Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
alight
alight
adj
(figuratively) Aglow with activity or emotion.
Burning, lit, on fire.
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.
anight
anight
adv
(obsolete) In the night-time, at night.
aright
aright
adv
(archaic) To or on the right-hand side.
Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
verb
(transitive) To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
athing
aughts
aughts
adj
From or evoking the first through tenth years of a century (chiefly the 2000s).
noun
The first decade of a century, such as 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009, whose digit in the tens place is zero; the noughties.
bhagat
bhagat
noun
A holy man in Sikhism or Hinduism.
bights
bights
noun
plural of bight
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bight
bigtha
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).
bought
bought
noun
(obsolete) A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
(obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
(obsolete) A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
(obsolete) A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
(obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buy.
bright
bright
adj
(metallurgy) Of a metal object or surface: lacking any protective coating or surface treatment for the prevention of corrosion.
(music) Of a rhythm or tempo: lively, upbeat.
Clearly apparent; conspicuous.
Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.
Glorious; illustrious.
Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
In good spirits; happy, optimistic.
Manifest to the mind as light is to the eyes; clear, evident, plain.
Of a colour: not muted or pale; bold, brilliant, vivid.
Of a musical instrument, sound, or a voice: clearly audible; clear, resounding, and often high-pitched.
Of a period of history or time: happy, prosperous, successful.
Of a person: lively, vivacious.
Of a place: not dark; well-lit.
Of a room or other place: having acoustic qualities that tend to cause much echoing or reverberation of sound, particularly at high frequencies.
Of a scent or taste: not bland or mild; bold, sharp, strong.
Of a substance: clear, transparent; also, pure, unadulterated; (specifically) of wine: free of suspended particles; not cloudy; fine.
Of an object, surface, etc.: having vivid colour(s); colourful.
Of an object, surface, etc.: reflecting much light; having a high lustre; gleaming, shiny.
Of an opportunity or outlook: having a reasonable chance of success; favourable, good.
Of climate or weather: not cloudy or gloomy; fair; also, of a period of time, the sky, etc.: characterized by much sunshine and good weather.
Of conversation, writing, etc.: imaginative or sparkling with wit; clever, witty.
Of light: brilliant, intense.
Of the eyes: able to see clearly; of eyesight: keen, sharp.
Of the face or eyes, or a smile: showing happiness or hopefulness; cheerful, lively.
adv
(archaic) Referring to sight, sound, understanding, etc.: clearly, distinctly; brightly.
(often literary) In a bright manner; brightly, glowingly, luminously, lustrously.
Referring to colour: with bold or vivid colours; brightly, boldly, vividly.
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Something (especially a product intended for sale) that has vivid colours or a lustrous appearance.
(figuratively) Glory, splendour.
(painting) An artist's brush used in acrylic and oil painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
A person with a naturalistic worldview with no mystical or supernatural elements.
Brightness, glow.
verb
(intransitive, also figuratively) Often followed by up: to become bright (in various senses); to brighten.
(transitive) Often followed by up: to cast light on (someone or something); to brighten, to illuminate.
(transitive, figuratively) Often followed by up: to cause (someone or something) to be bright (in various senses); to brighten; specifically, to make (someone or something) energetic, or happy and optimistic.
caught
caught
adj
(cricket) Of the method of being out in which the striker hits the ball and a fielder catches it.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of catch
dights
dights
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dight
(archaic) A posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.
eighth
eighth
adj
The ordinal form of the number eight.
noun
(slang) An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.
One of eight equal parts of a whole.
The person or thing in the eighth position.
verb
to divide by eight
eights
eights
noun
(poker slang) A pair of eights.
plural of eight
eighty
eighty
num
The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.
ethnog
ethrog
ethrog
noun
Alternative form of etrog
fights
fights
noun
plural of fight
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fight
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.
fought
fought
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fight
fright
fright
adj
(rare) frightened; afraid; affright
noun
A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
Someone strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To frighten.
gaatch
galuth
gareth
gareth
Proper noun
name of Welsh origin; name of a knight in the Arthurian romance.
Noun
cunt
garths
garths
noun
plural of garth
gather
gather
noun
(glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
A gathering.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
verb
(architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
(intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
(intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
(intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
(knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
(nautical) To haul in; to take up.
(sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
Especially, to harvest food.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
To collect; normally separate things.
To gain; to win.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
gathic
gathic
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Gathas.
gesith
gesith
noun
(historical) A companion to an athel or king in medieval England; a thegn; a comrade
gether
gether
verb
(obsolete or regional) Alternative form of gather
ghaist
ghaist
noun
(dialectal) ghost
ghatti
ghauts
ghauts
noun
plural of ghaut
ghetti
ghetto
ghetto
adj
(US, informal, often derogatory or offensive) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
(slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
noun
(figurative, sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
verb
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
ghosts
ghosts
noun
plural of ghost
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ghost
ghosty
ghosty
adj
(chiefly informal) ghostly
noun
(childish or endearing) ghost (especially a non-frightening one)
girths
girths
noun
plural of girth
giveth
giveth
verb
(archaic) third-person singular simple present form of give
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.
glutch
glutch
noun
(Britain, dialect) A mouthful.
verb
(Britain, dialect) To swallow.
gnatho
goethe
gotchy
gotham
gotham
Proper noun
Nickname for New York City.
A village in Nottinghamshire, England, associated in folklore with insanity.
gothar
gothic
gothic
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Gothic
graith
graith
noun
(obsolete) Accoutrements: clothes, materials, equipment, furniture, etc.
(obsolete) Preparation; arrangement; condition.
verb
(obsolete outside Scotland) To make ready; prepare; put in order; make fit for use.
(obsolete outside dialects, chiefly UK) To dress (someone or oneself) or be dressed.
granth
greith
griths
griths
noun
plural of grith
growth
growth
noun
(biology) Something that grows or has grown.
(biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
(economics) Ellipsis of economic growth.
(pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
grunth
grutch
grutch
verb
(intransitive) To murmur, complain.
(obsolete) To grudge.
gthite
gushet
guthry
hagbut
hagbut
noun
(obsolete) An arquebus, a firearm with a long barrel.
haglet
haglet
noun
A shearwater.
hating
hating
verb
present participle of hate
haught
height
height
noun
(Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
(mathematics) The amplitude of a sine function
(phonetics) A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
A high point.
A mountain, especially a very high one.
The distance from the base of something to the top.
The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
The highest point or maximum degree.
The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
highet
highth
hights
hights
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hight
hogget
hogget
noun
(chiefly UK) A young boar of the second year.
(chiefly UK, New Zealand) A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth).
(chiefly UK, New Zealand) The meat of a young sheep.
hognut
hognut
noun
(UK) Conopodium majus, a tuberous plant of the Apiaceae.
(US) The pignut or hickory (Carya glabra of family Juglandaceae).
Certain rushpeas, particularly Hoffmannseggia glauca (syn. Hoffmannseggia densiflora) Indian rushpea, of the Fabaceae.
Hyptis suaveolens of the Lamiaceae.
hogsty
hogsty
Noun
A pigsty.
hogtie
hogtie
verb
Alternative spelling of hog-tie
hogton
hotdog
hotdog
noun
Alternative spelling of hot dog
verb
(intransitive, slang) To show off, especially in surfing and other sports.
hugest
hugest
adj
superlative form of huge: most huge
huttig
hutung
hutung
noun
Dated spelling of hutong.
knight
knight
noun
(by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
(card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
(chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
(historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
(historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
(law, historical) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
(literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
(modern) A generic name for various mushrooms belonging to the order Agaricales, the gilled mushrooms; scientific name Tricholoma.
(modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
verb
(chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
(transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
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
maught
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.
mought
mought
verb
(auxiliary, obsolete) past participle of may.
(obsolete outside dialects) Alternative form of might
naught
naught
noun
(archaic) Nothingness.
(chiefly US, old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought
pron
Nothing.
nights
nights
adv
at night (during night-time, especially on a regular basis)
noun
plural of night
nighty
nighty
noun
Alternative spelling of nightie
phrase
(childish) Good night. Abbreviation of nighty night.
nought
nought
adj
(obsolete) Good for nothing; worthless.
Wicked, immoral.
adv
Not.
To no extent; in no way; not at all.
noun
(UK) Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.
(UK) The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.
A thing or person of no worth or value; nil.
Nothing; something which does not exist.
verb
To abase, to set at nought.
oughts
oughts
noun
Alternative form of aughts (“first decade of a century”)
plural of ought
photog
photog
noun
(informal) A photographer, especially a professional one.
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.
(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) Filled with persons or objects; crowded.
noun
A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.
A group of things; a host or swarm.
verb
(intransitive) To congregate.
(transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
(transitive) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
thunge
thurgi
thwing
tights
tights
noun
(UK) A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet.
(dance) A similar, non-sheer garment worn by dancers of either sex, especially by ballet dancers.
(mining) In blasting rock, a piece of unbroken rock within the pay limit of a blast.
(wrestling) A garment, similar to briefs, worn chiefly by professional wrestlers.
toughs
toughs
noun
plural of tough
tought
toughy
toughy
noun
Alternative form of toughie
towght
trough
trough
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
(Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
(agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
(economy) low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle
(meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
Any similarly shaped container.
verb
To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
tughra
tughra
noun
A calligraphic signature of an Ottoman sultan (and some other rulers to the present day) that was affixed to official documents, carved on his seal, and stamped on coins and inscribed on some stamps issued during his reign.
tungah
ughten
vought
waught
waught
noun
Alternative form of waucht
weight
weight
noun
(criminal slang, dated) Money.
(lubricants) viscosity rating.
(measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
(physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
(physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
(slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
(slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
(statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
(topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
(typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
(visual art) The illusion of mass.
(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
(weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
An object used to make something heavier.
Importance or influence.
Pressure; burden.
The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
Weight class
verb
(transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
(transitive) To bias something; to slant.
(transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
(transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
(transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
(transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
(transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
wights
wights
noun
plural of wight
wright
wright
noun
(obsolete except in compounds) A builder or maker of something.