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.
arghel
baghla
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).
chagal
chagul
clough
clough
noun
(Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
(dialectal) A wood; weald.
(dialectal) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
(historical) Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”)
A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
coghle
ehling
enghle
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.
galahs
galahs
noun
plural of galah
galcha
gallah
galoch
galosh
galosh
noun
(Britain) A waterproof overshoe used to provide protection from rain or snow.
(US) A waterproof rubber boot, intended to be worn in wet or muddy conditions.
A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.
verb
(intransitive) To walk while wearing, or as if wearing, galoshes; to splash about.
galuth
gashly
gashly
adj
Ghastly, horrible.
gaulsh
gelhar
geulah
ghalva
ghazal
ghazal
noun
A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
ghazel
ghibli
ghibli
noun
(Libya) sirocco
ghouls
ghouls
noun
plural of ghoul
ghylls
ghylls
noun
plural of ghyll
gibleh
gibleh
noun
Archaic form of ghibli.
glagah
gleich
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.
gluish
gluish
adj
Somewhat gluey.
glunch
glutch
glutch
noun
(Britain, dialect) A mouthful.
verb
(Britain, dialect) To swallow.
glyphs
glyphs
noun
plural of glyph
gohila
golach
goloch
golosh
gomlah
gomlah
noun
(India) A large earthen pot.
goolah
graehl
guelph
gulash
gullah
gullah
Proper noun
A creole of English and various African languages spoken on a group of islands off the coast of the Carolinas and Georgia in the Southern United States.
The culture surrounding this language and geography.
Noun
A member of the Gullah culture.
Adjective
Pertaining to the Gullah language and culture.
gumlah
haggle
haggle
verb
(intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
(transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
haggly
haggly
adj
(dialect, obsolete) rough; unevenly cut
haglet
haglet
noun
A shearwater.
haglin
haglin
noun
Synonym of hagdon
haling
haling
verb
present participle of hale
hangle
hangle
noun
A form of hanger by which the scabbard of a sword was suspended, attached not necessarily to the girdle, but sometimes to two rings fastened to the cuirass at its bottom edge, one over the left hip, the other near the middle of the back.
A hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.
hangul
hangul
noun
The Kashmir stag.
heling
heling
verb
present participle of hele
hengel
higgle
higgle
verb
(archaic) To hawk or peddle provisions.
(archaic) To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle.
highly
highly
adv
Extremely; greatly; very much.
In a high or esteemed manner.
higley
hilger
hingle
holing
holing
noun
(mining) undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass.
verb
present participle of hole
hugely
hugely
adv
greatly; to a huge extent
huggle
huggle
noun
(Internet, childish) A hug while snuggling: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.
verb
(Internet) To hug and cuddle.
(Internet, childish) To hug and snuggle simultaneously: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.
(archaic) To huddle.
hulbig
kilhig
kilhig
noun
A short pole used as a lever to direct the fall of a tree during logging.
lagash
lagash
Proper noun
An ancient city in Sumer, in what is today's southeast Iraq.
laighs
laughs
laughs
noun
plural of laugh
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of laugh
laughy
laughy
adj
Causing laughter; comical.
lehigh
leigha
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.
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.
lithog
loughs
loughs
noun
plural of lough
moghul
moghul
Noun
A head of the Mongolian dynasty founded by Zahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammed Bābur (1483-1530) which controlled large parts of southern Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
A Mongol or Mongolian, especially a member or follower of the Moghul dynasty.
An important or successful person; a magnate. (Now usually as
neligh
neligh
Proper noun
a small city in Nebraska, USA, which is the county seat of It was named after John D. Neligh.
nighly
nighly
adv
(archaic) nearly
phlegm
phlegm
noun
(historical) One of the four humors making up the body in ancient and mediaeval medicine; said to be cold and moist, and often identified with mucus.
(historical, chemistry, alchemy) A watery distillation, especially one obtained from plant matter; an aqueous solution.
Calmness of temperament, composure; also seen negatively, sluggishness, indifference.
Viscid mucus produced by the body, later especially mucus expelled from the bronchial passages by coughing.
plewgh
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.
plough
plough
noun
(yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
A joiner's plane for making grooves.
Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
The use of a plough; tillage.
verb
(UK, university slang, transitive) To fail (a student).
(bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
(intransitive) To use a plough.
(joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
(nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
(transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
(transitive, vulgar) To have sex with, penetrate.
To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
To move with force.
ralegh
seghol
seghol
noun
Alternative form of segol (“Hebrew mark”)
sleigh
sleigh
adj
(obsolete) Sly.
noun
A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller)
verb
To ride or drive a sleigh.
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.
slough
slough
noun
(Britain) A muddy or marshy area.
(Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
(Eastern United States) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
(Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
A state of depression.
Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
verb
(intransitive) To slide off (like a layer of skin).
(intransitive, slang, Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.