grinning; having happiness or satisfaction apparent on one's face
noun
(neuroscience) a protein involved in the formation of neuromuscular junctions during embryonic development
aiger
aiger
adj
(archaic) Pronunciation spelling of eager.
noun
Alternative form of ague
Alternative form of eagre; a tidal bore.
aigre
aigre
adj
(obsolete) Alternative spelling of eager (“sour”)
argia
argid
argid
noun
(zoology) Any member of the Argidae.
argil
argil
noun
potter's clay.
argin
bragi
brigg
brigs
brigs
noun
plural of brig
bring
bring
intj
The sound of a telephone ringing.
verb
(baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
(transitive) To occasion or bring about.
(transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
(transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
cgiar
cigar
cigar
noun
A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.
corgi
corgi
noun
Short for Welsh corgi (“a type of herding dog originating from Wales, having a small body, short legs, and fox-like features such as large ears; two separate breeds are recognized: the Cardigan Welsh Corgi and the Pembroke Welsh Corgi”).
craig
craig
noun
A rocky crag.
digor
digor
noun
A traditional sport of Bhutan, resembling shot put.
dirge
dirge
noun
(informal) A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.
A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
verb
To sing dirges
dirgy
dirgy
adj
Like a dirge; funereal.
drugi
egrid
eiger
emigr
fgrid
frigg
frigs
frigs
noun
plural of frig
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of frig
garik
garin
garni
gauri
gbari
geier
geira
gerdi
gerik
gerim
gerip
gerri
gerri
Proper noun
A diminutive of the female given name Geraldine, also used as a formal given name.
gerti
giber
giber
noun
One who utters gibes.
giher
girba
girds
girds
noun
plural of gird
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gird
girja
girls
girls
noun
(slang) A woman's breasts.
plural of girl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of girl
girly
girly
adj
(slang) Weak; wussy.
(slang, idiomatic) Of, or pertaining to, a young, attractive woman; especially one who is scantily clad.
Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, gentle; unmasculine.
noun
(childish) Girl.
girns
girns
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of girn
girny
giron
giron
noun
Alternative form of gyron
giros
giros
noun
plural of giro
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of giro
girru
girse
girsh
girsh
noun
Dated form of qursh.
girth
girth
noun
(graph theory) The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.
(informal) One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
A small horizontal brace or girder.
The distance measured around an object.
The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
verb
To bind as if with a girth or band.
girts
girts
noun
plural of girt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of girt
giver
giver
noun
One who gives; a donor or contributor.
glair
glair
noun
A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.
Any viscous, slimy substance.
Egg white, especially as used in various industrial preparations.
verb
To smear with egg-white.
gleir
glori
goric
gorin
gorki
graig
grail
grail
noun
(poetic) Small particles of earth; gravel.
A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
One of the small feathers of a hawk.
Something eagerly sought or quested for.
The Holy Grail.
grain
grain
noun
(astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
(botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
(countable) A single particle of a substance.
(countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
(countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
(countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
(countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
(founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
(historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
(in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
(materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
(photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
(uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
(uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
(uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
One of the branches of a valley or river.
Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
verb
(intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
(tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
(tanning) To soften leather.
(transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
To feed grain to.
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
To yield fruit.
graip
grani
grati
greig
grein
greit
greit
verb
Alternative form of greet (to weep)
grice
grice
noun
(now Scotland) A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.
(obsolete) A step or stair.
verb
(UK, rail transport, slang) to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.
gride
gride
noun
A harsh grating sound.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive, of a weapon or sharp object) To travel through something.
(obsolete, transitive) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
grids
grids
noun
plural of grid
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grid
grief
grief
noun
(countable) Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.
Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
Suffering, hardship.
verb
(online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game.
grieg
grier
griff
griff
noun
(India) griffin, (white) newcomer
(colloquial, slang) marijuana.
(obsolete) grasp; reach
(weaving) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.
grift
grift
noun
(US, slang) A confidence game or swindle.
verb
(intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money illegally.
(intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means.
(transitive, US, slang) To obtain illegally, as by con game.
grigs
grigs
noun
plural of grig
grike
grike
noun
(chiefly Britain) A deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants.
grill
grill
adj
(obsolete) Harsh, rough, severe; cruel.
noun
(Internet slang, humorous) Misspelling of girl.
(UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
(US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
(colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
(colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
(obsolete) Harm.
A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
verb
(intransitive, Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) To snarl; snap.
(intransitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To tremble; shiver.
(intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
(transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
(transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
(transitive, Scotland, US, obsolete) To make angry; provoke; offend, incite.
(transitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To terrify; make tremble.
(transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
grime
grime
noun
(music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.
Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
verb
To begrime; to cake with dirt.
grimm
grimp
grimy
grimy
adj
(music) From the urban musical genre called grime.
(slang) Morally corrupt, malicious, vile, or selfish; base or dirty; rotten.
Stained or covered with grime.
grind
grind
noun
(archaic, slang) One who studies hard.
(slang) Hustle; hard work.
(uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
A tedious and laborious task.
A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
verb
(computing, dated) To automatically format and indent code.
(intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
(intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
(metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
(slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
(slang, Hawaii) To eat.
(slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
(sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
(transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
(transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
(transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
(transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
(transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
(video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
To instill through repetitive teaching.
To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
gring
grins
grins
noun
plural of grin
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grin
grint
griot
griot
noun
(cooking) A Haitian dish of fried pork.
A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.
gripe
gripe
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
(engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
(nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
(nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
(nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
(nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
(obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
Alternative form of grype
verb
(archaic, transitive) To seize or grasp.
(intransitive) To suffer griping pains.
(intransitive, informal) To complain; to whine.
(nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
(obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
(obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
(transitive, informal) To annoy or bother.
griph
grips
grips
noun
plural of grip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grip
gript
gript
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of grip
gripy
gripy
adj
Alternative form of gripey
grise
grise
noun
(obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
Alternative form of grice (a pig)
grist
grist
noun
(colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
(obsolete) A group of bees.
(ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
verb
(transitive) To grind in a mill.
grith
grith
noun
(historical) A place of protection, a sanctuary.
(historical) Security, peace or protection guaranteed in particular instances in Old English law.
(Western Hemisphere) Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.
plural of grit
plural of grit ('hulled oats')
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grit
groin
groin
noun
(architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
(euphemistic) The genitals.
(geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
Alternative spelling of groyne
The area adjoining this fold or depression.
The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
verb
(architecture) To build with groins.
(literary, transitive) To hollow out; to excavate.
To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
gruis
guiro
guiro
noun
(music) A genre of traditional Cuban music, used in santería rituals.
(music) A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound.
Synonym of sekere
guria
guric
gwari
gyric
higra
igara
igdyr
ingar
inger
ingra
inorg
iorgo
irgun
irgun
Proper noun
A Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Mandatory Palestine between 1931 and 1948.
iring
iring
verb
present participle of ire
irreg
jagir
jagir
noun
(East India) A district.
(East India) An assignment of the produce and income of a particular district or village to a person or persons, as an annuity
jirga
jirga
noun
A gathering of elders or leaders in Pakistan or Afghanistan, especially within a tribe.
krieg
liger
liger
noun
An animal born to a male lion and a tigress.
margi
niger
niger
noun
An Ethiopian herb, Guizotia abyssinica, grown for its seed and edible oil.
nigre
nigre
noun
In soapmaking, the lower layer of liquid produced by pitching, which contains most of the impurities.
orgia
orgic
orgic
adj
(rare) Relating to an orgy.
pirog
pirog
noun
A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe.
prigs
prigs
noun
plural of prig
ragis
redig
redig
verb
To dig again.
reggi
regia
regie
regie
noun
A government monopoly, such as on tobaccoo, typically used to raise revenue (via taxes).
regin
regis
reign
reign
noun
The exercise of sovereign power.
The period during which a monarch rules.
The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
verb
(intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
(transitive, rare, nonstandard) To reign over (a country)
To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
rejig
rejig
verb
(transitive) To tweak or rearrange.
relig
renig
renig
verb
(US, colloquial, dated) To renege.
rerig
rerig
verb
(nautical) To rig again; to outfit a ship with new rigging.
ridge
ridge
noun
(anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
(fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
(meteorology) An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
(oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
A chain of hills.
A chain of mountains.
Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
verb
(intransitive) To extend in ridges
(transitive) To form into a ridge
ridgy
ridgy
adj
Having ridges; ridged.
Rising in a ridge or ridges.
rigby
rigby
Proper noun
a city in Idaho, USA
rigel
riggs
right
right
adj
(Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
(archaic) Straight, not bent.
(dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
(geography) Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's right when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the south bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥴ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the right side of the river.
(geometry) Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
(geometry) Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
(politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →
Designed to be placed or worn outward.
Healthy, sane, competent.
Real; veritable (used emphatically).
adv
(Britain, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.
(dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.
According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
Exactly, precisely.
Immediately, directly.
In a correct manner.
On the right side.
Towards the right side.
intj
I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.
Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance.
Yes, that is correct; I agree.
noun
(politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
(surfing) A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
A legal, just or moral entitlement.
That which complies with justice, law or reason.
The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
The right hand or fist.
The right side or direction.
verb
(intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
(transitive) To correct.
(transitive) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
(transitive) To set upright.
rigid
rigid
adj
Fixed, rather than moving.
Rigorous and unbending.
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Uncompromising.
noun
(aviation) An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.
A bicycle with no suspension system.
rigol
rigol
noun
(nautical) A ridge or channel above a porthole to redirect water flow from dripping inside the vessel.
(obsolete) A diadem, crown (ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty).
rigor
rigor
noun
(medicine) A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.
(physiology, informal) Short for rigor mortis.
US spelling of rigour
ringe
ringe
noun
A whisk made of heather.
ringo
rings
rings
noun
(gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of 2 rings suspended from a bar.
(post-mid century) Ellipsis of still rings.
A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks.
plural of ring
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ring