Cul

Definition: Cul

Cul

Noun

1. A passage with access only at one end.

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

Date "cul" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1911. (references)

Computing

Multilingual Slang

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Synonyms: Cul

Difficulty

Fix, horns of a dilemma, cul de sac; hitch; stumbling block; (hindrance).

Engraving

Illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece.

Crosswords: Cul

French (arse, ass, behind, bottom, butt, buttocks, prat, rump), Welsh (lean, narrow).

Alice ou Le cul des autres... (2003)

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Books

• Las Abejas: Pacifist Resistance and Syncretic Identities in a Globalizing Chiapas (Outstanding Dissertations on Religion in History, Society, and cul (reference)

• Exilio y Sobrevivencia - Trad. Cul. En El Pentateu (reference)

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Expressions using "cul": cul de lampe ♦ cul de sac. Additional references.

Beginning with "cul": cul-de-sac, cul-de-sacs, Cul-de-thatcher.

Albanian

rrugë qorre (cul de sac, dead end, deadlock, impasse, stalemate), rrugë pa krye (blind alley, cul de sac, impasse, stand off), qorrsokak (blind alley, cul de sac). (various references)

Arabic 

‏زقاق (alley, alley-way, back street, cul de sac, lane, path, side street), ‏الرتج طريق مسدود (cul de sac). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сляпо черво (caecum, cul de sac), чувал (bag, cul de sac, pocket, poke, sack), челна (cul de sac), глуха улица (cul de sac), обкръжаване от три страни (cul de sac), задънена улица (blind alley, close, cul de sac, dead end, deadlock, pocket), безизходица (cul de sac). (various references)

Czech

slepá ulièka (blind alley, cul de sac, dead end, impasse, stalemate). (various references)

Danish

lukket vej (cul-de-sac, dead end), lukket gade (cul-de-sac, dead end), blindort (cul-de-sacs), blindgang (cul-de-sacs, dead end), blind vej (cul de sac, cul-de-sac, dead end). (various references)

Dutch

doodlopende weg (blind alley, cul-de-sac), doodlopende straat (cul-de-sac, dead end, dead-end street, impasse). (various references)

Esperanto

sakvojo (blind alley, cul-de-sac). (various references)

Finnish

umpikuja (blind alley, deadlock, impasse), umpikatu (cul-de-sac, dead end). (various references)

French

impasse (cul de sac, cul-de-sac). (various references)

German

sackgasse (blind alley, cul de sac, cul-de-sac, dead end, dead-end street, impasse, stalemate). (various references)

Greek 

αδιέξοδο (blind alley, cul de sac, dead end, dead-end, deadlock, stalemate). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"רך ללא מוצא (cul de sac, dead end). (various references)

Hungarian

zsákutca (blind alley, blind gut, cul de sac, cul-de-sac, dead end, impasse, logjam, mews, no through road, stand-off). (various references)

Italian

vicolo cieco (cul de sac, dead-end street). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

盲管 (cul-de-sac). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

もうか�" (capillary, cul-de-sac). (various references)

Manx

bollagh kyagh (cul-de-sac). (various references)

Norwegian

blindvei (blind alley, cul-de-sac). (various references)

Pig Latin

ulcay

Portuguese

beco sem saída (blind alley, corner, cul-de-sac, dead center, dead centre, dead-end, dead-lock, point of no return, stalemate). (various references)

Romanian

fundãturã (blind alley, cul de sac, impasse). (various references)

Russian 

слепой мешок (cul de sac), тупиковый (cul de sac), тупиковая станция (cul-de-sac station), тупик (blind alley, blind lead, blind path, cul de sac, dead end, deadend, deadlock, deadset, dead-set, dock, impasse, lockup, lock-up, no go, puffin), мешок (bag, bagful, cul de sac, drawstring, duffel bag, duffle bag, pocket, poke, sac, sack). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u obliku kese (cul de sac), ćorsokak (blind alley, cul de sac, dead end, deadlock, impasse, outlet), šupljina u obliku kese (cul de sac). (various references)

Spanish

calle sin salida (cul de sac, dead end). (various references)

Swedish

återvändsgata (blind alley, close, cul de sac, dead end, no go). (various references)

Ukrainian

тупик (blind, blind alley, blind side, cul de sac, dead lock, dock, impasse, no go, no-thoroughfare, stalemate), глухий провулок (by-lane, cul de sac), безвихідь (cul de sac, nonplus). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phố cụt (cul-de-sac), ngõ cụt bước đường cùng (cul-de-sac). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cul": culch, culches, culet, culets, culex, culexes, culices, culicid, culicids, culicine, culicines, culinarian, culinarians, culinarily, culinary, cull, cullay, cullays, culled, cullender, cullenders, culler, cullers, cullet, cullets, cullied, cullies, culling, cullion, cullions, cullis, cullises, culls, cully, cullying, culm, culmed, culminant, culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, culmination, culminations, culming, culms, culotte, culottes, culpa, culpabilities, culpability. (additional references)

Words ending with "cul": caracul, picul. (additional references)

Words containing "cul": acculturate, acculturated, acculturates, acculturating, acculturation, acculturational, acculturations, acculturative, acicula, aciculae, acicular, aciculas, aciculum, aciculums, aculeate, aculei, aculeus, agricultural, agriculturalist, agriculturalists, agriculturally, agriculture, agricultures, agriculturist, agriculturists, animalcula, animalcule, animalcules, animalculum, anticult, anticultural, antispeculation, antispeculative, antitubercular, antituberculosis, antituberculous, apiculate, apiculi, apicultural, apiculture, apicultures, apiculturist, apiculturists, apiculus, appendicular, aquacultural, aquaculture, aquacultures, aquaculturist, aquaculturists, aquiculture. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

+1 letter: caul, club, clue, cull, culm, cult, curl, luce, luck.

+2 letters: aulic, cauld, caulk, cauls, churl, cloud, clour, clout, clubs, cluck, clued, clues, clump, clung, clunk, could, cruel, culch, culet, culex, culls, cully, culms, culpa, culti, cults, cupel, curls, curly, ducal, gulch, locum, locus, luces, lucid, lucks, lucky, lucre, ludic, lunch, lurch, mulch, mulct, oculi, picul, pluck, schul, sculk, scull, sculp, sulci, ulcer, uncle.