is an alternative spelling of yucch, an interjection used to express disgust (lexic.us).
Variations: yuch, yucch.
Friday 31 July 2009
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.
Variations: adhan, adhans, azan, azans.
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.
Variations: frenum, frenums, frena.
Thursday 30 July 2009
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.
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.
Variations: stim, stims.
Wednesday 29 July 2009
boi
is a feminine male homosexual or a masculine lesbian (Double-Tongued Dictionary).
Variations: boi, bois.
Variations: boi, bois.
Tuesday 28 July 2009
kipe
is a noun meaning either (Wiktionary):
Variations: kipe, kipes.
- 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.
Variations: kipe, kipes.
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.
Variations: clinal, clinally, cline, clines.
snood
can be used as a noun meaning either:
Variations: snood, snooded, snooding, snoods.
- 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.
Variations: snood, snooded, snooding, snoods.
Monday 27 July 2009
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.
Variations: delate, delated, delates, delating, delation, delations, delator, delators.
Saturday 25 July 2009
sai
is a handheld weapon with three sharp prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts (Wiktionary).
Variations: sai, sais.
Variations: sai, sais.
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.
Variations: vittle, vittled, vittles, vittling.
Thursday 23 July 2009
Tuesday 21 July 2009
Monday 20 July 2009
Friday 17 July 2009
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.
Variations: volute, voluted, volutes, volutoid.
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.
quoif
is an alternative spelling of coif which can be used as a noun meaning either (dictionary.com):
- a hood-shaped cap, usually of white cloth and with extended sides, worn beneath a veil, as by nuns.
- any of various hoodlike caps, varying through the centuries in shape and purpose, worn by men and women.
- a cap similar to a skullcap, formerly worn by sergeants at law.
- Armor. a covering for the head and neck, made of leather, padded cloth, or mail.
- British. the rank or position of a sergeant at law.
Variations: coif, coifed, coifing, coifs, quoif, quoifed, quoifing, quoifs.
reif
has three definitions (Dictionary.com):
- plunder; booty; loot.
- robbery; piracy.
- the act of seizing booty.
Variations: reif, reifs.
ould
means 'old, aged, long-established' (wiktionary).
Variations: auld, aulder, auldest, ould, oulder, ouldest.
Thursday 16 July 2009
Wednesday 15 July 2009
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.
calefy
is an obsolete intransitive verb meaning to become warm or hot (Wiktionary).
Variations: calefied, calefies, calefy, calefying.
Tuesday 14 July 2009
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.
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.
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.
Variations: pilaf, pilaff, pilaffs, pilafs, pilao, pilaos, pilau, pilaus, pilaw, pilaws.
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.
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.
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.
towmonds
is a Scottish version of 'twelvemonth' (dictionary.com, lexic.us).
Variations: towmon, towmond, towmonds, towmons, towmont, towmonts.
Saturday 11 July 2009
epimere
is the dorsal part of the mesoderm of a vertebrate embryo, consisting of a series of segments.
Variations: epimere, epimeres.
Variations: epimere, epimeres.
vivaed
is part of the verb 'to viva' meaning 'to examine (a candidate) in a spoken interview'.
Variations: viva, vivaed, vivaing, vivas.
Variations: viva, vivaed, vivaing, vivas.
stending
is part of the verb 'to stend', a Scots word meaning 'bound'.
Variations: stend, stended, stending, stends.
Variations: stend, stended, stending, stends.
phthalein
is any of a range of lactones formed by the reaction of phenols with phthalic anhydride (Wiktionary).
Variations: phthalein, phthaleins.
Variations: phthalein, phthaleins.
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.
Variations: coom, coomed, cooming, cooms.
anaxial
is a biological term meaning 'lacking an axis, therefore being irregular in form' (Answers.com).
Variations: anaxial
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.
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.
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.
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