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Lark

Definition: Lark

Lark

Noun

1. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.

2. Small songbirds resembling larks.

3. Any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing.

4. Any carefree episode.

Verb

1. Play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the palyroom".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lark" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Lark

DomainDefinition

19th Century Satire

A short, sweet spree enjoyed by night hawks. Also, an early rising singing-bird. (Dist. bet. "out on a lark," and "up with the lark," an impossible combination). Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Dream Interpretation

To see larks flying, denotes high aims and purposes through the attainment of which you will throw off selfishness and cultivate kindly graces of mind.
To hear them singing as they fly, you will be very happy in a new change of abode, and business will flourish.
To see them fall to the earth and singing as they fall, despairing gloom will overtake you in pleasure's bewildering delights.
A wounded or dead lark, portends sadness or death.
To kill a lark, portends injury to innocence through wantonness.
If they fly around and light on you, Fortune will turn her promising countenance towards you.
To catch them in traps, you will win honor and love easily.
To see them eating, denotes a plentiful harvest. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Literature

Lark A spree; a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon lác (play, fun). (See Skylark .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

LARK. A boat.
LARK. A piece of merriment. People playing together jocosely. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Lark

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Larks
A Crested Lark
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Alaudidae
Genera
Mirafra
Pinarocorys
Heteromirafra
Certhilauda
Chersomanes
Eremopterix
Ammomanes
Alaemon
Ramphocoris
Melanocorypha
Calandrella
Spizocorys
Eremalauda
Chersophilus
Galerida
Pseudalaemon
Lullula
Alauda
Eremophila

Larks are passerine birds of the predominantly Old World family Alaudidae. Only one species, the Horned Lark, has spread to North America.

Larks are small terrestrial birds with often extravagant songs and display flights. They nest on the ground, laying 2-6 speckled eggs.

Most larks are fairly dull in appearance. Their food is insects and seeds.

Species list:

See also:

Lark is an XML syntax analyzer written by Tim Bray.

There is also a River Lark.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lark."

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Synonyms: Lark

Synonyms: escapade (n), meadowlark (n), pipit (n), titlark (n), cavort (v), disport (v), frisk (v), frolic (v), gambol (v), lark about (v), rollick (v), romp (v), run around (v), skylark (v), sport (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Lark

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Activity

Adjective: active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee; lively, animated, vivacious; alive, alive and kicking; frisky, spirited, stirring.

Amusement

Play; game, game at romps; gambol, romp, prank, antic, rig, lark, spree, skylarking, vagary, monkey trick, gambade, fredaine, escapade, echappee, bout, espieglerie; practical joke; (ridicule).

Ascent

Rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.

Cheerfulness

Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive.

Morning

Adverb: at sunrise; Noun: with the sun, with the lark, "when the morning dawns".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Lark

English words defined with "lark": Alauda arvensisLarked, Larker, Larking, Laverock, LeverockMarsh quail, metal, metallicSand lark, Shore lark, skylarkTirralirraWood larkYellowhammer. (references)
Specialty definitions using "lark": Lynx Real-Time SystemsMerry as a Cricket, MUD LARK. (references)
Etymologies containing "lark": titlark. (references)

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Modern Usage: Lark

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's this tall and crazy like a lark! (Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy; writing credit: Jane Zipp)

Movie/TV Titles

Yogi's Ark Lark (1972)

Ozark Lark (1960)

The Navy Lark (1959)

Up with the Lark (1943)

Noah's Lark (1929)

Song Titles

Lark In The Morning, The (performing artist: Steeleye Span)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Lark

DomainTitle

References

  • Lark Technologies, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Lark

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Lark

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Eremophila cornuta, Boie. Sky Lark. This image was included in: Reports of Explorations and Surveys .... Volume X. 1859. Plate XXXII. P. 16 of U. S. Pacific Railroad Explorations and Surveys 38th,39th, 41st Parallels. Call Number F593 .U58 1855 . Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Far shot of Horned Lark, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey.

The reg'lar lark. Credit: Library of Congress.

Minnetonka, Cora, Lark, [and] Lobster. Credit: Library of Congress.

Song of the lark. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Lark".

PlayCaption
Lark singing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Lark

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The poor lark still shivered

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Not even a lark or an oriole, those mild plantation birds, ever visited my clearing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Lark

"Lark" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 67.31% of the time. "Lark" is used about 208 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)67.31%14026,789
Noun (proper)27.4%5744,859
Lexical Verb (base form)3.37%7133,076
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.92%4175,879
                    Total100.00%208N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Lark

The following table summarizes the usage of "lark" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
LarkLast name2,0006,638
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Lark

CountryNameCountryName
Brazil

Lark SA Maquinas e Equipamentos

USA

Lark Technologies, Inc.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Lark


1. Lark, ND
Zip Code(s): 58535
Country: USA


2. Lark, UT
Zip Code(s): 84065
Country: USA

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Expressions: Lark

Expressions using "lark": be up to some silly lark do smth. for a lark Field lark Ground lark have a lark horned lark lark about lark around Lark bunting Lark sparrow let's have a lark Magpie lark meadow lark mud lark rise with the lark sand lark scribbling lark sea lark shore lark sky lark Tree lark white lark willow lark with the lark wood lark writing lark. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "lark": Lark-colored, lark-like, lark-peaks, lark-song.

Ending with "lark": finch-lark, owl-and-lark.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lark

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lark voorhies

254

lark vorhees

15

lark

163

meadow lark

12

lark in the morning

78

lark bunting

12

dr susan lark

40

lark restaurant

12

lark nude voorhies

33

lark navy

12

susan lark

31

lark tattoo

11

book lark

28

evinrude lark

11

dr lark

28

lark voohries

11

lark music street

26

bird lark

10

lark luggage

25

lark photo voorhies

10

the lark creek inn

24

sky lark

10

studebaker lark

24

the lark clothing store

10

lark voorhees

20

susan lark md

10

lark voorhies pic

19

alike lark look

9

lark rugged

19

horned lark

9

lark letter

18

lark street

8

group lark

18

song of the lark

8

hay lark

18

susan m lark

8

lark scooter

17

clothing lark

7

lark picture voorhies

16

creek lark

7
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Modern Translation: Lark

Language Translations for "lark"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

luaj rrengje, laureshë (skylark), zbavitem (amuse, disport, disport oneself, entertain, frolic, lark about), shaka (badinage, crack, facetiae, gag, hoax, jape, jest, jocosity, jocularity, joke, persiflage, play, pleasantry, prank, quiz, spoof, trick, waggery). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مزاح (badinage, banter, fun, jest, joke, kidding, playfulness, pleasantries, pleasantry, practical joke, raillery, waggery, wagging, waggish), ‏مزح (banter, banting, chaff, fool, frolic, fun, in play, joke, kid, make fun of, rag, skylark, trifle, waggle), ‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), ‏لهو (amusement, distraction, diversion, festivity, fun, pastime, sport), ‏قنبره طائر (skylark), ‏قبرة (skylark, woodlark). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чучулига, шега (chaff, fun, game, hoax, jape, jest, jig, joke, pleasantry, prank, quiz, raillery, rib, sport, tease, trick, waggery), веселие (cheer, exhilaration, frolic, glee, hilarity, jollity, junket, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, revel), закачам се (grapple, grip, hang oneself, rot, snag), забавлявам (amuse, divert, entertain, panic, regale), лудувам (caper, cavort, prance, romp, scamper about, tittup), лудория (antic, caper, devilry, foolishness, gambade, gambado, ploy, prank, rag, romp, shine). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

雲雀 (skylark), ' (wagtail), 百靈 , 百灵. (various references)

   

Cornish

  

awhesyth. (various references)

   

Czech

  

legrace (fun), skřivan (skylark, titlark), psina (fun). (various references)

   

Danish

  

laerkespejl (lark mirror), kortnaebbet toplaerke (Thekla lark), Duponts laerke (Dupont's lark), dvaeglaerke (lesser short-toed lark), haerfuglelaerke (hoopoe lark), hedelaerke (hedge lark, wood lark), hvidvinget laerke (white-winged lark), bierglaerke (shore lark, Usa: horned lark), kalanderlaerke (calandra lark), toplaerke (crested lark, grested Lark), korttaaet laerke (red-capped lark, short-toed lark), oerkenlaerke (desert lark), oestlig kalanderlaerke (bimaculated lark), sanglaerke (sky lark), sort laerke (black lark), indisk dvaerglaerke (indian sand lark). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

leeuwerik. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

alaŭdo. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

lerkur. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

چکاوک وگونه های مشابه ان(ج.ش.), چکاوک شکارکردن , قزلاخ , خوشی (Bliss, Cheer, Curvet, Delight, Felicity, Gala, Glee, Gust, Hilarity, Jamboree, Jollification, Jollity, Joviality, Joy, Joyance, Mirth, Paradise, Pleasure, Ploy, Splurge, Spree), ازروی مانع باپرش اسب جهیدن , شوخی کردن (Fun, Indulge, Jest, Joke, Josh, Trick), شوخی (Bob, Curvet, Fun, Game, Gig, Humor, Jape, Jest, Jink, Jocosity, Joke, Pleasantry, Prank, Quiz, Sport, Spree, Witticism), دست انداختن (Banter, Fool, Game, Gibe, Hoax, Kid, Ridicule, Spoof). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

leivo, kuje (prank, trick), kiuru (skylark). (various references)

   

French

  

alouette. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ljurk. (various references)

   

German

  

Lerche (skylark). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κορυδαλόσ, κορυδαλλόσ, κορυδαλλός (skylark), γλέντι (carousal, carouse, conviviality, festivity, jamboree, jollification, junket, junketing, merry making, reception, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, wassail), αφροντισία (casualness), διασκέδαση (amusement, diversion, divertissement, enjoyment, entertainment, frolic, fun, jollification, junketing, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, recreation, shindig, sport). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מעש" קו "ס (hoax, jape, practical joke, prank), לשחק (amuse, play), ל"תל ב- (jest, joke, make a game of, mock at, skit, spoof), ל"שתעשע (dally, entertain, fool about with, fool around with, play about, skylark, sport, toy), עפרו י (skylark). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pacsirta (skyer, skylark). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

lævirki. (various references)

   

Italian

  

allodola (meadow, skylark). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"雲雀 (tit lark, water pipit). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たひばり (tit lark, water pipit). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

종다리 (skylark). (various references)

   

Manx

  

ushag y tappee, ushag happagh. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

lerke, moro (fun). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arklay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cotovia (skylark, titlark), calhandra. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tachina (banter, chaff, Josh, rag, tease), sãri (Bob, bounce, bound, break, caper, dance, dap, frolic, gambol, hop, jump, leap, leave out, lop, lope, Miss, rebound, skip, spirt, splash, spout, spring, spurt, start), necãji (anger, badger, bait, bother, crab, depress, dishearten, endeavor, endeavour, fret, gall, grieve, irritate, molest, rile, spite, tease, trouble, vex, worry), glumi (dally, fool, jape, jest, joke, jolly, kid), glumã (chaff, farce, frolic, fun, gag, game, jape, jest, joke, play, prank, sport, trick, wheeze, wisecrack, wit, witticism), face pozne (play one's pranks), ciocârlie (Laverock, skylark). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

жаворонок (skylark). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

uiseag (a lark). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ševa, šegačiti se (banter, joke, palter), šaliti se (droll, fool, fool around, jest, joke, kid, monkey, niggle, trifle), šala (dalliance, dido, farce, fun, have on, jest, joke, pleasantry, rag, rib, sally, trick). (various references)

   

Shona

  

chitambirambuya. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alondra (black cap, skylark). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lärka (skylark), spratt (Dido, hoax, prank, spoof, trick), skoja (cheat, frolic, gyp, jape, jeer, jest, joke, kid, rag, spoof, swindle), skoj (caper, chaff, cheating, fraud, Frisk, frolic, fun, gag, gyp, high jinks, humbug, humbuggery, imposture, jape, jest, jesting, joke, Josh, jugglery, kidding, leg pull, sham, shenanigan, tomfoolery, trickery). (various references)

   

Thai

  

สนุกสนาน (fun, gamesome, groove, jolly, joyous, revel), การเล่นสนุก. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

toygar, tarlakuşu (woodlark), takılmak (banter, be affixed, be attached, catch, chaff, chip, guy, hang out, haunt, hook, impose oneself on, jam, jam in, jolly, Josh, kid, lark about, lark around, lock, lock on, pull smb.'s leg, rally, rib, rot, seize, seize up, snag, sport, stick, stick around, tease), saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), muziplik yapmak (have a lark, joke, lark about, lark around, play pranks on smb., skylark), muziplik (caper, Dido, fooling, frolic, hoax, joke, prank, rag, teasing, trick), boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash), şey (affair, article, chose, concern, doing, doings, doodad, doohickey, matter, object, stuff, thing, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, well, whosit), şaka yapmak (banter, crack jokes, fool, have a lark, jest, joke, kid, lark about, lark around, pull smb.'s leg), şaka (badinage, banter, chaff, drollery, fun, game, hell, humor, humour, jest, joke, monkeyshiness, pleasantry, quiz, sport, waggery, waggishness, wheeze, wisecrack, witticism), acayiplik (antics, crankiness, eccentricity, fantasticality, novelty, oddity, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, strangeness, whimsicality, whimsicalness). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

витівка (caper, contrivance, device, devilment, gambade, gambado, prank, sport), жартувати (badinage, banter, chaff, droll, fun, gag, jape, jest, joke, jolly, lark around, monkey, play, trifle, yak), жайворонок (skylark), перескакувати (overleap). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trò bông đùa, trò đùa nghịch, sự vui đùa (fun, mirth, rollick). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

hedydd, ehedydd. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Lark

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Alaemon alaudipes, alauda, Alauda arvensis, Ammomanes deserti, Calandrella brachydactyla, Calandrella cineria, Calandrella raytal, Chersophilus duponti, Eremophila alpestris, Galerida cristata, Galerida theklae, Lullula arborea, Melanocorypha bimaculata, Melanocorypha calandra, Melanocorypha leucoptera, Melanocorypha yeltoniensis, RM:lodola calandra, RM:lodola da la cresta, RM:lodola detta curta, RM:lodola puppenmellen. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lark

Derivations

Words beginning with "lark": larked, larker, larkers, larkier, larkiest, larkiness, larkinesses, larking, larkish, larks, larksome, larkspur, larkspurs, larky. (additional references)

Words ending with "lark": meadowlark, mudlark, skylark, titlark, woodlark. (additional references)

Words containing "lark": clarkia, clarkias, malarkey, malarkeys, malarkies, malarky, meadowlarks, mudlarks, skylarked, skylarker, skylarkers, skylarking, skylarks, titlarks, woodlarks. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Lark" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alark, clark, gark, kark, lahr, laik, lak, lakre, lara, larb, larc, Larco, larf, larg, larj, larke, larky, larl, larm, laro, larp, larq, lart, larv, larx, larz, Lauko, lerb, lerk, lerv, Lharc, lirj, lirk, lork, lpar, lra, lrac, lurky, lurv, uark, Vark. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Lark"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "lark" (pronounced lÄ"rk)
3-Ä" r karc, ark, bark, dark, demark, disembark, embark, hark, Marc, Mark, marque, Narc, Park, quark, remark, Sark, shark, spark, stark.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Lark

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-k-l-r"

-1 letter: ark, lar.

-2 letters: al, ar, ka, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-k-l-r"
 

+1 letter: kraal, laker, larks, larky.

 

+2 letters: balker, calker, darkle, darkly, flaker, kraals, lacker, lakers, lakier, lanker, larked, larker, leaker, lekvar, rackle, rankle, rankly, slaker, talker, valkyr, walker.

 

+3 letters: airlike, armlike, armlock, balkers, balkier, blacker, blanker, bleaker, bulwark, cackler, calkers, caulker, clacker, clarkia, crackle, crackly, crankle, crankly, darkled, darkles, earlock, flakers, flakier, flanker, frankly, grackle, hackler, karakul, kilobar, kilorad, klavern, kraaled, lackers, lankier, larkers, larkier, larking, larkish, lashkar, lavrock, leakers, leakier, lekvars, lockram, malarky, mudlark, oarlike, oarlock, palikar, rackful, rankled, rankles, ratlike, raylike, skylark, slacker, slakers, sparkle, sparkly, stalker, starkly, tackler, talkers, talkier, titlark, valkyrs, walkers, warlike, warlock.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Frequency
12. Names: Company Usage
13. Cities
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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