Any bird of the obsolete genus Totanus, now principally in genus Tringa; a tattler.
gambit
gambit
noun
(chess) An opening in chess in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
A remark intended to open a conversation.
Any ploy or stratagem.
verb
(chess, transitive) To sacrifice (a pawn or minor piece) to gain an advantage.
gambut
gamest
gamest
adj
superlative form of game: most game
gamete
gamete
noun
(cytology) A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.
gamont
gamont
noun
A particular life cycle stage in the Apicomplexa.
gamuts
gamuts
noun
plural of gamut
gemote
gemote
noun
Alternative form of gemot
gemots
gemots
noun
plural of gemot
gemuti
gemuti
noun
Alternative form of gomuti (“fibrous substance”)
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).
glotum
gnetum
goemot
gomart
gomuti
gomuti
noun
A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two palms, Metroxylon sagu, and Arenga pinnata (syn. Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands, and used for making cordage.
gotama
gotham
gotham
Proper noun
Nickname for New York City.
A village in Nottinghamshire, England, associated in folklore with insanity.
gromet
gromet
noun
Alternative form of grommet
gutium
maggot
maggot
adj
(colloquial, Australia) Alternative form of maggoted (“drunk; intoxicated”)
noun
(derogatory) A worthless person.
(now archaic, regional) A whimsy or fancy.
(slang) A fan of the American metal band Slipknot.
A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
verb
(transitive) To rid (an animal) of maggots.
magnet
magnet
noun
(Internet) Short for magnet link.
(informal, figuratively, preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun.
A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
magots
magots
noun
plural of magot
marget
margit
margot
masgat
mating
mating
adj
Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.
noun
(zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.
(zoology) Sexual union; copulation.
verb
present participle of mate
maught
metage
metage
noun
A fee paid for a measurement.
Measurement, especially of coal.
meting
meting
noun
The act of one who metes; a distribution or handing out.
verb
present participle of mete
midget
midget
noun
(attributively) A small version of something; miniature.
(loosely) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge.
(originally) A little sandfly.
(sometimes offensive) A normally-proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10".
(sometimes offensive) Any short person.
midgut
midgut
noun
(biology, anatomy, embryology) The central loop of the alimentary canal of an embryo between the foregut and the hindgut, in humans and some other animals.
(biology, anatomy, medicine) The developed counterpart in the adult: the intermediate part of the alimentary canal, which in humans runs from the second half of the duodenum through the proximal two-thirds of the transverse colon.
mights
mights
noun
plural of might
mighty
mighty
adj
(colloquial) Very large; hefty.
(informal) Excellent, extremely good.
Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
Very heavy and powerful.
Very strong; possessing might.
adv
(colloquial, dialect) Very; to a high degree.
noun
(obsolete, rare) A warrior of great strength and courage.
miting
miting
noun
(obsolete, term of endearment) A little one; a mite.
mogote
mogote
noun
A generally isolated, steep-sided residual hill, composed of limestone, marble, or dolomite and surrounded by nearly flat alluvial plains.
mongst
mought
mought
verb
(auxiliary, obsolete) past participle of may.
(obsolete outside dialects) Alternative form of might
msgmgt
msmgte
mugget
mugget
noun
The small entrails of a calf or hog.
muguet
mugwet
mutage
mutage
noun
A process for arresting the fermentation of the must of grapes.
muting
muting
noun
The dung of birds.
The process by which something is muted or silenced.
verb
present participle of mute
nutmeg
nutmeg
noun
(countable) A whole nutmeg seed.
(soccer, field hockey or ice hockey, basketball) The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.
(uncountable) The powdered seed, ready for use.
A grey-brown colour.
A small moth, Hadula trifolii, feeding on plants and native to the Northern Hemisphere.
An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds.
verb
(soccer, transitive) To play the ball between the legs of (an opponent).
(transitive) To flavour with nutmeg.
stigma
stigma
noun
(Christianity, chiefly in the plural stigmata) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically.
(botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
(literary, figurative) An outward sign; an indication.
(medicine) A visible sign or characteristic of a disease.
(typography) A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ).
A mark of infamy or disgrace.
A scar or birthmark.
stigme
stigme
noun
(obsolete, rare) Anglicised form of stigma
A dot used as a punctuation mark in historical Greek texts, especially at the top of the line, equivalent to a period or full stop.
taming
taming
noun
The process by which a person, animal or thing is tamed.
verb
present participle of tame
tangum
tangum
noun
A kind of piebald horse from Tibet.
targum
targum
noun
(Judaism) An Aramaic translation of the Tanakh written or compiled between the Second Temple period and the early Middle Ages.
tegmen
tegmen
noun
(anatomy) A covering such as the thin layer of bone in the roof of the middle ear of mammals.
(biology) A covering or integument, usually referring to a thin layer or membrane in an organism.
(botany) An integument such as the inner membrane of the coat of a seed.
(entomology) In insects such as winged cockroaches and locusts, the tegmina are the stiff, membranous fore wings; in many species they are not primarily used for flight, but serve as protective covering for the delicate hind wings, which are the main organs of flight. Note that the more heavily armoured fore-wings of most beetles are called elytra, not tegmina.
tergum
tergum
noun
(entomology) The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod.
tignum
timing
timing
noun
(countable) An instance of recording the time of something.
(countable, obsolete) An occurrence or event.
(countable, uncountable) The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.
(countable, uncountable) The time when something happens.
(uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
verb
present participle of time
tomrig
tomrig
noun
(archaic) A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy.