Skip to content
ARCHIEENGLISH
LearnPlayWordsRanking
  • Learn
  • Play
  • Words
  • Ranking
  • Mine

The library

Vocabulary

19,295 words · meanings, pronunciation and origins · ranked by use

Letter
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Level
A1A2A2+B1B1+B2B2+C1C2
Part of speech
nounverbadjectiveadverbprepositionpronounphrase

2,020 words · showing 421–480

clear filters
  • credulous/ˈkɹɛd͡ʒələs/adjectiveC2Ready to believe far too easily.
  • crenel/ˈkɹɛnəl/nounC2One of the gaps in a battlement.
  • crenellate/ˈkɹɛnɛleɪt/verbC2To build notches into the top of a wall.
  • criterium/kɹaɪˈtɪəɹiəm/nounC2A race of many laps round a short town circuit.
  • critter/ˈkɹɪtɚ/nounC2A small animal or creature.
  • croft/kɹɒft/
← Prev
1…789…34
Next →
noun
C2
A small rented farm in Scotland.
  • crofternounC2A small tenant farmer, especially in Scotland.
  • crony/ˈkɹoʊni/nounC2A close friend, especially one given unfair favours.
  • crowning/ˈkɹaʊnɪŋ/adjectiveC12 meaningsStanding at the top of a life's achievements.
  • cruet/ˈkɹu.ɪt/nounC2The small stand holding salt and pepper.
  • cuckold/ˈkʌ.kəʊld/nounC2A man whose wife has been unfaithful.
  • cudgel/ˈkʌd͡ʒəl/nounC2A short thick stick used as a weapon.
  • cull/kʌl/verbC22 meaningsTo reduce a group by killing or removing some.
  • cupidity/kjuːˈpɪdəti/nounC2Greed for money and possessions.
  • cur/kɜː/nounC22 meaningsAn aggressive or worthless mongrel dog.
  • curate/ˈkjʊəɹət/verbC2To select and arrange works for an exhibition.
  • curator/kjʊəˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/nounC2The person who chooses and arranges what a museum shows.
  • curio/ˈkjʊə̯ɹiˌəʊ̯/nounC2A small unusual object kept for its oddity.
  • curmudgeon/kɜːˈmʌdʒ.ən/nounC2A bad-tempered person who grumbles at everything.
  • currycombnounC2A toothed comb for cleaning a horse's coat.
  • cusp/kʌsp/nounC12 meaningsThe point at which one state turns into another.
  • cutpurse/ˈkʌtˌpɜːs/nounC2A thief who cuts money bags from belts.
  • cyclops/ˈsaɪˌklɑps/nounB2+2 meaningsIn Greek myth, a giant with a single eye in the middle of its forehead.
  • dais/ˈdeɪ.ɪs/nounC2A low platform for a throne or a high table.
  • dalliance/ˈdælɪəns/nounC2A brief light-hearted romance, or idle delay.
  • damask/ˈdæm.əsk/nounC2A rich patterned cloth woven in one colour.
  • damp coursenounC2The barrier that stops wet rising up a wall.
  • dampen/ˈdæmpən/verbC22 meaningsTo make slightly wet.
  • damsel/ˈdæm.zəl/nounC12 meaningsA young noblewoman, in old stories.
  • dandle/ˈdændəl/verbC2To bounce a small child gently on your knee.
  • dead dropnounC2A hiding place where two people leave things for each other.
  • deaden/ˈdɛdən/verbC2To take the life out of a sound or a feeling so that it is barely heard or felt.
  • debonair/ˌdɛbəˈneə(ɹ)/adjectiveC2Confident, stylish and charming.
  • decease/dɪˈsiːs/nounC2A person's death, in legal use.
  • decorous/ˈdɛkəɹəs/adjectiveC2Correct and dignified in behaviour.
  • decry/dɪˈkɹaɪ/verbC2To condemn something openly.
  • deductive/dɪˈdʌktɪv/adjectiveC2Reasoning from general principles to a particular conclusion.
  • defective/dɪˈfɛktɪv/adjectiveB22 meaningsHaving a fault from the way it was made, so that it does not work properly.
  • deficient/dɪˈfɪʃənt/adjectiveC2Lacking something that is needed.
  • defile/dɪˈfaɪl/verbC12 meaningsTo make something sacred or clean unfit.
  • deflower/diˈflaʊ.ɚ/verbC2To take a woman's virginity, in old use.
  • defray/dɪˈfɹeɪ/verbC2To pay part or all of a cost.
  • deign/deɪn/verbC2To do something you consider beneath you.
  • deject/dɪˈdʒɛkt/verbC2To lower somebody's spirits.
  • deleterious/ˌdɛl.ɪˈtɪə̯.ɹi.əs/adjectiveC2Doing harm, often quietly and over time.
  • delicatessen/ˌdɛlɪkəˈtɛsən/nounC2A shop selling fine cheeses, cold meats and prepared foods.
  • delineate/dɪˈlɪniːeɪt/verbC2To describe or mark out the shape of something exactly.
  • delineation/diːlɪniˈeɪʃən/nounC2A precise mapping out of something.
  • dell/dɛl/nounC2A small wooded hollow in the ground.
  • demarcation/ˌdɛm.ɑːˈkeɪ.ʃən/nounC2The marking out of a boundary or a division of responsibility.
  • demobiliseverbC2To release troops from service after a war.
  • demur/dɪˈmɜː/verbC2To raise an objection, mildly and politely.
  • demurragenounC2A charge for keeping a container or ship too long.
  • demystify/diːˈmɪstɪfaɪ/verbC2To strip the mystery from a subject and make it plain.
  • denizen/ˈdɛn.ɪ.zən/nounC2An inhabitant of a particular place.
  • denotation/ˌdiː.noʊˈteɪ.ʃən/nounC2The plain literal meaning of a word.
  • denote/dɪˈnəʊt/verbC2To be the sign or name for something.
  • denouementnounC2The final part where everything is explained.
  • denunciation/dɪˌnʌnsiˈeɪʃən/nounC2A public condemnation of somebody or something.
  • depilatory/dəˈpɪləˌtɔɹi/nounC2A cream that dissolves hair at the surface.