(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
beclog
beclog
verb
(transitive) To encumber with a sticky substance; clog.
begeck
begeck
noun
(transitive, UK dialectal) A disappointment; trick.
verb
(transitive, UK dialectal) To deceive; disappoint; jilt.
beglic
begluc
belgic
belgic
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean.
Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.
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.
ceding
ceding
verb
present participle of cede
cerago
cerago
noun
beebread
cerigo
cering
cering
verb
present participle of cere
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.
chebog
chegoe
chegoe
noun
Dated form of chigoe.
chegre
cheung
chigoe
chigoe
noun
A small tropical flea, Tunga penetrans, whose females burrow under the skin of animals, including humans, and lay their eggs, causing strong irritation and sores.
cierge
cierge
noun
A wax candle used in religious rites.
cigale
cingle
cingle
noun
A kind of belt or other girdle.
cledge
cledge
noun
(mining) The upper stratum of fuller's earth.
cledgy
cledgy
adj
stiff, stubborn, clayey, tenacious
clergy
clergy
noun
Body of persons, such as priests, who are trained and ordained for religious service.
Today we brought together clergy from the Wiccan, Christian, New Age and Islamic traditions for an interfaith dialogue.
coaged
coagel
coagel
noun
a gel formed by coagulation of a sol (colloid)
cobego
cobego
noun
The colugo, or flying lemur.
codger
codger
noun
(informal) An amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man.
cogent
cogent
adj
Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.
Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent.
Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
cogged
cogged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cog
cogger
cogger
noun
A flatterer or deceiver.
Someone who cheats at dice.
coggie
coggle
coggle
noun
cobble (all senses)
verb
To move or walk unsteadily
coghle
cogmen
cogmen
noun
plural of cogman
coigne
coigne
noun
Alternative form of coign: a keystone; a wedge; (obsolete) a corner or angle, especially of a building.
coigue
coigue
noun
Dombey's beech
colage
conged
conged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conge
simple past tense and past participle of congé
congee
congee
noun
(Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
(archaic) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.
(obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
(obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.
(obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.
(obsolete, Scotland) A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.
Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
verb
(archaic) To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.
(archaic) To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.
(obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to do something; to license.
(obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.
conger
conger
noun
(historical) A chain of booksellers.
Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters
conges
conges
noun
plural of conge
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conge
corage
courge
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
creigh
cringe
cringe
adj
(slang) Inducing awkwardness or embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.
noun
(countable) A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
(countable, Britain, dialectal) A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
(countable, figuratively) An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
(uncountable, slang) Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness.
verb
(intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
(intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
(intransitive, figuratively) To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
(intransitive, figuratively) To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
(transitive, obsolete) To bow or crouch to (someone) in servility; to escort (someone) in a cringing manner.
(transitive, obsolete) To draw (a body part) close to the body; also, to distort or wrinkle (the face, etc.).
cruger
cubage
cubage
noun
A cubic measurement.
cudgel
cudgel
noun
(figurative) Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.
A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
verb
To exercise (one's wits or brains).
To strike with a cudgel.
cueing
cueing
verb
present participle of cue
culgee
curage
cuvage
cygnet
cygnet
noun
The young of a swan.
eching
eclegm
eclegm
noun
(obsolete) A medicine made of oils mixed with syrups; a linctus.
egence
egence
noun
The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want.
egency
egency
noun
(obsolete) need; neediness; poverty.
eggcup
eggcup
noun
(Britain) A small dish used to support a boiled egg while it is eaten.
encage
encage
verb
To lock inside a cage; to imprison.
enclog
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
gecked
gecked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of geck
geckos
geckos
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gecko
gedact
geisco
geodic
geodic
adj
Of or relating to a geode.
geonic
geonic
adj
(psychology) Of or relating to a geon.
geotic
geotic
adj
(rare, chiefly mysticism or religion) Part of or related to the earth; geological or terrestrial.
gerick
gerlac
gestic
gestic
adj
Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary.
Relating to bodily motion; consisting of gestures.
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
gleich
glucke
goetic
goetic
adj
Pertaining to black magic or necromancy.
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
greece
greece
noun
(obsolete) plural of gree
griece
grocer
grocer
noun
A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery.
verb
(uncommon) To sell groceries; to act as a grocer.
gucked
gweduc
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
mcgrew
mcgrew
Proper noun
A village in Nebraska.
negoce
negoce
noun
(obsolete) business; occupation
ogicse
recage
recage
verb
(transitive) To cage again.
sciage
sciage
noun
A back-and-forth sawing movement of the hand in massage.
scogie
scogie
noun
(Scotland, archaic) A kitchen drudge.
scunge
scunge
noun
(countable, slang) A dirty or untidy person; one who takes no pride in their appearance.
(countable, slang) A scrounger; one who habitually borrows.
(countable, slang, derogatory) A scoundrel; a worthless or despicable person.
(uncountable, slang) Muck, scum, dirt, dirtiness; also used attributively.
verb
To mark with scunge; to begrime or besmirch.
To scrounge; to borrow.
To slink about; to sneak, to insinuate.
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.