smooth
pat
pet
faunal
cut
stroker
cape
clawed
stroking
pawdicure
pad
firk
unpaunch
lick
toepad
coronet
lib
hare-skin
petting
unguiculate
toilet claw
forepaw
unguiculate mammal
maul
zoic
hurt
cankle
sheathe
cow bite
injure
expediate
forehand
zoodermic
saddling
strike
animal leg
saddle
sural
animality
midstroke
zoo-
muzzle
stamp
make muffins
paddle
scratch
medicoveterinary
prick
alter
make biscuits
thack
exuvial
digitigrade
cosset
pawpad
pawprint
porcupine
taxidermy
declaw
geld
fix
raik
animal
zoocephalic
dematter
knucklebone
hedgehog
spangle
follow-through
street nail
footpad
break
basipodium
paddy paw
region
pawlike
animal fat
fondle
sweep
area
scart
zoocentric
pseudoalbino
fodder
leg
skinner
doeskin
elbow
chaeta
bloodsucker
therapy animal
stocks
fother
zeugopod
spay
antipet
web
faunal
clawed
zoic
zoodermic
sural
medicoveterinary
exuvial
digitigrade
animal
zoocephalic
pawlike
zoocentric
antipet
midstroke
stroker
stroking
pawdicure
pad
firk
toepad
coronet
hare-skin
petting
unguiculate
toilet claw
forepaw
unguiculate mammal
cankle
saddling
animal leg
animality
muzzle
midstroke
stamp
thack
pawpad
pawprint
porcupine
dematter
knucklebone
hedgehog
spangle
follow-through
street nail
footpad
basipodium
paddy paw
region
animal fat
area
scart
pseudoalbino
skinner
doeskin
elbow
chaeta
bloodsucker
therapy animal
stocks
zeugopod
spay
web
smooth
pat
pet
cut
cape
unpaunch
lick
lib
maul
hurt
sheathe
cow bite
injure
expediate
forehand
strike
saddle
make muffins
paddle
scratch
prick
alter
make biscuits
cosset
taxidermy
declaw
geld
fix
raik
break
fondle
sweep
fodder
leg
fother
verb
- To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.
- To make smooth or even.
- To make straightforward or easy.
- To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten.
- To calm or palliate.
- To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
noun
- The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
- Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
- A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
- A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
- A smoothing action.
adj
- Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
- Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
- Natural; unconstrained.
- Not grainy; having an even texture.
- Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
- Involuntary and non-striated.
- That factors completely into small prime numbers.
- Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
- Unbroken.
- Lacking marked aspiration.
- Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
- Placid, calm.
- Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
- Suave; sophisticated.
- Bland; glib.
adv
verb
- To stroke or fondle (an animal).
- To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
- To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
- To gently rain.
noun
- A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
- The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep
- A light tap or slap, especially with the hands
adv
adj
verb
noun
- Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.)
- One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
- A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
- An animal kept as a companion.
- Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
- A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.
adj
verb
- To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- To exhibit (a quality).
- To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- To wound with a knife.
- To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
- To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- To stop, disengage, or cease.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- To make or negotiate.
- To castrate or geld.
- To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To change direction suddenly.
- To perform (a dancing movement etc.).
- To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
intj
noun
- A particular version or edit of a film.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- A skein of yarn.
- A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
- The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- The result of cutting.
- In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
- The act of cutting.
- An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.
- Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- A slab, especially of meat.
- A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- A haircut.
- A decrease.
adj
- Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- Reduced.
- Having been cut.
- Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- Carved into a shape; not raw.
- Emotionally hurt.
noun
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord"
- The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
- A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track.
- A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- A prison cell.
- A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A toad.
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- A bed.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
- The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
- A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
verb
- To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- To furnish with a pad or padding.
- To wear a path by walking.
- To stuff.
- To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- To travel on foot.
- To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
intj
verb
- To stroke with the tongue.
- To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
- To do anything partially.
- To lap; to take in with the tongue.
- To lap.
- To perform cunnilingus.
- To beat with repeated blows.
- To overcome.
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
- An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
- A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
- The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
- A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
- The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
- A small amount; a whit.
- A short motif.
- A stroke or blow.
- A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
- An act of cunnilingus.
noun
verb
- To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- To be painful.
- To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
noun
- A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
- A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
adj
verb
adj
noun
- Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
- All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.
- A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke.
- The hand towards the front of the board.
- A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger.
verb
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- 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 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 impinge upon.
- 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.
noun
verb
- To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
- To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
- Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
- To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
- To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
- To put a saddle on an animal.
- Of a person: to get into a saddle.
noun
- The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”)
- Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”)
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
- In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
- A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
- Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”)
- A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
- The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
- Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”)
- A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
- The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
- A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- The raised floorboard in a doorway.
- Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”)
- A small sloped or tapered structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
- A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
- An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
- A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
prefix
noun
- A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
- The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
- The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
- A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
- A person's mouth.
verb
noun
- An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
- A device for stamping designs.
- A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
- A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other dues such as tax or licence fees.
- Cast; form; character; distinguishing mark or sign; evidence.
- A tattoo.
- A kind of heavy pestle, raised by water or steam power, for crushing ores.
- A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.
- An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping.
verb
- To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
- To mark; to impress.
- To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- To apply postage stamps to.
- To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
- To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
verb
- To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
- To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
- To toddle.
- To spank with a paddle.
- To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
- To tread upon; to trample.
- To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- To dog paddle in water.
noun
- The use of a paddle to propel a boat; a session of paddling.
- A broad, flat device used in striking the ball, analogous to a racket in tennis.
- A blade of a waterwheel.
- A flap of attached skin that has been cut away from a wound.
- A broad, flat spanking implement.
- A double-bladed version with blades at each end of the shaft is used for kayaking.
- A handheld electrode used for defibrillation or cardioversion.
- A person's hand.
- In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
- A paddlewheel.
- A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
- A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
- A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- A flat board with a number of holes or indentations, used to carry small alcoholic drinks such as shots.
- A single-bladed version is typically used on canoes and some other small boats.
- A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
verb
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
adj
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
verb
- To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
- To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
- To aim at a point or mark.
- To incite, stimulate, goad.
- To shoot without killing.
- To make acidic or pungent.
- To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
- To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
- To pierce or puncture slightly.
- To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
- To form by piercing or puncturing.
- To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
- Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
noun
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- A small pointed object.
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
- The footprint of a hare.
- The penis.
- Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
- A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
- A feeling of remorse.
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
adj
- Of an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.
- Belonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora.
- Of feet or a manner of walking: of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.
noun
verb
- To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
- To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- To convert into a stable or available form.
- To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- To mend, to repair.
- To prepare (food or drink).
- To map a (point or subset) to itself.
noun
- fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- A repair or corrective action.
- A determination of location.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
adj
- Of or relating to animals.
- Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
- Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
- Excellent
noun
- Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
- A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
- Any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).
- A person of a particular type.
- A eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
- Matter, thing.
noun
- A speckle or spot, especially on the body of an animal.
- Any small sparkling object.
- A point of light; also (rare), a glitter, a sparkle.
- A small, flat piece of sparkling metallic or metal-like material with a hole which is sewn on to a garment, etc., for decoration; a sequin.
- A shiny particle of a mineral.
- A star.
- Any of a number of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio); specifically Papilio protenor.
verb
verb
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
noun
- a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
- the extended spatial location of something
- a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
- the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
- a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
verb
- To strike with a long stroke.
- To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- To travel quickly.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To draw or drag something over.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
noun
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Violent and general destruction.
- The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A single action of sweeping.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- A chimney sweep.
- The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
noun
- a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
- a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
- a subject of study
- a particular environment or walk of life
- a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
- the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary
verb
noun
- People considered to have negligible value and easily available or expendable.
- Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
- A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
- The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
- Tracing paper.
- Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
verb
- To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
- To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
- To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
- To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
noun
- A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
- One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
- One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
- Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
- In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
- In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
- A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
- A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
- An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
- The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
- A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
- An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
- An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
- The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
- A stage of a journey, race etc.
- A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
- A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
- Something that supports.
- One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
- A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
noun
- the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow
- hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped
- a sharp bend in a road or river
- a length of pipe with a sharp bend in it
- the part of a sleeve that covers the elbow joint
verb
noun
- a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod
- a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction
- a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked
adj
noun
- A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
- A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
- The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
- The blade of a saw.
- The blade of a sword.
- The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
- A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
- The thin, sharp part of a colter.
- The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
- A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
- The bit of a key.
- A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
- The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
- Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
- A latticed or woven structure.
- A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
- A plot or scheme.
verb
English words for 'To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.'
As you may have noticed, above you will find words for "To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.". 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
information revolution
tuck
day-to-day
usage charge
Brains
black diamond
rivulet
in use
disloyal.
benzoyl peroxide
on the street
Not selective
perspective drawing
delaying
three generations
cat meat
flock paper
receipts and payments
maintaining
general meeting
game of chance
needed
triceps
under separate cover
obliquely.
to obliterate.
member of parliament
seedy
a jot.
unscheduled
end product
fellow countrymen
faint.
chemotherapy
useless.
whether one likes it or not
actual size
tidying up
cultivated in many varieties
life or death
seaside
crap
layer
cooking
to wane
consistency
be that as it may
to pull down
orderly
scheme