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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
WORDS=[
"Byzantine Adjective Overly complex or intricate.",
"Byzantine Adjective Of a devious, usually stealthy manner, of practice.",
"Byzantine Adjective Of or pertaining to Byzantium.",
"Byzantine Noun Belonging to the civilization of the Eastern-Roman empire, between 331 A.D. when the capital was moved to Constantinople (now Istanbul) and up 1453 when it was conquered by the Turks.",
"Byzantine Noun A native of Byzantium (modern-day Istanbul)",
"Hanukkah Proper noun A Jewish eight-day festival starting on the 25th day of Kislev, that commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees over the Greek Syrians.",
"Hobson-Jobson Noun A word or phrase borrowed by one language from another and modify in pronunciation to fit the set of sounds the borrowing language typically uses.",
"Jezebel Noun An evil, scheming or shameless woman.",
"Johnny-come-lately Noun A newcomer.",
"Linnaean Adjective (<i>recent</i>) Relating to the nomenclature <i>Codes</i> that have their starting point in a work by Linnaeus or are derived from such a <i>Code</i>.",
"Linnaean Adjective Of, or relating to the binomial nomenclature originated by him",
"Lovecraftian Adjective Of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H.P.",
"Lovecraftian Adjective Frighteningly monstrous and otherworldly.",
"Luddite Noun Any of a group of early 19th century English textile workers who destroyed machinery because it would harm their livelihood.",
"Luddite Noun Someone who opposes technological change.",
"MacGuffin Noun A plot element or other device used to catch the audience's attention and maintain suspense, but whose exact nature has fairly little influence over the storyline.",
"Machiavellian Adjective Attempting to achieve their goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods.",
"Machiavellian Adjective Related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli.",
"Machiavellian Noun A ruthless schemer.",
"Makemake Proper noun A dwarf planet and large Kuiper Belt Object, discovered in 2005.",
"Makemake Proper noun The creator deity in the mythology of Easter Island.",
"Neolithic Adjective Of or relating to the New Stone Age.",
"Neolithic Proper noun The New Stone Age, from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE.",
"Philistine Noun A person from ancient Philistia.",
"Philistine Noun A person who lacks appreciation of art or culture.",
"Ragnarok Proper noun The final battle between gods and giants, involving all creation, which brings the end of the world as it is known and almost all life.",
"Ruritanian Adjective Of or having the characteristics of adventure, romance, and intrigue, as in works of romantic fiction.",
"Ruritanian Noun A person from the fictional land of Ruritania.",
"Sapphic Adjective Relating to the Greek poetess Sappho from Lesbos or her poetry.",
"Sisyphean Adjective Relating to Sisyphus.",
"Sisyphean Adjective Incessant or incessantly recurring, but futile.",
"Torschlusspanik Noun The fear that time is run out to act, specifically in regards to a border closing.",
"Ucalegon Noun A neighbor whose house is on fire or has burned down.",
"Verfremdungseffekt Noun Brecht alienation effect, sometimes translated as the estrangement effect.",
"Verfremdungseffekt Noun Distance between the audience and the performers.",
"abalone Noun An edible univalve mollusc of the genus <i>Haliotis</i>, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.",
"abattoir Noun A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.",
"abecedarian Adjective Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet.",
"abecedarian Noun One engaged in teaching the alphabet",
"abecedarian Noun One who is a beginner in some field.",
"abecedarian Noun One who is learning the alphabet.",
"abecedarian Noun A series of terms in an utterance in alphabetical order.",
"abhor Verb To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike.",
"abhor Verb To protest against.",
"abhor Verb To fill with horror or disgust.",
"abhor Verb To regard with horror or detestation.",
"abigeat Noun Theft of cattle by driving it away with the intention of feloniously appropriating it.",
"abjectly Adverb With great shame, desperately.",
"aboulia Noun Absence of willpower or decisiveness, especially as a symptom of mental illness",
"abrogate Verb To annul by an authoritative act.",
"abrogate Verb To put an end to.",
"absquatulate Verb To leave quickly or in a hurry.",
"absquatulate Verb To die.",
"abstemiously Adverb Marked by abstinence or restraint, especially in relation to food or drink.",
"accede Verb To agree or assent to a proposal or a view.",
"accede Verb To enter upon an office or dignity.",
"accede Verb To give one's adhesion.",
"accede Verb To approach.",
"accentuate Verb To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.",
"accentuate Verb To bring out distinctly.",
"accentuate Verb To mark with a written accent.",
"accinge Verb To prepare oneself for action.",
"accord Noun A harmony in sound, pitch and tone.",
"accord Noun Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.",
"accord Noun Agreement or harmony of things in general.",
"accord Noun An international agreement.",
"accord Noun An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.",
"accord Verb To agree in pitch and tone.",
"accord Verb To agree or correspond.",
"accord Verb To bring (people) to an agreement.",
"accord Verb To make to agree or correspond.",
"accord Verb To grant as suitable or proper.",
"accrete Adjective Grown together - Gray",
"accrete Verb To adhere.",
"accrete Verb To grow together, combine.",
"accrete Verb To make adhere.",
"accrue Verb To increase, to augment.",
"accrue Verb To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.",
"accursed Adjective Doomed to destruction or misery.",
"accursed Adjective Hateful.",
"acervate Adjective Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.",
"acervate Verb To heap up.",
"acquiesce Verb To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent).",
"actuate Verb To activate, or to put into motion.",
"actuate Verb To incite to action.",
"adjacent Adjective Just before, after, or facing.",
"adjacent Adjective Lying next to, close, or contiguous.",
"adventitious Adjective From an external source.",
"adventitious Adjective Accidental, additional, appearing casually.",
"adventitious Adjective Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.",
"adventitious Adjective Not congenital.",
"affable Adjective Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner.",
"affable Adjective Mild.",
"affectation Noun An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real.",
"affectation Noun An unusual mannerism.",
"affront Noun An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.",
"affront Noun A hostile encounter or meeting.",
"affront Verb To insult intentionally, especially openly.",
"affront Verb To meet defiantly.",
"affront Verb To meet or encounter face to face.",
"aflutter Adjective In a state of excited anticipation or confusion.",
"aforethought Adjective Premeditated.",
"agape Adjective Being in a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention.",
"agape Adjective Open wide.",
"agape Adverb In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention.",
"agape Adverb Open wide.",
"agape Noun Spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love which wills good for other.",
"agape Noun A love feast, especially one held in the early Christian church in connection with the eucharist.",
"agape Noun The love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others.",
"aghast Adjective Terrified.",
"agley Adverb Wrong in the sense of awry, askew, amiss, or distorted.",
"agnostic Adjective Doubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity.",
"agnostic Adjective A software component (or other entity) that is unaware or noncommittal regarding the specific nature of the components with which it interacts.",
"agnostic Adjective Having no firmly held opinions on an issue or matter of uncertainty.",
"agon Noun A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.",
"agon Noun An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.",
"aiglet Noun A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, \"points\" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice.",
"aiglet Noun An ornament worn on clothing, consisting of a metal tag on a fringe, or a small metallic plate or spangle.",
"akimbo Adjective With a crook or bend.",
"alabaster Noun A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.",
"alabaster Noun A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.",
"alacrity Noun Eagerness.",
"alacrity Noun Promptness.",
"aleatory Adjective Depending on the throw of a die.",
"algedonic Adjective Pertaining to both pleasure and pain.",
"alkaline Adjective Of, or relating to an alkali, one of a class of caustic bases.",
"alkaline Adjective Having a pH greater than 7.",
"alluvial Adjective Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.",
"almondine Adjective Garnish with almond slices.",
"almondine Noun A gemstone that is either a deep red garnet or a purple spinel.",
"alpenglow Noun A rosy or reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains, especially snow covered mountains.",
"altruistic Adjective Regardful of others.",
"amanuensis Noun A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe.",
"amanuensis Noun One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts",
"amative Adjective Pertaining to love.",
"ambergris Noun A solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish color, produced in the intestines of the sperm whale.",
"ambilevous Adjective Having equally bad ability in both hands.",
"ambivalent Adjective Alternate having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.",
"ambivalent Adjective Simultaneously experiencing or expressing oppose or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.",
"ameliorate Verb To make better, to improve.",
"amnicolist Noun One who dwells by a river.",
"ample Adjective Large.",
"amygdala Noun The region of the brain, located in the medial temporal lobe, believed to play a key role in the emotions, such as fear and pleasure, in both animals and humans.",
"anachronism Noun A chronological mistake.",
"anachronism Noun A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time.",
"anachronistic Adjective Erroneous in date.",
"anachronistic Adjective Having an opinion of the past.",
"anadromous Adjective Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the apex of the frond.",
"anadromous Adjective That lives in the sea and breeds in fresh water.",
"analgesic Adjective Of or relating to analgesia.",
"analgesic Noun Any medicine, such as aspirin, that reduces pain without inducing unconsciousness.",
"anaphora Noun An expression that can refer to virtually any referent, the specific referent being defined by context.",
"anaphora Noun An expression that refers to a preceding expression.",
"anaphora Noun The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis.",
"anathema Noun A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication.",
"anathema Noun An imprecation.",
"ancillary Adjective Subordinate.",
"ancillary Noun An auxiliary.",
"anguine Adjective Pertaining to snakes or serpents",
"anguine Adjective Snakelike.",
"anhedonia Noun The inability to feel pleasure.",
"anile Adjective Characteristic of a crone or a feeble old woman.",
"animadversion Noun A criticism, a critical remark.",
"animadversion Noun The state or characteristic of being animadversive.",
"ankh Noun A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the Egyptian triliteral and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept.",
"annular Adjective Banded or marked with circles.",
"anodyne Adjective Capable of soothing or eliminating pain.",
"anodyne Adjective Noncontentious, blandly agreeable, unlikely to cause offence or debate.",
"anodyne Adjective Soothing or relaxing.",
"anodyne Noun A source of relaxation or comfort.",
"anodyne Noun Any medicine or other agent that relieves pain.",
"anomaly Noun A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal.",
"anomaly Noun Something or someone that is strange or unusual.",
"anomaly Noun Any of various angular distances.",
"anomaly Noun A defect or malformation.",
"anomaly Noun An irregularity or disproportion.",
"anomaly Noun A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.",
"anomaly Noun Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.",
"antepenultimate Adjective Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series.",
"antepenultimate Noun The syllable that comes two before the last in a word.",
"anthropomorphic Adjective Having the form of a man",
"anthropomorphic Adjective Given human attributes",
"antihero Noun A protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals.",
"antimacassar Noun A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, originally to prevent them from being soiled by macassar oil.",
"antsy Adjective Restless, apprehensive and fidgety",
"antœci Noun The inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.",
"apiary Noun A place where bees and their hives are kept.",
"apocryphal Adjective Of doubtful authenticity, or lacking authority.",
"apocryphal Adjective Of dubious veracity.",
"apocryphal Adjective Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha.",
"apoplectic Adjective Marked by extreme anger or fury.",
"apoplectic Adjective Of, or relating to apoplexy.",
"apoplectic Adjective Effuse with blood.",
"apostrophe Noun The text character <b>’</b>, that serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacrictical mark in certain rare contexts.",
"apostrophe Noun A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.",
"apothecary Noun A drugstore or pharmacy.",
"apothecary Noun A person who makes and provides/sells drugs and/or medicines.",
"apotheosis Noun A glorify example or ideal.",
"apotheosis Noun Loosely, release from earthly life, ascension to heaven.",
"apotheosis Noun The fact or action of becoming a god.",
"apotheosis Noun Glorification, exaltation.",
"apotheosis Noun The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts.",
"approbative Adjective Expressing approval",
"approbative Adjective Sanction officially, giving authorization or approval to something.",
"approbative Noun A word or grammatical form which denote a positive affect expressing the appreciation or approval of the speaker.",
"apraxia Noun Total or partial loss of the ability to perform coordinated movements or manipulate objects in the absence of motor or sensory impairment.",
"apropos Adjective By the way.",
"apropos Adjective Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.",
"apropos Adverb Timely, at a good time.",
"apropos Adverb “By the way”.",
"apropos Preposition Regarding or concerning.",
"aprosdoketon Noun A figure of speech where an expected word in an idiom is replaced unexpectedly by an unusual one, such as ''Rome wasn't built in a teacup.",
"aquiline Adjective Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles.",
"arachnidism Noun The condition of being poisoned as a result of a spider's bite.",
"arbitrary Adjective Determined by impulse rather than reason.",
"arbitrary Adjective Based on individual discretion or judgment.",
"arbitrary Adjective Any and all possible.",
"ardor Noun Great warmth of feeling.",
"ardor Noun Spirit.",
"ardor Noun Intense heat.",
"armigerous Adjective Entitled to bear a coat of arms.",
"articulation Noun The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.",
"articulation Noun A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.",
"articulation Noun A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.",
"articulation Noun The manner in which something is articulated (tongued, slurred or bowed).",
"articulation Noun The quality, clarity or sharpness of speech.",
"ascribe Verb To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.",
"ascribe Verb To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.",
"asinine Adjective Failing to exercise intelligence or judgment.",
"asinine Adjective Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys.",
"askance Adjective Turn to the side, especially of the eyes.",
"askance Adverb Sideways.",
"askance Adverb With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion.",
"asseveration Noun An earnest affirmation or declaration of support.",
"assimilate Verb To compare something to another similar one.",
"assimilate Verb To incorporate nutrients into the body after digestion.",
"assimilate Verb To absorb a group of people into a community.",
"assimilate Verb To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind.",
"assuage Verb To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.).",
"assuage Verb To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).",
"assuage Verb To pacify or soothe (someone).",
"asterism Noun A rarely used typographical symbol (⁂, three asterisks arranged in a triangle), used to call attention to a passage or to separate sub-chapters in a book.",
"asterism Noun A small group of stars that forms a visible pattern but is not an official constellation.",
"asterism Noun A star-shaped figure exhibited by some crystals by reflected light (as in a star sapphire) or by transmitted light (as in some mica).",
"asthenia Noun Weakness.",
"astrobleme Noun A pit-like structure created by an impacting meteoroid, asteroid or comet.",
"astronomical Adjective Very large.",
"astronomical Adjective Of or relating to astronomy.",
"atavistic Adjective Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.",
"atavistic Adjective Relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.",
"atavistic Adjective Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes.",
"atone Verb To make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime one has committed.",
"atone Verb To clear (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.",
"augment Noun In some Indo-European languages, a prefix <i>e-</i> (<i>a-</i> in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.",
"augment Verb To grow.",
"augment Verb To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.",
"augment Verb To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).",
"augment Verb To increase.",
"augur Noun A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences.",
"augur Verb To foretell events.",
"austral Adjective Of, relating to, or coming from the south.",
"austral Noun A form of currency in Argentina.",
"autochthonous Adjective Native to the place where found.",
"autochthonous Adjective Originating where found.",
"autochthonous Adjective Buried in place, especially of a fossil preserved in its life position without disturbance or disarticulation.",
"autodidactic Adjective Of, relating to, or being an autodidact.",
"autological Adjective Of a phrase (especially an adjective), possessing the property it describes.",
"avarice Noun Inordinate desire for some supposed good.",
"avarice Noun Excessive or inordinate desire of gain.",
"avatar Noun In Hinduism the incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.",
"avatar Noun The physical embodiment of an idea or concept.",
"avatar Noun A digital representation or handle of a person or being.",
"avolition Noun Lack of initiative or goals.",
"avuncular Adjective In the manner of an uncle, pertaining to an uncle.",
"avuncular Adjective Kind, genial, benevolent, or tolerant.",
"awry Adjective Turned or twisted toward one side.",
"awry Adjective Wrong or distorted.",
"awry Adverb Perversely, improperly.",
"awry Adverb Obliquely, crookedly.",
"babble Noun A sound of or alike that which of flowing water.",
"babble Noun Idle talk.",
"babble Noun Inarticulate speech, such as was used at the building the tower of Babel.",
"babble Verb To talk incoherently.",
"babble Verb To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.",
"babble Verb To talk much.",
"babble Verb To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.",
"babble Verb To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way.",
"badger Noun A native or resident of the American State of Wisconsin.",
"badger Noun An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food.",
"badger Noun A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.",
"badger Verb To pester, to annoy persistently.",
"badger Verb To pass gas.",
"bailiwick Noun A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.",
"bailiwick Noun The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.",
"balanephagous Adjective -.",
"ballast Noun Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads.",
"ballast Noun A material, such as aggregate or precast concrete pavers, which employs its mass and the force of gravity to hold single-ply roof membranes in place.",
"ballast Noun Device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g.in a tube lamp supply circuit)",
"ballast Noun Anything that steady emotion or the mind.",
"ballast Noun Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.",
"ballyhoo Noun An unseaworthy or slovenly ship.",
"ballyhoo Noun An inshore, surface-dwelling species of needlefish forming sizeable schools.",
"ballyhoo Noun Noisy shouting or uproar.",
"ballyhoo Noun Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity.",
"ballyhoo Verb To sensationalise or make grand claims.",
"balmy Adjective Producing balm.",
"balmy Adjective Mild and pleasant.",
"balmy Adjective Soothing or fragrant.",
"balmy Adjective Foolish.",
"balustrade Noun A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.",
"banjaxed Adjective Broken, ruined, shattered.",
"banjaxed Adjective Tired, sleepy, cream crackered.",
"banter Noun Good humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.",
"banter Verb To play or do something amusing.",
"banter Verb To tease mildly.",
"banyan Noun A tropical Indian fig tree, <i>Ficus benghalensis</i>, that has many aerial roots.",
"banyan Noun A type of loose gown worn in India.",
"banyan Noun An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.",
"bastion Noun A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification",
"bastion Noun A well-fortified position.",
"bastion Noun A person, or thing, who strongly defends some principle",
"battology Noun Continual unnecessary reiteration of the same words, phrases, or ideas.",
"bawdily Adverb In a bawdy manner.",
"beget Verb To cause.",
"beget Verb To procreate.",
"behemoth Noun A great and mighty beast described in Job 40:15-24 used to illustrate God's mightiness.",
"behemoth Noun A great and mighty monster.",
"behemoth Noun Something which has the qualities of great power and might, and monstrous proportions.",
"behest Noun A command, bidding.",
"behest Verb To promise.",
"beleaguer Verb To besiege.",
"beleaguer Verb To vex, harass, or beset.",
"belie Verb To lie around.",
"belie Verb To surround.",
"belie Verb To contradict, to show (something) to be false.",
"belie Verb To give a false representation of, to misrepresent.",
"belie Verb To tell lies about.",
"belittle Verb To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.",
"bellicose Adjective Showing or having the impulse to be combative.",
"bellicose Adjective Warlike in nature.",
"belligerent Adjective (By extension) aggressive hostile, eager to fight.",
"belligerent Adjective Eager to go to war, warlike.",
"belligerent Adjective Engaged in warfare, warring.",
"belligerent Adjective Of or pertaining to war.",
"belligerent Adjective Act violently towards others.",
"belligerent Noun A state or other armed participant in warfare",
"bellwether Noun A stock or bond that is widely believed to be an indicator of the overall market condition.",
"bellwether Noun Anything that indicates future trends.",
"bellwether Noun The leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck.",
"bemuse Verb To devote to the Muses.",
"bemuse Verb To confuse or bewilder.",
"beneficiary Noun One who benefits or receives an advantage.",
"beneficiary Noun One who benefits from the distribution, especially of an estate.",
"benthic Adjective Pertaining to the benthos.",
"bereave Verb To take away someone or something important or close",
"bereft Adverb (of a person) pained by the loss of someone",
"bereft Adverb Deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of",
"besmirch Verb To tarnish, especially someone's reputation.",
"besmirch Verb To make dirty.",
"best Noun The person (or persons) who is (are) most excellent.",
"best Noun The supreme effort one can make",
"best Verb To beat in a contest.",
"bestir Verb To become active.",
"bestir Verb To put into brisk or vigorous action.",
"betimes Adverb In good season or time.",
"betimes Adverb In a short time, soon.",
"bezel Noun The oblique side or face of a cut gem.",
"bezel Noun The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.",
"bezel Noun The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool",
"bibulously Adverb In a bibulous manner.",
"bide Verb To wait.",
"bide Verb To wait for.",
"bide Verb To bear.",
"bier Noun A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person",
"bier Noun A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed",
"bilious Adjective Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.",
"bilious Adjective Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, thus making one ill-natured.",
"bilious Adjective Irritable or bad tempered.",
"billow Noun A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of water, smoke or sound",
"billow Verb To swell out or bulge",
"bingo Noun A play where all seven letter tiles are played.",
"bingo Noun A win in such a game.",
"biotic Adjective Of, pertaining to, or produced by life or living organisms.",
"bishopric Noun A diocese or region of a church which a bishop governs.",
"bishopric Noun The office or function of being a bishop",
"bistro Noun A small European-style restaurant.",
"bistro Noun A small bar or pub.",
"bivouac Noun An encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering.",
"bivouac Noun Any temporary encampment.",
"bivouac Noun The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.",
"bivouac Verb To set up camp.",
"blarney Noun Ability to talk constantly.",
"blarney Noun Mindless chatter.",
"blarney Noun Persuasive flattery or kind speech.",
"blarney Verb To beguile with flattery.",
"blasted Adjective Which has been subjected to an explosion.",
"blasted Adjective Whose branches bear no leaves.",
"blasted Adjective Accursed.",
"blasted Adverb Damned.",
"blithely Adverb In a joyful, carefree manner.",
"blithely Adverb Without care, concern, or consideration.",
"blithely Adverb In a kind manner.",
"blivit Noun A gadget.",
"blivit Noun Something useless or impossible.",
"bloviate Verb To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.",
"bludgeon Noun A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.",
"bludgeon Verb To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head.",
"blurt Verb To utter suddenly and unadvisedly.",
"bluster Noun A gust of wind.",
"bluster Noun Fitful noise and violence.",
"bluster Noun Pompous, officious talk.",
"bluster Verb To blow in strong or sudden gusts.",
"bluster Verb To speak or protest loudly.",
"bodybuilder Noun A person who uses diet and exercise to build an aesthetically muscular physique, in order to compete in bodybuilding.",
"boggle Verb To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.",
"boggle Verb To confuse or mystify.",
"bogus Adjective Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.",
"bogus Adjective Undesirable or harmful.",
"bogus Adjective Counterfeit or fake.",
"bogus Adjective Incorrect, useless, or broken.",
"bogus Adjective Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).",
"bombastic Adjective High-sounding but with little meaning.",
"bombastic Adjective Inflated, overfilled.",
"bombastic Adjective Pompous or overly wordy.",
"bookish Adjective Given to reading.",
"bookish Adjective Characterize by a method of expression generally found in books.",
"boondoggle Noun A braided ring to hold a neckerchief, particularly in scouting.",
"boondoggle Noun A waste of time and/or money.",
"boondoggle Verb To waste time on a pointless activity.",
"bourgeois Adjective Of or relating to the middle class, especially its attitudes and conventions.",
"bourgeois Adjective Belong to the middle class.",
"bourgeois Adjective Conventional, conservative and materialistic.",
"bourgeois Adjective Of or relating to capitalist exploitation of the working class.",
"bourgeois Noun The middle class.",
"bourgeois Noun An individual member of the middle class.",
"boustrophedon Adjective Written from right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines",
"boustrophedon Adjective Changing direction, going back and forth",
"boustrophedon Adverb Of writing, in a fashion such that the reading direction changes from right-to-left to left-to-right every line.",
"bovine Adjective Sluggish, dull, slow-witted.",
"bovine Adjective Belonging to the tribe Bovini, including cows, buffalo, and bison.",
"bovine Adjective Of or pertaining to cattle.",
"bovine Noun An animal of the family <i>Bovidae</i>, including cattle, buffaloes and bison.",
"braai Noun A barbecue, the Afrikaans word for grill.",
"braai Verb To grill meat over an open flame.",
"brachyuran Adjective Of or pertaining to crabs.",
"brandish Noun The act of flourishing or waving.",
"brandish Verb To bear something with ostentatious show.",
"brandish Verb To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrate skill.",
"brazen-faced Adjective Impudent.",
"breviary Noun A book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours.",
"breviary Noun A brief statement or summary.",
"brigand Noun An outlaw or bandit.",
"brobdingnagian Adjective Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.",
"brobdingnagian Adjective Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.",
"brobdingnagian Noun A creature from Brobdingnag.",
"brobdingnagian Noun A giant.",
"brocard Noun A legal principle usually expressed in Latin, traditionally used to concisely express a wider legal concept or rule.",
"brogue Noun A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.",
"brogue Noun A strong dialectal accent.",
"brogue Noun A heavy shoe of untanned leather.",
"brogue Verb To fish for eels by disturbing the waters",
"brogue Verb To walk.",
"brogue Verb To punch a hole in, as with an awl.",
"brogue Verb To kick.",
"bromide Noun A dull person with conventional thoughts.",
"bromide Noun A platitude.",
"bromide Noun A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.",
"bronze Adjective Having a reddish-brown colour.",
"bronze Adjective Tanned.",
"bronze Noun A natural or man-made alloy of copper, usually of tin, but also with one or more other metals.",
"brouhaha Noun A stir.",
"browbeat Verb To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.",
"brume Noun Mist, fog, vapour.",
"bucolic Adjective Pertaining to herdsman or peasants.",
"bucolic Adjective Rustic, pastoral, country-styled.",
"bucolic Noun A pastoral poem.",
"bucolic Noun A rustic, peasant",
"bulwark Noun A breakwater.",
"bulwark Noun A defense or safeguard.",
"bulwark Noun A defensive wall or rampart.",
"bulwark Noun The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.",
"bulwark Verb To fortify something with a wall or rampart.",
"bulwark Verb To provide protection of defense for something.",
"burdensome Adjective Of or like a burden.",
"burgage Noun A medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding.",
"burgeon Noun Bud, sprout, shoot",
"burgeon Verb Of plants, to bloom, bud.",
"burgeon Verb To grow or expand.",
"burgeon Verb To swell to the point of bursting.",
"bursiform Adjective Shaped like a purse or bag.",
"butterfly Noun A flying insect of the order <i>Lepidoptera</i>, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.",
"butterfly Noun A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.",
"butterfly Noun Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily.",
"butterfly Verb To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across a gaping wound to close it.",
"buttress Noun Anything that serves to support something.",
"buttress Noun A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.",
"buttress Noun A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.",
"buttress Verb To support something or someone by supplying evidence.",
"buxom Adjective Cheerful, lively, happy.",
"buxom Adjective Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.",
"buxom Adjective Healthy, lively.",
"cachinnate Verb To laugh loudly, immoderately, or too often.",
"cacophony Noun A mix of discordant sounds.",
"cacuminous Adjective Having a pyramidal top.",
"cadre Noun A frame or framework.",
"cadre Noun The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.",
"cadre Noun The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed.",
"caesura Noun A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building or other work of art.",
"caesura Noun In Classical prosody, using two words to divide a metrical foot.",
"calced Adjective Wearing shoes.",
"caldera Noun A large crater formed by a volcanic explosion or by collapse of the cone of a volcano.",
"calipers Noun A device used to measure thickness between two surfaces, especially for small or precise measurements.",
"calligram Noun A signature made from interwoven Arabic words, or interwoven Arabic words in the shape of the thing described",
"calligram Noun A word, phrase or longer text in which the typeface or the layout has some special significance",
"calliope Noun A musical organ, consisting of steam whistles played with a keyboard.",
"callipygous Adjective Having shapely, beautiful buttocks.",
"calque Noun A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.",
"calque Verb To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.",
"caltrop Noun A flowering plant, <i>Tribulus terrestris</i>, in the family Zygophyllaceae, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Old World.",
"caltrop Noun The starthistle, <i>Centaurea calcitrapa</i>, a plant with sharp thorns.",
"caltrop Noun A small, metal object with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to passers-by.",
"calumniate Verb To make hurtful untrue comments about (someone)",
"camber Noun A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, a beam, roof deck, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.",
"camber Noun The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.",
"camber Noun The curvature of an airfoil.",
"camber Noun A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.",
"camber Verb To curve upwards in the middle.",
"candor Noun Impartiality",
"candor Noun The state of being sincere and open in speech.",
"candor Noun Whiteness.",
"cant Adjective Lively, lusty.",
"cant Noun A movement or throw that overturns something.",
"cant Noun A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.",
"cant Noun An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.",
"cant Noun Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.",
"cant Noun Shelta.",
"cant Noun Empty, hypocritical talk.",
"cant Noun Slope, the angle at which something is set.",
"cant Noun A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name of the bearer.",
"cant Noun Corner, niche",
"cant Verb Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.",
"cant Verb To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.",
"cant Verb To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.",
"cant Verb To speak in set phrases.",
"cant Verb To bevel an edge or corner.",
"cant Verb To divide or parcel out.",
"cant Verb To overturn so that the contents are empty.",
"cant Verb To set (something) at an angle.",
"cantankerous Adjective Given to or marked by an ill-tempered nature, ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby.",
"capitulate Verb To agree terms of surrender.",
"capitulate Verb To draw up in chapters.",
"capitulate Verb To draw up the articles of treaty with.",
"capoeira Noun A martial art developed in Brazil.",
"caprice Noun A disposition to be impulsive.",
"caprice Noun An impulsive change of mind.",
"caprice Noun An impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action.",
"caprice Noun An unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes.",
"cardinal Adjective Describing a \"natural\" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.",
"cardinal Adjective Of fundamental importance.",
"careen Verb To career.",
"careen Verb To lurch or sway violently from side to side.",
"careen Verb To tilt or lean while in motion.",
"careen Verb To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.",
"careen Verb To tilt on one side.",
"cartographic Adjective Of or pertaining to the making of maps.",
"cartouche Noun (<i>Egyptian hieroglyphics</i>) an oval figure containing characters that represent the names of royal or divine people",
"cartouche Noun A paper cartridge",
"cartouche Noun An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield",
"cascade Noun A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.",
"cascade Noun A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.",
"cascade Noun A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quote the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).",
"cascade Noun A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.",
"cascade Verb To occur as a causal sequence.",
"cascade Verb To vomit.",
"cascade Verb To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.",
"cascade Verb To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.",
"castigate Verb To punish severely.",
"castigate Verb To revise or make corrections to a publication.",
"catafalque Noun A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.",
"catalyst Noun Someone or something that encourages progress or change.",
"catalyst Noun A catalytic converter.",
"catalyst Noun A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.",
"catawampus Adjective Out of alignment, crooked, cater-corner.",
"catawampus Adjective Fierce, destructive.",
"catawampus Noun A fierce imaginary animal, a bogeyman.",
"catechumen Noun A convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism.",
"caterwaul Noun A yowling.",
"caterwaul Noun A noisy quarrel.",
"caterwaul Verb To cry as cats in rutting time.",
"caterwaul Verb To have a noisy argument, like cats.",
"catharsis Noun A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.",
"catharsis Noun Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.",
"catharsis Noun A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).oined in this sense by Aristotle.",
"catharsis Noun Purge of the digestive system.",
"catharsis Noun A therapeutic technique to relieve tension.",
"cavalcade Noun A company of riders.",
"cavalcade Noun A parade.",
"cavalcade Noun A trail ride, usually more than one day long.",
"cavalcade Noun A series, a chain (e.g. of events).",
"cavil Noun A petty or trivial objection or criticism",
"cavil Verb To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons.",
"cavort Verb To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.",
"cavort Verb To prance, said of mounts",
"celerity Noun The speed of individual wave (as oppose to the speed of groups of waves).",
"celerity Noun Speed.",
"cenotaph Noun A monument erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere.",
"centiday Noun One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day.",
"cerebral Adjective Intellectual rather than emotional.",
"cerebral Adjective Retroflex.",
"cerulean Adjective Of a deep blue colour, like the sky on a fine day.",
"cerulean Noun A deep blue colour, like the sky on a fine day.",
"chagrin Noun A type of leather or skin with a rough surface.",
"chagrin Noun Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc.",
"chagrin Verb To bother or vex.",
"charabanc Noun A horse-drawn, and then later, motorized omnibus with open sides, and often, no roof.",
"chicanery Noun Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.",
"chicanery Noun A slick performance by a lawyer.",
"chiliasm Noun Belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity, sometimes equated with the return of Jesus for that period.",
"chocolate Adjective Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color",
"chocolate Noun A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans",
"chortle Noun A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle.",
"chrestomathy Noun A collection of written passages, used to learn an unfamiliar language.",
"chromatid Noun Either of the two strands of a chromosome that separate during mitosis.",
"chunter Verb To grumble, complain.",
"chunter Verb To speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter.",
"churlish Adjective Of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic.",
"churlish Adjective Rude, surly, ungracious.",
"churlish Adjective Stingy or grudging",
"churlish Adjective Difficult to till, lacking pliancy.",
"chutzpah Noun Nearly arrogant courage.",
"cicatrise Verb To form a scar.",
"cicatrise Verb To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).",
"circuitous Adjective Not direct or to the point.",
"circuitous Adjective Of a long and winding route.",
"circumbendibus Adjective Indirect or roundabout",
"circumbendibus Noun A roundabout route or process",
"circumbendibus Noun A roundabout, indirect, or confusing manner of speech or writing",
"circumlocutionary Adjective Articulate in a roundabout manner.",
"circumlocutionary Adjective Evasive, avoiding difficult questions or key points.",
"circumnavigate Verb To sail around the world.",
"circumnavigate Verb To circumvent or bypass.",
"circumnavigate Verb To travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail.",
"circumscribe Verb To draw a line around.",
"circumscribe Verb To limit narrowly.",
"circumscribe Verb To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.",
"circumspect Adjective Careful aware of all circumstances.",
"cistern Noun A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.",
"cistern Noun In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held.",
"clairvoyant Adjective Able to foresee the future.",
"clairvoyant Adjective Able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.",
"clairvoyant Adjective Of, or relating to clairvoyance.",
"clairvoyant Noun A person able to foresee the future.",
"clairvoyant Noun A person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.",
"clamor Noun A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent.",
"clamor Noun A great outcry or vociferation.",
"clamor Noun Any loud and continued noise.",
"clamor Verb To become noisy insistently.",
"clamor Verb To cry out and/or demand.",
"clamor Verb To silence.",
"clamor Verb To demand by outcry.",
"clamor Verb To influence by outcry.",
"clandestine Adjective Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.",
"clandestine Adjective Not recognized as a regular member.",
"claptrap Noun Empty verbiage or nonsense.",
"cloister Noun A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle.",
"cloister Noun A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.",
"cloister Noun The monastic life",
"cloister Verb To become a Roman Catholic religious.",
"cloister Verb To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.",
"cloister Verb To protect or isolate.",
"co-mother-in-law Noun The mother of one's son-in-law or daughter-in-law.",
"coagulate Noun A mass formed by means of coagulation.",
"coagulate Verb To become congealed.",
"coagulate Verb To cause to congeal.",
"coalesce Verb To form from different pieces or elements.",
"coalesce Verb To join into a single mass or whole.",
"coda Noun The conclusion of a statement.",
"coda Noun The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.",
"coda Noun A passage which brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.",
"cogent Adjective Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.",
"cogent Adjective Forcefully persuasive.",
"cogent Adjective Reasonable and convincing.",
"cognoscente Noun Someone possessing superior or specialized knowledge in a particular field.",
"collage Noun A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of diverse things.",
"collage Noun A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.",
"colliery Noun An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.",
"colliery Noun A facility that supplies coal.",
"colossal Adjective Extremely large or on a great scale.",
"commodious Adjective Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities.",
"commodious Adjective Spacious and convenient.",
"complicit Adjective Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.",
"comport Verb To be in agreement (with).",
"comport Verb To tolerate, bear.",
"comport Verb To behave (in a given manner).",
"comprehensive Adjective Broadly or completely covering.",
"concatenation Noun A series of links united.",
"concatenation Noun The application of these series of links.",
"concomitant Adjective Happening at the same time as something else, especially because one thing is related to or causes the other, i.e. concurrent.",
"concomitant Noun Something happening or existing at the same time.",
"concupiscent Adjective Amorous, lustful.",
"conflagration Noun A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space.",
"conflagration Noun Large-scale military conflict (between nations, or schools of thought, etc.)",
"conflate Verb To bring things together and fuse them into a single entity.",
"congeries Noun A collection or aggregation of disparate items.",
"conjecture Noun A supposition based upon incomplete evidence.",
"conjecture Noun A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true.",
"conjecture Noun A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally .",
"conjecture Noun Interpretation of signs and omens.",
"conjecture Verb To guess.",
"conniption Noun A fit of laughing.",
"connote Verb To express without overt reference.",
"connote Verb To require as a logical predicate to consequence",
"connote Verb To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.",
"connote Verb To possess an inseparable related condition.",
"consequently Adverb As a result or consequence of something.",
"consequently Adverb Subsequently, following after in time or sequence.",
"consternation Noun Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection.",
"consummate Adjective Complete, perfect, absolute.",
"consummate Adjective Highly skilled and experienced.",
"consummate Verb To become perfected, receive the finishing touch",
"consummate Verb To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion.",
"consummate Verb To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.",
"consummate Verb To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch",
"contemn Verb To treat or regard with contempt.",
"contemporaneously Adverb In the same period of time.",
"contemptuously Adverb In a disrespectful or discourteous manner.",
"contentious Adjective Given to struggling with others out of jealousy or discord.",
"contentious Adjective Marked by heated arguments or controversy.",
"conterminous Adjective Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time.",
"conterminous Adjective Meeting end-to-end or at the ends.",
"conterminous Adjective Adjoin.",
"conterminous Adjective Said linked or related of property leases that expire together.",
"contiguous Adjective Adjacent.",
"contiguous Adjective Connected.",
"contiguous Adjective Connecting without a break",
"contraption Noun A machine that is complicated and precarious.",
"contraption Noun Any object referred to with irony, derision, or contempt.",
"contretemps Noun An unforeseen, inopportune, or embarrassing event.",
"contretemps Noun An ill-timed pass.",
"contrite Adjective Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions.",
"contumacious Adjective Contemptuous of authority.",
"contumacious Adjective Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.",
"contumelious Adjective Rudely contemptuous.",
"conundrum Noun A difficult choice or decision that must be made.",
"conundrum Noun A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.",
"convolute Adjective Coiled such that one edge is inside, and one outside the coil",
"convolute Verb To fold or coil into numerous overlapping layers.",
"convolute Verb To make unnecessarily complex.",
"copacetic Adjective Fine, excellent.",
"coquetry Noun An affectation of amorous tenderness, especially of a woman directed towards a man.",
"cordial Adjective Hearty.",
"cordial Adjective Said of someone radiate warmth and friendliness.",
"cordial Adjective Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate.",
"cordial Noun A candy (or bonbon) usually made of milk chocolate, filled with small fruits (often maraschino cherry) and syrup or fondant.",
"cordial Noun A liqueur prepared using the infusion process.",
"cordial Noun A pleasant-tasting medicine.",
"cordial Noun A concentrated noncarbonated soft drink which is diluted with water before drinking.",
"corkscrew Noun An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork.ometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.",
"corkscrew Noun A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.",
"corkscrew Noun A type of inversion used in roller coasters.",
"corkscrew Verb To extract information or consent from someone.",
"corkscrew Verb To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape.",
"cornucopia Noun A hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things.",
"cornucopia Noun An abundance or plentiful supply.",
"cornucopia Noun A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain.",
"corrigendum Noun An error that is to be corrected in a printed work after publication.",
"corrigendum Noun A list of errors in a printed work as a separate page of corrections, known as an errata page.",
"corsair Noun A French privateer, especially from the port of St-Malo",
"corsair Noun A privateer or pirate in general",
"corsair Noun A nocturnal assassin bug of the genus , found in the southern USA.",
"corsair Noun The ship of privateers or pirates, especially of French nationality",
"cortical Adjective Pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.",
"cortical Adjective Pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root—the tissue that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.",
"coruscate Verb To exhibit brilliant technique or style.",
"coruscate Verb To give off light.",
"cosmopolitan Adjective All-inclusive.",
"cosmopolitan Adjective At ease in any part of the world",
"cosmopolitan Adjective Composed of people from all over the world",
"cosmopolitan Adjective Growing in many parts of the world.",
"cosmopolitan Noun A cocktail containing vodka, triple sec, lime juice and cranberry juice",
"countenance Noun Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.",
"countenance Verb To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.",
"counterplot Noun A plot made in opposition to another.",
"counterplot Verb To form a plot or plan in opposition to the actions of another.",
"couple-close Noun A diminutive of the chevron, always borne in closely placed pairs.",
"coy Adjective Pretending shyness or modesty.",
"coy Adjective Soft, gentle, hesitating",
"coy Adjective Bashful, shy",
"coy Adjective Reluctant to give details about something sensitive.",
"coy Adjective Quiet, reserved, modest.",
"coy Verb To calm or soothe",
"coy Verb To caress, pet.",
"craggy Adjective Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.",
"crapulous Adjective Characterized by excessive eating or drinking.",
"crapulous Adjective Suffering physically from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking.",
"crapulous Adjective Surcharged with liquor.",
"craquelure Noun The distinctive pattern of hairline cracks in the surface of an old painting",
"creek Noun Any turn or winding.",
"creek Noun A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.",
"creek Noun A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove.",
"crenellation Noun A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.",
"crenellation Noun The act of crenellating.",
"crepuscular Adjective Of or relating to twilight.",
"crepuscular Adjective Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight",
"crescendo Noun The climax of a gradual increase.",
"crescendo Noun A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.",
"crescendo Noun An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ).",
"crestfallen Adjective Depressed.",
"crestfallen Adjective Sad because of a recent disappointment.",
"cricket Noun A wooden footstool.",
"cricket Noun A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint or other projection.",
"cricket Noun A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions",
"cricket Noun An insect in the order Orthoptera that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.",
"cricket Noun An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.",
"cricket Noun A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.",
"crotchety Adjective Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancy.",
"crux Noun A puzzle or difficulty.",
"crux Noun The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.",
"crux Noun The hardest point of a climb.",
"crux Noun The basic, central, or essential point or feature.",
"crux Noun A cross on a coat of arms.",
"crwth Noun An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, although once played widely in Europe.",
"crystallize Verb To assume the form of a crystal",
"crystallize Verb To become more definite or precise",
"crystallize Verb To make something form into crystals",
"crystallize Verb To coat something with crystals, especially with sugar",
"crystallize Verb To make something such as an idea more definite or precise",
"ctenophile Noun A lover of combs",
"cumberground Noun Totally worthless object or person.",
"cunctation Noun Delay, hesitation, procrastination.",
"cupidity Noun Extreme greed, especially for wealth.",
"curdle Verb To clot or coagulate.",
"curdle Verb To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly.",
"curdle Verb To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly",
"curfew Noun A signal indicating this time.",
"curfew Noun A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers.",
"curfew Noun Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.",
"curfew Noun The evening bell, which continued to be rung in many towns after the regulation itself became obsolete.",
"curfew Noun The time when such restriction begins.",
"curfew Noun A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell.",
"curmudgeon Noun An ill-tempered (and frequently old) person full of stubborn ideas or opinions.",
"curmudgeon Noun A miser.",
"curtail Verb To shorten or abridge the duration of something.",
"curtail Verb To limit or restrict, keep in check.",
"curtail Verb To cut short the tail of an animal",
"cutaneous Adjective Of, relating to, existing on, or affecting the exterior skin.",
"cwm Noun A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre.",
"cynosure Noun Something that is the center of attention.",
"cynosure Noun That which serves to guide or direct.",
"cynosure Noun Ursa Minor or Polaris, the North Star, used as a guide by navigators",
"dactylology Noun The use of the fingers and hands to communicate ideas, especially by the deaf.",
"dado Noun The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.",
"dado Noun The section of a pedestal above the base.",
"dado Noun The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.",
"dalliance Noun A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.",
"dalliance Noun A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.",
"dalliance Noun Playful flirtation.",
"dally Noun Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in Team_Roping.",
"dally Verb To delay unnecessarily.",
"dally Verb To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness.",
"dally Verb To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature.",
"dally Verb To wind the lasso rope around the saddle pummel after the roping of an animal",
"damask Noun An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.",
"damask Verb To decorate or weave in damascene patterns",
"dandelion Adjective Of a yellow colour, like that of the flower.",
"dandelion Noun A yellow colour, like that of the flower.",
"daub Noun A crude or amateurish painting.",
"daub Noun A soft coating of mud, plaster etc.",
"daub Verb To apply something to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.",
"dearth Noun Scarcity.",
"dearth Noun Dearness.",
"dearth Noun A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive.",
"deasil Adverb Clockwise.",
"debacle Noun An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.",
"debacle Noun A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.",
"debunk Verb To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something",
"deciduous Adjective Transitory, ephemeral, not lasting",
"deciduous Adjective Describing a part that falls off, or is shed, at a particular time or stage of development.",
"deciduous Adjective Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaf in winter or the dry season.",
"defatigable Adjective Easily tired or weary.",
"defenestrate Verb To stop (a computer) from using the operating system.",
"defenestrate Verb To eject or throw (someone or something) from a window.",
"defenestrate Verb To throw out.",
"deicide Noun The killer of a god or goddess.",
"deicide Noun The killing of a god or goddess.",
"deicide Noun The crucifixion of Jesus viewed as a crime.",
"deify Verb To make a god of (something or someone).",
"deify Verb To treat as worthy of worship.",
"deleterious Adjective Harmful or noxious to physical, mental, or moral health.",
"deltiology Noun The study and collection of postcards.",
"delude Verb To deceive someone into believing something which is false.",
"deluge Noun A great flood or rain.",
"deluge Noun An overwhelming amount of something.",
"deluge Verb To overwhelm.",
"deluge Verb To flood with water.",
"delve Noun A pit or den.",
"delve Verb To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.",
"delve Verb To search thoroughly and carefully for information.",
"delve Verb To dig, to excavate.",
"demesne Noun A lord’s chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy.",
"demure Adjective Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious.",
"denigrate Verb To blacken.",
"denigrate Verb To criticise so as to besmirch.",
"denigrate Verb To treat as worthless.",
"denizen Noun An inhabitant of a place.",
"denizen Noun One who frequents a place.",
"denizen Noun A citizen naturalized through letters patent.",
"denizen Noun Used to describe the range or habitat of an animal or plant.",
"denizen Verb To grant rights of citizenship to.",
"denounce Verb To proclaim in a threatening manner.",
"denounce Verb To make known in a formal manner.",
"denounce Verb To announce the termination of.",
"denounce Verb To criticize or speak out against (someone or something).",
"denounce Verb To make a formal or public accusation against.",
"derail Verb To deviate from the previous course or direction.",
"derail Verb To come off the tracks.",
"derail Verb To cause to come off the tracks.",
"derail Verb To cause to deviate from a set course or direction.",
"derisive Adjective Expressing or characterized by derision.",
"derisive Adjective Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.",
"derring-do Noun Brave and adventurous, often reckless actions.",
"derring-do Noun Valiant deeds in desperate times.",
"desecrate Verb To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.",
"desecrate Verb To remove the consecration from someone or something.",
"desecrate Verb To inappropriately change.",
"despotic Adjective Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical.",
"despotic Adjective Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.",
"desultory Adjective Out of course.",
"desultory Adjective Disappointing in performance or progress.",
"desultory Adjective Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection.",
"desultory Adjective Leaping, skipping or flitting about, generally in a random or unsteady manner.",
"dexterously Adverb In a dexterous manner.",
"diacritic Adjective Distinguishing",
"diacritic Adjective Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.",
"diacritic Noun A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.",
"diaphanous Adjective Of a fine, almost transparent texture, as eg. gossamer.",
"diaphanous Adjective Transparent.",
"diatribe Noun A prolonged discourse.",
"diatribe Noun A speech or writing which bitterly denounces something.",
"diatribe Noun An abusive, bitter denunciation.",
"dichotomous Adjective Divide or branching into two pieces.",
"didactic Adjective Excessively moralizing.",
"didactic Adjective Regarding medicine, teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.",
"didactic Noun A treatise on teaching or education.",
"didgeridoo Noun A musical instrument endemic to the Top End of Australia, consisting of a long hollowed out log, which, when blown into, produces a low, deep mesmerise drone with sweeping rhythms.",
"dielectric Adjective (electrically) insulating",
"dielectric Noun An electrically insulate or nonconducting material considered for its electric susceptibility, i.e. its property of polarization when exposed to an external electric field.",
"differentiate Verb To produce distinct organs or to achieve specific functions by a process of development called differentiation.",
"differentiate Verb To perceive the difference between things.",
"differentiate Verb To modify, or be modified.",
"differentiate Verb To calculate the derivative of a function.",
"differentiate Verb To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.",
"differentiate Verb To show, or be the distinction between two things.",
"diffidently Adverb In a diffident manner.",
"digress Verb To step or turn aside.",
"digress Verb To turn aside from the right path.",
"dilapidate Verb To cause to become ruined or put into disrepair.",
"dilapidate Verb To fall into ruin or disuse.",
"dilapidate Verb To squander or waste.",
"dilettante Noun A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge. (Sometimes derogatory.)",
"dilettante Noun An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.",
"diminutive Adjective Serving to diminish.",
"diminutive Adjective Very small.",
"diminutive Noun A word form expressing smallness or youth.",
"dingle Noun A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.",
"diphthong Noun A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.",
"diphthong Noun A vowel digraph or ligature.",
"disavow Verb To deny.",
"disavow Verb To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge.",
"discombobulate Verb To throw into a state of confusion.",
"discrepancy Noun An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.",
"discrepancy Noun The state or quality of being discrepant.",
"discursion Noun The action of hurriedly moving hither and thither.",
"discursion Noun Step by step philosophic reasoning, as opposed to intuition (cf Iamblichus)",
"discursion Noun Digression.",
"discursion Noun Ratiocination.",
"discus Noun A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.",
"discus Noun A chakram.",
"disdain Noun A feeling of contempt or scorn.",
"disdain Verb To be indignant or offended.",
"disdain Verb To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.",
"dishearten Verb To discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage.",
"disingenuous Adjective Assuming a pose of naivete to make a point or for deception.",
"disingenuous Adjective Not ingenuous.",
"disingenuous Adjective Not noble.",
"disparate Adjective Composed of inherently different or distinct elements.",
"disparate Adjective Essentially different.",
"disquietude Noun A fear or an instance of uneasiness.",
"disquietude Noun A state of disquiet, uneasiness, or anxiety.",
"dissemble Verb To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.",
"dissemble Verb To disguise or conceal something.",
"dissemble Verb To deliberately ignore something.",
"dissociate Verb To undergo dissociation.",
"dissociate Verb To separate compounds into simpler component parts, usually by applying heat or through electrolysis.",
"dissociate Verb To part.",
"dissociate Verb To undergo dissociation.",
"dissociate Verb To make unrelated.",
"ditto Adverb As said before, likewise.",