Finnish–English dictionary

kehystää

(transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.

keiden

(interrogative) What person or people; which person or people.

keihäänkärki

The head of an arrow or spear.

keihäs

Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.

keihäsantilooppi

A large African antelope (Oryx gazella).

keihäsmies

Pierce with or as if with a lance.

keihäsrauskut

Any of various large, venomous rays, of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes, having a barbed, whiplike tail.

keihästää

(transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

keiju

(Germanic mythology) A supernatural being or spirit associated with illness, mischief, and harmful or dangerous magical influence; in later Norse sources, sometimes divided into benevolent light elves (inhabiting Álfheimr) and malevolent dark elves.

keijua

To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.

keijukainen

(mythological creature) A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, especially one that is female. Fairies are revered in some modern forms of paganism.

keijusalama

(meteorology) A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash.

keijusto

(uncountable) Organisms, especially small and microscopic ones, that drift in water.

keikari

(dated) A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.

keikarimainen

Like a dandy, foppish.

keikauttaa

(ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced. [from 17th c.]

keikka

(informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

keikkailla

(film, music, television, theater) To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.

keikkua

(intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.

keikuttaa

(transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.

keila

A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme.

keilaaja

(bowling) One who engages in the sport of bowling.

keilaaminen

(gerund) The action of the verb bowl.

keilailu

A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling

keilapeli

Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.

keilata

(transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.

keilaus

(sport) The action of bowling a ball.

keiltä

(interrogative) What person or people; which person or people.

keimaileva

Of or relating to a young, flirtatious girl.

keimailija

A woman who flirts or plays with people's affections.

keimailla

(intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

keimailu

(countable) An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man.

keinahdella

To walk with a swaying motion.

keino

A method or means by which something may be accomplished.

keino-

Man-made; made by humans; of artifice.

keinokastelu

The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.

keinolannoite

(chemistry) A chemical compound created to have the same effect.

keinolla millä hyvänsä

(Singapore, Singlish, predicative) Random, careless, offhand, disorderly; done without thought or consideration.

keinonto

(linguistics) A case in the Finnish and Estonian languages. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

keinosiemennys

(agriculture) Initialism of artificial insemination.

keinotekoinen

Man-made; made by humans; of artifice.

keinotekoinen kemikaali

(colloquial) An artificial chemical compound.

keinotekoisesti

In an artificial manner.

keinotella

(intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.

keinotteleva

Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.

keinottelija

(finance, art) Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit.

keinottelu

The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.

keinottelu-

Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.

keinua

(ambitransitive, aviation, or, nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.

keinulauta

A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.

keinuminen

(nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.

keinuttaa

(ambitransitive, aviation, or, nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.

keinutuoli

A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.

keinutuolin jalka

A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.

keisari

An emperor of a German-speaking country, particularly the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), the Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary (1806–1918), or the German Empire (1871–1918) — often specifically Wilhelm II.

keisarikunta

A political state, often a monarchy, that has achieved a much greater current size than its initial size by conquering surrounding territories, cities or nations.

keisarillinen

Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.

keitetty

Cooked in boiling water.

keitin

A kitchen vessel for steaming, boiling or heating food.

keitinlasi

A flat-bottomed, straight-sided, glass vessel, with a lip and often a small spout, used as a laboratory container.

keitos

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.

keittää

(ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.

keittää kokoon

(transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.

keittäjä

(cooking) A person who prepares food.

keittäminen

(uncountable, countable) The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.

keittiö

(countable, uncountable) A characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.

keittiömestari

The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.

keitto

(countable) A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

keittoastia

A kitchen vessel for steaming, boiling or heating food.

keittobanaani

The fruit of the plant, usually cooked before eating and used like potatoes.

keittokana

A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.

keittokirja

A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.

keittolevy

An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.

keittolusikka

A spoon for eating soup, typically smaller than a tablespoon and larger than a dessert spoon, characterised by having a round bowl rather than the usual oval bowl of other types of spoon.

keittoon lisätty ihrapala

A small suet dumpling put into soup.

keittotaito

(uncountable) The style or genre of food preparation.

kekäle

(archaic, or, poetic) A piece of burning wood or peat, or a glowing cinder.

kekata

(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).

kekkalehtia

(intransitive) To walk haughtily.

kekkaloida

(transitive, by extension) To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.

keko

A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.

kekseliäisyys

The characteristic of being imaginative.

kekseliäs

Having a lively or creative imagination.

keksi

(Internet) A packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then returned by the browser each time it accesses that server, used to maintain state between otherwise stateless HTTP transactions, for example, to identify the user.

keksiä

(by extension) To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).

keksijä

One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.

keksiminen

The act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.

keksintö

The act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.

keksitty

Used in a manner intended to deceive; pretended; simulated.

kela

A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.

kelasköynnös

(US) A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds.

kelasydän

A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.

kelata

(transitive) To think deeply about; to ponder or mull over.

kelata auki

To unwind; to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.

kelata uudelleen

(transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) again.

kelaus

The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.

kelju

(figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.

keljuilla

(Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.

keljutus

(uncountable) The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.

kelkka

(figuratively) A current movement that attracts wide support. [from 1880]

kelkkailla

To ride a bobsled.

kellahko

Somewhat yellow in colour.

kellanruskea

Of a yellowish brown colour, like that of bronze.

kellari

A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.

kellariholvi

Any cellar or underground storeroom.

kellarikerros

(architecture) A floor of a building below ground level.

kellaroida

(transitive) To store (something, especially food or wine) in a cellar.

kellastua

(intransitive) To become yellow or yellower.

kellastuttaa

(intransitive) To become yellow or yellower.

kellauttaa

(ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced. [from 17th c.]

kellertää

(intransitive) To become yellow or yellower.

kellertävä

(of skin) Yellowish.

kellertyä

(intransitive) To become yellow or yellower.

kello

(percussion instrument) A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.

kello viisi

Five o'clock.

kellokas

The leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck.

kellomesikko

Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.

kellonaika

(countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.

kellonlyömä

(music) A bow or pluck of a string or strings of a stringed instrument; also, the manner in which a musical instrument is played; hence, a melody, a tune.

kellonperät

A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch.

kellonremmi

The strap of a wristwatch, used to secure it around the wrist.

kellonsoitto

(musical instruments) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.

kellonvitja

A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch.

kellopeli

(musical instruments) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.

kelloseppä

A craftsperson or company who makes and/or maintains clocks.

kellot

(musical instruments) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.

kellotapuli

A tower in which a bell (or set of bells) is hung; a belfry.

kellotorni

A bell tower (especially one that is freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy.

kellottaa

(British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.

kellua

To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.

kelluja

A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid.

kelluke

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.

kelluslehti

(US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.

kelluttaa

(transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.

kelluva

Having buoyancy; able to float.

kelluva esine

A thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid.

kelluva pökäle

(vulgar) A piece of faeces which floats.

kelluva ruumis

(US) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed one (or an extra) representative of its own.

kelluvuus

The ability of an object to stay afloat in a fluid.

kelmeä

Ash-colored; pale; anemic

kelmi

(metaphor) A cunning person.

kelmuttaa

(transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.

kelpaamaton

Not admissible, especially that cannot be admitted as evidence at a trial.

kelpaava

Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.

kelpo

Fair; acceptable; okay.

kelpoinen

Able to be done; fit to be done.

kelpoisuus

The state, quality, or the fact of being eligible.

kelppi

Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).

keltä

(interrogative) What person or people; which person or people.

keltahemppo

Serinus serinus, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.