. BLUSH (10) [noun] An act of blushing; a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc. | [noun] A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red. | [noun] Feeling or appearance of optimism. | [noun] The collective noun for a group of boys. BOGUS (8) [noun] A liquor made of rum and molasses. | [adjective] Counterfeit or fake; not genuine. | [adjective] Undesirable or harmful. BOLUS (7) [noun] A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal. | [noun] A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form. | [verb] To take a dose of insulin at a mealtime in order to control one's blood glucose level in diabetes. BONUS (7) [noun] Something extra that is good; an added benefit. | [noun] An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder. | [noun] An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining. BOSUN (7) [noun] A warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship. BOUGH (11) [noun] A firm branch of a tree. | [noun] The gallows. BOULE (7) [noun] One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. | [noun] A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. | [noun] A round loaf of bread. | [noun] A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works. | [noun] A council of citizens in Ancient Greece BOUND (8) [verb] To tie; to confine by any ligature. | [verb] To cohere or stick together in a mass. | [verb] To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. | [adjective] Ready, prepared. | [noun] (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory. | [verb] To surround a territory or other geographical entity. | [noun] A sizeable jump, great leap. BOURG (8) [noun] A market town or borough, especially in France or other European countries. BOURN (7) [noun] A small stream or brook. | [noun] Destination. | [noun] Limit. BOUSE (7) [verb] To drink heavily or excessively. | [verb] To haul or pull with a rope, especially in nautical contexts. BOUSY (10) BOUTS (7) [noun] A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant. | [noun] A boxing match. | [noun] An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept. BRUGH (11) [noun] A fairy mound or underground dwelling in Irish mythology. BRUIN (7) [noun] A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos. BRUIT (7) [noun] Hearsay, rumour; talk; an instance of this. | [noun] A clamour, an outcry; a noise. | [verb] To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc. | [noun] An abnormal sound in the body heard on auscultation (for example, through using a stethoscope); a murmur. BRUME (9) [noun] Mist, fog, vapour. BRUNT (7) [noun] The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event. | [noun] The major part of something; the bulk. | [verb] To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand. BRUSH (10) [noun] An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair. | [noun] The act of brushing something. | [noun] A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine. BRUSK (11) BRUTE (7) [noun] An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. | [noun] A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. | [noun] (Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated. | [verb] To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc. BUBAL (9) [noun] An extinct subspecies of the hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus, which was formerly native to northern Africa. BUBBY (14) [noun] A brother, especially an older brother. | [noun] A term of endearment or informal address for a male friend or relative. BUCKO (13) [noun] Buckaroo. | [noun] Young lad, friend, pal (used in addressing someone). BUCKS (13) [noun] A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad. | [noun] An uncastrated sheep, a ram. | [noun] A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man. BUDDY (12) [noun] A friend or casual acquaintance. | [noun] A partner for a particular activity. | [noun] An informal and friendly address to a stranger; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know. | [adjective] Resembling a bud. BUDGE (9) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. | [noun] A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits. BUFFI (13) BUFFO (13) [noun] A comic singer, particularly in comic opera BUFFS (13) [noun] Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals. | [noun] A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing. | [noun] A brownish yellow colour. BUFFY (16) [verb] To polish or make smooth by rubbing with a soft material. | [noun] A soft cloth or wheel used for polishing. BUGGY (12) [noun] A small horse-drawn cart. | [noun] A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy. | [noun] A hearse. BUGLE (8) [noun] A horn used by hunters. | [noun] A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series | [noun] A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga. | [noun] A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim | [noun] A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. BUHLS (10) [noun] Plural of buhl, a style of decorative inlaid woodwork using tortoiseshell and brass, popular in European furniture. BUHRS (10) BUILD (8) [noun] The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body. | [noun] Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users. | [noun] Any structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, created by the player. 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. BULBS (9) [noun] Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end. | [noun] A light bulb. | [noun] The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown. BULGE (8) [noun] Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure. | [noun] The bilge or protuberant part of a cask. | [noun] The bilge of a vessel. BULGY (11) [adjective] Having one or more bulges; bulging BULKS (11) [noun] Size, specifically, volume. | [noun] Any huge body or structure. | [noun] The major part of something. BULKY (14) [adjective] Being large in size, mass, or volume. | [adjective] Unwieldy. | [adjective] Having excess body mass, especially muscle. BULLA (7) [noun] A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion. | [noun] A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents. | [noun] In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss. | [noun] A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg. BULLS (7) [noun] An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen. | [noun] A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age. | [noun] Any adult male bovine. BULLY (10) [noun] A person who is intentionally, physically, or emotionally cruel to others; especially to those who are weaker or have less power or privilege. | [noun] A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow. | [noun] A hired thug. BUMFS (12) [noun] Plural of bumf; useless printed material or documents. | [noun] Toilet paper or similar material. BUMPH (14) [noun] Toilet paper. | [noun] Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc. BUMPS (11) [noun] A light blow or jolting collision. | [noun] The sound of such a collision. | [noun] A protuberance on a level surface. BUMPY (14) [adjective] Rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | [adjective] Covered with or full of bumps BUNCH (12) [noun] A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together. | [noun] The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race. | [noun] An informal body of friends. BUNCO (9) [noun] A swindle or confidence trick. | [noun] A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century. | [noun] A brigand. BUNDS (8) [verb] To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within. BUNDT (8) [noun] A baking pan with a hollow, circular, raised area in the middle. BUNGS (8) [noun] A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc. | [noun] A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal. | [noun] A bribe. BUNKO (11) [noun] A swindle or confidence trick. | [noun] A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century. | [noun] A brigand. BUNKS (11) [noun] One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers. | [noun] A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other. | [noun] A cot. BUNNS (7) BUNNY (10) [noun] A rabbit, especially a juvenile. | [noun] A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail. | [noun] In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed. | [noun] A swelling from a blow; a bump. | [noun] A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches. | [noun] Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry. | [adjective] Resembling a bun (small bread roll). BUNTS (7) [noun] The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. | [noun] A push or shove; a butt. | [noun] A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved. | [noun] Money BUNYA (10) [noun] The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland. | [noun] A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste. BUOYS (10) [noun] A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel. | [noun] A life-buoy; a life preserver. | [verb] To keep afloat or aloft; used with up. BURAN (7) [noun] A violent cold northeasterly wind that blows across central Asia and Russia. BURAS (7) BURBS (9) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A suburb. BURDS (8) BURET (7) [noun] A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration. | [noun] An altar cruet. BURGH (11) [noun] A small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names). | [noun] A borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland). BURGS (8) [noun] A city or town. | [noun] A fortified town in medieval Europe. | [noun] Burger BURIN (7) [noun] A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver. | [noun] A prehistoric flint tool BURKE (11) [noun] (sometimes affectionate) A fool, prat, twit. | [noun] Cunt. | [verb] To murder by suffocation BURLS (7) [noun] A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. | [noun] Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth. | [noun] A knot or lump in thread or cloth. BURLY (10) [adjective] (usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular. | [adjective] (East End of London) Great, amazing, unbelievable. | [adjective] (surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both. | [adjective] Full of burls or knots; knotty. BURNS (7) [noun] A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. | [noun] A sensation resembling such an injury. | [noun] The act of burning something with fire. BURNT (7) [verb] To cause to be consumed by fire. | [verb] To be consumed by fire, or in flames. | [verb] To overheat so as to make unusable. BURPS (9) [noun] A belch. | [verb] To emit a burp. | [verb] To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp. BURRO (7) [noun] A small donkey BURRS (7) [noun] A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. | [noun] Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth. | [noun] A knot or lump in thread or cloth. BURRY (10) [adjective] Prickly or covered with burrs. | [verb] To remove burrs from something. BURSA (7) [noun] Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces. BURSE (7) [noun] A purse. | [noun] A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies. | [noun] An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use. BURST (7) [noun] An act or instance of bursting. | [noun] A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display. | [noun] A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm. BUSBY (12) [noun] A fur hat, usually with a plume in the front, worn by certain members of the military or brass bands. BUSED (8) [verb] To transport via a motor bus. | [verb] To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. | [verb] To travel by bus. BUSES (7) [noun] A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads. | [noun] An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components. | [noun] (medical industry) An ambulance. BUSHY (13) [adjective] Like a bush in having many widely spread branches. | [adjective] Growing thickly. | [adjective] (Racial slur) Derogatory word used to refer to Afro-textured Hair. BUSKS (11) [noun] A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it. | [noun] (by extension) A corset. | [verb] To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. BUSTS (7) [noun] A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders. | [noun] The breasts and upper thorax of a woman. | [noun] The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession. BUSTY (10) [adjective] Having large breasts. BUTCH (12) [noun] A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner. | [adjective] (originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude. BUTEO (7) [noun] Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo. BUTLE (7) [verb] To serve as or perform the duties of a butler. BUTTE (7) [noun] An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top. BUTTS (7) [noun] The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end | [noun] The waste end of anything | [noun] (generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end. BUTTY (10) [noun] A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg. | [noun] Friend. | [noun] A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore. | [adjective] Resembling a heavy cart. BUTUT (7) [noun] A unit of currency, worth one hundredth of a Gambian dalasi BUTYL (10) [noun] Any of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C4H9, formally derived from butane by the loss of a hydrogen atom. | [noun] A synthetic rubber made by the polymerization of isobutylene. BUXOM (16) [adjective] Pliant, obedient, tractable (to) (i.e. easily moved or bent, morally). | [adjective] Submissive, humble, meek (as subsense of 4). | [adjective] Gracious, indulgent, favourable; obliging, amiable, courteous, affable, kindly (as subsense of 1). BUYER (10) [noun] A person who makes one or more purchases. | [noun] (retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment. | [noun] A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products. CAPUT (9) [noun] The head or a head-like structure, especially in anatomy. | [noun] A chapter or section of a book or legal document. CASUS (7) [noun] An occurrence or instance of something happening; an event or circumstance. | [noun] In law, a case or legal action. CAULD (8) [noun] A cauldron or large pot, especially one used for cooking or heating water. | [adjective] Cold (Scottish dialect). CAULK (11) [noun] A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent it slipping. | [noun] A spike on the sole of a boot to prevent slipping, particularly used in logging | [noun] Caulking. CAULS (7) [noun] A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen. | [noun] (often capitalized, used on maps) An entry to a mill lead taken from a burn or stream (a mill lead (or mill waterway) is generally smaller than a canal but moves a large volume of water). | [noun] A membrane. CAUSE (7) [noun] (often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result. | [noun] (especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion. | [noun] A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends. CECUM (11) [noun] A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon. CHUBS (12) [noun] One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially: | [noun] (by extension) Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes. | [noun] A chubby, plump person. CHUCK (16) [noun] Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder. | [noun] A chicken, a hen. | [noun] A gentle touch or tap. | [noun] A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax. | [noun] A small pebble. CHUFA (13) [noun] Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts). CHUFF (16) [noun] A coarse or stupid fellow. | [adjective] Surly; annoyed; displeased; disgruntled. | [adjective] Stupid; churlish | [noun] (scriptwriting) Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot. | [noun] The vagina. CHUGS (11) [noun] A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine. | [noun] A large gulp of drink. | [noun] A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival. CHUMP (14) [verb] To bite or chew loudly or heavily. | [verb] (Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character). | [noun] An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser. CHUMS (12) [noun] A friend; a pal. | [noun] A roommate, especially in a college or university. | [verb] To share rooms with someone; to live together. CHUNK (14) [noun] A part of something that has been separated. | [noun] A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular. | [noun] A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster. CHURL (10) [noun] A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a free peasant (as opposed to a serf). | [noun] A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor. | [noun] A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. CHURN (10) [noun] A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter. | [noun] Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company. | [noun] The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider. CHURR (10) [noun] The trilled sound made by an insect. | [verb] To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada). | [noun] A low vocal sound made by some birds. CHUTE (10) [noun] A framework, trough or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel. | [noun] A waterfall or rapid. | [noun] The pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo. | [noun] A parachute. CLOUD (8) [noun] A rock; boulder; a hill. | [noun] A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. | [noun] Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass. CLOUR (7) 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. CLUBS (9) [noun] An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation. | [noun] A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything. | [noun] A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. CLUCK (13) [noun] The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks. | [noun] Any sound similar to this. | [noun] A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse. CLUED (8) [verb] To provide with a clue. | [verb] To provide someone with information which he or she lacks (often used with "in" or "up"). CLUES (7) [noun] A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide. | [noun] Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion. | [noun] An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence. CLUMP (11) [noun] A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass. | [noun] A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair. | [noun] A dull thud. CLUNG (8) [verb] To hold very tightly, as to not fall off. | [verb] To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films. | [verb] To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing. CLUNK (11) [noun] A dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact. | [noun] The sound of liquid coming out of a bottle, etc.; a glucking sound. | [verb] To make such a sound CONUS (7) [noun] A cone. CORNU (7) [noun] A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn. COUCH (12) [noun] Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed. COUDE (8) COUGH (11) [noun] A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary. | [noun] A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough. | [noun] Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame COULD (8) [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. 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. COUPE (9) [noun] An ice cream dessert; the glass it is served in. | [noun] A car with two doors (variant of coupé). | [noun] An area of forest where harvesting of wood is planned or has taken place. COUPS (9) [noun] A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act. | [noun] (of Native Americans) A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery. | [noun] A coup d'état. COURT (7) [noun] An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. | [noun] (social) Royal society. | [noun] Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone COUTH (10) [verb] (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to. | [verb] (modal auxiliary verb, defective) May; to be permitted or enabled to. | [verb] (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible. | [noun] Social grace, refinement, sophistication; etiquette, manners. COYPU (12) [noun] A large, crepuscular, semiaquatic rodent (Myocastor coypus) resembling a large rat, having bright orange-yellow incisors, native to South America and introduced to Europe, Asia and North America, valued for its fur in eastern Europe and central Asia and considered a pest elsewhere. CROUP (9) [noun] An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty. | [verb] (obsolete outside dialectal) To croak, make a hoarse noise. CRUCK (13) [noun] A sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a timber house, usually used in pairs. | [verb] To make lame. | [noun] A vehicle that has features of both a car and a truck. CRUDE (8) [noun] Any substance in its natural state. | [noun] Crude oil. | [adjective] In a natural, untreated state. CRUDS (8) [noun] Dirt, filth or refuse. | [noun] (by extension) Something of poor quality. | [noun] A contemptible person. CRUEL (7) [verb] To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success) | [verb] To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive. | [adjective] Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless. | [noun] Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery. CRUET (7) [noun] A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as salt, pepper, oil, or vinegar, for use at a dining table. | [noun] A stand for these containers. | [noun] A small vessel used to hold wine or water for the Eucharist. CRUMB (11) [noun] A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). | [noun] A small piece of other material, such as rubber. | [noun] A bit, small amount. CRUMP (11) [noun] The sound of a muffled explosion. | [verb] To produce such a sound. | [verb] For one's health to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash). | [adjective] Hard or crusty; dry baked | [adjective] Crooked; bent. CRUOR (7) [noun] The colouring matter of the blood. | [noun] The clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the colouring matter; gore. CRURA (7) [noun] The shin (tibia and fibula) | [noun] A leglike part; shank CRUSE (7) [noun] A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water. | [noun] An oil lamp or similar emblem. CRUSH (10) [noun] A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. | [noun] Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd. | [noun] A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure. CRUST (7) [noun] A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary. | [noun] The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc. | [noun] An outer layer composed of pastry CUBBY (14) [noun] A small, confined space. | [noun] In a school classroom, a cell of a shelf for students to place belongings in. CUBEB (11) [noun] The tailed pepper, Piper cubeba; an Indonesian plant cultivated for its berries and essential oil. CUBED (10) [verb] To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. | [verb] To form into the shape of a cube. | [verb] To cut into cubes. CUBER (9) CUBES (9) [noun] A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces. | [noun] Any object more or less in the form of a cube. | [noun] The third power of a number, value, term or expression. CUBIC (11) [noun] A cubic curve. | [adjective] Used in the names of units of volume formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice. | [adjective] Of a class of polynomial of the form ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d 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. CUDDY (12) [noun] A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck. | [noun] A small cupboard or closet | [noun] A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer. | [noun] The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius). CUFFS (13) [noun] Glove; mitten | [noun] The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist | [noun] The end of a pants leg, folded up CUIFS (10) CUING (8) CUISH (10) [noun] Defensive armour for the thighs CUKES (11) [noun] A cucumber. | [noun] A cucoloris. CULCH (12) [noun] The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves. | [verb] To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments. | [verb] To accumulate small household items of little value. CULET (7) CULEX (14) [noun] Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease. CULLS (7) [noun] A selection. | [noun] An organised killing of selected animals. | [noun] (farming) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded. CULLY (10) [noun] A person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person. | [noun] A companion. | [noun] A male client of a prostitute; a john, a gonk. CULMS (9) [noun] Waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack. | [noun] Anthracite, especially when found in small masses | [noun] The stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge CULPA (9) [noun] Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart. CULTI (7) CULTS (7) [noun] A group or sect of people with a deviant religious, philosophical or cultural identity, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members. | [noun] Devotion to a saint. | [noun] The veneration and religious rites given to a deity, esp. in a historical polytheistic context. CUMIN (9) [noun] The flowering plant Cuminum cyminum, in the family Apiaceae. | [noun] Its aromatic long seed, used as a spice, notably in Indian, Middle Eastern, and Mexican cookery. CUNTS (7) [noun] The female genitalia, especially the vulva. | [noun] An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand more usually a man). | [noun] An objectionable object or item. CUPEL (9) [noun] A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead. | [verb] To refine by means of a cupel. CUPID (10) CUPPA (11) [noun] (Commonwealth of Nations except Canada) A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink). | [noun] (Commonwealth of Nations except Canada) Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea. | [noun] Pronunciation spelling of cup of. CUPPY (14) [adjective] Having the form of a cup. | [adjective] Having indentations or shallow depressions. | [adjective] (of timber) Characterised by cup shakes. CURBS (9) [noun] A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand) | [noun] A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening. | [noun] Something that checks or restrains; a restraint. CURCH (12) CURDS (8) [noun] The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc. | [noun] The coagulated part of any liquid. | [noun] The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants. CURDY (11) CURED (8) [verb] To restore to health. | [verb] To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end. | [verb] To cause to be rid of (a defect). CURER (7) CURES (7) [noun] A method, device or medication that restores good health. | [noun] Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury. | [noun] A solution to a problem. CURET (7) CURFS (10) CURIA (7) CURIE (7) [noun] 3.7×1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci. CURIO (7) [noun] A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity. CURLS (7) [noun] A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet. | [noun] A curved stroke or shape. | [noun] A spin making the trajectory of an object curve. CURLY (10) [noun] A person or animal with curly hair. | [adjective] Having curls. | [adjective] Curling in a direction, as opposed to straight (quotation marks or apostrophes) CURNS (7) CURRS (7) CURRY (10) [noun] One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce. | [noun] A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder. | [noun] Curry powder. | [verb] To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb. | [verb] To perform currying upon. | [verb] To scurry; to ride or run hastily | [noun] A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate. CURSE (7) [noun] A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane. | [noun] A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone. | [noun] The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment. | [verb] To place a curse upon (a person or object). CURST (7) [verb] To place a curse upon (a person or object). | [verb] To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. | [verb] To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet. CURVE (10) [noun] A gentle bend, such as in a road. | [noun] A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line. | [noun] A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject. CURVY (13) [adjective] Having curves. | [adjective] Buxom or curvaceous. CUSEC (9) [noun] A measure of the rate of flow of fluid, especially through a pipeline, equal to one cubic foot per second. CUSHY (13) [adjective] Easy, making few demands, comfortable. | [adjective] Comfortable; often in a way that will suit a person's body. CUSKS (11) [noun] A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme. CUSPS (9) [noun] A sharp point or pointed end. | [noun] An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events. | [noun] A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point. CUSSO (7) CUTCH (12) [noun] Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster. | [noun] Young or seed oysters together with the shells and other objects to which they are usually attached. | [noun] Rubbish; debris; refuse. CUTER (7) [adjective] Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior. | [adjective] Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way. | [adjective] Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy. CUTES (7) CUTEY (10) [noun] A cute person or animal. | [noun] A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand. | [noun] (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma. CUTIE (7) [noun] A cute person or animal. | [noun] A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand. | [noun] (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma. CUTIN (7) [noun] A waxy polymer of hydroxy acids that is the main constituent of plant cuticle. CUTIS (7) [noun] The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis. CUTTY (10) [noun] A short spoon. | [noun] A short tobacco pipe. | [noun] A wanton or unchaste woman. CUTUP (9) [noun] Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes. DATUM (8) [noun] (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc. | [noun] (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation. | [noun] (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn. DAUBE (8) [noun] A stew of braised meat, usually beef. DAUBS (8) [noun] Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. | [noun] A soft coating of mud, plaster etc. | [noun] A crude or amateurish painting. DAUBY (11) DAUNT (6) [verb] To discourage, intimidate. | [verb] To overwhelm. DAUTS (6) DEBUG (9) [noun] The action, or a session, of reviewing source code to find and eliminate errors. | [verb] To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery. | [verb] To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere). 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. DEGUM (9) DEMUR (8) [noun] Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple. | [verb] To linger; to stay; to tarry | [verb] To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. DEUCE (8) [noun] A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards. | [noun] A side of a die with two spots. | [noun] A cast of dice totalling two. | [noun] (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger. DHUTI (9) 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. DOUCE (8) [adjective] Sweet; nice; pleasant. | [adjective] Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober. DOUGH (10) [noun] A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. | [noun] Money. | [verb] To make into dough. DOUMA (8) DOUMS (8) DOURA (6) DOUSE (6) [noun] A sudden plunging into water. | [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [noun] A blow or stroke, especially to the face. DROUK (10) DRUBS (8) [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. | [verb] To forcefully teach something. DRUGS (7) [noun] A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. | [noun] A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. | [noun] Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted. DRUID (7) [noun] One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions. DRUMS (8) [noun] A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone. | [noun] Any similar hollow, cylindrical object. | [noun] A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage. DRUNK (10) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. DRUPE (8) [noun] A stone fruit. DRUSE (6) [noun] An inner surface with a crust of tiny crystals. | [noun] An aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants. | [noun] A tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye. DUADS (7) [noun] A pair or couple. | [noun] Dwadasama. | [noun] An unordered pair. DUALS (6) [noun] Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair. | [noun] Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces. | [noun] (grammar) dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything (a couple of, exactly two of), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number. DUCAL (8) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold. 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. DUCES (8) [noun] The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline. | [noun] A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion. | [noun] The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes. DUCHY (14) [noun] A dominion or region ruled by a duke or duchess. (A grand duchy may be a self-governing state. A simple duchy tends to be a part of a larger kingdom or empire.) DUCKS (12) [verb] To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. | [noun] An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet. DUCKY (15) [noun] A duck (aquatic bird), especially a toy rubber duck | [noun] An affectionate pet name. | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a duck. DUCTS (8) [noun] A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another. | [noun] An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs. | [noun] Guidance; direction. DUDDY (11) DUDED (8) [verb] To address someone as dude. | [verb] To take a vacation in a dude ranch. | [verb] Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes. DUDES (7) [noun] A man, generally a younger man. | [noun] (used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning him or offering him advice. | [noun] An inexperienced cowboy. DUELS (6) [noun] Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor. | [noun] Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat) | [noun] Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas. DUETS (6) [noun] A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble). | [noun] A song composed for and/or performed by a duo. | [noun] A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant. DUFFS (12) [verb] To disguise something to make it look new. | [verb] To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle. | [verb] (with "up") To beat up. DUITS (6) DUKED (11) DUKES (10) [noun] The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess). | [noun] The sovereign of a small state. | [noun] A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom. DULIA (6) [noun] The veneration of saints, distinguished from latria, the worship of God. DULLS (6) [verb] To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. | [verb] To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy. | [verb] To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. DULLY (9) [adverb] In a dull manner; without liveliness; without lustre. DULSE (6) [noun] A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. DUMAS (8) [noun] A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament). | [noun] A drink mixing wine and vodka. DUMBS (10) [verb] To silence. | [verb] To make stupid. | [verb] To represent as stupid. DUMKA (12) [noun] A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine. | [noun] An individual composition in this genre. DUMKY (15) [noun] A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine. | [noun] An individual composition in this genre. DUMMY (13) [noun] A silent person; a person who does not talk. | [noun] An unintelligent person. | [noun] A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet. DUMPS (10) [noun] A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. | [noun] A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. | [noun] That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. DUMPY (13) [noun] A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens. | [noun] A small bottle of beer. | [adjective] Short and thick; stout or stocky DUNAM (8) [noun] An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre. | [noun] A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma. | [noun] Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2). DUNCE (8) [noun] An unintelligent person. DUNCH (11) DUNES (6) [noun] A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind. DUNGS (7) [noun] Manure; animal excrement. | [noun] A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. | [verb] To fertilize with dung. DUNGY (10) DUNKS (10) DUNTS (6) [noun] A stroke; a dull-sounding blow. DUOMI (8) DUOMO (8) [noun] A cathedral, especially one in Italy. DUPED (9) [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [verb] To duplicate. DUPER (8) [noun] A person who dupes another DUPES (8) [noun] A person who has been deceived. | [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [noun] A duplicate of a photographic image. DUPLE (8) [adjective] Double. | [adjective] Having two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure. | [adjective] Having two beats in each foot. DURAL (6) DURAS (6) DURED (7) DURES (6) DURNS (6) [noun] A secret; secrecy. | [noun] A secret place; hiding. | [noun] An obscure language. DUROC (8) [noun] A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America. DUROS (6) DURRA (6) [noun] A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor). DURRS (6) DURST (6) [verb] To have enough courage (to do something). | [verb] To defy or challenge (someone to do something) | [verb] To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to DURUM (8) [noun] Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum (hard wheat), the flour of which is used to make pasta and bread. DUSKS (10) [noun] A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight. | [noun] A darkish colour. DUSKY (13) [noun] A dusky shark. | [noun] A dusky dolphin. | [noun] A dusky grouse. DUSTS (6) [noun] Fine particles | [noun] The act of cleaning by dusting. | [noun] The earth, as the resting place of the dead. DUSTY (9) [adjective] Covered with dust. | [adjective] Powdery and resembling dust. | [adjective] Grey in parts. DUTCH (11) [noun] Wife | [verb] To treat cocoa beans or powder with an alkali solution to darken the color and lessen the bitterness of the flavor. DUVET (9) [noun] A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets. | [noun] A cover for a quilt or comforter. ECRUS (7) EDUCE (8) [noun] An inference. | [verb] To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. | [verb] To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. EDUCT (8) ELUDE (6) [verb] To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill | [verb] To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip | [verb] To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to ELUTE (5) [verb] To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse. EMEUS (7) ENDUE (6) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). ENNUI (5) [noun] A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression. | [verb] To make bored or listless; to weary. ENSUE (5) [verb] To follow (a leader, inclination etc.). | [verb] To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. | [verb] To occur afterwards, as a result or effect. ENURE (5) [verb] To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative; used with to. EQUAL (14) [noun] A person or thing of equal status to others. | [noun] State of being equal; equality. | [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. EQUID (15) [noun] Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.) EQUIP (16) [verb] To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging) | [verb] To dress up; to array; to clothe. | [verb] To prepare (someone) with a skill. ERUCT (7) [verb] To burp or belch. ERUGO (6) ERUPT (7) [verb] To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser). | [verb] To burst forth; to break out. | [verb] To spontaneously release pressure or tension. ETUDE (6) [noun] A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill. ETUIS (5) [noun] A small, ornamental bag or rigid container used for holding articles such as needles. EUROS (5) [noun] Person living or originating from Europe | [noun] Person who resides within the European Union | [noun] The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: € EXUDE (13) [verb] To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. | [verb] To flow out through the pores. EXULT (12) [verb] To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph. EXURB (14) [noun] A residential area beyond the suburbs. FANUM (10) FAUGH (12) [interjection] An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell. FAULD (9) FAULT (8) [noun] A defect; something that detracts from perfection. | [noun] A mistake or error. | [noun] A weakness of character; a failing. FAUNA (8) [noun] Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. | [noun] A book, cataloguing the animals of a country. FAUNS (8) [noun] A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis. FAUVE (11) FAVUS (11) FEMUR (10) [noun] A thighbone. | [noun] The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia. | [noun] A segment of the leg of an arachnid. FETUS (8) [noun] An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. | [noun] A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation. FEUAR (8) FEUDS (9) [noun] A state of long-standing mutual hostility. | [noun] A staged rivalry between wrestlers. | [noun] A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. FEUED (9) [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FICHU (13) [noun] A woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front, or tucked into a bodice to cover the exposed part of the neck and chest. FICUS (10) [noun] A plant belonging to the genus Ficus, including the rubber plant. FILUM (10) FIQUE (17) FLOUR (8) [noun] Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry. | [noun] The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid and certain bleaching agents. | [noun] Powder of other material. 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. FLUBS (10) [noun] An error; a mistake in the performance of an action. | [verb] To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action. FLUED (9) FLUES (8) [noun] A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace). | [noun] An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along. | [noun] A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this. FLUFF (14) [noun] Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers. | [noun] Anything inconsequential or superficial. | [noun] A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines. FLUID (9) [noun] Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma. | [noun] A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas). | [noun] (specifically, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids. FLUKE (12) [noun] A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated. | [verb] To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance. | [verb] To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way. | [noun] A flounder. | [noun] Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail. FLUKY (15) [adjective] Lucky | [adjective] Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes FLUME (10) [noun] A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through. | [noun] An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids. | [verb] To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough. FLUMP (12) [noun] The dull sound so produced. | [noun] A type of large marshmallow. | [noun] (by extension) A fat out-of-shape person. FLUNG (9) [verb] To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash. | [verb] To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl. | [verb] To throw; to wince; to flounce. FLUNK (12) [verb] Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass. | [verb] Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade. | [verb] To shirk (a task or duty). FLUOR (8) FLUSH (11) [noun] A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc. | [verb] To cause to take flight from concealment. | [verb] To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover. | [adjective] Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out. | [noun] A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes. | [noun] A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit. FLUTE (8) [noun] A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin. | [noun] A recorder, also a woodwind instrument. | [noun] A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne. | [noun] A kind of flyboat; a storeship. FLUTY (11) [adjective] Resembling the sound of a flute. FLUYT (11) FOCUS (10) [noun] A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge. | [noun] A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge. | [noun] The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium. FONDU (9) [noun] The graded shift from one color into another. | [noun] Involving a lowering of the body by bending the knee of the supporting leg. | [noun] A dish made of melted cheese, chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped. FORUM (10) [noun] A place for discussion. | [noun] A gathering for the purpose of discussion. | [noun] A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. FOULS (8) [noun] A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball. | [noun] A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball. | [noun] A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines. FOUND (9) [verb] To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. | [verb] To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate. | [verb] (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end. | [verb] To start (an institution or organization). | [verb] To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting. | [noun] A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers. 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. FOURS (8) [noun] The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof. | [noun] Anything measuring four units, as length. | [noun] A person who is four years old. FRAUD (9) [noun] The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. | [noun] Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain. | [noun] The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end. FRUGS (9) [noun] (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s. FRUIT (8) [noun] (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals. | [noun] Specifically, a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit. | [noun] A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically: FRUMP (12) [noun] A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy. | [noun] The clothes that such a person would wear. | [noun] A bad-tempered person. FUBSY (13) [adjective] Short and stout; low and wide FUCKS (14) [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. | [noun] A sexual partner, especially a casual one. | [noun] A highly contemptible person. FUCUS (10) [noun] Any alga of the genus Fucus. FUDGE (10) [noun] A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge. | [noun] Light or frothy nonsense. | [noun] A deliberately misleading or vague answer. FUELS (8) [noun] Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction. | [noun] Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food. | [noun] Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action. FUGAL (9) [adjective] Relating to a fugue | [adjective] Relating to flight (fleeing) FUGGY (13) [adjective] Muggy, stuffy, with bad ventilation FUGIO (9) FUGLE (9) FUGUE (9) [noun] A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody. | [noun] Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality. | [noun] A fugue state. FUGUS (9) FUJIS (15) [noun] A plain spun silk fabric. | [noun] A Nigerian musical genre. FULLS (8) [verb] (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated. | [verb] To baptise. | [verb] To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk FULLY (11) [adverb] In a full manner; without lack or defect. | [adverb] In a full degree; to a full extent. | [adverb] As a minimum; at least. FUMED (11) [verb] To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. | [verb] To apply or offer incense to. | [verb] To emit fumes. FUMER (10) FUMES (10) [noun] A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale. | [noun] A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state. | [noun] Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control. 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. FUNDI (9) [noun] (Zimbabwe) expert, guru, maven | [noun] The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially FUNDS (9) [noun] A sum or source of money. | [noun] An organization managing such money. | [noun] A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund. FUNGI (9) [noun] Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular. | [noun] A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound. | [noun] A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of ukulele, banjo, guitar and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm. | [noun] A cornmeal dish eaten in the Caribbean, usually made with okra and served with salt fish, shellfish or chicken; variant recipes are also known as cou-cou (coucou) or coo-coo (coocoo). FUNGO (9) [noun] A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught. | [noun] A fungo bat. FUNKS (12) [noun] Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor. | [noun] A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the one, and much syncopation. | [verb] To emit an offensive smell; to stink. FUNKY (15) [adjective] Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric. | [adjective] Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context. | [adjective] Cool; great; excellent. FUNNY (11) [noun] A joke. | [noun] A comic strip. | [adjective] Amusing; humorous; comical. | [noun] A narrow clinker-built boat for sculling. FURAN (8) [noun] Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom; especially the simplest one, C4H4O. FURLS (8) [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) FUROR (8) [noun] A general uproar or commotion | [noun] Violent anger or frenzy | [noun] A state of intense excitement FURRY (11) [noun] An animal character with human-like characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture. | [noun] A member of the furry fandom. | [noun] Someone who roleplays or identifies with a furry character. (Compare therianthrope.) FURZE (17) [noun] A thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of which Ulex europaeus is particularly common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland. FURZY (20) FUSED (9) [verb] To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. | [verb] To melt together. | [verb] To furnish with or install a fuse. FUSEE (8) [noun] A light musket or firelock. | [noun] A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks. | [noun] A large friction match. | [noun] The track of a buck. | [noun] One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion. FUSEL (8) FUSES (8) [noun] A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device. | [noun] The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device. | [noun] A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it. FUSIL (8) [noun] A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge. | [noun] A light flintlock musket or firelock. | [adjective] That can be melted; meltable. FUSSY (11) [adjective] Anxious or particular about petty details. | [adjective] Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be bad-tempered/ill-tempered (especially of babies). FUSTY (11) [adjective] Moldy or musty. | [adjective] Stale-smelling or stuffy. | [adjective] (by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update. FUTON (8) [noun] A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed. | [noun] A round cushion used for Zen meditation, traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves. FUZED (18) [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. | [adjective] Being equipped with a fuze FUZEE (17) [noun] A light musket or firelock. | [noun] A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks. | [noun] A large friction match. FUZES (17) [noun] (professional usage) An auxiliary device with explosive components, used to detonate a munition. | [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. FUZIL (17) FUZZY (29) [noun] (often in the plural) A very small piece of plush material. | [noun] Something covered with fuzz or hair, as an animal or plush toy. | [noun] A person, especially a college student, interested in humanities or social sciences, as opposed to one interested in mathematics, science, or engineering. 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. GAUDS (7) [noun] A cheap showy trinket | [noun] Trick; jest; sport | [noun] Deceit; fraud; artifice GAUDY (10) [noun] One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. | [adjective] Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner | [adjective] Fun; merry; festive | [noun] A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations. GAUGE (7) [noun] A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard | [noun] An act of measuring. | [noun] An estimate. GAULT (6) [noun] A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks. GAUMS (8) GAUNT (6) [adjective] Lean, angular and bony | [adjective] Haggard, drawn and emaciated | [adjective] Bleak, barren and desolate GAURS (6) [noun] An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition. GAUSS (6) [noun] The unit of magnetic field strength in CGS systems of units, equal to 0.0001 tesla. GAUZE (15) [noun] A thin fabric with a loose, open weave. | [noun] A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing. | [noun] A thin woven metal or plastic mesh. GAUZY (18) [adjective] Having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy. | [adjective] Light; giving the effect of haze. GENUA (6) [noun] Knee | [noun] A knee-like bend. GENUS (6) [noun] A rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank. | [noun] A group with common attributes. | [noun] A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph. GETUP (8) [noun] Enthusiastic and energetic drive or ambition | [noun] A costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual. | [noun] A fight or altercation. GEUMS (8) [noun] Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants. GHAUT (9) GHOUL (9) [noun] (Muslim demonology) A demon said to feed on corpses. | [noun] A graverobber. | [noun] A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive. GIGUE (7) [noun] An Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period). GLOUT (6) GLUED (7) [verb] To join or attach something using glue. | [verb] To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively. GLUER (6) GLUES (6) [noun] A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance. | [noun] Anything that binds two things or people together. | [noun] Birdlime. GLUEY (9) [adjective] Viscous and adhesive, as glue. GLUGS (7) [noun] The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle. | [noun] The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard. GLUME (8) [noun] A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae). GLUON (6) [noun] A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force. GLUTS (6) [noun] An excess, too much. | [noun] That which is swallowed. | [noun] Something that fills up an opening. GOUGE (7) [noun] Senses relating to cutting tools. | [noun] A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp. | [noun] (originally United States) An act of gouging. GOURD (7) [noun] Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae). | [noun] A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita. | [noun] The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration. GOUTS (6) [noun] An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints. | [noun] (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch. | [noun] A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae. GOUTY (9) [adjective] Suffering from gout. GROUP (8) [noun] A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. | [noun] A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. | [noun] An effective divisor on a curve. GROUT (6) [noun] A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry. | [noun] Coarse meal; groats. | [noun] (typically used in the plural) Dregs, sediment. GRUBS (8) [noun] An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A short, thick man; a dwarf. GRUEL (6) [noun] A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill. | [verb] To exhaust; use up; disable; to punish. GRUES (6) GRUFF (12) [verb] To speak gruffly. | [adjective] Having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature. | [adjective] Hoarse-voiced. GRUME (8) [noun] A thick semisolid | [noun] A clot (of blood) GRUMP (10) [noun] A habitually grumpy or complaining person. | [noun] A grumpy mood. | [verb] To complain. GRUNT (6) [noun] A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak. | [noun] The snorting cry of a pig. | [noun] Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae. GUACO (8) GUANO (6) [noun] Dung from a sea bird or from a bat. | [noun] A variety of seabird. GUANS (6) [noun] Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas. GUARD (7) [noun] A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something. | [noun] A garda; a police officer. | [noun] A squad responsible for protecting something. GUARS (6) [noun] An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans. GUAVA (9) [noun] A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava. | [noun] Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color. | [noun] A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink). GUCKS (12) GUDES (7) GUESS (6) [verb] To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion. | [verb] To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. | [verb] To suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility). | [noun] A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support. 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. GUFFS (12) [noun] Nonsensical talk or thinking. | [noun] Superfluous information. | [noun] Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks. GUIDE (7) [noun] Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation. | [noun] A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. | [noun] A sign that guides people; guidepost. | [verb] To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. GUIDS (7) GUILD (7) [noun] A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages. | [noun] A corporation. | [noun] A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits. GUILE (6) [noun] Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception. | [noun] Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty. | [verb] To deceive, beguile, bewile. 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. GUIRO (6) [noun] A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound. | [noun] A genre of traditional Cuban music, used in santería rituals. | [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a gourd surrounded by a net of beads. GUISE (6) [noun] Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.) | [noun] External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape. | [noun] Misleading appearance; cover, cloak. GULAG (7) [noun] A prison camp. | [noun] The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period. | [verb] To force into this prison or a similar system. GULAR (6) [noun] A plate or scale in the throat region of the body of a fish or reptile (especially a snake). | [adjective] Particularly of an animal: of, pertaining to, or located at the gula or the throat. | [noun] Ficus racemosa, a species of plant native to India, southeast Asia, and Australia. GULCH (11) [noun] A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully. | [noun] An act of gulching or gulping. | [noun] A glutton. GULES (6) [noun] The throat; the gullet. | [noun] Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines. | [adjective] In blazon, of the colour red. GULFS (9) [noun] A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin. | [noun] That which swallows; the gullet. | [noun] That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. GULFY (12) GULLS (6) [noun] A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae. | [noun] Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora. | [noun] A cheating trick; a fraud. GULLY (9) [noun] A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside. | [noun] A small valley. | [noun] A drop kerb. | [noun] (northern UK) A large knife. GULPS (8) [noun] The usual amount swallowed. | [noun] The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear. | [noun] An unspecified small number of bytes, often two. GULPY (11) GUMBO (10) [noun] A soup or stew made with okra. | [noun] A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy. | [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. GUMMA (10) [noun] A soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis. GUMMY (13) [noun] A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth. | [adjective] Showing the gums. | [noun] A species of shark, Mustelus antarcticus, endemic to southern and south-eastern Australia, the meat of which is sold as flake. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A gummi candy. GUNKS (10) GUNKY (13) [adjective] Greasy, messy or dirty. GUNNY (9) [noun] A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp. | [noun] A gunny sack. | [noun] A gunnery sergeant. GUPPY (13) [noun] A tiny freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males. | [noun] By extension, any tiny fish. | [noun] A tube holding paintballs before they are loaded into the gun. GURGE (7) GURRY (9) [noun] A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time. | [noun] The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour. | [noun] A small fort. | [noun] Fishing offal GURSH (9) GURUS (6) [noun] A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher. | [noun] (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor. GUSHY (12) [adjective] Gushing; effusive and often emotional. | [adjective] Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid. GUSSY (9) [verb] To dress up or decorate in a showy way GUSTO (6) [noun] Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor. GUSTS (6) [noun] A strong, abrupt rush of wind. | [noun] (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.). | [verb] To blow in gusts. GUSTY (9) [adjective] (of wind) Blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous. | [adjective] (by extension, metaphoric) Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression | [adjective] (metaphoric) Bombastic, verbose. | [adjective] With gusto GUTSY (9) [adjective] Marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; having guts | [adjective] Not showing due respect GUTTA (6) GUTTY (9) [adjective] Charged or sprinkled with drops. | [noun] One who works in a slaughterhouse cutting out the internal organs. | [adjective] Gutsy; brave. | [noun] An urchin or delinquent. GUYED (10) [adjective] Fitted with or attached to a guy. | [adjective] Fitted to serve as a guy. | [verb] To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November. GUYOT (9) [noun] A flat-topped seamount. GYRUS (9) [noun] A ridge or fold on the cerebral cortex. HABUS (10) HAIKU (12) [noun] A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme. | [noun] A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme. HAUGH (12) [noun] A low-lying meadow by the side of a river. HAULM (10) [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. | [noun] An individual plant stem. | [noun] Part of a harness; a hame. HAULS (8) [verb] To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle. | [verb] To draw or pull something heavy. | [verb] To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move. HAUNT (8) [noun] A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout. | [noun] A ghost. | [noun] A feeding place for animals. HAUTE (8) HEUCH (13) HEUGH (12) [noun] A steep crag or cliff, especially one with overhanging sides | [noun] A glen with steep, overhanging sides | [noun] A steep excavation, especially a coal pit HILUM (10) [noun] The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support. | [noun] The nucleus of a starch grain. | [noun] A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland or organ; a porta. HILUS (8) [noun] A hilum. HOCUS (10) [noun] A magician, illusionist, one who practises sleight of hand. | [noun] One who cheats or deceives. | [noun] Trick; trickery. HOKKU (16) [noun] A type of Japanese poem. HOKUM (14) [noun] (An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate. | [noun] (An instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, television programme, theater production, etc. | [noun] A film, television programme, theater production, etc., containing excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material. HOUND (9) [noun] A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. | [noun] Any canine animal. | [noun] (by extension) Someone who seeks something. | [verb] To persistently harass. | [noun] (in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on. HOURI (8) [noun] A nymph in the form of a beautiful virgin supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful. | [noun] (by extension) Any voluptuous, beautiful woman. HOURS (8) [noun] A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day. | [noun] A season, moment, or time. | [noun] The time. HOUSE (8) [noun] A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. | [noun] The people who live in a house; a household. | [noun] A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). | [verb] To keep within a structure or container. | [noun] House music. HUBBY (15) [noun] (term of endearment) Husband. | [adjective] Full of hubs or protuberances. HUCKS (14) [noun] (Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length. | [noun] A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice. | [verb] To throw or chuck. HUFFS (14) [noun] A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh. | [noun] An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc. | [noun] One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster. HUFFY (17) [adjective] Angry, annoyed, indignant or irritated. | [adjective] Easily offended; thin-skinned or touchy. | [adjective] Haughty, arrogant HUGER (9) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. HULAS (8) [noun] A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. | [verb] To dance the hula. HULKS (12) [noun] A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation. | [noun] Any large ship that is difficult to maneuver. | [noun] A large structure with a dominating presence. HULKY (15) HULLO (8) [noun] "Hello!" or an equivalent greeting. | [verb] To greet with "hello". | [interjection] A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence. HULLS (8) [noun] The outer covering of a fruit or seed. | [noun] Any covering. | [verb] To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed. HUMAN (10) [noun] A human being, whether man, woman or child. | [verb] To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human. | [adjective] (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives. HUMIC (12) [adjective] Of, or relating to humus. HUMID (11) [adjective] Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery. HUMOR (10) [noun] The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. | [noun] A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. | [noun] Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. HUMPH (15) [verb] To utter "humph!" in doubt or disapproval. | [interjection] Used to express doubt or disapproval HUMPS (12) [noun] A mound of earth. | [noun] A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine. | [noun] (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu. HUMPY (15) [noun] A hut or temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, especially for Aborigines. HUMUS (10) [noun] A large group of natural organic compounds, found in the soil, formed from the chemical and biological decomposition of plant and animal residues and from the synthetic activity of microorganisms | [noun] A Levantine Arab dip made of chickpea paste with various additions, such as olive oil, fresh garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, often eaten with pitta bread, or as a meze. It is mostly eaten in the Levant. HUNCH (13) [noun] A hump; a protuberance. | [noun] A stooped or curled posture; a slouch. | [noun] A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen. HUNKS (12) [noun] A crotchety or surly person. | [noun] A stingy man; a miser. | [noun] A large or dense piece of something. HUNKY (15) [adjective] Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty. | [adjective] Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky. | [adjective] All right; in good condition. | [noun] A lower-class person of Hungarian, Romanian, or Slavic, especially Ruthenian, descent. HUNTS (8) [noun] The act of hunting. | [noun] A hunting expedition. | [noun] An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it. HURDS (9) HURLS (8) [verb] To throw (something) with force. | [verb] To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. | [verb] To participate in the sport of hurling. HURLY (11) HURRY (11) [noun] Rushed action. | [noun] Urgency. | [noun] An incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play. HURST (8) [noun] (rare outside place names) A wood or grove. HURTS (8) [noun] An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. | [noun] A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise. | [noun] Injury; damage; detriment; harm HUSKS (12) [noun] The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside | [noun] Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something | [noun] The supporting frame of a run of millstones. HUSKY (15) [adjective] (of a voice) Hoarse and rough-sounding. | [adjective] Burly, stout. | [adjective] Abounding with husks; consisting of husks. | [noun] Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs. HUSSY (11) [noun] A housewife or housekeeper. | [noun] A sexually immoral woman. | [noun] A cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behavior. HUTCH (13) [noun] A cage for keeping rabbits, guinea pigs, etc. | [noun] A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed. | [noun] A measure of two Winchester bushels. HUZZA (26) [noun] A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event. | [verb] To cheer with a huzzah sound. | [interjection] Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting. ICTUS (7) [noun] The pulse. | [noun] A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc. | [noun] The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis. IGLUS (6) ILEUM (7) [noun] The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine. ILEUS (5) [noun] (modern usage) Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract, due to failure of peristalsis. | [noun] (broad definition, now rare) Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract from any cause. ILIUM (7) [noun] The upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the hipbone and pelvis. | [noun] The ileum, part of the small intestine. IMAUM (9) IMBUE (9) [verb] To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | [verb] In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. INCUR (7) [verb] To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to | [verb] To enter or pass into | [verb] To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger INCUS (7) [noun] A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear. | [noun] An accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus. INDUE (6) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). 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. INURE (5) [verb] To cause someone to become accustomed to something (usually) unpleasant. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative. | [verb] To commit. INURN (5) [verb] To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container. | [verb] To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died). ISSUE (5) [noun] The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly: | [noun] Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly: | [noun] The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly: JAUKS (16) 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. JAUPS (14) JEHUS (15) JORUM (14) [noun] A large vessel for drinking (usually alcoholic beverages). | [noun] A large quantity. | [noun] The contents, or quantity of the contents, of such a vessel. JOUAL (12) [noun] The dialect of working-class Quebecers. JOUKS (16) [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [verb] To stab JOULE (12) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of energy, work and heat; the work required to exert a force of one newton for a distance of one metre. Also equal to the energy of one watt of power for a duration of one second. Symbol: J 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) JUBAS (14) JUBES (14) [noun] A type of gelatine-based confection; its ingredients and consistency vary between countries. | [noun] An open drainage channel of a type common in Tehran. | [noun] A rood screen. JUDAS (13) [noun] A traitor; a person not to be trusted. | [noun] A small hole in a door through which a person can spy without being seen from the other side, used especially in prisons; a Judas-hole. JUDGE (14) [noun] A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice. | [noun] A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question. | [noun] A person officiating at a sports event or similar. | [verb] To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on. JUDOS (13) JUGAL (13) [noun] A bone found in the skull of most reptiles, amphibians and birds; the equivalent of a malar in mammals. | [adjective] Relating to a yoke or marriage. | [adjective] Pertaining to the jugal bone. JUGUM (15) [noun] One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants. | [noun] A pair of opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant. JUICE (14) [noun] A liquid from a plant, especially fruit. | [noun] A beverage made of juice. | [noun] Any liquid resembling juice. | [adjective] Alternative spelling of Jew's (used in certain set phrases like juice harp) JUICY (17) [adjective] Having lots of juice. | [adjective] (of a story, etc.) Exciting; titillating. | [adjective] (of a blow, strike, etc.) Strong, painful. JUJUS (19) [noun] A fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers. | [noun] The magical or supernatural power of such a charm. | [noun] The (usually negative) karmic consequences of an action or behavior. JUKED (17) [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [verb] To stab JUKES (16) [noun] A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution. | [noun] A feint. | [noun] The neck of a bird. JULEP (14) [noun] A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs, especially mint, and sometimes alcohol. | [noun] A pleasant-tasting liquid medicine in which other nauseous medicines are taken. JUMBO (16) [noun] An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing. | [noun] A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock. | [adjective] Especially large or powerful. | [noun] Short for mumbo jumbo. JUMPS (16) [noun] The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. | [noun] An effort; an attempt; a venture. | [noun] A dislocation in a stratum; a fault. JUMPY (19) [adjective] Nervous and excited. JUNCO (14) [noun] Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American sparrow. | [noun] The common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus), a bird found in Europe and much of the Palearctic. JUNKS (16) [verb] To throw away. | [verb] To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop) | [noun] A Chinese sailing vessel. JUNKY (19) [noun] A narcotics addict, especially a heroin user. | [noun] (by extension) An enthusiast of something. | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality. JUNTA (12) [noun] A council, convention, tribunal or assembly; especially, the grand council of state in Spain. | [noun] The ruling council of a military dictatorship. JUNTO (12) [noun] A group of men assembled for some common purpose; a club, or cabal. JUPES (14) JUPON (14) JURAL (12) [adjective] Of or pertaining to law. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to moral rights and obligations. JURAT (12) [noun] A sworn statement concerning where, when, and before whom an oath has been made. | [noun] A sworn person, particularly: JUREL (12) JUROR (12) [noun] A member of a jury. JUSTS (12) JUTES (12) [noun] The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc. | [noun] The plants from which this fibre is obtained. JUTTY (15) KAGUS (10) [noun] A New Caledonian endemic bird species, Rhynochetos jubatus, the only surviving member of the family Rhynochetidae. KAPUT (11) [adjective] Out of order; not working. KAURI (9) [noun] A conifer of the genus Agathis, family Araucariaceae, found in Australasia and Melanesia. | [noun] Agathis australis, a large conifer of the family Araucariaceae. | [noun] A resinous product of the kauri tree, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber. KAURY (12) KHOUM (14) [noun] A subdivision of the Mauritanian ouguiya. 5 khoums equal one ouguiya. KLUGE (10) [verb] To build or use a kludge. | [noun] Something that should not work, but does. | [noun] A device assembled from components intended for disparate purposes. KLUTZ (18) [noun] A clumsy or stupid person. KNAUR (9) 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. KNURL (9) [noun] A contorted knot in wood. | [noun] A crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection. | [noun] A lined or crossgrained pattern of ridges or indentations rolled or pressed into a part for grip. KNURS (9) [noun] A knurl. | [noun] The small wooden ball in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell. KORUN (9) KRAUT (9) [noun] A dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage. | [noun] A German person. | [noun] A German. KRUBI (11) KUDOS (10) [noun] Praise; accolades. | [noun] Credit for one's achievements. | [noun] A compliment or praise. KUDUS (10) [noun] A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (the lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (the greater kudu). KUDZU (19) [noun] An Asian vine (several species in the genus Pueraria, but mostly Pueraria montans var. lobata, syn. Pueraria lobata in the US), grown as a root starch, and which is a notorious invasive weed in the United States. KUGEL (10) [noun] A traditional Jewish dish consisting of baked pudding of rice, pasta, or potatoes with vegetables or raisins and spices | [noun] Traditional house ornament made of glass | [noun] Overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish woman KUKRI (13) [noun] A curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters. KULAK (13) [noun] A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers. KUMYS (14) KURTA (9) [noun] A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women. KURUS (9) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Turkish lira KUSSO (9) LARUM (7) LAUAN (5) LAUDS (6) [noun] Praise or glorification. | [noun] Hymn of praise. | [noun] (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins. LAUGH (9) [noun] An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. | [noun] Something that provokes mirth or scorn. | [noun] A fun person. LAURA (5) LAYUP (10) [noun] A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away. | [noun] A relatively easy task. | [noun] The state of being laid up. LEHUA (8) LEMUR (7) [noun] Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands. | [noun] Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta). | [noun] A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ. LETUP (7) [noun] A pause or period of slackening. LEUDS (6) LIEUS (5) LINUM (7) LOCUM (9) [noun] Short for locum tenens. | [noun] A share in a Genoese trading vessel. LOCUS (7) [noun] A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime. | [noun] The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition. | [noun] A fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one or more genes. LOTUS (5) [noun] A kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae. | [noun] A water lily, genus Nymphaea, especially those of Egypt or India. | [noun] A legendary plant eaten by the Lotophagi of the Odyssey that caused drowsiness and euphoria. LOUGH (9) [noun] A lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in Ireland. LOUIE (5) LOUIS (5) [noun] Any gold or silver coin issued by the French kings from Louis XIII to Louis XVI and bearing their image on the obverse side, particularly the gold louis d'ors, originally a French form of the Spanish doubloon but varying in value between 10 and 24 livres. | [noun] The louis d'or constitutionnel, a 24-livre gold coin issued by the First French Republic. | [noun] The franc germinal or napoleon, a similar gold coin issued by Napoleon and bearing his image on the obverse, worth 20 francs. LOUPE (7) [noun] A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers. | [noun] A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists. LOUPS (7) [noun] A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls. LOURS (5) [verb] To frown; to look sullen. | [verb] To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. LOURY (8) LOUSE (5) [noun] A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Psocodea. | [noun] (not usually used in plural form) A contemptible person; one who is deceitful or causes harm. | [verb] To remove lice from. LOUSY (8) [adjective] Remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded; mean, contemptible. | [adjective] Infested with lice. | [adjective] (usually with with) Filled or packed (with something, usually bad). LOUTS (5) [noun] A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob. | [noun] A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. | [verb] To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. LUAUS (5) [noun] An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment. LUBES (7) [verb] To lubricate LUCES (7) LUCID (8) [noun] A lucid dream. | [adjective] Clear; easily understood | [adjective] Mentally rational; sane LUCKS (11) [noun] Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence, especially a favourable one. | [noun] A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success. | [noun] Success. LUCKY (14) [adjective] (of people) Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune | [adjective] Producing, or resulting in, good fortune LUCRE (7) [noun] Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner. LUDES (6) LUDIC (8) [adjective] Of or pertaining to play; playful. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to games of chance. LUFFA (11) [noun] A tropical vine, of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd | [noun] The dried fibrous interior used as a sponge for bathing | [noun] Any bathing sponge LUFFS (11) [noun] The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind. | [noun] The act of sailing a ship close to the wind. | [noun] The roundest part of a ship's bow. LUGED (7) [verb] To travel by luge; to ride a luge. LUGER (6) [noun] Someone who competes in the luge. LUGES (6) [noun] A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back. | [noun] The sport of racing on luges. | [noun] A piece of ice, bone or other material with a channel down which a (usually alcoholic) drink can be poured into someone's mouth. LULLS (5) [noun] A period of rest or soothing. | [noun] A period of reduced activity; a respite | [noun] A period without waves or wind. LULUS (5) [noun] A remarkable person, object or idea. | [noun] A very attractive or alluring person. | [noun] A very bad mistake or error. LUMEN (7) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm. | [noun] The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ. | [noun] The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall. LUMPS (9) [noun] Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape. | [noun] A group, set, or unit. | [noun] A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful. LUMPY (12) [adjective] Full of lumps, not smooth. | [adjective] Of a water surface: covered in many small waves as a result of wind; choppy. LUNAR (5) [noun] The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus in the wrist, which is shaped like a half-moon. | [noun] An observation of a lunar distance, especially for establishing the longitude of a ship at sea. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon); Lunar. LUNAS (5) LUNCH (10) [noun] A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day. | [noun] A break in play between the first and second sessions. | [noun] (Minnesota) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering. LUNES (5) [noun] A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. | [noun] A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles. | [noun] Anything crescent-shaped. LUNET (5) LUNGE (6) [noun] A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword. | [noun] A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing. | [noun] An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position. LUNGI (6) [noun] A garment worn around the waist, especially by men, in Southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan. LUNGS (6) [noun] A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood. | [noun] (plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath. | [noun] That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place. LUNKS (9) [noun] A fool; an idiot; a lunkhead. LUNTS (5) LUPIN (7) [noun] Any member of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae. | [noun] A lupin bean, a yellow legume seed of a Lupinus plant (usually Lupinus luteus), used as feed for sheep and cattle and commonly eaten in the Mediterranean area and in Latin America although toxic if prepared improperly. LUPUS (7) [noun] Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus. LURCH (10) [noun] A sudden or unsteady movement. | [verb] To make such a sudden, unsteady movement. | [verb] To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. | [noun] An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables. LURED (6) [verb] To attract by temptation etc.; to entice | [verb] To recall a hawk with a lure LURER (5) LURES (5) [noun] Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure | [noun] An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish | [noun] A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk LURID (6) [adjective] Shocking, horrifying. | [adjective] Melodramatic. | [adjective] Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance. LURKS (9) [verb] To remain concealed in order to ambush. | [verb] To remain unobserved. | [verb] To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself. LUSTS (5) [verb] (usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature. LUSTY (8) [adjective] Exhibiting lust (in the obsolete sense meaning "vigor"); strong, healthy, robust; vigorous; full of sap or vitality. | [adjective] Hearty, merry, gleesome, enthusiastic, lively, stirring. | [adjective] Given to experiencing lust; enjoying physical sensations; lustful. LUSUS (5) LUTEA (5) LUTED (6) [verb] To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. | [verb] To fix or fasten something with lute. LUTES (5) [noun] A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. | [verb] To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. | [noun] Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight. LUXES (12) MAGUS (8) [noun] (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan | [noun] (special usage) a Zoroastrian priest MANUS (7) [noun] A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates. | [noun] (Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife. MAQUI (16) MAUDS (8) [noun] A grey plaid once worn by shepherds in Scotland and Northumbria. MAULS (7) [noun] A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat. | [noun] A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier. | [verb] To handle someone or something in a rough way. MAUND (8) [noun] A wicker basket. | [noun] A unit of capacity with various specific local values. | [noun] A handbasket with two lids. | [noun] A unit of weight in southern and western Asia, whose value varied widely by location. Two maunds made one chest of opium in East India. One maund equalled 136 pounds of opium in Turkey. | [noun] Begging MAUTS (7) MAUVE (10) [noun] A bright purple synthetic dye. | [noun] The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour. | [adjective] Having a pale purple colour. MENUS (7) [noun] The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. | [noun] A list of dishes offered in a restaurant. | [noun] A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface MEOUS (7) MIAOU (7) MIAUL (7) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [verb] To give the cry of a cat. MINUS (7) [noun] The minus sign (−). | [noun] A negative quantity. | [noun] A downside or disadvantage. MIXUP (16) [noun] A case of confusion. MODUS (8) MOGUL (8) [noun] A rich or powerful person; a magnate. | [noun] A hump or bump on a skiing piste. | [noun] A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs. MOHUR (10) MOMUS (9) MOUCH (12) MOUES (7) [noun] A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness. MOULD (8) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. | [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. 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. MOUND (8) [noun] An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense | [noun] A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. | [noun] Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch. 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 MOURN (7) [noun] Sorrow, grief. | [noun] A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting. | [verb] To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). MOUSE (7) [noun] Any small rodent of the genus Mus. | [noun] A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent. | [noun] A quiet or shy person. MOUSY (10) [noun] A mouse. | [adjective] Resembling a mouse. | [adjective] Abounding or infested with mice. MOUTH (10) [noun] The opening of a creature through which food is ingested. | [noun] The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water. | [noun] An outlet, aperture or orifice. MUCID (10) [adjective] Musty; mouldy; slimy; mucous MUCIN (9) [noun] Any of several glycoproteins found in mucus MUCKS (13) [noun] (slimy) mud, sludge. | [noun] Soft (or slimy) manure. | [noun] Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. MUCKY (16) [adjective] Covered in muck. | [adjective] Obscene, pornographic. MUCOR (9) MUCRO (9) [noun] A pointed end, often sharp, abruptly terminating an organ, such as a projection at the tip of a leaf; the posterior tip of a cuttlebone; or the distal part of the furcula in Collembola. MUCUS (9) [noun] A slippery secretion from the lining of the mucous membranes. MUDDY (12) [verb] To get mud on (something). | [verb] To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle. | [adjective] Covered with or full of mud or wet soil. MUDRA (8) [noun] Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography. | [noun] Any of the formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation. MUFFS (13) [noun] A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm. | [noun] Female pubic hair; female genitals. | [noun] A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet. MUFTI (10) [noun] A Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa. | [noun] A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform. MUGGS (9) MUGGY (12) [adjective] (Of the weather, air, etc) humid, or hot and humid. | [adjective] Wet or mouldy MUHLY (13) MUJIK (18) MULCH (12) [noun] Any material used to cover the top layer of soil to protect, insulate, or decorate it, or to discourage weeds or retain moisture. | [noun] A material used as mulch, as a decorative redwood bark mulch. | [verb] To apply mulch. 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. MULED (8) MULES (7) [noun] The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. | [noun] The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals. | [noun] A hybrid plant. | [verb] To remove skin from (an animal) to prevent myiasis. MULEY (10) [adjective] (of cattle or deer) Without horns. | [noun] Mule deer MULLA (7) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. MULLS (7) [noun] A thin, soft muslin. | [noun] Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. | [noun] A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. MUMMS (11) MUMMY (14) [noun] An embalmed human or animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes. | [noun] (by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a typical character in horror films. | [noun] (by extension) Any naturally preserved human or animal body. | [noun] (usually childish) mother. MUMPS (11) [noun] A grimace. | [verb] To mumble, speak unclearly. | [verb] To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness. MUMUS (9) MUNCH (12) [noun] A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected. | [noun] An act of eating. | [noun] Food. MUNGO (8) [noun] A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woollen goods or worsted. MUNIS (7) [noun] A municipal bond. | [noun] A facility operated by a municipal government, such as a golf course or train line. | [noun] The municipal government / municipality MUONS (7) [noun] An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater. MURAL (7) [noun] A large painting, usually drawn on a wall. | [verb] To create a mural. | [adjective] Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall. MURAS (7) MURED (8) [verb] To wall in or fortify | [verb] To enclose or imprison within walls. MURES (7) [noun] Wall | [noun] Husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh MUREX (14) [noun] Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods. MURID (8) [noun] Any rodent in the family Muridae. MURKS (11) MURKY (14) [adjective] Hard to see through, as a fog or mist. | [adjective] Dark, dim, gloomy. | [adjective] Cloudy, indistinct, obscure. MURRA (7) MURRE (7) [noun] Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks). MURRS (7) MURRY (10) MUSCA (9) MUSED (8) [verb] To become lost in thought, to ponder. | [verb] To say (something) with due consideration or thought. | [verb] To think on; to meditate on. MUSER (7) MUSES (7) [noun] A source of inspiration. | [noun] A poet; a bard. | [noun] An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness. MUSHY (13) [adjective] Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular. | [adjective] Soft; squishy. | [adjective] Overly sappy, corny, or cheesy; maudlin. MUSIC (9) [noun] A series of sounds organized in time, employing melody, harmony, tempo etc. usually to convey a mood. | [noun] Any pleasing or interesting sounds. | [noun] An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes singing. MUSKS (11) [noun] A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes. | [noun] A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet. | [noun] A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above. MUSKY (14) [adjective] Having the scent of musk | [noun] Muskellunge MUSSY (10) MUSTH (10) [noun] A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness and often secrete leaking temporin from the sides of their heads. MUSTS (7) [noun] Something that is mandatory or required. | [noun] The property of being stale or musty. | [noun] Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty. MUSTY (10) [adjective] Having a stale odor. MUTCH (12) [noun] A nightcap (hat worn to bed). | [noun] A linen or muslin hat, especially one of a type once commonly worn by elderly women and young children. MUTED (8) [verb] To silence, to make quiet. | [verb] To turn off the sound of. | [verb] Of a bird: to defecate. MUTER (7) MUTES (7) [noun] A stopped consonant; a stop. | [noun] An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. | [noun] A person who does not have the power of speech. MUTON (7) [noun] A unit of mutation forming part of a recon. MUTTS (7) [noun] A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram. | [noun] A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of diverse ancestry. MUZZY (28) [adjective] Hazy, indistinct, blurred, unfocussed. | [adjective] Dazed; bewildered; tipsy. | [noun] A Muslim. NEGUS (6) [noun] A drink of wine, lemon, sugar, nutmeg and hot water. | [noun] A ruler of Ethiopia or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the supreme ruler of Ethiopia before 1974. NEUKS (9) NEUME (7) [noun] Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation. | [noun] A sequence of notes to be sung to one syllable. NEUMS (7) [noun] Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation. | [noun] A sequence of notes to be sung to one syllable. NEVUS (8) [noun] Any of a number of different, usually benign, pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal lesions of the skin. NEXUS (12) [noun] A form of connection. | [noun] A connected group. | [noun] The centre of something. NIDUS (6) [noun] An aggregate of neurons. | [noun] A nest for insects or small animals. | [noun] A place of infection in an organism. NISUS (5) NODUS (6) [noun] A difficulty. | [noun] In the Odonata, a prominent crossvein near the centre of the leading edge of a wing. NOTUM (7) [noun] The back; the dorsal aspect of the thorax in insects. NOUNS (5) [noun] (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English. | [noun] (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun. | [verb] To convert a word to a noun. NUBBY (12) [adjective] Knobbly; covered with small knobs. | [adjective] Nub-like, resembling a small bump or protrusion; stubby. NUBIA (7) NUCHA (10) NUDER (6) NUDES (6) [noun] A painting, sculpture, photograph or other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress. | [noun] (with article, "the nude") The state of total nudity. | [noun] A color that resembles or evokes bare flesh; a paint, dye, etc. of such color. NUDGE (7) [noun] A gentle push. | [noun] A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound. | [noun] The rotation by one step of a fruit machine reel of the player's choice. NUDIE (6) [noun] Entertainment involving naked people, especially women. NUDZH (18) NUKED (10) [verb] To use a nuclear weapon on a target. | [verb] To destroy or erase completely. | [verb] (by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user). NUKES (9) [noun] A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove. | [noun] A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat. | [noun] A recess, cove or hollow. NULLS (5) [noun] A non-existent or empty value or set of values. | [noun] Zero quantity of expressions; nothing. | [noun] Something that has no force or meaning. NUMBS (9) [verb] To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally). | [verb] To cause (a feeling) to be less intense. | [verb] To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute. NUMEN (7) [noun] A divinity, especially a local or presiding god. | [noun] An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendant. NURDS (6) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. | [noun] An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork. NURLS (5) NURSE (5) [noun] A wet nurse. | [noun] A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young. | [noun] A person trained to provide care for the sick. NUTSY (8) [adjective] Crazy NUTTY (8) [adjective] Containing nuts. | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of nuts. | [adjective] Barmy, crazy, mad. OAKUM (11) [noun] A material, consisting of tarred fibres, used to caulk or pack joints in plumbing, masonry, and wooden shipbuilding. | [noun] The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in hackling. OCCUR (9) [verb] To happen or take place. | [verb] To present or offer itself. | [verb] To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself. OCULI (7) [noun] A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye). ODEUM (8) [noun] An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry. | [noun] A theatre or concert hall. ODIUM (8) [noun] Hatred; dislike. | [noun] The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness. ODOUR (6) [noun] Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive. | [noun] A strong, pervasive quality. | [noun] Esteem. OLEUM (7) [noun] A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid. ONIUM (7) OPIUM (9) [noun] A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine. | [noun] Anything that numbs or stupefies. OUGHT (9) [noun] Property; possession | [noun] Duty; place; office OUNCE (7) [noun] An avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams. | [noun] A troy ounce, weighing 1/12 of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams. | [noun] A US fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/16 of a US pint, 1.8047 cubic inches or 29.5735 millilitres. | [noun] A large wild feline, such as a lynx or cougar. OUPHE (10) OUPHS (10) OURIE (5) OUSEL (5) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] The water ouzel, an aquatic perching bird, Cinclus mexicanus. OUSTS (5) [verb] To expel; to remove. OUTBY (10) OUTDO (6) [verb] To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass. OUTED (6) [verb] To eject; to expel. | [verb] To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc). | [verb] To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective. OUTER (5) [noun] An outer part. | [noun] The 4th circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie. | [noun] A shot which strikes the outer of a target. | [noun] Someone who admits to something publicly. OUTGO (6) [noun] The act or process of going out. | [noun] A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow. | [noun] An expenditure, cost or outlay. OUTRE (5) [adjective] Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant. | [adjective] Very unconventional. OUZEL (14) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] The water ouzel, an aquatic perching bird, Cinclus mexicanus. OUZOS (14) [noun] An anise-flavoured aperitif, originating in Greece. | [noun] A serving of this drink. OVULE (8) [noun] The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments. | [noun] An immature ovum in mammals. PAREU (7) PAUSE (7) [noun] A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer. | [noun] A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. | [noun] A short time for relaxing and doing something else. PERDU (8) PHUTS (10) PICUL (9) PILAU (7) [noun] A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added. | [adjective] Filthy PILUS (7) PINUP (9) [noun] A photograph, printed in a magazine or other publication, of a sexually attractive person (often nude or provocatively dressed), and intended to be removed and pinned up on a wall. | [noun] The person so depicted. | [noun] Figurehead, person who represents an idea, cause etc. PIOUS (7) [adjective] Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing. PIQUE (16) [noun] A feeling of enmity; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride. | [noun] A feeling of irritation or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little thought or consideration. | [noun] Keenly felt desire; a longing. | [noun] In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one. | [noun] A chigger or jigger, Tunga penetrans. | [noun] A durable ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk. PLUCK (13) [noun] An instance of plucking. | [noun] The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. | [noun] Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. PLUGS (8) [noun] A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. | [noun] Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole. | [noun] A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. PLUMB (11) [noun] A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction. | [noun] A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water. | [noun] The perpendicular direction or position. | [noun] The fruit and its tree. PLUME (9) [noun] A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration. | [noun] A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle. | [noun] A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward. | [verb] To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes. PLUMP (11) [verb] To grow plump; to swell out. | [verb] To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. | [verb] To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily. | [noun] The sound of a sudden heavy fall. | [noun] A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd. PLUMS (9) [noun] The fruit and its tree. | [noun] Extended senses. | [verb] To plumb. PLUMY (12) [adjective] Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery. PLUNK (11) [noun] The dull thud of something landing on a surface. | [noun] A large sum of money. | [noun] A dollar. PLUSH (10) [noun] A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. | [noun] A plush toy. | [adjective] Very extravagant. POILU (7) [noun] A French infantryman during the First World War POUCH (12) [noun] A small bag usually closed with a drawstring. | [noun] A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young. | [noun] Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch. POUFF (13) POUFS (10) [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. | [noun] A headdress for women popular in 18th century France. POULT (7) [noun] A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). POUND (8) [noun] A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight. | [noun] A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere. | [noun] The symbol # (octothorpe, hash) | [noun] A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. An animal shelter. | [noun] A hard blow. POURS (7) [noun] The act of pouring. | [noun] Something, or an amount, poured. | [noun] A downpour, or flood of precipitation. POUTS (7) [noun] A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). | [noun] One's facial expression when pouting. | [noun] A fit of sulking or sullenness. POUTY (10) [adjective] Tending to pout; angry in a childish or cute way; showing mock anger. POYOU (10) PRAHU (10) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PRAUS (7) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PROUD (8) [adjective] Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified. | [adjective] Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth. | [adjective] Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious. PRUDE (8) [noun] A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature. | [adjective] Prudish. PRUNE (7) [noun] A plum. | [noun] The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum. | [noun] An old woman, especially a wrinkly one. | [verb] To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. PRUTA (7) PSEUD (8) [noun] An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur | [noun] Pseudomonas bacteria. | [noun] A pseudonym. PUBES (9) [noun] The pubic hair. | [noun] The pubic region. | [noun] The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis | [noun] A single pubic hair. PUBIC (11) [adjective] Of, or relating to the area of the body adjacent to the pubis or the pubes. PUBIS (9) [noun] The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis PUCES (9) PUCKA (13) [adjective] (originally South Asia) Genuine or authentic; hence of behaviour: correct, socially acceptable or proper. | [adjective] Superior or of high quality; first-class. | [adjective] Excellent, fantastic, great. PUCKS (13) [noun] A mischievous or hostile spirit. | [noun] A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game. | [noun] An object shaped like a puck. PUDGY (12) [adjective] Fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby. PUDIC (10) PUFFS (13) [verb] To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs. | [verb] To pant. | [verb] To advertise. PUFFY (16) [adjective] Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like. | [adjective] Coming or exhaling in puffs. | [adjective] Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner. PUGGY (12) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a pug dog. | [adjective] Sticky, claylike PUJAH (17) PUJAS (14) [noun] A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship. PUKED (12) [verb] To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach. | [verb] To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market. PUKES (11) [noun] Vomit. | [noun] A drug that induces vomiting. | [noun] A worthless, despicable person. PUKKA (15) [adjective] (originally South Asia) Genuine or authentic; hence of behaviour: correct, socially acceptable or proper. | [adjective] Superior or of high quality; first-class. | [adjective] Excellent, fantastic, great. PULED (8) [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. PULER (7) PULES (7) [noun] A plaintive melancholy whine. | [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. PULIK (11) [noun] One of a breed of Hungarian sheepdog with a distinctive thick, corded coat. PULIS (7) PULLS (7) [noun] An act of pulling (applying force) | [noun] An attractive force which causes motion towards the source | [noun] Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope PULPS (9) [noun] A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. | [noun] A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. | [verb] To make or be made into pulp. PULPY (12) [adjective] Having the characteristics of pulp | [adjective] Having the characteristics of pulp fiction; thus, having a garish focus on sex and violence PULSE (7) [noun] A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart. | [noun] A beat or throb. | [noun] The beat or tactus of a piece of music. | [verb] To beat, to throb, to flash. | [noun] Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals, especially in the mature, dry condition. PUMAS (9) [noun] The mountain lion or cougar, Puma concolor. | [noun] A woman in her 20s or 30s who seeks relationships with younger men; a younger cougar. PUMPS (11) [noun] A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas. | [noun] An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping | [noun] A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel. PUNAS (7) [noun] An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population. PUNCH (12) [noun] A hit or strike with one's fist. | [noun] Power, strength, energy. | [noun] Impact. | [noun] A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface. | [noun] A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic. | [noun] Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia. PUNGS (8) PUNKA (11) PUNKS (11) [noun] A person used for sex, particularly: | [noun] A worthless person, particularly: | [noun] Short for punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums. PUNKY (14) [noun] A small two-winged fly or midge of the family Ceratopogonidae, which bites and then sucks the blood of mammals; the biting midge; sandfly. | [noun] A fish, Lepomis gibbosus. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to punk (touchwood) - soft or rotted. PUNNY (10) [noun] A punishment. | [adjective] (of a pun) Funny. | [adjective] Involving the use of a pun. PUNTO (7) PUNTS (7) [noun] A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole. | [verb] To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole. | [noun] A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground. PUNTY (10) [noun] A metal rod used in the glassblowing process. After a glass vessel has been blown to approximate size and the bottom of the piece has been finalized, the rod, which is tipped with a wad of hot glass, is attached to the bottom of the vessel to hold it while the top is finalized. It often leaves an irregular or ring-shaped scar on the base when removed called the "pontil mark". PUPAE (9) [noun] An insect in the development stage between larva and adult. PUPAL (9) PUPAS (9) PUPIL (9) [noun] A learner under the supervision of a teacher or professor. | [noun] An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state. | [noun] The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina. PUPPY (14) [noun] A young dog, especially before sexual maturity (12-18 months) | [noun] A young rat. | [noun] A young seal. PURDA (8) PUREE (7) [noun] A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid. | [verb] To crush or grind food into a puree. | [noun] A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan. PURER (7) [adjective] Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied. | [adjective] Free of foreign material or pollutants. | [adjective] Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean. PURGE (8) [noun] An act of purging. | [noun] An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting. | [noun] A cleansing of pipes. PURIN (7) PURIS (7) [noun] A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried. | [noun] In Bali and other parts of Indonesia, a palace, or other residence of a member of the royal family or ruling class. PURLS (7) [noun] A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance. | [noun] The edge of lace trimmed with loops. | [noun] An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. PURRS (7) [noun] The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented. | [noun] A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person. | [noun] The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed PURSE (7) [noun] A small bag for carrying money. | [noun] A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items) | [noun] A quantity of money given for a particular purpose. PURSY (10) [adjective] Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness. | [adjective] Fat and short. | [adjective] Puckered. PUSES (7) PUSHY (13) [adjective] Aggressively ambitious; overly assertive, bold or determined. PUSSY (10) [noun] A cat. | [noun] An affectionate term for a woman or girl, seen as having characteristics associated with cats such as sweetness. | [noun] The female genitalia; the vulva and/or vagina. | [adjective] Containing pus. | [adjective] Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness. PUTON (7) PUTTI (7) [noun] A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub. PUTTO (7) [noun] A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub. PUTTS (7) [verb] To place something somewhere. | [verb] To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition. | [verb] To exercise a put option. PUTTY (10) [noun] A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass. | [noun] Any of a range of similar substances. | [noun] A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha. | [adjective] (pronunciation spelling) pretty; purdy | [noun] A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc. QUACK (20) [noun] The sound made by a duck. | [verb] To make a noise like a duck. | [noun] A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional; especially, a doctor of medicine who makes false diagnoses or inappropriate treatment; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine. QUADS (15) [noun] Four shots of espresso. | [noun] A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once. | [noun] The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume. QUAFF (20) [noun] The act of quaffing; a deep draught. | [verb] To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts. QUAGS (15) [noun] Quagmire; marsh; bog. QUAIL (14) [verb] To waste away; to fade, to wither | [verb] To daunt or frighten (someone) | [verb] To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. | [noun] Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae. | [verb] To curdle or coagulate, as milk does. QUAIS (14) QUAKE (18) [noun] A trembling or shaking. | [noun] An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force. | [verb] To tremble or shake. QUAKY (21) QUALE (14) [noun] An instance of subjective, conscious experience. QUALM (16) [noun] A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. | [noun] A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. | [noun] A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now often in negative constructions.) 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. QUARE (14) [adjective] Queer, strange (suggesting an Irish accent) | [adjective] (used to suggest emphasis such as "a lot of" or "very" (suggesting an Irish accent).) QUARK (18) [noun] In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons. | [noun] (X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string. | [noun] A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, and eastern Europe, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet. | [noun] (Falkland Islands) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax. QUART (14) [noun] A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S. | [noun] Four successive cards of the same suit. | [noun] A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. QUASH (17) [verb] To defeat decisively. | [verb] To crush or dash to pieces. | [verb] To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.). QUASI (14) [adjective] Resembling or having a likeness to something QUASS (14) QUATE (14) QUAYS (17) [noun] A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf. QUEAN (14) [noun] A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute. | [noun] A young woman, a girl; a daughter. QUEEN (14) [noun] A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria. | [noun] The wife or widow of a king. | [noun] The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. QUEER (14) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity. QUELL (14) [noun] A subduing. | [verb] To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit. | [verb] To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. | [noun] A source, especially a spring. QUERN (14) [noun] A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones. | [verb] To grind; to use a quern. QUERY (17) [noun] A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK). | [noun] A question mark. | [noun] A set of instructions passed to a database. 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. QUEUE (14) [noun] An animal's tail. | [noun] A men's hairstyle whose primary attribute is a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China. | [noun] A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back). QUEYS (17) QUICK (20) [noun] Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails. | [noun] Plants used in making a quickset hedge | [noun] The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling. QUIDS (15) [noun] The inherent nature of something. | [noun] A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid). | [noun] A sovereign or guinea. QUIET (14) [noun] The absence of sound; quietness. | [noun] The absence of movement; stillness, tranquility | [verb] To become quiet, silent, still, tranquil, calm. QUIFF (20) [noun] (British dialect) A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke. | [noun] A trick or ploy; a stratagem. | [noun] A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s. | [noun] A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute. QUILL (14) [noun] The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs. | [noun] A pen made from a feather. | [noun] Any pen. 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. QUINS (14) [noun] A quintuplet. | [noun] A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food. 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 QUIPS (16) [noun] A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe. | [verb] To make a quip. | [verb] To taunt; to treat with quips. QUIPU (16) [noun] A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords. QUIRE (14) [noun] One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold. | [noun] A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures. | [noun] A book, poem, or pamphlet. | [noun] A choir. QUIRK (18) [noun] An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone | [noun] An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit | [noun] A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge. QUIRT (14) [noun] A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide. | [verb] To strike with a quirt. QUITE (14) [adverb] (heading) To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely. | [adverb] (heading) In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually. | [adverb] To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather. | [noun] A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull. QUITS (14) [verb] To pay (a debt, fine etc.). | [verb] To repay (someone) for (something). | [verb] To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.). | [noun] Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America. QUODS (15) QUOIN (14) [noun] Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks. | [noun] The keystone of an arch. | [noun] A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place. QUOIT (14) [noun] A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits. | [noun] A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits. | [noun] The flat stone covering a cromlech. QUOTA (14) [noun] A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. | [noun] A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal. | [noun] A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity. QUOTE (14) [noun] A quotation; a statement attributed to a person. | [noun] A quotation mark. | [noun] A summary of work to be done with a set price. QUOTH (17) [verb] To say or declare. | [verb] (defective, modal, auxiliary) to say QURSH (17) [noun] A monetary unit in Saudi Arabia equivalent to a twentieth of a rial. RAMUS (7) [noun] A small spray or twig. | [noun] A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels. | [noun] The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend. REBUS (7) [noun] A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. | [noun] A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. | [verb] To mark or indicate by a rebus. REBUT (7) [verb] To drive back or beat back; to repulse. | [verb] To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it. REBUY (10) RECUR (7) [verb] To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc. | [verb] To happen again. | [verb] To recurse. RECUT (7) [verb] To cut again REDUB (8) REDUX (13) [adjective] (of a topic) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited. RERUN (5) [noun] A television program shown after its initial presentation — particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat. | [noun] Another printing run (impression; batch of copies of a given edition) of a book, cartoon, etc. | [noun] A political candidate who holds the same political agenda or doctrine as a past or incumbent holder of a given political office. REUSE (5) [noun] The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable. | [noun] The act of using again, or in another place. | [verb] To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else). REVUE (8) [noun] A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied. Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs. RHEUM (10) [noun] Watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease. | [noun] Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism. | [noun] Tears. RHUMB (12) [noun] A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle | [noun] One of the 32 points of the compass (compass points) | [noun] A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32 of a circle or 11.25° RISUS (5) ROGUE (6) [noun] A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person. | [noun] A mischievous scamp. | [noun] A vagrant. ROQUE (14) [noun] A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard surface ROUEN (5) ROUES (5) ROUGE (6) [noun] Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher. | [noun] Any reddish pink colour. | [noun] A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored. (This scoring term is not often used in Canada, with the term single being more commonly used.) ROUGH (9) [noun] The unmowed part of a golf course. | [noun] A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. | [noun] A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce. ROUND (6) [adverb] So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof. | [adverb] So as to surround or be near. | [adverb] Nearly; approximately; about. | [verb] To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel. | [noun] A whisper; whispering. ROUPS (7) [noun] An outcry. | [noun] A sale of goods by auction. | [verb] To cry or shout. ROUPY (10) ROUSE (5) [noun] An arousal. | [noun] The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse. | [verb] To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy. | [noun] An official ceremony over drinks. ROUST (5) [noun] A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. | [verb] To rout out of bed; to rouse | [verb] To harass, to treat in a rough way. ROUTE (5) [noun] A course or way which is traveled or passed. | [noun] A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation. | [noun] A road or path; often specifically a highway. | [verb] To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. ROUTH (8) ROUTS (5) [noun] A noise, especially a loud one | [noun] A disturbance; tumult. | [noun] Snoring. RUANA (5) RUBES (7) [noun] A person of rural heritage; a yokel. | [noun] An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person. RUBLE (7) [noun] The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: копе́йка, Belarusian: капе́йка). The Russian ruble's symbol is ₽. RUBUS (7) RUCHE (10) [noun] A strip of fabric which has been fluted or pleated. | [noun] A small ruff of fluted or pleated fabric worn at neck or wrist. | [noun] A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn. RUCKS (11) [noun] An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend. | [noun] Rocuronium. | [noun] A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack. RUDDS (7) RUDDY (10) [noun] A ruddy duck. | [noun] A ruddy ground dove. | [verb] To make reddish in colour. RUDER (6) [adjective] Bad-mannered. | [adjective] Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive. | [adjective] Tough, robust. RUERS (5) RUFFE (11) [noun] Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish. | [noun] Other species in the same genus. RUFFS (11) [noun] A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s). | [noun] Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill. | [noun] Senses relating to animals. RUGAE (6) RUGAL (6) RUGBY (11) [noun] (usually uncountable) A form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar. | [noun] A loose fitting shirt with a collar, as worn by rugby players. | [noun] Rubber cement, contact cement. RUING (6) [verb] To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. | [verb] To cause to feel sorrow or pity. | [verb] To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place. RUINS (5) [noun] (sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle. | [noun] The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed. | [noun] Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction. RULED (6) [verb] To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over. | [verb] To excel. | [verb] To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines). RULER (5) [noun] A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a straightedge with markings. | [noun] A person who rules or governs; someone or something that exercises dominion or controlling power over others. | [verb] To beat with a ruler (as a traditional school punishment). RULES (5) [noun] A regulation, law, guideline. | [noun] A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure. | [noun] A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing. RUMBA (9) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba RUMEN (7) [noun] The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants. RUMMY (12) [noun] A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong. | [noun] A rum-drinking alcoholic. | [adjective] Resembling or tasting of rum. RUMOR (7) [noun] A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth. | [noun] Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims. | [verb] (usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip. RUMPS (9) [noun] The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs | [noun] A cut of meat from the rump of an animal. | [noun] The buttocks. RUNES (5) [noun] A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons. | [noun] A Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala. | [noun] A letter or mark used as mystical or magic symbol. RUNGS (6) [noun] A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round. | [noun] A crosspiece between legs of a chair. | [noun] A position in a hierarchy. RUNIC (7) RUNNY (8) [adjective] Fluid; capable of flowing. | [adjective] Liable to run or drip. RUNTS (5) [noun] The smallest animal of a litter. | [noun] (by extension) The smallest child in the family. | [noun] Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person. RUNTY (8) RUPEE (7) [noun] The common name for the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka, often abbreviated ₨. | [noun] A silver coin circulating in India between the 16th and 20th centuries, weighing one tola (formerly 170–180 troy grains; from 1833, 180 troy grains). RURAL (5) [noun] A person from the countryside; a rustic. | [adjective] Relating to the countryside or to agriculture. RUSES (5) [noun] A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs. | [noun] (by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick. | [noun] Cunning, guile, trickery. RUSHY (11) RUSKS (9) [noun] A rectangular, hard, dry biscuit | [noun] A twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback) | [noun] A weaning food for children RUSTS (5) [noun] The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation. | [noun] A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust"). | [noun] A reddish-brown color. RUSTY (8) [adjective] Marked or corroded by rust. | [adjective] Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown. | [adjective] Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity. | [adjective] Discolored and rancid; reasty. RUTHS (8) RUTIN (5) [noun] A flavonoid, found in many plants, that is a glycoside of quercetin and rutinose. RUTTY (8) SADHU (9) [noun] An ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (enjoyment), artha (practical objectives) and even dharma (duty). SAGUM (8) SAJOU (12) SAUCE (7) [noun] A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food. | [noun] Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in: | [noun] (usually “the”) Alcohol, booze. SAUCH (10) SAUCY (10) [adjective] Similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce. | [adjective] Impertinent or disrespectful, often in a manner that is regarded as entertaining or amusing; smart. | [adjective] Impudently bold; pert. SAUGH (9) SAULS (5) SAULT (5) SAUNA (5) [noun] A room or a house designed for heat sessions. | [noun] The act of using a sauna. | [noun] A public sauna; a front for a brothel in some countries. SAURY (8) [noun] A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins. SAUTE (5) [verb] To cook (food) using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat, allowing the food to brown and form a crust stopping it from sticking to the pan as it cooks. SCAUP (9) [noun] The top of the head; the skull. | [noun] The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. | [noun] A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory. SCAUR (7) [noun] A steep cliff or bank. SCHUL (10) SCOUR (7) [noun] The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water. | [noun] A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a waterfall. | [noun] A place where wool is washed to remove grease and impurities prior to processing. | [verb] To search an area thoroughly. 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. SCRUB (9) [noun] One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. | [noun] One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. | [noun] A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant | [noun] An instance of scrubbing. SCRUM (9) [noun] A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people. | [noun] Specifically used in the Canadian media to describe a tightly-packed group of reporters surrounding a member of the Canadian House of Commons while in the Parliament Buildings. | [noun] In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way. Also known as a scrummage. SCUBA (9) [noun] (underwater diving) An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater. | [verb] To perform scuba diving. SCUDI (8) [noun] A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries. | [noun] A former unit of currency in Malta, now the official currency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. | [noun] A unit of currency in 19th-century Bolivia, equal to 16 soles. SCUDO (8) [noun] A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries. | [noun] A former unit of currency in Malta, now the official currency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. | [noun] A unit of currency in 19th-century Bolivia, equal to 16 soles. SCUDS (8) [noun] The act of scudding. | [noun] Clouds or rain driven by the wind. | [noun] A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer. SCUFF (13) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A mark left by scuffing or scraping. | [verb] To scrape the feet while walking. | [verb] To hit lightly, to brush against. | [noun] A scurf; a scale. SCULK (11) SCULL (7) [noun] A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward. | [noun] One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower. | [noun] A small rowing boat, for one person. | [noun] A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever. | [noun] A shoal of fish. | [noun] The skua gull. SCULP (9) [verb] (sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave. | [verb] To flay. SCUMS (9) [noun] A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water). | [noun] A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds | [noun] The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank. SCUPS (9) SCURF (10) [noun] A skin disease. | [noun] The flakes of skin that fall off as a result of a skin disease. | [noun] Any crust-like formations on the skin, or in general. | [noun] A grey bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus). SCUTA (7) [noun] A scutum. SCUTE (7) [noun] A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles. | [noun] A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs | [noun] A small shield. SCUTS (7) [noun] A hare; a hare as the game in a hunt. | [noun] A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer. | [noun] (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva. SEBUM (9) [noun] A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris. SEDUM (8) [noun] Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop SEGUE (6) [noun] An instance of segueing, a transition. | [verb] To move smoothly from one state or subject to another. | [verb] To make a smooth transition from one theme to another. SERUM (7) [noun] The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. | [noun] Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum. | [noun] A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. SETUP (7) [noun] Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus. | [noun] The fashion in which something is organized or arranged. | [noun] A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody. SHAUL (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. SHOYU (11) [noun] A dark form of soy sauce SHRUB (10) [noun] A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base. | [verb] To lop; to prune. | [verb] (Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation. | [noun] A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur. SHRUG (9) [noun] A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge. | [noun] A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted. | [verb] To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc. SHUCK (14) [noun] The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts). | [noun] A fraud; a scam. | [noun] A phony. SHULN (8) SHULS (8) [noun] The synagogue. SHUNS (8) [verb] To avoid, especially persistently. | [verb] To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc). | [verb] To screen, hide. 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. SHUSH (11) [verb] To be quiet; to keep quiet. | [verb] To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying shh. SHUTE (8) SHUTS (8) [noun] The act or time of shutting; close. | [noun] A door or cover; a shutter. | [noun] The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together. SIEUR (5) SINUS (5) [noun] A pouch or cavity in any organ or tissue, especially the paranasal sinus. | [noun] A channel for transmitting venous blood. | [noun] A notch or depression between two lobes or teeth in the margin of an organ. SIRUP (7) [noun] Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring. | [noun] (by extension) Any viscous liquid. | [noun] (shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig. SITUP (7) SITUS (5) [noun] The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant. | [noun] The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged. | [noun] The location of a property as used for taxation or other legal purposes. SKUAS (9) [noun] Any of various predatory seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that often chase other seabirds to steal their catches. SKULK (13) [noun] A group of foxes. | [noun] A group of people seen as being fox-like (e.g. cunning, dishonest, or having nefarious plans). | [noun] The act of skulking. SKULL (9) [noun] The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible. | [noun] A symbol for death; death's-head | [noun] The mind or brain. | [noun] (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales. SKUNK (13) [noun] Any of various small mammals, of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure. | [noun] A despicable person. | [noun] A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score. Compare shutout. | [noun] A member of a hybrid skinhead and punk subculture. | [noun] Any of the strains of hybrids of Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica that may have THC levels exceeding those of typical hashish. SLUBS (7) [noun] A small thickened portion or knot found on linen yarn, caused by defects. | [noun] Fabric fiber produced by slubbing. | [verb] To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning. SLUED (6) [adjective] Somewhat drunk; tipsy. | [verb] To rotate something on an axis. | [verb] To turn something sharply. SLUES (5) [noun] The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued. | [noun] A slough; a run or wet place. SLUFF (11) SLUGS (6) [noun] Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. | [noun] A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. | [noun] A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. SLUMP (9) [noun] A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period. | [noun] A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed. | [noun] A boggy place. SLUMS (7) [noun] A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty. | [noun] Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game. | [verb] To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own. SLUNG (6) [verb] To throw with a circular or arcing motion. | [verb] To throw with a sling. | [verb] To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle. SLUNK (9) [verb] To sneak about furtively. | [verb] To give birth to an animal prematurely. | [noun] An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively. SLURB (7) SLURP (7) [noun] A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking | [noun] A mouthful of liquid | [verb] To eat or drink noisily. SLURS (5) [noun] An insult or slight. | [noun] A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation. | [noun] The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie). SLUSH (8) [noun] Half-melted snow or ice. | [noun] Liquid mud or mire. | [noun] Flavored shaved ice served as a drink. SLUTS (5) [noun] A sexually promiscuous woman or girl. | [noun] Any sexually promiscuous person, often a gay man. | [noun] Someone who seeks attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree. SMUTS (7) [noun] Soot. | [noun] A flake of ash or soot. | [noun] Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. SNAFU (8) [noun] A ridiculously chaotic situation. | [noun] A major glitch or breakdown. | [verb] To screw up or foul up. 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. SNUBS (7) [noun] A deliberate affront or slight. | [noun] A sudden checking of a cable or rope. | [noun] A knot; a protuberance; a snag. SNUCK (11) [verb] To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen. | [verb] To take something stealthily without permission. | [verb] (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something. SNUFF (11) [noun] Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose. | [noun] Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue; see also snus. | [noun] A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco. | [noun] The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which must be periodically removed). | [verb] To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated. SNUGS (6) [noun] A small, comfortable back room in a pub. | [noun] A lug. | [verb] To make secure or snug. SOLUM (7) SOLUS (5) [adjective] Alone, unaccompanied (as a stage direction) SORUS (5) [noun] Any reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungi, that produces spores. | [noun] A cluster of sporangia on the edge or underside of a fern frond. SOUGH (9) [noun] A murmuring sound; rushing, rustling, or whistling sound. | [noun] A gentle breeze; a waft; a breath. | [noun] A (deep) sigh. | [noun] A small drain; an adit. SOUKS (9) [noun] A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods. SOULS (5) [noun] The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death. | [noun] The spirit or essence of anything. | [noun] Life, energy, vigor. SOUND (6) [adjective] Healthy. | [adjective] Complete, solid, or secure. | [adjective] Having the property of soundness. | [noun] A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. | [noun] A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean. | [noun] An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde. SOUPS (7) [noun] Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture. | [noun] Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. | [verb] To feed: to provide with soup or a meal. SOUPY (10) [adjective] Resembling soup; creamy. | [adjective] Extravagant sentimental; slushy. SOURS (5) [noun] The sensation of a sour taste. | [noun] A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar. | [noun] (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice. SOUSE (5) [noun] Something kept or steeped in brine | [noun] The act of sousing; a plunging into water. | [noun] A person suffering from alcoholism. | [noun] The act of sousing, or swooping. | [noun] A sou (the French coin). SOUTH (8) [noun] One of the four major compass points, specifically 180°, directed toward the South Pole, and conventionally downwards on a map, abbreviated as S. | [noun] The side of a church on the right hand of a person facing the altar. | [verb] To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south. SOYUZ (17) 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. SPRUE (7) [noun] A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis. | [noun] (founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. | [noun] (founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold. SPRUG (8) SPUDS (8) [noun] A potato. | [noun] A hole in a sock. | [noun] A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends. SPUED (8) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SPUES (7) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SPUME (9) [noun] Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater. | [verb] To froth. SPUMY (12) SPUNK (11) [noun] A spark. | [noun] Touchwood; tinder. | [noun] A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match. SPURN (7) [noun] An act of spurning; a scornful rejection. | [noun] A kick; a blow with the foot. | [noun] Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment. SPURS (7) [verb] To ask, to inquire | [noun] A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight. | [noun] A jab given with the spurs. SPURT (7) [noun] A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound. | [noun] Ejaculation of semen. | [noun] A shoot; a bud. | [noun] A moment, a short period of time. SPUTA (7) SQUAB (16) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken. | [noun] The meat of such a baby bird used as food. | [noun] A baby rook. SQUAD (15) [noun] A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members. | [noun] One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps. | [verb] To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad. | [noun] Sloppy mud. 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). SQUAW (17) [noun] A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman. SQUEG (15) SQUIB (16) [noun] A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode. | [noun] A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc. | [noun] A kind of slow match or safety fuse. SQUID (15) [noun] Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles | [noun] A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid. | [noun] (mildly) A sailor in the Navy. | [noun] A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear. STOUP (7) [noun] A bucket. | [noun] A mug or drinking vessel. | [noun] A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church. STOUR (5) [adjective] (now rare outside dialectal) Tall; large; stout. | [adjective] (now rare outside dialectal) Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy. | [adjective] (now rare outside dialectal) Bold; audacious. | [noun] A stake. | [verb] To move; stir. STOUT (5) [noun] A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain. | [noun] An obese person. | [noun] A large clothing size. | [noun] Gnat. STRUM (7) [noun] The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously. | [noun] The act of strumming. | [verb] To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously. STRUT (5) [noun] Protuberance, air pressure | [verb] To swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out. | [verb] (originally said of fowl) To stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out. | [noun] A proud step or walk, with the head erect; affected dignity in walking. | [adjective] Swelling out; protuberant; bulging. | [noun] A support rod. STUBS (7) [noun] Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump. | [noun] A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes. | [noun] A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. STUCK (11) [verb] To become or remain attached; to adhere. | [verb] To jam; to stop moving. | [verb] To tolerate, to endure, to stick with. | [noun] A thrust. STUDS (6) [noun] A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding. | [noun] A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding. | [noun] (also by extension) A group of such animals. STUDY (9) [verb] (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination. | [verb] (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject. | [verb] To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice. | [noun] Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning. STUFF (11) [noun] Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects. | [noun] Unspecified things or matters. | [noun] The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object. STULL (5) STUMP (9) [noun] The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. | [noun] The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting. | [noun] A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration. STUMS (7) [noun] Unfermented grape juice; must. | [noun] Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must. | [verb] To ferment. STUNG (6) [verb] To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both. | [verb] (of an insect) To bite. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain. STUNK (9) [verb] To have a strong bad smell. | [verb] To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. | [verb] To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth. STUNS (5) [noun] The condition of being stunned. | [noun] That which stuns; a shock; a stupefying blow. | [noun] A person who lacks intelligence. STUNT (5) [noun] A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills. | [noun] Skill | [noun] A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line. | [noun] A check in growth. STUPA (7) [noun] A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha. | [noun] A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge). STUPE (7) [noun] A stupid person or (rarely) thing. | [noun] A hot, wet medicated cloth or sponge applied externally. | [verb] To foment with such a cloth or sponge. STURT (5) SUAVE (8) [noun] Sweet talk. | [adjective] Charming, confident and elegant. SUBAH (10) SUBAS (7) SUBER (7) SUCKS (11) [noun] An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling. | [noun] Milk drawn from the breast. | [noun] A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser. SUCRE (7) [noun] The former currency of Ecuador, divided into 100 centavos. SUDDS (7) SUDOR (6) SUDSY (9) SUEDE (6) [noun] A type of soft leather, made from calfskin, with a brushed texture to resemble fabric, often used to make boots, clothing and fashion accessories. | [verb] To make (leather) into suede. | [adjective] Made of suede SUERS (5) SUETS (5) SUETY (8) SUGAR (6) [noun] Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink. | [noun] A specific variety of sugar. | [noun] Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy. SUGHS (9) SUING (6) [verb] To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action. | [verb] To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. | [verb] (of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.). | [noun] The act of one who sues for something. SUINT (5) [noun] A substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. SUITE (5) [noun] A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage | [noun] A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together | [noun] A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access. SUITS (5) [noun] A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman. | [noun] (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit. | [noun] (metonym) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor. SULCI (7) [noun] A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue. | [noun] Any of the grooves that mark the convolutions of the surface of the brain. | [noun] A region of subparallel grooves or ditches formed by a geological process. SULFA (8) [noun] A sulfonamide or sulfanilamide. | [adjective] Of or containing sulfonamide or sulfanilamide. SULFO (8) SULKS (9) [noun] A state of sulking. | [verb] To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn. | [noun] A furrow. SULKY (12) [noun] A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing. | [noun] Any carriage seating only the driver. | [adjective] Silent and withdrawn after being upset SULLY (8) [noun] A blemish. | [verb] To soil or stain; to dirty. | [verb] To corrupt or damage. SULUS (5) [noun] An all-purpose skirt-like garment worn by men and women in Fiji. SUMAC (9) [noun] Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the elm-leaved sumac, Sicilian sumac, or tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria). | [noun] Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly the tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes. | [noun] A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac. SUMMA (9) [noun] A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy. SUMOS (7) [noun] A stylised Japanese form of wrestling in which a wrestler loses if he is forced from the ring, or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground. | [noun] A rikishi (sumo wrestler) SUMPS (9) [noun] A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink. | [noun] The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains. | [noun] A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving. SUNNA (5) SUNNS (5) SUNNY (8) [noun] A sunfish. | [adjective] (of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine. | [adjective] (of a place) Receiving a lot of sunshine. SUNUP (7) [noun] The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon. | [noun] The change in color of the sky at sunup. SUPER (7) [adjective] Of excellent quality, superfine. | [adjective] Better than average, better than usual; wonderful. | [adverb] Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-). | [noun] Short for superannuation. SUPES (7) SUPRA (7) [adverb] Used to indicate that the current citation is from the same source as the previous one. | [noun] A traditional Georgian feast. SURAH (8) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. | [noun] Soft twilled silk SURAL (5) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg. SURAS (5) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. SURDS (6) [noun] An irrational number, especially one expressed using the √ symbol. | [noun] A voiceless consonant. SURER (5) [adjective] Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable. | [adjective] Certain in one's knowledge or belief. | [adjective] Certain to act or be a specified way. SURFS (8) [noun] Waves that break on an ocean shoreline. | [noun] An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf. | [noun] The bottom of a drain. SURFY (11) SURGE (6) [noun] A sudden transient rush, flood or increase. | [noun] The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation | [noun] A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current. SURGY (9) SURLY (8) [adjective] Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly. | [adjective] Threatening, menacing, gloomy. | [adjective] Lordly, arrogant, supercilious. SURRA (5) [noun] A disease of vertebrate animals caused by protozoan trypanosomes, involving fever, weakness, and lethargy. SUSHI (8) [noun] A Japanese dish made of small portions of sticky white rice flavored with vinegar, usually wrapped in seaweed and filled or topped with fish, vegetables or meat. | [noun] Raw fish, especially as a Japanese dish. SUTRA (5) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SUTTA (5) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SWOUN (8) SWUNG (9) [verb] To rotate about an off-centre fixed point. | [verb] To dance. | [verb] To ride on a swing. SYRUP (10) [noun] Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring. | [noun] (by extension) Any viscous liquid. | [noun] (shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig. TABUN (7) [noun] An extremely toxic nerve agent; a clear, tasteless liquid, molecular formula C5H11N2O2P. | [noun] A clay oven, shaped like a truncated cone, with an opening at the bottom for stoking the fire. TABUS (7) [noun] An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. | [noun] (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. TALUK (9) [noun] A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district. TALUS (5) [noun] The bone of the ankle. | [noun] A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice. | [noun] The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top. TAUNT (5) [noun] A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery | [verb] To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner. | [adjective] Very high or tall. TAUPE (7) [noun] A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin. | [adjective] Of a dark brownish-grey colour. TAUTS (5) TAXUS (12) TEGUA (6) TEUCH (10) TEUGH (9) THOUS (8) THRUM (10) [noun] A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. | [noun] A spicy taste; a tang. | [verb] To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking. | [noun] The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut. THUDS (9) [noun] The sound of a dull impact. | [noun] Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter. THUGS (9) [noun] Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire. | [noun] One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her. | [noun] In gardening, an over-vigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed. THUJA (15) [noun] A tree of the genus Thuja. THUMB (12) [noun] The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers. | [noun] The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider. | [noun] A thumbnail picture. THUMP (12) [noun] A blow that produces a muffled sound. | [noun] The sound of such a blow; a thud. | [noun] Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases. THUNK (12) [verb] To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound. | [interjection] Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact. | [noun] (functional programming) A delayed computation. THURL (8) THUYA (11) [noun] Any member of the genus Thuya. TOFUS (8) TOGUE (6) TOLUS (5) TONUS (5) [noun] Tonicity; tone TOQUE (14) [noun] A type of hat with no brim. | [noun] (specifically) A tall white hat with no brim of the sort worn by chefs | [noun] (by extension) A chef. | [noun] A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel. | [noun] A rhythm used in Latin music, especially Cuban religious rituals. TORUS (5) [noun] A topological space which is a product of two circles. | [noun] The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a shape consisting of a ring with a circular cross-section: the shape of an inner tube or hollow doughnut. | [noun] (in combination, n-torus, 4-torus, etc.) The product of the specified number of circles. TOUCH (10) TOUGH (9) [noun] A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully. | [verb] To endure. | [verb] To toughen. TOURS (5) [noun] A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc. | [noun] A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place. | [noun] A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts. TOUSE (5) TOUTS (5) [noun] Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. | [noun] A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win. | [noun] A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar. 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. TRUCE (7) [noun] A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties | [noun] An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time TRUCK (11) [noun] A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage. | [noun] The ball on top of a flagpole. | [noun] On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck". | [verb] To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate. | [verb] To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down). | [noun] (often in the plural) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter. TRUED (6) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. TRUER (5) [adjective] (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct. | [adjective] Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate. | [adjective] Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result. TRUES (5) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. TRUGS (6) [noun] A shallow, oval basket used for gardening | [noun] A trough or tray. | [noun] A hod for mortar. TRULL (5) [noun] A female prostitute or harlot. | [noun] A set of three special trump cards used in some Tarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps. TRULY (8) [adverb] (manner) In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately. | [adverb] (modal) Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really. | [adverb] (degree) Very. TRUMP (9) [noun] The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others. | [noun] A playing card of that suit. | [noun] Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve. | [noun] A trumpet. | [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones. TRUNK (9) [noun] (heading, biological) Part of a body. | [noun] (heading) A container. | [noun] (heading) A channel for flow of some kind. TRUSS (5) [noun] A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place. | [noun] A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge. | [noun] A triangular bracket. TRUST (5) [noun] Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality. | [noun] Dependence upon something in the future; hope. | [noun] Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit. TRUTH (8) [noun] True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality. | [noun] Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy. | [noun] The state or quality of being true to someone or something. TSUBA (7) [noun] The guard at the end of the grip of a sword. TUBAE (7) TUBAL (7) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a tube, especially an anatomical one TUBAS (7) [noun] A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys. | [noun] A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba. | [noun] A large reed stop in organs. TUBBY (12) [noun] (often used teasingly) An overweight person. | [adjective] Stout, rotund | [adjective] Resembling a tub; sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound. TUBED (8) [verb] To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. | [verb] To ride an inner tube. | [verb] To intubate. TUBER (7) [noun] A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot. | [noun] A thickened rootstock. | [noun] A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body. TUBES (7) [noun] Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. | [noun] An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances. | [noun] (often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.) TUCKS (11) [noun] An act of tucking; a pleat or fold. | [noun] A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece. | [noun] A curled position. TUFAS (8) TUFFS (11) TUFTS (8) [noun] A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base. | [noun] A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding. | [noun] A small clump of trees or bushes. TUFTY (11) TULES (5) [noun] Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus | [noun] A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin TULIP (7) [noun] A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa. | [noun] The flower of this plant. TULLE (5) [noun] A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc. TUMID (8) [adjective] Swollen, enlarged, bulging | [adjective] Cancerous, unhealthy | [adjective] Pompous, bombastic TUMMY (12) [noun] (often childish) Stomach or belly. | [noun] Protruding belly, paunch. TUMOR (7) [noun] An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia. TUMPS (9) [noun] A mound or hillock. | [noun] A tumpline. TUNAS (5) [noun] Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae. | [noun] The edible flesh of the tuna. | [noun] The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia. TUNED (6) [verb] To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches. | [verb] To adjust or modify (esp. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally. | [verb] To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel. TUNER (5) [noun] A person who tunes a piano or organ. | [noun] A device, electronic or mechanical, that helps a person tune a musical instrument by showing the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch. | [noun] On a musical instrument, a peg or mechanical device that changes the tension, and hence pitch, of a string. | [noun] (entertainment industry) A musical. TUNES (5) [noun] A melody. | [noun] A song, or short musical composition. | [noun] The act of tuning or maintenance. TUNGS (6) TUNIC (7) [noun] A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles. | [noun] Any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane. TUNNY (8) [noun] Tuna. TUPIK (11) [noun] A tent or other building made from animal skins, used by the Inuit during the summer. TUQUE (14) [noun] A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel. | [noun] A watch cap. TURBO (7) [noun] Turbocharger. | [noun] Turbojet. | [noun] Turbomolecular pump. | [noun] A turban shell. TURDS (6) [noun] (mildly) A piece of solid animal or human feces. | [noun] A worthless person or thing. TURFS (8) [noun] A layer of earth covered with grass; sod. | [noun] A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc. | [noun] A sod of peat used as fuel. TURFY (11) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or constructed of turf. | [adjective] Relating to or involved with horses or horse-racing. TURKS (9) TURNS (5) [verb] (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement. | [verb] (heading) To change condition or attitude. | [verb] To change one's course of action; to take a new approach. TURPS (7) [noun] Turpentine or turpentine substitute. | [noun] Any alcoholic drink. TUSHY (11) [noun] Buttocks, bottom TUSKS (9) [noun] One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar. | [noun] A small projection on a (tusk) tenon. | [noun] A tusk shell. TUTEE (5) [noun] A student of a tutor. TUTOR (5) [noun] One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction. | [noun] A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall. | [noun] One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian. TUTTI (5) [noun] A passage in which all members of an orchestra are playing | [adjective] All together; with all playing at once. | [adverb] All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage with a reduced number of voices. TUTTY (8) TUTUS (5) [noun] A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting. | [noun] Any of the genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand. TUXES (12) [noun] A tuxedo. TUYER (8) UDDER (7) [noun] An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer. | [noun] (impolite) A woman's breast. UHLAN (8) [noun] A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian/German, Austrian, and Russian armies. UKASE (9) [noun] An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor. | [noun] Any absolutist order or arrogant proclamation ULAMA (7) [noun] A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli. | [noun] The devil bird (an avian cryptid of Sri Lanka) ULANS (5) ULCER (7) [noun] An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection. | [noun] Peptic ulcer | [noun] Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character. ULEMA (7) [noun] An educated scholar of Islamic law; a member of the ulema class ULNAD (6) ULNAE (5) [noun] The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate. ULNAR (5) ULNAS (5) [noun] The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate. ULPAN (7) ULTRA (5) [noun] An ultraroyalist in France. | [noun] An extremist, especially an ultranationalist. | [noun] An especially devoted football fan, typically associated with the intimidating use of extremist slogans, pyrotechnics and sometimes hooligan violence. ULVAS (8) UMBEL (9) [noun] A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre. UMBER (9) [noun] A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides. | [noun] A grayling. | [noun] A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop. UMBOS (9) [noun] A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane. For example the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear. | [noun] One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell. | [noun] A bump or protrusion on the top of the cap. UMBRA (9) [noun] The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. | [noun] The central region of a sunspot. | [noun] A shadow. UMIAC (9) UMIAK (11) [noun] A large, open boat made of skins stretched over a wooden frame that is propelled by paddles; used by the Eskimos for transportation. UMIAQ (16) UMPED (10) [verb] To act as an umpire. UNAIS (5) UNAPT (7) [adjective] Not apt, inappropriate, unsuited. | [adjective] Unaccustomed. UNARM (7) [verb] To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from. | [verb] To remove one's armour. UNARY (8) [noun] The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system. | [noun] Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers. | [adjective] Consisting of or involving a single element or component. UNAUS (5) UNBAN (7) [verb] To lift a ban against. UNBAR (7) [verb] To remove an impediment that obstructs the passage of (someone or something). | [verb] To remove a prohibition. | [verb] To unlock or unbolt a door that had been locked or bolted with a bar. UNBID (8) UNBOX (14) [verb] To remove from a box. | [verb] To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed. UNCAP (9) [verb] To remove a cap or cover from. | [verb] To take off one's cap. UNCIA (7) UNCLE (7) [noun] The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The male cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A companion to one's (usually unmarried) mother. UNCOS (7) UNCOY (10) UNCUS (7) 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. UNDEE (6) UNDER (6) [adjective] Being lower; being beneath something. | [adjective] Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated. | [adverb] In a way lower or less than. UNDID (7) [verb] To reverse the effects of an action. | [verb] To unfasten. | [verb] To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of. UNDUE (6) [adjective] Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient. | [adjective] That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified. | [adjective] (of a payment etc) Not owing or payable. UNFED (9) [noun] A mosquito that has not had a blood meal. | [adjective] Not fed. | [adjective] Unsupported. 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. UNFIX (15) UNGOT (6) UNHAT (8) UNHIP (10) [adjective] Not hip; uncool, unfashionable. UNIFY (11) [verb] Cause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine. | [verb] Become one. UNION (5) [noun] The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one. | [noun] The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony. | [noun] That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league. UNITE (5) [noun] A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, first produced during the reign of King James I, and bearing a legend indicating the king's intention of uniting the kingdoms of England and Scotland. | [verb] To bring together as one. | [verb] To come together as one. UNITS (5) [noun] A particular, minute unit of mass, defined differently for different substances, but so that varying substances of the same general type have the property that one international unit of the one has the same effect on the human body as one international unit of the other. | [noun] Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one. | [noun] A standard measure of a quantity. UNITY (8) [noun] Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity. | [noun] Agreement; harmony. | [noun] A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself. UNLAY (8) [verb] To untwist. UNLED (6) UNLET (5) [adjective] (of property) Not let (not in temporary possession in return for rent) UNLIT (5) [adjective] Not lit UNMAN (7) [verb] To castrate; to remove the manhood of. | [verb] To sap (a person) of the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation. | [verb] To deprive of men. UNMET (7) [adjective] Not met; unfulfilled; not achieved UNMEW (10) UNMIX (14) UNPEG (8) [verb] To remove from a peg. UNPEN (7) UNPIN (7) [verb] To unfasten by removing a pin. | [verb] To detach (an icon, application, etc.) from the place where it was previously pinned. | [verb] To get out of a pin UNRIG (6) [verb] To remove the rigging from (a vessel, etc.). | [verb] To disable. | [verb] To undress (someone). UNRIP (7) [verb] To open something by ripping/tearing. UNSAY (8) [verb] To withdraw, retract (something said). | [verb] To not have said (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive). UNSET (5) [verb] To make not set. | [adjective] Not set; not fixed or appointed. | [adjective] Not mounted or placed in a setting. UNSEW (8) UNSEX (12) [verb] To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics. | [verb] To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate. UNTIE (5) [verb] To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of. | [verb] To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. | [verb] To resolve; to unfold; to clear. UNTIL (5) [preposition] Up to the time of (something happening). | [preposition] Up to (a certain place) | [preposition] Before (a time). UNWED (9) [noun] One who is not married; a bachelor or a spinster. | [verb] To annul the marriage of. | [verb] To separate. UNWIT (8) UNWON (8) UNZIP (16) [verb] To open something using a zipper. | [verb] To come open by means of a zipper. | [verb] To decompress (a zip file). UPBOW (12) UPBYE (12) UPDOS (8) [noun] A woman's hairdo in which most hair is kept above the neck UPDRY (11) UPEND (8) [verb] To end up; to set on end. | [verb] To tip or turn over. | [verb] To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat. UPLIT (7) UPPED (10) [verb] To increase or raise. | [verb] To promote. | [verb] (usually in combination with another verb) To act suddenly. UPPER (9) [noun] A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite. | [noun] The upper portion of something | [noun] Someone with higher social standing 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. URAEI (5) [noun] A representation of the sacred asp, symbolising supreme power in ancient Egypt. URARE (5) URARI (5) URASE (5) URATE (5) [noun] Any salt of uric acid. URBAN (7) [adjective] Related to the (or any) city. | [adjective] Characteristic of city life. | [adjective] Relating to contemporary African American culture. URBIA (7) UREAL (5) UREAS (5) UREDO (6) UREIC (7) URGED (7) [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. | [verb] To provoke; to exasperate. URGER (6) [noun] One who urges. URGES (6) [noun] A strong desire; an itch to do something. | [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. URIAL (5) [noun] A bearded reddish sheep, subspecies of Ovis orientalis (including Ovis orientalis vignei), previously classified as Ovis vignei, being endemic to southern Asia and believed to be a wild ancestor of domestic sheep. URINE (5) [noun] Liquid waste consisting of water, salts and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra. | [verb] To urinate. URSAE (5) USAGE (6) [noun] The manner or the amount of using; use. | [noun] Habit or accepted practice. | [noun] The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis. USERS (5) [noun] One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser. | [noun] A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs. | [noun] A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account. USHER (8) [noun] A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats. | [noun] A male escort at a wedding. | [noun] A doorkeeper in a courtroom. USING (6) [verb] To utilize or employ. | [verb] To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.) | [verb] (except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.) USNEA (5) USQUE (14) USUAL (5) [noun] The typical state of something, or something that is typical. | [noun] A specific good or service (e.g. a drink) that someone typically orders. | [adjective] Most commonly occurring; typical. USURP (7) [verb] To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means. | [verb] To use and assume the coat of arms of another person. | [verb] To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else. USURY (8) [noun] An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally. | [noun] The practice of lending money at such rates. | [noun] The practice of lending money at interest. UTERI (5) [noun] The womb, an organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth. UTILE (5) [noun] A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction. | [adjective] Useful. UTTER (5) [adjective] Outer; furthest out, most remote. | [adjective] Outward. | [adjective] Absolute, unconditional, total, complete. | [verb] To produce (speech or other sounds) with one's voice. UVEAL (8) UVEAS (8) [noun] The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris. UVULA (8) [noun] The fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing. | [noun] The slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate. | [noun] An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper. VACUA (10) [noun] A region of space that contains no matter. | [noun] (plural only "vacuums") A vacuum cleaner. | [noun] The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc. VAGUE (9) [noun] A wandering; a vagary. | [noun] An indefinite expanse. | [verb] To wander; to roam; to stray. VAGUS (9) VALUE (8) [noun] The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. | [noun] The degree of importance given to something. | [noun] That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system. VARUS (8) [noun] A deformity in which the foot is turned inward. | [noun] Acne. VATUS (8) VAULT (8) [noun] An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building. | [noun] Any arched ceiling or roof. | [noun] Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves. | [noun] An act of vaulting, formerly by deer; a leap or jump. VAUNT (8) [noun] A boast; an instance of vaunting. | [verb] To speak boastfully. | [verb] To speak boastfully about. | [noun] The first part. VELUM (10) [noun] A thin membrane, resembling a veil, such as: | [noun] An accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance. Normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus. VENUE (8) [noun] A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events. | [noun] A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid, or the district from which a jury comes. | [noun] A bout; a hit; a turn. See venew. VERTU (8) [noun] The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities. | [noun] Objets d'art collectively. | [noun] Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power. VIRTU (8) [noun] The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities. | [noun] Objets d'art collectively. | [noun] Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power. VIRUS (8) [noun] A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism. | [noun] A disease caused by these organisms. | [noun] Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc. VODUN (9) [noun] Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana. | [noun] The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo. | [noun] Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem. VOGUE (9) [noun] The prevailing fashion or style. | [noun] Popularity or a current craze. | [noun] A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s. VOUCH (13) [noun] Warrant; attestation. | [verb] To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest. | [verb] To warrant; to maintain by affirmations VROUW (11) [noun] A Dutchwoman. VUGGS (10) VUGGY (13) VUGHS (12) VULGO (9) VULVA (11) [noun] The external female sexual organs, collectively. WAMUS (10) WAUGH (12) WAUKS (12) WAULS (8) [verb] To wail, to cry plaintively. WHAUP (13) [noun] Curlew WHUMP (15) [noun] A thumping sound. | [noun] A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering. | [verb] To strike something with a whump. WOFUL (11) WOULD (9) [noun] Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality. WOUND (9) [noun] An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body. | [noun] A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc. | [noun] An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken. | [verb] To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. WRUNG (9) [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. | [verb] To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it. | [verb] To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force. WURST (8) [noun] A German- or Austrian-style sausage. WUSSY (11) XERUS (12) YAMUN (10) YAUDS (9) YAULD (9) YAUPS (10) YEUKS (12) YEUKY (15) YOUNG (9) [noun] People who are young; young people, collectively; youth. | [noun] Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal). | [noun] (possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism. YOURN (8) [pronoun] (obsolete outside Britain and United States dialectal) Yours. YOURS (8) [pronoun] That which belongs to you (singular); the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun. | [pronoun] That which belongs to you (plural); the possessive second-person plural pronoun used without a following noun. | [pronoun] Written at the end of a letter, before the signature. YOUSE (8) [pronoun] You (plural). | [pronoun] You (singular). YOUTH (11) [noun] The quality or state of being young. | [noun] The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood. | [noun] A young person. YUANS (8) YUCAS (10) [noun] Cassava | [noun] Cassava root YUCCA (12) [noun] Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms. | [noun] The yuca (cassava). YUCCH (15) YUCKS (14) [noun] Something disgusting. | [noun] The sound made by a laugh. | [verb] To itch. YUCKY (17) [adjective] Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust. YUGAS (9) [noun] In Hindu theology, an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years. YULAN (8) [noun] Magnolia denudata, a species of magnolia with large white blossoms that open before the leaves. YULES (8) YUMMY (15) [adjective] (lighthearted) Delicious. | [noun] A mother who is sexually attractive. YUPON (10) YURTA (8) YURTS (8) [noun] A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger). ZEBUS (16) [noun] A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos primigenius indicus).

ABACUS (10) [noun] A table or tray scattered with sand which was used for calculating or drawing. | [noun] A device used for performing arithmetical calculations; a table on which loose counters are placed, or (more commonly) an instrument with beads sliding on rods, or counters in grooves, with one row of beads or counters representing units, the next tens, etc. | [noun] The uppermost portion of the capital of a column immediately under the architrave, in some cases a flat oblong or square slab, in others more decorated. ABDUCE (11) 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. ABJURE (15) [verb] To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow. | [verb] To cause one to renounce or recant. | [verb] To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim. 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. ABLUSH (11) [adjective] Blushing; ruddy. | [adverb] Blushing; ruddy. ABOUND (9) [verb] To be full to overflowing. | [verb] To be wealthy. | [verb] To be highly productive. ABRUPT (10) [noun] Something which is abrupt; an abyss. | [verb] To tear off or asunder. | [verb] To interrupt suddenly. ABSURD (9) [noun] An absurdity. | [noun] (often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence. | [adjective] Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly. ABULIA (8) [noun] Absence of willpower or decisiveness, especially as a symptom of mental illness. ABULIC (10) [adjective] Lacking willpower or the ability to make decisions; characterized by aboulia or absence of will. ABUSED (9) [verb] To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert | [verb] To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly. | [verb] To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage. ABUSER (8) [noun] One who abuses someone or something. | [noun] One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use. ABUSES (8) [noun] Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. | [noun] Misuse; improper use; perversion. | [noun] A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception. ACAJOU (15) [noun] The cashew tree. | [noun] A cashew nut. | [noun] The wood from the mahogany tree or other trees from the family Meliaceae. ACARUS (8) [noun] A mite, especially one of a family of parasitic mites that infest the skin or burrow into it. | [noun] Any of various small arachnids belonging to the order Acari. ACCRUE (10) [noun] Something that accrues; advantage accruing | [verb] To increase, to rise | [verb] To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent. ACCUSE (10) [noun] Accusation. | [verb] To find fault with, blame, censure | [verb] (followed by "of") to charge with having committed a crime or offence ACETUM (10) [noun] Vinegar or a sour liquid, especially vinegar used in medicine or cooking. ACINUS (8) [noun] One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc. | [noun] A grape-stone. | [noun] One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. 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. ACTUAL (8) [noun] An actual, real one; notably: | [adjective] Relating to a person's acts or deeds; active, practical | [adjective] Existing in reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact. ACUATE (8) [verb] To sharpen or make acute; to point or taper. | [adjective] Sharpened; pointed; made acute. ACUITY (11) [noun] Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc. ACULEI (8) [noun] Plural of aculeus; needle-like structures or prickles found on plants or animals. | [noun] In zoology, sharp spines or pointed appendages. ACUMEN (10) [noun] Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. | [noun] A sharp, tapering point extending from a plant. | [noun] A bony, often sharp, protuberance, especially that of the ischium. ACUTER (8) [adjective] More acute; having a sharper point, angle, or severity. | [adjective] More intense or severe in degree or effect. ACUTES (8) [noun] A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia. | [noun] An accent or tone higher than others. | [noun] An acute accent (´). ADDUCE (10) [verb] To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. ADDUCT (10) [noun] The product of an addition reaction. | [verb] To draw towards a center or a middle line. ADIEUS (7) [noun] A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell. ADIEUX (14) [noun] A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell. ADJURE (14) [verb] To issue a formal command. | [verb] To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly. ADJUST (14) [verb] To modify. | [verb] To improve or rectify. | [verb] To settle an insurance claim. ADNOUN (7) ADULTS (7) [noun] A fully grown human or animal. | [noun] A person who has reached the legal age of majority. ADYTUM (12) [noun] The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given. | [noun] (by extension) A private chamber; a sanctum. ADZUKI (20) [noun] Either the plant or the seed of the azuki bean. AECIUM (10) [noun] A cup-shaped structure in rust fungi that produces spores, found on the upper surface of infected plant leaves. AENEUS (6) AERUGO (7) [noun] A greenish or brownish patina that forms on the surface of copper or bronze when exposed to air or moisture; verdigris. AFFLUX (19) [noun] An upward rush of fluid. | [noun] The rise in water level (above normal) on the upstream side of a bridge or obstruction caused when the effective flow area at the obstruction is less than the natural width of the stream immediately upstream of the obstruction. AGOUTI (7) [noun] A rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs, of the family Dasyprocta. | [noun] A fur containing a pattern of pigmentation in which individual hairs have several bands of light and dark pigment with black tips; any of several genes responsible for this pigmentation. AGOUTY (10) AGUISH (10) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of an ague; feverish or shivering. | [adjective] Inclined to cause ague or fever. AIDFUL (10) AIMFUL (11) AIRBUS (8) [noun] A subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one. AJUGAS (14) [noun] Any plant in the genus Ajuga, especially the ornamental ground cover Ajuga reptans. ALARUM (8) [noun] A danger signal or warning. | [noun] A call to arms. | [verb] To sound alarums, to sound an alarm. ALBUMS (10) [noun] A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs. | [noun] A collection, especially of literary items | [noun] A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks ALGUMS (9) ALLIUM (8) [noun] Any of many bulbous plants of the genus Allium, related to onions and garlic. ALLUDE (7) [verb] To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion. ALLURE (6) [noun] The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction. | [noun] Gait; bearing | [verb] To entice; to attract. ALMUCE (10) ALMUDE (9) ALMUDS (9) ALMUGS (9) ALUDEL (7) [noun] A pear-shaped pot with an opening at each end, formerly used, especially by alchemists, for sublimation. ALULAE (6) [noun] A small projection of three or four feathers on the first digit of the wing on some birds. ALULAR (6) ALUMIN (8) ALUMNA (8) [noun] A female pupil or student (especially of a university or college). | [noun] A female graduate. ALUMNI (8) [noun] An individual alumnus or alumna. | [noun] A male pupil or student. | [noun] A male graduate. AMADOU (9) [noun] A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder. AMBUSH (13) [noun] The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack by surprise. | [noun] An attack launched from a concealed position. | [noun] The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; those who lie in wait. AMICUS (10) [noun] Someone not a party to a case who submits a brief and/or presents oral argument in that case. 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. AMOURS (8) [noun] Love, affection. | [noun] Courtship; flirtation. | [noun] A love affair. AMPULE (10) [noun] A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection. AMPULS (10) [noun] A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection. | [noun] An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel. | [noun] A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil. AMUCKS (14) [noun] Plural of amuck, meaning a state of violent frenzy or uncontrolled behavior. | [verb] Third person singular of amuck, meaning to rush about in a violent or murderous frenzy. 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. AMUSED (9) [verb] To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions. | [verb] To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny. | [verb] To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude. AMUSER (8) [noun] One who amuses; a person or thing that provides entertainment or causes laughter. AMUSES (8) [verb] To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions. | [verb] To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny. | [verb] To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude. AMUSIA (8) [noun] A neurological condition characterized by the inability to perceive, appreciate, or produce music. AMYLUM (13) [noun] Starch, especially when used in medicine or as a thickening agent. ANIMUS (8) [noun] The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions. | [noun] A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will. | [noun] The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality. ANKUSH (13) [noun] A pointed stick or rod used to guide and control an elephant. ANNUAL (6) [noun] An annual publication; a book, periodical, journal, report, comic book, yearbook, etc., which is published serially once a year, which may or may not be in addition to regular weekly or monthly publication. | [noun] An annual plant; a plant with a life span of just one growing season; a plant which naturally germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Compare biennial, perennial. | [noun] A medical checkup taking place once a year. ANNULI (6) [noun] A ring- or donut-shaped area or structure. | [noun] The region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radii. | [noun] Any topological space homeomorphic to the region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radius. ANNULS (6) [verb] To formally revoke the validity of. | [verb] To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid. ANTRUM (8) [noun] A bodily cavity, especially one having bony walls, especially one in the sinuses. ANURAL (6) [adjective] Lacking a tail or taillike appendage. | [adjective] Of or relating to frogs and toads, which lack tails in their adult form. ANURAN (6) [noun] (batrachology) Any amphibian of the order Anura; a frog, a toad. | [adjective] (batrachology) Of or relating to the order Anura. ANURIA (6) [noun] A condition in which the kidneys do not produce urine. ANURIC (8) [adjective] Relating to or characterized by anuria, a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to produce urine. ANUSES (6) [noun] The lower orifice of the alimentary canal, through which feces and flatus are ejected. AOUDAD (8) [noun] The Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia. APERCU (10) [noun] A clever insight. | [noun] A summary or outline; words that summarize. ARBOUR (8) [noun] A shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation. | [noun] A shady walk. ARBUTE (8) [noun] A Mediterranean evergreen shrub or small tree bearing strawberry-like fruits. ARDOUR (7) [noun] Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion. | [noun] Spirit; enthusiasm; passion. | [noun] Intense heat. ARGUED (8) [verb] To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. | [verb] To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. | [verb] To have an argument, a quarrel. ARGUER (7) [noun] One who argues; a person who engages in argument or debate. ARGUES (7) [verb] To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. | [verb] To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. | [verb] To have an argument, a quarrel. ARGUFY (13) [verb] To argue without any aim; to dispute; to disagree. | [verb] To weary with arguing. | [verb] To be evidence of something; to be of importance or relevance. ARMFUL (11) [noun] The amount an arm or arms can hold. ARMOUR (8) [noun] A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces. | [noun] A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body. | [noun] Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft. ARMURE (8) AROUND (7) [adjective] (with the verb "to be") Present in the vicinity. | [adjective] (with the verb "to be") Alive; existing. | [adverb] So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof. AROUSE (6) [verb] To stimulate feelings. | [verb] To sexually stimulate. | [verb] To wake from sleep or stupor. ARTFUL (9) [adjective] Cunning; tending toward indirect dealings; crafty. | [adjective] Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. | [adjective] Artificial; imitative. ASARUM (8) [noun] A genus of climbing or low-growing plants of the birthwort family, native to Asia and North America, having heart-shaped leaves and small flowers. ASSUME (8) [verb] To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof | [verb] To take on a position, duty or form | [verb] To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate ASSURE (6) [verb] To make sure and secure. | [verb] (followed by that or of) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something). | [verb] To guarantee, promise (to do something). ASTUTE (6) [adjective] Quickly and critically discerning. | [adjective] Shrewd or crafty. ASYLUM (11) [noun] A place of safety. | [noun] The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place. | [noun] A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill. ATRIUM (8) [noun] A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings. | [noun] A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels. | [noun] A cavity, entrance, or passage. ATTUNE (6) [verb] To bring into musical accord. | [verb] To tune (an instrument). | [verb] To bring into harmony or accord. AUBADE (9) [noun] A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn. | [noun] A morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning. AUBURN (8) [noun] A dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colour. | [adjective] Of a reddish-brown colour. AUCUBA (10) [noun] Any of several decorative evergreen shrubs of the genus Aucuba. AUDADS (8) AUDIAL (7) [adjective] Of or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing. AUDILE (7) [noun] A person whose mental imagery consists of sounds. | [adjective] Pertaining to hearing. AUDING (8) [verb] The present participle of "audi," meaning to listen or hear; used in some contexts related to audio or auditory processes. AUDIOS (7) [noun] Plural of audio; recordings or broadcasts of sound. | [noun] Audio equipment or systems. AUDITS (7) [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 AUGEND (8) [noun] A quantity to which another is added. AUGERS (7) [noun] A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet. | [noun] A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool). | [noun] A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts AUGHTS (10) [noun] The first decade of a century, such as 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009, whose digit in the tens place is zero; the oughts, the noughties. AUGITE (7) [noun] A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt. AUGURS (7) [noun] A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences. | [noun] An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events. | [verb] To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events. AUGURY (10) [noun] A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals. | [noun] (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy. | [noun] An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come. 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. AULDER (7) AUNTIE (6) [noun] The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The female cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. AUNTLY (9) AURATE (6) [adjective] Made of or containing gold, or having the color of gold. AUREUS (6) [noun] A gold coin, minted in the Roman Empire from approximately 100 B.C.E. to 309 C.E., equal to 25 denarii. AURIST (6) [noun] A physician who specializes in treating diseases of the ear. AURORA (6) [noun] An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively. AUROUS (6) [adjective] Containing or relating to gold, especially gold in the +1 oxidation state. AURUMS (8) [noun] Plural of aurum, the Latin name for the chemical element gold. AUSPEX (15) [noun] A Roman official who interpreted omens from the flight of birds and other signs to determine the will of the gods. | [noun] Any person who observes or interprets signs or omens. AUSUBO (8) AUTEUR (6) [noun] A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of his works. AUTHOR (9) [noun] The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition. | [noun] Someone who writes books for a living. | [noun] One's authority for something: an informant. AUTISM (8) [noun] A pervasive neurological disorder that is observable in early childhood and persists throughout the lifespan, characterised by atypical communication, language development, eye contact, and sensory experiences. | [noun] (now medically obsolete) A diagnosis involving a pathological tendency to engage in self-centered fantasy thinking, historically considered a symptom of insanity and/or schizophrenia. | [noun] (4chan) Abnormal and unhealthy focus or persistence, and unhealthy hatred of opposition or criticism. AUTOED (7) AUTUMN (8) [noun] Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from September 24 to December 22 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere. | [noun] (by extension) The time period when someone or something is past its prime. | [noun] A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing. AUXINS (13) [noun] A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant life cycle. AVAUNT (9) [noun] A vaunt; a boast. | [verb] To advance; to move forward; to elevate. | [verb] To depart; to move away. AVENUE (9) [noun] A broad street, especially one bordered by trees. | [noun] A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit. | [noun] The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. AVOUCH (14) [noun] Evidence; declaration | [verb] To declare freely and openly; to assert. | [verb] To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction. AVULSE (9) [verb] To tear off forcibly. AWMOUS (11) AZURES (15) [noun] A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines. | [noun] The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour. | [noun] The unclouded sky; the blue vault above. BABULS (10) [noun] A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica. BACKUP (16) [noun] A reserve or substitute. | [noun] A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is destroyed or damaged. | [noun] An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement of the material, or an accumulation of material that causes an overflow due to the flow being greater than the maximum possible flow. BACULA (10) [noun] A bone found in the penis of some mammals | [noun] A small rod-like structure found in spores and pollen BAGFUL (12) [noun] The amount that a bag can hold or contain. BAGUET (9) 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. BARIUM (10) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Ba) with an atomic number of 56. It is a soft, reactive, silvery alkaline earth metal. | [noun] A single atom of this element. | [noun] Barium sulfate suspension. BARQUE (17) [noun] A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged | [noun] Any small sailing vessel | [noun] A sailing vessel or boat of any kind BASQUE (17) [noun] The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist. | [noun] A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature. BATEAU (8) [noun] A small, flat-bottomed type of boat. BATTUE (8) [noun] A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc. | [noun] A hunt performed in this manner. BAUBEE (10) BAUBLE (10) [noun] A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw. | [noun] A club or sceptre carried by a jester. | [noun] A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees. BAULKS (12) [noun] An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. | [noun] The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation. | [noun] Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks". BAULKY (15) [adjective] Refusing to proceed or cooperate. BAYOUS (11) [noun] A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river. | [noun] A swamp, a marshy (stagnant) body of water. BEAUTS (8) [noun] Something or someone that is physically attractive. | [noun] Something that is a remarkable example of its type. BEAUTY (11) [noun] The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness. | [noun] Someone who is beautiful. | [noun] Something that is particularly good or pleasing. BEDAUB (11) [verb] To smear upon; to soil. | [verb] To ornament garishly; to overdecorate. BEDBUG (12) [noun] A small nocturnal insect (Cimex lectularius), of the family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts. BEDRUG (10) [verb] To drug again or excessively. BEDUIN (9) [noun] A member of a nomadic Arab people of the desert regions of North Africa and Southwest Asia; also spelled Bedouin. BEDUMB (13) BEFOUL (11) [verb] To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute. | [verb] (specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement. | [verb] To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace). BEGULF (12) BEGUMS (11) [noun] A high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in India and Pakistan | [noun] The form of address for such a woman BELAUD (9) BELUGA (9) [noun] A cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean. | [noun] A fish, Huso huso, found in the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, that is a source of caviar. BEMUSE (10) [verb] To confuse or bewilder. | [verb] To devote to the Muses. BENUMB (12) [verb] To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic. | [verb] To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.). BESMUT (10) BESTUD (9) [verb] To set or decorate with studs; to be studded with something. BIJOUS (15) [noun] Plural of bijou; small, exquisitely made trinkets or pieces of jewelry. | [noun] Plural of bijou; something small and delicately beautiful. BIJOUX (22) [noun] A jewel. | [noun] A piece of jewelry; a trinket. | [noun] A small intricate piece of metalwork. BISQUE (17) [noun] A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables. | [noun] A pale pinkish brown colour. | [noun] A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit. | [noun] An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed. BLOUSE (8) [noun] A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist. | [noun] A shirt for women, particularly a shirt with buttons; a dress shirt tailored for women. | [noun] A loose-fitting uniform jacket. | [noun] A prostitute. BLOUSY (11) [adjective] Having a ruddy, coarse complexion; bloated or swollen in appearance. | [adjective] Untidy or slovenly in dress or appearance. BLOWUP (13) [noun] An explosion, or violent outburst | [noun] An enlargement BLUELY (11) BLUEST (8) [adjective] Of the colour blue. | [adjective] Depressed, melancholic, sad. | [adjective] Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame. BLUESY (11) [adjective] Characteristic of, or similar to, the blues (a genre of music). BLUETS (8) [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. BLUEYS (11) [noun] The metal lead. | [noun] A bushman's blanket. | [noun] A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag. BLUFFS (14) [noun] An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate; braggadocio. | [noun] An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does. | [noun] The card game poker. BLUING (9) [verb] To make or become blue. | [verb] To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust. | [verb] (laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid) BLUISH (11) [adjective] Having a tint or hue similar to the colour blue. | [adjective] Somewhat depressed; sad. BLUMED (11) BLUMES (10) BLUNGE (9) [verb] To mix clay and water. BLUNTS (8) [noun] A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip. | [noun] A short needle with a strong point. | [noun] (smoking) A marijuana cigar. BLURBS (10) [noun] A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes. BLURRY (11) [adjective] (of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges. | [adjective] Not clear; lacking well-defined boundaries. BLURTS (8) [verb] To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out. BOHUNK (15) [noun] An immigrant from Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or the Balkans, especially one who is regarded as vain, aggressively masculine, and socially unsophisticated. | [noun] A brawny or coarse person. BONDUC (11) [noun] A tropical climbing plant with prickly seed pods, also known as the nicker nut or fever nut. BOSQUE (17) [noun] A thicket or small woods, especially in Spain or Spanish America. BOSUNS (8) [noun] A warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship. BOUBOU (10) [noun] A flowing wide-sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa. | [noun] Any of various passerine birds in the bushshrike family of the genus Laniarius. BOUCLE (10) [noun] A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls. | [noun] Yarn with multiple plies, one of which is looser than the others, producing loops and curls. BOUFFE (14) [noun] Food or a meal, especially one that is hearty or abundant. | [noun] Comic or farcical entertainment, particularly in opera (opéra bouffe). BOUGHS (12) [noun] A firm branch of a tree. | [noun] The gallows. 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. BOUGIE (9) [noun] A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie. | [noun] A wax candle. | [adjective] (usually derogatory) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery). BOULES (8) [noun] One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. | [noun] A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. | [noun] A round loaf of bread. BOULLE (8) [noun] A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works. | [noun] Furniture having ornamentation of this kind. BOUNCE (10) [noun] A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle. | [noun] A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly. | [noun] An email return with any error. BOUNCY (13) [adjective] Easily bounced. | [adjective] Lively, exuberant, energetic. BOUNDS (9) [noun] (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory. | [noun] A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values. | [verb] To surround a territory or other geographical entity. BOUNTY (11) [noun] Generosity; also an act of generosity. | [noun] Something given liberally; a gift. | [noun] A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government. BOURGS (9) [noun] Plural of borg, a fortified town or village in medieval times. | [noun] Plural of borg, a designation for a walled settlement in Scandinavian regions. BOURNE (8) [noun] A boundary. | [noun] A goal or destination. | [noun] A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally. BOURNS (8) [noun] A small stream or brook. | [noun] Destination. | [noun] Limit. BOURSE (8) [noun] A stock exchange. | [noun] A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged. | [noun] The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots. BOUSED (9) [verb] Past tense of bouse; to drink heavily or excessively. | [verb] To haul or pull with tackle, especially in nautical contexts. BOUSES (8) [verb] Third person singular of "bouse," meaning to drink heavily or to haul with tackle on a ship. BOUTON (8) [noun] A bud-like swelling, especially one at the end of an axon BOXFUL (18) [noun] The amount that a box can hold or contain. BROGUE (9) [noun] A strong dialectal accent. In Ireland it used to be a term for Irish spoken with a strong English accent, but gradually changed to mean English spoken with a strong Irish accent as English control of Ireland gradually increased and Irish waned as the standard language. | [noun] A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips. | [noun] A heavy shoe of untanned leather. | [verb] To fish for eels by disturbing the waters. BRUCIN (10) [noun] A bitter alkaloid compound found in the seeds of nux vomica and related plants, used historically in medicine and as a poison. BRUGHS (12) [noun] Plural of brugh, a fairy mound or underground dwelling in Irish mythology. BRUINS (8) [noun] A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos. BRUISE (8) [noun] A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow. | [noun] A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface. | [verb] To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it. BRUITS (8) [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. 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. BRUMAL (10) [adjective] Of or relating to winter; wintry. BRUMBY (15) [noun] A wild or feral horse. BRUMES (10) [noun] Plural of brume; mists or fogs. | [verb] Third person singular of brume; to obscure with mist or fog. BRUNCH (13) [noun] A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals. | [verb] To eat brunch. 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. BRUNTS (8) [noun] Plural of brunt, meaning the main force or impact of something. | [noun] The burnt surface or charred part of something. BRUSHY (14) [adjective] Having a similar texture to a fox’s tail; brushlike, bushy. | [adjective] Of the countryside: having thick vegetation, taller than grass but shorter than trees; having abundant brush; shrubby. BRUTAL (8) [adjective] Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel | [adjective] Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech. | [adjective] Harsh; unrelenting BRUTED (9) [verb] Past tense of brute, meaning to shape a diamond by grinding it against another diamond. | [verb] To spread rumors or gossip about someone. BRUTES (8) [noun] An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. | [noun] A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. | [noun] (Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated. BUBALE (10) [noun] A large African antelope with long curved horns, also called a hartebeest. BUBALS (10) [noun] An extinct subspecies of the hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus, which was formerly native to northern Africa. BUBBLE (12) [noun] A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid. | [noun] A small spherical cavity in a solid material. | [noun] (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere. BUBBLY (15) [noun] Champagne. | [adjective] Full of bubbles. | [adjective] Cheerful, lively. BUBOED (11) [adjective] Affected with or having buboes (swollen lymph nodes, especially in the groin, characteristic of bubonic plague). BUBOES (10) [noun] An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or the groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis or syphilis. BUCCAL (12) [adjective] Of or relating to the cheek or, more rarely, the mouth. | [adjective] (of a premolar or molar) On the side facing the cheek. | [adjective] (of a drug) Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip. BUCKED (15) [verb] To copulate, as bucks and does. | [verb] To bend; buckle. | [verb] (of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack. BUCKER (14) [noun] One who bucks, such as a horse that bucks or a male deer. | [noun] A dollar (slang). | [noun] A sawhorse or frame used in woodworking. 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. BUCKLE (14) [verb] To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression. | [verb] To make bend; to cause to become distorted. | [verb] To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person). | [noun] A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap. BUCKRA (14) [noun] A white person. | [noun] A poor white person. | [adjective] White. BUDDED (11) [verb] To form buds. | [verb] To reproduce by splitting off buds. | [verb] To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. BUDDER (10) [noun] A substance made by churning cream or milk, used as a spread and in cooking. | [noun] Something or someone that butts. BUDDLE (10) [noun] An apparatus on which crushed ore is washed. | [verb] To wash (ore) in a buddle. BUDGED (11) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. BUDGER (10) [noun] One who budges or moves slightly. | [noun] A person or thing that refuses to budge. BUDGES (10) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. 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. BUDGIE (10) [noun] A budgerigar. BUFFED (15) [verb] To polish and make shiny by rubbing. | [verb] To make a character or an item stronger. | [verb] To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner. BUFFER (14) [adjective] Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow. | [adjective] Unusually muscular. (also buffed or buffed out) | [adjective] Physically attractive. 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. BUFFOS (14) [noun] A comic singer, particularly in comic opera BUGEYE (12) [noun] A person with protruding or bulging eyes. | [adjective] Having large, protruding eyes. BUGGED (11) [verb] To annoy. | [verb] To install an electronic listening device or devices in. | [adjective] (on one's person or of a telephone line, dwelling, room, etc.) Containing a bug (interceptive listening device). BUGGER (10) [noun] A heretic. | [noun] Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite. | [noun] A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person. | [noun] One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs. BUGLED (10) [verb] To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle | [adjective] Ornamented with bugles. | [adjective] Played by a bugle. BUGLER (9) [noun] A person who plays a bugle, a brass instrument similar to a trumpet. BUGLES (9) [noun] A horn used by hunters. | [noun] A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series | [noun] A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga. BUGSHA (12) BUILDS (9) [noun] The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body. | [noun] Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users. | [noun] Any structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, created by the player. BULBAR (10) [adjective] Relating to or resembling a bulb in shape or structure. | [adjective] Of or relating to the medulla oblongata (the bulbar region of the brain). BULBED (11) [adjective] Having a bulb or bulb-like shape; swollen or rounded at one end. | [verb] Past tense of bulb, meaning to swell or form into a bulb shape. BULBEL (10) BULBIL (10) [noun] A bulb-shaped bud in the place of a flower or in a leaf axil. | [noun] A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube. BULBUL (10) [noun] Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae (currently, 27 genera recognized), native to Africa and parts of Asia, sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’. BULGED (10) [verb] To stick out from (a surface). | [verb] To bilge, as a ship; to founder. BULGER (9) [noun] One who bulges or protrudes. | [noun] A tool or device used for bulging metal. BULGES (9) [noun] Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure. | [noun] The bilge or protuberant part of a cask. | [noun] The bilge of a vessel. BULGUR (9) [noun] Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried and crushed; a staple of Middle Eastern cooking. BULKED (13) [verb] To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent. | [verb] To grow in size; to swell or expand. | [verb] To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc. BULLAE (8) [noun] A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion. | [noun] A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents. | [noun] In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss. BULLED (9) [verb] To force oneself (in a particular direction). | [verb] To lie, to tell untruths. | [verb] To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. 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. BUMBLE (12) [noun] A confusion; a jumble. | [verb] To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes. | [noun] A bumble-bee. BUMKIN (14) [noun] A projecting beam or spar extending from the side of a ship, used to secure rigging or extend the sail. | [noun] A country person; a rustic or unsophisticated person. BUMMED (13) [verb] To sodomize; to engage in anal sex. | [verb] To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something. | [verb] To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter. BUMMER (12) [noun] A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864. | [noun] An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. | [noun] A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans. | [adjective] Of poor quality or highly undesirable. | [noun] A disappointment, a pity, a shame. | [noun] Homosexual male BUMPED (13) [verb] To knock against or run into with a jolt. | [verb] To move up or down by a step; displace. | [verb] To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads. BUMPER (12) [noun] Someone or something that bumps. | [noun] A drinking vessel filled to the brim. | [noun] Anything large or successful. BUMPHS (15) [noun] Plural of bumph; printed materials or documents, especially those considered tedious or superfluous. | [noun] Toilet paper. BUNCHY (16) [adjective] Growing or gathered in bunches or clusters. | [adjective] Thick and shapeless in form. BUNCOS (10) [noun] A swindle or confidence trick. | [noun] A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century. | [noun] A brigand. BUNDLE (9) [noun] A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. | [noun] A package wrapped or tied up for carrying. | [noun] A group of products or services sold together as a unit. BUNDTS (9) [noun] Plural of bundt, referring to a type of ring-shaped cake pan or the cake baked in such a pan. BUNGED (10) [verb] To plug, as with a bung. | [verb] To put or throw somewhere without care; to chuck. | [verb] To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell. BUNGEE (9) [noun] An elastic fabric-bound strap with a hook at each end, used for securing luggage. | [noun] An elastic cord tied to the ankles of the jumper in bungee jumping. | [noun] A rubber eraser. BUNGLE (9) [noun] A botched or incompetently handled situation. | [verb] To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly. BUNION (8) [noun] A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin. | [noun] (by extension) Hallux valgus, deviation of the big toe from its normal position towards the other toes, the prime cause for the swelling of its first joint. BUNKED (13) [verb] To occupy a bunk. | [verb] To provide a bunk. | [verb] To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off'). BUNKER (12) [noun] A hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks. | [noun] A large container or bin for storing coal, often built outside in the yard of a house. Now rare, as different types of fuels and energy sources are being used. | [noun] A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine. [Also, by extension] the quantity of fuel needed to replenish that container. BUNKOS (12) [verb] To swindle (someone). BUNKUM (14) [noun] Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense. | [noun] (Washington, DC) Bombastic political posturing or oratorical display designed only for show or public applause. BUNTED (9) [verb] To push with the horns; to butt. | [verb] To spring or rear up. | [verb] To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance. BUNTER (8) [noun] A person who bunts in baseball. | [noun] In British slang, a promiscuous person or someone of loose morals. BUNYAS (11) [noun] The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland. | [noun] A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste. BUOYED (12) [verb] To keep afloat or aloft; used with up. | [verb] To support or maintain at a high level. | [verb] To mark with a buoy. BUPPIE (12) [noun] A black urban professional; an African American subset of the yuppie category. The group includes black professionals and executives in their late twenties and early thirties. BUQSHA (20) [noun] A monetary unit of Yemen, equal to one twentieth of a rial. BURANS (8) [noun] Plural of buran, a violent cold northeasterly wind that occurs in Russia and Central Asia. BURBLE (10) [noun] A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek. | [noun] A gush of rapid speech. | [noun] The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body. | [noun] Trouble; disorder. BURBLY (13) [adjective] Having a burbling quality; characterized by a murmuring or bubbling sound. BURBOT (10) [noun] A freshwater fish, taxonomic name Lota lota, which is similar to the ling and the cusk and spawns in the winter. BURDEN (9) [noun] A heavy load. | [noun] A responsibility, onus. | [noun] A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. | [noun] A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad. BURDIE (9) BUREAU (8) [noun] An administrative unit of government; office. | [noun] An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news. | [noun] An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed). BURETS (8) [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. BURGEE (9) [noun] A flag, usually a broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail, flown by yachts to identify the owner's yacht club. BURGER (9) [noun] A hamburger. | [noun] (chiefly as a combining form) A similar sandwich or patty. | [noun] A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class. BURGHS (12) [noun] A small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names). | [noun] A borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland). BURGLE (9) [verb] To commit burglary. | [verb] To take the ball legally from an opposing player. BURGOO (9) [noun] A dish which originated among seafarers during the days of sail: a sort of porridge seasoned with sugar, salt and butter. | [noun] A spicy stew, typically made with a combination of meats and vegetables, and often served with cornbread or corn muffins. BURIAL (8) [noun] The act of burying; interment BURIED (9) [adjective] Placed in a grave at a burial. | [adjective] Concealed, hidden. | [verb] To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. BURIER (8) [noun] One who buries or entombs something. | [noun] A type of beetle that buries carrion. BURIES (8) [verb] To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. | [verb] To place in the ground. | [verb] To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance. BURINS (8) [noun] A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver. | [noun] A prehistoric flint tool BURKED (13) [verb] To suppress or smother something, especially a scandal or unwanted information. | [verb] To murder someone by suffocation, especially for the purpose of selling the body for dissection. BURKER (12) [noun] One who burkes; a person who suppresses or stifles something. | [noun] A murderer who kills by suffocation without leaving visible marks, named after William Burke. BURKES (12) [noun] (sometimes affectionate) A fool, prat, twit. | [noun] Cunt. BURLAP (10) [noun] A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc. BURLED (9) [verb] Past tense of burl; to remove burls (knotty growths) from cloth or wood. | [verb] To throw or hurl with force. BURLER (8) [noun] A person who removes burls (knots or lumps) from cloth or wood. BURLEY (11) [noun] A tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes. | [noun] Blood and offal used by fishermen to attract fish. BURNED (9) [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. BURNER (8) [noun] A participant in the Burning Man festival. | [noun] Someone or something which burns. | [noun] An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking. 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. BURNIE (8) BURPED (11) [verb] To emit a burp. | [verb] To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp. BURRED (9) [verb] To pronounce with a uvular "r". | [verb] To make a rough humming sound. BURRER (8) [noun] One who burrs, such as a person or tool that removes burrs from fabric or metal. | [noun] A rough, prickly seed case or flower head that clings to clothing or fur. BURROS (8) [noun] A small donkey BURROW (11) [noun] A mountain. | [noun] A hill. | [noun] A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. BURSAE (8) [noun] Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces. BURSAL (8) [adjective] Relating to or affecting a bursa, a fluid-filled sac that reduces friction between tissues in the body. BURSAR (8) [noun] The treasurer of a university, college or school. | [noun] A student funded by a bursary. BURSAS (8) [noun] Plural of bursa, small fluid-filled sacs that cushion joints and reduce friction between bones and tissues in the body. BURSES (8) [noun] A purse. | [noun] A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies. | [noun] An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use. BURSTS (8) [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. BURTON (8) [noun] An arrangement of blocks and pulleys, especially for tightening rigging on a ship. | [noun] Storage of cargo athwartships. BUSBAR (10) [noun] An electrical conductor that carries a large current, especially one that is part of a power distribution system; typically a thick strip, or a tube, of copper or aluminium. BUSBOY (13) [noun] Assistant waiter; one who clears plates from and cleans tables BUSHED (12) [adjective] Very tired; exhausted. | [adjective] Mentally unwell due to isolation, especially due to working in a remote mine or camp; experiencing cabin fever. | [adjective] Incorporating a bush, a mechanical part. BUSHEL (11) [noun] A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts. | [noun] A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure. | [noun] A quantity that fills a bushel measure. BUSHER (11) [noun] A minor league baseball player. | [noun] An incompetent or amateurish person. BUSHES (11) [noun] A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category. | [noun] A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree. | [noun] A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself. BUSHWA (14) [noun] Nonsense. BUSIED (9) [verb] To make somebody busy or active; to occupy. | [verb] To rush somebody. BUSIER (8) [adjective] Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on. | [adjective] Engaged in activity or by someone else. | [adjective] Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate. BUSIES (8) [noun] A police officer. | [verb] To make somebody busy or active; to occupy. | [verb] To rush somebody. BUSILY (11) [adverb] In a busy manner; actively. BUSING (9) [verb] To transport via a motor bus. | [verb] To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. | [verb] To travel by bus. BUSKED (13) [verb] To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. | [verb] To go; to direct one's course. | [verb] To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport BUSKER (12) [noun] A person who makes money by passing the hat (soliciting donations) while entertaining the public (often by playing a musical instrument) on the streets or in other public area such as a park or market. BUSKIN (12) [noun] A half-boot. | [noun] A type of half-boot with a high heel, worn by the ancient Athenian tragic actors. | [noun] (by extension) Tragic drama; tragedy. BUSMAN (10) [noun] A person employed to drive buses. BUSMEN (10) [noun] A person employed to drive buses. BUSSED (9) [verb] To transport via a motor bus. | [verb] To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. | [verb] To travel by bus. BUSSES (8) [noun] A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads. | [noun] An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components. | [noun] (medical industry) An ambulance. BUSTED (9) [adjective] (often used in combination with an adjective) Having a certain type of bust (breasts; cleavage). | [verb] To break. | [verb] To arrest (someone) for a crime. BUSTER (8) [noun] (with 'of') Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing. | [noun] Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element. | [noun] (with 'of') Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing. BUSTIC (10) [noun] A tropical American tree that produces a hard wood and edible fruit, also called the nasberry or sapodilla tree. BUSTLE (8) [noun] An excited activity; a stir. | [noun] A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine. | [noun] A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops. BUTANE (8) [noun] A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C4H10 n-butane, and 2-methyl-propane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions. | [noun] The n-butane isomer only. BUTENE (8) [noun] A hydrocarbon gas with four carbon atoms and one double bond, used in the production of plastics and other chemicals. BUTEOS (8) [noun] Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo. BUTLED (9) [verb] To serve as or perform the duties of a butler. BUTLER (8) [noun] A manservant having charge of wines and liquors. | [noun] The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services. | [noun] A valet, a male personal attendant. BUTLES (8) [verb] To serve as or perform the duties of a butler. BUTTED (9) [verb] To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. | [verb] To strike bluntly, particularly with the head. | [verb] To strike bluntly with the head. | [verb] Use the word "but". BUTTER (8) [noun] A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). | [noun] Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it). | [noun] Any specific soft substance. | [noun] Someone who butts, or who butts in. BUTTES (8) [noun] An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top. BUTTON (8) [noun] One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States). | [noun] A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. | [noun] A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism. | [verb] To fasten with a button. BUTUTS (8) [noun] A unit of currency, worth one hundredth of a Gambian dalasi BUTYLS (11) [noun] Plural of butyl, a univalent radical (C₄H₉) derived from butane, commonly used in organic chemistry and industrial applications. BUYERS (11) [noun] A person who makes one or more purchases. | [noun] (retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment. | [noun] A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products. BUYING (12) [verb] To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods | [verb] To obtain by some sacrifice. | [verb] To bribe. 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. BUZUKI (21) [noun] A stringed musical instrument of Greek origin, similar to a mandolin, with a pear-shaped body and paired metal strings. BUZZED (27) [verb] To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. | [verb] To show a high level of activity and haste (alluding to the common simile "busy as a bee"). Often in the colloquial imperative "Buzz off!" | [verb] To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly. BUZZER (26) [noun] One who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes. | [noun] A device that makes a buzzing sound. | [noun] A police badge. BUZZES (26) [noun] A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones. | [noun] A whisper. | [noun] The audible friction of voice consonants. BYSSUS (11) [noun] An exceptionally fine and valuable fibre or cloth of ancient times. Originally used for fine flax and linens, the word was later extended to fine cottons, silks, and sea silk. | [noun] The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured. | [noun] The stipe or stem of some fungi which are particularly thin and thread-like. CACHOU (13) [noun] A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath. | [noun] A small metallic ball used as edible decoration on cakes etc. CACTUS (10) [noun] Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate. | [noun] Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, such as euphorbs. | [adjective] Non-functional, broken, exhausted, dead. CAECUM (12) [noun] A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon. CAIQUE (17) [noun] A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling. | [noun] Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites. CALLUS (8) [noun] A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use. | [noun] The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece. | [noun] The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets. CALQUE (17) [noun] A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language. | [verb] To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts. CAMPUS (12) [noun] The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures. | [noun] An institution of higher education and its ambiance. | [verb] To confine to campus as a punishment. CANFUL (11) [noun] The amount that a can will hold; the capacity of a can. CANGUE (9) [noun] A wooden collar or frame formerly used as an instrument of punishment or torture in China and other parts of Asia. CANTUS (8) [noun] The highest singing voice in a piece of choral music, or the melody or soprano part in a musical composition. CANULA (8) [noun] A small tube inserted into a vein or body cavity for administering medication or draining fluids; also spelled cannula. CAPFUL (13) [noun] The amount that a cap can hold, typically used as a unit of measure for liquids or powders. CARFUL (11) [noun] The amount that a car can hold or carry. | [noun] A group of people traveling together in a car. CARPUS (10) [noun] The group of bones that make up the wrist. CASQUE (17) [noun] A helmet. | [noun] A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary. CASUAL (8) [noun] A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee. | [noun] A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty. | [noun] A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture). 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. CATSUP (10) [noun] A tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners. | [noun] Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes). CAUCUS (10) [noun] A usually preliminary meeting of party members to nominate candidates for public office or delegates to be sent a nominating convention, or to confer regarding policy. | [noun] A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party. | [noun] A political interest group by members of a legislative body. CAUDAD (10) [adverb] Toward the tail or posterior end of the body. CAUDAL (9) [noun] A caudal vertebra. | [adjective] Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body. CAUDEX (16) [noun] An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water. CAUDLE (9) [noun] A warm drink made of wine or ale mixed with eggs, sugar, spices, and gruel, traditionally served to sick people or during confinement. CAUGHT (12) [verb] (heading) To capture, overtake. | [verb] (heading) To seize hold of. | [verb] (heading) To intercept. CAULDS (9) [noun] Plural of cauld, a Scottish word for a cold or chill. | [noun] Plural of cauld, meaning a weir or dam across a river. CAULES (8) [noun] Plural of caulis; the plural form of a stem or stalk of a plant, particularly used in botanical terminology. CAULIS (8) [noun] The stem or stalk of a plant, particularly the main stem of a herbaceous plant. CAULKS (12) [verb] To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight. | [verb] To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials. | [verb] Fuck CAUSAL (8) [noun] (grammar) a word (such as because) that expresses a reason or a cause | [adjective] Of, relating to, or being a cause of something; causing CAUSED (9) [verb] To set off an event or action. | [verb] (ditransitive) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority. | [verb] To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse. CAUSER (8) [noun] One who causes something to happen. CAUSES (8) [noun] (often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result. | [noun] (especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion. | [noun] A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends. CAUSEY (11) [noun] An embankment holding in water; a dam. | [noun] A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc. | [noun] A paved path or highway; a street, or the part of a street paved with paving or cobbles as opposed to flagstones. CAYUSE (11) [noun] A small Indian horse or pony. CEDULA (9) [noun] A certificate or official document, particularly an identification card or pass used in Spanish-speaking countries. CENSUS (8) [noun] An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals. | [noun] Count, tally. | [verb] To conduct a census on. CENTUM (10) [noun] A group or division of one hundred, especially a Roman military unit of about one hundred soldiers. | [noun] In ancient Rome, a political subdivision of citizens organized for voting purposes. CERCUS (10) [noun] Structures on the end of on the end of the abdomen of most insects, sometimes long, hairlike sensory organs and sometimes smaller and rigid. CEREUS (8) [noun] A type of tall columnar cactus native to tropical America, typically with night-blooming flowers. | [noun] A candle or wax light, especially one used in religious ceremonies. CERIUM (10) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58, a very soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air. CEROUS (8) [adjective] Of, relating to, or containing cerium, especially in its trivalent state. CERUSE (8) [noun] White lead, a hydrate of lead mixed with carbonate, formerly used as a white pigment, in cosmetics, and for medical purposes. CESIUM (10) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Cs) with an atomic number of 55. It is a soft, gold-colored, highly reactive alkali metal. CESTUS (8) [noun] A leather fighting glove, frequently weighted with metal. | [noun] A girdle, especially that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power to excite love. CESURA (8) [noun] A pause or break in a line of poetry, typically occurring in the middle of a foot or between feet. | [noun] A break or division in a musical phrase. CHABUK (17) [noun] A type of riding whip or leather strap used in India and other South Asian countries. CHAUNT (11) [verb] To sing or chant, especially in a rhythmic or monotonous manner. CHEQUE (20) [noun] A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity. CHERUB (13) [noun] A winged creature attending God, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts. | [noun] An artistic depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a winged child or a child's head with wings but no body. | [noun] A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent. CHIAUS (11) [noun] A Turkish official or messenger; also spelled chiaous or chaus. CHORUS (11) [noun] A group of singers and dancers in the religious festivals of ancient Greece. | [noun] A group of people in a play or performance who recite together. | [noun] A group of singers; singing group who perform together. CHOUGH (15) [noun] Either of two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia. | [noun] The white-winged chough, of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands. CHOUSE (11) [verb] To cheat or swindle someone. | [noun] A person who cheats or swindles. CHOUSH (14) CHUBBY (18) [noun] A chubby, plump person | [noun] An overweight or obese gay man. | [noun] A penile erection, especially when short and with a large circumference; a boner. CHUCKS (17) [noun] Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder. CHUCKY (20) CHUFAS (14) [noun] Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts). CHUFFS (17) [noun] A coarse or stupid fellow. | [noun] (scriptwriting) Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot. | [noun] A breathy noise produced by a tiger, similar in function to a cat's purr. CHUFFY (20) CHUKAR (15) [noun] A species of partridge native to central Asia (Alectoris chukar). CHUKKA (19) [noun] Chukka boot | [noun] One of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo. CHUMMY (18) [noun] A friend; a pal. | [noun] A roommate, especially in a college or university. | [noun] A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks CHUMPS (15) [noun] An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser. | [noun] A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense. | [noun] The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat. CHUNKS (15) [noun] A part of something that has been separated. | [noun] A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular. | [noun] A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster. CHUNKY (18) [adjective] Having chunks. | [adjective] (of a person) Fat. | [adjective] Of a cat: having a large, solid bodyline. | [noun] A sport or game played by the Cherokee and other Native Americans in the Carolinas, which involved rolling stone disks across the ground and throwing spears at them in an attempt to land the spear as close to the stopped stone as possible. CHURCH (16) [noun] A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place. | [noun] Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity. | [noun] A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general. CHURLS (11) [noun] A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a free peasant (as opposed to a serf). | [noun] A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor. | [noun] A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. CHURNS (11) [noun] A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter. | [noun] Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company. | [noun] The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider. CHURRS (11) [verb] To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada). | [verb] To make the low vocal sound of some birds. CHUTED (12) [verb] Past tense of chute, meaning to convey or transport through a chute. | [adjective] Equipped with or having a chute or chutes. CHUTES (11) [noun] A framework, trough or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel. | [noun] A waterfall or rapid. | [noun] The pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo. CILIUM (10) [noun] Hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of a plant organ. | [noun] A hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism). These structures serve either for locomotion by moving or as sensors. | [noun] One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing. CINQUE (17) [noun] A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips. CIRCUS (10) [noun] A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent. | [noun] A round open space in a town or city where multiple streets meet. | [noun] A spectacle; a noisy fuss; a chaotic and/or crowded place. CIRQUE (17) [noun] A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley. | [noun] Something in the shape of a circle or ring, such as a Roman circus. CIRRUS (8) [noun] A tendril. | [noun] A thin tendril-like appendage. | [noun] A principal high-level cloud type characterised by white, delicate filaments or wisps, of white (or mostly white) patches, or of narrow bands, found at an altitude of above 7000 metres. CISTUS (8) [noun] A rockrose; a plant of the genus Cistus. CITRUS (8) [noun] Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Citrus in the family Rutaceae. | [noun] The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin (called zest), an inner white skin (called pith or albedo), and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron. | [adjective] Of or relating to citrus plants or fruit. CLAQUE (17) [noun] A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo. | [noun] A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus. | [noun] A group of fawning admirers. CLAUSE (8) [noun] (grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them. | [noun] (grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) dependent. | [noun] A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document. CLAVUS (11) [noun] A hard thickening of the skin, typically on the foot, caused by pressure or friction. | [noun] In architecture, a convex molding or a type of architectural ornament. CLIQUE (17) [noun] A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal. | [noun] A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph. | [noun] A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner. CLIQUY (20) CLONUS (8) [noun] A muscular spasm with regular contractions. CLOQUE (17) [noun] A fabric with an embossed design. CLOUDS (9) [noun] A rock; boulder; a hill. | [noun] A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. | [noun] Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass. CLOUDY (12) [adjective] Covered with or characterised by clouds; overcast. | [adjective] Not transparent or clear. | [adjective] Uncertain; unclear. CLOUGH (12) [noun] A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge. | [noun] A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. | [noun] A cliff; a rocky precipice. | [noun] Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. CLOURS (8) CLOUTS (8) [noun] Influence or effectiveness, especially political. | [noun] A blow with the hand. | [noun] A home run. CLUBBY (15) [adjective] Resembling or suggestive of a social club or clubhouse: congenial and exclusive. | [adjective] Fond of frequenting nightclubs. CLUCKS (14) [verb] To make such a sound. | [verb] To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound. | [verb] To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. CLUING (9) [verb] Providing hints or information to help someone guess or solve something. | [verb] In crossword puzzles, giving clues that lead to puzzle answers. CLUMPS (12) [noun] A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass. | [noun] A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair. | [noun] A dull thud. CLUMPY (15) [adjective] Forming or tending to form clumps. | [adjective] Resembling a clump. | [adjective] Clompy; with heavy footfalls. CLUMSY (13) [noun] A clumsy person. | [adjective] Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous. | [adjective] Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety. CLUNKS (12) [noun] A dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact. | [noun] The sound of liquid coming out of a bottle, etc.; a glucking sound. | [verb] To make such a sound CLUNKY (15) [adjective] Ungainly; awkward; inelegant; cumbersome. | [adjective] Being or making a clunk sound. CLUTCH (13) [noun] The claw of a predatory animal or bird. | [noun] (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil. | [noun] A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car. | [noun] A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs. | [noun] An important or critical situation. 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. COCCUS (12) [noun] Any approximately spherical bacterium. | [noun] One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit. COCKUP (16) [noun] (mildly) A mistake. | [noun] A superior letter. A lower-case letter placed above the baseline and made smaller than ordinary script; traditionally used in abbreviations. | [noun] A roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun. | [noun] A hat or cap worn turned up in front. COHUNE (11) [noun] A species of palm, Attalea cohune, native to South America, that produces large nuts. COITUS (8) [noun] Sexual intercourse, especially involving penile-vaginal penetration. COLEUS (8) [noun] A plant in the mint family, Plectranthus scutellarioides (formerly known as Coleus blumei and Solenostemon scutellarioides), cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves. | [noun] Any other plant formerly classified in the genus Coleus, which is now considered to be a synonym of Plectranthus COLOUR (8) [noun] The spectral composition of visible light | [noun] A subset thereof: | [noun] A paint. COLUGO (9) [noun] An arboreal gliding mammal of the family Cynocephalidae native to South-east Asia. COLUMN (10) [noun] A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration. | [noun] A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom. | [noun] A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road. COLURE (8) [noun] Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices. COMOUS (10) [adjective] Having hair or a tuft of hair; hairy or tufted. CONCUR (10) [verb] To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond. | [verb] To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect. | [verb] To run together; to meet. CONGOU (9) [noun] A type of Chinese black tea, also known as congou tea or lapsang souchong. CONIUM (10) [noun] A poisonous plant, also known as hemlock, of the genus Conium with spotted stems and small white flowers. CONSUL (8) [noun] Either of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires. | [noun] Any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804. | [noun] A count or earl. COPULA (10) [noun] (grammar) A word, usually a verb, used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (usually a subject complement or an adverbial), that unites or associates the subject with the predicate. | [noun] A function that represents the association between two or more variables, independent of the individual marginal distributions of the variables. | [noun] A device that connects two or more keyboards of an organ. COQUET (17) [noun] A flirtatious female; a coquette. | [noun] A flirtatious male. | [verb] To act as a flirt or coquet. CORIUM (10) [noun] The inner layer of skin, the dermis. | [noun] The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium. | [noun] Armour made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans. | [noun] A lavalike mixture of fissile material created in a nuclear reactor's core during a nuclear meltdown. CORNUA (8) [noun] A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn. CORNUS (8) [noun] A genus of woody plants commonly known as dogwood, having small flowers and berries. | [noun] The horn or horn-like projection on an animal. CORPUS (10) [noun] A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic or a particular author, etc. | [noun] (specifically) Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses. | [noun] A body, a collection. | [noun] Synonym of long primer COTEAU (8) COUGAR (9) [noun] A mountain lion; Puma concolor. | [noun] An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”. COUGHS (12) [noun] A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary. | [noun] A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough. | [noun] Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame COULEE (8) [noun] A stream. | [noun] A lava flow. | [noun] A deep gulch or ravine, frequently dry in summer. COULIS (8) [noun] A thick sauce made with pureed vegetable or fruit and often used as a garnish. COUNTS (8) [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. COUNTY (11) [noun] The land ruled by a count or a countess. | [noun] An administrative region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and 48 of the 50 United States (excluding Alaska and Louisiana). | [noun] A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions. COUPED (11) [adjective] Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. COUPES (10) [noun] An ice cream dessert; the glass it is served in. | [noun] A car with two doors (variant of coupé). | [noun] An area of forest where harvesting of wood is planned or has taken place. COUPLE (10) [noun] Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship. | [noun] Two of the same kind connected or considered together. | [noun] A small number. COUPON (10) [noun] A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc. | [noun] A voucher issued by a manufacturer or retailer which offers a discount on a particular product. | [noun] A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant. COURSE (8) [noun] A sequence of events. | [noun] A path that something or someone moves along. | [noun] The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast. | [adverb] In due course; as a matter of course, as a natural result. COURTS (8) [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 COUSIN (8) [noun] The child of a person's uncle or aunt; a first cousin. | [noun] Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of one's extended family; one more distantly related than an uncle, aunt, granduncle, grandaunt, nephew, niece, grandnephew, grandniece, etc. | [noun] A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl. COUTER (8) COUTHS (11) COYPOU (13) COYPUS (13) [noun] A large, crepuscular, semiaquatic rodent (Myocastor coypus) resembling a large rat, having bright orange-yellow incisors, native to South America and introduced to Europe, Asia and North America, valued for its fur in eastern Europe and central Asia and considered a pest elsewhere. CRINUM (10) CROCUS (10) [noun] A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus. | [noun] Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus. | [noun] A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour. | [noun] Burlap. CROUCH (13) [noun] A bent or stooped position. | [verb] To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear. | [verb] To bend servilely; to bow in reverence or humility. | [noun] A cross. CROUPE (10) CROUPS (10) [verb] (obsolete outside dialectal) To croak, make a hoarse noise. CROUPY (13) CROUSE (8) CRUCES (10) [noun] The basic, central, or essential point or feature. | [noun] The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point. | [noun] A puzzle or difficulty. CRUCKS (14) [noun] A sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a timber house, usually used in pairs. | [noun] A vehicle that has features of both a car and a truck. CRUDDY (13) CRUDER (9) [adjective] In a natural, untreated state. | [adjective] Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made. | [adjective] Lacking concealing elements. CRUDES (9) [noun] Any substance in its natural state. | [noun] Crude oil. CRUETS (8) [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. CRUISE (8) [noun] A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure. | [noun] Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases. | [noun] A period spent in the Marine Corps. CRUMBS (12) [noun] A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). | [noun] A small piece of other material, such as rubber. | [noun] A bit, small amount. CRUMBY (15) [adjective] Crumbly; inclined to break into crumbs. | [adjective] Bad; poor. | [adjective] Full of crumb or crumbs. CRUMMY (15) [noun] A small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite. | [noun] A cow with a crumpled horn. | [adjective] Bad; poor. CRUMPS (12) [noun] The sound of a muffled explosion. CRUNCH (13) [noun] A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching. | [noun] A critical moment or event. | [noun] A problem that leads to a crisis. CRUORS (8) CRURAL (8) [adjective] Pertaining to the leg. | [adjective] Leg-like in shape or constitution. CRUSES (8) [noun] A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water. | [noun] An oil lamp or similar emblem. CRUSET (8) CRUSTS (8) [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 CRUSTY (11) [noun] A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness. | [noun] Dried eye mucus. | [noun] A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance. CRUTCH (13) [noun] A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg. | [noun] Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop | [noun] A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk. CRUXES (15) [noun] The basic, central, or essential point or feature. | [noun] The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point. | [noun] A puzzle or difficulty. CUBAGE (11) [noun] A cubic measurement. CUBEBS (12) [noun] The tailed pepper, Piper cubeba; an Indonesian plant cultivated for its berries and essential oil. CUBERS (10) CUBICS (12) [noun] A cubic curve. CUBING (11) [verb] To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. | [verb] To form into the shape of a cube. | [verb] To cut into cubes. CUBISM (12) [noun] (often capitalized) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes. CUBIST (10) CUBITS (10) [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. CUBOID (11) [noun] The cuboid bone. | [noun] A parallelepiped having six rectangular faces. | [adjective] Of the shape of a cube. CUCKOO (14) [noun] The two-note sound made by the cuckoo. | [noun] A Barbadian food made from mashed okra and cornmeal. | [noun] Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially the common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, that has a characteristic two-note call. CUDDIE (10) CUDDLE (10) [noun] A snuggle; an affectionate embrace, often given to family members and close friends. | [verb] To embrace affectionately, lie together snugly. | [verb] To cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth. CUDDLY (13) [adjective] Suitable for cuddling; designed to be cuddled. | [adjective] Fond of, or prone to cuddling CUDGEL (10) [noun] A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon. | [noun] Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another. | [verb] To strike with a cudgel. CUEING (9) CUESTA (8) [noun] A hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side, and a steep slope on the other. CUFFED (15) [verb] To furnish with cuffs. | [verb] To handcuff. | [verb] To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap. CUISSE (8) [noun] Defensive armour for the thighs CULETS (8) CULLAY (11) CULLED (9) [verb] To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group). | [verb] To gather, collect. | [verb] To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner. CULLER (8) CULLET (8) [noun] Scrap glass which is melted down for reuse. | [noun] A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. CULLIS (8) CULMED (11) CULPAE (10) CULTCH (13) [noun] Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster. | [noun] Young or seed oysters together with the shells and other objects to which they are usually attached. | [noun] Rubbish; debris; refuse. CULTIC (10) CULTUS (8) [noun] Established or accepted religious rites or customs of worship; state of religious development. CULVER (11) CUMBER (12) [verb] To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber. CUMINS (10) CUMMER (12) CUMMIN (12) [noun] The flowering plant Cuminum cyminum, in the family Apiaceae. | [noun] Its aromatic long seed, used as a spice, notably in Indian, Middle Eastern, and Mexican cookery. CUMULI (10) [noun] A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds. | [noun] A mound or heap. CUNDUM (11) CUNEAL (8) CUNNER (8) [noun] A marine European fish (Symphodus melops). | [noun] The related American conner (Tautogolabrus adspersus). CUPELS (10) [noun] A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead. CUPFUL (13) [noun] The amount necessary to make a cup full | [noun] A half pint, i.e. eight ounces CUPIDS (11) CUPOLA (10) [noun] A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome. | [noun] A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle. | [noun] An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith. CUPPAS (12) [noun] (Commonwealth of Nations except Canada) A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink). | [noun] (Commonwealth of Nations except Canada) Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea. | [noun] Pronunciation spelling of cup of. CUPPED (13) [verb] To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands. | [verb] To hold something in cupped hands. | [verb] To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup. CUPPER (12) CUPRIC (12) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper. | [adjective] Containing copper with an oxidation number of 2 CUPRUM (12) CUPULA (10) CUPULE (10) [noun] Any small structure shaped like a cup, such as at the base of an acorn, or the sucker on the feet of some flies CURACY (13) [noun] The office or position of a curate CURAGH (12) CURARA (8) CURARE (8) [noun] A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content | [noun] Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae | [noun] A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery CURARI (8) CURATE (8) [noun] An assistant rector or vicar. | [noun] A parish priest. | [verb] To act as a curator for. CURBED (11) [verb] To check, restrain or control. | [verb] To rein in. | [verb] To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth. CURBER (10) CURDED (10) CURDLE (9) [verb] To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk) | [verb] To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood) | [verb] To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly CURERS (8) CURETS (8) CURFEW (14) [noun] Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time. | [noun] The time when such restriction begins. | [noun] A signal indicating this time. CURIAE (8) CURIAL (8) [noun] A member of a curia, especially of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties. | [adjective] Pertaining to a court; courtly. | [adjective] Pertaining to the papal curia. CURIES (8) [noun] 3.7×1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci. CURING (9) [verb] To restore to health. | [verb] To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end. | [verb] To cause to be rid of (a defect). | [noun] The act by which something is cured. CURIOS (8) [noun] A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity. CURITE (8) CURIUM (10) [noun] A transuranic chemical element (symbol Cm) with an atomic number of 96. CURLED (9) [verb] To cause to move in a curve. | [verb] To make into a curl or spiral. | [verb] To assume the shape of a curl or spiral. CURLER (8) [noun] One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair. | [noun] A sportsman who plays curling. | [noun] A pass or a shot of the ball which swerves. CURLEW (11) [noun] Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius of the family Scolopacidae, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills. | [noun] A stone curlew. CURRAN (8) CURRED (9) CURRIE (8) CURSED (9) [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. CURSER (8) CURSES (8) [noun] A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane. | [noun] A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone. | [noun] The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment. CURSOR (8) [noun] A part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position | [noun] A moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device | [noun] An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place CURTAL (8) [noun] A variety of short-barrelled cannon. | [noun] An early type of bassoon. | [noun] A horse or other animal having a docked tail. CURTER (8) CURTLY (11) CURTSY (11) [noun] A small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses one calf of her leg behind the other and briefly bends her knees and lowers her body in deference. | [verb] To make a curtsey. CURULE (8) [adjective] Designating a kind of elaborate ceremonial seat inlaid with ivory, used by the highest magistrates in ancient Rome. CURVED (12) [verb] To bend; to crook. | [verb] To cause to swerve from a straight course. | [verb] To bend or turn gradually from a given direction. CURVES (11) [noun] A gentle bend, such as in a road. | [noun] A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line. | [noun] A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject. 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. CURVEY (14) CUSCUS (10) [noun] A type of marsupial from New Guinea. | [noun] A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina. CUSECS (10) [noun] A measure of the rate of flow of fluid, especially through a pipeline, equal to one cubic foot per second. CUSHAT (11) [noun] A pigeon, wood pigeon or ring dove. CUSHAW (14) [noun] Any of certain cultivars of Cucurbita argyrosperma (Cucurbita mixta), one of the species of winter squash. CUSPED (11) CUSPID (11) [noun] A tooth with a single cusp; a canine. CUSPIS (10) CUSSED (9) [verb] To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely. | [adjective] Ill-tempered, nasty, obstinate. | [adverb] (degree) Very, cussedly, accursedly. CUSSER (8) CUSSES (8) [noun] A curse. | [noun] A curse word. | [verb] To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely. CUSSOS (8) CUSTOM (10) [noun] Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving. | [noun] Traditional beliefs or rituals | [noun] Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, factory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. CUSTOS (8) CUTELY (11) 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. CUTESY (11) [adjective] Overly, affectedly or unnecessarily cute; too cute to be taken seriously. CUTEYS (11) [noun] A cute person or animal. | [noun] A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand. | [noun] (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma. CUTIES (8) [noun] A cute person or animal. | [noun] A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand. | [noun] (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma. CUTINS (8) [noun] A waxy polymer of hydroxy acids that is the main constituent of plant cuticle. CUTLAS (8) CUTLER (8) [noun] One whose business is making or dealing in cutlery. 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. CUTOFF (14) [noun] The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited. | [noun] A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut. | [noun] A device that stops the flow of a current. 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. CUTTER (8) [noun] A person or device that cuts (in various senses). | [noun] A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop. | [noun] A foretooth; an incisor. CUTTLE (8) [noun] Any of various squid-like cephalopods (marine mollusks) of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened | [noun] A knife. | [noun] A foul-mouthed fellow. CUTUPS (10) [noun] Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes. CYMOUS (13) CYPRUS (13) DATUMS (9) DATURA (7) [noun] A plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties. DAUBED (10) [verb] To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes. | [verb] To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner. | [verb] To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. DAUBER (9) [noun] One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter. | [noun] (copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber. | [noun] A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card. DAUBES (9) [noun] A stew of braised meat, usually beef. DAUBRY (12) DAUNTS (7) [verb] To discourage, intimidate. | [verb] To overwhelm. DAUTED (8) DAUTIE (7) DEBUGS (10) [verb] To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery. | [verb] To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere). | [verb] To remove insects from (somewhere), especially lice. DEBUNK (13) [verb] To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something. DEBUTS (9) [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. DECURY (12) DEDUCE (10) [verb] To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises. | [verb] To take away; to deduct; to subtract. | [verb] (Latinism) To lead forth. DEDUCT (10) [verb] To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount. DEFUND (11) [verb] To cancel funding for. DEFUSE (10) [verb] To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.). | [verb] To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile. | [verb] To disorder; to make shapeless. DEFUZE (19) DEGUMS (10) DEGUST (8) [verb] To taste carefully to fully appreciate it. | [verb] To savour DELUDE (8) [verb] To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe. | [verb] To frustrate or disappoint. DELUGE (8) [noun] A great flood or rain. | [noun] An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction. | [noun] (military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System. DELUXE (14) [adjective] Very fine in quality or luxurious. DEMURE (9) [verb] To look demurely. | [adjective] (usually of women) Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious. | [adjective] Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity. DEMURS (9) [noun] Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple. | [verb] To linger; to stay; to tarry | [verb] To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. DENGUE (8) [noun] An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain. DENUDE (8) [verb] To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip. DEPUTE (9) [noun] Deputy | [verb] To assign (someone or something) to or for something | [verb] To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate DEPUTY (12) [noun] One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office | [noun] A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners. | [noun] (France): A member of the Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif DETOUR (7) [noun] A diversion or deviation from one's original route. | [verb] To make a detour. | [verb] To direct or send on a detour. DEUCED (10) [adjective] Damned. | [adverb] (degree) Damned. DEUCES (9) [noun] A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards. | [noun] A side of a die with two spots. | [noun] A cast of dice totalling two. DEVOUR (10) [verb] To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously. | [verb] To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste. | [verb] To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze. 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. DHURNA (10) DHUTIS (10) DIBBUK (15) DICTUM (11) [noun] An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm. | [noun] A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. | [noun] The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. DILUTE (7) [noun] An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual. | [verb] To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water. | [verb] To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. DIMOUT (9) DINGUS (8) [noun] A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor. | [noun] A fool or incompetent person. | [noun] Penis DINKUM (13) [noun] Hard work. | [noun] Truth. | [adjective] Genuine, true, honest, on the level. DIQUAT (16) [noun] A contact herbicide that produces desiccation and defoliation. DIRDUM (10) DISBUD (10) [verb] To remove buds from a plant in order to promote growth and health in the remaining buds. | [verb] To remove horn-buds from a young calf, lamb or goat kid, to prevent growth of horns. DISCUS (9) [noun] A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport. | [noun] The athletics sport of discus throwing. | [noun] (plural: discus) A discus fish (genus Symphysodon) DISUSE (7) [noun] The state of not being used; neglect. | [verb] To cease the use of. | [verb] To disaccustom. DIURON (7) DOLOUR (7) [noun] A painful grief or suffering. DONUTS (7) [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. DOOFUS (10) [noun] A person with poor judgment and taste. DORBUG (10) DORSUM (9) [noun] The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants. | [noun] The top of the foot or the back of the hand. | [noun] The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal. DOUBLE (9) [noun] Twice the number, amount, size, etc. | [noun] A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes | [noun] A drink with two portions of alcohol. DOUBLY (12) [adverb] (usually of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; twice the severity or degree. | [adverb] In two ways | [adverb] With duplicity DOUBTS (9) [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. DOUCHE (12) [noun] A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for vaginal irrigation. | [noun] Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe. | [noun] A jet or spray of any liquid. DOUGHS (11) [noun] A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. | [noun] Money. DOUGHT (11) DOUGHY (14) [adjective] Having the characteristics of dough especially in appearance or consistency: as DOUMAS (9) DOURAH (10) DOURAS (7) DOURER (7) DOURLY (10) DOUSED (8) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DOUSER (7) DOUSES (7) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DROGUE (8) [noun] (whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving. | [noun] A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to. | [noun] A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute. DROUKS (11) DROUTH (10) [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. DRUDGE (9) [noun] A person who works in a low servile job. | [noun] Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else. | [verb] To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. DRUGGY (12) [noun] A drug addict or abuser. | [adjective] Acting as if on drugs; torpid, uncoordinated, etc. DRUIDS (8) [noun] One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions. DRUMLY (12) DRUNKS (11) [noun] One who is intoxicated with alcohol. | [noun] A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated. | [noun] A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness. DRUPES (9) [noun] A stone fruit. DRUSES (7) [noun] An inner surface with a crust of tiny crystals. | [noun] An aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants. | [noun] A tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye. DUALLY (10) DUBBED (12) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. DUBBER (11) DUBBIN (11) [noun] A mixture of tallow and oil used to soften leather, and make it waterproof. | [verb] To apply dubbin to DUCATS (9) [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. DUCKED (14) [verb] To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. DUCKER (13) DUCKIE (13) DUCTAL (9) DUCTED (10) [verb] To channel something through a duct (or series of ducts). | [adjective] Fitted with a duct DUDDIE (9) DUDEEN (8) [noun] A short-stemmed Irish pipe made out of clay. DUDING (9) [verb] To address someone as dude. | [verb] To take a vacation in a dude ranch. | [verb] Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes. DUDISH (11) DUELED (8) [verb] To engage in a battle. DUELER (7) [noun] A person who fights a duel DUELLI (7) DUELLO (7) [noun] A duel. DUENDE (8) [noun] A small, mischievous humanoid creature in Iberian (Spanish/Portuguese), Latin American, and Philippine folklore/mythology; an imp. | [noun] Personal charm. DUENNA (7) [noun] A chaperon of a young lady, usually an older woman. | [noun] A governess or nanny. DUFFEL (13) [noun] A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. | [noun] Outfit or supplies, collectively; kit. DUFFER (13) [adjective] Worthless; not working properly, defective. | [noun] An incompetent or clumsy person. | [noun] A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs. DUFFLE (13) [noun] A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. | [noun] Outfit or supplies, collectively; kit. DUGONG (9) [noun] A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus Dugong, found in tropical regions. 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. DUIKER (11) [noun] Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily. DUKING (12) [verb] To hit or beat with the fists. | [verb] To give cash to; to give a tip to. DULCET (9) [adjective] Sweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious. | [adjective] Generally pleasing; agreeable. | [adjective] Sweet to the taste. DULIAS (7) DULLED (8) [verb] To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. | [verb] To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy. | [verb] To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. DULLER (7) [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. DULSES (7) DUMBED (12) [verb] To silence. | [verb] To make stupid. | [verb] To represent as stupid. DUMBER (11) [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. DUMBLY (14) DUMDUM (12) [noun] A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound. | [noun] An ignorant person; an idiot. DUMPED (12) [verb] To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. | [verb] To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore. | [verb] To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping. DUMPER (11) [noun] A small vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites. | [noun] A dropper of refuse, particularly not in landfill sites/recycling sites. | [noun] One who dumps a boyfriend or girlfriend; the one of a romantic couple who terminates the relationship. DUNAMS (9) [noun] An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre. | [noun] A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma. | [noun] Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2). DUNCES (9) [noun] An unintelligent person. DUNGED (9) [verb] To fertilize with dung. | [verb] (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant. | [verb] To release dung: to defecate. DUNITE (7) [noun] A type of igneous rock with a coarse-grained or phaneritic texture. DUNKED (12) DUNKER (11) [noun] Someone who dunks. | [noun] A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks. | [noun] A biscuit that is suitable for dunking in a cup of tea. DUNLIN (7) [noun] A small wading bird, Calidris alpina, found along the coast and having a distinctive black belly patch in its breeding plumage. A type of stint. DUNNED (8) [verb] To ask or beset a debtor for payment. | [verb] To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request. | [verb] To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance. DUNNER (7) DUNTED (8) [verb] To strike; give a blow to; knock. DUOLOG (8) DUOMOS (9) [noun] A cathedral, especially one in Italy. DUPERS (9) [noun] A person who dupes another DUPERY (12) DUPING (10) [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [verb] To duplicate. DUPLEX (16) [noun] A house made up of two dwelling units. | [noun] A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting. | [noun] A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time. DUPPED (12) DURBAR (9) [noun] A ceremonial gathering held by a ruler in India. | [noun] An audience chamber. | [noun] The body of officials at a native court. DURESS (7) [noun] Harsh treatment. | [noun] Constraint by threat. | [noun] Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats. DURIAN (7) [noun] Any of several trees, genus Durio, of Southeast Asia. | [noun] The spiky edible fruit of this tree, known for its strong taste and very strong, unpleasant odor. | [noun] A yellow colour, like that of durian flesh (also called durian yellow). DURING (8) [verb] To last, continue, endure. | [preposition] For all of a given time interval. | [preposition] At any time or period within a given time interval. DURION (7) DURNED (8) [adjective] Darned. DUROCS (9) [noun] A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America. DURRAS (7) DURRIE (7) [noun] A thick, flat-woven cotton Indian rug or carpet. DURUMS (9) DUSKED (12) [verb] To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk. | [verb] To make dusk. DUSTED (8) [verb] To remove dust from. | [verb] To remove dust; to clean by removing dust. | [verb] Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth. DUSTER (7) [noun] An object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc. | [noun] Someone who dusts. | [noun] A light, loose-fitting long coat. DUSTUP (9) [noun] A scuffle or fight. | [noun] (by extension) An argument or dispute. DUTIES (7) [noun] That which one is morally or legally obligated to do. | [noun] The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task. | [noun] A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff. DUVETS (10) [noun] A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets. | [noun] A cover for a quilt or comforter. DYBBUK (18) [noun] A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. DYVOUR (13) EARFUL (9) [noun] An angry reprimand, castigation or telling off | [noun] Intimate gossip EDUCED (10) [verb] To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. | [verb] To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. | [verb] To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop. EDUCES (9) [verb] To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. | [verb] To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. | [verb] To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop. EDUCTS (9) EFFLUX (19) [noun] The process of flowing out. | [noun] That which has flowed out. | [verb] To run out; to flow forth. EFFUSE (12) [noun] Effusion; loss | [verb] To emit; to give off | [verb] To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something EGGCUP (12) [noun] A small dish used to support a boiled egg while it is eaten. EKUELE (10) ELUANT (6) [noun] The product of elution | [noun] In chromatography, a solvent used in order to effect separation by elution. ELUATE (6) [noun] A liquid solution that results from elution | [verb] To subject or be subjected to elution ELUDED (8) [verb] To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill | [verb] To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip | [verb] To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to ELUDER (7) ELUDES (7) [verb] To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill | [verb] To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip | [verb] To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to ELUENT (6) [noun] In chromatography, a solvent used in order to effect separation by elution. ELUTED (7) [verb] To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse. ELUTES (6) [verb] To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse. ELUVIA (9) EMBRUE (10) [verb] To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.). EMEUTE (8) ENDUED (8) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). ENDUES (7) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). ENDURE (7) [verb] To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist. | [verb] To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant. | [verb] To last. ENDURO (7) [noun] A motorcycle sport run on predominantly off-road courses, with many obstacles and challenges. | [noun] A particular race or event in the sport of enduro. ENGLUT (7) ENGULF (10) [verb] To overwhelm. | [verb] To surround; to cover. | [verb] To cast into a gulf. ENNUIS (6) ENNUYE (9) ENOUGH (10) [adverb] Sufficiently. | [adverb] Fully; quite; used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very. | [pronoun] A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc. ENSOUL (6) [verb] To give a soul or place in the soul. ENSUED (7) [verb] To follow (a leader, inclination etc.). | [verb] To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. | [verb] To occur afterwards, as a result or effect. ENSUES (6) [verb] To follow (a leader, inclination etc.). | [verb] To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. | [verb] To occur afterwards, as a result or effect. ENSURE (6) [verb] To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. | [verb] To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). ENURED (7) [verb] To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative; used with to. ENURES (6) [verb] To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative; used with to. EQUALS (15) [noun] A person or thing of equal status to others. | [noun] State of being equal; equality. | [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. EQUATE (15) [noun] A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value. | [verb] To consider equal or equivalent. | [verb] To set as equal. EQUIDS (16) [noun] Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.) EQUINE (15) [noun] Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus. | [adjective] Of or relating to a horse or horses. | [adjective] Of or relating to any member or members of the genus Equus. EQUIPS (17) [verb] To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging) | [verb] To dress up; to array; to clothe. | [verb] To prepare (someone) with a skill. EQUITY (18) [noun] Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right". | [noun] Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England | [noun] Various senses related to net value ERBIUM (10) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68: a silvery-white metal, in nature always found in combination with other elements. | [noun] A single atom of this element. ERUCTS (8) [verb] To burp or belch. ERUGOS (7) ERUPTS (8) [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. ESCUDO (9) [noun] The state currency formerly used in Portugal, divided into 100 centavos. The symbol is $ which is positioned between the escudos & centavos, 2$50. | [noun] The currency formerly used in Chile and replaced by the Peso. | [noun] The current currency of Cape Verde. ESTRUM (8) [noun] A biting fly of the genus Oestrus; a botfly. | [noun] A bite or sting. | [noun] A passion or frenzy. ESTRUS (6) [noun] A biting fly of the genus Oestrus; a botfly. | [noun] A bite or sting. | [noun] A passion or frenzy. ETUDES (7) [noun] A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill. EUCHRE (11) [noun] A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards. | [verb] To deceive or outwit. EULOGY (10) [noun] An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral. | [noun] Speaking highly of someone or something; the act of praising or commending someone or something. EUNUCH (11) [noun] A castrated human male. | [noun] Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials. | [noun] (in translations of ancient texts) A man who is not inclined to marry and procreate. EUPNEA (8) EUREKA (10) [noun] An alloy of copper and nickel whose resistivity is constant over a wide temperature range | [interjection] An exclamation indicating sudden discovery. EURIPI (8) EUROKY (13) EUTAXY (16) EXCUSE (15) [noun] Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault. | [noun] A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts. | [noun] (with preceding negative adjective, especially sorry, poor or lame) An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality. EXEQUY (25) [noun] (now only in plural) Funeral rites. 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). EXHUME (18) [verb] To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. | [verb] To uncover; to bring to light. EXODUS (14) [noun] A sudden departure of a large number of people. | [verb] To depart from a place in a large group. EXUDED (15) [verb] To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. | [verb] To flow out through the pores. EXUDES (14) [verb] To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. | [verb] To flow out through the pores. EXULTS (13) [verb] To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph. EXURBS (15) [noun] A residential area beyond the suburbs. EXUVIA (16) EYECUP (13) [noun] An eyebath | [noun] Coon eyes | [noun] A shield surrounding the eyepiece of a camera. EYEFUL (12) [noun] A full or complete view; a good look. | [noun] (sometimes ironic) A remarkable sight or a very attractive person. | [noun] An amount of material blown into the eye. | [adjective] Filling or attractive to the eye; visible; remarkable. FACEUP (13) FACULA (11) [noun] A bright spot or patch between sunspots FAMOUS (11) [verb] To make famous; to bring renown to. | [adjective] Well known. | [adjective] In the public eye. FAMULI (11) [noun] A close attendant or assistant, especially of a magician or occult scholar. FANUMS (11) FAQUIR (18) [noun] A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms. | [noun] (Hindu) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. | [noun] Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. FAUCAL (11) FAUCES (11) [noun] The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue. | [noun] The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc. | [noun] That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture. 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 FAULDS (10) FAULTS (9) [noun] A defect; something that detracts from perfection. | [noun] A mistake or error. | [noun] A weakness of character; a failing. FAULTY (12) [adjective] Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable. | [adjective] At fault, to blame; guilty. FAUNAE (9) [noun] Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. | [noun] A book, cataloguing the animals of a country. FAUNAL (9) FAUNAS (9) [noun] Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. | [noun] A book, cataloguing the animals of a country. FAUVES (12) FAVOUR (12) [noun] A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). | [noun] Goodwill; benevolent regard. | [noun] A small gift; a party favor. FECULA (11) FECUND (12) [adjective] Highly fertile; able to produce offspring. | [adjective] Leading to new ideas or innovation. FEMURS (11) [noun] A thighbone. | [noun] The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia. | [noun] A segment of the leg of an arachnid. FERRUM (11) FERULA (9) [noun] A ferule. | [noun] A stroke from a cane. | [noun] The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire. FERULE (9) [noun] A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand. | [verb] To punish with a ferule. FESCUE (11) [noun] A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. | [noun] A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca. | [noun] An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. FEUARS (9) FEUDAL (10) [adjective] Of, or relating to feudalism. FEUDED (11) [verb] To carry on a feud. FEUING (10) [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FIBULA (11) [noun] An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin. | [noun] The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg, the calf bone. FICHUS (14) [noun] A woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front, or tucked into a bodice to cover the exposed part of the neck and chest. FIGURE (10) [noun] A drawing or diagram conveying information. | [noun] The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body. | [noun] A person or thing representing a certain consciousness. FIQUES (18) FITFUL (12) [adjective] Irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits. FIXURE (16) FLATUS (9) [noun] Gas generated in the digestive tract. | [noun] Expulsion of such gas through the anus. | [noun] Morbid inflation or swelling. 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. FLEURY (12) [adjective] (especially of a cross) Decorated (finished at the ends) with fleurs-de-lis. FLOURS (9) [noun] Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry. | [noun] The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid and certain bleaching agents. | [noun] Powder of other material. FLOURY (12) [adjective] Resembling flour. | [adjective] Covered in flour. FLOUTS (9) [verb] To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action. | [verb] To scorn. 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. FLUFFS (15) [noun] Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers. | [noun] Anything inconsequential or superficial. | [noun] A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines. FLUFFY (18) [noun] Someone or something that has a fluffy texture. | [noun] A person who is superficial, who lacks depth or seriousness. | [noun] A babycino (frothy milk drink). FLUIDS (10) [noun] Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma. | [noun] A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas). | [noun] (specifically, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids. FLUKED (14) [verb] To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance. | [verb] To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way. | [adjective] Having flukes. FLUKES (13) [noun] A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated. | [noun] A flounder. | [noun] A trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the Trematoda class, related to the tapeworm. FLUKEY (16) [adjective] Lucky | [adjective] Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes FLUMED (12) FLUMES (11) [noun] A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through. | [noun] An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids. | [verb] To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough. FLUMPS (13) [noun] The dull sound so produced. | [noun] A type of large marshmallow. | [noun] (by extension) A fat out-of-shape person. FLUNKS (13) [verb] Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass. | [verb] Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade. | [verb] To shirk (a task or duty). FLUNKY (16) [noun] An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | [noun] One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob. | [noun] One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. FLUORS (9) FLURRY (12) [noun] A light, brief snowfall. | [noun] A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze. | [noun] A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind. FLUTED (10) [verb] To play on a flute. | [verb] To make a flutelike sound. | [verb] To utter with a flutelike sound. FLUTER (9) FLUTES (9) [noun] A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin. | [noun] A recorder, also a woodwind instrument. | [noun] A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne. FLUTEY (12) [adjective] Resembling the sound of a flute. FLUXED (17) [verb] To use flux on. | [verb] To melt. | [verb] To flow as a liquid. FLUXES (16) [noun] The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream. | [noun] A state of ongoing change. | [noun] A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding. FLUYTS (12) FOETUS (9) [noun] An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. | [noun] A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation. FOLIUM (11) [noun] A leaf, especially a thin leaf or plate. | [noun] A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches having a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop. FONDUE (10) [noun] A dish made of melted cheese, chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped. | [verb] To prepare or serve as a fondue. FONDUS (10) FORUMS (11) [noun] A place for discussion. | [noun] A gathering for the purpose of discussion. | [noun] A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. 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. FOULED (10) [verb] To make dirty. | [verb] To besmirch. | [verb] To clog or obstruct. FOULER (9) [adjective] Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty. | [adjective] (of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive. | [adjective] Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome. FOULLY (12) FOUNDS (10) [verb] To start (an institution or organization). | [verb] To begin building. | [verb] To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting. FOUNTS (9) [noun] Something from which water flows. | [noun] A device from which poultry may drink. | [noun] That from which something flows or proceeds; a source. FOURTH (12) [noun] (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the fourth position. | [noun] (chiefly American) A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole. | [noun] (not used in the plural) The fourth gear of an engine. FRAUDS (10) [noun] The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. | [noun] Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain. | [noun] The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end. FRENUM (11) [noun] A frenulum. FROUZY (21) FRUGAL (10) [adjective] Avoiding unnecessary expenditure either of money or of anything else which is to be used or consumed; avoiding waste. FRUITS (9) [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: FRUITY (12) [adjective] Containing fruit or fruit flavoring. | [adjective] Similar to fruit or tasting of fruit. | [adjective] Mad, crazy. FRUMPS (13) [noun] A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy. | [noun] The clothes that such a person would wear. | [noun] A bad-tempered person. FRUMPY (16) [adjective] Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable. | [adjective] Bad-tempered. FRUSTA (9) [noun] A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base. | [noun] A portion of a sphere, or in general any solid, delimited by two parallel planes. FUBBED (14) FUCKED (16) [verb] To have sexual intercourse, to copulate. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft. FUCKER (15) [noun] An undesirable person. | [noun] The object of some effort. | [noun] People, friends, especially of very high solidarity. FUCKUP (17) [noun] A serious mistake. | [noun] One who continually makes mistakes. | [noun] An ineffective person; a person who fucks up a lot FUCOID (12) [noun] A fucoid seaweed. | [adjective] Resembling or relating to seaweeds of the genus Fucus. | [adjective] Of sandstone: bearing seaweed-like markings. FUCOSE (11) FUCOUS (11) FUDDLE (11) [noun] Intoxication. | [noun] Intoxicating drink; liquor. | [noun] Muddle, confusion. FUDGED (12) [verb] To try to avoid giving a direct answer. | [verb] To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral. | [verb] To botch or bungle something. FUDGES (11) [noun] A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge. | [noun] Light or frothy nonsense. | [noun] A deliberately misleading or vague answer. FUELED (10) [verb] To provide with fuel. | [verb] To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater. FUELER (9) FUGATO (10) [noun] A fugal passage in a composition that is not a strict or complete fugue. FUGGED (12) FUGIOS (10) FUGLED (11) FUGLES (10) FUGUED (11) FUGUES (10) [noun] A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody. | [noun] Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality. | [noun] A fugue state. FUHRER (12) [noun] A leader, especially one exercising the powers of a tyrant | [noun] (definite) Adolf Hitler when he was the chancellor of Nazi Germany FULCRA (11) [noun] The support about which a lever pivots. | [noun] A crux or pivot; a central point. FULFIL (12) [verb] To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.). | [verb] To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest. | [verb] To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.). FULGID (11) FULHAM (14) FULLAM (11) FULLED (10) [verb] (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated. | [verb] To baptise. | [verb] To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk FULLER (9) [adjective] Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available. | [adjective] Complete; with nothing omitted. | [adjective] Total, entire. | [noun] A person who fulls cloth. | [noun] A convex, rounded or grooved tool, used by blacksmiths for shaping metal. FULMAR (11) [noun] Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs. FUMBLE (13) [noun] A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident. | [verb] To handle nervously or awkwardly. | [verb] To grope awkwardly in trying to find something | [noun] A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble. FUMERS (11) FUMETS (11) [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. FUMIER (11) FUMING (12) [verb] To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. | [verb] To apply or offer incense to. | [verb] To emit fumes. FUMULI (11) FUNDED (11) [verb] To pay for. | [verb] To place (money) in a fund. | [verb] To form a debt into a stock charged with interest. FUNDIC (12) FUNDUS (10) [noun] The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially FUNEST (9) FUNGAL (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a fungus or fungi. FUNGIC (12) FUNGUS (10) [noun] Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular. | [noun] A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound. FUNKED (14) [verb] To emit an offensive smell; to stink. | [verb] To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. | [verb] To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear. FUNKER (13) FUNKIA (13) [noun] Any of the plants of the genus Funkia (now Hosta). FUNNED (10) [verb] To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of. FUNNEL (9) [noun] A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening. | [noun] A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like. | [verb] To use a funnel. | [noun] A hinny; hybrid of male horse and female donkey. FUNNER (9) [adjective] Enjoyable, amusing | [adjective] Whimsical, flamboyant FURANE (9) FURANS (9) [noun] Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom; especially the simplest one, C4H4O. FURFUR (12) FURIES (9) [noun] Extreme anger. | [noun] Strength or violence in action. | [noun] An angry or malignant person. FURLED (10) [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) FURLER (9) FURORE (9) [noun] Uproar; enthusiastic anger. | [noun] Excitement or commotion. FURORS (9) [noun] A general uproar or commotion | [noun] Violent anger or frenzy | [noun] A state of intense excitement FURRED (10) [verb] To cover with fur or a fur-like coating. | [verb] To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating. | [verb] To level a surface by applying furring to it. FURROW (12) [noun] A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop. | [noun] Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal. | [noun] A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead. FURZES (18) FUSAIN (9) [noun] Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement. | [noun] A drawing made with it. FUSEES (9) [noun] A light musket or firelock. | [noun] A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks. | [noun] A large friction match. FUSELS (9) FUSILE (9) FUSILS (9) [noun] A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge. | [noun] A light flintlock musket or firelock. FUSING (10) [verb] To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. | [verb] To melt together. | [verb] To furnish with or install a fuse. FUSION (9) [noun] The act of merging separate elements, or the result thereof. | [verb] To combine; to fuse FUSSED (10) [verb] To be very worried or excited about something, often too much. | [verb] To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust | [verb] (especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured. FUSSER (9) FUSSES (9) [noun] Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something. | [noun] A complaint or noise; a scene. | [noun] An exhibition of affection or admiration. FUSTIC (11) [noun] A tropical American tree, Maclura tinctoria, whose wood produces a yellow dye. | [noun] A European tree, Eurasian smoketree, Cotinus coggygria, whose wood produces an orange dye. | [noun] The wood of these trees. FUTILE (9) [adjective] Incapable of producing results; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting. FUTONS (9) [noun] A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed. | [noun] A round cushion used for Zen meditation, traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves. FUTURE (9) [noun] The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced. | [noun] Something that will happen in moments yet to come. | [noun] Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to. FUTZED (19) [verb] To be frivolous and waste time | [verb] To experiment by trial and error FUTZES (18) [verb] To be frivolous and waste time | [verb] To experiment by trial and error FUZEES (18) [noun] A light musket or firelock. | [noun] A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks. | [noun] A large friction match. FUZILS (18) FUZING (19) [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. FUZZED (28) [verb] To make fuzzy. | [verb] To become fuzzy. | [verb] To make drunk. FUZZES (27) [noun] A frizzy mass of hair or fibre. | [noun] Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image. | [noun] The random data used in fuzz testing. GAGAKU (12) GALLUS (7) GAMUTS (9) [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. GANGUE (8) [noun] The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore. GATEAU (7) [noun] A rich, usually iced, cake. | [noun] A dish of minced meat made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould. GAUCHE (12) [adjective] Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling. | [adjective] Skewed, not plane. | [adjective] Describing a torsion angle of 60°. GAUCHO (12) [noun] A cowboy of the South American pampas. GAUGED (9) [verb] To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of. | [verb] To estimate. | [verb] To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of. GAUGER (8) GAUGES (8) [noun] A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard | [noun] An act of measuring. | [noun] An estimate. GAULTS (7) [noun] A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks. GAUMED (10) GAUZES (16) [noun] A thin fabric with a loose, open weave. | [noun] A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing. | [noun] A thin woven metal or plastic mesh. GAZUMP (20) [noun] The act of gazumping. | [verb] To swindle; to extort. | [verb] To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one. | [noun] An automobile. GENIUS (7) [noun] Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc. | [noun] Extraordinary mental capacity. | [noun] Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process. GERUND (8) [noun] (grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language) | [noun] (grammar) In some languages such as Dutch, Italian or Russian, a verbal form similar to a present participle, but functioning as an adverb to form adverbial phrases or continuous tense. These constructions have various names besides gerund, depending on the language, such as conjunctive participles, active participles, adverbial participles, transgressives, etc. GETUPS (9) [noun] Enthusiastic and energetic drive or ambition | [noun] A costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual. | [noun] A fight or altercation. GHAUTS (10) GHOULS (10) [noun] (Muslim demonology) A demon said to feed on corpses. | [noun] A graverobber. | [noun] A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive. GIAOUR (7) [noun] A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians. GIGUES (8) [noun] An Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period). GLOMUS (9) GLOUTS (7) GLUCAN (9) [noun] Any polysaccharide that is a polymer of glucose GLUERS (7) GLUIER (7) [adjective] Viscous and adhesive, as glue. GLUILY (10) GLUING (8) [verb] To join or attach something using glue. | [verb] To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively. | [noun] The act of attaching something with glue. GLUMES (9) [noun] A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae). GLUMLY (12) GLUMPY (14) GLUNCH (12) GLUONS (7) [noun] A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force. GLUTEI (7) [noun] One of the several muscles of nates, which arises from a pelvis and inserted into a femur. | [noun] Short for gluteus maximus, the large muscles in the human buttocks. GLUTEN (7) [noun] Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours"). | [noun] Any gluey, sticky substance. | [noun] The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread. GOMUTI (9) GONIUM (9) GOUGED (9) [verb] To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. | [verb] To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price. | [verb] To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket. GOUGER (8) GOUGES (8) [noun] Senses relating to cutting tools. | [noun] A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp. | [noun] (originally United States) An act of gouging. GOURDE (8) [noun] The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes. GOURDS (8) [noun] Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae). | [noun] A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita. | [noun] The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration. GRADUS (8) [noun] A handbook used as an aid in a difficult art or practice, specifically, a dictionary of Greek or Latin prosody used as a guide in writing of poetry in Greek or Latin. GRANUM (9) [noun] A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis. GROUCH (12) [noun] A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor. | [noun] One who is grumpy or irritable. | [verb] To be grumpy or irritable; to complain. GROUND (8) [noun] The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground. | [noun] Terrain. | [noun] Soil, earth. | [verb] To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion. GROUPS (9) [noun] A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. | [noun] A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. | [noun] An effective divisor on a curve. GROUSE (7) [noun] Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere. | [verb] To seek or shoot grouse. | [noun] A cause for complaint. | [adjective] Excellent. GROUTS (7) [verb] To insert mortar between tiles. GROUTY (10) GRUBBY (14) [noun] Any species of Cottus; a sculpin. | [adjective] Dirty, unwashed, unclean. | [adjective] Having grubs in it. GRUDGE (9) [noun] Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to a past misdeed or mistreatment. | [verb] To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). | [verb] To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. GRUELS (7) GRUFFS (13) GRUFFY (16) GRUGRU (8) GRUMES (9) [noun] A thick semisolid | [noun] A clot (of blood) GRUMPS (11) [noun] A habitually grumpy or complaining person. | [noun] A grumpy mood. | [verb] To complain. GRUMPY (14) [adjective] Dissatisfied and irritable. GRUNGE (8) [noun] Dirt or filth, especially when difficult to clean. | [noun] The state of being filthy; grubbiness. | [noun] A subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington, which melds punk and metal. GRUNGY (11) [adjective] Dirty; shabby; in disrepair. | [adjective] Of or relating to grunge music. GRUNTS (7) [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. GRUTCH (12) GUACOS (9) GUAIAC (9) [noun] A paper treated with alpha-guaiaconic acid, used in tests to detect blood in the faeces. GUANAY (10) GUANIN (7) GUANOS (7) [noun] Dung from a sea bird or from a bat. | [noun] A variety of seabird. GUARDS (8) [noun] A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something. | [noun] A garda; a police officer. | [noun] A squad responsible for protecting something. GUAVAS (10) [noun] A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava. | [noun] Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color. | [noun] A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink). GUENON (7) [noun] An Old World monkey of the genus Cercopithecus. GUESTS (7) [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. GUFFAW (16) [noun] A boisterous laugh. | [verb] To laugh boisterously. GUGGLE (9) GUGLET (8) GUIDED (9) [verb] To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. | [verb] To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot. | [verb] To exert control or influence over someone or something. GUIDER (8) [noun] One who guides. GUIDES (8) [noun] Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation. | [noun] A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. | [noun] A sign that guides people; guidepost. GUIDON (8) [noun] A small pennant or banner carried by infantry soldiers to direct troop movement. | [noun] A soldier assigned to carry such a banner. GUILDS (8) [noun] A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages. | [noun] A corporation. | [noun] A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits. GUILED (8) GUILES (7) GUILTS (7) [verb] To commit offenses; act criminally. | [verb] To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour. GUILTY (10) [noun] A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge. | [noun] A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime. | [noun] One who is declared guilty of a crime. GUIMPE (11) [noun] Gimp; a narrow flat braid or reinforced cord of fabric used for ornamental trimming. | [noun] A kind of short, high-necked blouse with sleeves of the late Victorian era, designed to be worn under a low-cut dress, jumper, or pinafore dress. | [noun] A kind of short chemisette or yoke insert made of lace, embroidery, or the like, worn with a low-necked dress. GUINEA (7) [noun] A person of Italian descent. | [noun] A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings. | [noun] Any of several African birds of the family Numididae (6 species) resembling partridges. GUIROS (7) [noun] A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound. | [noun] A genre of traditional Cuban music, used in santería rituals. | [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a gourd surrounded by a net of beads. GUISED (8) GUISES (7) [noun] Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.) | [noun] External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape. | [noun] Misleading appearance; cover, cloak. GUITAR (7) [noun] A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick). | [noun] Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. | [verb] To play the guitar. GULAGS (8) [noun] A prison camp. | [noun] The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period. GULDEN (8) [noun] An old currency of the Netherlands (and its overseas territory the Netherlands Antilles). GULFED (11) GULLED (8) [verb] To deceive or cheat. | [verb] To mislead. | [verb] To trick and defraud. 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. GULLEY (10) [noun] A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside. | [noun] A small valley. | [noun] A drop kerb. GULPED (10) [verb] To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow. | [verb] To react nervously by swallowing. GULPER (9) [noun] One who gulps. | [noun] A gulper eel. GUMBOS (11) [noun] A soup or stew made with okra. | [noun] A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy. | [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. GUMMAS (11) [noun] A soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis. GUMMED (12) [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. | [verb] (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to. GUMMER (11) GUNDOG (9) [noun] A breed of dog used by hunters to find, flush out and retrieve birds and other game. GUNITE (7) [noun] A form of shotcrete in which a dry cementitious mixture is blown through a hose to the nozzle, with water injected only at the point of application. GUNMAN (9) [noun] A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer. GUNMEN (9) [noun] A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer. GUNNED (8) [verb] (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm. | [verb] To speed something up. | [verb] To offer vigorous support to a person or cause. GUNNEL (7) [noun] A small eel-shaped marine fish of the family Pholidae, especially Pholis gunnellus. | [noun] The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck. GUNNEN (7) GUNNER (7) [noun] Artillery soldier, or such who holds private rank. Abbreviated Gnr. | [noun] A person who operates a gun. | [noun] An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition. | [noun] (Cebu) The person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session. GUNSEL (7) [noun] (dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother. | [noun] A promiscuous woman, slut, whore. | [noun] A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman. | [noun] A gun-carrying hoodlum or other criminal. GURGED (9) GURGES (8) GURGLE (8) [noun] A gurgling sound. | [verb] To flow with a bubbling sound. | [verb] To make such a sound. GURNET (7) GURNEY (10) [noun] A stretcher having wheeled legs. GUSHED (11) [verb] To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. | [verb] To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. | [verb] (especially of a woman) To ejaculate during orgasm. GUSHER (10) [noun] One who gushes (makes an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment). | [noun] An oil well that has a natural flow and so requires no pumping. GUSHES (10) [noun] A sudden rapid outflow. | [verb] To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. | [verb] To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. 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. GUSSIE (7) GUSTED (8) [verb] To blow in gusts. | [verb] To taste. | [verb] To have a relish for. GUTTAE (7) GUTTED (8) [verb] To eviscerate. | [verb] To remove or destroy the most important parts of. | [adjective] Eviscerated. GUTTER (7) [noun] A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water. | [noun] A ditch along the side of a road. | [noun] A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough. | [noun] One who or that which guts. GUTTLE (7) GUYING (11) [verb] To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November. | [verb] To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo. | [verb] To play in a comedic manner. GUYOTS (10) [noun] A flat-topped seamount. GUZZLE (25) [noun] Drink; intoxicating liquor. | [noun] A drinking bout; a debauch. | [noun] An insatiable thing or person. GWEDUC (13) GYPSUM (14) [noun] A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. HAGBUT (12) HALERU (9) HALLUX (16) [noun] The big toe. HALUTZ (18) HAMAUL (11) HAMULI (11) [noun] A hook, or hooklike process. | [noun] A hooked barbicel of a feather. HANGUL (10) HANGUP (12) [noun] An emotional difficulty or a psychological inhibition; a complex. | [noun] An unforeseen obstacle to progress; a hitch. HATFUL (12) HAUGHS (13) [noun] A low-lying meadow by the side of a river. HAULED (10) [verb] To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle. | [verb] To draw or pull something heavy. | [verb] To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move. HAULER (9) [noun] A person or thing that hauls another person or thing. | [noun] A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods. | [noun] A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft. HAULMS (11) [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. | [noun] An individual plant stem. | [noun] Part of a harness; a hame. HAULMY (14) HAUNCH (14) [noun] The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters. | [noun] The loin and leg of a quadruped, especially when used as food. | [noun] A squat vertical support structure. HAUNTS (9) [noun] A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout. | [noun] A ghost. | [noun] A feeding place for animals. HAUSEN (9) HEAUME (11) HELIUM (11) [noun] The second lightest chemical element (symbol He) with an atomic number of 2 and atomic weight of 4.002602, a colorless, odorless and inert noble gas. | [noun] A form or sample of the element. HEUCHS (14) HEUGHS (13) [noun] A steep crag or cliff, especially one with overhanging sides | [noun] A glen with steep, overhanging sides | [noun] A steep excavation, especially a coal pit HIATUS (9) [noun] A gap in a series, making it incomplete. | [noun] An interruption, break or pause. | [noun] An unexpected break from work. HICCUP (15) [noun] A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound. | [noun] (by extension) Any spasm or sudden change. | [noun] A minor setback. 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. HOKUMS (15) HOLDUP (12) [noun] A delay or wait. | [noun] A robbery at gunpoint. | [noun] The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later. HONOUR (9) [noun] Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful) | [noun] The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity | [noun] A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen HOOKUP (15) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A connection. | [noun] A brief sexual relationship or encounter. | [noun] A sexual partner. HOUDAH (13) HOUNDS (10) [noun] A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. | [noun] Any canine animal. | [noun] (by extension) Someone who seeks something. HOURIS (9) [noun] A nymph in the form of a beautiful virgin supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful. | [noun] (by extension) Any voluptuous, beautiful woman. HOURLY (12) [noun] Something produced each hour. | [adjective] Occurring every hour. | [adjective] Unsalaried, paid by the hour; (by extension) blue-collar. HOUSED (10) [verb] To keep within a structure or container. | [verb] To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour. | [verb] To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge. HOUSEL (9) HOUSER (9) HOUSES (9) [noun] A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. | [noun] The people who live in a house; a household. | [noun] A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). HUBBLY (16) HUBBUB (15) [noun] A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket. | [verb] To cause a tumult or racket. HUBCAP (15) [noun] A decorative and protective disk that covers the hub of a motor car wheel HUBRIS (11) [noun] Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods). HUCKLE (15) HUDDLE (11) [noun] A dense and disorderly crowd. | [noun] A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play. | [noun] A hesitation during play to think about one's next move. HUFFED (16) [verb] To breathe heavily. | [verb] To say in a huffy manner. | [verb] To enlarge; to swell up. HUGELY (13) [adverb] Greatly; to a huge extent HUGEST (10) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. HUGGED (12) [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. | [verb] To cling closely together. | [verb] To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms. HUGGER (11) [noun] One who hugs or embraces. | [verb] To conceal; to lurk in ambush. HUIPIL (11) HULKED (14) HULLED (10) [verb] To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed. | [verb] To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled. | [verb] To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc. HULLER (9) HULLOA (9) HULLOS (9) [noun] "Hello!" or an equivalent greeting. | [verb] To greet with "hello". HUMANE (11) [adjective] (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives. | [adjective] Having the nature or attributes of a human being. | [adjective] Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate. HUMANS (11) [noun] A human being, whether man, woman or child. HUMATE (11) HUMBLE (13) [noun] (Baltimore) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject. | [verb] To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of | [verb] To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. | [noun] A stag that has failed to grow antlers; a cow that has not developed horns. HUMBLY (16) [adverb] In a humble manner. HUMBUG (14) [noun] A hoax, jest, or prank. | [noun] A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable). | [noun] A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite. HUMERI (11) [noun] The bone of the upper arm. HUMMED (14) [verb] To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. | [verb] To express by humming. | [verb] To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly HUMMER (13) [noun] One who hums. | [noun] A Humvee. | [noun] A type of vehicle resembling a jeep but bulkier. | [noun] An arrest on false pretexts. HUMMUS (13) [noun] A Levantine Arab dip made of chickpea paste with various additions, such as olive oil, fresh garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, often eaten with pitta bread, or as a meze. It is mostly eaten in the Levant. HUMORS (11) [noun] The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. | [noun] A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. | [noun] Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. HUMOUR (11) [noun] The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. | [noun] A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. | [noun] Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. HUMPED (14) [verb] To bend something into a hump. | [verb] To carry (something), especially with some exertion. | [verb] To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse HUMPHS (16) HUMVEE (14) [noun] A diesel-powered, four-wheel drive tactical military vehicle that can carry a wide variety of military hardware HUNGER (10) [noun] A need or compelling desire for food. | [noun] (by extension) Any strong desire. | [verb] To be in need of food. HUNGRY (13) [adjective] Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food. | [adjective] Causing hunger | [adjective] Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something. HUNKER (13) [verb] To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down | [verb] To apply oneself to a task | [noun] A political conservative. HUNTED (10) [verb] To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport. | [verb] To try to find something; search (for). | [verb] To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc. HUNTER (9) [noun] One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman. | [noun] A dog used in hunting. | [noun] A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting. HURDLE (10) [noun] An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race. | [noun] A perceived obstacle. | [noun] A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes. HURLED (10) [verb] To throw (something) with force. | [verb] To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. | [verb] To participate in the sport of hurling. HURLER (9) [noun] Agent noun of hurl; someone who hurls or throws. | [noun] (1800s) The pitcher. | [noun] Someone who participates in the sport of hurling. HURLEY (12) [noun] A stick used in the game of hurling. | [noun] The game of hurling. HURRAH (12) [noun] A cheer; a cry of hurrah!. | [verb] To give a hurrah (to somebody). | [interjection] Expressing approval, appreciation, or happiness. HURRAY (12) [interjection] Expressing approval, appreciation, or happiness. | [verb] To cheer with a "hurray". HURSTS (9) [noun] (rare outside place names) A wood or grove. HURTER (9) HURTLE (9) [noun] A fast movement in literal or figurative sense. | [noun] A clattering sound. | [verb] To move rapidly, violently, or without control. HUSHED (13) [verb] To become quiet. | [verb] To make quiet. | [verb] To appease; to allay; to soothe. HUSHES (12) [verb] To become quiet. | [verb] To make quiet. | [verb] To appease; to allay; to soothe. HUSKED (14) [verb] To remove husks from. | [verb] To cough, clear one's throat. | [verb] To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice. HUSKER (13) HUSSAR (9) [noun] A member of the national cavalry of Hungary, Croatia and Poland. | [noun] A member of the light cavalry of any of several European armies. HUSTLE (9) [noun] A state of busy activity. | [noun] A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle. | [noun] (preceded by definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle. HUTTED (10) [verb] To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut. | [verb] To take shelter in a hut. | [verb] To stack (sheaves of grain). HUTZPA (20) [noun] Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion. HUZZAH (30) [noun] A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event. | [verb] To cheer with a huzzah sound. | [interjection] Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting. HUZZAS (27) [noun] A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event. IAMBUS (10) [noun] An iamb IGUANA (7) [noun] A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet | [noun] In zoology, any member of the genus Iguana | [noun] Colloquially, in America and the Pacific, any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae. ILLUME (8) [verb] To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright IMAUMS (10) IMBRUE (10) [verb] To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.). IMBUED (11) [verb] To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | [verb] In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. IMBUES (10) [verb] To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | [verb] In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. IMMUNE (10) [noun] A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease | [verb] To make immune. | [adjective] (usually with "from") Exempt; not subject to. IMMURE (10) [noun] A wall; an enclosure. | [verb] To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls. | [verb] To put or bury within a wall. IMPUGN (11) [verb] To assault, attack. | [verb] To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of. IMPURE (10) [verb] To defile; to pollute | [adjective] Not pure IMPUTE (10) [verb] To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source. | [verb] To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution. | [verb] To take into account. INCUBI (10) [noun] An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep. | [noun] A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare. | [noun] (by extension) Any oppressive thing or person; a burden. INCULT (8) INCURS (8) [verb] To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to | [verb] To enter or pass into | [verb] To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger INCUSE (8) [noun] An impression hammered or pressed (onto a coin) | [verb] To hammer or press (usually onto a coin) | [adjective] Hammered or pressed in (usually on a coin) INDIUM (9) [noun] A chemical element (symbol In) with an atomic number of 49: a soft silvery-white metal. | [noun] A single atom of this element. INDUCE (9) [verb] To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon. | [verb] To cause, bring about, lead to. | [verb] To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction. 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). INDUED (8) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). INDUES (7) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). 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. INFLUX (16) [noun] A flow inward or into something; a coming in. | [noun] That which flows or comes in. | [noun] Influence; power. INFUSE (9) [verb] To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill. | [verb] To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal). | [verb] To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with). INGULF (10) [verb] To overwhelm. | [verb] To surround; to cover. | [verb] To cast into a gulf. INHAUL (9) [noun] A rope used to haul in the clew of a sail, or a jib boom INHUME (11) [verb] To bury in a grave. INJURE (13) [verb] To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature. | [verb] To damage or impair. | [verb] To do injustice to. INJURY (16) [noun] Damage to the body of a human or animal. | [noun] The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests. | [noun] Injustice. INPOUR (8) INPUTS (8) [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. INRUSH (9) [noun] A crowding or flooding in. | [noun] The initial flow of electricity into a component when it is switched on. | [verb] To rush in. INSOUL (6) 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. INSURE (6) [verb] To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. | [verb] To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). | [verb] To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event. INTUIT (6) [verb] To know intuitively or by immediate perception. INTURN (6) INULIN (6) [noun] A polysaccharide found in the roots and tubers of certain plants, especially the Compositae; it is mostly a polymer of fructose. INURED (7) [verb] To cause someone to become accustomed to something (usually) unpleasant. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative. | [verb] To commit. INURES (6) [verb] To cause someone to become accustomed to something (usually) unpleasant. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative. | [verb] To commit. INURNS (6) [verb] To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container. | [verb] To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died). IODOUS (7) IONIUM (8) IREFUL (9) IRRUPT (8) [verb] To break into. | [verb] To enter forcibly or uninvited. | [verb] To rapidly increase or intensify. ISSUED (7) [verb] To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from. | [verb] To rush out, to sally forth. | [verb] To extend into, to open onto. ISSUER (6) [noun] One who issues, emits, or publishes. ISSUES (6) [noun] The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly: | [noun] Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly: | [noun] The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly: ITERUM (8) JABIRU (15) [noun] A species of bird Jabiru mycteria in the monotypic genus Jabiru, of the stork family Ciconiidae, endemic to the Americas. | [noun] The black-necked stork, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus. JAGUAR (14) [noun] A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca. JARFUL (16) JAUKED (18) JAUNCE (15) JAUNTS (13) [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. JAUNTY (16) [noun] A master-at-arms onboard a Royal Navy ship | [adjective] Airy; showy; finical. | [adjective] (by extension) Characterized by an affected or fantastical manner. JAUPED (16) JEJUNA (20) [noun] The central of the three divisions of the small intestine which lies between the duodenum and the ileum JEJUNE (20) [adjective] (now rare) Not nutritious. | [adjective] (by extension, of a speech or an argument) Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance. | [adjective] Naive; simplistic. JESUIT (13) JOCUND (16) [adjective] Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness. JORUMS (15) [noun] A large vessel for drinking (usually alcoholic beverages). | [noun] A large quantity. | [noun] The contents, or quantity of the contents, of such a vessel. JOUALS (13) JOUKED (18) [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [verb] To stab JOULES (13) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of energy, work and heat; the work required to exert a force of one newton for a distance of one metre. Also equal to the energy of one watt of power for a duration of one second. Symbol: J JOUNCE (15) [noun] The fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time; the time derivative of jerk. | [verb] To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions. JOUNCY (18) [adjective] Bumpy or bouncy JOUSTS (13) [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) | [verb] To touch penises while engaging in a sex act, especially oral sex. JOYFUL (19) [adjective] Feeling or causing joy. JOYOUS (16) [adjective] Full of joy; happy. JUBBAH (20) JUBHAH (21) JUBILE (15) JUDDER (15) [noun] A spasmodic shaking. | [noun] Jerky playback caused by converting between frame rates; telecine judder | [verb] To spasm or shake violently. JUDGED (16) [verb] To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on. | [verb] To sit in judgment, to act as judge. | [verb] To form an opinion on. JUDGER (15) JUDGES (15) [noun] A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice. | [noun] A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question. | [noun] A person officiating at a sports event or similar. JUDOKA (18) [noun] A practitioner of the Japanese martial art of judo. JUGATE (14) JUGFUL (17) JUGGED (16) [verb] To stew in an earthenware jug etc. | [verb] To put into jail. | [verb] To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale. JUGGLE (15) [noun] (juggling) The act of throwing and catching each prop at least twice, as opposed to a flash. | [noun] The handling or managing of many tasks at once. | [noun] The performance of a magic trick. JUGULA (14) JUGUMS (16) JUICED (16) [verb] To extract the juice from something. | [verb] To energize or stimulate something. | [adjective] (of a fruit etc) That has had the juice extracted. JUICER (15) [noun] A manual or electrical device used for rendering the juice of fruits or vegetables. | [noun] A person who extracts juice for consumption. | [noun] A (citrus) reamer. JUICES (15) [noun] A liquid from a plant, especially fruit. | [noun] A beverage made of juice. | [noun] Any liquid resembling juice. JUJUBE (22) [noun] The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees. | [noun] A fruit-bearing tree, Ziziphus jujuba or Ziziphus zizyphus. | [noun] The fruit of this tree, fructus jujubae. JUKING (18) [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [verb] To stab JULEPS (15) [noun] A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs, especially mint, and sometimes alcohol. | [noun] A pleasant-tasting liquid medicine in which other nauseous medicines are taken. JUMBAL (17) JUMBLE (17) [noun] A mixture of unrelated things. | [noun] Items for a rummage sale. | [noun] A rummage sale. | [noun] A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped. JUMBOS (17) [noun] An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing. | [noun] A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock. | [noun] Short for mumbo jumbo. JUMPED (18) [verb] To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. | [verb] To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. | [verb] To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap. JUMPER (17) [noun] Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing. | [noun] A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height. | [noun] A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire. | [noun] A woolen sweater or pullover. JUNCOS (15) [noun] Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American sparrow. | [noun] The common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus), a bird found in Europe and much of the Palearctic. JUNGLE (14) [noun] A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest. | [noun] Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat. | [noun] A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality. JUNGLY (17) [adjective] Overgrown with jungle. JUNIOR (13) [noun] A younger person. | [noun] A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.). | [noun] A third-year student at a high school or university. JUNKED (18) [verb] To throw away. | [verb] To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop) JUNKER (17) [noun] A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes. | [noun] A beat-up automobile. 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. JUNKIE (17) [noun] A narcotics addict, especially a heroin user. | [noun] (by extension) An enthusiast of something. JUNTAS (13) [noun] A council, convention, tribunal or assembly; especially, the grand council of state in Spain. | [noun] The ruling council of a military dictatorship. JUNTOS (13) [noun] A group of men assembled for some common purpose; a club, or cabal. JUPONS (15) JURANT (13) JURATS (13) [noun] A sworn statement concerning where, when, and before whom an oath has been made. | [noun] A sworn person, particularly: JURELS (13) JURIED (14) [adjective] (of a competition) Overseen by a jury JURIES (13) [noun] A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law. | [noun] A group of judges in a competition. | [noun] The audience attending the first night of a performance, whose reaction may determine whether it succeeds or fails. JURIST (13) [noun] An expert of law or someone who researches jurisprudence. | [noun] A judge. JURORS (13) [noun] A member of a jury. JUSTED (14) JUSTER (13) JUSTLE (13) JUSTLY (16) [adverb] In a just or fair manner; rightfully. | [adverb] With a just or fair use of language; with good reason, properly. | [adverb] With great precision; accurately, exactly. JUTTED (14) [verb] To stick out. | [verb] To butt. KABUKI (16) [noun] (often capitalized) A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies. KAHUNA (13) [noun] A priest or priestess of the traditional Hawaiian religion. | [noun] A great surfer. KALIUM (12) KAPUTT (12) KAURIS (10) [noun] A conifer of the genus Agathis, family Araucariaceae, found in Australasia and Melanesia. | [noun] Agathis australis, a large conifer of the family Araucariaceae. | [noun] A resinous product of the kauri tree, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber. KHOUMS (15) [noun] A subdivision of the Mauritanian ouguiya. 5 khoums equal one ouguiya. KIAUGH (14) KICKUP (18) KLUDGE (12) [noun] (electronics engineering) An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design. | [noun] Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently. | [noun] An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts. KLUGES (11) [noun] Something that should not work, but does. | [noun] A device assembled from components intended for disparate purposes. KLUTZY (22) [adjective] Awkward, clumsy or socially inept KNAURS (10) KNOUTS (10) [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. KNUBBY (17) KNURLS (10) [noun] A contorted knot in wood. | [noun] A crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection. | [noun] A lined or crossgrained pattern of ridges or indentations rolled or pressed into a part for grip. KNURLY (13) KORUNA (10) [noun] The currency of the former Czechoslovakia, divided into 100 hellers. | [noun] The currency of the Czech Republic, divided into 100 hellers. | [noun] The former currency of Slovakia, divided into 100 haliers. KORUNY (13) KOUMIS (12) KOUMYS (15) KOUROI (10) [noun] A sculpture of a naked youth in Ancient Greece, the male equivalent of a kore. KOUROS (10) [noun] A sculpture of a naked youth in Ancient Greece, the male equivalent of a kore. KOUSSO (10) KRAUTS (10) [noun] A German. | [noun] A dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage. | [noun] A German person. KRONUR (10) [noun] The official currency of Sweden. KRUBIS (12) KRUBUT (12) KUCHEN (15) [noun] Any of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee. KUDZUS (20) [noun] An Asian vine (several species in the genus Pueraria, but mostly Pueraria montans var. lobata, syn. Pueraria lobata in the US), grown as a root starch, and which is a notorious invasive weed in the United States. KUGELS (11) [noun] A traditional Jewish dish consisting of baked pudding of rice, pasta, or potatoes with vegetables or raisins and spices | [noun] Traditional house ornament made of glass | [noun] Overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish woman KUKRIS (14) [noun] A curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters. KULAKI (14) KULAKS (14) [noun] A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers. KULTUR (10) [noun] German culture or civilization, especially seen as authoritarian or racist during the period of world wars (1914-18 and 1939-45) KUMISS (12) [noun] A fermented drink made from mare's milk, common among peoples of the Central Asian steppes. KUMMEL (14) [noun] A German caraway liqueur. KURGAN (11) [noun] A prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia. KURTAS (10) [noun] A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women. KUSSOS (10) KUVASZ (22) LABIUM (10) [noun] A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva. | [noun] The lip of a labiate corolla. | [noun] The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes. LABOUR (8) [noun] Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work. | [noun] That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. | [noun] Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour. LABRUM (10) [noun] The uppermost of the mouthparts (trophi) of a typical insect, such as a cockroach. Typically resembles an upper lip and forms part of the roof of the mouth in such insects. | [noun] Any of several lip-like projections. | [noun] A large basin of warm water, with an overhanging lip, in a Roman bath. LACUNA (8) [noun] A small opening; a small pit or depression. | [noun] A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus. | [noun] An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar. LACUNE (8) LAGUNA (7) LAGUNE (7) LANDAU (7) [noun] A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other. | [noun] (by extension) A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages. LANGUE (7) [noun] Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language. LANGUR (7) [noun] Any of the Old World monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae, in the genera Simias, Trachypithecus (lutungs), Presbytis, (surilis), and Semnopithecus, (gray langurs). | [noun] A gibbon of the genus Hoolock. LANUGO (7) [noun] Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area. LAPFUL (11) LAPSUS (8) LARRUP (8) [noun] A blow or smack. | [noun] Backchat or rudeness | [verb] To beat or thrash LARUMS (8) LAUANS (6) LAUDED (8) [verb] To praise, to glorify LAUDER (7) LAUGHS (10) [noun] An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. | [noun] Something that provokes mirth or scorn. | [noun] A fun person. LAUNCE (8) [noun] A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen. | [noun] A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour. | [noun] A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. | [noun] A balance. LAUNCH (11) [noun] The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.) | [noun] The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.). | [noun] An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party. | [noun] The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch". LAURAE (6) LAURAS (6) LAUREL (6) [noun] Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils. | [noun] A crown of laurel. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Honor, distinction, fame. LAWFUL (12) [noun] A character having a lawful alignment. | [adjective] Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society. | [adjective] Operating according to some law or fundamental principle. LAYOUT (9) [noun] A structured arrangement of items within certain limits. | [noun] A plan for such arrangement. | [noun] The act of laying out something. LAYUPS (11) [noun] A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away. | [noun] A relatively easy task. | [noun] The state of being laid up. LAZULI (15) [noun] A deep-blue stone, used in making jewelry, and traditionally used to make the pigment ultramarine. | [noun] (color) A deep, bright blue, like that of the stone. LEAGUE (7) [noun] A group or association of cooperating members. | [noun] An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship. | [noun] (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level. | [noun] (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers). LEGUME (9) [noun] The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food. | [noun] Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers). | [noun] A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea. LEHUAS (9) LEMURS (8) [noun] Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands. | [noun] Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta). | [noun] A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ. LETUPS (8) [noun] A pause or period of slackening. LEUCIN (8) LEUDES (7) LEUKON (10) LIGULA (7) [noun] A strap or strap-shaped object, especially such a development in plants or insects. LIGULE (7) [noun] A strap-shaped structure. | [noun] A portion of a leaf found at the base of the petiole, when present. | [noun] In many grasses (Poaceae) and some sedges (Cyperaceae), the membranous appendage or ring of hairs projecting from the inner side of a leaf at the junction between the blade and the sheath. LIGURE (7) LIKUTA (10) [noun] A former unit of currency, one hundredth of a zaïre. LIMBUS (10) [noun] A border of an anatomical part, such as the edge of the cornea. LIMULI (8) LINEUP (8) [noun] A physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them | [noun] A line of people or vehicles, in which the individual at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and in which newcomers join at the end; a queue. | [noun] Collectively, the members of a team. LINGUA (7) LINKUP (12) [noun] A connection. | [noun] The act of connecting. LINUMS (8) LIQUID (16) [noun] A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid. | [noun] A class of consonant sounds that includes l and r. | [adjective] Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure. LIQUOR (15) [noun] A liquid, a fluid. | [noun] A drinkable liquid. | [noun] A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both). LITMUS (8) [noun] A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens, that changes color when exposed to pH levels greater than or less than certain critical levels. | [noun] A simple test of acidity in a liquid using litmus, usually in the form of litmus paper. | [noun] A simple test of any attribute; a litmus test. LOBULE (8) [noun] A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. | [noun] In liverworts with bilobed leaves, the smaller of the two lobes, sometimes modified to form a sac. LOCKUP (14) [noun] A jail cell, or a period of incarceration. | [noun] A storage unit with a door secured by a padlock or deadbolt; a garage | [noun] A device for locking type into position for printing. LOCULE (8) [noun] A little hollow; a loculus. LOCULI (8) [noun] A little place or space; a cell; a chamberlet. | [noun] In ancient catacombs and tombs of some types, a small separate chamber or recess cut into the rock, for the reception of a body or urn. | [noun] One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa. LOCUMS (10) [noun] Short for locum tenens. 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. LOOKUP (12) [noun] An attempt to retrieve data. | [noun] The process of locating a term in a reference work. 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. LOUCHE (11) [verb] To make (an alcoholic beverage, e.g. absinthe or ouzo) cloudy by mixing it with water, due to the presence of anethole. This is known as the ouzo effect. | [adjective] Of questionable taste or morality; decadent. | [adjective] Not reputable or decent. LOUDEN (7) [verb] To become louder. LOUDER (7) [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. LOUDLY (10) [adverb] In a loud manner; at a high volume. LOUGHS (10) [noun] A lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in Ireland. LOUIES (6) LOUNGE (7) [noun] A waiting room in an office, airport etc. | [noun] A domestic living room. | [noun] An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television. LOUNGY (10) LOUPED (9) LOUPEN (8) LOUPES (8) [noun] A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers. | [noun] A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists. LOURED (7) [verb] To frown; to look sullen. | [verb] To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. LOUSED (7) [verb] To remove lice from. LOUSES (6) [noun] A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Psocodea. | [noun] (not usually used in plural form) A contemptible person; one who is deceitful or causes harm. | [verb] To remove lice from. LOUTED (7) LOUVER (9) [noun] A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. | [noun] (chiefly in plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. | [noun] Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation. LOUVRE (9) [noun] A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. | [noun] (chiefly in plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. | [noun] Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation. LUBBER (10) [noun] A clumsy or lazy person. | [noun] An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber. LUBRIC (10) LUCENT (8) [adjective] Emitting light; shining, luminous. | [adjective] Translucent; clear, lucid. LUCERN (8) [noun] A lamp. | [noun] Alfalfa. | [noun] A sort of hunting dog. LUCKED (13) [verb] To succeed by chance. | [verb] To rely on luck. | [verb] To carry out relying on luck. LUCKIE (12) LUCRES (8) LUETIC (8) LUFFAS (12) [noun] A tropical vine, of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd | [noun] The dried fibrous interior used as a sponge for bathing | [noun] Any bathing sponge LUFFED (13) [verb] (of a sail) To shake due to being trimmed improperly. | [verb] (of a boat) To alter course to windward so that the sails luff. (Alternatively luff up) | [verb] To let out (a sail) so that it luffs. LUGERS (7) [noun] Someone who competes in the luge. LUGGED (9) [verb] (sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull. | [verb] To run at too slow a speed. | [verb] To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing. LUGGER (8) [noun] That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses. | [noun] One who lugs, especially one whose job entails pulling or moving heavy objects. | [noun] A conman. | [noun] A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. | [noun] An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon. LUGGIE (8) LULLED (7) [verb] To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm | [verb] To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate. LUMBAR (10) [noun] The lumbar region. | [noun] A lumbar vertebra. | [adjective] Related to the lower back or loin, specifically the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis. LUMBER (10) [noun] Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away. | [noun] Useless or cumbrous material. | [noun] A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. LUMENS (8) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm. | [noun] The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ. | [noun] The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall. LUMINA (8) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm. | [noun] The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ. | [noun] The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall. LUMMOX (17) [noun] A clumsy, stupid person; an awkward bungler. LUMPED (11) [verb] To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items). | [verb] To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another. | [verb] To hit or strike (a person). LUMPEN (10) [adjective] Of or relating to social outcasts. | [adjective] Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat. | [adjective] Plebeian. | [adjective] Lump-like. | [verb] To make or become like lumps; make or become lumpy LUMPER (10) [noun] The viviparous eelpout. | [noun] An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship. | [noun] A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups. LUNACY (11) [noun] (of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity | [noun] Something deeply misguided. LUNARS (6) LUNATE (6) [noun] A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period | [noun] The lunate bone | [adjective] Shaped like a crescent. LUNETS (6) LUNGAN (7) LUNGED (8) [verb] To (cause to make) a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging). | [verb] To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing). | [adjective] Having lungs (breathing organs). LUNGEE (7) LUNGER (7) LUNGES (7) [noun] A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword. | [noun] A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing. | [noun] An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position. LUNGIS (7) [noun] A garment worn around the waist, especially by men, in Southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan. | [noun] A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow. LUNGYI (10) LUNIER (6) LUNIES (6) LUNKER (10) [noun] Anything, especially a sport fish, that is especially large for its type; a whopper. LUNTED (7) LUNULA (6) [noun] Something shaped like a crescent or half-moon; especially the pale area at the base of the fingernail. LUNULE (6) [noun] Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula or lune. | [noun] A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells, sometimes shaped like a double crescent, but more often heart-shaped. LUPINE (8) [noun] Any member of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae. | [noun] A lupin bean, a yellow legume seed of a Lupinus plant (usually Lupinus luteus), used as feed for sheep and cattle and commonly eaten in the Mediterranean area and in Latin America although toxic if prepared improperly. | [adjective] Of, or pertaining to, the wolf. LUPINS (8) [noun] Any member of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae. | [noun] A lupin bean, a yellow legume seed of a Lupinus plant (usually Lupinus luteus), used as feed for sheep and cattle and commonly eaten in the Mediterranean area and in Latin America although toxic if prepared improperly. LUPOUS (8) LURDAN (7) [noun] A lazy, stupid person; a sluggard. LURERS (6) LURING (7) [verb] To attract by temptation etc.; to entice | [verb] To recall a hawk with a lure | [noun] Allurement LURKED (11) [verb] To remain concealed in order to ambush. | [verb] To remain unobserved. | [verb] To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself. LURKER (10) [noun] One who lurks. | [noun] A small fishing-boat. LUSHED (10) [verb] To drink (liquor) to excess. LUSHER (9) [adjective] Juicy, succulent. | [adjective] Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile. | [adjective] (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant. LUSHES (9) [noun] Drunkard, sot, alcoholic. | [noun] Intoxicating liquor. | [noun] (Pidgin) A person who enjoys talking about themselves LUSHLY (12) LUSTED (7) [verb] (usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature. LUSTER (6) [noun] Shine, polish or sparkle. | [noun] By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor. | [noun] Refinement, polish or quality. | [noun] A lustrum, quinquennium, a period of five years, originally the interval between Roman censuses. | [noun] One who lusts. LUSTRA (6) [noun] A ceremonial purification of all the people, performed every five years after the taking of the census; a lustration. | [noun] (by extension) A period of five years. LUSTRE (6) [noun] Shine, polish or sparkle. | [noun] By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor. | [noun] Refinement, polish or quality. | [noun] Shine, polish or sparkle. LUTEAL (6) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the corpus luteum LUTEIN (6) [noun] A yellow carotenoid pigment, widely distributed in both plants and animals. LUTEUM (8) LUTING (7) [verb] To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. | [verb] To fix or fasten something with lute. | [noun] Lute (a kind of sticky clay or cement) LUTIST (6) [noun] One who plays the lute. LUTZES (15) [noun] A jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, rotates counterclockwise and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate. LUXATE (13) [verb] To dislocate. | [adjective] Dislocated. LUXURY (16) [noun] Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings. | [noun] Something desirable but expensive. | [noun] Something that is pleasant but not necessary in life. LYCEUM (13) MACULA (10) [noun] An oval yellow spot near the center of the retina of the human eye, histologically defined as having two or more layers of ganglion cells, responsible for detailed central vision. | [noun] A small chamber of the inner ear of certain vertebrates filled with endolymph and containing an otolith. | [noun] A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb. MACULE (10) [noun] A spot. | [noun] A blur or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little during printing. | [verb] To blur or be blurred; especially to blur or double an impression from type. MADURO (9) MAGNUM (11) [noun] A bottle of wine containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard bottle. | [noun] A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet. | [noun] A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre. MAGUEY (12) [noun] Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana. MAHOUT (11) [noun] An elephant driver and keeper. | [verb] To drive elephants. MAKEUP (14) [noun] An item's composition. | [noun] Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance. | [noun] Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up. MAKUTA (12) [noun] A former unit of currency, one hundredth of a zaïre. MAMLUK (14) MANFUL (11) [adjective] Showing the characteristics considered typical of a man; macho or manly | [adjective] (by extension) Courageous; noble; high-minded. MANITU (8) MANQUE (17) [adjective] Unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be MANTUA (8) [noun] An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France. | [noun] A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy. | [noun] A woman's cloak or mantle. MANUAL (8) [noun] A handbook. | [noun] A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product. | [noun] A drill in the use of weapons, etc. | [adjective] Performed with the hands (of an activity). | [noun] Mechanical transmission which shifts gears by the action of the driver's hand on the gearstick or gear lever, rather than automatically; a manual gearbox. MANURE (8) [noun] Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens. | [noun] Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser. | [noun] Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit. MAQUIS (17) [noun] Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. | [noun] The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere. MARAUD (9) [verb] To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder. | [verb] To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner. | [verb] To raid and pillage. MARKUP (14) [noun] The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed. | [noun] The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price. | [noun] An increase in price. MARQUE (17) [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. | [noun] A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). | [noun] A ship commissioned for making captures. MASQUE (17) MATURE (8) [adjective] Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe. | [adjective] Brought to a state of complete readiness. | [adjective] Profound; careful. | [verb] To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities). MAUGER (9) MAUGRE (9) MAULED (9) [verb] To handle someone or something in a rough way. | [verb] To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal). | [verb] To criticise harshly. MAULER (8) [noun] One who mauls. MAUMET (10) MAUNDS (9) [noun] A wicker basket. | [noun] A unit of capacity with various specific local values. | [noun] A handbasket with two lids. MAUNDY (12) [noun] A commandment. | [noun] The sacrament of the Lord's supper. | [noun] The ceremony of washing the feet of poor persons or inferiors, performed as a religious rite on Maundy Thursday in commemoration of Christ's washing the disciples' feet at the Last Supper. MAUVES (11) [noun] A bright purple synthetic dye. | [noun] The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour. MAZUMA (19) [noun] Cash, money. MEATUS (8) [noun] A tubular opening or passage in the body. MEDIUM (11) [noun] (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent. | [noun] (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass. | [noun] (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information. MEDIUS (9) MEDUSA (9) [noun] A jellyfish; specifically , a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. MENTUM (10) [noun] The chin. | [noun] A chin-like projection below the mouth of certain mollusks. | [noun] The central part of the labium in insects. MEOUED (9) METUMP (12) MEZUZA (26) [noun] A piece of parchment inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21) and attached in a case to the doorpost of a house, in accordance with the mitzvah (Biblical commandment as interpreted in Jewish law) to "write the words of God on the gates and doorposts of your house" (Deuteronomy 6:9). MIAOUS (8) MIAULS (8) [noun] The cry of a cat. MIDGUT (10) [noun] The central loop of the alimentary canal of an embryo between the foregut and the hindgut. MILIEU (8) [noun] Medium. | [noun] Social setting or environment. MILIUM (10) [noun] A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth. MINIUM (10) 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. MINUTE (8) [noun] A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour). | [noun] A short but unspecified time period. | [noun] A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. | [adjective] Very small. MISCUE (10) [noun] In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue. | [noun] The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor. | [noun] A miss of the object one intended to hit. MISCUT (10) MISSUS (8) [noun] Wife or girlfriend. | [noun] Term of address for a woman. MISUSE (8) [noun] An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something. | [verb] To use (something) incorrectly. | [verb] To abuse or mistreat (something or someone). MIXUPS (17) [noun] A case of confusion. MOCKUP (16) [noun] A prototype, usually low-fidelity, such as paper illustrations, screenshots, or simple configurations of screens with limited interaction. MODULE (9) [noun] A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components. | [noun] A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building. | [noun] A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines. MODULI (9) [noun] The base with respect to which a congruence is computed. | [noun] The absolute value of a complex number. | [noun] A coefficient that expresses how much of a certain property is possessed by a certain substance. MODULO (9) [noun] The operation or function that returns the remainder of one number divided by another. | [preposition] Given a specified modulus of. | [preposition] Except for differences accounted for by. MOGULS (9) [noun] A rich or powerful person; a magnate. | [noun] A hump or bump on a skiing piste. | [noun] A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs. MOHURS (11) MORGUE (9) [noun] A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance. | [noun] A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts. | [noun] The archive and background information division of a newspaper. MORULA (8) [noun] A spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula MOSQUE (17) [noun] A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid. MOUJIK (19) [noun] A (male) peasant, especially in pre-revolutionary (imperial) Russia. MOULDS (9) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. MOULDY (12) [adjective] Covered with mould. | [adjective] Neglected. | [adjective] Worthless; lousy; rotten MOULIN (8) [noun] A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface. MOULTS (8) [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To shed in such a manner. MOUNDS (9) [noun] An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense | [noun] A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. | [noun] Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch. MOUNTS (8) [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. MOURNS (8) [verb] To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). | [verb] To utter in a sorrowful manner. | [verb] To wear mourning. MOUSED (9) [verb] To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around). | [verb] To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. | [verb] To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. MOUSER (8) [noun] A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose. | [noun] A moustache. MOUSES (8) [verb] To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around). | [verb] To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. | [verb] To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. MOUSEY (11) [adjective] Resembling a mouse. | [adjective] Abounding or infested with mice. MOUSSE (8) [noun] An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse. | [noun] A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin. | [noun] A styling cream used for hair. MOUTHS (11) [noun] The opening of a creature through which food is ingested. | [noun] The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water. | [noun] An outlet, aperture or orifice. MOUTHY (14) [adjective] Overly talkative, insolent, and loud. MOUTON (8) [noun] A 14th-century French gold coin, weighing about 70 grains. MUCHES (13) MUCHLY (16) [adverb] Very much, very MUCINS (10) [noun] Any of several glycoproteins found in mucus MUCKED (15) [verb] To shovel muck. | [verb] To manure with muck. | [verb] To do a dirty job. MUCKER (14) [noun] (Southern England) friend, acquaintance | [noun] (British army) A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation. | [noun] A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable. MUCKLE (14) [noun] A great amount. | [verb] To latch onto something with the mouth. | [verb] To talk big; to exaggerate. MUCLUC (12) MUCOID (11) [adjective] Pertaining to or resembling mucus; mucous. | [noun] Any of a class of mucin-like substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteinaceous matter. MUCORS (10) MUCOSA (10) [noun] Mucous membrane MUCOSE (10) MUCOUS (10) [adjective] Pertaining to mucus | [adjective] Having the qualities of mucus MUDCAP (13) MUDCAT (11) MUDDED (11) MUDDER (10) [noun] A racehorse that performs well on muddy or wet tracks. | [noun] A participant in a multi-user dungeon. | [noun] A person (especially an entomologist) or animal that catches moths. MUDDLE (10) [noun] A mixture; a confusion; a garble. | [noun] A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler. | [verb] To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. MUDDLY (13) MUDRAS (9) [noun] Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography. | [noun] Any of the formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation. MUESLI (8) [noun] A breakfast dish based on uncooked rolled oats and fruit. MUFFED (15) [verb] To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly. | [verb] To mishandle; to bungle. | [adjective] Wearing a muff. MUFFIN (14) [noun] A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten. | [noun] A type of individual bread such as corn, bran, banana or zucchini bread often sliced and spread with butter, etc before being eaten. | [noun] (especially US) (informally) A cupcake without frosting, but sometimes glazed. MUFFLE (14) [noun] Anything that mutes or deadens sound. | [noun] A warm piece of clothing for the hands. | [noun] A boxing glove. MUFTIS (11) [noun] A Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa. | [noun] A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform. MUGFUL (12) MUGGAR (10) MUGGED (11) [verb] To strike in the face. | [verb] To assault for the purpose of robbery. | [verb] To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner. MUGGEE (10) MUGGER (10) [noun] A street robber. | [noun] A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner. | [noun] A large crocodile, Crocodilus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout. MUGGUR (10) MUJIKS (19) MUKLUK (16) [noun] A soft knee-high boot of sealskin or reindeer skin, originally worn by Inuit and Yupik. | [noun] A laced winter boot resembling a traditional mukluk, with thick rubber sole and cloth upper. MUKTUK (16) [noun] The skin and blubber of a whale, traditionally used as food by the Inuit. MULCTS (10) [noun] A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one. | [verb] To impose such a fine or penalty. | [verb] To swindle (someone) out of money. MULETA (8) [noun] A red flag used by bullfighters. MULEYS (11) [noun] Mule deer MULING (9) MULISH (11) [adjective] Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable MULLAH (11) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. | [verb] To grind up into, or as if into, powder. | [verb] To beat; to thrash (a person). MULLAS (8) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. MULLED (9) [verb] (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. | [verb] To powder; to pulverize. | [verb] To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form. MULLEN (8) MULLER (8) [noun] One who, or that which, mulls. | [noun] A grinding stone, held in the hand, used especially for preparing paints and powders. | [noun] A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire. | [noun] A machine that mixes sand and clay for use in metal castings. | [verb] To beat; to thrash (a person). 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. MULLEY (11) MUMBLE (12) [noun] A quiet or unintelligible vocalization; a low tone of voice. | [verb] To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate. | [verb] To chew something gently with closed lips. MUMBLY (15) MUMMED (13) [verb] To act in a pantomime or dumb show. MUMMER (12) [noun] A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival. | [noun] An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression. MUMPED (13) MUMPER (12) MUNGOS (9) MUNTIN (8) [noun] One of the separators between panes of glass in a composite window. MUONIC (10) MURALS (8) [noun] A large painting, usually drawn on a wall. MURDER (9) [noun] The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification. | [noun] The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought. | [noun] (in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human. MUREIN (8) MURIDS (9) [noun] Any rodent in the family Muridae. MURINE (8) [noun] Any murine mammal. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the mouse, rat or (more generally) any mammal of the family Muridae. MURING (9) [verb] To wall in or fortify | [verb] To enclose or imprison within walls. MURKER (12) MURKLY (15) MURMUR (10) [noun] Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water. | [noun] Soft indistinct speech. | [noun] The sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart. MURPHY (16) [noun] An Irish or white potato. MURRAS (8) MURRES (8) [noun] Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks). MURREY (11) [noun] The mulberry fruit. | [noun] A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules and purpure. | [adjective] Of a mulberry colour. MURRHA (11) MUSCAE (10) 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. MUSCID (11) [noun] Any fly of the family Muscidae of insects. | [adjective] Pertaining to or related to the Muscidae family of insects. MUSCLE (10) [noun] A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement. | [noun] An organ composed of muscle tissue. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise. MUSCLY (13) [adjective] Thewy, muscled | [adjective] Strong, powerful MUSERS (8) MUSEUM (10) [noun] A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value. MUSHED (12) [verb] To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else. | [verb] To walk, especially across the snow with dogs. | [verb] To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow. MUSHER (11) [noun] One who operates a dogsled, traditionally using the verbal command “mush”. | [noun] One who travels by dogsled. | [noun] One who races in a dogsled in a race. MUSHES (11) [noun] A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance. | [noun] A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations. | [noun] The foam of a breaker. MUSICS (10) MUSING (9) [verb] To become lost in thought, to ponder. | [verb] To say (something) with due consideration or thought. | [verb] To think on; to meditate on. MUSJID (16) MUSKEG (13) [noun] A terrain composed of peat bog with tussocky meadow and woody vegetation including spruce. 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. MUSKIE (12) MUSKIT (12) MUSLIN (8) [noun] Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth. | [noun] Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven. | [noun] Any of a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen. MUSSED (9) [verb] To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. MUSSEL (8) [noun] Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells MUSSES (8) [verb] To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. MUSTED (9) MUSTEE (8) MUSTER (8) [noun] Gathering. | [noun] Showing. | [verb] To show, exhibit. | [noun] A person of one-eighth African ancestry. MUSTHS (11) 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. MUTASE (8) MUTATE (8) [verb] To undergo mutation. | [verb] To cause mutation. MUTELY (11) MUTEST (8) MUTINE (8) MUTING (9) [verb] To silence, to make quiet. | [verb] To turn off the sound of. | [verb] Of a bird: to defecate. MUTINY (11) [noun] An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers. | [noun] Violent commotion; tumult; strife. | [verb] To commit mutiny. MUTISM (10) [noun] A psychological disorder in which the sufferer cannot speak in certain situations. MUTONS (8) [noun] A unit of mutation forming part of a recon. MUTTER (8) [noun] A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering. | [verb] To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath. | [verb] To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations. | [noun] (Indian cuisine) Peas. MUTTON (8) [noun] The flesh of sheep used as food. | [noun] The flesh of goat used as food. | [noun] A sheep. MUTUAL (8) [noun] A mutual fund. | [noun] A mutual organization. | [noun] Either of a pair of people who follow each other's social media accounts. MUTUEL (8) MUTULE (8) [noun] Any of the rectangular blocks under the soffit of the cornice of the Greek Doric temple, which are studded with guttae. MUUMUU (10) [noun] A long loose-fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches). MUZHIK (24) [noun] A (male) peasant, especially in pre-revolutionary (imperial) Russia. MUZJIK (28) MUZZLE (26) [noun] The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws; the snout | [noun] The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech. | [noun] A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout. NAEVUS (9) [noun] A pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal area on the skin. Naevi may be congenital or acquired, and are always benign. NATURE (6) [noun] The natural world; that which consists of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production, and design. (Compare ecosystem.) | [noun] The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended. | [noun] The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe. NAUGHT (10) [noun] Nothingness. | [numeral] (old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought | [pronoun] Nothing. NAUSEA (6) [noun] A feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit. | [noun] Strong dislike or disgust. | [noun] Motion sickness. NAUTCH (11) [noun] A dance in South Asia, performed by professional dancing girls. NEBULA (8) [noun] A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes). | [noun] A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea. | [noun] A cloudy appearance in the urine NEBULE (8) NEBULY (11) [adjective] Edged in a deeply wavy line, intended to represent clouds. NEUMES (8) [noun] Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation. | [noun] A sequence of notes to be sung to one syllable. NEUMIC (10) NEURAL (6) [adjective] Of, or relating to the nerves, neurons or the nervous system. | [adjective] Modelled on the arrangement of neurons in the brain. NEURON (6) [noun] A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses. | [noun] A nervure of an insect's wing. | [noun] An artificial neuron (mathematical function serving as an essential unit of an artificial neural network) NEUTER (6) [noun] An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers. | [noun] A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral. | [noun] (grammar) The neuter gender. NILGAU (7) NIMBUS (10) [noun] A circle of light; a halo. | [noun] A gray rain cloud. NODOUS (7) NODULE (7) [noun] A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump. NONUSE (6) [noun] The failure to make use of something. 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. NOUNAL (6) NOUSES (6) NUANCE (8) [noun] A minor distinction. | [noun] Subtlety or fine detail. | [verb] To apply a nuance to; to change or redefine in a subtle way. NUBBIN (10) [noun] A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple. | [noun] A small protuberance, bud, bump or knob. | [noun] The clitoris. NUBBLE (10) [noun] A small knob or lump. | [verb] To beat or bruise with the fist. NUBBLY (13) [adjective] Rough or lumpy NUBIAS (8) NUBILE (8) [noun] A young sexually attractive woman. | [adjective] Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman). | [adjective] Sexually attractive (especially of a young woman). NUCHAE (11) NUCHAL (11) [noun] The back of the neck. | [noun] Short for nuchal translucency scan. | [noun] A neck scale, especially of a lizard. NUCLEI (8) [noun] The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled. | [noun] An initial part or version that will receive additions. | [noun] The massive, positively charged central part of an atom, made up of protons and neutrons. NUDELY (10) NUDEST (7) NUDGED (9) [verb] To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal. | [verb] To near or come close to something. NUDGER (8) NUDGES (8) [verb] To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal. | [verb] To near or come close to something. NUDIES (7) [noun] Entertainment involving naked people, especially women. NUDISM (9) NUDIST (7) [noun] A person who practices nudism. | [adjective] (usually attributive) Relating to nudists and nudism. NUDITY (10) [noun] The state or quality of being without clothing on the body; specifically, the quality of being without clothing on the genitals. | [noun] Something or someone without clothes. NUDNIK (11) [noun] A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk. (Also used attributively.) NUGGET (8) [noun] A small, compact chunk or clump. | [noun] A chicken nugget. | [noun] A tidbit of something valuable. NUKING (11) [verb] To use a nuclear weapon on a target. | [verb] To destroy or erase completely. | [verb] (by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user). NULLAH (9) [noun] A stream-bed, ravine, or other watercourse; a drain for rain or floodwater. NULLED (7) [verb] To nullify; to annul. | [verb] To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe. | [verb] To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software). NUMBAT (10) [noun] A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively termites. NUMBED (11) [verb] To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally). | [verb] To cause (a feeling) to be less intense. | [verb] To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute. NUMBER (10) [noun] An abstract entity used to describe quantity. | [noun] A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer. | [noun] An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc. | [adjective] Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation. NUMBLY (13) NUMINA (8) [noun] A divinity, especially a local or presiding god. | [noun] An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendant. NUNCIO (8) [noun] The ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent to an accredited ambassador, and may also be given additional privileges including recognition as Dean in a country's diplomatic corps. | [noun] (by extension) One who bears a message; a messenger. | [noun] Any member of any Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Galicia (of the Austrian Partition), Duchy of Warsaw, Congress Poland, or Grand Duchy of Posen. NUNCLE (8) [noun] Uncle. | [verb] To blench; cheat; deceive. NURLED (7) NURSED (7) [verb] To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle. | [verb] To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast. | [verb] To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to. NURSER (6) NURSES (6) [noun] A wet nurse. | [noun] A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young. | [noun] A person trained to provide care for the sick. NUTANT (6) NUTATE (6) NUTLET (6) [noun] A small nut. NUTMEG (9) [noun] An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds. | [noun] The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice. | [noun] A grey-brown colour. NUTRIA (6) [noun] The coypu, Myocastor coypus. | [noun] The fur of the coypu. NUTTED (7) [verb] (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts. | [verb] To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt. | [verb] (mildly) To orgasm; to ejaculate. NUTTER (6) [noun] A person who gathers nuts. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) An eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person. | [noun] Nut butter NUZZLE (24) [verb] (of animals, lovers, etc) To touch someone or something with the nose. | [verb] To nurse; to foster; to bring up. | [verb] To nestle; to house, as in a nest. OAKUMS (12) OBELUS (8) [noun] A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient manuscripts and texts to mark a word or passage as doubtful or spurious, or redundant; an obelisk. | [noun] A dagger symbol (†), which is used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.; beside a person's name to indicate that the person is deceased; or beside a date to indicate that it is a person's death date; an obelisk. OBOLUS (8) OBTUND (9) [verb] To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull. OBTUSE (8) [verb] To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state. | [adjective] Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form. | [adjective] Intellectually dull or dim-witted. OCCULT (10) [noun] (usually with "the") Supernatural affairs. | [verb] To cover or hide from view. | [verb] To dissimulate, conceal, or obfuscate. OCCUPY (15) [verb] (of time) To take or use. | [verb] To take or use space. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. OCCURS (10) [verb] To happen or take place. | [verb] To present or offer itself. | [verb] To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself. OCULAR (8) [noun] The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument. | [noun] Any of the scales forming the margin of a reptile's eye. | [adjective] Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight OCULUS (8) [noun] A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye). ODEUMS (9) [noun] An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry. | [noun] A theatre or concert hall. ODIOUS (7) [adjective] Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure. ODIUMS (9) ODOURS (7) [noun] Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive. | [noun] A strong, pervasive quality. | [noun] Esteem. OEUVRE (9) [noun] A work of art. | [noun] The complete body of an artist's work. 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. OIDIUM (9) [noun] A fragile spore produced by some fungi. | [noun] The fungus Erysiphe necator (= Uncinula necator), which produces powdery mildew in grapes. OILCUP (10) OLEUMS (8) OMASUM (10) [noun] The third part of the stomach of a ruminant. ONRUSH (9) [noun] A forceful rush or flow forward. | [noun] An aggressive assault. | [verb] To rush or flow forward forcefully. ONUSES (6) [noun] A legal obligation. | [noun] Burden of proof, onus probandi | [noun] Stigma. OPAQUE (17) [noun] An area of darkness; a place or region with no light. | [noun] Something which is opaque rather than translucent. | [verb] To make, render (more) opaque. OPIUMS (10) OPPUGN (11) [verb] To contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement. OPUSES (8) [noun] A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works. | [noun] A work, especially of art. ORDURE (7) [noun] Dung, excrement. | [noun] (by extension) Dirt, filth. | [noun] (by extension) Something regarded as contaminating or perverting the morals; obscene material. ORMOLU (8) [noun] Golden or gilded brass or bronze used for decorative purposes. | [verb] To decorate with gilded ormolu articles. | [adjective] Made from golden or gilded brass or bronze. OSCULA (8) [noun] A small opening or orifice. | [noun] One of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm. | [noun] The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled. OSCULE (8) OSMIUM (10) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Os) with atomic number 76: a hard, brittle, heavy, bluish-white transition metal found as a trace element in alloys, mostly in platinum ores. | [noun] A single atom of this element. OSMOUS (8) OSMUND (9) OSTIUM (8) [noun] A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage. | [noun] Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge. | [noun] The mouth of a river. OUCHED (12) OUCHES (11) OUGHTS (10) OUNCES (8) [noun] An avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams. | [noun] A troy ounce, weighing 1/12 of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams. | [noun] A US fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/16 of a US pint, 1.8047 cubic inches or 29.5735 millilitres. OUPHES (11) OURANG (7) OURARI (6) OUREBI (8) OUSELS (6) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] The water ouzel, an aquatic perching bird, Cinclus mexicanus. OUSTED (7) [verb] To expel; to remove. OUSTER (6) [noun] A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection. | [noun] Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property. | [noun] Specifically, the forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; coup. | [noun] Someone who ousts. OUTACT (8) [verb] To act (play a role in theatre, film etc.) better than. OUTADD (8) OUTAGE (7) [noun] A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply. | [noun] The amount of something lost in storage or transportation. OUTASK (10) OUTATE (6) OUTBEG (9) OUTBID (9) [verb] To bid more than (somebody else) in an auction. OUTBOX (15) [noun] A box holding papers to be transmitted to others, eg, by mail. | [noun] An electronic folder serving the same purpose, for electronic mail. | [verb] To box better than. OUTBUY (11) OUTBYE (11) OUTCRY (11) [noun] A loud cry or uproar. | [noun] A strong protest. | [noun] An auction. OUTDID (8) [verb] To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass. OUTEAT (6) OUTERS (6) [noun] An outer part. | [noun] The 4th circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie. | [noun] A shot which strikes the outer of a target. 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. OUTFLY (12) [verb] To fly better, faster, or further than. OUTFOX (16) [verb] To beat in a competition of wits OUTGAS (7) [verb] To release gaseous substances into the air, especially of a polymer material as it is aged or heated. OUTGUN (7) [verb] To defeat in terms of firepower. 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. OUTING (7) [verb] To eject; to expel. | [verb] To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc). | [verb] To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective. OUTJUT (13) OUTLAW (9) [noun] A fugitive from the law. | [noun] (history) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty. | [noun] A person who operates outside established norms. OUTLAY (9) [noun] A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended. | [noun] The spending of money, or an expenditure. | [noun] A remote haunt or habitation. 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. OUTLIE (6) OUTMAN (8) [verb] To have more people than (one's competitor); to outnumber in men. | [verb] To outdo in manliness. 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. OUTRAN (6) [verb] To run faster than. | [verb] To exceed or overextend. OUTROW (9) OUTRUN (6) [noun] (sheepdog trials) The sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them. | [verb] To run faster than. | [verb] To exceed or overextend. OUTSAT (6) [verb] To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay. OUTSAW (9) OUTSEE (6) 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. OUTSIN (6) OUTSIT (6) [verb] To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay. OUTVIE (9) [verb] To outdo a competitor or rival. OUTWAR (9) OUTWIT (9) [verb] To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits. OUZELS (15) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] The water ouzel, an aquatic perching bird, Cinclus mexicanus. OVULAR (9) OVULES (9) [noun] The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments. | [noun] An immature ovum in mammals. PABLUM (12) [noun] Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing. | [noun] Nourishment. PADAUK (13) [noun] Any of the trees of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus. | [noun] The valuable timber of these trees. PADOUK (13) [noun] Any of the trees of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus. | [noun] The valuable timber of these trees. PALPUS (10) [noun] Palp (invertebrate appendage) PANFUL (11) PAPPUS (12) [noun] The markedly reduced sepals of an Asteraceae floret that take the form of trichomes or scale attached to the ovary or seed. | [noun] The first hair on the chin. PAPULA (10) [noun] A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule. | [noun] One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes. PAPULE (10) [noun] A small, inflammatory, irritated spot on the skin, similar in appearance to a pimple, but not containing pus. PAREUS (8) PAROUS (8) [adjective] Having given birth. PARURA (8) PARURE (8) [noun] A set of jewellery to be worn together. PASSUS (8) [noun] A section of a long narrative poem; a canto PAULIN (8) PAUNCH (13) [noun] The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen. | [noun] The belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one. | [noun] A paunch mat. PAUPER (10) [noun] One who is extremely poor. | [noun] One living on or eligible for public charity. PAUSAL (8) PAUSED (9) [verb] To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort. | [verb] To interrupt an activity and wait. | [verb] To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. PAUSER (8) PAUSES (8) [noun] A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer. | [noun] A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. | [noun] A short time for relaxing and doing something else. 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. PEEPUL (10) [noun] The sacred fig, Ficus religiosa. PENULT (8) [noun] The next-to-last syllable of a word. | [noun] The next to the last in a series. PENURY (11) [noun] Extreme want; poverty; destitution. | [noun] A lack of something; a dearth. PEPLUM (12) [noun] A genre of Italian films based on historical or biblical epics. | [noun] An individual film in this genre. | [noun] A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth folded back upon itself halfway down so that the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist. Compare the Roman palla. PEPLUS (10) PERDUE (9) PERDUS (9) PERUKE (12) [noun] A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries. PERUSE (8) [noun] An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing. | [verb] To examine or consider with care. | [verb] To read completely. PHYLUM (16) [noun] A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank | [noun] A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another. PICKUP (16) [noun] An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player. | [noun] A pickup truck. | [noun] (usually attributive) Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players. PICULS (10) PIGNUS (9) 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) PILAUS (8) [noun] A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added. PILEUM (10) PILEUP (10) [noun] A pile, a group of people or things which have piled up on one another, especially | [noun] An accumulation that occurs over time, especially one which is not welcome. PILEUS (8) [noun] The cap of a mushroom. | [noun] The bell of a jellyfish. | [noun] A small thin cloud attached to a cumulus cloud. PILOUS (8) [adjective] Covered with fine hair; pilose. PILULE (8) [noun] A little pill. PINUPS (10) [noun] A photograph, printed in a magazine or other publication, of a sexually attractive person (often nude or provocatively dressed), and intended to be removed and pinned up on a wall. | [noun] The person so depicted. | [noun] Figurehead, person who represents an idea, cause etc. PIQUED (18) [verb] To wound the pride of; to excite to anger. | [verb] To take pride in; to pride oneself on. | [verb] To stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting; to excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy. PIQUES (17) [noun] A feeling of enmity; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride. | [noun] A feeling of irritation or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little thought or consideration. | [noun] Keenly felt desire; a longing. 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. PLAGUE (9) [noun] (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis. | [noun] An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease. | [noun] A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution. PLAGUY (12) [adjective] Causing annoyance or bother; irritating. PLAQUE (17) [noun] Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch. | [noun] A piece of flat metal with writing on it, attached to a building, monument, or other structure to remind people of a person or an event. | [noun] A small card representing an amount of money, used for betting in casinos; a sort of gaming chip. PLENUM (10) [noun] A space that is completely filled with matter. | [noun] A state of fullness, a great quantity (of something). | [noun] A legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present. PLEURA (8) [noun] The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane. | [noun] A lateral sclerite of a thoracic segment of an arthropod between the tergum and the sternum. PLEXUS (15) [noun] A network or interwoven mass, especially of nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatic vessels. | [noun] The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities. PLOUGH (12) [noun] The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres. | [noun] A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting. | [noun] The use of a plough; tillage. PLUCKS (14) [verb] To pull something sharply; to pull something out | [verb] To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. | [verb] To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. PLUCKY (17) [adjective] Having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances. PLUMBS (12) [noun] The fruit and its tree. | [noun] Extended senses. | [noun] A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction. PLUMED (11) [verb] To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes. | [verb] Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence , to prepare for (something). | [verb] (by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate. PLUMES (10) [noun] A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration. | [noun] A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle. | [noun] A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward. PLUMMY (15) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of plums | [adjective] Desirable; profitable; advantageous | [adjective] (of a voice) rich, mellow and carefully articulated, especially with an upper-class accent PLUMPS (12) [verb] To grow plump; to swell out. | [verb] To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. | [verb] To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily. PLUNGE (9) [noun] The act of plunging or submerging | [noun] A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water) | [noun] A swimming pool PLUNKS (12) [verb] To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound. | [verb] To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down. | [verb] To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch. PLURAL (8) [noun] (grammar) The plural number. | [noun] (grammar) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form. | [adjective] Consisting of or containing more than one of something. PLUSES (8) [noun] A positive quantity. | [noun] An asset or useful addition. | [noun] A plus sign: +. PLUSHY (14) [adjective] Like plush; soft and shaggy. | [adjective] Plush; sumptuous. PLUTEI (8) [noun] A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church | [noun] The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms. PLUTON (8) [noun] A body of igneous rock formed beneath the surface of the earth by consolidation of magma PNEUMA (10) [noun] A neume. | [noun] The spirit or soul. | [noun] One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul. PODIUM (11) [noun] A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit. | [noun] (sometimes proscribed) A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly. | [noun] A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize. POILUS (8) [noun] A French infantryman during the First World War POPGUN (11) [noun] A toy gun that emits a loud pop by firing a cork from a barrel in which a piston slides, compressing the air and forcing the cork out. The cork is traditionally attached to the toy by a piece of string. | [noun] A firearm of unimpressive appearance. POROUS (8) [adjective] Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through. | [adjective] With many gaps. | [adjective] (by extension) full of loopholes POSEUR (8) [noun] One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others. POSSUM (10) [noun] An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas. | [noun] Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands. POTFUL (11) POUCHY (16) POUFED (12) POUFFE (14) [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. | [noun] A headdress for women popular in 18th century France. POUFFS (14) POULTS (8) [noun] A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). POUNCE (10) [noun] A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface. | [noun] Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc. | [verb] To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder. | [noun] A sudden leaping attack. POUNDS (9) [noun] A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight. | [noun] A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere. | [noun] The symbol # (octothorpe, hash) POURED (9) [verb] To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it. | [verb] To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape. | [verb] To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly. POURER (8) POUTED (9) [verb] To push out one's lips. | [verb] To thrust itself outward; to be prominent. | [verb] To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk. POUTER (8) [noun] A person who habitually pouts; a sourpuss | [noun] A breed of pigeon that inflates its crop POYOUS (11) PRAHUS (11) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PRECUT (10) [verb] To cut in advance. PREVUE (11) PRIMUS (10) [noun] One of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority. PRUDES (9) [noun] A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature. PRUNED (9) [verb] To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water. | [verb] To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. | [verb] To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material). PRUNER (8) PRUNES (8) [noun] A plum. | [noun] The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum. | [noun] An old woman, especially a wrinkly one. PRUNUS (8) [noun] A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume. PRUTAH (11) PRUTOT (8) PSEUDO (9) [noun] An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual. | [noun] A poseur; one who is fake. | [noun] (travel industry) pseudo-city code PSEUDS (9) [noun] An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur | [noun] A pseudonym. PUBLIC (12) [noun] The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group. | [noun] A public house; an inn. | [adjective] Able to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment. PUCKER (14) [noun] A fold or wrinkle. | [noun] A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. | [verb] To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold. PUDDLE (10) [noun] A small pool of water, usually on a path or road. | [noun] Stagnant or polluted water. | [noun] A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight. PUDDLY (13) PUEBLO (10) [noun] A community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building. PUFFED (15) [verb] To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs. | [verb] To pant. | [verb] To advertise. | [adjective] Panting because of having exercised. PUFFER (14) [noun] Someone or something that puffs. | [noun] Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to inflate their bodies when in danger. | [noun] A manually-operated inhaler. PUFFIN (14) [noun] The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food. | [noun] The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak. | [noun] Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses. PUGGED (11) [verb] To mix and stir when wet. | [verb] To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. PUGGRY (13) PUGREE (9) PUISNE (8) [adjective] Younger; junior. | [adjective] Insignificant, petty; ineffectual. | [adjective] Inferior in rank, as designation of any justice, judge etc. other than the most senior. PUJAHS (18) PUKING (13) [verb] To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach. | [verb] To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market. | [noun] The act of one who pukes or vomits. PULERS (8) PULING (9) [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. PULLED (9) [verb] To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force. | [verb] To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck. | [verb] To attract or net; to pull in. PULLER (8) PULLET (8) [noun] A young hen, especially one less than a year old. | [noun] A spineless person; a coward. | [noun] A young girl. PULLEY (11) [noun] One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance). | [verb] To raise or lift by means of a pulley. PULLUP (10) [noun] An exercise done for strengthening the arms and upper body, in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. | [noun] A pullup resistor. PULPAL (10) PULPED (11) [verb] To make or be made into pulp. | [verb] To beat to a pulp. | [verb] To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from. PULPER (10) 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. PULQUE (17) [noun] A milk-colored, somewhat viscous Mexican alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of certain agave plants. PULSAR (8) [noun] A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically PULSED (9) [verb] To beat, to throb, to flash. | [verb] To flow, particularly of blood. | [verb] To emit in discrete quantities. PULSER (8) PULSES (8) [noun] A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart. | [noun] A beat or throb. | [noun] The beat or tactus of a piece of music. PUMELO (10) PUMICE (12) [noun] A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles. As the lava solidifies, the bubbles are frozen into the rock. | [verb] To abrade or roughen with pumice. PUMMEL (12) [noun] The upper front brow of a saddle. | [noun] A rounded knob or handle. | [noun] The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball. PUMPED (13) [verb] To use a pump to move (liquid or gas). | [verb] (often followed by up) To fill with air. | [verb] To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump. PUMPER (12) [noun] One who pumps something. | [noun] A steroid or other drug taken to improve blood flow and increase muscular size. PUNCHY (16) [adjective] Having a punch; effective; forceful; spirited; vigorous. | [adjective] Behaving or appearing punch drunk. | [adjective] (of a person) Being over-reactive to routine events. 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. PUNGLE (9) PUNIER (8) [adjective] Of inferior size, strength or significance; small, weak, ineffective. PUNILY (11) PUNISH (11) [verb] To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action. | [verb] To treat harshly and unfairly. | [verb] To handle or beat severely; to maul. PUNKAH (15) [noun] A fan, especially made of leaf or cloth and hung from the ceiling; in the past often operated by a servant. PUNKAS (12) PUNKER (12) [noun] A person used for sex, particularly: | [noun] A worthless person, particularly: | [noun] Short for punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums. PUNKEY (15) PUNKIE (12) PUNKIN (12) PUNNED (9) [verb] To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize. | [verb] To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words. PUNNER (8) PUNNET (8) [noun] A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries. PUNTED (9) [verb] To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole. | [verb] To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance. | [verb] To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc). PUNTER (8) [noun] One who bets (punts) against the bank. | [noun] One who oars or poles a punt (pontoon). | [noun] One who punts a football. PUNTOS (8) PUPATE (10) [verb] To become a pupa. PUPILS (10) [noun] A learner under the supervision of a teacher or professor. | [noun] An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state. | [noun] The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina. PUPPED (13) [verb] To give birth to pups. 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. PURANA (8) PURDAH (12) [noun] A curtain, especially as used to conceal and divide women from men and strangers in some Hindu or Muslim traditions. | [noun] A striped cotton cloth which is used to make curtains. | [noun] The state or system of social gender seclusion in some Muslim or Hindu communities. PURDAS (9) PUREED (9) [verb] To crush or grind food into a puree. PUREES (8) [noun] A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid. | [verb] To crush or grind food into a puree. | [noun] A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan. PURELY (11) [adverb] Wholly; really, completely. | [adverb] Solely; exclusively; merely, simply. | [adverb] Chastely, innocently; in a sinless manner, without fault. PUREST (8) [adjective] Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied. | [adjective] Free of foreign material or pollutants. | [adjective] Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean. PURFLE (11) [noun] An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing. | [noun] An ornament consisting of a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or gold studs or mountings. | [verb] To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border. PURGED (10) [verb] To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities. | [verb] To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds | [verb] To remove by cleansing; to wash away. PURGER (9) PURGES (9) [noun] An act of purging. | [noun] An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting. | [noun] A cleansing of pipes. PURIFY (14) [verb] To cleanse, or rid of impurities. | [verb] To free from guilt or sin. | [verb] To become pure. PURINE (8) [noun] Any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds, composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings, that constitute one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids. PURINS (8) PURISM (10) [noun] An insistence on pure or unmixed forms. | [noun] An insistence on the traditionally correct way of doing things. | [noun] An example of purist language etc. PURIST (8) [noun] An advocate of purism. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to purism. PURITY (11) [noun] The state or degree of being pure. PURLED (9) [verb] To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge | [verb] An inverted stitch producing ribbing etc | [verb] To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong. PURLIN (8) [noun] A longitudinal structural member bridging two or more rafters of a roof. PURPLE (10) [noun] A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta. | [noun] (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. | [noun] Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. PURPLY (13) [adjective] Of or having somewhat of a purple color or hue. PURRED (9) [verb] Of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented. | [verb] To say (something) in a throaty, seductive manner. | [verb] To make a vibrating throaty sound, as from pleasure. PURSED (9) [verb] To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude. | [verb] To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit. | [verb] To put into a purse. PURSER (8) [noun] The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft. PURSES (8) [noun] A small bag for carrying money. | [noun] A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items) | [noun] A quantity of money given for a particular purpose. PURSUE (8) [verb] To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. | [verb] To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.). | [verb] To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.). PURVEY (14) [verb] To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision. | [verb] To furnish or provide. | [verb] To procure; to get. PUSHED (12) [verb] To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force. | [verb] To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action. | [verb] To press or urge forward; to drive. PUSHER (11) [noun] Someone or something that pushes. | [noun] A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule. | [noun] A girl or woman. PUSHES (11) [noun] A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing. | [noun] An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents. | [noun] A great effort (to do something). PUSHUP (13) [noun] An exercise done to improve upper body strength, performed by resting on one's toes and hands and pushing one's weight off the floor. | [noun] A push-up bra. PUSLEY (11) PUSSES (8) [noun] (often as a term of address) A cat. | [noun] A girl or young woman, or any child. | [noun] A hare. PUSSLY (11) PUTLOG (9) [noun] One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose. PUTOFF (14) PUTONS (8) PUTOUT (8) PUTRID (9) [adjective] Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh. | [adjective] Vile, disgusting. PUTSCH (13) [noun] A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government. PUTTED (9) [verb] To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter. | [verb] To make a putting sound. | [verb] To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride. PUTTEE (8) [noun] A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc. | [noun] (grammar) Something that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting. PUTTER (8) [verb] To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks. | [noun] One who puts or places. | [noun] A shot-putter. | [noun] A golf club specifically intended for a putt. | [verb] To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating. PUTZED (18) [verb] Waste time. | [verb] (Pennsylvania Dutch) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood. PUTZES (17) [noun] Fool, idiot. | [noun] Jerk. | [noun] Penis. PUZZLE (26) [noun] Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of. | [noun] A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete. | [noun] A crossword puzzle. PYURIA (11) [noun] The presence of pus in the urine. QIVIUT (18) QUACKS (21) [noun] The sound made by a duck. | [verb] To make a noise like a duck. | [noun] A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional; especially, a doctor of medicine who makes false diagnoses or inappropriate treatment; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine. QUAERE (15) QUAFFS (21) [noun] The act of quaffing; a deep draught. | [verb] To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts. QUAGGA (17) [noun] A southern-African subspecies of zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes. QUAGGY (20) QUAHOG (19) [noun] An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria. | [noun] A similar edible clam found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters, the ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam or Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica | [verb] To dig for quahogs. QUAICH (20) [noun] A traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin symbolizing friendship. It was originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor. | [noun] (by extension) Any two-handled drinking vessel or trophy. QUAIGH (19) [noun] A traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin symbolizing friendship. It was originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor. | [noun] (by extension) Any two-handled drinking vessel or trophy. QUAILS (15) [verb] To waste away; to fade, to wither | [verb] To daunt or frighten (someone) | [verb] To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. QUAINT (15) [adjective] Of a person: cunning, crafty. | [adjective] Cleverly made; artfully contrived. | [adjective] Strange or odd; unusual. | [noun] The vulva. QUAKED (20) [verb] To tremble or shake. | [verb] To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble. QUAKER (19) [noun] Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Pithecops. QUAKES (19) [noun] A trembling or shaking. | [noun] An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force. | [verb] To tremble or shake. QUALIA (15) [noun] An instance of subjective, conscious experience. QUALMS (17) [noun] A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. | [noun] A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. | [noun] A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now often in negative constructions.) QUALMY (20) QUANGO (16) [noun] An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it. QUANTA (15) [noun] The total amount of something; quantity. | [noun] The amount or quantity observably present, or available. | [noun] The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon. QUANTS (15) [noun] A quantitative analyst. | [noun] Short for quantity. | [noun] Short for quantifier. QUARKS (19) [noun] In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons. | [noun] (X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string. | [noun] (Falkland Islands) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax. QUARRY (18) [noun] A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate. | [verb] To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry. | [verb] To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching. | [noun] A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward. | [noun] A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone. QUARTE (15) [noun] The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards. QUARTO (15) [noun] A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides). | [noun] A book size, corresponding to the paper size. QUARTS (15) [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. QUARTZ (24) [noun] The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO2. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment. QUASAR (15) [noun] An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe. QUATRE (15) QUAVER (18) [noun] A trembling shake. | [noun] A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing. | [noun] An eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail. QUEANS (15) [noun] A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute. | [noun] A young woman, a girl; a daughter. QUEASY (18) [adjective] Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach. | [adjective] Easily troubled; squeamish. QUEAZY (27) QUEENS (15) [noun] A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria. | [noun] The wife or widow of a king. | [noun] The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. QUEERS (15) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity. QUELLS (15) [noun] A subduing. | [verb] To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit. | [verb] To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. QUENCH (20) [noun] The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state. | [noun] A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system. | [verb] To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst. QUERNS (15) [noun] A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones. QUESTS (15) [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. QUEUED (16) [verb] To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line. | [verb] To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue. | [verb] To add to a queue data structure. QUEUER (15) QUEUES (15) [noun] An animal's tail. | [noun] A men's hairstyle whose primary attribute is a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China. | [noun] A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back). QUEZAL (24) QUICHE (20) [noun] A pie made primarily of eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat or vegetables are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked. | [adjective] Extremely appealing to look at; sexually alluring. QUICKS (21) [noun] Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails. | [noun] Plants used in making a quickset hedge | [noun] The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling. QUIETS (15) [noun] The absence of sound; quietness. | [noun] The absence of movement; stillness, tranquility | [verb] To become quiet, silent, still, tranquil, calm. QUIFFS (21) [noun] (British dialect) A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke. | [noun] A trick or ploy; a stratagem. | [noun] A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s. QUILLS (15) [noun] The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs. | [noun] A pen made from a feather. | [noun] Any pen. QUILTS (15) [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. QUINCE (17) [noun] The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga. | [noun] The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia. | [noun] A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince. QUINIC (17) QUININ (15) QUINOA (15) [noun] A goosefoot (Chenopodium quinoa) native to the Andes and cultivated for its edible seeds. | [noun] The high-protein dried fruits and seeds of this plant, used as a food staple and ground into flour. QUINOL (15) [noun] The diphenol para-dihydroxy benzene, used as a mild reducing agent in photographic developing; isomeric with catechol and resorcinol. QUINSY (18) [noun] A peritonsillar abscess; a painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues, usually a complication of tonsillitis, caused by bacterial infection and often accompanied by fever. QUINTA (15) [noun] A country house in Madeira. QUINTE (15) [noun] The fifth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at knee height. QUINTS (15) [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 QUIPPU (19) QUIPUS (17) [noun] A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords. QUIRED (16) QUIRES (15) [noun] One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold. | [noun] A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures. | [noun] A book, poem, or pamphlet. QUIRKS (19) [noun] An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone | [noun] An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit | [noun] A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge. QUIRKY (22) [adjective] Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute. QUIRTS (15) [noun] A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide. | [verb] To strike with a quirt. QUITCH (20) [verb] To shake (something); to stir, move. | [verb] To stir; to move. | [verb] To flinch; shrink. | [noun] Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed) QUIVER (18) [noun] A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun. | [noun] A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons. | [noun] The collective noun for cobras. | [adjective] Nimble, active. | [verb] To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. QUOHOG (19) QUOINS (15) [noun] Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks. | [noun] The keystone of an arch. | [noun] A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place. QUOITS (15) [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. QUOKKA (23) [noun] A cat-sized marsupial, Setonix brachyurus, of southwestern Australia. QUORUM (17) [noun] The minimum number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast votes, often but not necessarily a majority or supermajority. | [noun] A selected body of persons. QUOTAS (15) [noun] A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. | [noun] A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal. | [noun] A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity. QUOTED (16) [verb] To repeat the exact words of (a person). | [verb] To repeat (the exact words of a person). | [verb] To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price. QUOTER (15) QUOTES (15) [noun] A quotation; a statement attributed to a person. | [noun] A quotation mark. | [noun] A summary of work to be done with a set price. QUOTHA (18) QURUSH (18) RADIUM (9) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Ra) with an atomic number of 88. It is a soft, shiny and silvery radioactive alkaline earth metal. | [noun] A type of cloth woven from silk or synthetic yarn, often with a shiny appearance. | [verb] To treat (a tumour, etc.) with radium. RADIUS (7) [noun] The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb. | [noun] The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal. | [noun] One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell. RADULA (7) [noun] The rasping tongue of snails and all other mollusks except bivalves. 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. RAMOUS (8) RANULA (6) RASURE (6) RAUNCH (11) [noun] Low class condition or content; inferiority; inadequacy. | [noun] Dishonorable, base, and vulgar expression. | [noun] Socially unacceptable sexual behavior. REBUFF (14) [noun] A sudden resistance or refusal. | [noun] Repercussion, or beating back. | [verb] To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out. | [verb] To buff again. REBUKE (12) [noun] A harsh criticism. | [verb] To criticise harshly; to reprove. REBURY (11) [verb] To bury again REBUTS (8) [verb] To drive back or beat back; to repulse. | [verb] To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it. REBUYS (11) RECOUP (10) [verb] To make back, as an investment. | [verb] To recover from an error. | [verb] To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct. RECTUM (10) [noun] The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon. RECTUS (8) [noun] Any of several straight muscles in various parts of the body, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye etc. RECURS (8) [verb] To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc. | [verb] To happen again. | [verb] To recurse. RECUSE (8) [verb] To refuse or reject (a judge); to declare that the judge shall not try the case or is disqualified from acting. | [verb] (of a judge) To refuse to act as a judge; to declare oneself disqualified from acting. RECUTS (8) [verb] To cut again REDBUD (10) [noun] Any of several small trees, of the genus Cercis, having purple-pink flowers that appear before the leaves; the Judas tree. REDBUG (10) 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. REDUBS (9) REDUCE (9) [verb] To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower. | [verb] To lose weight. | [verb] To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote. REFLUX (16) [noun] The backwards flow of any fluid. | [noun] A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period. | [noun] The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus. REFUEL (9) [noun] An act or instance of refilling with fuel. | [verb] To refill with fuel. REFUGE (10) [noun] A state of safety, protection or shelter. | [noun] A place providing safety, protection or shelter. | [noun] Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort. REFUND (10) [noun] An amount of money returned. | [verb] To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse. | [verb] To supply again with funds. REFUSE (9) [noun] Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. | [adjective] Discarded, rejected. | [noun] Refusal | [verb] To melt again. REFUTE (9) [verb] To prove (something) to be false or incorrect. | [verb] To deny the truth or correctness of (something). REGIUS (7) REGLUE (7) REGNUM (9) REGULI (7) [noun] An impure metal formed beneath slag during the smelting of ores. REHUNG (10) [verb] To hang again. RELUCT (8) RELUME (8) [verb] To rekindle; to relight (literally or figuratively). | [verb] To make clear or bright again. REMUDA (9) [noun] A herd of horses from which the horses to be used for a particular purpose are selected. REPOUR (8) REPUGN (9) REPUMP (12) REPUTE (8) [noun] Reputation, especially a good reputation. | [verb] To attribute or credit something to something; to impute. | [verb] To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something REQUIN (15) RERUNS (6) [noun] A television program shown after its initial presentation — particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat. | [noun] Another printing run (impression; batch of copies of a given edition) of a book, cartoon, etc. | [noun] A political candidate who holds the same political agenda or doctrine as a past or incumbent holder of a given political office. RESCUE (8) [noun] An act or episode of rescuing, saving. | [noun] A liberation, freeing. | [noun] The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril RESEAU (6) 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. RESUME (8) [verb] To take back possession of (something). | [verb] To summarise. | [verb] To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on. | [noun] A summary or synopsis. RETUNE (6) [verb] To tune again. RETURN (6) [noun] The act of returning. | [noun] A return ticket. | [noun] An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it. RETUSE (6) REUSED (7) [verb] To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else). | [verb] To use again, or in another place. REUSES (6) [noun] The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable. | [noun] The act of using again, or in another place. | [verb] To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else). REVUES (9) [noun] A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied. Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs. RHESUS (9) RHEUMS (11) RHEUMY (14) [adjective] Of, relating to, or producing rheum from the mucous membranes; watery RHUMBA (13) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba RHUMBS (13) [noun] A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle | [noun] One of the 32 points of the compass (compass points) | [noun] A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32 of a circle or 11.25° RHUSES (9) RICTUS (8) [noun] A bird's gaping mouth. | [noun] The throat of a calyx. | [noun] Any open-mouthed expression. RIGOUR (7) [noun] Severity or strictness. | [noun] Harshness, as of climate. | [noun] A trembling or shivering response. RIMOUS (8) RISQUE (15) [adjective] Suggestive of sexual impropriety; bordering on the indelicate. | [noun] A possible adverse event or outcome | [noun] The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event. RITUAL (6) [noun] Rite; a repeated set of actions | [adjective] Related to a rite or repeated set of actions. ROBUST (8) [adjective] Evincing strength and health; strong. | [adjective] Violent; rough; rude. | [adjective] Requiring strength or vigor ROGUED (8) [verb] To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination. | [verb] To cheat. | [verb] To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. ROGUES (7) [noun] A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person. | [noun] A mischievous scamp. | [noun] A vagrant. ROQUES (15) 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 ROTUND (7) [adjective] Having a round or spherical shape; circular; orbicular. | [adjective] Having a round body shape; portly or plump; podgy. | [adjective] (of a sound) Full and rich; orotund; sonorous; full-toned. ROUBLE (8) [noun] The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: копе́йка, Belarusian: капе́йка). The Russian ruble's symbol is ₽. ROUCHE (11) ROUENS (6) ROUGED (8) [verb] To apply rouge (makeup). ROUGES (7) [noun] Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher. | [noun] Any reddish pink colour. | [noun] A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored. (This scoring term is not often used in Canada, with the term single being more commonly used.) ROUGHS (10) [noun] The unmowed part of a golf course. | [noun] A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. | [noun] A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce. ROUNDS (7) [noun] A circular or spherical object or part of an object. | [noun] A circular or repetitious route. | [noun] A general outburst from a group of people at an event. ROUPED (9) [verb] To cry or shout. | [verb] To sell by auction. | [adjective] Affected with roup; roupy. ROUPET (8) ROUSED (7) [verb] To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy. | [verb] To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.). | [verb] To provoke (someone) to action or anger. ROUSER (6) ROUSES (6) [noun] An arousal. | [noun] The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse. | [verb] To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy. ROUSTS (6) [verb] To rout out of bed; to rouse | [verb] To harass, to treat in a rough way. | [verb] To arrest ROUTED (7) [verb] To direct or divert along a particular course. | [verb] To connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet. | [verb] To send (information) through a router. | [verb] To make a noise; roar; bellow; snort. ROUTER (6) [noun] Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another. | [noun] Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers. | [noun] A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway. | [noun] A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves. ROUTES (6) [noun] A course or way which is traveled or passed. | [noun] A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation. | [noun] A road or path; often specifically a highway. ROUTHS (9) RUANAS (6) RUBACE (10) RUBATO (8) [noun] A tempo in which strict timing is relaxed, the music being played near, but not on, the beat RUBBED (11) [verb] To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction. | [verb] To rub something against (a second thing). | [verb] To be rubbed against something. RUBBER (10) [noun] Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene. | [noun] Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber. | [noun] An eraser. | [noun] In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches: | [verb] To eavesdrop on a telephone call RUBBLE (10) [noun] The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry. | [noun] A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock. | [noun] (in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. RUBBLY (13) RUBIED (9) RUBIER (8) RUBIES (8) [noun] A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone. | [noun] A red spinel. | [noun] A deep red colour. RUBIGO (9) RUBLES (8) [noun] The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: копе́йка, Belarusian: капе́йка). The Russian ruble's symbol is ₽. RUBOFF (14) RUBOUT (8) RUBRIC (10) [noun] A heading in a book highlighted in red. | [noun] A title of a category or a class. | [noun] The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters. RUCHED (12) RUCHES (11) [noun] A strip of fabric which has been fluted or pleated. | [noun] A small ruff of fluted or pleated fabric worn at neck or wrist. | [noun] A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn. RUCKED (13) [verb] To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football. | [verb] To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck. | [verb] To crease or fold. RUCKLE (12) [noun] A disordered collection. | [noun] A wrinkle. | [verb] To crease or wrinkle. | [noun] A rattling noise in the throat, as from suffocation. RUCKUS (12) [noun] A noisy disturbance and/or commotion. | [noun] A row, fight. RUDDER (8) [noun] An underwater vane used to steer a vessel. The rudder is controlled by means of a wheel, tiller or other apparatus (modern vessels can be controlled even with a joystick or an autopilot). | [noun] A control surface on the vertical stabilizer of a fixed-wing aircraft or an autogyro. On some craft, the entire vertical stabilizer comprises the rudder. The rudder is controlled by foot-operated control pedals. | [noun] A riddle or sieve. RUDDLE (8) [noun] A form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep. | [noun] Ruddiness; red coloration. | [verb] To mark something with red ochre. | [noun] A riddle or sieve. RUDELY (10) [adverb] In a rude manner RUDEST (7) [adjective] Bad-mannered. | [adjective] Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive. | [adjective] Tough, robust. RUEFUL (9) [adjective] Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow, especially in a wry or humorous way. | [adjective] Inspiring pity or compassion. | [adjective] Bad; woeful; deplorable. RUFFED (13) [verb] To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff. | [verb] Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it. | [verb] To ruffle; to disorder. RUFFES (12) [noun] Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish. | [noun] Other species in the same genus. RUFFLE (12) [noun] Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration. | [noun] Disturbance; agitation; commotion. | [noun] A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff. RUFFLY (15) RUFOUS (9) [noun] A reddish-brown colour, as of rust. | [adjective] Of a reddish colour RUGATE (7) RUGGED (9) [adjective] Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough. | [adjective] Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven. | [adjective] Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy. | [verb] To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear. RUGGER (8) [noun] Rugby | [noun] Rugby player RUGOLA (7) RUGOSA (7) [noun] A plant of the rose species Rosa rugosa, or of any hybrid developed from it. RUGOSE (7) [adjective] Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation. | [adjective] Rugged, rough, unrefined. | [adjective] Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. rugose-veined or rugose-leaved. RUGOUS (7) RUINED (7) [verb] To cause the fiscal ruin of. | [verb] To destroy or make something no longer usable. | [verb] To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business. RUINER (6) RULERS (6) [noun] A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a straightedge with markings. | [noun] A person who rules or governs; someone or something that exercises dominion or controlling power over others. RULIER (6) [adjective] Pitiable; miserable. | [adjective] Neat and orderly. RULING (7) [verb] To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over. | [verb] To excel. | [verb] To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines). RUMAKI (12) RUMBAS (10) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba RUMBLE (10) [noun] A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach. | [noun] A street fight or brawl. | [noun] A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other. RUMBLY (13) RUMENS (8) [noun] The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants. RUMINA (8) [noun] The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants. RUMMER (10) [noun] A large drinking-glass studded with prunts to ensure a safe grip, popular in the Rhineland and the Netherlands from the 15th century to the 17th century. | [adjective] Fine, excellent, valuable. | [adjective] Strange, peculiar. RUMORS (8) [noun] A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth. | [noun] Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims. | [verb] (usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip. RUMOUR (8) [noun] A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth. | [noun] Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims. | [verb] (usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip. RUMPLE (10) [noun] A wrinkle. | [verb] To make wrinkled, particularly fabric. | [verb] To muss; to tousle. RUMPLY (13) RUMPUS (10) [noun] A noisy, sometimes violent disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel. | [noun] A rumpus room. RUNDLE (7) RUNKLE (10) RUNLET (6) [noun] A small stream or brook. | [noun] A wine measure, equivalent to 18 gallons. RUNNEL (6) [noun] A small stream, a rivulet. | [verb] To create channels for directing the flow of liquid. RUNNER (6) [noun] Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet. | [noun] Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip. | [noun] A pleasure trip. RUNOFF (12) [noun] That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area. | [noun] Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water. | [noun] A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated. 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. RUNWAY (12) [noun] A defined, narrow section of land or an artificial structure used for access. | [noun] The usual path taken by deer or other wild animals, such as from a forest to a water source. | [noun] A narrow walkway (often on a platform) extending from a stage on which people walk, especially one used by models during fashion shows. RUPEES (8) [noun] The common name for the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka, often abbreviated ₨. | [noun] A silver coin circulating in India between the 16th and 20th centuries, weighing one tola (formerly 170–180 troy grains; from 1833, 180 troy grains). RUPIAH (11) [noun] The unit of currency in Indonesia. RURBAN (8) RUSHED (10) [verb] To hurry; to perform a task with great haste. | [verb] To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily. | [verb] To dribble rapidly. RUSHEE (9) RUSHER (9) [noun] A person who rushes. | [noun] The fast defensive position whose objective is to sack the offensive team's quarterback. | [noun] One who strews rushes. RUSHES (9) [noun] Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water. | [noun] The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc. | [noun] The merest trifle; a straw. RUSINE (6) 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. RUSTED (7) [verb] To oxidize, especially of iron or steel. | [verb] To cause to oxidize. | [verb] To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust. RUSTIC (8) [noun] A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area. | [noun] A noctuoid moth. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis. RUSTLE (6) [noun] A soft crackling sound similar to the movement of dry leaves. | [noun] A movement producing such a sound. | [verb] To move (something) with a soft crackling sound. RUTILE (6) [noun] The most frequent of the three polymorphs of titanium dioxide, crystalizing in the tetragonal system, TiO2. RUTINS (6) RUTTED (7) [verb] To be in the annual rut or mating season. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. SACBUT (10) SACQUE (17) SACRUM (10) [noun] A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood. SADDHU (11) SADHUS (10) [noun] An ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (enjoyment), artha (practical objectives) and even dharma (duty). SAGBUT (9) SAJOUS (13) SALUKI (10) SALUTE (6) [noun] An utterance or gesture expressing greeting or honor towards someone, now especially a formal, non-verbal gesture made with the arms or hands in any of various specific positions. | [noun] A kiss, offered in salutation. | [noun] A discharge of cannon or similar arms, as a mark of honour or respect. SAMBUR (10) SAMSHU (11) SANNUP (8) SANTUR (6) SAPOUR (8) SAUCED (9) [verb] To add sauce to; to season. | [verb] To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate. | [verb] To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive. SAUCER (8) [noun] A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips. | [noun] An object round and gently curved (shaped like a saucer). | [noun] A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table. SAUCES (8) [noun] A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food. | [noun] Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in: | [noun] (usually “the”) Alcohol, booze. SAUCHS (11) SAUGER (7) [noun] A freshwater perciform fish, Sander canadensis SAUGHS (10) SAUGHY (13) SAULTS (6) SAUNAS (6) [noun] A room or a house designed for heat sessions. | [noun] The act of using a sauna. | [noun] A public sauna; a front for a brothel in some countries. SAUREL (6) SAUTED (7) SAUTES (6) SAVOUR (9) [noun] The specific taste or smell of something. | [noun] A distinctive sensation. | [noun] Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. | [verb] To possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality. SCAUPS (10) [noun] The top of the head; the skull. | [noun] The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. | [noun] A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory. SCAURS (8) [noun] A steep cliff or bank. SCHUIT (11) SCHULN (11) SCHUSS (11) [noun] A straight run downhill | [verb] To ski a schuss. SCOURS (8) [verb] To clean, polish, or wash something by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent. | [verb] To remove debris and dirt by purging; to sweep along or off (by a current of water). | [verb] To clear the digestive tract by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge. SCOUSE (8) [noun] A stew associated with the Liverpool area, usually containing (at least) meat, onions, carrots and potatoes. SCOUTH (11) SCOUTS (8) [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. SCRUBS (10) [noun] One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. | [noun] One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. | [noun] A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant SCRUFF (14) [noun] Someone with an untidy appearance. | [noun] Stubble, facial hair (on males). | [noun] Crust. | [noun] The loose skin at the back of the neck of some animals. SCRUMS (10) [noun] A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people. | [noun] Specifically used in the Canadian media to describe a tightly-packed group of reporters surrounding a member of the Canadian House of Commons while in the Parliament Buildings. | [noun] In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way. Also known as a scrummage. SCUBAS (10) [noun] (underwater diving) An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater. SCUFFS (14) [verb] To scrape the feet while walking. | [verb] To hit lightly, to brush against. | [verb] To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball. SCULKS (12) SCULLS (8) [noun] A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward. | [noun] One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower. | [noun] A small rowing boat, for one person. SCULPS (10) [verb] (sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave. | [verb] To flay. 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. SCUMMY (15) SCURFS (11) SCURFY (14) SCURRY (11) [noun] A dash. | [verb] To run with quick light steps, to scamper. SCURVY (14) [noun] A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes. | [adjective] Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. | [adjective] Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean. SCUTCH (13) [noun] An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them. | [noun] The woody fibre of flax; the refuse of scutched flax. | [verb] To beat or whip; to drub. | [noun] A tuft or clump of grass. SCUTES (8) [noun] A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles. | [noun] A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs | [noun] A small shield. SCUTUM (10) [noun] An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry of the Roman army. | [noun] A scute. | [noun] A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum) SCUZZY (29) [adjective] Dirty or grimy. | [adjective] Disreputable; sleazy. SEBUMS (10) SECUND (9) [adjective] Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk; unilateral. SECURE (8) [verb] To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect. | [verb] To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of. | [verb] To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping. SEDUCE (9) [verb] To beguile or lure (someone) away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray. | [verb] To entice or induce (someone) to engage in a sexual relationship. | [verb] (by extension) To have sexual intercourse with. SEDUMS (9) [noun] Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop SEGUED (8) [verb] To move smoothly from one state or subject to another. | [verb] To make a smooth transition from one theme to another. | [verb] (of a disk jockey) To play a sequence of records with no talk between them. SEGUES (7) [noun] An instance of segueing, a transition. | [verb] To move smoothly from one state or subject to another. | [verb] To make a smooth transition from one theme to another. SENDUP (9) [noun] A satirical imitation of a work of art or a genre. SENRYU (9) SENSUM (8) SEPTUM (10) [noun] A wall separating two cavities; a partition | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus. SEQUEL (15) [noun] The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath. | [noun] A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own. | [noun] Thirlage. SEQUIN (15) [noun] Any of various small gold coins minted in Italy and Turkey. | [noun] A sparkling spangle used for the decoration of ornate clothing. SEROUS (6) [adjective] Containing, secreting, or resembling serum; watery; a fluid or discharge that is pale yellow and transparent, usually representing something of a benign nature. (This contrasts with the term sanguine, which means blood-tinged and usually harmful.) SERUMS (8) [noun] The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. | [noun] Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum. | [noun] A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. SETOUS (6) SETOUT (6) SETUPS (8) [noun] Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus. | [noun] The fashion in which something is organized or arranged. | [noun] A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody. SEXUAL (13) [noun] A species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species. | [noun] A person who experiences sexual attraction, a person who has interest in or desire for sex (especially as contrasted with an asexual). | [adjective] Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes. SHADUF (13) SHAMUS (11) [noun] A private detective; originally, a policeman or police detective. SHAUGH (13) SHAULS (9) SHEUCH (14) SHEUGH (13) [noun] A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries. | [noun] The space between the buttocks. | [noun] The Atlantic ocean, the sea. SHLUMP (13) [noun] Someone who is lazy, slovenly or dull-looking. SHMUCK (17) [noun] A jerk; a person who is unlikable, detestable, or contemptible because he or she is stupid, foolish, clumsy, oafish, inept, malicious, or unpleasant. | [noun] A deplorable, pitiful person; often in the form poor schmuck. SHOGUN (10) [noun] The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan. SHOULD (10) [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. SHOUTS (9) [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. SHOYUS (12) SHROUD (10) [noun] That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. | [noun] Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. | [noun] That which covers or shelters like a shroud. | [verb] To cover with a shroud. | [noun] The branching top of a tree; foliage. SHRUBS (11) [noun] A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base. | [noun] A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur. SHRUGS (10) [noun] A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge. | [noun] A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted. SHRUNK (13) [verb] To cause to become smaller. | [verb] To become smaller; to contract. | [verb] To cower or flinch. SHUCKS (15) [noun] The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts). | [noun] A fraud; a scam. | [noun] A phony. SHUNTS (9) [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. SHUTED (10) SHUTES (9) SIDDUR (8) [noun] A prayer book containing a set order of daily prayers. SIEURS (6) SINFUL (9) [adjective] Constituting a sin; being morally or religiously wrong; wicked; evil | [adjective] Decadent (luxuriously self-indulgent) SIRUPS (8) [noun] Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring. | [noun] (by extension) Any viscous liquid. | [noun] (shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig. SIRUPY (11) [adjective] Having the taste or consistency of syrup. | [adjective] Overly sweet. | [adjective] Overly sentimental. SITUPS (8) SKULKS (14) [verb] To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm). | [verb] To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection. | [verb] To avoid an obligation or responsibility. SKULLS (10) [noun] (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales. | [noun] A multitude. | [noun] The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible. SKUNKS (14) [noun] Any of various small mammals, of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure. | [noun] A despicable person. | [noun] A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score. Compare shutout. SLEUTH (9) [noun] A detective. | [noun] A sleuth-hound; a bloodhound. | [noun] An animal’s trail or track. | [noun] Slowness; laziness, sloth. SLIPUP (10) [noun] A (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep. SLOUCH (11) [noun] A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance | [noun] Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim. | [noun] Someone who is slow to act. SLOUGH (10) [noun] The skin shed by a snake or other reptile. | [noun] Dead skin on a sore or ulcer. | [verb] To shed (skin). | [noun] A muddy or marshy area. SLUDGE (8) [noun] Solids separated from suspension in a liquid. | [noun] A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes. | [noun] A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler. SLUDGY (11) SLUFFS (12) SLUICE (8) [noun] An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow. | [noun] A water gate or floodgate. | [noun] Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. SLUICY (11) SLUING (7) [verb] To rotate something on an axis. | [verb] To turn something sharply. | [verb] To rotate on an axis; to pivot. SLUMMY (13) [adjective] Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit. SLUMPS (10) [noun] A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period. | [noun] A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed. | [noun] A boggy place. SLURBS (8) SLURPS (8) [noun] A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking | [noun] A mouthful of liquid | [verb] To eat or drink noisily. SLURRY (9) [noun] Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid. | [noun] Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams. | [noun] A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc. | [adjective] Slurred, tending to slur. SLUSHY (12) [noun] A flavoured frozen drink made with ice crystals. | [noun] A kitchen helper. | [adjective] Covered in slush. SLUTTY (9) [adjective] Of or resembling a slut. SMUDGE (10) [noun] A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. | [noun] Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation. | [noun] A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. | [verb] To obscure by blurring; to smear. SMUDGY (13) [adjective] Marked with smudges. | [adjective] Like a thick smoke (such as is emitted by a smudge pot). SMUGLY (12) [adverb] In a self-satisfied manner. SMUTCH (13) SMUTTY (11) [verb] To make dirty; to soil. | [adjective] Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty. | [adjective] Obscene, indecent. SNAFUS (9) [noun] A ridiculously chaotic situation. | [noun] A major glitch or breakdown. SNOUTS (6) [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. SNOUTY (9) SNUBBY (13) SNUFFS (12) [verb] To inhale through the nose. | [verb] To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence. | [verb] To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated. SNUFFY (15) [adjective] Soiled with snuff. | [adjective] Sulky; angry; vexed. SNUGLY (10) [adverb] Tightly, with limited space to move, in a snug manner. SOBFUL (11) SODIUM (9) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977. It is a soft, waxy, silvery, reactive alkali metal that is never found unbound in nature. SOLEUS (6) [noun] A broad, flat muscle that extends behind the gastrocnemius along the back of the calf. SOLUMS (8) SOLUTE (6) [noun] Any substance that is dissolved in a liquid solvent to create a solution | [verb] To dissolve. | [verb] To absolve. SOUARI (6) SOUCAR (8) SOUDAN (7) SOUGHS (10) [verb] To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound. | [verb] To drain. 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. SOULED (7) SOUNDS (7) [noun] A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. | [noun] A vibration capable of causing such sensations. | [noun] A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc SOUPED (9) [verb] To feed: to provide with soup or a meal. | [verb] To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution. | [verb] Alternative form of sup SOURCE (8) [noun] The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired. | [noun] Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates. | [noun] A reporter's informant. SOURED (7) [verb] To make sour. | [verb] To become sour. | [verb] To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted. SOURER (6) [adjective] Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste. | [adjective] Made rancid by fermentation, etc. | [adjective] Tasting or smelling rancid. SOURLY (9) SOUSED (7) [verb] To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench. | [verb] To steep in brine; to pickle. | [verb] To strike, beat. SOUSES (6) [verb] To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench. | [verb] To steep in brine; to pickle. | [verb] To strike, beat. SOUTER (6) [noun] A shoemaker or cobbler. SOUTHS (9) [verb] To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south. | [verb] To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line. SPOUSE (8) [noun] A person in a marriage or marital relationship. | [verb] To wed; to espouse. SPOUTS (8) [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. 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. SPRUCE (10) [noun] Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir. | [noun] The wood of a spruce. | [noun] (used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce. SPRUCY (13) SPRUES (8) [noun] A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis. | [noun] (founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. | [noun] (founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold. SPRUGS (9) SPRUNG (9) [verb] To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation | [verb] To burst forth. | [verb] (of beards) To grow. SPUING (9) SPUMED (11) [verb] To froth. SPUMES (10) [noun] Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater. | [verb] To froth. SPUNKS (12) [verb] To catch fire; flame up. | [verb] To ejaculate. SPUNKY (15) [adjective] Spirited or plucky. | [adjective] Pertaining to or like spunk (semen). | [adjective] Stained with semen. SPURGE (9) [noun] Any plant of the genus Euphorbia, a diverse genus of over 2,000 species. | [verb] To emit foam; to froth; said of the emission of yeast from beer during fermentation. SPURNS (8) [noun] An act of spurning; a scornful rejection. | [noun] A kick; a blow with the foot. | [noun] Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment. SPURRY (11) [noun] Any of several European annual herbs of the genus Spergula. SPURTS (8) [noun] A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound. | [noun] Ejaculation of semen. | [noun] A shoot; a bud. SPUTUM (10) [noun] Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus. SQUABS (17) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken. | [noun] The meat of such a baby bird used as food. | [noun] A baby rook. SQUADS (16) [noun] A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members. | [noun] One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps. SQUALL (15) [noun] A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line. | [noun] A sudden storm, as found in a squall line. | [noun] A loud cry or wail. SQUAMA (17) SQUARE (15) [noun] A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral. | [noun] Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form. | [noun] An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles. SQUASH (18) [noun] A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets. | [noun] A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water. | [noun] A place or a situation where people have limited space to move. | [noun] A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. | [noun] Muskrat. SQUATS (15) [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. SQUAWK (22) [noun] A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call. | [noun] A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals. | [noun] An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance. SQUAWS (18) [noun] A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman. SQUEAK (19) [noun] A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the calls of small animals. | [noun] (games) A card game similar to group solitaire. | [noun] A narrow squeak. SQUEAL (15) [noun] A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child, or noisy worn-down brake pads. | [noun] The cry of a pig. | [verb] To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound. SQUEGS (16) SQUIBS (17) [noun] A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode. | [noun] A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc. | [noun] A kind of slow match or safety fuse. SQUIDS (16) [noun] Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles | [noun] A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid. | [noun] (mildly) A sailor in the Navy. SQUILL (15) [noun] A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties | [noun] A sea onion (Drimia maritima) | [noun] A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean 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. SQUIRE (15) [noun] A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight. | [noun] A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire. | [noun] A male attendant on a great personage. | [noun] A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure. SQUIRM (17) [noun] A twisting, snakelike movement of the body. | [verb] To twist one's body with snakelike motions. | [verb] To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment. 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. SQUISH (18) [noun] The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed. | [noun] A political moderate. | [noun] Marmalade. | [noun] A non-romantic and generally non-sexual infatuation with somebody one is not dating, or the object of that infatuation; a platonic crush. SQUUSH (18) STATUE (6) [noun] A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting. | [noun] A portrait. | [verb] To form a statue of; to make into a statue. STATUS (6) [noun] A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others. | [noun] Prestige or high standing. | [noun] A situation or state of affairs. STOUND (7) STOUPS (8) [noun] A bucket. | [noun] A mug or drinking vessel. | [noun] A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church. STOURE (6) STOURS (6) STOURY (9) STOUTS (6) [noun] A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain. | [noun] An obese person. | [noun] A large clothing size. STROUD (7) [noun] A kind of coarse wool used in blankets or for garment by Native Americans. STRUCK (12) [verb] (sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate. | [verb] (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect. | [verb] To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate. STRUMA (8) [noun] Scrofula. | [noun] A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goitre. STRUMS (8) [verb] To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously. STRUNG (7) [verb] To put (items) on a string. | [verb] To put strings on (something). | [verb] To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. STRUNT (6) STRUTS (6) [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. STUBBY (13) [noun] A small, squat beer bottle. | [adjective] Abounding with stubs. | [adjective] Like a stub; short, especially cut short, thick and stiff; stunted; stubbed. STUCCO (10) [noun] A plaster that is used to coat (interior or) exterior walls, or used for mouldings. | [noun] Work made of stucco; stuccowork. | [verb] To coat or decorate with stucco. STUDIO (7) [noun] An artist’s or photographer’s workshop or the room in which an artist works. | [noun] An establishment where an art is taught. | [noun] A place where radio or television programs, records or films are made. STUDLY (10) [adjective] Like a stud; being or relating to a sexually attractive male. STUFFS (12) [noun] Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects. | [noun] Unspecified things or matters. | [noun] The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object. STUFFY (15) [noun] A toy made of a soft material, usually stuffed with cotton, straw, beans, or other materials, and typically intended as a plaything for children. | [adjective] Poorly ventilated; partially plugged. | [adjective] Stout; mettlesome; resolute. STULLS (6) STUMPS (10) [noun] The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. | [noun] The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting. | [noun] A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration. STUMPY (13) [noun] An amputee who has lost a leg. | [adjective] Like or resembling a stump; short and cut off. | [adjective] Full of stumps. STUNTS (6) [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. STUPAS (8) [noun] A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha. | [noun] A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge). STUPES (8) [noun] A stupid person or (rarely) thing. | [noun] A hot, wet medicated cloth or sponge applied externally. STUPID (9) [noun] A stupid person; a fool. | [noun] The state or condition of being stupid. | [adjective] Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence. STUPOR (8) [noun] A state of reduced consciousness or sensibility. | [noun] A state in which one has difficulty in thinking or using one’s senses. | [verb] To place into a stupor; to stupefy. STURDY (10) [noun] A disease in sheep and cattle, caused by a tapeworm and marked by great nervousness or by dullness and stupor. | [adjective] Of firm build; stiff; stout; strong. | [adjective] Solid in structure or person. STURTS (6) STYLUS (9) [noun] Senses relating to a thin, pointed object. | [noun] (by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good. | [noun] A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art. SUABLE (8) SUABLY (11) SUAVER (9) [adjective] Charming, confident and elegant. SUBAHS (11) SUBBED (11) [verb] To substitute for. | [verb] To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education. | [verb] To replace (a player) with a substitute. SUBDEB (11) SUBDUE (9) [verb] To overcome, quieten, or bring under control. | [verb] To bring (a country) under control by force. SUBERS (8) SUBFIX (18) SUBGUM (11) SUBITO (8) 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. SUBORN (8) [verb] To induce to commit an unlawful or malicious act, or to commit perjury | [verb] To procure privately, or by collusion; to incite secretly; to instigate. SUBPAR (10) SUBSEA (8) [adjective] Beneath the sea; submarine. 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. SUBTLE (8) [adjective] Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood; barely noticeable. | [adjective] (of a thing) Cleverly contrived. | [adjective] (of a person or animal) Cunning, skillful. SUBTLY (11) [adverb] With subtleness, in a subtle manner; with cleverness rather than brute force. SUBURB (10) [noun] A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc. | [noun] (by extension) The outer part; the environment. | [noun] Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery. SUBWAY (14) [noun] An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas. | [noun] A train that runs on such an underground railway. | [noun] A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way. SUCCAH (13) [noun] A temporary dwelling or booth used by practising Jews during Tabernacles (Sukkot). SUCCOR (10) [noun] Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration. | [noun] Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially reinforcements sent to support military action. | [noun] (obsolete except dialectal) Protection, refuge, shelter; a place providing such protection, refuge or shelter. SUCKED (13) [verb] To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). | [verb] To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat. | [verb] To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk. SUCKER (12) [noun] A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned. | [noun] An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree. | [noun] (by extension) A parasite; a sponger. | [noun] Any thing or object. SUCKLE (12) [noun] A teat. | [verb] To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs. | [verb] To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother. SUCRES (8) [noun] The former currency of Ecuador, divided into 100 centavos. SUDARY (10) SUDDEN (8) [noun] An unexpected occurrence; a surprise. | [adjective] Happening quickly and with little or no warning. | [adjective] Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid. SUDORS (7) SUDSED (8) [verb] To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds. SUDSER (7) [noun] A foaming agent used in detergents etc. | [noun] (entertainment industry) A soap opera. SUDSES (7) [verb] To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds. SUEDED (8) SUEDES (7) SUFFER (12) [verb] To undergo hardship. | [verb] To feel pain. | [verb] To become worse. SUFFIX (19) [noun] (grammar) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning. | [noun] A subscript. | [noun] A final segment of a string of characters. SUGARS (7) [noun] Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink. | [noun] A specific variety of sugar. | [noun] Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy. SUGARY (10) [adjective] Of food, drink, etc, containing or covered with a large amount of sugar | [adjective] Of behavior, exaggeratedly sweet and pleasant, often to the point of aversion. | [adjective] Fond of sweets. SUGHED (11) SUINTS (6) SUITED (7) [verb] To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit. | [verb] (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image. | [verb] To be appropriate or apt for. SUITER (6) SUITES (6) [noun] A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage | [noun] A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together | [noun] A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access. SUITOR (6) [noun] One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for marriage; a wooer; one who courts someone. | [noun] A party to a suit or litigation. | [noun] One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner. SUKKAH (17) [noun] A temporary dwelling or booth used by practising Jews during Tabernacles (Sukkot). SUKKOT (14) [noun] A temporary dwelling or booth used by practising Jews during Tabernacles (Sukkot). SULCAL (8) SULCUS (8) [noun] A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue. | [noun] Any of the grooves that mark the convolutions of the surface of the brain. | [noun] A region of subparallel grooves or ditches formed by a geological process. SULDAN (7) SULFAS (9) SULFID (10) SULFUR (9) [noun] A chemical element (symbol S) with an atomic number of 16. | [noun] A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur. | [verb] To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests. SULKED (11) [verb] To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn. SULKER (10) SULLEN (6) [noun] One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. | [noun] (chiefly in plural) Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness. | [adjective] Having a brooding ill temper; sulky. SULPHA (11) [noun] A sulphanilamide. | [adjective] Of or containing sulphanilamide. SULTAN (6) [noun] The holder of a secular office, formally subordinate to, but de facto the power behind the throne of, the caliph. | [noun] A hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Indonesia and in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire. | [noun] A variant of solitaire, played with two decks of cards. SULTRY (9) [adjective] Hot and humid. | [adjective] Very hot and dry; torrid. | [adjective] Sexually enthralling. SUMACH (13) [noun] Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the elm-leaved sumac, Sicilian sumac, or tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria). | [noun] Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly the tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes. | [noun] A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac. SUMACS (10) [noun] Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the elm-leaved sumac, Sicilian sumac, or tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria). | [noun] Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly the tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes. | [noun] A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac. SUMMAE (10) [noun] A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy. SUMMAS (10) SUMMED (11) [verb] To add together. | [verb] To give a summary of. SUMMER (10) [noun] One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere. | [noun] Year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one. | [noun] Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing. | [noun] A pack-horse. | [noun] A person who sums. 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 SUMMON (10) [noun] Call, command, order | [verb] To call people together; to convene. | [verb] To ask someone to come; to send for. SUNBOW (11) [noun] A bow or arc of prismatic colors like a rainbow, caused by refraction through a spray of water from a cataract, waterfall, fountain, etc., rather than through droplets of rain. SUNDAE (7) [noun] A dessert consisting of ice cream with various toppings. | [noun] A Korean dish made of the boiled or steamed intestines of a cow or pig, stuffed with various ingredients. SUNDER (7) [adjective] Sundry; separate; different. | [noun] A separation into parts; a division or severance | [verb] To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force. SUNDEW (10) [noun] Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leafs and grow in boggy ground all over the world. SUNDOG (8) [noun] Either of two bright spots, caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals, sometimes seen on the parhelic circle. SUNDRY (10) [noun] (usually in the plural) A minor miscellaneous item. | [noun] (in the plural) A category for irregular or miscellaneous items not otherwise classified. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An extra. SUNKEN (10) [verb] (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something. | [verb] (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished. | [verb] To conceal and appropriate. SUNKET (10) SUNLIT (6) [adjective] Illuminated by sunlight. SUNNAH (9) SUNNAS (6) SUNNED (7) [verb] To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun. | [verb] To warm or dry in the sunshine. | [verb] To be exposed to the sun. 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. SUNTAN (6) [noun] In humans a brown or darkened coloration of the skin caused by exposure to ultraviolet light. | [verb] To obtain a suntan by exposure to ultraviolet light. | [verb] To attempt to obtain a suntan. SUNUPS (8) [noun] The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon. | [noun] The change in color of the sky at sunup. SUPERB (10) [adjective] First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good. | [adjective] Grand; magnificent; august; stately. | [adjective] Haughty. SUPERS (8) [noun] Short for superannuation. | [noun] Short for supercomputer. | [noun] Short for superhero. SUPINE (8) [noun] (grammar) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle. | [noun] (grammar) In Swedish: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses. | [adjective] Lying on its back. SUPPED (11) [verb] To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon. | [verb] To take supper. SUPPER (10) [noun] Food consumed before going to bed. | [noun] Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon. | [noun] A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips. | [noun] A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups). SUPPLE (10) [verb] To make or become supple. | [verb] To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. | [adjective] Pliant, flexible, easy to bend SUPPLY (13) [noun] The act of supplying. | [noun] An amount of something supplied. | [noun] (in the plural) provisions. | [adverb] Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness. SURAHS (9) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. | [noun] Soft twilled silk SURELY (9) [adverb] Without fail. | [adverb] Certainly, undoubtedly. | [adverb] With confidence. 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. SURETY (9) [noun] Certainty. | [noun] That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security. | [noun] A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation. SURFED (10) [verb] To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard. | [verb] To browse the Internet, television, etc. SURFER (9) [noun] A person who rides a surfboard. | [noun] A person who surfs the Internet. | [noun] A duck, the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata). SURGED (8) [verb] To rush, flood, or increase suddenly. | [verb] To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly. | [verb] To slack off a line. SURGER (7) SURGES (7) [noun] A sudden transient rush, flood or increase. | [noun] The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation | [noun] A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current. SURIMI (8) [noun] A white paste, made from ground fish, that is used to make formed and textured food products. SURRAS (6) SURREY (9) [noun] A light horse-drawn carriage with forward-facing seats accommodating two or four people, popular in the United States; a motorized carriage of similar design. SURTAX (13) [noun] An additional or extra tax. | [verb] To impose a surtax upon. SURVEY (12) [noun] The act of surveying; a general view. | [noun] A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality. | [noun] The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface. SUSHIS (9) SUSLIK (10) [noun] Any of several large Eurasian squirrels, of the genera Citellus or Spermophilus | [noun] The fur of these animals SUSSED (7) [verb] To arrest for suspicious behaviour. | [verb] (often with "out") To discover, infer or figure out. | [verb] To study or size up, to check out (examine). SUSSES (6) [verb] To arrest for suspicious behaviour. | [verb] (often with "out") To discover, infer or figure out. | [verb] To study or size up, to check out (examine). SUTLER (6) [noun] A person who follows an army, selling provisions. SUTRAS (6) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SUTTAS (6) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SUTTEE (6) [noun] The traditional custom of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion. SUTURE (6) [noun] A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound. | [noun] Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together. | [noun] An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault. SWOUND (10) SWOUNS (9) SYNURA (9) SYRUPS (11) [noun] Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring. | [noun] (by extension) Any viscous liquid. | [noun] (shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig. SYRUPY (14) [adjective] Having the taste or consistency of syrup. | [adjective] Overly sweet. | [adjective] Overly sentimental. TABOUR (8) TABUED (9) [adjective] Forbidden; prohibited. TABULI (8) TABUNS (8) TAKEUP (12) [noun] The act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in. | [noun] (machinery) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine or loom for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch. | [noun] Acceptance (of a proposal, offer, request, etc.). TALCUM (10) [noun] Powdered and perfumed talc for toilet use. | [verb] To perfume with talcum powder. TALUKA (10) [noun] A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district. TALUKS (10) [noun] A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district. TAMBUR (10) TANUKI (10) TARSUS (6) [noun] The part of the foot between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus. | [noun] Any of the seven bones in this part of the foot. | [noun] A plate of dense connective tissue found in each eyelid, attached to either the superior tarsal muscle (in the upper eyelid) or inferior tarsal muscle (lower eyelid), which aid with sympathetic control. 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. TAUNTS (6) [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. TAUPES (8) TAUTED (7) TAUTEN (6) TAUTER (6) [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. TAUTLY (9) TAUTOG (7) [noun] A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina (Tautoga onitis). TEACUP (10) [noun] A small cup, usually with a handle, used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set. | [noun] A unit of measure; a teacupful. | [adjective] Of an animal, smaller than average. TECTUM (10) [noun] The dorsal portion of the midbrain of vertebrates; in mammals, containing the superior colliculus and inferior colliculus | [noun] The interconnected outer surface of a spore. TEDIUM (9) [noun] Boredom or tediousness; ennui. TEGUAS (7) TELEDU (7) [noun] A stink badger, a mammal endemic to the island of Java, Mydaus javanensis. TELIUM (8) TENOUR (6) TENUES (6) TENUIS (6) TENURE (6) [noun] A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency. | [noun] A period of time during which something is possessed. | [noun] A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution. TENUTI (6) [noun] A tempo mark directing that a note or passage is to be held for the full time | [noun] A passage having this mark TENUTO (6) [noun] A tempo mark directing that a note or passage is to be held for the full time | [noun] A passage having this mark | [adjective] Describing a passage having this mark TERGUM (9) [noun] The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod. THOUED (10) THOUGH (13) [adverb] Despite that; however. | [adverb] (degree) Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed. | [conjunction] Despite the fact that; although. THRUMS (11) [noun] A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. | [noun] A spicy taste; a tang. | [verb] To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking. THRUSH (12) [noun] Any of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae, often with spotted underbellies such as the bluebird, nightingale, and American robin have. | [noun] A female singer. | [noun] A fungal infection caused by Candida, now especially of the vagina; candidiasis. 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. THUJAS (16) [noun] A tree of the genus Thuja. THULIA (9) THUMBS (13) [noun] The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers. | [noun] The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider. | [noun] A thumbnail picture. THUMPS (13) [noun] A blow that produces a muffled sound. | [noun] The sound of such a blow; a thud. | [noun] Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases. THUNKS (13) [noun] (functional programming) A delayed computation. | [noun] In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments. | [noun] A mapping of machine data from one system-specific form to another, usually for compatibility reasons, such as from 16-bit addresses to 32-bit to allow a 16-bit program to run on a 32-bit operating system. THURLS (9) THUSLY (12) [adverb] (sometimes proscribed) thus (in this way). THUYAS (12) [noun] Any member of the genus Thuya. THYMUS (14) [noun] A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes. TINFUL (9) TISSUE (6) [noun] Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric. | [noun] A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures. | [noun] A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief. TITTUP (8) [noun] A caper, or canter. | [verb] To prance or frolic; of a horse, to canter easily. TOGUES (7) TOLUIC (8) TOLUID (7) TOLUOL (6) TOLUYL (9) TONGUE (7) [noun] The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech. | [noun] This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).− | [noun] (metonym) A language. TOPFUL (11) TOPHUS (11) [noun] A deposit of monosodium urate crystals in the body, caused by high levels of uric acid in the blood. TOQUES (15) [noun] A type of hat with no brim. | [noun] (specifically) A tall white hat with no brim of the sort worn by chefs | [noun] (by extension) A chef. TOQUET (15) TOROUS (6) TORQUE (15) [noun] A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton metre or Nm; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy) | [verb] To twist or turn something. | [noun] A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples. TORULA (6) [noun] Any of a group of fungi, Candida utilis, related to the yeasts, sometimes used in processed food. | [noun] A small torus. TOSSUP (8) [noun] A decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the outcome does not matter. | [noun] Either of two outcomes that are equally likely. | [noun] The toss of a coin used to decide some issue. TOUCAN (8) [noun] Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak. TOUCHE (11) [interjection] An acknowledgement of a hit. | [interjection] An acknowledgement of the validity, appropriateness or superiority of an opponent's argument or statement in a discussion. TOUCHY (14) [adjective] (of a situation) Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness. | [adjective] (of a person) Easily offended; oversensitive; ticklish. TOUGHS (10) [noun] A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully. TOUGHY (13) TOUPEE (8) [noun] A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man. | [noun] A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair. | [noun] A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig. TOURED (7) [verb] To make a journey | [verb] To make a circuit of a place | [verb] To toot a horn. TOURER (6) [noun] An open-top or soft-top motor car suitable for touring. | [noun] A touring bicycle. TOUSED (7) TOUSES (6) TOUSLE (6) [noun] The action of ruffling or setting in disorder. | [verb] To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss. TOUTED (7) [verb] To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote. | [verb] To look upon or watch. | [verb] To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.). TOUTER (6) TOUZLE (15) TRAGUS (7) [noun] The small piece of thick cartilage of the external ear that is immediately in front of the ear canal. TRAUMA (8) [noun] Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident. | [noun] An emotional wound leading to psychological injury. | [noun] An event that causes great distress. TRIUNE (6) [adjective] Threefold, having three components that are both separate and united. | [adjective] (specifically, of the Trinity) Having three hypostases that are perfectly united but distinct. TROUGH (10) [noun] A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals. | [noun] Any similarly shaped container. | [noun] A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates. TROUPE (8) [noun] A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers. | [noun] Any group of people working together on a shared activity. | [verb] To tour with a troupe. TROUTS (6) [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. TROUTY (9) TRUANT (6) [noun] One who is absent without permission, especially from school. | [verb] To play truant. | [verb] To idle away; to waste. TRUCED (9) TRUCES (8) [noun] A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties | [noun] An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time TRUCKS (12) [noun] A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage. | [noun] The ball on top of a flagpole. | [noun] On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck". TRUDGE (8) [noun] A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk. | [verb] To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps. | [verb] To trudge along or over a route etc. 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. TRUFFE (12) TRUING (7) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. | [noun] The alignment (and cutting) of a wheel (especially a grinding wheel) such that its surface is concentric with its axis. TRUISM (8) [noun] A self-evident or obvious truth. | [noun] A banality or cliché. TRULLS (6) [noun] A female prostitute or harlot. | [noun] A set of three special trump cards used in some Tarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps. TRUMPS (10) [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones. | [noun] The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others. | [noun] A playing card of that suit. TRUNKS (10) [noun] (heading, biological) Part of a body. | [noun] (heading) A container. | [noun] (heading) A channel for flow of some kind. TRUSTS (6) [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. TRUSTY (9) [noun] A trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges. | [adjective] Reliable or trustworthy. TRUTHS (9) [noun] True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality. | [noun] Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy. | [noun] The state or quality of being true to someone or something. TRYOUT (9) [noun] A test of the suitability or effectiveness of a person or thing, especially of a performer or athlete (an audition) TSURIS (6) [noun] Problems or troubles. TUBATE (8) TUBBED (11) [verb] To plant, set, or store in a tub. | [verb] To bathe in a tub. TUBBER (10) TUBERS (8) [noun] A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot. | [noun] A thickened rootstock. | [noun] A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body. TUBFUL (11) TUBING (9) [verb] To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. | [verb] To ride an inner tube. | [verb] To intubate. TUBIST (8) TUBULE (8) [noun] A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube. TUCHUN (11) TUCKED (13) [verb] To pull or gather up (an item of fabric). | [verb] To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden. | [verb] (often with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume. TUCKER (12) [noun] One who or that which tucks. | [noun] Food. | [noun] Work that scarcely yields a living wage. | [noun] Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress. 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. TUFOLI (9) TUFTED (10) [verb] To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts. | [verb] To form into tufts. | [verb] To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. TUFTER (9) TUGGED (9) [verb] To pull or drag with great effort | [verb] To pull hard repeatedly | [verb] To tow by tugboat TUGGER (8) TUGRIK (11) [noun] The Mongolian unit of currency; abbreviated MNT, ₮; formerly subdivided into 100 möngö. TUILLE (6) TULADI (7) TULIPS (8) [noun] A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa. | [noun] The flower of this plant. TULLES (6) TUMBLE (10) [noun] A fall, especially end over end. | [noun] A disorderly heap. | [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. TUMEFY (14) [verb] To cause to swell. | [verb] To swell; to rise into a tumour. TUMORS (8) [noun] An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia. TUMOUR (8) [noun] An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia. TUMPED (11) TUMULI (8) [noun] A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow. 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. TUNDRA (7) [noun] A flat and treeless Arctic biome. TUNERS (6) [noun] A person who tunes a piano or organ. | [noun] A device, electronic or mechanical, that helps a person tune a musical instrument by showing the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch. | [noun] On a musical instrument, a peg or mechanical device that changes the tension, and hence pitch, of a string. TUNEUP (8) [noun] A series of adjustments to an engine in order to improve its performance | [noun] A series of preparations for vigorous exercise; a warm-up | [noun] A match or race (frequently one exhibition in nature) contested as preparation for a match or race of high stakes. TUNICA (8) TUNICS (8) [noun] A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles. | [noun] Any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane. TUNING (7) [verb] To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches. | [verb] To adjust or modify (esp. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally. | [verb] To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel. TUNNED (7) [verb] To put into tuns, or casks. TUNNEL (6) [noun] An underground or underwater passage. | [noun] A passage through or under some obstacle. | [noun] A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow. TUPELO (8) [noun] Any of several trees of the genus Nyssa which grow in swampy regions on the eastern, southern and midwestern United States. TUPIKS (12) [noun] A tent or other building made from animal skins, used by the Inuit during the summer. TUPPED (11) [verb] To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe. | [verb] To have sex with, to bonk, etc. | [verb] (regional English) To butt: said of a ram. TUQUES (15) [noun] A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel. | [noun] A watch cap. TURACO (8) [noun] Any of the birds in the Musophagidae family with vivid colouring and prominent crest. TURBAN (8) [noun] A man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head. | [noun] A woman's close-fitting hat with little or no brim. | [noun] The complete set of whorls of a spiral shell. TURBID (9) [adjective] (of a liquid) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. | [adjective] Smoky or misty. | [adjective] Unclear; confused; obscure. 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. TURBOS (8) [noun] Turbocharger. | [noun] Turbojet. | [noun] Turbomolecular pump. 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. TUREEN (6) [noun] A broad, deep serving dish used for serving soup or stew. TURFED (10) [verb] To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs. | [verb] (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release. | [verb] To fire from a job or dismiss from a task. TURGID (8) [adjective] Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. | [adjective] (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic. TURGOR (7) [noun] Turgidity | [noun] The pressure produced by a solution in a space that is enclosed by a differentially permeable membrane. TURKEY (13) [noun] The guinea fowl (family Numididae). | [noun] A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated). | [noun] The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food. TURNED (7) [verb] (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement. | [verb] (heading) To change condition or attitude. | [verb] To change one's course of action; to take a new approach. TURNER (6) [noun] One who or that which turns. | [noun] A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe | [noun] A kitchen utensil used for turning food. | [noun] A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises. | [noun] An old Scottish copper coin worth two pence, issued by King James VI. TURNIP (8) [noun] The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle. | [noun] The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus. | [noun] A large, heavy pocket watch, so called because its profile resembled the vegetable. TURNUP (8) 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). TURTLE (6) [noun] Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise. | [noun] (specifically) A marine reptile of that order. | [noun] An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above. | [noun] A turtle dove. TURVES (9) [noun] A layer of earth covered with grass; sod. | [noun] A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc. | [noun] A sod of peat used as fuel. TUSCHE (11) TUSHED (10) TUSHES (9) [noun] A half-crown coin; its value | [noun] A crown coin; its value | [noun] A tusk. TUSHIE (9) TUSKED (11) TUSKER (10) [noun] An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks. | [noun] A tool used in peat cutting. TUSSAH (9) [noun] A deep gold-coloured silk produced from larvae of several species of silk worms belonging to the moth genus Antheraea | [noun] Any of the moth species used to produce tussar silk TUSSAL (6) TUSSAR (6) TUSSEH (9) TUSSER (6) TUSSIS (6) TUSSLE (6) [noun] A physical fight or struggle. | [noun] A conflict, an argument, a disagreement. | [verb] To have a tussle. TUSSOR (6) TUSSUR (6) TUTEES (6) [noun] A student of a tutor. TUTORS (6) [noun] One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction. | [noun] A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall. | [noun] One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian. TUTTED (7) [verb] To make a tut tut sound of disapproval. | [verb] To work by the piece; to carry out tut-work. TUTTIS (6) [noun] A passage in which all members of an orchestra are playing TUXEDO (14) [noun] A typically black formal jacket worn by men. | [noun] The entire suit complementing and including this jacket. TUYERE (9) [noun] A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge TUYERS (9) TYPHUS (14) [noun] One of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever. TZURIS (15) UBIETY (11) [noun] The state of existing in a specific point in space, thereness. | [noun] Omnipresence; ubiquity. UBIQUE (17) UDDERS (8) [noun] An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer. | [noun] (impolite) A woman's breast. UGLIER (7) [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. UGLIES (7) UGLIFY (13) UGLILY (10) UGSOME (9) UHLANS (9) [noun] A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian/German, Austrian, and Russian armies. UKASES (10) [noun] An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor. | [noun] Any absolutist order or arrogant proclamation ULAMAS (8) ULCERS (8) [noun] An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection. | [noun] Peptic ulcer | [noun] Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character. ULEMAS (8) ULLAGE (7) [noun] In a wine bottle, the empty space between the cork and the top of the wine. | [noun] In a cask or barrel, the empty space, occupied by air, that is created by not completely filling the cask or barrel, or through spillage. | [noun] The topping-up of such a barrel with fresh wine. ULSTER (6) [noun] (clothing, men's attire) A long, loose overcoat made of wool or other rough material, often called a greatcoat, which sometimes features an attached shoulder cape covering the back and sleeves, and which can sometimes be buttoned in front. ULTIMA (8) ULTIMO (8) [adjective] On the last day (of a specified month). | [adverb] Of last month. ULTRAS (6) [noun] An ultraroyalist in France. | [noun] An extremist, especially an ultranationalist. | [noun] An especially devoted football fan, typically associated with the intimidating use of extremist slogans, pyrotechnics and sometimes hooligan violence. UMBELS (10) [noun] A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre. UMBERS (10) [noun] A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides. | [noun] A grayling. | [noun] A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop. UMBLES (10) [noun] Animal entrails, especially of a deer. UMBRAE (10) [noun] The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. | [noun] The central region of a sunspot. | [noun] A shadow. UMBRAL (10) UMBRAS (10) [noun] The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. | [noun] The central region of a sunspot. | [noun] A shadow. UMIACK (14) UMIACS (10) UMIAKS (12) [noun] A large, open boat made of skins stretched over a wooden frame that is propelled by paddles; used by the Eskimos for transportation. UMIAQS (17) 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. UMPING (11) [verb] To act as an umpire. UMPIRE (10) [noun] The official who presides over a tennis game sat on a high chair. | [noun] One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match. | [noun] One of usually 4 officials who preside over a baseball game. UNABLE (8) [adjective] Not able; lacking a certain ability. | [verb] To render unable; disable UNAGED (8) UNAKIN (10) UNARMS (8) [verb] To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from. | [verb] To remove one's armour. UNAWED (10) [adjective] Not awed; not afraid, impressed or in awe. UNBANS (8) [verb] To lift a ban against. UNBARS (8) [verb] To remove an impediment that obstructs the passage of (someone or something). | [verb] To remove a prohibition. | [verb] To unlock or unbolt a door that had been locked or bolted with a bar. UNBEAR (8) UNBELT (8) [verb] To remove a belt | [verb] To relax, unwind UNBEND (9) [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. 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. UNBIND (9) [verb] To take bindings off. | [verb] To set free from a debt, contract or promise. | [verb] To disable some kind of connection in software, such as a key binding. UNBOLT (8) [verb] To unlock by undoing the bolts of. UNBORN (8) [noun] A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation. | [noun] Unborn offspring collectively. | [adjective] Not yet born; yet to come; future. UNBRED (9) UNBUSY (11) UNCAGE (9) [verb] To take out of or release from a cage. | [verb] (by extension) To unleash; to remove from restraints. UNCAKE (12) UNCAPS (10) [verb] To remove a cap or cover from. | [verb] To take off one's cap. UNCASE (8) [verb] To take out of a case or covering; to uncover. | [verb] To strip; to flay. | [verb] To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body. UNCHIC (13) UNCIAE (8) UNCIAL (8) [adjective] Of or relating to an ounce, or an inch, especially to letters printed an inch high. | [noun] A style of writing using uncial letters. | [noun] A letter in this style. UNCINI (8) UNCLAD (9) [adjective] Without clothing or other covering. UNCLES (8) [noun] The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent. | [noun] The male cousin of one’s parent. | [noun] A companion to one's (usually unmarried) mother. UNCLIP (10) [verb] To release something by removing a clip. UNCLOG (9) [verb] To remove a blockage from. | [verb] To have a blockage removed. UNCOCK (14) UNCOIL (8) [verb] To unwind or untwist (something). | [verb] To unwind or untwist oneself. UNCOOL (8) [adjective] Not in accord with the current fashion, standards or mores of a particular group; not cool UNCORK (12) [verb] To open (a bottle or other container sealed with a cork or stopper) by removing the cork or stopper from. | [verb] To release. UNCUFF (14) UNCURB (10) UNCURL (8) [verb] To straighten out from being curled up. UNCUTE (8) UNDEAD (8) [noun] (horror fiction) A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate. | [noun] (horror fiction) Those creatures which are undead; that is, dead yet still animate. | [adjective] Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life. UNDIES (7) [verb] To come back to life after having died. | [verb] To become undead. | [noun] Underwear, underpants UNDINE (7) [noun] A female water-sprite or nymph. | [noun] The elemental being of water. | [noun] A small flask used to apply lotions to the eye. UNDOCK (13) [verb] To remove (a ship) from a dock. | [verb] To remove from a docking station. | [verb] To drag (a user interface element, such as a toolbar) away from its fixed position so that it floats freely. UNDOER (7) UNDOES (7) [verb] To reverse the effects of an action. | [verb] To unfasten. | [verb] To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of. UNDONE (7) [adjective] Not done. | [verb] To reverse the effects of an action. | [verb] To unfasten. UNDRAW (10) UNDREW (10) UNDULY (10) [adverb] Undeservedly; in a way that is not warranted. UNDYED (11) [verb] To remove dye from. | [adjective] Not dyed; in its natural colour UNEASE (6) [noun] Trouble; misery; a feeling of disquiet or concern. | [verb] To make uneasy or uncomfortable UNEASY (9) [adjective] Not easy; difficult. | [adjective] Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety | [adjective] Not easy in manner; constrained UNEVEN (9) [verb] To make uneven. | [adjective] Not even | [adjective] Not level or smooth UNFAIR (9) [verb] To make ugly | [adjective] Not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive | [adjective] Sorrowful; sad UNFELT (9) [adjective] Not felt or experienced; without feeling or sensing. | [adjective] Insincere. UNFITS (9) [verb] To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify. UNFIXT (16) UNFOLD (10) [noun] In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold. | [verb] To undo a folding. | [verb] To turn out; to happen; to develop. UNFOND (10) UNFREE (9) [adjective] Not free; especially of a tenant who was bound to a manor. UNFURL (9) [verb] To unroll or release something that had been rolled up, typically a sail or a flag. | [verb] To roll out or debut anything. | [verb] To open up by unrolling. UNGIRD (8) [verb] To loosen the girdle or band of. | [verb] To unbind or unload. UNGIRT (7) UNGLUE (7) UNGUAL (7) [noun] A modified toe bone, typically ending in a hoof or claw. | [adjective] Pertaining to or resembling a creature's nail, claw or hoof; unguinal. UNGUES (7) [noun] The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage. | [noun] One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect. | [noun] The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; an ungula. UNGUIS (7) [noun] The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage. | [noun] One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect. | [noun] The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; an ungula. UNGULA (7) UNHAIR (9) UNHAND (10) [verb] To release from the hand; to let go. UNHANG (10) [verb] Hypothetically, to undo the execution of (a person) by hanging. | [verb] To take down something (such as a picture) from a hanging position UNHATS (9) UNHELM (11) UNHEWN (12) UNHOLY (12) [adjective] Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted. | [adjective] Dreadful, terrible, or otherwise atrocious. UNHOOD (10) [verb] To remove the hood from. UNHOOK (13) [verb] To remove from a hook. | [verb] To unfasten by means of hooks. | [verb] To unfasten the bra of (its wearer). UNHUNG (10) [adjective] (of a person) Not (yet) executed by hanging; unhanged. | [adjective] (of a painting) Not selected for exhibition. | [adjective] (of game) Cooked without being hung to mature. UNHURT (9) [adjective] Not hurt; unharmed or unscathed UNHUSK (13) [verb] To remove the husk of. UNIFIC (11) UNIONS (6) [noun] The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one. | [noun] The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony. | [noun] That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league. UNIPOD (9) [noun] Monopod UNIQUE (15) [noun] A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled. | [adjective] Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched. | [adjective] Of a feature, such that only one holder has it. UNISEX (13) [adjective] Designed to be suitable for any sex or gender. | [adjective] Not distinguished on the basis of sex or gender. UNISON (6) [noun] (acoustics) Identical pitch between two notes or sounds; the simultaneous playing of notes of identical pitch (or separated by one or more octaves). | [noun] (acoustics) A sound or note having the same pitch as another, especially when used as the base note for an interval; a unison string. | [noun] The state of being in harmony or agreement; harmonious agreement or togetherness, synchronisation. UNITED (7) [verb] To bring together as one. | [verb] To come together as one. | [adjective] Joined into a single entity. UNITER (6) UNITES (6) [verb] To bring together as one. | [verb] To come together as one. UNJUST (13) [adjective] Not fair, just or right. UNKEND (11) UNKENT (10) UNKEPT (12) [adjective] Not kept (especially of promises). UNKIND (11) [adjective] Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful. | [adjective] Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural. | [adjective] Having no race or kindred; childless. UNKINK (14) [verb] To remove the kinks from. 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). UNLACE (8) [verb] To remove the knot from laces; to undo laces. | [verb] To loosen the clothing of (a person). | [verb] To remove (film) from a projector. UNLADE (7) [verb] To unload. | [verb] To disburden; take the burden from; relieve. | [verb] To discharge the cargo from. UNLAID (7) [adjective] Not laid, not placed | [adjective] Not laid by exorcism | [adjective] (of a person) not having had sexual intercourse UNLASH (9) [verb] To unfasten. UNLAYS (9) [verb] To untwist. UNLEAD (7) UNLESS (6) [conjunction] Except on a specified condition; if not. | [conjunction] If not; used with counterfactual conditionals. | [conjunction] Except if; used with hypothetical conditionals. UNLIKE (10) [noun] Something that is not like something else; something different. | [adjective] Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance. | [adjective] Unequal. | [noun] The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media. UNLINK (10) [noun] (knot theory) A link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane. | [verb] To decouple; to remove a link from, or separate the links of. | [verb] To delete (a file). UNLIVE (9) UNLOAD (7) [verb] To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.). | [verb] To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc. | [verb] To deposit one's load or cargo. UNLOCK (12) [noun] The act of unlocking something. | [verb] To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination. | [verb] To obtain access to something. UNMADE (9) [adjective] Not (yet) made | [adjective] Existing without having been made | [verb] To destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature. UNMAKE (12) [verb] To destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature. UNMANS (8) [verb] To castrate; to remove the manhood of. | [verb] To sap (a person) of the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation. | [verb] To deprive of men. UNMASK (12) [verb] To remove a mask from someone. | [verb] To expose, or reveal the true character of someone. | [verb] To remove one's mask. UNMEET (8) UNMESH (11) UNMEWS (11) UNMIXT (15) UNMOLD (9) UNMOOR (8) [verb] To unfix or unsecure (a moored boat). | [verb] To weigh anchor. UNMOWN (11) [adjective] Not mown; unmowed. UNNAIL (6) [verb] To remove the nails from. UNOPEN (8) UNPACK (14) [verb] To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack. | [verb] To empty containers that had been packed. | [verb] To analyze a concept or a text. UNPAID (9) [adjective] Not paid for. | [adjective] Of work: done without agreed payment, usually voluntarily. UNPEGS (9) [verb] To remove from a peg. UNPENS (8) UNPENT (8) UNPICK (14) [verb] To undo sewing stitches. | [verb] To undo knitting in order to reuse the wool. | [verb] To unravel or untangle the threads of a rope etc. UNPILE (8) UNPINS (8) [verb] To unfasten by removing a pin. | [verb] To detach (an icon, application, etc.) from the place where it was previously pinned. | [verb] To get out of a pin UNPLUG (9) [verb] To disconnect from a supply, especially an electrical socket. | [verb] To stop using electronic devices, especially for relaxation or to reduce stress. | [verb] To remove a blockage from (especially a water pipe or drain). UNPURE (8) UNREAD (7) [verb] To undo the process of reading. | [verb] To flag (a previously read e-mail or similar message) as not having been read. | [adjective] Not having been read. UNREAL (6) [adjective] Fake; not real | [adjective] Very impressive; amazing; unbelievable; incredible; larger or more fantastic than typical of real life. UNREEL (6) [verb] To remove or uncoil from a reel. UNRENT (6) UNREST (6) [noun] A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests. UNRIGS (7) [verb] To remove the rigging from (a vessel, etc.). | [verb] To disable. | [verb] To undress (someone). UNRIPE (8) [adjective] Not ripe. | [adjective] Developing too early; premature. UNRIPS (8) [verb] To open something by ripping/tearing. UNROBE (8) [verb] To disrobe, to undress. UNROLL (6) [verb] To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled. | [verb] To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold. | [verb] To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization. UNROOF (9) [verb] To remove a roof from, e.g. a building. UNROOT (6) [verb] To tear up by the roots; to uproot. UNROVE (9) UNRULY (9) [adjective] Wild; uncontrolled. UNSAFE (9) [adjective] Not safe (various senses); dangerous. UNSAID (7) [adjective] Unspoken. | [verb] To withdraw, retract (something said). | [verb] To not have said (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive). UNSAWN (9) UNSAYS (9) [verb] To withdraw, retract (something said). | [verb] To not have said (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive). UNSEAL (6) [verb] To break the seal of (something) in order to open it. | [verb] To open by having a seal broken. UNSEAM (8) 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. UNSEEN (6) [adjective] Not seen or discovered; invisible. | [adjective] Unskilled; inexperienced. | [adjective] Not hitherto noticed; unobserved. | [verb] To undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of having seen something. UNSELL (6) UNSENT (6) [adjective] Not yet sent or transmitted. UNSETS (6) [verb] To make not set. UNSEWN (9) [adjective] Not sewn. UNSEWS (9) UNSEXY (16) [adjective] Not sexy. | [adjective] (of research etc) Perceived as not having wide contemporary interest; plodding. UNSHED (10) [adjective] That has not been shed. UNSHIP (11) [verb] To unload cargo from a ship or other vessel | [verb] To remove an oar or mast from its normal position | [verb] To throw from a horse; to unseat UNSHOD (10) [adjective] Not shod; without shoes. | [adjective] Of a vehicle, not fitted with tyres on the wheels. | [verb] To remove a shoe (especially a horseshoe) from. UNSHUT (9) UNSNAP (8) [verb] To unfasten (something held by snaps). UNSOLD (7) [adjective] Not sold UNSOWN (9) [adjective] Not sown. UNSPUN (8) UNSTEP (8) [verb] To remove (the mast) from a sailing vessel. UNSTOP (8) [verb] To remove a stoppage; to clear a blockage. | [verb] To unplug or uncork a container. | [verb] To draw out the stops of (an organ). UNSUNG (7) [adjective] Which has not been lauded or appreciated. | [adjective] Not sung. UNSUNK (10) UNSURE (6) [adjective] Uncertain | [adjective] Unstable or precarious UNTACK (12) [verb] To unfasten (something tacked). | [verb] To remove the tack from. UNTAME (8) UNTIDY (10) [verb] To make untidy, to make a mess | [adjective] Sloppy. | [adjective] Disorganized. UNTIED (7) [adjective] Not tied; undone | [verb] To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of. | [verb] To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. UNTIES (6) [verb] To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of. | [verb] To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. | [verb] To resolve; to unfold; to clear. UNTOLD (7) [adjective] Not told; not related; not revealed; secret. | [adjective] Not numbered or counted. | [adjective] Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible. UNTORN (6) UNTRIM (8) UNTROD (7) UNTRUE (6) [adjective] False; not true. | [adjective] Not faithful or loyal. UNTUCK (12) [verb] To remove something from a relatively hidden location or position where it is tucked. UNTUNE (6) UNUSED (7) [adjective] Not used. | [adjective] Not accustomed (to), unfamiliar with. UNVEIL (9) [verb] To remove a veil from; to uncover; to reveal something hidden. | [verb] To remove a veil; to reveal oneself. UNVEXT (16) UNWARY (12) [adjective] Lacking caution as a result of naïveté or inexperience | [adjective] Unprepared; not watchful UNWELL (9) [adjective] Not in good health; not feeling well; somewhat ill | [adjective] Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant. UNWEPT (11) [adjective] Not wept. | [adjective] Unmourned. UNWIND (10) [noun] Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something. | [verb] To separate (something that is wound up) | [verb] To disentangle UNWISE (9) [adjective] Not wise; lacking wisdom UNWISH (12) UNWITS (9) UNWORN (9) [adjective] Not having been worn, as clothing. | [adjective] Not worn away or eroded. UNWOVE (12) UNWRAP (11) [verb] To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded. | [verb] To become unwrapped. | [verb] To remove word wrap from. UNYOKE (13) [verb] To release something from a yoke or harness. | [verb] To disconnect, unlink. | [verb] To liberate, deliver from oppression. UNZIPS (17) [verb] To open something using a zipper. | [verb] To come open by means of a zipper. | [verb] To decompress (a zip file). UPASES (8) [noun] (usually countable) A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions. | [noun] A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree. | [noun] A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute. UPBEAR (10) 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. UPBIND (11) UPBOIL (10) UPBORE (10) UPBOWS (13) 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. UPCOIL (10) UPCURL (10) UPDART (9) UPDATE (9) [noun] An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known. | [noun] A change in information, a modification of existing or known data. | [noun] An additional piece of information. An addition to existing information. UPDIVE (12) UPDOVE (12) UPENDS (9) [verb] To end up; to set on end. | [verb] To tip or turn over. | [verb] To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat. UPFLOW (14) UPFOLD (12) [noun] An anticline. | [verb] To fold up. | [verb] To create a raised fold. UPGAZE (18) UPGIRD (10) UPGIRT (9) UPGREW (12) UPGROW (12) UPHEAP (13) UPHELD (12) [verb] To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. | [verb] To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling | [verb] To support by approval or encouragement, to confirm (something which has been questioned) UPHILL (11) [noun] An uphill route. | [adjective] Located up a slope or on a hill. | [adjective] Going up a slope or a hill. UPHOLD (12) [verb] To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. | [verb] To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling | [verb] To support by approval or encouragement, to confirm (something which has been questioned) UPHOVE (14) UPHROE (11) UPKEEP (14) [noun] Maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good and working condition. | [verb] To maintain (something) or keep it in good repair. UPLAND (9) [noun] The area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation; often hilly, but not generally mountainous (compare highlands). | [noun] The country, as against the town. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or situated in the uplands. UPLEAP (10) 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. UPLINK (12) [noun] The portion of a communications link used for the transmission of signals from an Earth terminal to a satellite or to an airborne platform. An uplink is the converse of a downlink. An uplink or downlink is distinguished from reverse link or forward link. | [noun] (by analogy, less formally) The communication path from a mobile device to a base station, a consumer to the network backbone, a client device to a server etc. | [noun] Data transmission from a data station to the headend. UPLOAD (9) [noun] Such a file transfer. | [verb] To transfer data to a computer on a network, especially to a server on the Internet. UPMOST (10) [adjective] Uppermost. UPPERS (10) [noun] A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite. | [noun] The upper portion of something | [noun] Someone with higher social standing UPPILE (10) UPPING (11) [verb] To increase or raise. | [verb] To promote. | [verb] (usually in combination with another verb) To act suddenly. UPPISH (13) [adjective] (since circa 1678) Having plenty of money. | [adjective] Proud; arrogant; assuming | [adjective] (of a shot) In which the ball is hit into the air, with the chance of being caught. UPPITY (13) [adjective] Presumptuous, above oneself, self-important; arrogant, snobbish, haughty. | [adjective] Exceeding one's station or position, assuming prerogatives to which one is not entitled. UPPROP (12) UPRATE (8) [noun] An increase in a rating | [verb] To give something a higher rating UPREAR (8) [verb] To raise something up; to rise up; to erect UPRISE (8) [noun] The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. | [verb] To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. | [verb] To have an upward direction or inclination UPROAR (8) [noun] Tumultuous, noisy excitement. | [noun] Loud confused noise, especially when coming from several sources. | [noun] A loud protest, controversy, outrage 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. UPROSE (8) [verb] To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. | [verb] To have an upward direction or inclination | [verb] To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising. UPRUSH (11) [noun] An upwards rush. | [verb] To rush upward. UPSEND (9) UPSENT (8) UPSETS (8) [noun] Disturbance or disruption. | [noun] An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win. | [noun] (automobile insurance) An overturn. UPSHOT (11) [noun] A concise summary. | [noun] The final result, or outcome of something. UPSIDE (9) [noun] The highest or uppermost side or portion of something | [noun] A favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect | [noun] An upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc UPSOAR (8) UPSTEP (10) UPSTIR (8) UPTAKE (12) [noun] Understanding; comprehension. | [noun] Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism. | [noun] The act of lifting or taking up. UPTEAR (8) UPTICK (14) [noun] A small increase or upward change in something that has been steady or declining. | [noun] A stock market transaction or quote at a price above a preceding one. UPTILT (8) UPTIME (10) [noun] The period of time a computer has functioned since last requiring a reboot. UPTORE (8) UPTORN (8) UPTOSS (8) UPTOWN (11) [noun] The residential part of a city, away from the commercial center | [adjective] In the upper part of a town. | [adjective] (by extension) Of or relating to an affluent area or population. UPTURN (8) [noun] An upward turn or trend, especially in business activity or profit | [verb] To turn (something) up or over UPWAFT (14) UPWARD (12) [noun] The upper part; the top. | [adjective] Directed toward a higher place. | [adverb] In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin UPWELL (11) UPWIND (12) [adjective] Exposed to the wind | [adverb] In the direction from which the wind is blowing | [verb] To wind upwards. URACIL (8) [noun] One of the bases of RNA, pairing with adenine. URAEUS (6) [noun] A representation of the sacred asp, symbolising supreme power in ancient Egypt. URANIA (6) URANIC (8) URANYL (9) [noun] The divalent radical UO22+, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds. URARES (6) URARIS (6) URASES (6) URATES (6) [noun] Any salt of uric acid. URATIC (8) URBANE (8) [adjective] (of a man) Courteous, polite, refined, and suave. URBIAS (8) URCHIN (11) [noun] A mischievous child. | [noun] A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets. | [noun] A sea urchin. UREASE (6) UREDIA (7) UREDOS (7) UREIDE (7) [noun] Any compound, of general formula R-CO-NH-CO-NH2 or R-CO-NH-CO-NH-CO-R', formally derived by the acylation of urea UREMIA (8) [noun] Blood poisoning resulting from the retention of waste products usually excreted as urine. UREMIC (10) URETER (6) [noun] Either of the two long, narrow ducts that carry urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder. URETIC (8) URGENT (7) [adjective] Requiring immediate attention. URGERS (7) [noun] One who urges. URGING (8) [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. | [verb] To provoke; to exasperate. URIALS (6) URINAL (6) [noun] A device or fixture used for urination, particularly: | [noun] Any oblong glass vessel shaped like the old alchemist's urinal. | [noun] A room or structure used for urination: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory. URINES (6) UROPOD (9) [noun] Either of the two posterior abdominal appendages of the lobster, shrimp and some other crustaceans | [noun] The hind part of polarized leukocytes, mostly involved in cell-to-cell interaction, cell activation and apoptosis URSINE (6) [noun] A bear. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae. 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. URUSES (6) [noun] The aurochs. USABLE (8) [adjective] Capable of being used. | [adjective] Easy to use; exhibiting good usability. | [adjective] Homosexual USABLY (11) USAGES (7) [noun] The manner or the amount of using; use. | [noun] Habit or accepted practice. | [noun] The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis. USANCE (8) [noun] The length of time permitted for the payment of a bill of exchange. | [noun] Use. | [noun] Customary or habitual usage. USEFUL (9) [adjective] Having a practical or beneficial use. USHERS (9) [noun] A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats. | [noun] A male escort at a wedding. | [noun] A doorkeeper in a courtroom. USNEAS (6) USQUES (15) USUALS (6) USURER (6) [noun] A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate. | [noun] Specifically, a male usurer. USURPS (8) [verb] To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means. | [verb] To use and assume the coat of arms of another person. | [verb] To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else. UTERUS (6) [noun] The womb, an organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth. UTMOST (8) [noun] Maximum; greatest possible amount or quantity. | [adjective] Situated at the most distant limit; farthest. | [adjective] The most extreme; ultimate; greatest. UTOPIA (8) [noun] A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony. UTTERS (6) [verb] To produce (speech or other sounds) with one's voice. | [verb] To reveal or express (an idea, thought, desire, etc.) with speech. | [verb] To produce (a noise) (of an inanimate object). UVEOUS (9) UVULAE (9) [noun] The fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing. | [noun] The slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate. | [noun] An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper. UVULAR (9) [noun] A sound articulated with the uvula. | [adjective] Of or relating to the uvula. | [adjective] Of a sound, articulated with the uvula. UVULAS (9) [noun] The fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing. | [noun] The slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate. | [noun] An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper. VACUUM (13) [noun] A region of space that contains no matter. | [noun] (plural only "vacuums") A vacuum cleaner. | [noun] The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc. VAGUER (10) [adjective] Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms. | [adjective] Not having a precise meaning. | [adjective] Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight. VALGUS (10) [adjective] Knock-kneed (having the distal part of a limb displaced or twisted away from the midline of the body) VALOUR (9) [noun] Value; worth. | [noun] Strength of mind in regard to danger; the quality which enables a person to encounter danger with firmness | [noun] A brave man; a man of valour. VALUED (10) [verb] To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something. | [verb] To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work. | [verb] To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon. VALUER (9) [noun] A person who valuates; an assessor or appraiser. | [noun] A person who appreciates something and sets a value on it. VALUES (9) [noun] The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. | [noun] The degree of importance given to something. | [noun] That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system. VALUTA (9) [noun] A foreign currency; any monetary standard. VAPOUR (11) [noun] Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. | [noun] The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid. | [noun] Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. VATFUL (12) VAULTS (9) [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. VAULTY (12) VAUNTS (9) [noun] A boast; an instance of vaunting. | [verb] To speak boastfully. | [verb] To speak boastfully about. VAUNTY (12) VELLUM (11) [noun] A type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, baby goat, or calf. | [noun] A writing paper of very high quality. VELOUR (9) [noun] A knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser. VELURE (9) VENDUE (10) [noun] A public auction. VENOUS (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to veins. | [adjective] Possessing veins. | [adjective] Having numerous veins. VENUES (9) [noun] A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events. | [noun] A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid, or the district from which a jury comes. | [noun] A bout; a hit; a turn. See venew. VENULE (9) [noun] A small vein, especially one that connects capillaries to a larger vein. VERSUS (9) [preposition] Against; in opposition to. | [preposition] Compared with, as opposed to. | [preposition] Bringing a legal action against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates the plaintiff (or appellant or the like), and the second indicates the defendant (or respondent or the like). VERTUS (9) VICUNA (11) [noun] A South American mammal, Vicugna vicugna, closely related to the alpaca, llama, and guanaco. VIGOUR (10) [noun] Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy. | [noun] Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action. | [noun] Strength; efficacy; potency. VILLUS (9) [noun] A small projection from a membrane, particularly those found in the mucous membranes of the intestines. | [noun] One of the fine soft hairs on fruits, flowers, and other parts of plants. VINOUS (9) [adjective] Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine. | [adjective] Tending to drink wine excessively. | [adjective] Affected by the drinking of wine. VIRTUE (9) [noun] Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct. | [noun] A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality. | [noun] Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins. VIRTUS (9) VISCUS (11) [noun] One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen. | [noun] Specifically, the intestines. VISUAL (9) [noun] Any element of something that depends on sight. | [noun] An image; a picture; a graphic. | [noun] (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio. 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VOYEUR (12) [noun] A person who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing other people, especially when such people are engaged in some sexual activity. | [noun] An obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects. VROUWS (12) [noun] A Dutchwoman. VULGAR (10) [noun] (classicism) A common, ordinary person. | [noun] (collective) The common people. | [noun] The vernacular tongue or common language of a country. VULGUS (10) VULVAE (12) VULVAL (12) VULVAR (12) VULVAS (12) [noun] The external female sexual organs, collectively. WAEFUL (12) WALKUP (15) [noun] An apartment or block with stairs rather than an elevator. | [noun] An informal visit to a control tower by a pilot, typically used as part of pilot training. | [noun] A mountain that can be climbed without specialist equipment. WALNUT (9) [noun] A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans. | [noun] A nut of the walnut tree. | [noun] Wood of the walnut tree. WALRUS (9) [noun] A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus. WAMMUS (13) WAMPUM (15) [noun] Small beads made from polished shells, especially white ones, formerly used as money and jewelry by certain Native American peoples. | [noun] A string of such beads. | [noun] Money. WAMPUS (13) WANGUN (10) WARMUP (13) [noun] The act of exercising or stretching in preparation for strenuous activity | [noun] Any act of preparation for a performance | [noun] A period of time allocated for performing warm-ups. WASHUP (14) [noun] The act by which something is washed. | [noun] Something or somebody that is washed up; a has-been. | [noun] A meeting to gauge the success or failure of an operation or war game. WAUCHT (14) WAUGHT (13) WAUKED (14) WAULED (10) [verb] To wail, to cry plaintively. WHAUPS (14) [noun] Curlew WHUMPS (16) [noun] A thumping sound. | [noun] A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering. | [verb] To strike something with a whump. WIKIUP (15) WILFUL (12) [adjective] Intentional; deliberate. | [adjective] Stubborn and determined. WINDUP (12) [noun] The act of ending or concluding something. | [noun] The last part of something; a conclusion. | [noun] A practical joke or tease. WOEFUL (12) [adjective] Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity. | [adjective] Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction. | [adjective] Lamentable, deplorable. WORKUP (15) [noun] A general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness. | [noun] All the additional procedures and reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product. | [noun] A period of training or preparation, typically for a specific operation. WOUNDS (10) [noun] An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body. | [noun] A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc. | [noun] An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken. WURSTS (9) [noun] A German- or Austrian-style sausage. WURZEL (18) WUSSES (9) [noun] A weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person. WUTHER (12) XYSTUS (16) [noun] (in Ancient Greece) A long and open portico within the gymnasium. YAMUNS (11) YANQUI (18) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A citizen of the United States of America, as opposed to a Latin American. YAUPED (12) YAUPER (11) YAUPON (11) [noun] The yaupon holly, Ilex vomitoria, an evergreen holly shrub with white flowers and red or yellow berries, found in the south-eastern United States. | [noun] A tea-like drink, "black drink", brewed from the leaves of this holly (or, sometimes, Ilex cassine). YAUTIA (9) [noun] An edible plant commonly found in the Caribbean: Xanthosoma sagittifolium, new cocoyam. YEUKED (14) 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). YOUNGS (10) YOUPON (11) YOUTHS (12) [noun] The quality or state of being young. | [noun] The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood. | [noun] A young person. YUCCAS (13) [noun] Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms. | [noun] The yuca (cassava). YUCKED (16) [verb] To itch. YUKKED (18) [verb] To laugh exuberantly. 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