(chemistry) A compound of nitrogen and boron which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride.
affright
affright
adj
afraid; terrified; frightened
noun
(archaic) Great fear, terror, fright.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To inspire fright in; to frighten, to terrify.
agaphite
agathaea
agathism
agathism
noun
The doctrine that the ultimate end of all things is good, although the intermediate means may be evil.
agathist
agathist
noun
A person who believes in agathism.
aggadoth
agnathia
agnathia
noun
(pathology) A birth defect in which the mandible is missing.
agnathic
agnathic
Adjective
Jawless.
Afflicted by or characteristic of agnathia.
airlight
airthing
airtight
airtight
adj
(figuratively) Having no weak points or flaws.
(figuratively, of a person) Highly reserved in some matter, particularly tight-lipped or tight-fisted.
Impermeable to air or other gases.
albright
algaroth
algaroth
noun
Alternative form of algarot
alighted
alighted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of alight
alighten
alighten
verb
To alight, to dismount or get down from.
To alight; to land, to descend and rest.
To lighten; to reduce in weight or heaviness.
To make light; to illuminate or brighten.
allthing
allthing
pron
(obsolete) everything
almighty
almighty
adj
(by extension) Having very great power, influence, etc.
(slang) Great; extreme; terrible.
(sometimes postpositive) Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful
adv
(slang, colloquial) Extremely; thoroughly.
alrighty
alrighty
intj
(informal) Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.
although
although
conj
But, except.
Though, even though, in spite of or despite the fact that: introducing a clause that expresses a concession.
anything
anything
adv
In any way, any extent or any degree.
noun
Someone or something of importance.
pron
(with “as” or “like”) Expressing an indefinite comparison.
Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; a thing of any kind; something or other.
aphthong
aphthong
noun
(phonology) A letter or combination of letters employed in spelling a word but not pronounced.
apothegm
apothegm
noun
A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
arightly
arightly
adv
Aright; correctly.
ataghans
ataghans
noun
plural of ataghan
atheling
atheling
noun
A prince, especially an Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir.
athrough
attaghan
attaghan
noun
Alternative form of yataghan
balaghat
barghest
barghest
noun
(mythology, Britain) A legendary monstrous black dog, said to possess large teeth and claws, and (sometimes) to be capable of changing form.
(mythology, Britain) Any ghost, wraith, hobgoblin, elf, or spirit.
batching
batching
verb
present participle of batch
berthage
berthage
noun
A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
bethpage
bhagavat
bonaught
boothage
broughta
bushgoat
carthage
carthage
Proper noun
An ancient city in North Africa, in modern Tunisia
Any of several cities in Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, South Dakota, Texas, USA:
a city in Illinois
a city in Mississippi
a city in Missouri
a city in Texas
Any of several towns in Arkansas, Indiana, Maine, North Carolina, Tennessee, USA:
a town in North Carolina
a town in Tennessee
catching
catching
adj
(informal) Infectious, contagious.
Captivating; alluring; catchy.
noun
The action of the verb catch.
verb
present participle of catch
catfight
catfight
noun
(slang) A fight or bickering between women.
A fight between cats.
chagatai
changteh
chantage
chantage
noun
blackmail; the extortion of money by threats of scandalous revelations
chanting
chanting
noun
Singing, especially as a chant is sung.
verb
present participle of chant
charting
charting
noun
The act by which something is charted.
verb
present participle of chart
chatting
chatting
noun
Talk; chatter.
verb
present participle of chat
cheating
cheating
adj
Unfaithful or adulterous.
Unsporting or underhand.
noun
(cinematography) The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location.
An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.
verb
present participle of cheat
chigetai
chigetai
noun
Alternative form of dziggetai
chingtao
claughts
daughter
daughter
noun
(by extension) A female character of a creator.
(informal, uncommon, sometimes derogatory) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
(physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
(syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.
A daughter language.
A female descendant.
One’s female offspring.
daughtry
daylight
daylight
noun
(countable, machinery) The space between platens on a press or similar machinery.
(countable, photometry) The intensity distribution of light over the visible spectrum generated by the Sun under various conditions or by other light sources intended to simulate natural daylight.
(figurative) Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.
A clear, open space.
A light source that simulates daylight.
Daybreak.
Exposure to public scrutiny.
The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with.
The light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source.
The period of time between sunrise and sunset.
verb
(architecture) To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
(intransitive) To gain exposure to the open.
(landscaping, civil engineering) To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
To expose to daylight
dogpatch
dogpatch
Proper noun
Any community inhabited by hillbillies.
dogwatch
dogwatch
noun
(by extension) A night shift, or other very late or early period of duty.
(nautical) A very brief period of naval service.
(nautical) Aboard a ship, either of the two short two-hour watches that take place between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
draughts
draughts
noun
(board games, Britain, Australia, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.
A mild vesicatory.
plural of draught
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of draught
draughty
draughty
adj
(British spelling) Standard spelling of drafty.
earthing
earthing
noun
(holism) The process of connecting with the earth's energy, usually through bodily contact (e.g. walking barefoot), supposed to achieve health and vitality.
The act or process of placing (something) in the earth; planting; burying
verb
present participle of earth
faithing
faithing
noun
worship, practising faith
fanlight
fanlight
noun
a semicircular or semioval window over a door or other window, normally having a fan-like structure of ribs; sometimes hinged to the transom
an electric fan, usually a ceiling fan, that is also a light fixture
farsight
farsight
noun
The faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience.
farthing
farthing
noun
(figurative) A very small quantity or value; the least possible amount.
(historical) Former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny; or a coin representing this.
(obsolete) A division of land.
flaughts
fraughts
fraughts
noun
plural of fraught
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraught
fughetta
fughetta
noun
(music) A short, condensed version of a fugue.
gagtooth
gagtooth
noun
(obsolete) A projecting tooth.
gahnites
gahnites
noun
plural of gahnite
galateah
galuchat
galuchat
noun
fine sharkskin leather
gandhist
gandhist
Noun
A proponent of Gandhism.
garthman
garthrod
gaslight
gaslight
noun
A lamp which operates by burning piped illuminating gas (or town gas).
The light produced by the burning gas in such a lamp.
verb
(chiefly transitive) To manipulate someone such that they doubt their own memory, perceptions of reality, or sanity, typically for malevolent reasons.
gasthaus
gastight
gastight
adj
impermeable to gases
gathered
gathered
adj
(Quakerism) focused, centered, achieving a state of shared mysticism.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gather
gatherer
gatherer
noun
(textiles) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
A person who collects rent or taxes.
A person who gathers things.
A workman who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
gatherum
gathings
gauchest
gauchest
adj
superlative form of gauche: most gauche
gauthier
gearhart
gebhardt
gerhardt
ghastful
ghastful
adj
(archaic) Causing fear; terrifying; dreadful; fit to make one aghast; exceedingly dismal.
(archaic) Terrified, frightened.
ghastily
ghatwazi
giantish
giantish
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a giant.
noun
(fantasy) A fictional language spoken by giants.
gilthead
gilthead
noun
A marine fish, Sparus aurata (gilt-head bream), with a golden-coloured head; the giltpoll.
Symphodus melops, a coastal fish; the golden maid, conner, or sea partridge.
gnathion
gnathion
noun
A craniometric point, being the lowest part of the middle line of the mandible.
gnathism
gnathism
noun
The classification of mankind based on measurements of the jaw.
gnathite
gnathite
noun
(zoology) Any of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda.
goatbush
goatfish
goatfish
noun
Any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Mullidae, having two barbels on the chin.
goatherd
goatherd
noun
A person who herds, tends goats.
godthaab
goethals
goethean
goethean
Adjective
Of or relating to Johann Wolfgang Goethe, a German writer and thinker.
goethian
golgotha
golgotha
Proper noun
The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
The rooms of the heads of the colleges
goliaths
goliaths
noun
plural of goliath
gomashta
gomashta
noun
(India, now historical) A native Indian clerk or steward.
gotthard
graithly
grantham
grantham
Proper noun
a market town in Lincolnshire, England.
granthem
graphite
graphite
noun
A grey colour, resembling graphite or the marks made with a graphite pencil.
An allotrope of carbon, consisting of planes of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal arrays with the planes stacked loosely, that is used as a dry lubricant, in "lead" pencils, and as a moderator in some nuclear reactors.
Short for graphite-reinforced plastic, a composite plastic made with graphite fibers noted for light weight strength and stiffness.
verb
(transitive) To apply graphite to.
greatish
greatish
adj
Somewhat great.
grithman
guytrash
guytrash
noun
Alternative form of gytrash
habiting
habiting
noun
(poetic, obsolete) clothing; garb
(poetic, obsolete) habitation; living place
verb
present participle of habit
hagadist
hagarite
haggadot
haggerty
hagstone
hagstone
noun
(Wicca) A ceremonial stone with a hole drilled into used to ward off evil or see into other worlds
hagstrom
hagtaper
hagueton
hametugs
hangment
hangment
noun
(UK, regional, obsolete) The devil; the dickens; mischief.
hangnest
hangnest
noun
A bird which builds such a nest; a hangbird.
A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket.
hangouts
hangouts
noun
plural of hangout
hangtags
hangtags
noun
plural of hangtag
hartogia
hastings
hastings
noun
Early fruit or vegetables, especially peas.
hatching
hatching
noun
A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
Patterns used in construction drawings to represent various materials.
The act of an egg hatching, eclosion
verb
present participle of hatch
haughtly
haughtly
adv
(obsolete) Haughtily.
haughton
haunting
haunting
adj
Remaining in the mind; not easily forgotten.
noun
A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.
verb
present participle of haunt
headgate
headgate
noun
A moveable framework designed to hold still the heads of cattle for various procedures.
A primary gate or valve at an aqueduct or other source that can be opened or closed to regulate the flow of water entering an irrigation system (of lesser gated canals and irrigation ditches).
hearting
hearting
noun
Material used as fill between walls of greater structural integrity, especially in masonry.
verb
present participle of heart
helotage
helotage
noun
The condition of a helot.
heptagon
heptagon
noun
(geometry) A polygon with seven sides and seven angles.
heretoga
heretoga
noun
(historical) An Anglo-Saxon army leader or commander; a general; a duke.
herigaut
heritage
heritage
noun
(attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.
An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
hexaglot
hexaglot
adj
(rare) In six languages.
hightail
hightail
verb
(informal, chiefly Canada, US, usually transitive) To move at full speed, especially in retreat.
hostaged
hostaged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hostage
hostager
hostager
noun
(obsolete) A hostage; a person held hostage.
hostages
hostages
noun
plural of hostage
howgates
hrothgar
hugmatee
ingather
ingather
verb
(intransitive) To gather together
(transitive) To collect or gather in
ithagine
jaghatai
jugurtha
katchung
katchung
noun
(India) Synonym of groundnut (“Arachis hypogaea”)
knightia
laghouat
lagthing
latching
latching
adj
That latches.
noun
(linguistics) The situation where one speaker's utterance immediately follows another speaker's utterance, without pause or overlap.
(nautical) A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail.