English words: take or pay to takouit

English words take or pay to takouit

1. take or pay adjective, noun: A take-or-pay contract; a take-or-pay provision in a contract.
2. take orders verb: Alternative form of take holy orders.
3. take out verb: To remove.
4. take out an onion verb: Suggests that the performer of the action is not sincere in their grief.
5. take out in trade verb: To accept repayment of a debt in the goods or services in which the debtor deals, rather than in money.
6. take out of context verb: To report (something) without taking into account the context in which it occurred.
7. take out the stops verb: To carry out the supposed practice whereby locals (floor traders trading for their own account) buy or sell to push prices towards where they suspect stop...
8. take out the trash verb: Often used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take out, trash.
9. take over noun, verb: To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
10. take pains verb: To use care and effort (to do something) despite any corresponding trouble or inconvenience.
11. take part verb: To participate or join.
12. take part with verb: To side with.
13. take personally verb: To regard someone's remarks as offensive or hostile to oneself.
14. take pity verb: To show compassion (towards).
15. take place verb: To happen or to occur.
16. take pleasure verb: To have enjoyment.
17. take point verb: To assume the first and most exposed position in a formation in combat; to serve as the lead soldier or unit advancing through hostile or unsecured territory.
18. take point of verb: Alternative form of take the point.
19. take possession verb: To become the owner.
20. take post verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, post. To travel (typically rapidly) by posthorse or post chaise; to arrive and assume a military post.
21. take potluck verb: take one's chance, as in taking whatever is offered.
22. take pride verb: To be proud of (usually followed by in or of).
23. take refuge verb: To shelter; to hole up.
24. take responsibility verb: To blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault.
25. take revenge verb: To avenge; to get back at.
26. take roll verb: To call out the names of people on a list to check their presence; to take attendance.
27. take root verb: To grow roots into soil.
28. take serious verb: Alternative form of take seriously.
29. take seriously verb: To consider important and meaningful (information or a matter that somebody is mentioning or discussing).
30. take several seats phrase: Alternative form of have several seats.
31. take shape verb: To take a definite form.
32. take ship verb: To embark on a voyage by ship.
33. take shipping verb: To embark on a ship.
34. take sick verb: To become ill, to fall ill, to attract an illness.
35. take sides verb: To ally oneself with a given opinion, agenda or group; to support one side or viewpoint in a competition or confrontation.
36. take sign noun: A sign from the third base coach, or whoever the batter receives signals from, telling the batter that no matter what he will not swing at the next pitch.
37. take silk verb: to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) or King's Counsel (KC)
38. take sitting down verb: To tolerate, accept, or acquiesce; to take no action.
39. take slave verb: To enslave someone; to strip someone of their freedom.
40. take soil verb: To run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter.
41. take some air verb: Synonym of get some air.
42. take some beating verb: To be difficult to beat; to be difficult to do better than.
43. take some doing verb: To be hard work, to require a lot of effort.
44. take someone at their word verb: To take someone literally even though they may not have been serious; to take someone seriously even though they were joking; to take up a challenge that...
45. take someone down the garden path verb: Synonym of lead someone up the garden path.
46. take someone for all they've got verb: To totally deplete something from someone.
47. take someone out back verb: To get rid of; to eliminate.
48. take someone's arm verb: To take hold of someone by their arm; to link arms with someone.
49. take someone's breath away verb: To make a person feel emotionally moved in a pleasant way.
50. take someone's fancy verb: Synonym of strike someone's fancy.
51. take someone's head off verb: To berate.
52. take someone's life verb: To kill someone; to cause someone's death.
53. take someone's name in vain verb: To speak insultingly about someone, especially behind their back.
54. take someone's part verb: To show support for or defend the actions of someone in the course of a debate, argument, etc.
55. take someone's place verb: To replace someone or something.
56. take someone's point verb: Alternative form of take the point.
57. take someone's word for it verb: To believe a person's claim, especially without personal verification.
58. take someone to the grave verb: To kill someone; to cause someone's death.
59. take someone up short verb: To check someone or give them a curt answer.
60. take something as it comes verb: To accept and deal with something (an event, etc.) as it occurs, with a composed state of mind.
61. take something as read verb: To assume that everyone agrees that something is correct.
62. take something in one's stride verb: Not to allow oneself to be set back, daunted, upset or embarrassed by unpleasant or undesirable circumstances.
63. take something in stride verb: To cope with something unfortunate without much effort; to accept or manage difficulties well.
64. take something off someone's hands verb: To relieve someone of something burdensome by taking it.
65. take something to verb: To apply (some instrument or implement) to (something else, to undertake a task or attack upon it, usually vigorously).
66. take something to one's grave verb: Alternative form of take something to the grave.
67. take something to the face verb: Synonym of take something to the head
68. take something to the head verb: To consume or ingest (e.g. food, drink, drugs, etc.) through the mouth or by snorting; to take.
69. take steps verb: To initiate a course of action, often against something that one disapproves of.
70. take stock verb: To take inventory, especially at the end of a season in a store or business.
71. take ten verb: To take a short, typically ten-minute, break from some activity.
72. take that interjection: Used to accompany a (usually physical) attack by whoever is speaking.
73. take-that game noun: A board game or card game that encourages players to attack their rivals, for example using special cards that impose undesirable effects.
74. Take Thatter noun: A member of the English boy band Take That.
75. take the aam off verb: To take the chill off.
76. take the air verb: To go out walking or riding, so as to enjoy the fresh air.
77. take the back track verb: To retrace one's steps; to retreat.
78. take the bait verb: To nibble at bait on a hook.
79. take the ball and run with it verb: To continue working on something that someone else started, especially when one does so efficiently and successfully.
80. take the bench verb: To become a judge.
81. take the biscuit verb: To be particularly bad, objectionable, or egregious.
82. take the bitter with the sweet verb: To accept positive things with negative things.
83. take the bread out of someone's mouth verb: To deprive someone of the means of living.
84. take the browns to the super bowl verb: To defecate.
85. take the bull by the horns verb: To deal with a matter in a direct manner, especially to confront a difficulty rather than avoid it.
86. take the cake verb: Used as an affirmation or accolade of someone occupying the top rank in a comparison or contest; to win or be the best (at).
87. take the cash and let the credit go proverb: Exploit and enjoy the opportunities and pleasures available here and now and do not invest effort pursuing prospective future gratifications.
88. take the chair verb: To chair; to preside over as chairperson.
89. take the chill off verb: To make something less cold; to warm up slightly
90. take the Chiltern Hundreds verb: To vacate one's seat in the House of Commons (since resignation is not permitted), under the legal fiction of being appointed to an "office of profit under...
91. take the cloth verb: To become a clergyman, especially a priest.
92. take the con verb: To take over navigational duties on the bridge of a ship.
93. take the count verb: To be knocked out.
94. take the coward's way out verb: To commit suicide.
95. take the cross verb: To accept a sign or badge depicting the Christian cross as part of an oath or vow, especially to take part in a crusade.
96. take the cure verb: To enter into a rehabilitation program.
97. take the easy way out verb: To cut corners; to follow the path of least resistance; to take shortcuts to avoid pain or having to struggle to achieve a desired result; to end or avoid a...
98. take the edge off verb: To diminish the effects of (something unpleasant or severe); to dull.
99. take the fall verb: To willingly lose a match, as in a fixed fight.
100. take the field verb: To go out onto the playing field.
101. take the fifth verb: To decline to comment, especially on grounds that it might be incriminating.
102. take the flak verb: To be strongly criticised.
103. take the floor verb: To speak at a public meeting.
104. take the front seat verb: to take priority
105. take the game to verb: To use attacking tactics against.
106. take the gap verb: Synonym of gap it (“leave Rhodesia”).
107. take the gilt off the gingerbread verb /ˌteɪk ðə ˈɡɪlt ɒf ðə ˈd͡ʒɪn(d͡)ʒəbɹɛd/: To take away the most attractive or appealing qualities of something; to destroy an illusion.
108. take the heat verb: To take the blame; to be the focus of anger or scrutiny; to take the consequences.
109. take the helm verb: To assume responsibility for steering a ship.
110. take the hint verb: Synonym of take a hint.
111. take the initiative verb: to take action first or on one's own; to make the first move
112. take the knee verb: Alternative form of take a knee.
113. take the l verb: Alternative form of take the L.
114. take the law into one's hands verb: Alternative form of take the law into one's own hands.
115. take the law into one's own hands verb: To punish someone according to one's own idea of justice, without consideration for the role of law enforcement authorities.
116. take the lead verb /ˌteɪk ðə ˈliːd/: To become the leader, to advance into first place.
117. take the liberty verb: To act on one's own authority, without asking for permission.
118. take the long view verb: To evaluate something in terms of its expected long-term results rather than its immediate state.
119. take the mask off verb: To drop a facade and reveal one's true nature.
120. take the matter into one's own hands verb: Synonym of take matters into one's own hands.
121. take the meaning verb: To interpret someone's argument.
122. take the Michael verb: Alternative form of take the mickey, (usually considered more polite)
123. take the mick verb: Alternative form of take the mickey.
124. take the mickey verb: To ridicule or mock someone; to make fun of someone.
125. take the micky verb: Alternative form of take the mickey.
126. take the offensive verb: To attack instead of defending; to be bold and proactive.
127. take the pee verb: To mock; to make fun of.
128. take the place of verb: To supersede; to come to be used instead of someone or something.
129. take the pledge verb: To promise to abstain from alcohol.
130. take the plunge verb: To begin any major commitment.
131. take the point verb: To agree with what a person says, to be persuaded by their arguments.
132. take the purple verb: To ascend to the rank of an emperor.
133. take the rap verb: To be blamed or punished for something, especially for the wrongful actions of another; to willingly allow oneself to be so blamed or punished.
134. take the red eye verb: To travel on an airplane all night.
135. take the red pill verb: To perceive the world in its previously unknown, usually harsher, reality.
136. take the register verb: Synonym of take roll.
137. take the reins verb: Synonym of take control.
138. take the ride verb: To concede to be arrested for a crime and be transported to jail.
139. take the roll verb: Alternative form of take roll.
140. take the rough with the smooth verb: To accept both the positive and negative elements in a situation.
141. take the salute verb: To formally acknowledge the salute given by the members of a march-past.
142. take the shadow for the substance verb: To be easily deceived, credulous, superficial.
143. take the shilling verb /teɪk ðə ˈʃɪlɪŋ/: To enlist as a soldier in the British army or navy by accepting a shilling from a recruiting officer.
144. take the shine out of verb: To outshine or eclipse.
145. take the stage verb: To enter the stage (of a theater)
146. take the stand verb: To testify as a witness in a trial.
147. take the studs verb: To act in a balky and uncooperative manner.
148. take the stump verb: To make a series of political speeches, especially to promote a particular cause.
149. take the sun verb: To ascertain the latitude by means of the sun.
150. take the time verb: To volunteer to spend one's time (for a purpose or beneficiary).
151. take the trouble verb: To make the effort (to do something); to bother.
152. take the veil verb: To retire into a convent and live as a nun.
153. take the waters verb: To attend a spa with waters believed to offer healing qualities, such as mineral waters and (especially) hot springs.
154. take the weight off verb: Synonym of take the weight off one's feet.
155. take the weight off one's feet verb: To relax by sitting or lying down.
156. take the wheel verb: To be in control of the steering wheel of a vehicle or a vessel.
157. take the wind out of someone's sails verb: To discourage someone greatly; to cause someone to lose hope or the will to continue; to thwart or minimize someone's ambitions.
158. take the words out of someone's mouth verb: To say what someone else was about to say themselves.
159. take the wrong turn at Albuquerque verb: Alternative form of take a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
160. take the wrong way verb: To misunderstand (something), especially in a case of mistakenly regarding someone's behavior or remarks as offensive or hostile.
161. take time verb: To require a comparatively long period of time.
162. take time by the forelock verb: To seize an opportunity quickly before it is no longer available.
163. take time off verb: To take time off from employment; to cease working temporarily.
164. take time out verb: To temporarily suspend an activity in order to do something else.
165. take to verb: To adapt to; to learn, grasp or master.
166. take to court verb: To sue; to begin a legal process against; to take legal action against.
167. take to drink verb: To begin consuming alcohol habitually and regularly, especially due to a personal problem.
168. take to heart verb: To take something seriously; to internalize or live according to something (e.g. advice.)
169. take to one's bed verb: To become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity.
170. take to one's bosom verb: To marry.
171. take to one's heels verb: To leave, especially to flee or run away.
172. take to one's scrapers verb: To run away.
173. take to task verb: To lecture, berate, admonish, or hold somebody accountable for his or her actions.
174. take to the bank verb: To utterly trust, believe, or rely on.
175. take to the bricks verb: Alternative form of hit the bricks (“participate in a strike”).
176. take to the cleaner's verb: Alternative form of take to the cleaners.
177. take to the cleaners verb: To take a significant quantity of a person's money or valuables, through overcharging, litigation, unfavorable investing, gambling, fraud, etc.
178. take to the field verb: Synonym of take the field (“go onto a playing field; or begin military operations”).
179. take to the grave verb: To never reveal (a secret).
180. take to the heather verb: To become an outlaw.
181. take to the hills verb: To flee or vanish; to run away.
182. take to the next level verb: To make something progress.
183. take to the road verb: To become a highwayman.
184. take to the sea verb: To go to sea.
185. take to the skies verb: to start flying.
186. take to the sky verb: Alternative form of take to the skies.
187. take to the streets verb: To gather together in the public streets of a town or city to show communal solidarity in either celebration or opposition.
188. take to wife verb: To marry (a specific woman).
189. take too far verb: To apply some idea, course of action, or line of thought to contexts where it was not meant to be applied.
190. take turns verb: Of two or more people, to do the same thing one after another, taking one another's place alternately.
191. take umbrage verb: To take offense.
192. take under noun, verb: To bring to insolvency; to drive (a business) into financial distress.
193. take under advisement verb: To consider carefully.
194. take underwing verb: To take under one's wing.
195. take up noun, verb: Alternative form of take-up.
196. take up a collection verb: To request and receive money or goods of value from members of a group, especially for a charitable purpose.
197. take up arms verb: To prepare to fight; to arm oneself.
198. take up cudgels verb: To begin vehemently supporting a cause.
199. take up for verb: To support, as in an argument; to defend the stance or character of.
200. take up residence verb: To begin living in a place.
201. take up the cudgel for verb: To make a defense for someone or something, on behalf of another person.
202. take up the cudgels verb: To engage in a contest.
203. take up the gantlet verb: Alternative form of take up the gauntlet.
204. take up the gauntlet verb: To accept a challenge.
205. take up the glove verb: To accept a challenge or adopt a quarrel.
206. take up the hatchet verb: To declare war or go to war.
207. take up the mantle verb: Synonym of assume the mantle.
208. take up the running verb: To proceed at full speed.
209. take up the slack verb: To tighten something that is slack so that it is taut.
210. take up with verb: To form a close relationship with (someone).
211. take upon oneself verb: To assume personal responsibility for.
212. take vows verb: To become an officially inducted member of a religious order, such as an order of priests, nuns, or monks.
213. take water verb: To travel in a vessel on a body of water; to embark on a ship.
214. take wind verb: Synonym of get wind (“be divulged; become common knowledge”).
215. take wing verb: Of a winged animal, to take flight; to begin flying.
216. take with verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, with.
217. take your change out of that phrase: Jeering remark accompanying a rejoinder or a physical blow.
218. take your oil phrase: Accept the situation and stop complaining.
219. takeable adjective /ˈteɪkəbəl/: Capable of being taken.
220. takeaway adjective, noun /ˈteɪkəweɪ/: (Of food) intended to be eaten off the premises from which it was bought.
221. takeback noun /ˈteɪkˌbæk/: The act of taking back or reclaiming anything.
222. Takeda proper noun /təˈkeɪdə/: A surname from Japanese.
223. takedaite noun /təˈkeɪdə.aɪt/: A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing boron, calcium, and oxygen.
224. takedown noun: A taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer.
225. takehome noun: Alternative spelling of take-home.
226. takehome pay noun: Alternative spelling of take-home pay.
227. Takei proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
228. Takelma noun: A Native American people who originally lived in the Rogue Valley of interior southwestern Oregon.
229. Takemi proper noun: A male given name from Japanese.
230. Takemoto proper noun: A surname.
231. taken adjective, verb /ˈteɪ.kn̩/: Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.
232. taken aback adjective, verb: Surprised, shocked.
233. taken short adjective: Synonym of caught short (“needing to use the toilet where no facilities are available”).
234. Takeo proper noun: A male given name from Japanese.
235. takeoff noun: A launch or ascent into the air or into flight, such as of an aircraft, rocket, bird, high-jumper etc.
236. takeout adjective, noun /ˈteɪkaʊt/: (Of food) intended to be eaten off the premises from which it was bought.
237. takeout double noun: A double, usually indicating strength and a desire to play the hand; partner is expected to "take out" by making a bid.
238. takeover noun: The purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose...
239. takeover artist noun: An investor or a company whose primary goal is to identify companies that are appealing to purchase and which in turn can then be turned around to yield a...
240. takeover bid noun: An attempt to buy a controlling share in a business.
241. taker noun /ˈteɪkɚ/: One who takes something.
242. taker-backer noun: One who takes something back, especially one unfairly demanding the return of a gift previously given.
243. taker-off noun: A person employed to unhook the wagons at self-acting inclines.
244. takes one to know one proverb: Alternative form of it takes one to know one.
245. Takeshi proper noun: A male given name from Japanese.
246. Takeshita proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
247. takesie-backsie noun: Alternative form of takesies-backsies (“the act of taking back or going back on a statement, promise, or agreement”).
248. takesie backsies noun: Alternative form of takesies-backsies.
249. takesies backsies noun /ˈteɪksiz ˈbæksiz/: Synonym of backsie (“the act of taking back or going back on a statement, promise, or agreement”).
250. takesy backsies noun: Alternative form of takesies-backsies.
251. takesy-backsy adjective, noun: Alternative form of takesies-backsies (“the act of taking back or going back on a statement, promise, or agreement”).
252. Taketa proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
253. Takeuchi proper noun: A transliteration of the Japanese surname たけうち.
254. takeuchiite noun: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal black mineral containing boron, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.
255. takeup noun: Alternative form of take-up.
256. takfir noun, verb: Excommunication.
257. takfiri adjective, noun: A radical Muslim who excommunicates other Muslims, or accuses them of apostasy.
258. takfirism noun: The practice of excommunicating other Muslims.
259. takh noun: Synonym of Przewalski's horse.
260. takhaar noun: A boorish rustic.
261. takhanun noun: Alternative form of tachanun.
262. Takhar proper noun: A surname from Punjabi.
263. Takhelei noun: Alternative form of Takhellei.
264. Takhellei noun: Butterfly Lily, Ginger Lily (flowering plants of Hedychium genus)
265. Takhen noun: Alternative form of Takhel
266. takhi noun /ˈtæki/: Synonym of Przewalski's horse.
267. takht noun: Throne or seat of authority (typically in South Asia or the former Ottoman Empire)
268. takht-i rawan noun: Alternative form of takhtrawan.
269. takhterawan noun: Alternative form of takhtrawan.
270. takhtirewan noun: Alternative form of takhtrawan.
271. takhtrawan noun /ˈtɑkt.ɹəˌwɑn/: A covered litter carried by a pair of animals.
272. taki noun: Alternative form of takhi.
273. takia noun: A kind of outrigger canoe used in Fiji.
274. Takic adjective: Of or relating to the branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family containing the Cupan and the Serran languages, if they are considered to belong to such a...
275. takid noun: An official reminder.
276. takigyo noun: A Japanese practice of meditate under a cold waterfall.
277. Takilman adjective: Of or relating to a language family containing only Takelma.
278. takiltu noun: An Akkadian blue or purple dye.
279. takin noun, verb /ˈteɪkɪn/: A goat-antelope, of species Budorcas taxicolor.
280. taking adjective, noun, verb /ˈteɪkɪŋ/: Alluring; attractive.
281. taking up the mantle noun, verb: The act of one who takes up the mantle.
282. takingly adverb: attractively; fetchingly
283. takingness noun: The quality of being taking, fetching, or attractive.
284. takir noun: A type of relief, a dry fissured crust primarily formed by filamentous cyanobacteria, occurring in the deserts of Central Asia, and similar to a salt flat.
285. Takitumu noun: A tribe inhabiting the island of Rarotonga.
286. takīyah noun: Alternative form of takiyya.
287. takiyya noun: In Arabic-speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire, a Sufi convent.
288. takkanah noun /tɑkəˈnɑː/: A law created by the rabbis not derived from Biblical commandments.
289. takkannah noun: Alternative form of takkanah.
290. takkie noun: An athletic shoe, a trainer, a sneaker.
291. takky noun: Alternative form of takkie.
292. Taklamakan proper noun: A cold desert in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China, the largest desert entirely contained in China.
293. taklif noun: Responsibility or obligation.
294. taklobo noun: Alternative form of taclobo.
295. taklu noun: A bald man.
296. tako noun: The flesh of octopus as used in sushi.
297. Takoradi proper noun: A city and harbour, which is a twin city in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.
298. takotsubo cardiomyopathy noun: A type of nonischemic cardiomyopathy in which there is a sudden temporary weakening of the myocardium.
299. takotsubo syndrome noun: Synonym of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
300. takouit noun: Synonym of nabkha.

Part 6 · Part 8 · English words: T

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under T: 39,191 words, in 131 parts.