(historical, Britain, law) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
(obsolete) A fortified town.
(rare) A town or city.
A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City.
Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
brought
brought
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bring
burghal
burghal
adj
(UK) Relating to a burgh or borough.
burgher
burgher
noun
A citizen of a medieval city.
A member of the medieval mercantile class.
A prosperous member of the community; a middle class citizen (may connote complacency).
chaguar
chaguar
noun
Any of several related species of South American plants of the family Bromeliaceae, among them Bromelia serra, Bromelia hieronymi, Deinacanthon urbanianum and Pseudananas sagenarius.
chergui
chergui
noun
Alternative form of sharqi
chugger
chugger
noun
(fishing) A type of fish lure or fly that makes a popping or chugging sound when twitched.
(informal, derogatory) A street fundraiser, especially a private contractor, working on behalf of a charity, who is aggressive or invasive.
A vehicle, train or boat with an engine that makes a chugging noise when running.
One who chugs a drink, especially an alcoholic drink.
cougher
cougher
noun
A person who coughs.
curaghs
curaghs
noun
plural of curagh
curragh
curragh
noun
Alternative spelling of currach
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
drought
drought
noun
(archaic) dryness, aridness, dry heat
(by extension, informal) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.
A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
enrough
fraught
fraught
adj
(figuratively, with with) Loaded up or charged with; accompanied by; entailing.
(of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
(with with) Furnished, equipped.
Distressed or causing distress, for example through complexity.
noun
(Scotland) A load; a burden.
(Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).
(obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
(obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
(obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
(obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To form the cargo of a vessel.
(transitive, obsolete except in past participle) To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
froughy
froughy
adj
(UK, dialect, archaic) Loose, spongy, or easily broken.
gaucher
gothurd
goucher
griphus
grishun
groucho
grouchy
grouchy
adj
(originally university slang) Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.
grucche
gruchot
grumphy
grumphy
noun
Alternative form of grumphie (“a sow”)
grushie
grushie
noun
(Scotland, historical) A Scottish wedding tradition where coins were thrown to the guests.
guarish
guarish
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To heal or cure.
guerche
guerche
noun
Alternative form of ghersh (“old silver coin of Ethiopia”)
gunthar
gunther
gurkhas
gurshes
gurshes
noun
plural of gursh
gushers
gushers
noun
plural of gusher
gushier
gushier
adj
comparative form of gushy: more gushy
guthrey
guthrie
guthrie
Proper noun
a city in Oklahoma, USA
a small town and CDP in Texas, USA
guthrun
halurgy
halurgy
noun
The act or practice of working with salt.
hamburg
hamburg
noun
(slang, Midwestern US) hamburger (food)
(uncountable, New England) ground beef; hamburger meat
verb
(Grenada) To annoy.
higuero
higuero
noun
A calabash tree.
homburg
homburg
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Homburg
hougher
hougher
Noun
A member of an agrarian rebellion that began in 18th-century Ireland, slaughtering the sheep and cattle owned by landlords.
huggers
huggers
noun
plural of hugger
huggery
hungary
hungary
Proper noun
in Europe.
hungers
hungers
noun
plural of hunger
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hunger
hurgila
hurling
hurling
noun
A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.
An Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
verb
present participle of hurl
hurting
hurting
noun
A sensation that hurts.
verb
present participle of hurt
kerchug
kerchug
intj
The sound of something dropping into water; a plop.
laugher
laugher
noun
A game in which an opponent is defeated by a sizable margin; a blowout.
A variety of the domestic pigeon.
One who laughs.
laughry
murtagh
nuraghe
nuraghe
noun
(archaeology) A dry-stone round megalithic tower found in Sardinia.
nuraghi
nuraghi
noun
plural of nuraghe
raughty
raughty
adj
Alternative spelling of rorty
rhigmus
roguish
roguish
adj
Mischievous and playful.
Unprincipled or unscrupulous.
roughed
roughed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rough
roughen
roughen
verb
(intransitive) To become rough.
(transitive) To make rough.
rougher
rougher
adj
comparative form of rough: more rough
noun
A piece of woollen cloth prepared for fulling.
A worker who shapes something to prepare it for a finishing operation.
roughet
roughie
roughie
noun
(film, slang) A film portraying rough sex.
Alternative form of roughy (“type of fish”)
roughly
roughly
adv
In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.
Unevenly or irregularly.
Without precision or exactness; imprecisely but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.
ruching
ruching
noun
A strip of fabric to be ruched.
Ruche.
verb
present participle of ruche
rushing
rushing
adj
(Canada, US, dated) Full of activity, busy.
Rapidly flowing or surging.
noun
A rapid surging motion.
verb
present participle of rush
shugart
shurgee
simurgh
simurgh
noun
(Iranian mythology) A gigantic winged benevolent creature.
sorghum
sorghum
noun
(Southern US) Sorghum syrup.
A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).
sougher
theurgy
theurgy
noun
A form of magic designed to allow for worship or conjuration of, or communication with spirits or deities.
A supernatural intervention in human affairs.
through
through
adj
(soccer) In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal.
Finished; complete.
No longer interested; wearied or turned off by experience.
Passing from one side of something to the other.
Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.
Without a future; done for.
adv
During a period of time; throughout
From one end to the other.
From one side to the other by way of the interior.
Out into the open.
To the end.
noun
(obsolete) A coffin, sarcophagus or tomb of stone; a large slab of stone laid on a tomb.
A large slab of stone laid in a dry-stone wall from one side to the other; a perpend.
postp
From beginning to end.
prep
(Canada, US) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.
By means of.
Entering, then later leaving.
From one side of an opening to the other.
In consequence of; as a result of.
Surrounded by (while moving).
thurgau
thurgau
Proper noun
A canton of Switzerland (its German name)
tougher
tougher
adj
comparative form of tough: more tough
toughra
toughra
noun
Alternative spelling of tughra
troughs
troughs
noun
plural of trough
troughy
tughrik
ungirth
ungirth
verb
To unfasten or remove a girth or belt from.
unright
unright
adv
(archaic or obsolete) Wrongly.
noun
(archaic) That which is not right; wrong; injustice.
verb
(transitive) To make wrong.
unrough
unrough
adj
Not rough.
upright
upright
adj
(figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
(of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
Greater in height than breadth.
In its proper orientation; not overturned.
Vertical; erect
adv
In or into an upright position.
noun
(informal) An upright arcade game cabinet.
(informal) An upright piano.
(slang) A leg
(sports) A goal post.
A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
Any vertical part of a structure.
Short for upright vacuum cleaner.
verb
(transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
wrought
wrought
adj
Having been worked or prepared somehow.
verb
(see usage notes) simple past tense and past participle of wreak