(in the plural, obsolete, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
(obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
(obsolete) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
verb
To pester, to annoy persistently; press.
badgir
badgir
noun
(India, historical) A windcatcher.
barged
barged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of barge
bedrug
bedrug
verb
(transitive) To drug abundantly or excessively.
begird
begird
verb
(transitive, archaic) To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.
(transitive, archaic) To encircle, surround, as with a gird; enclose; encompass.
bodger
bodger
noun
A woodworker in the traditional style characterised by the use of hand tools, a pole lathe and use of green timber.
One who works in a rough and ready, slipshod manner.
bodrag
bodrag
noun
Alternative form of bodrage
bogard
bridge
bridge
noun
(anatomy) The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
(billiards, snooker, pool) A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.
(billiards, snooker, pool) A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
(bowling) The gap between the holes on a bowling ball
(card games) A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each.
(chemistry) An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
(computing) A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner.
(cycling) The situation where a lone rider or small group of riders closes the space between them and the rider or group in front.
(dentistry) A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.
(diplomacy) A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord.
(electronics) An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
(electronics) Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit
(graph theory) An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.
(gymnastics) A similar position in gymnastics.
(medicine) A rudimentary procedure before definite solution
(music) A contrasting section within a song that prepares for the return of the original material section.
(music, lutherie) The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.
(nautical) An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
(networking) A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2 of OSI model.
(poetry) A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.
(programming) A software component connecting two or more separate systems.
(roller derby) An elongated chain of teammates, connected to the pack, for improved blocking potential.
(wrestling) A defensive position in which the wrestler is supported by his feet and head, belly-up, in order to prevent touch-down of the shoulders and eventually to dislodge an opponent who has established a position on top.
A connection, real or abstract.
A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
A day falling between two public holidays and consequently designated as an additional holiday.
A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.
A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.
Anything supported at the ends and serving to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
verb
(computing, communication) To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge.
(music) To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping.
(roller derby) To employ the bridge tactic. (See Noun section.)
(wrestling) To go to the bridge position.
To be or make a bridge over something.
To span as if with a bridge.
brigid
brigid
Proper noun
The goddess of the Sacred Flame of Kildare and the patron goddess of the Druids. Daughter of Dagda of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
Brigid of Kildare (c.451-521), an Irish saint partly confused with the goddess.
name sometimes borrowed from Irish. English form: Bridget.
budger
budger
noun
One who budges.
cadger
cadger
noun
(archaic) A hawker or peddler.
(sometimes Tyneside) A beggar.
codger
codger
noun
(informal) An amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man.
cradge
daggar
dagger
dagger
noun
(basketball, American football) A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win.
(typography) The text character †; the obelus.
(weaponry) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.
verb
To pierce with a dagger; to stab.
dagmar
dagmar
noun
(informal) One of the bullet-shaped protrusions on the bumpers of various 1950s cars, especially Cadillacs.
danger
danger
noun
(mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
(obsolete) Liability.
(obsolete) Mischief.
An instance or cause of likely harm.
Exposure to likely harm; peril.
verb
(obsolete) To claim liability.
(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
(obsolete) To run the risk.
dargah
dargah
noun
(Islam, South Asia, India, Pakistan) A shrine associated with the grave of a Muslim saint or similar religious figure.
darger
dargue
dargue
noun
Alternative form of darg (day's work, or set quantity of work)
daring
daring
adj
Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks; overbold.
Courageous or showing bravery; doughty.
Racy; sexually provocative.
noun
Boldness.
verb
present participle of dare
daroga
daroga
noun
(historical) A police official in the Mughal Empire and the British Raj.
degerm
degerm
verb
To remove the germ from a cereal grain etc.
degger
degras
degras
noun
A semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly used as a dressing for hides.
degree
degree
noun
(algebra) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
(algebra, field theory) The dimensionality of a field extension.
(genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
(geography) A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
(geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
(grammar) Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
(graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
(logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.
(now rare) One's relative state or experience; way, manner.
(obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
(physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
(surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
digger
digger
noun
(Australia, dated) A friend; used as a term of endearment.
(Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
(Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
A spade (playing card).
A tool for digging.
One who digs.
digram
digram
noun
A digraph.
dingar
dinger
dinger
noun
(Australian slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
(Australian slang) A condom.
(Australian slang) The buttocks, the anus.
(Canada, US, slang) The penis.
(MLE, slang) An unregistered car.
(US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
A bell or chime.
One who rings a bell.
The suspended clapper of a bell.
dirged
dirged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dirge
dirges
dirges
noun
plural of dirge
dirgie
dirige
dirige
noun
A Roman Catholic service for the dead, being the first antiphon of matins for the dead, of which dirige is the first word; a dirge.
dirigo
dodger
dodger
noun
(countable) A person full of tricks or street smarts.
(countable) Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving).
(countable, Australia, slang) An advertising leaflet; a flyer.
(countable, nautical) A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.
(uncountable, Australia, US, slang, dated) Bread.
dogear
dogear
noun
Alternative form of dog-ear
dogger
dogger
noun
(Australia) A wild dog trapper employed in the pastoral industry.
(Australia, New Zealand) A dogman.
(Britain) A participant in the sexual activity of dogging.
A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.
A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.
dogrib
dogrib
Noun
A member of a people native to the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Proper noun
The Athabaskan language of this people.
dorbug
dorbug
noun
(Canada, US) The dor.
dradge
dradge
noun
(mineralogy) Inferior ore, separated from the better ore by cobbing.
dragee
dragee
noun
Alternative spelling of dragée
draggy
draggy
adj
(informal) Moving or developing very slowly; tending to drag on; dull.
dragon
dragon
noun
(astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.
(computing, rare) A background process similar to a daemon.
(derogatory) A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan.
(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.
(military, historical) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
(obsolete) A very large snake; a python.
(slang) A transvestite man, or more broadly a male-to-female transgender person.
(with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
A Komodo dragon.
A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
A type of playing-tile (red dragon, green dragon, white dragon) in the game of mahjong.
A variety of carrier pigeon.
Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
In Eastern mythology, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.
In Western mythology, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
dredge
dredge
noun
(cooking, countable) A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation.
(uncountable) A mixture of oats and barley.
A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
A dredging machine.
An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
The act of dredging.
Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
verb
(cooking, transitive) To sprinkle (food) with spices or seasonings, using a dredge.
(transitive, usually with "up") To unearth.
To bring something to the surface with a dredge.
To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge.
dreegh
dreggy
dreggy
adj
Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul.
dreigh
drengh
driegh
driegh
adj
(Scotland) Drear, dreary; dree.
driggs
droger
droger
noun
Alternative form of drogher
drogin
drogue
drogue
noun
(aeronautics) A conical basket or device used variously as a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
(aeronautics) A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute, or to slow a rapidly-moving vehicle to a speed where it can safely deploy a larger parachute.
(nautical) A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
(whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
A wind cone.
verb
To act as a drogue, slowing down and stabilizing a drifting object.
To harpoon or spear (a whale) with a weapon that has a drogue attached.
To transport small loads along the coastline to larger ports, where they can be added to the cargo of larger ships that make longer journeys.
To use a drogue with.
drongo
drongo
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A fool, an idiot, a stupid fellow.
Any bird of the family Dicruridae.
drudge
drudge
noun
(derogatory) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
A person who works in a low servile job.
verb
(intransitive) To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.
drugge
druggy
druggy
adj
Acting as if on drugs; torpid, uncoordinated, etc.
noun
Alternative form of druggie
drying
drying
noun
A method of food preservation by removing water.
The act of drying.
verb
present participle of dry
dugger
dunger
dunger
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) An old, worn-out machine, especially a car.
(obsolete) A person employed in the dunging of textiles.
(obsolete) A person employed to spread or transport dung.
(obsolete) An animal that produces dung.
durgah
durgah
noun
Alternative form of dargah
durgan
durgan
noun
(UK, dialectal) A dwarf; any undersized creature.
durgen
during
during
prep
At any time or period within a given time interval.
For all of a given time interval.
verb
present participle of dure
dygert
edgard
edgers
edgers
noun
plural of edger
edgier
edgier
adj
comparative form of edgy: more edgy
edgrew
edgrew
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of edgrow
edgrow
edgrow
noun
(obsolete) Aftergrass; eddish.
egards
engird
engird
verb
(transitive) To gird around; to ingirt.
engrid
forged
forged
adj
Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
Fake (as documents); falsified.
Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
verb
past participle of forge. To force forward against opposition.
fridge
fridge
noun
(informal) A refrigerator.
verb
(transitive, archaic, chiefly Britain, dialectal) To chafe or rub (something).
(transitive, fandom slang) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove (a character, usually female) from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character (usually male) and motivate vengeance.
(transitive, informal) To place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill; to refrigerate.
Synonym of fidge (“to jostle or shake; to fidget, to fig, to frig”)
To chafe or rub.
frigid
frigid
adj
(colloquial) Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.
Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
fudger
fudger
noun
Agent noun of fudge; one who fudges.
fugard
gadder
gadder
noun
(obsolete) A drilling or perforating machine or apparatus for mining and mineral exploration.
One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.
gadger
gadger
noun
(fishing) A stonefly nymph used as bait.
gander
gander
noun
(US) A man living apart from his wife.
(slang, used only with “have”, “get” and “take”) A glance, look.
A fool, simpleton.
A male goose.
verb
(dialect, intransitive) ramble, wander
garald
garand
garand
Noun
The M-1 semiautomatic rifle.
Proper noun
derived from
garbed
garbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of garb
gardal
gardas
gardel
garden
garden
adj
Common, ordinary, domesticated.
noun
(Britain, Ireland, Appalachia) The grounds at the front or back of a house.
(attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
(cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
(figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
(in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
(slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
verb
(intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
(intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
gardia
gardie
gardie
noun
(Australia) A garfish (of the family Hemiramphidae).
gardol
gardon
gardon
noun
A European cyprinoid fish; the ide.
garold
garred
garuda
garuda
noun
A large mythical bird or bird-like creature that appears in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology. Garuda is the son of Vinata.
geared
geared
adj
(often in combination) Fitted with (some kind or number of) gears.
Connected with a motor by gearing.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gear
gedder
gelder
gelder
noun
One who gelds or castrates.
gender
gender
adj
(LGBT, Internet slang, humorous) Evoking indescribable feelings regarding gender.
noun
(grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.
(grammar) Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”)
(hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
(now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
(obsolete) Class; kind.
(sometimes proscribed) Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)
An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.
verb
(archaic or obsolete) To breed.
(archaic) To engender.
(sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
(sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
gerald
gerard
geraud
gerdie
gerdye
gereld
gerund
gerund
noun
(grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language)
(grammar) In some languages such as Dutch, Italian or Russian, a verbal form similar to a present participle, but functioning as an adverb to form adverbial phrases or continuous tense. These constructions have various names besides gerund, depending on the language, such as conjunctive participles, active participles, adverbial participles, transgressives, etc.
gilder
gilder
noun
(archaic, rare) Alternative spelling of guilder
One who gilds; especially one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold.
ginder
girand
girard
girard
Proper noun
Various places in the United States of America, including:
a city in Kansas
giraud
girded
girder
girder
noun
A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
One who girds; a satirist.
girdle
girdle
noun
(Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle
(mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
The clitellum of an earthworm.
The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
The zodiac; also, the equator.
verb
(transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
(transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
girned
girned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of girn
girted
girted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of girt
glared
glared
verb
simple past tense and past participle of glare
glider
glider
noun
(entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly that glide on out-held wings while flying, such as the common glider, Tramea loewii, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Pacific.
(mathematics) In the Game of Life cellular automaton, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
A kind of garden swing.
A pilot of glider aircraft.
A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the gliding possum.
Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
One who glides.
Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”)
godard
godart
godber
godfry
godred
godric
golder
golder
adj
comparative form of gold: more gold
gondar
gooder
gooder
adj
(nonstandard, humorous) comparative form of good: more good
noun
(nonstandard, humorous, New England slang) Something good; a good one; goodie.
goraud
gordan
gorden
gordie
gordon
gorged
gorged
adj
(heraldry) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
Having a gorge or throat.
With a stomach stuffed full of food.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gorge
gormed
gormed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gorm
gourde
gourde
noun
The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes.
gourds
gourds
noun
plural of gourd
gourdy
gourdy
adj
(farriery, of a horse, obsolete) swollen in the legs
graced
graced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grace
gradal
graded
graded
adj
Forming a series decreasing or increasing in intensity of a given quality.
Having been smoothed by a grader.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grade
grader
grader
noun
(in combination) One who belongs to a certain grade at school.
A machine used in road maintenance and construction for leveling large surfaces.
A machine used to sort food by size or quality.
One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
grades
grades
noun
Grammar school, primary school, or the years of school prior to high school.
plural of grade
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grade
gradey
gradin
gradin
noun
(architecture) Any of a series of terraced steps or seats, as in an arena or an altar.
grados
gradus
gradus
noun
A handbook used as an aid in a difficult art or practice, specifically, a dictionary of Greek or Latin prosody used as a guide in writing of poetry in Greek or Latin.
grande
grande
adj
(chiefly US) Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).