A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice.
An ornament worn on clothing, consisting of a metal tag on a fringe, or a small metallic plate or spangle.
algate
algate
adv
(obsolete) Altogether; entirely.
(obsolete) Always.
(obsolete) By any means; at all events.
(obsolete) In any way; at all.
(obsolete) Notwithstanding; nevertheless.
algist
algist
noun
One who studies algae and seaweed.
alight
alight
adj
(figuratively) Aglow with activity or emotion.
Burning, lit, on fire.
Of an electrical light source: switched on and emitting light.
Often followed by with: shining with light; luminous, radiant; also, brightly coloured; vivid.
adv
(also figuratively) Chiefly in set alight: in flames, on fire; aflame.
verb
(also figuratively) Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest.
(figuratively) Often followed by on or upon: to find by accident; to chance upon, to come upon.
(obsolete) To arrive.
(transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.
Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop.
Often followed by on or upon: of a blow, something thrown, etc.: to land heavily.
To cast light on (something); to illuminate, to light up.
To come down or go down; to descend.
To set light to (something); to set (something) on fire; to ignite, to light.
atglen
biglot
blight
blight
noun
(by extension) Anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life.
(phytopathology) A rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral organs.
The bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition.
verb
(intransitive) To suffer blight.
(transitive) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
(transitive) To spoil, ruin, or destroy (something).
boglet
boglet
noun
A kind of supernatural being.
A small patch of boggy ground.
buglet
buglet
noun
(computing, informal) A minor bug in a program.
(music) A small bugle.
deglut
deglut
verb
(medicine) To be swallowed
diglot
diglot
adj
Synonym of bilingual.
noun
A bilingual inscription, book, or person.
eaglet
eaglet
noun
The immature young of an eagle; an eagle chick.
elegit
elegit
noun
(archaic) A judicial writ ordering seizure of a debtor's property.
englut
englut
verb
To glut, satiate.
To swallow; to swallow up, engulf.
flight
flight
adj
(obsolete) Fast, swift, fleet.
noun
(collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.
(cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
(engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
A paper airplane.
A series of stairs between landings.
A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
An air force unit.
An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
An instance of flying.
Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
The act of fleeing.
The act of flying.
The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
verb
(cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
(sports, by extension, transitive) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.
gablet
gablet
noun
(architecture) A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
galant
galant
name
(music) Alternative form of Galant
galata
galati
galatz
galiot
galiot
noun
Alternative spelling of galliot
gallet
gallet
noun
(especially in plural) A splinter of stone inserted into the wet mortar of masonry.
verb
To use this masonry technique.
galoot
galoot
noun
(derogatory) A clumsy or uncouth person.
galton
galuth
gantsl
gaslit
gaslit
adj
Illuminated by burning gas.
gastly
gaults
gaults
noun
plural of gault
gelant
gelant
noun
Alternative form of gellant
gelate
gelate
verb
(intransitive) To form a gel.
gelati
gelati
noun
(Australia) gelato, Italian style ice-cream; a serving of gelato, often in a cone.
plural of gelato
gelato
gelato
noun
An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.
gelett
gentil
gentle
gentle
adj
(archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
Docile and easily managed.
Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
Polite and respectful rather than rude.
Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
noun
(archaic) A person of high birth.
(fishing) A maggot used as bait by anglers.
A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.
verb
(intransitive) To become gentle.
(transitive) To soothe; to calm; to make gentle.
(transitive, animal husbandry) To break; to tame; to domesticate.
(transitive, obsolete) To ennoble.
gently
gently
adv
(historical) From a gentle or high-class family.
(obsolete) In the manner of one of gentle birth; in a manner that reflects the traditional virtues of the gentry: courteously, nobly.
In a gentle manner; to a gentle degree.
Quietly: without much noise or motion.
Without strong force or quickness: softly, lightly.
getsul
getsul
noun
(Buddhism) A novice monk in Tibetan Buddhism.
giblet
giblet
noun
(usually in the plural) the edible viscera of a bird
giglet
giglet
noun
Alternative form of giglot
giglot
giglot
adj
(obsolete) giddy; inconstant; wanton
noun
(obsolete) A strumpet; a wanton girl.
gillot
gilten
gimlet
gimlet
noun
A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice.
A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes.
verb
(nautical, transitive) To turn round (an anchor) as if turning a gimlet.
To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet).
gitlow
gittel
gittle
glanti
glantz
gleets
gleets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gleet
gleety
gleety
adj
ichorous; thin; limpid
gletty
glints
glints
noun
plural of glint
glitch
glitch
noun
(astronomy, countable) A sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a pulsar.
(countable) A problem affecting function.
(countable, informal, engineering) An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.
(uncountable, music) A genre of experimental electronic music since the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
(video games) A bug or an exploit.
verb
(intransitive, especially of machines) To experience an unexpected, typically intermittent malfunction.
(intransitive, video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
glitzy
glitzy
adj
Brilliantly showy.
gloats
gloats
noun
plural of gloat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gloat
glosts
glotum
glouts
glouts
noun
plural of glout
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glout
glutch
glutch
noun
(Britain, dialect) A mouthful.
verb
(Britain, dialect) To swallow.
glutei
glutei
noun
plural of gluteus
gluten
gluten
noun
(cooking, biochemistry) The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread.
(geology) A gluey, sticky mass of clay, bitumen etc.
(obsolete) Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours").
(rare) Any gluey, sticky substance.
glutin
glutin
noun
Synonym of gliadin
goatly
goatly
adj
(rare) Having the characteristics of a goat.
goblet
goblet
noun
A drinking vessel with a foot and stem.
godlet
godlet
noun
A petty or minor god.
goglet
goglet
noun
A jar or vase of porous pottery for keeping water cool by evaporation.
goleta
golter
goltry
goslet
goslet
noun
Any pygmy goose of the genus Nettapus.
goulet
grelot
gretal
gretel
gretel
Proper noun
name of origin, diminutive of Margarete.
A fictional character in the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.
guglet
guilts
guilts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of guilt
guilty
guilty
adj
(law) Judged to have committed a crime.
Blameworthy.
Having a sense of guilt.
Responsible for a dishonest act.
noun
(law) A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
(law) A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
One who is declared guilty of a crime.
gulist
gulist
Noun
A glutton.
gullet
gullet
noun
(cytology) The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
A channel for water.
A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
The throat or esophagus.
The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
gurlet
gurlet
noun
A pickaxe with one sharp point and one cutting edge.
guttle
guttle
noun
(obsolete, rare) Something which is eaten voraciously.
An act of swallowing voraciously.
One who eats voraciously; a glutton.
verb
(intransitive) To eat voraciously; to gorge.
(intransitive, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound; to gurgle.
(transitive) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.
(transitive, Britain, dialectal, Scotland) To remove the guts or entrails from (a person or an animal); to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut.
haglet
haglet
noun
A shearwater.
inglut
inglut
verb
(obsolete) To glut.
larget
larget
noun
A short piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
latigo
latigo
noun
A strap used to tighten a cinch.
ledget
leegte
legate
legate
noun
A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
An ambassador or messenger.
The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.
verb
(transitive) To leave as a legacy.
legati
legato
legato
adv
(music) Smoothly, in a connected manner.
noun
(music) A passage that is played legato.
(music) A style of performance characterized by smoothly connected notes.
leggat
legist
legist
noun
A writer on law, a legislator, a lawmaker
One skilled in the law.
legits
legits
noun
plural of legit
leglet
leglet
noun
A decorative band worn on the leg.
length
length
noun
(bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
(cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
(figuratively) Total extent.
(horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
(mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
(theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
duration.
verb
(obsolete) To lengthen.
libget
ligate
ligate
verb
(transitive) To bind with a ligature or bandage.
(transitive, intransitive, chemistry) To join by ligation.
(transitive, typography) To connect text characters with a ligature.
ligeti
liggat
ligget
lights
lights
noun
The lungs, now chiefly of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts).
plural of light
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of light
lighty
lighty
adv
(obsolete) Alternative form of lightly; however, more often a misspelling of lightly.
noun
(South Africa, slang) A young man; a boy.
linget
linget
noun
An ingot; a lingot.
lingot
lingot
noun
A linget or ingot.
A mould for casting metals.
lithog
loggat
loggat
noun
(obsolete) A small log or piece of wood.
(obsolete, in the plural) An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground.
logget
logget
noun
(obsolete) A small log.
loglet
loglet
noun
A small log.
logout
logout
noun
(computing) The act or process of logging out.
lotong
lotong
noun
Alternative form of lutung
lustig
luting
luting
noun
lute (a kind of sticky clay or cement)
verb
present participle of lute
otalgy
otalgy
noun
Archaic form of otalgia.
palgat
peglet
peglet
noun
A little peg.
piglet
piglet
noun
A young pig
plight
plight
noun
(archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
(now chiefly dialectal) An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
(now chiefly dialectal) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
(now rare) A (neutral) condition or state.
(obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
(obsolete) Good health.
A dire or unfortunate situation.
verb
(obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
(reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
(transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
(transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.
potleg
putlog
putlog
noun
(architecture) One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose.
raglet
raglet
noun
(architecture) Any of the grooves or chases cut into stone walls to receive the upper edges of the lead flashings.
regilt
reglet
reglet
noun
(architecture) A flat, narrow moulding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments.
(printing) A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title pages and other open matter.
riglet
riglet
noun
(typography) Alternative form of reglet
slight
slight
adj
(archaic or rare) not far away in space or time
(dated) Slighting; treating with disdain.
(especially said of the sea) still; with little or no movement on the surface
(obsolete) Foolish; silly; not intellectual.
(regional) Even, smooth or level
(regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality.
gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful
not thorough; superficial
of slender build
trifling; unimportant; insignificant
noun
(obsolete) Sleight.
The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
verb
(intransitive) To act negligently or carelessly.
(obsolete, transitive) To make even or level.
(transitive) To give lesser weight or importance to.
(transitive) To throw heedlessly.
(transitive) To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
(transitive) To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
(transitive, military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
stalag
stalag
noun
(attributive) A genre of Nazi exploitation Holocaust pornography in Israel that flourished in the 1950s and early 1960s.
(historical) A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II.
tagala
tagalo
taggle
taglet
taglet
noun
A little tag.
taglia
taglia
noun
(engineering, obsolete) A particular system of fixed and movable pulleys; a tackle with a set of sheaves in a fixed block and another set in a movable block to which the weight is attached.
tagula
taigle
tailge
taloga
talweg
talweg
noun
Alternative spelling of thalweg
tangle
tangle
noun
(Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
(in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
(mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
A complicated or confused state or condition.
A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
A tangled twisted mass.
An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
verb
(intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
(intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
(transitive) To catch and hold.
(transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
tangly
tangly
adj
Covered with tangle, or seaweed.
Entangled; intricate.
teagle
teagle
noun
(UK, dialect) A hoisting apparatus; an elevator, crane, or lift.
verb
(UK, dialect, transitive) To hoist or raise by means of a teagle.
tegula
tegula
noun
(archaeology) A flat Roman roof tile with raised edges, joined together by an imbrex.
(entomology) A small sclerite situated above the base of the costal vein in the wings of various insects, and attached to the anterolateral portion of the mesonotum.
(malacology) Any sea snail in the genus Tegula.
telang
telega
telega
noun
a simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs
telegn
telegu
telugu
tergal
tergal
adj
Of or pertaining to the tergum; dorsal
tiglic
tiglon
tiglon
noun
A fertile hybrid cross between a male tiger (Panthera tigris) and a lioness (Panthera leo).
tiling
tiling
noun
(computing theory) A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.
(geometry) A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
(uncountable) The act of applying tiles.
A covering of tiles.
verb
present participle of tile
tingle
tingle
noun
A prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
verb
(intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
(intransitive) To make ringing sounds; to twang.
(intransitive) To ring, to tinkle.
(transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
(transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.
tingly
tingly
adj
Producing or feeling tingles.
toggel
toggle
toggle
noun
(in particular, fashion) A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.
(nautical) A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope or chain to be secured to any other loop, ring, or bight, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat.
(skydiving) A loop of webbing or a dowel affixed to the end of the steering/brake lines of a parachute providing the pilot with a means of control.
A horizontal piece of wood that is placed on a door, flat, or other wooden structure, but is not on one of the edges of the structure.
A toggle switch.
An appliance for transmitting force at right angles to its direction.
verb
(nautical, transitive) To fix like a toggle iron; to fix fast.
To alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever.