head off at the pass
stall
forestallable
beseek
straddlingly
bedag
forestallingly
bring under
catenator
dummy
mommick
decantable
plumosite
auscult
oversow
bog
exheredate
ensnaringly
disbond
neurolemmoma
'jak
retex
cashier
neurilemmoma
neurinoma
possible
lair
wriggler
eliquate
rootch
caprice
mound builder
sappily
dare
disbowel
intonement
treadable
fossick
rut
gainsayable
halpace
grokkable
prig
hook
jimjam
hedgy
mate
sock away
bedemon
extemporise
caulk
pump
bias
give something a miss
toke
impingingly
paw
wizard
dione
hackney
lariat
put to bed
gangliocytoma
sissy
strike
tuck away
swish
nutil
abominatio
dig
alternation
betake
poufy
soft
Socratize
entangle
inverted caret
foozle
gammadion
inverted circumflex
wing
demean
cuddlable
snare
hop off
salubrify
snug
embroid
inverted hat
sniggle
wedge
take refuge
clicka
nod
adduceable
furlough
squiggler
subduingly
furtle
sie
forestallable
decantable
treadable
gainsayable
grokkable
hedgy
sissy
swish
nutil
poufy
soft
cuddlable
adduceable
straddlingly
forestallingly
ensnaringly
sappily
impingingly
subduingly
catenator
plumosite
neurolemmoma
'jak
neurilemmoma
neurinoma
possible
wriggler
caprice
mound builder
intonement
halpace
hook
bias
dione
lariat
gangliocytoma
abominatio
dig
alternation
inverted caret
gammadion
inverted circumflex
wing
demean
inverted hat
wedge
clicka
squiggler
head off at the pass
stall
beseek
bedag
bring under
dummy
mommick
auscult
oversow
bog
exheredate
disbond
retex
cashier
lair
eliquate
rootch
dare
disbowel
fossick
rut
prig
jimjam
mate
sock away
bedemon
extemporise
caulk
pump
give something a miss
toke
paw
wizard
hackney
put to bed
strike
tuck away
betake
Socratize
entangle
foozle
snare
hop off
salubrify
snug
embroid
sniggle
take refuge
nod
furlough
furtle
sie
verb
- To forestall; to anticipate.
- To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
- To fatten.
- To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To stop suddenly.
- To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.
- To keep close; to keep secret.
- To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.
- To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
- To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
- To come to a standstill.
- To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To employ delaying tactics against.
noun
- A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
- A sheath to protect the finger.
- A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
- An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
- A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
- The space left by excavation between pillars.
- A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
- A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
- An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.
verb
verb
verb
verb
- To feint.
- To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
noun
- A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
- A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- A stupid person.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
- A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- An unused parameter or value.
- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
adv
noun
verb
verb
- To make a mess of something.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- To cover or spray with excrement.
- To sink and stick in bogland.
- To go away.
noun
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
- An act or instance of defecation.
- A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
verb
noun
verb
noun
noun
verb
noun
- A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
- A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
- A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
- A grave; a cemetery plot.
- A bog; a mire.
- A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
- A bed or resting place.
adv
verb
- To terrify; to daunt.
- To have enough courage (to do something).
- To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
- To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
- To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
noun
verb
verb
- To make a furrow.
- To be in the annual rut or mating season.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
noun
- The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
- Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.
- Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
- A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
- A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
- In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
- A dull routine.
noun
noun
- a háček.
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- A ship's anchor.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
verb
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
verb
- To copulate.
- To arrange in matched pairs.
- To copulate with.
- To match, fit together without space between.
- To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
- To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
- To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
- To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
- To marry; to match (a person).
- To pair in order to raise offspring.
- To fit (objects) together without space between.
noun
- Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
- A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
- A breeding partner.
- In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
- The other member of a matched pair of objects.
- A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
- A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- A first mate.
- A friend, usually of the same sex.
- A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
- The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
verb
verb
- To copulate.
- To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
- To express milk from (a breast) by means of a breast pump.
- To pass gas; to fart quietly.
- Of music: to be loud, to have strong bass and rhythms; (by extension) to be full of energy.
- To inject silicone into the body in order to try to achieve a fuller or curvier look.
- To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
- To enlarge the body by means of weightlifting or steroid use.
- To use a pump; to move (water or other liquid) by means of a pump.
- To fill with air by means of a pump; to inflate.
- To kick, throw, or hit the ball far and high.
- To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
- To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
noun
- A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
- A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)
- A dancing shoe.
- A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
- A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
- A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
- An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
- The heart.
- A low-top shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas upper; a low-top canvas sneaker.
- A type of shoe without a heel.
noun
- Inclination towards something.
- A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
- A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
- In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
- A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
adj
verb
adv
verb
verb
noun
- One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field.
- One of the administrators of a multi-user dungeon.
- A virgin over the age of 30.
- Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
- A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.
noun
verb
- To impinge upon.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
adj
verb
- To flourish with a swishing sound.
- To mince or otherwise to behave in an effeminate manner.
- To make a successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
- To make a rustling sound while moving.
- To cause a liquid to move around in a container, or in one's mouth.
noun
- An improvised alcoholic drink made by fermenting whatever ingredients are available.
- A sound of liquid flowing inside a container.
- A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.
- An effeminate male homosexual.
- Effeminacy, effeminate or homosexual demeanor.
- A successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
- A hissing, sweeping movement through the air, as of an animal's tail.
- A twig or bundle of twigs, used for administering beatings; a switch
intj
adj
noun
noun
- Digoxin.
- A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- A thrust; a poke.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- An innings.
verb
- To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- To thrust; to poke.
noun
- Ablaut.
- A sequence that alternates between positive and negative values; sometimes incorrectly used to mean permutation.
- A type of partial truncation of a polygon, polyhedron or tiling in which alternate vertices are removed.
- The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
- A construct in a regular expression that can match any of several specified subexpressions.
- A pattern by which more than one construct is possible, as with "Alice cooked Bob dinner" and "Alice cooked dinner for Bob".
- The reciprocal succession of (normally two) things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence
- The "inclusive or" truth function.
verb
adj
- Effeminate.
- Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard)
- Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
- Requiring little or no effort; easy.
- Voiced; sonant; lenis.
- Voiceless.
- Gentle.
- Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
- Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
- Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
- Easily giving way under pressure.
- Emulated with software; not physically real.
- Not likely to cause addiction.
- Not containing alcohol.
- Weak in character; impressible.
- Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
- Gentle in action or motion; easy.
- Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
- Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
- softcore.
- Palatalized.
- Not bright or intense.
- Physically or emotionally weak.
- Foolish.
- Agreeable to the senses.
- Having a slight angle from straight.
- Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
- Quiet.
noun
verb
- To ensnare.
- To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.
- To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or perplexing circumstances, interests, demands, etc.; to hamper; to bewilder.
- To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.
noun
noun
- A háček.
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
- A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- Human arm.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
verb
verb
noun
- A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
- A set of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin of a drum to create a rattling sound.
- A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
- A mental or psychological trap.
- A snare drum.
- A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
verb
verb
noun
- A háček.
- The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- A quantity of money.
- The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- A wedge tornado.
- A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
verb
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- To force or drive with a wedge.
- Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- To cleave with a wedge.
- To shape into a wedge.
- To force into a narrow gap.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
verb
- To allude to something.
- To signify by a nod.
- To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
- To sway, move up and down.
- To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
- To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
- To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
- To gradually fall asleep.
- To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
noun
adv
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