The cover at the tip of a shoelace, to prevent it from fraying.
agley
agley
adj
(Scotland) Wrong; askew.
adv
(chiefly Scotland) Wrong, awry, askew, amiss, or distortedly.
agnel
agnel
noun
A 13th century French gold coin.
agnes
agnew
agoge
agoge
noun
(historical) A rigorous training regimen for Spartan men in preparation for army service.
In ancient Greek music, tempo or pace; rhythmical movement.
Melodic motion upward or downward by successive scale-steps: same as ductus in medieval music.
agone
agone
adv
(archaic or dialectal, Northern England) Alternative form of ago
agree
agree
verb
(intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
(intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
(intransitive) To resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
(intransitive, followed by "to") To give assent; to accede
(intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
(intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
(intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
(transitive, UK, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
agues
agues
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ague
aguey
aguey
adj
Conditions associated with catching ague.
In the state of having a high fever accompanied by shaking or shivering.
aguie
ahead
ahead
adv
At an earlier time; beforehand; in advance.
At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving.
In or for the future.
So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense.
To a later time.
To an earlier time.
aheap
aheap
adv
In a heap; huddled together.
ahems
ahems
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ahem
ahern
ahmed
ahmed
Proper noun
name, variant of Ahmad.
of Arabic origin.
aidde
aided
aided
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aid
aiden
aider
aider
noun
(climbing) A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.
A person who aids or assists.
aides
aides
noun
plural of aide
aieee
aieee
intj
Alternative form of aiee
aiery
aiery
adj
Obsolete form of aery.
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”)
aiken
ailed
ailed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ail
ailee
ailey
ailie
aimed
aimed
adj
Directed towards a target.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aim
aimee
aimer
aimer
noun
One who aims; one who is responsible for aiming.
ainee
aired
aired
adj
(of a complaint or problem) Having been uttered or spoken of, such that certain persons are aware.
(of a show) Having been broadcast, such as on television or radio.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of air
airel
airer
airer
noun
A framework upon which laundry is aired; a clotheshorse.
aires
aires
noun
plural of aire
aisle
aisle
noun
(US, politics) An idiomatic divide between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, who are said to be on two sides of the aisle.
(transport) Seat in public transport, such as a plane, train or bus, that's beside the aisle.
A clear corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale.
A clear path through rows of seating.
A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.
Any path through an otherwise obstructed space.
The path of a wedding procession in a church or other venue; (by extension, metonymically) marriage.
aisne
aiver
aizle
ajmer
akebi
akebi
noun
Any of the genus Akebia of five species of flowering plant in the family Lardizabalaceae.
akees
akees
noun
plural of akee
akeki
akeki
noun
Thujopsis dolabrata, a tall Japanese tree.
akela
akela
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Akela
akene
akene
noun
Alternative spelling of achene
akers
akers
noun
plural of aker
aknee
aknee
adv
(archaic) On the knees.
akpek
aksel
akule
akule
noun
(Hawaii) The bigeye scad, Selar crumenophthalmus.
akure
alage
alake
alane
alane
noun
(inorganic chemistry) Aluminium hydride, AlH₃.
alate
alate
adj
(entomology, botany) Having winglike extensions or parts; winged.
adv
(archaic) recently; lately; of late.
noun
A winged, reproductive form of several social insects.
albee
alben
alber
albie
alcae
alces
aldea
aldea
noun
A villa.
A village.
alded
alden
alden
Proper noun
name transferred back from the surname.
alder
alder
noun
An alderman or alderwoman.
Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.
aldie
aleak
aleak
adj
leaking
aleck
aleck
Proper noun
A diminutive of the male given name Alexander.
alecs
alecs
noun
plural of alec
aleda
aledo
aleen
alefs
alefs
noun
plural of alef
aleft
aleft
adv
(archaic) To or on the left-hand side.
alejo
alena
alene
alenu
aleph
aleph
noun
The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀 (ʾ), Classical Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (aleph) and Arabic ا (ʾalif).
alert
alert
adj
(obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
Attentive; awake; on guard.
noun
(military) A state of readiness for potential combat.
A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
An alarm.
verb
To give warning to.
aleta
aleus
aleut
aleut
Adjective
Of the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language.
Noun
A member of the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in the United States and of Kamchatka Krai in the Russia.
A native or inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands.
Proper noun
The language of the Aleutian Islands, related to Eskimo (Inupiaq and Yupik).
alexa
alexi
alfeo
alfet
alfet
noun
(obsolete) A cauldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
alfie
alfie
Proper noun
name or Alfonso, also used as a formal given name.
algae
algae
noun
(countable) A particular kind of algae.
Algal organisms viewed collectively or as a mass; algal growth.
plural of alga
alger
algie
alhet
alice
alief
alief
noun
(philosophy, psychology) A primitive, subconscious belieflike attitude which may contradict one's conscious beliefs.
alien
alien
adj
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
noun
A foreigner residing in a country.
A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
verb
(law) To transfer the ownership of something.
(transitive) To estrange; to alienate.
aliet
alife
alife
adv
(obsolete) On one's life; dearly.
noun
Alternative form of A-life
alike
alike
adj
Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
adv
In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.
Having life; living; not dead.
In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.
Sprightly; lively; brisk.
Susceptible, sensitive; easy to impress; having keen feelings, as opposed to apathy.
alkes
allen
aller
alley
alley
noun
(baseball) The area between the outfielders.
(bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
(bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.
(perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
(tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
A glass marble or taw.
A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.
A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
allez
allie
almeh
almes
almes
noun
plural of alme
aloed
aloed
adj
(poetic) On which aloes are growing.
aloes
aloes
noun
(plural only) The resin of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for its fragrant odour.
The wood of the agalloch.
plural of aloe
aloke
alone
alone
adj
(obsolete) Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
(obsolete) Mere; consisting of nothing further.
(obsolete) Unique; rare; matchless.
(predicatively, chiefly in the negative) Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc.
By oneself, solitary.
adv
(by extension) Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset.
By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
Not permitting anything further; exclusively.
Not requiring anything further; merely.
Without outside help.
alope
alose
alose
noun
American shad (Alosa sapidissima).
European shad (Alosa alosa); the allice or allis.
alowe
alpen
alper
alsea
alsea
Proper noun
An extinct Penutian language spoken in the United States.
alsen
alsey
alten
alter
alter
noun
(especially in the plural) An identity or headmate of a person with dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder). A member of a system.
Misspelling of altar.
verb
(intransitive) To become different.
(transitive) To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.
(transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(transitive) To change the form or structure of.
(transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
altes
alure
alure
noun
(obsolete) A walk or passage.
alver
alves
alvie
alyce
alyse
amase
amate
amate
noun
An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.
Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
verb
(obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.
(obsolete) To dishearten, dismay.
amaze
amaze
noun
(now poetic) Amazement, astonishment.
verb
(intransitive) To undergo amazement; to be astounded.
(obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
(obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious.
(obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic.
(transitive) To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex.
amber
amber
adj
Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
noun
(Britain) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection when safe to do so.
(biology, genetics, biochemistry) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
(obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
(uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
A yellow-orange colour.
verb
(intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.
(transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
(transitive, rare) To preserve in amber.
(transitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
ambie
amble
amble
noun
An easy gait, especially that of a horse.
An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.
verb
(intransitive) Of a quadruped: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other.
(intransitive) To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely.
ameba
ameba
noun
(American spelling) Alternative form of amoeba
ameds
ameed
ameen
ameen
noun
(India, historical) Any of various native Indian officials employed by the civil courts, for example to investigate accounts connected with a suit, to prosecute local enquiries of any kind bearing on a suit, to sell or to deliver over possession of immovable property, or to carry out legal process as a bailiff.
ameer
amelu
amena
amend
amend
noun
(informal, of a document, usually in the plural) Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”).
(usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
(obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
(transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
(transitive) To make better; improve.
amene
amene
adj
Pleasant; agreeable.
amens
amens
noun
plural of amen
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amen
ament
ament
noun
(botany) A catkin or similar inflorescence.
A congenital idiot.
amero
amero
noun
A proposed unified currency of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
amery
amess
amess
noun
Alternative form of amyss
amice
amice
noun
A hood, or cape with a hood, made of or lined with grey fur, formerly worn by the clergy.
amide
amide
noun
(inorganic chemistry) Any ionic derivative of ammonia in which a hydrogen atom has been replaced with a metal cation (R-NH⁻ or R₂N⁻)
(organic chemistry) Any derivative of an oxoacid in which the hydroxyl group has been replaced with an amino or substituted amino group; especially such derivatives of a carboxylic acid, the carboxamides or acid amides