speartip
spearpoint
spearhead
pike
swordpoint
head
spear-point
bladepoint
spearshaft
hastate
pile
cronel
point
speary
spring hook
arrowhead
aim
daggerpoint
nose
cusp
bibble
ord
subacute
atlatl
spearcast
needle
spontoon
aristate
peak
grass top
tilt
fingertip
tip
emarginate
shaft
ranseur
pinpoint
bespeared
tip-up
thorn
end on
hastiform
stale
apexed
skip
globiferous
pikehead
umbrere
transfix
pinhead
apiculate
job
spearmanship
trident
nib
atgar
lithic
tip of the Stetson
mourne
stab
tipward
hake
torticonic
javelin
prickle
nub
mark
ballista
ferril
foreshaft
spearmaking
angularity
target
bank
pointedness
harpoon
bolt thrower
microgravette
thornlike
empale
spike
steeler
bring to bear
impale
jointer
Clarent
Lucerne hammer
prime
bident
spearlike
foretackle
hastate
speary
subacute
aristate
emarginate
bespeared
tip-up
hastiform
apexed
globiferous
apiculate
tipward
torticonic
thornlike
spearlike
end on
tipward
speartip
spearpoint
spearhead
pike
swordpoint
head
spear-point
bladepoint
spearshaft
pile
cronel
point
spring hook
arrowhead
aim
daggerpoint
nose
cusp
ord
atlatl
spearcast
needle
spontoon
peak
grass top
fingertip
shaft
ranseur
pinpoint
stale
skip
pikehead
umbrere
pinhead
spearmanship
trident
nib
atgar
lithic
tip of the Stetson
mourne
hake
javelin
prickle
nub
mark
ballista
ferril
foreshaft
spearmaking
angularity
target
pointedness
harpoon
bolt thrower
microgravette
steeler
jointer
Lucerne hammer
prime
bident
foretackle
bibble
tilt
tip
thorn
transfix
job
stab
bank
harpoon
empale
spike
bring to bear
impale
noun
- a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
- medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
- any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere
noun
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
noun
noun
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- A list or league
- A mass formed in layers.
- A large amount of money.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A hemorrhoid.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
verb
- To add something to a great number.
- (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
noun
- The sharp tip of an object.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, such as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.
- Intention or goal
- The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target
- The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
verb
- To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it
- To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group
- To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive
- To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object
noun
- The tip of an object.
- The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
- The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
- Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
- A downward projection from a cornice.
- The skill in recognising bouquet.
- A perfumer.
- An informer.
- A snout, the nose of an animal.
- A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
- The power of smelling.
- Skill at finding information.
verb
- To furnish with a nose.
- To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
- To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
- To detect by smell or as if by smell.
- To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
- To snoop.
- To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
- To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
noun
- A sharp point or pointed end.
- A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture.
- Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.
- A point of transition.
- A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
- A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
- A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.
- An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
verb
noun
- Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
- A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
- A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
- A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
- A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
- A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.
- A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
- The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
- Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia.
verb
noun
- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
verb
- To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- To pry; to peep slyly.
- To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
- To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans).
- To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- To become sick or wan.
adj
verb
- To point or thrust (a weapon).
- To point or thrust a weapon at.
- To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
- To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- To be at an angle.
- To cover with a tilt, or awning.
noun
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A jousting contest. (countable)
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- A thrust, as with a lance.
- A tilt hammer.
- A slope or inclination.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
verb
- To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
- (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
- To dump (refuse).
- To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
- To predict or bet on something having a particular outcome.
- (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
- To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
- To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
- To give, pass.
noun
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”)
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- A small piece of meat.
- A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
- A recycling centre.
- A piece of advice.
- Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- A very untidy place.
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
- The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
- An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- An act of tipping up or tilting.
- A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
- A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
- A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
- A prediction or bet about the outcome of something.
noun
- The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
- Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
- A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
- A beam or ray of light.
- The main axis of a feather.
- Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
- The chamber of a blast furnace.
- A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
- A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
- The main cylindrical part of the penis.
- Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive, an axle, etc.
- The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
verb
verb
noun
- That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
- A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
- A sharp protective spine of a plant.
- Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
noun
- The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.
- A stalemate; a stalemated game.
- One of the rungs on a ladder.
- Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
- A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)
- One of the posts or uprights of a ladder.
verb
- To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
- To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
- To stalemate.
- To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
adj
- Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
- Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
- No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
- Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
- No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated.
- Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
- Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
noun
- A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
- A college servant.
- A skip car.
- The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
- The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- A charge of syrup in the pans.
- A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- skywave propagation
- The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
- The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- A beehive.
- A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
verb
- To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear.
- To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To leap about lightly.
- Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- To jump rope.
- To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- To leap lightly over.
verb
- To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
- To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
- To work as a jobber.
- To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- To take the loss.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
noun
- A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- A sex act.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- A task.
- A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
- Plastic surgery.
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
noun
- A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
- The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
- The shaft of a wagon.
- A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
- Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
- One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
- The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
verb
verb
- To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
- To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
noun
- The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- Criticism.
- An attempt.
- A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
noun
- a reference point to shoot at
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a distinguishing symbol
- a visible indication made on a surface
- the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- an indication of damage
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
verb
- attach a tag or label to
- designate as if by a mark
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- celebrate by some ceremony or observation
- make or leave a mark on
- to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- notice or perceive
- mark with a scar
- make small marks into the surface of
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- make underscoring marks
- remove from a list
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- insert punctuation marks into
noun
- a reference point to shoot at
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- the location of the target that is to be hit
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
verb
verb
- tip laterally
- enclose with a bank
- do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
- act as the banker in a game or in gambling
- be in the banking business
- put into a bank account
- cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning
- have faith or confidence in
noun
- sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
- a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
- a long ridge or pile
- an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
- a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
- the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
- a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
- a building in which the business of banking is transacted
- a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
verb
- pierce with a sharp stake or point
- stand in the way of
- secure with spikes
- bring forth a spike or spikes
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- manifest a sharp increase
noun
- a transient variation in voltage or current
- sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
- a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline
- a very high narrow heel on women's shoes
- each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves)
- a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
- a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
- a large stout nail
noun
- The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
- Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
- A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
- The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
- The religious service appointed to this hour.
- The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
- A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- The chief or best individual or part.
- The first note or tone of a musical scale.
- An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
verb
- To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
- To mark with a prime mark.
- To apply a coat of primer paint to.
- To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
- To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
- To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
adj
- First in time, order, or sequence.
- Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
- First in excellence, quality, or value.
- Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
- Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
- First in importance, degree, or rank.
- Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
English words for 'The tip, end, or point of a spear.'
As you may have noticed, above you will find words for "The tip, end, or point of a spear.". Hover the mouse over the word you'd like to know more about to view its definition. Click 
to find a better fitting word. Finally, thanks to ChatGPT, the overall results have been greatly improved.
Recent Queries
good for nothing
records
nonaggression
paving stone
AWACS
certificate of employment
to become known
to be noticed
a roving.
idiotically.
manner of talking
cleft grafting
greatly.
to crush underfoot
subtext
microwaving
a mechanical damper
stray sheep
timeworn
gambrel roof
faddist
learned society
synodic
generalissimo
apparent magnitude
to growl
piazza
price tag
To make haste
wrapping paper
To make real
dark purple
To soil
to clear.
hail of bullets
in every way
measuring
duties
playfulness
drawing up
deprivation
strip
procrastination
maximum
lull
to look forward to
to restrain
enthusiast
dignified
private