(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
(transitive) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
(transitive, archaic) To deprive; to cut off.
(transitive, archaic, rare) To debar from.
adjiger
adjiger
noun
(India) The snake Python molurus.
adoring
adoring
adj
Showing adoration or admiration.
noun
adoration
verb
present participle of adore
agaroid
aggrade
aggrade
verb
(transitive, geology) to raise the level of a river bed by the deposition of sediment
agramed
agrised
agrised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of agrise
aground
aground
adj
(by extension) at a loss, ruined, with no way out
(nautical, of a normally floating craft) Resting on the bottom.
aguador
algarad
algarde
angered
angered
adj
Having been made angry.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of anger
archgod
ardrigh
argades
argasid
argasid
noun
(zoology) Any of various ticks of the family Argasidae.
argolid
arridge
augured
augured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of augur
aurigid
avigdor
badgers
badgers
noun
plural of badger
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badger
barding
barding
noun
(historical) Armour for a warhorse.
verb
present participle of bard
bedegar
bedgery
bedgoer
bedrugs
bedrugs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedrug
beghard
beghard
Noun
One of an association of religious laymen living in semimonastic communities in imitation of the Beguines, and influenced by Albigensian teachings and by the
begirds
begirds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of begird
beguard
belgard
belgard
noun
(obsolete) A loving look, an amorous glance.
beograd
bigford
birding
birding
noun
The catching of birds; fowling
birdwatching
birgand
bludger
bludger
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A person who avoids working, or doing their share of work, a loafer, a hanger-on, one who does not pull their weight.
(Australia, slang) A pimp, a man living off the earnings of a harlot.
A ball used in the sports of Quidditch and Muggle Quidditch.
bodgery
bodgery
noun
Clumsy or inelegant work.
bodrage
bodrage
noun
(obsolete) A raid.
bodrogi
bogarde
boggard
boggard
noun
(UK dialectal) A bogey: a ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature, especially a small local spirit haunting gloomy places or the scenes of violence.
(obsolete) Any real or imagined thing which prompts a horse to boggle (take fright).
bordage
bordage
noun
The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
bordrag
bragdon
bragged
bragged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brag
bridged
bridged
adj
Equipped with a bridge (in many contexts).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bridge
bridger
bridger
noun
One who bridges, or connects two previously separate things.
One who builds bridges
One who plays bridge (card game)
bridges
bridges
noun
plural of bridge
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bridge
bridget
bridget
Noun
An Irish housemaid.
bridgid
brigade
brigade
noun
(Internet slang) Coordinated online harassment, disruption or influencing, especially organized by an antagonistic website or community.
(derogatory) A group of people who share views or a specific characteristic.
(military) Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
A group of people organized for a common purpose.
verb
(Internet slang) To harass an individual or community online in a coordinated manner.
To form or unite into a brigade; to group together.
brigand
brigand
noun
An outlaw or bandit.
brighid
brigida
brigued
brigued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brigue
bringed
bringed
verb
(nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of bring
brogued
brogued
adj
Decorated with brogueing.
Having a brogue (accent).
Shod with brogues (type of shoe).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brogue
budgero
budgers
budgers
noun
plural of budger
burgled
burgled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of burgle
cadgers
cadgers
noun
plural of cadger
cardiga
carding
carding
noun
(countable) A piece of wool rolled by a carder (carding machine).
(uncountable) The fraudulent trafficking of credit card details.
verb
present participle of card
cargued
charged
charged
adj
Arousing strong emotion.
Having electricity.
Showing or having strong emotion.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of charge
codgers
codgers
noun
plural of codger
cogroad
congrid
congrid
noun
(zoology) Any eel of the family Congridae.
cordage
cordage
noun
(nautical) A set of ropes and cords, especially that used for a ship's rigging.
(obsolete) An amount of wood measured in cords.
cording
cording
noun
Decorative cord, often wrapped in colored fabric or foil
The resultant decoration, or the act of decorating with cording
verb
present participle of cord
cragged
cragged
adj
Having crags
cringed
cringed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cringe
curding
curding
verb
present participle of curd
daggers
daggers
noun
plural of dagger
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dagger
damager
damager
noun
Somebody or something that damages.
dangers
dangers
noun
plural of danger
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of danger
dangler
dangler
noun
(grammar, informal) A dangling participle.
(informal) A large earring that hangs down.
(now rare, archaic) One who dangles about others, especially after women.
(slang, in the plural) The testicles.
a plotline that is metaphorically left to "dangle" or "hang"; in other words, the plotline is forgotten, phased out and eventually dropped, and thus a resolution is never achieved
darghin
darings
darings
noun
plural of daring
darking
darking
verb
present participle of dark
darling
darling
adj
Dear; cherished.
charming
noun
(by extension) A person or thing very popular with a certain group.
A kind or sweet person; sweetheart.
A person who is dear to one.
An affectionate term of address.
darning
darning
noun
A repair made by darning.
verb
present participle of darn
darogah
darogha
darooge
darragh
darting
darting
noun
A motion or gesture that darts.
verb
present participle of dart
dearing
dearing
verb
present participle of dear
deerdog
deering
deering
Proper noun
A city/village in Alaska.
A town in New Hampshire.
A city/village in North Dakota.
degener
degener
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) Alternative form of degender (“to degenerate”)
degerms
degerms
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of degerm
deglory
degorge
degrade
degrade
verb
(intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity.
(transitive) To lower in value or social position.
(transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
degraff
degrain
degreed
degreed
adj
Having an academic degree.
degrees
degrees
noun
plural of degree
demerge
demerge
verb
(business) To separate companies that were formerly combined; to reverse a merger.
(obsolete) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
depurge
deragon
deraign
deraign
verb
(law, obsolete, transitive) To prove or to refute by proof, especially on threat of combat.
(obsolete) To engage in (battle, combat etc.).
derange
derange
verb
(archaic) To disrupt (somebody's) plans, to inconvenience; to derail.
(transitive) To cause disorder in (something); to distort from its ideal state.
(transitive) To cause to malfunction or become inoperative.
(transitive, chiefly passive) To cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged.
dereign
deringa
derning
derning
verb
present participle of dern
desberg
desugar
desugar
verb
(transitive, computing, informal) To translate the source code of a computer program into a functionally equivalent form devoid of syntactic sugar.
(transitive, principally, food processing) To remove sugar from.
deterge
deterge
verb
(transitive) To clean (especially a wound) of undesirable material.
dhangar
diagram
diagram
noun
(category theory) A functor from an index category to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is J and the codomain is C, then the diagram is said to be "of type J in C".
A graph or chart.
A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.
verb
(UK) To schedule the operations of a locomotive or train according to a diagram.
(transitive) To represent or indicate something using a diagram.
diggers
diggers
noun
plural of digger
dighter
dighter
noun
(obsolete) One who dights.
digraph
digraph
noun
(computing) A two-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
(divination of the Taixuanjing) a sequence of two lines, each of which may be unbroken, broken once, or broken twice.
(graph theory) A directed graph.
(linguistics) A pair of letters, especially a pair representing a single phoneme.
digress
digress
verb
(intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
(intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
dingier
dingier
adj
comparative form of dingy: more dingy
dirging
dirging
adj
Sung as a dirge; sounding as a dirge.
verb
present participle of dirge
dirgler
dirking
dirking
verb
present participle of dirk
dirling
dishrag
dishrag
noun
(slang) An unclean person; used in similes.
A piece of cloth used for washing dishes.
disring
diverge
diverge
verb
(intransitive, figuratively, of an interest, opinion, or anything else) To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
(intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
(intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
(intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
(intransitive, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
dnaburg
dodgers
dodgers
noun
plural of dodger
dodgery
dodgery
noun
(rare) trickery
dodgier
dodgier
adj
comparative form of dodgy: more dodgy
dogcart
dogcart
noun
Alternative form of dog cart
dogears
dogears
noun
plural of dogear
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dogear
doggers
doggers
noun
plural of dogger
doggery
doggery
noun
(countable, obsolete) A squalid tavern.
(uncountable, dated) Bestial behaviour.
doggier
doggier
adj
comparative form of doggy: more doggy
doggrel
doggrel
adj
Alternative form of doggerel
dogtrot
dogtrot
adj
(architecture, Southern US) The design or form of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house
noun
(architecture, Southern US) A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house.
(architecture, Southern US) A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.
A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.
verb
To move at the pace of a dogtrot
dooring
dooring
noun
(obsolete) The frame of a door.
The event of a cyclist crashing into a newly opened car door.
verb
present participle of door
dorbugs
dorbugs
noun
plural of dorbug
dorking
dorking
Proper noun
a market town in Surrey, England.
dowager
dowager
noun
a widow holding property or title derived from her late husband
any lady of dignified bearing
dragade
dragbar
dragbar
noun
(US) A drawbar.
dragees
dragees
noun
plural of dragee
dragged
dragged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of drag
dragger
dragger
noun
(nautical) A trawler.
(slang) A car thief.
A vehicle used in drag racing.
Something that drags.
draggle
draggle
verb
To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.
draggly
dragman
dragman
noun
A fisherman who uses a dragnet.
dragnet
dragnet
noun
(fishing) A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
(law enforcement) Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.
verb
(fishing) To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water.
(law enforcement) To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect.
dragone
dragons
dragons
noun
plural of dragon
dragoon
dragoon
noun
(military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
A carrier of a dragon musket.
verb
(transitive) To force (someone) into doing something; to coerce.
(transitive) To surrender (a person) to the fury of soldiers.
dragsaw
draping
draping
noun
Material used as a drape.
That which drapes.
verb
present participle of drape
draught
draught
noun
(Australia) Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
(Britain) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
(British spelling) Alternative form of draft in some of its senses.
(UK, medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
(UK, obsolete) A sudden attack upon an enemy.
(UK, obsolete) Any picture or drawing.
(obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
verb
(UK) Alternative spelling of draft
drawing
drawing
noun
(uncountable) The act of producing such a picture.
A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
A small portion of tea for steeping.
An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat.
Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
The process of drawing or pulling something.
verb
present participle of draw
drayage
drayage
noun
(by extension) The transport of goods over a short distance, particularly from a terminal such as an ocean port to another destination, usually as part of a longer transportation of the goods.
A fee paid for the provision of such transportation.