(sociology, philosophy, psychology) The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.
A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.
An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
agrace
agrace
verb
Alternative form of aggrace
bocage
bocage
noun
Alternative spelling of boscage
cadged
cadged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cadge
cadger
cadger
noun
(archaic) A hawker or peddler.
(sometimes Tyneside) A beggar.
cadges
cadges
noun
plural of cadge
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cadge
cageot
cagers
cagers
noun
plural of cager
cagier
cagier
adj
comparative form of cagey: more cagey
cagney
cangle
cangue
cangue
noun
A heavy wooden collar or yoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used in China to punish petty criminals.
cerago
cerago
noun
beebread
change
change
noun
(Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.
(baseball) A change-up pitch.
(campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
(countable) A replacement.
(countable) A transfer between vehicles.
(countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
(uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
(uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
(uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
verb
(archaic) To exchange.
(intransitive) To become something different.
(intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
(intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
(transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
(transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).
(transitive) To replace.
(transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
charge
charge
noun
(basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
(by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
(ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
(electromagnetism, chemistry) An electric charge.
(farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
(firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
(heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
(historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
(military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
(obsolete) Weight; import; value.
(weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
A forceful forward movement.
A load or burden; cargo.
An accusation by a person or organization.
An instruction.
An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
The amount of money levied for a service.
The scope of someone's responsibility.
verb
(basketball) To commit a charging foul.
(cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
(dated) To sell at a given price.
(heraldry) To add to or represent on.
(heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
(intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
(intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
(law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
(military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
(transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
(transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
(transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
(transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
(transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
(transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
(transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
(transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
To assign a duty or responsibility to.
To call to account; to challenge.
To impute or ascribe.
To ornament with or cause to bear.
cigale
coaged
coagel
coagel
noun
a gel formed by coagulation of a sol (colloid)
colage
corage
cowage
cowage
noun
A leguminous climbing plant, Mucuna pruriens, the spiculae of which are sometimes used as a mechanical vermifuge.
cradge
creagh
creagh
noun
Alternative form of creach
cubage
cubage
noun
A cubic measurement.
curage
cuvage
encage
encage
verb
To lock inside a cage; to imprison.
eucgia
gackle
gackle
Proper noun
A town in North Dakota.
gaelic
gauche
gauche
adj
(chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°.
(mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
gaucie
gawcey
gawcie
gedact
gerlac
glaces
glance
glance
noun
(cricket) A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
(mineralogy) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
(mineralogy) Glance coal.
A brief or cursory look.
A deflection.
A sudden flash of light or splendour.
An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
verb
(ichthyology) A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.
(intransitive) To graze at a surface.
(intransitive) To look briefly (at something).
(intransitive) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
(intransitive) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
(soccer) To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
To sparkle.
glauce
graced
graced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grace
gracer
gracer
noun
Agent noun of grace; one who graces.
graces
graces
noun
plural of grace
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grace
gracey
gracie
gracye
grayce
grecia
ignace
incage
incage
verb
Alternative form of encage
legacy
legacy
adj
Left over from the past; no longer current.
noun
(education) The descendant of an alumnus.
(law) Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.
mcgean
recage
recage
verb
(transitive) To cage again.
sciage
sciage
noun
A back-and-forth sawing movement of the hand in massage.
socage
socage
noun
(historical) In the Middle Ages (and chiefly but not exclusively medieval England), a legal system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord.
uncage
uncage
verb
(by extension) To unleash; to remove from restraints.