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Friday 31 July 2009

yuch

is an alternative spelling of yucch, an interjection used to express disgust (lexic.us).

Variations: yuch, yucch.

azan

is the Muslim call to prayer (Wiktionary). This article lists aazaan, adhan and athan as alternative spellings. However, only adhan is in SOWPODS.

Variations: adhan, adhans, azan, azans.

stanze

is a pattern of verse (lexic.us).

Variations: stanze, stanzes.

fink

can be a noun meaning 'someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police' or a verb meaning 'to take the place of work of someone on strike' (WordNet).

Variations: fink, finked, finking, finks.

repones

is from the transitive verb 'to repone' meaning 'to replace' (lexic.us).

Variations: repone, reponed, repones, reponing.

jors

is the plural of jor, the instrumental rendition of nomtom (Wikipedia). The variant spellings jod and jhor are also listed in this article but they are not in SOWPODS at present.

Variations: jor, jors.

dimp

is a cigarette butt (lexic.us).

Variations: dimp, dimps.

boi

See boi.

vaw

is an alternative spelling of vav, the sixth Hebrew letter (lexic.us).

Variations: vaw, vaws.

opah

is a large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean (WordNet).

Variations: opah, opahs.

ziti

is a medium-sized tubular pasta in short pieces (WordNet).

Variations: ziti, zitis.

novation

is a legal word meaning 'the replacement of one obligation by another by mutual agreement of both parties; usually the replacement of one of the original parties to a contract with the consent of the remaining party' (WordNet).

Variations: novate, novation, novations.

huma

looks likely to be the lower-case of 'Huma' as in 'Huma bird', a fabled Sufi creature (Wikipedia).

Variations: huma, humas.

frena

is the plural of frenum, 'a membranous fold of skin or mucous membrane that supports or restricts the movement of a part or organ, such as the small band of tissue that connects the underside of the tongue to the floor of the mouth' (TheFreeDictionary).

Variations: frenum, frenums, frena.

dawed

is part of the verb 'to daw' meaning 'to dawn' (Wiktionary).

Variations: daw, dawed, dawing, daws.

onside

means 'not offside', i.e. within the prescribed area of play (WordNet).

Variations: onside, onsides.

jane

is a noun meaning either (die.net):
  1. A coin of Genoa; any small coin. --Chaucer.
  2. A kind of twilled cotton cloth (like jean).
Variations: jane, janes.

Thursday 30 July 2009

kawa

is protocol or etiquette in a Maori tribal meeting place (lexic.us).

Variations: kawa, kawas.

meg

is short for 'megabyte'.

Variations: meg, megs.

chunnel

is the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel (WordNet).

Variations: chunnel, chunnels.

myc

is an oncogene that aids the growth of tumorous cells.

Variations: myc, mycs.

acton

is 'a stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail' (lexic.us).

Variations: acton, actons.

neap

is a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon (WordNet).

Variations: neap, neaps.

jann

is an alternative spelling of jinni, an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals (lexic.us).

Variations: jann, janns.

sade

is one of the many spellings for the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet (Wiktionary).

Variations: sade, sades, sadhe, sadhes, sadi, sadis, tsade, tsades, tsadi, tsadis.

stime

is a slight gleam or glimmer (lexic.us).

Variations: stime, stimed, stimes.

idem

is something that has been mentioned previously, the same (TheFreeDictionary).

Variations: idem.

stim

means 'a very small amount' (lexic.us). It can also mean 'any of various repetitive actions, such as flapping the hands, wiggling the knees, shining a light into one's eye, and spinning in a chair, typically performed by autistic people' (Wiktionary). According to Wiktionary, it can also be used as a verb meaning to perform one of these actions. However, the inflected verbal forms (stimmed, stimming) are not currently in SOWPODS.

Variations: stim, stims.

Wednesday 29 July 2009

boi

is a feminine male homosexual or a masculine lesbian (Double-Tongued Dictionary).

Variations: boi, bois.

Tuesday 28 July 2009

jedi

is the lower-case (allowable) version of Jedi (Wiktionary).

Variations: jedi, jedis.

kipe

is a noun meaning either (Wiktionary):
  • a willow basket used for catching fish.
  • the upturned lower jaw of a male salmon at the end of its life as it returns to fresh water to spawn.
Wiktionary also specifies that it can be used as a verb meaning 'to steal' but the inflected forms (kiped, kiping) are not currently in SOWPODS.

Variations: kipe, kipes.

ghara

Not in sowpods. Bulbous mass on top of gharial

gharial

is a long-established crocodile-like reptile with with long, narrow jaws (Wikipedia).

Variations: gavial, gavialoid, gavails, gharial, gharials.

cline

a gradual change in a character or feature across the distributional range of a species or population, usually correlated with an environmental or geographic transition (TheFreeDictionary).

Variations: clinal, clinally, cline, clines.

ilex

is a large genus of dicotyledonous trees (including hollies) and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (WordNet).

Variations: ilex, ilexes, ilices.

snood

can be used as a noun meaning either:
  • A small netlike cap worn by women to keep the hair in place.
  • A headband or fillet.
  • A fleshy wrinkled fold of skin that hangs down over a turkey's beak.
or as a transitive verb meaning 'to hold (the hair) with a snood' (TheFreeDictionary).

Variations: snood, snooded, snooding, snoods.

Monday 27 July 2009

dex

is an order of factor of ten (Wiktionary).

Variation: dex, dexes.

soojey

See soojey.

Sunday 26 July 2009

delating

is the present participle of the verb 'to delate' which, when used transitively, means either:
  • to carry or convey
  • to carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
  • to carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce.
  • to carry on; to conduct.
and when used intransitively, means 'to dilate' (TheFreeDictionary).

Variations: delate, delated, delates, delating, delation, delations, delator, delators.

leve

Saturday 25 July 2009

sai

is a handheld weapon with three sharp prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts (Wiktionary).

Variations: sai, sais.

quinol

is an aromatic organic compound which is a type of phenol (Wikipedia).

Variations: quinol, quinols.

mudhen

is a bird that lives in marshes (lexic.us).

Variations: mudhen, mudhens.

hovea

is any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets (WordNet).

Variations: hovea, hoveas.

savey

means 'to understand' (lexic.us).

Variations: savey, saveyed, saveying, saveys.

bantings

are wild ox of the Malay Archipelago (WordNet). bant also means 'to diet' (lexic.us).

Variations: bant, banted, banter, banting, bantings, bants.

Friday 24 July 2009

pettling

is the present participle of the verb 'to pettle' meaning 'to pet or fondle' (Dictionary.com).

Variations: pettle, pettled, pettles, pettling.

vittle

as a noun means 'food' and as a verb means 'to provide or obtain edible provisions' (Wiktionary).

Variations: vittle, vittled, vittles, vittling.

ofay

is US slang for a white person (Wiktionary).

Variations: ofay, ofays.

boulted

is the past tense of the verb 'to boult', a verb meaning 'to sieve through a cloth' (lexic.us).

Variations: boult, boulted, boulter, boulters, boulting, boultings, boults.

Thursday 23 July 2009

coppy

is a small stool (lexic.us).

Variations: coppy, coppies.

enfilade

as a noun means 'gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation' and, as a verb, to 'rake or be in a position to rake with gunfire in a lengthwise direction' (WordNet).

Variations: enfilade, enfiladed, enfilades, enfilading.

heliac

means 'pertaining to or near the sun' (WordNet).

Variations: heliac, heliacal, heliacally.

Tuesday 21 July 2009

verrel

is a variant spelling of ferrule which is a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting (lexic.us).

Variants: ferrule, ferruled, ferrules, ferruling, verrel, verrels.

Monday 20 July 2009

rubine

is an alternative spelling of rubin meaning 'a ruby' (lexic.us).

Variations: rubin, rubine, rubineous, rubines, rubins.

Friday 17 July 2009

beni

is a sesame plant.

Variations: beni, benis.

jeelieing

is the present participle of the verb jeelie, an alternative spelling of jelly (lexic.us).

Variations: jeelie, jeelied, jeelieing, jeelies.

ourn

is an obsolete or dialectal form of 'ours' (Wiktionary).

Variations: ourn.

oidium

is an asexually produced fungal spore (Wikipedia).

Variations: oidium, oidiam, oidioid.

volute

can be used as a noun meaning an 'ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center' or 'a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops' or as an adjective meaning 'in the shape of a coil' (WordNet).

Variations: volute, voluted, volutes, volutoid.

ecdysiast

a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music (WordNet).

Variations: ecdysiast, ecdysiasts.

ignitron

is 'a mercury-containing rectifier tube in which the arc is struck again at the beginning of each cycle by a special electrode separately energized by an auxiliary circuit; (Merriam-Webster).

Variations: ignitron, ignitrons.

soojey

is a ship cleaning agent (lexic.us).

Variations: soojey, soojeys.

quoif

is an alternative spelling of coif which can be used as a noun meaning either (dictionary.com):
  1. a hood-shaped cap, usually of white cloth and with extended sides, worn beneath a veil, as by nuns.
  2. any of various hoodlike caps, varying through the centuries in shape and purpose, worn by men and women.
  3. a cap similar to a skullcap, formerly worn by sergeants at law.
  4. Armor. a covering for the head and neck, made of leather, padded cloth, or mail.
  5. British. the rank or position of a sergeant at law.
or as a transitive verb meaning 'to cover or dress with or as with a coif'.

Variations: coif, coifed, coifing, coifs, quoif, quoifed, quoifing, quoifs.

reif

has three definitions (Dictionary.com):
  1. plunder; booty; loot.
  2. robbery; piracy.
  3. the act of seizing booty.
Variations: reif, reifs.

piraya

is a large, aggressive piranha from the São Francisco River basin in Brazil (Wikipedia).

Variations: piraya, pirayas.

meith

is a landmark (lexic.us).

Variations: meith, meiths.

kaf

is the eleventh letter of many Semitic consonantal alphabets such as Hebrew (Wikipedia).

Variations: kaf, kafs.

ould

means 'old, aged, long-established' (wiktionary).

Variations: auld, aulder, auldest, ould, oulder, ouldest.

rayne

is another word for 'kingdom' (lexic.us).

Variations: rayne, raynes.

hakea

is an Australian shrub or small tree with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers (WordNet).

Variations: hakea, hakeas.

Thursday 16 July 2009

braxy

is an inflammatory disease in the abomasal lining of sheep (Wikipedia).

Variations: braxy, braxies.

degouts

is the plural of the noun degout meaning distaste (lexic.us).

Variations: degout, degouts.

Wednesday 15 July 2009

vehme

is a medieval German court (lexic.us).

Variations: vehm, vehme,vehmes, vehmic, vehms.

yirth

is an alternative spelling of yird meaning 'earth' (lexic.us).

Variations: yird, yirded, yirding, yirds, yirth, yirths.

gobony

is a vairant spelling of compony used in heraldry meaning 'composed of a single row of squares, metal and color alternating' (Dictionary.com).

Variations: compone, compony, gobonee, gobony.

vichy

refers to vichy water, a natural mineral water from springs at Vichy or a water of similar composition (Dictionary.com).

Variations: vichies, vichy.

twp

is a Welsh word meaning foolish (Wiktionary).

Variations: twp.

pene

calefy

is an obsolete intransitive verb meaning to become warm or hot (Wiktionary).

Variations: calefied, calefies, calefy, calefying.

faix

is a noun meaning 'faith'.

Variations: faix.

maror

refers to the bitter herbs that are eaten at the Passover meal (Wikipedia). Wikipedia specifies marror as a variant spelling but this is not in SOWPODS.

Variations: maror, marors.

inlock

means to lock in or to inclose (Dictionary.com).

Variations: inlock, inlocked, inlocking, inlocks.

Tuesday 14 July 2009

exacta

is a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order (WordNet).

Variations: exacta, exactas.

wifty

is an adjective meaning 'eccentric, silly or scatterbrained' (Wiktionary).

Variations: wifty, wiftier, wiftiest.

vomito

is the most virulent form of yellow fever or the black vomit associated with it (Wiktionary).

Variations: vomito, vomitos.

jook

is a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox (WordNet).

Variations: jook, jooks, juke, jukes.

Monday 13 July 2009

tiar

is another word for a tiara (Dictionary.com).

Variations: tiar, tiara, tiara, tiaraed, tiaras, tiars.

caba

is a flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag.

Variations: caba, cabas.

witing

is the present participle of the verb 'to wite' meaning to blame or regard as guilty (Wiktionary).

Variations: wite, wited, wites, witing, wyte, wyted, wytes, wyting.

yeed

is a variant spelling of 'yede', a verb meaning 'to go or proceed' (lexic.us).

Variations: yedes, yeding, yeed, yeeding, yeeds, yeding, yod, yode.

drook

is a verb meaning 'to drench' (lexic.us).

Variations: drook, drooked, drooking, drooks, drouk, drouked, drouking, drouks.

pilafs

is the plural of 'pilaf', an alternative spelling of 'pilau' which is a Middle Eastern dish of meat, fish, or poultry boiled with rice, spices, etc.

Variations: pilaf, pilaff, pilaffs, pilafs, pilao, pilaos, pilau, pilaus, pilaw, pilaws.

yuking

is the present participle of the verb 'to yuke' meaning 'to itch' (lexic.us).

Variations: yuke, yuked, yukes, yuking.

motivic

is an adjective used in music meaning 'used as a motif' (Wiktionary).

Variations: motivic.

dittany

is a Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather (WordNet).

Variations: dittany, dittanies.

zoeae

is the plural of zoea, a free-swimming larva of certain crustaceans, such as the crab, having rudimentary legs and a spiny carapace (Dictionary.com).

Variations: zoea, zoeae, zoeal, zoeas.

weem

is a subterranean dwelling (lexic.us).

Variations: weem, weems.

muist

is a verb meaning 'to powder' (lexic.us).

Variations: muist, muisted, muisting, muists.

areca

is any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts (WordNet).

Variations: areca, arecas.

haily

is an adjective meaning 'of hail' (TheFreeDictionary).

Variations: hail, haily.

nixed

is the past tense of the transitive verb 'to nix' meaning 'to veto; refuse to agree to; prohibit' (dictionary.com).

Variations: nix, nixed, nixing.

benjamin

is a gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation (WordNet).

Variations: benjamin, benjamins.

nonelite

is a non-hyphenated version of non-elite meaning 'not belonging to an elite group' (lexic.us).

Variations: nonelite.

chondrin

is a substance that resembles gelatin and is obtained by boiling cartilage in water (WordNet).

Variations: chondrin, chondrins.

Sunday 12 July 2009

wiljas

is the plural of wilja (a variant of wiltja) meaning 'a semicircular Aboriginal dwelling, intended as a temporary shelter from the heat of the sun' (wiktionary).

Variations: wilja, wiljas, wiltja, wiltjas.

deeving

is the present participle of the transitive verb 'deeve' which is a variant spelling of 'deave' meaning 'to stun or stupefy with noise' or 'to deafen' (lexic.us).

Variations: deave, deaved, deaves, deeve, deeved, deeves.

corybant

is a term for one of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia as well as, more generally, a reveller (lexic.us).

Variations: corybant, corybants, corybantes, corybantic, corybantism, corybantisms.

towmonds

is a Scottish version of 'twelvemonth' (dictionary.com, lexic.us).

Variations: towmon, towmond, towmonds, towmons, towmont, towmonts.

visie

is a verb meaning 'to look at closely' (lexic.us).

Variations: visie, visied, visieing, visies.

biome

is a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate (WordNet).

Variations: biome, biomes.

Saturday 11 July 2009

emeer

is an independent ruler or chieftain especially in Africa or Arabia (WordNet).

Variations: ameer, ameerate, ameerates, ameers, amir, amirate, amirates, amirs, emir, emirate, emirates, emirs, emeer, emeerate, emeerates, emeers.

emfs

is the plural of emf, the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit (WordNet).

Variations: emf, emfs.

squacco

is a European heron.

Variations: squacco, squaccos.

epimere

is the dorsal part of the mesoderm of a vertebrate embryo, consisting of a series of segments.

Variations: epimere, epimeres.

ethe

is an adjective meaning 'easy'.

Variations: ethe.

vivaed

is part of the verb 'to viva' meaning 'to examine (a candidate) in a spoken interview'.

Variations: viva, vivaed, vivaing, vivas.

stending

is part of the verb 'to stend', a Scots word meaning 'bound'.

Variations: stend, stended, stending, stends.

qindarka

is the plural of qindar, currency in Albania (lexic.us).

Variations: qindar, qindarka, qindars.

phthalein

is any of a range of lactones formed by the reaction of phenols with phthalic anhydride (Wiktionary).

Variations: phthalein, phthaleins.

aesculin

is a chemical found in horse-chestnut bark.

Variations: aesculin, aesculins.

coom

can be used as a noun meaning 'waste material such as dust from coal, grease from axles' or as a verb meaning 'to blacken'.

Variations: coom, coomed, cooming, cooms.

charr

is an alternative spelling of char.

Variants: charr, charrs.

webworm

is any of several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed (WordNet).

Variations: webworm, webworms.

puntee

is an alternative spelling of punty, an iron rod used in glassmaking (lexic.us). Pontee, puntil and puntel are listed as alternative terms but are not in SOWPODS (lexic.us).

Variations: puntee, puntee, punties, punty.

anaxial

is a biological term meaning 'lacking an axis, therefore being irregular in form' (Answers.com).

Variations: anaxial

kayoes

is the plural of kayo (as in KO) meaning a 'knock out' (lexic.us).

Variations: kayo, kayoed, kayoes, kayoing, kayoings, kayos.

hanjar

is a Persian dagger (lexic.us).

Variations: handjar, handjars, hanjar, hanjars.

ecotone

is a transition area between two adjacent but different plant communities, such as forest and grassland.

Variations: ecotonal, ecotone, ecotones.

dakoitis

is the plural of dakoiti which is generally gang robbery (in India and Burma) or, more specifically, robbery by dacoits (Dictionary.com).

Variations: dacoit, dacoitage, dacoitages, dacoities, dacoits, dacoity, dakoit, dakoiti, dakoities, dakoitis, dakoits, dakoity.

otalgias

is the plural form of otalgia, an ear pain or an earache (Wikipedia).

Variations: otalgia, otalgias, otalgic, otalgies, otalgy.

imbrex

is an overlapping roof tile used in ancient Greek and Roman architecture as a waterproof and durable roof covering (Wikipedia).

Variations: imbrex, imbrices.

zoogleas

is one of the plural forms of zooglea, a gelatinous or mucilaginous mass that is characteristic of the growth of various bacteria when growing in fluid media rich in organic material and is made up of the bodies of the bacteria embedded in a matrix of swollen confluent capsule substance (Merriam-Webster).

Variations: zooglea, zoogleae, zoogleal, zoogleas, zoogloea, zoogloeae, zoogloeal, zoogloeas, zoogloeic; zoogloeoid.

waqf

is an inalienable religious endowment in Islam, typically denoting a building or plot of land for Muslim religious or charitable purposes (Wikipedia).

Variations: waqf, waqfs

cinque

is the number five as seen on a die or on a card (Wiktionary).

Variations: cinque, cinques.

kgotla

is a public meeting, community council or traditional law court of a Botswana village (Wikipedia).

Variations: kgotla, kgotlas.

squarial

is a combination of the words 'square' and 'aerial'. It was a satellite antenna used for reception of the (now defunct) British Satellite Broadcasting television service (Wikipedia).

Variations: squarial, squarials.

coyotillo

is a woody shrub of the buckthorn family that is native to the south-western United States and northern Mexico (Britannica).

Variations: coyotillo, coyotillos.