|
|
Reverse Search
Reverse Search allows you to search within the full text of dictionary entries for words, word parts, and phrases.
Search for entries that contain:
Exact matches of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or the word "orange."
Any form of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or "apples" or "orange" or "oranges."
Exact matches of all of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" and the word "orange."
The exact sequence of words and/or characters entered in the search box (for example, a fragment of a word, a single word, multiple words, or even a phrase containing punctuation)
Example: Searching for "a variety of apple" identifies all entries that contain that phrase. Searching for "app" identifies all entries that contain the letters "app," such as occurrences of "apple," "application," and "apply."
Search within these fields:
Optional:
Limit by part of speech:
| befoul |
to make foul; defile. [1/2 definitions] |
| defile1 |
to make unclean, foul, or filthy. [1/5 definitions] |
| effluvium |
an outflow of usu. invisible, foul-smelling vapor or gas. |
| fair ball |
a batted baseball that stays within the foul lines if airborne or, if it hits the ground before the outfield, that stays within the foul lines until it has gone beyond first or third base. |
| fetid |
having a foul odor; stinking. |
| filth |
that which is unclean or foul. [2/3 definitions] |
| filthy |
extremely dirty or foul; nasty. [1/2 definitions] |
| foul |
in baseball, a ball hit to outside the lines drawn from the rear of the homeplate to the first and third bases; foul ball. [5/21 definitions] |
| foul ball |
in baseball, a batted ball that does not remain within the foul lines. |
| foul out |
of a baseball player, to be put out because of hitting a ball outside the foul lines that is caught before it touches the ground. [1/2 definitions] |
| foul tip |
in baseball, a pitched ball that is barely tipped by the bat and is either caught by the catcher or deflected into the foul zone. |
| free throw |
in basketball, an unhindered shot at the basket from the foul line; foul shot. |
| frowzy |
having a foul or musty odor. [1/2 definitions] |
| halitosis |
foul-smelling breath. |
| jimson weed |
a poisonous annual of the nightshade family with foul-smelling leaves, prickly fruit, and trumpet-shaped purplish or white flowers. |
| nasty |
repellent, esp. to sight, smell, or taste; filthy or foul. [1/3 definitions] |
| noisome |
offensive or disgusting, esp. in smell; foul. [1/2 definitions] |
| personal foul |
in some team sports, a foul involving unnecessarily rough body contact with an opponent. |
| rotten |
foul-smelling; putrid. [1/5 definitions] |
| skunk |
a small, meat-eating North American mammal with black fur, a bushy tail, and a broad white stripe down its back, noted for the foul smell of the fluid it ejects when alarmed. [1/3 definitions] |
| snorkel |
a device on a submarine that permits it to remain submerged for long periods of time by taking in fresh air and expelling the foul air. [1/3 definitions] |
|
|