This page gathers the 5,895 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “UK” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 13 of 59: from “council housing” to “cumper”.
- council housing noun Housing provided (and usually built) by the local authority (a county council or a town council) at a low rent, typically intended for…
- council tax noun The taxation paid to a county council towards the costs of local government; some of this money is directed to the parish council or…
- count verb To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
- countor noun An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause
- country noun An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district.
- country house noun A house serving as a weekend and holiday residence, used as a retreat from city life; traditionally and archetypically in the country, and…
- country park noun one designated as such by the former Countryside Commission.
- county court noun A civil court which deals with civil cases, such as divorce.
- county line noun A drug trafficking scheme to transport drugs from cities to smaller towns, especially one that recruits children and uses phone lines.
- coupé noun A car with a fixed-roof body style that is shorter than a sedan or saloon of the same model.
- coupon noun The letter sent to parliamentary candidates at the 1918 general election, endorsing them as official representatives of the coalition…
- courgette noun A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.
- course noun an educational programme at a college or university leading to an academic degree or vocational qualification.
- court card noun A postcard measuring approximately 4·75″ × 3·5″, in use mainly circa 1894–1902.
- court circular noun An official record that lists the engagements carried out by the monarch and Royal Family of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth…
- court of honour noun Alternative form of court of honor.
- court-leet noun A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet.
- cove noun Man; fellow.
- covered wagon noun A covered goods wagon.
- covey noun A male person, a man; a chap, a chappie.
- cow noun A woman considered unpleasant in some way, particularly one considered nasty, stupid, fat, lazy, or difficult.
- cowboy noun A dishonest or incompetent independent tradesman.
- cowie noun A pill, especially of the drug ecstasy.
- cowl noun A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.
- crack noun A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
- crack out verb To bring out a tool or method thought to be powerful or effective.
- cracker noun A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
- crackers adj Crazy, insane.
- cracking adv Very, usually associated with praise.
- crank noun A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.
- craphat noun A member of a non-elite regiment, not in the British army's parachute regiment or the SAS.
- crash barrier noun A strengthened barrier installed on the sides of a (usually major) road to keep vehicles on the carriageway and reduce the risk and/or…
- crawler noun A cab that is driven slowly along while its driver looks out for a fare.
- cream noun The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
- cream tea noun An afternoon tea including cream tea and, usually, scones and jam.
- creamwove noun Wove writing paper that is cream in color.
- crease verb To laugh.
- crease up verb To laugh (or make someone laugh) uncontrollably.
- creased adj Amused.
- create verb To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
- crèche noun A day nursery.
- creek noun A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
- creeping freehold noun The freehold of property, such as a basement or cellar, that is located underneath a different freehold; the converse of flying freehold.
- crew noun A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
- crib noun A bed for a child older than a baby.
- cricket noun An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
- cricket score noun A very high score.
- crim noun A criminal.
- crime verb To subject to disciplinary punishment.
- crimper noun A hairdresser.
- cringe noun A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
- crisp noun In full potato crisp: a thin slice of potato which has been deep-fried until it is brittle and crispy, and eaten when cool; they are…
- crispless adj Without crisps (potato snacks).
- crock noun A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
- crocked adj injured (of a person)
- crocket noun The tips of the antlers of an adult stag.
- crome noun A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for…
- cromlech noun synonym of altar tomb or dolmen (“a prehistoric megalithic tomb consisting of a (somewhat) flat capstone lying horizontally on two or more…
- croodle verb To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
- cross adj (of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.
- cross channel adj Relating to the English Channel; to, from, or on the Continent; involving both Britain and the Continent, especially France
- cross the aisle verb Of a member of a parliament, to resign from one's political party and join another party, resulting in moving from one's currently assigned…
- cross the floor verb To vote against one’s own political party in parliament.
- cross-bench noun A bench placed perpendicular to others, especially certain such benches in the House of Lords on which independent or neutral members…
- cross-subsidise verb To subsidise a loss-making business or activity from the profits gained from another business or activity.
- crossbench adj Alternative form of cross-bench.
- crossbencher noun Alternative form of cross-bencher.
- crossrail noun A commuter rail line that crosses a major city through a tunnel and which continues for a significant distance into the surrounding areas…
- crotched adj cross; peevish
- crow scarer noun A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare crows and other birds.
- crown noun A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- crown it all verb To be the final, or last-mentioned, event or occurrence in a series of particularly favourable / fortunate or unfavourable / unfortunate…
- Crown land noun In Britain and some Commonwealth countries, land that is owned by the state, nominally titled to the reigning King or Queen of England, and…
- Crown prosecutor noun The state prosecutor; the legal party responsible for presenting the case against an individual in a criminal trial.
- crown witness noun A person implicated in a criminal case who turn against their accomplices by serving as a witness for the state and who may enter into a…
- crowner noun coroner
- cruet noun A stand for these containers.
- cruiserweight noun light heavyweight
- crump adj Hard or crusty; dry baked
- crumpet noun A sexually attractive person or, collectively, people; usually referring to women.
- crush barrier noun A fence or barrier that divides the space occupied by a large crowd in order to prevent people from being crushed.
- crust noun A slice of bread cut from the end of a loaf; the heel.
- crusty noun A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
- crut noun A dwarf.
- CS noun Initialism of chief superintendent.
- cubic centimetre noun A unit of volume equal to that of a cube having sides each one centimetre in length, equal to 10⁻⁶ cubic metres and 1 millilitre. Commonly…
- cubic decimetre noun A unit of volume equal to that of a cube having sides each one decimetre in length, equal to 10⁻³ cubic metres and 1 litre. Commonly used…
- cubic millimetre noun An SI unit of volume equal to that of a cube having sides each one millimetre in length, equal to 10⁻⁹ cubic metres.
- cubicle noun A small enclosure in a public toilet for individual use.
- cuckoo verb To take over the home of a vulnerable person for the purposes of carrying out organized crime in a concealed way.
- cuckooing noun A form of crime in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal gang and used as a base for their activities.
- cuddle noun An affectionate embrace, a hug, such as is given to family members and close friends (less intimate than a snuggle, and typically of…
- cuddy noun A pony that works in a mine.
- cue noun A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for Latin quadrāns (“farthing”))…
- cull noun A man or boy.
- culling noun The theft of personal possessions from a carriage during a horse race.
- culmination noun An endpoint arrived at after some series of actions or events, or some period, usually after the series or period has ended. The sum of…
- culprit noun A prisoner accused but not yet tried.
- culver noun A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
- cumper noun A man who concocts or massively exaggerates a military service record for himself, usually claiming membership of the special forces.