(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and goverened by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
(countable) A generation.
(countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
(countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
(countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.
(countable) One of the stages of life.
(countable) The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
(countable) The people who live during a particular period.
(countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
(countable) The whole duration of a being, whether human, animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
(countable, geology) The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
(countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
(countable, poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
(uncountable) An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old, old age, senility; seniority.
(uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
(uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
verb
(intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
(intransitive, informal, of a statement, prediction) To be viewed or turn out in some way after a certain time has passed.
(transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
(transitive) To indicate that a person has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
(transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
(transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
beg
beg
noun
(knitting) Abbreviation of beginning.
A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.
The act of begging; an imploring request.
verb
(intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
(transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
(transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
(transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
(transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
bge
bge
noun
Abbreviation of beige.
cge
deg
deg
noun
(mathematics, countable) Abbreviation of degree.
(motorsports, uncountable) Clipping of degradation.
verb
(Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
ecg
eeg
ega
egg
egg
noun
(Internet slang, derogatory, dated) A user of the microblogging service Twitter identified by the default avatar (historically an image of an egg (sense 1.1.1)) rather than a custom image; hence, a newbie or noob.
(New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
(also cytology) Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
(archaic) Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.
(architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
(by extension, countable) A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
(chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
(computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
(countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
(derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
(derogatory, obsolete) A young person.
(informal, dated) A person; a fellow.
(military, dated) A bomb or mine.
(specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
(transgender slang) A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning; also, one's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
verb
(cooking) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
(intransitive) To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
(transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
egk
ego
ego
noun
(psychology, Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
egp
ekg
ekg
Noun
electrocardiogram
eng
eng
adj
(regional, obsolete) Narrow.
noun
Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink.
erg
erg
noun
(geomorphology) A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.
(rowing, slang) An ergometer.
The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10⁻⁷ joules.
verb
(rowing, slang, transitive, intransitive) To use an ergometer.
eug
evg
gae
gbe
gce
gde
geb
ged
ged
noun
(Scotland) A greedy person
(UK, dialect) The pike or luce.
gee
gee
intj
(somewhat dated) A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
A command to a horse, pack animal, etc., which may variously mean “move forward”, “go faster”, or “turn to the right”.
noun
(Ireland, slang) Vagina, vulva.
(US, slang) A guy.
(physics) Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.
(slang) Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.
A gee-gee, a horse.
The name of the Latin-script letter G.
verb
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.
(intransitive) Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.
(transitive) To cause an animal to move in this way.
To suit or fit.
gel
gel
noun
(Britain, slang) A girl.
A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
verb
(intransitive) To become a gel.
(intransitive) To develop a rapport.
(intransitive, figurative) To come together to form something; to cohere.
(transitive) To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
gem
gem
noun
(computing) A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
(figuratively) Any precious or highly valued thing or person.
(obsolete) A gemma or leaf-bud.
(uncountable, printing, uncommon, obsolete) A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.
A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
A type of geometrid moth, Orthonama obstipata.
Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram.
verb
(transitive) To adorn with, or as if with, gems.
gen
gen
noun
(birdwatching) Information about the location of a bird.
(chiefly Britain, informal) Information.
(fandom slang) Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.
(informal) A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).
(informal) A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.
(obsolete, UK, slang) A shilling.
(slang) A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).
Alternative letter-case form of Gen (“member of the Gen Movement”)
verb
(science fiction) To genetically engineer.
To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.
geo
geo
noun
(Shetland, Orkney, Caithness) An inlet, gully or cleft in the face of a cliff.
ger
ger
noun
A male convert to Judaism.
A yurt.
ges
ges
noun
plural of ge
get
get
noun
(Britain, regional) A git.
(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
(dated) Offspring.
(informal) Something gained; an acquisition.
(sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
Lineage.
verb
(archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
(copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.
(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(euphemistic) To kill.
(imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
(informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
(intransitive) To begin (doing something or to do something).
(intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
(intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
(intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
(intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
(now rare) To beget (of a father).
(transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
(transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
(transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
(transitive) To cause to do.
(transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
(transitive) To find as an answer.
(transitive) To getter.
(transitive) To hear completely; catch.
(transitive) To measure.
(transitive) To receive.
(transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
(transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
(transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
(transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
(transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
(transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
(transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
(transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
General Telephone & Electric Corporation, a former American telephone company.
gue
gue
noun
(Shetland) A kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.
(obsolete) A sharper; a rogue.
gye
jeg
jeg
noun
(machinery) Alternative form of jig
keg
keg
noun
A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
verb
(transitive) To store in a keg.
leg
leg
noun
(UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
(US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
(anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
(archaic) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
(cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
(electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
(figurative) Something that supports.
(finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
(geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
(geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
(journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
(nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
(nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
(telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
(usually in the plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
A stage of a journey, race etc.
Alternative spelling of leg.
An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
verb
To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
meg
meg
noun
(colloquial) A megalodon.
(colloquial) Any unit having the SI prefix mega-.
(colloquial, soccer) a nutmeg
(obsolete, US, slang) a dollar
verb
(colloquial, soccer, transitive) To nutmeg an opponent.
neg
neg
adj
(LGBT, public health) HIV negative
noun
(debating) Clipping of negative.
(seduction community) An expression or implication that one has a negative value judgement of someone in order to make them desire one's approval, especially when trying to pick up a date.
verb
(Britain slang) To annoy or irritate deliberately.
(nonstandard, Internet slang, transitive) To leave negative feedback in a reputation tracking system.
(transitive, seduction community) To express or imply a negative value judgement of someone to make them desire one's approval, especially when trying to pick up a date.
peg
peg
noun
(India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
(UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
(UK, slang, obsolete) A shilling.
(colloquial, dated) A leg or foot.
(cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
(cricket, slang) A stump.
(figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
(finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
(journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
(slang) The penetration of one's (male) partner in the anus using a dildo.
(slang, archaic) A serving of brandy and soda.
A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
A place formally allotted for fishing
A protrusion used to hang things on.
A step; a degree.
Ellipsis of clothes peg.
One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
verb
(cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
(intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
(slang, archaic) To drink alcohol frequently, especially brandy and soda; to tipple.
(slang, transitive, typically in heterosexual contexts) To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a dildo.
(transitive) To affix or pin.
(transitive) To fasten using a peg.
(transitive) To fix a value or price.
(transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
(transitive, slang) To indicate or ascribe an attribute to. (Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.)
(transitive, slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
(transitive, slang) To throw.
reg
reg
noun
(Internet slang) A regular.
(geography) A hard surface of rock fragments set in a sandy matrix, found in some hot deserts; regolith, stony desert.
(informal) A regulation.
registrar
registration
registry
seg
seg
adj
Designated for people of color
noun
(UK dialectal) A man; fellow.
(UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A castrated farm animal.
(US prison slang) Segregation
(archaic) A man; warrior; hero.
(broadcasting) Clipping of segment.
(dialect) A callus, an area of hardened skin.
A metal stud or plate fixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear.
Gladen, or other species of Iris
Sedge
teg
teg
noun
(UK, dialect, dated) a doe in its second year
(UK, dialect, dated) a sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old
veg
veg
adj
vegetarian
noun
(chiefly India) vegetarian food.
(colloquial) vegetable(s).
(psychology) A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.
verb
(colloquial) to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest