(reflexive, archaic) To prepare oneself for action.
acreage
acreage
noun
An area of land measured in acres.
Size, as measured in acres.
acrogen
acrogen
noun
(biology) any flowerless plant whose growth takes place at the tip of the main stem, especially the cryptogam ferns
agacles
aganice
agapeic
agapeic
adj
Characteristic of agape.
ageusic
ageusic
adj
Lacking a sense of taste.
aggrace
aggrace
noun
(obsolete) grace; favour
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To favour; to grace.
aglance
alcogel
alcogel
noun
(chemistry) A colloid where the dispersive media is alcohol.
A hand sanitizer in the form of an alcohol gel
algesic
algesic
adj
Pain-causing; painful in nature.
Relating to the level of hypersensitivity to pain.
algetic
algetic
adj
Producing or having relation to pain.
anergic
anergic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of anergy.
angelic
angelic
adj
(chemistry) Of or pertaining to angelic acid.
(topology) A regular Hausdorff space is said to be angelic if the closure of each relatively countably compact set A is compact and the closure consists of the limits of sequences in A.
Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
Very sweet-natured or well-behaved.
anglice
apogeic
apogeic
adj
(figuratively) Climactic.
Pertaining to the apogee.
backage
beclang
begrace
begrace
verb
(transitive) To address (one) as "Grace".
(transitive) To grace or endue with grace; begift; endow.
blocage
blocage
noun
(architecture) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.
boscage
boscage
noun
(art) Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
(law) Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
A tax on wood.
brocage
brocage
noun
Obsolete form of brokerage.
cabbage
cabbage
noun
(countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
(uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
(uncountable, slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.
An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
Leftover scraps of fabric.
The cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
Used as a term of endearment.
verb
(intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
(intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
(transitive) To purloin or embezzle; to pilfer, to steal.
cadgers
cadgers
noun
plural of cadger
cageful
cageful
noun
That which can fit into a cage.
cageman
cageman
noun
(Hong Kong) One who lives in a cage home.
cagiest
cagiest
adj
superlative form of cagy: most cagy
cagoule
cagoule
noun
(Britain) A lightweight waterproof parka.
calkage
camboge
camboge
noun
Alternative form of gamboge.
camogie
camogie
noun
A women's stick-and-ball sport from Ireland, almost identical to hurling.
cangler
cangues
cangues
noun
plural of cangue
carceag
carceag
noun
The disease icterohematuria in sheep.
careaga
cargoes
cargoes
noun
plural of cargo
plural of cargoe
cargued
carlage
carnage
carnage
noun
(figurative, slang) Any chaotic situation.
(figurative, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
Death and destruction.
The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
cartage
cartage
noun
A charge made for such transport.
Any vehicular transportation of goods.
The transport of goods by cart; carting
caruage
carvage
cauboge
caughey
ceasing
ceasing
noun
A cessation.
verb
present participle of cease
centage
centage
noun
Rate by the hundred; percentage.
chagres
changed
changed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of change
changer
changer
noun
A person employed in changing or discounting money.
Someone or something that changes or transforms itself.
Someone or something who changes things.
changes
changes
noun
(music) Short for chord changes.
plural of change
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of change
charged
charged
adj
Arousing strong emotion.
Having electricity.
Showing or having strong emotion.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of charge
chargee
chargee
noun
(law) The holder or beneficiary of a charge or right in security (such as a debenture).
(law, Africa) One who is given charge of caring for another's animal or herd.
One who is charged; the person on whom a charge is levied, who is charged with a crime, who is charged to do something, etc.
chargen
charger
charger
noun
(firearms) A speed loader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine.
(historical, military) A large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry (of a lighter build than a destrier).
(prison) A rectal concealment container for prohibited material such as money, drugs and tools.
A device that charges or recharges.
A large decorative plate, sometimes used under dinner plates or other savoury-dish vessels in a multi-course meal; also service plate or underplate.
A large platter.
One who charges.
Synonym of hard charger (“person with a good work ethic”)
charges
charges
noun
plural of charge
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of charge
chefang
chengal
chevage
chevage
noun
A capitation tax; an equal tax or tribute per person.
chivage
chokage
chomage
chomage
noun
(obsolete) A period when a mill, factory, etc. stands still or idle.
cienaga
cienaga
noun
Alternative form of cienega
cienega
cienega
noun
(US) A marshy spring where groundwater bubbles to the surface.
cigaret
cigaret
noun
Dated form of cigarette.
clagged
clagged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clag
clanged
clanged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clang
clanger
clanger
noun
(Australia, Australian rules football) A mistake made by a player; counted in the game statistics in the category "errors including frees against".
(Australia, entomology) A cicada, Psaltoda claripennis, of New South Wales and Queensland, having an upper body of green and brown and clear wings with green veins.
(chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal, often in the phrase drop a clanger) A very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.
An early hi-hat consisting of cymbals mounted on the rim of a bass drum and struck with an arm on the drum's pedal.
Short for Bedfordshire clanger.
Something that clangs; an alarm bell (also figuratively).
The clapper of a bell, anything that strikes a bell or other metal object to make a ringing sound.
coagent
coagent
noun
An associate in an act; a coworker.
coagule
cognate
cognate
adj
(linguistics) Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.
noun
(law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
(law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
(linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
cogware
cogware
noun
A coarse cloth of the 14th century.
A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the 16th century.
cohagen
coinage
coinage
noun
(countable, lexicography) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
(uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency.
(uncountable, lexicography) The creation of new words, neologizing.
The process of coining money.
The process of creating something new.
colgate
colgate
Proper noun
A particular brand of toothpaste.
collage
collage
noun
(uncountable) The technique of producing a work of art of this kind.
A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc.
A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.
verb
(transitive) To make into a collage.
compage
compage
noun
(obsolete) A compages; a unified complex whole formed from the compaction of parts.
(obsolete) Compages; consistency, solid structure; the compaction of parts into a whole.
congaed
congaed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conga
congeal
congeal
verb
(intransitive) To become congealed, solidify.
(transitive) To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
(transitive) To coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid such as gel or jelly.
(transitive) To make rigid or immobile.
cordage
cordage
noun
(nautical) A set of ropes and cords, especially that used for a ship's rigging.
(obsolete) An amount of wood measured in cords.
corkage
corkage
noun
A fee charged by a restaurant to serve wine that a diner has provided.
cornage
cornage
noun
(law) An ancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.
A feudal tax levied on horned cattle.
corsage
corsage
noun
(now only historical) The waist or bodice of a woman's dress.
(obsolete) The size or shape of a person's body.
A small bouquet of flowers, originally worn attached to the bodice of a woman's dress.
costage
costage
noun
(obsolete) price
cottage
cottage
noun
(Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.
(UK, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.
A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
A small house.
verb
(intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
couhage
couhage
noun
Obsolete form of cowage.
coulage
coupage
coupage
noun
The blending (or cutting) of wine.
courage
courage
noun
The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude.
The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
verb
(obsolete) To encourage.
cowages
cowgate
cowhage
cragged
cragged
adj
Having crags
craggie
craigie
cranage
cranage
noun
Fees paid for use of the crane.
The use of a crane to hoist goods.
creaght
creaght
noun
(obsolete) A drove or herd.
cubages
cubages
noun
plural of cubage
cuinage
cuinage
noun
(obsolete, UK) The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall.
cullage
culrage
culrage
noun
(dated) smartweed
curiage
cuttage
cuttage
noun
The propagation of plants via cuttings
cymraeg
decagon
decagon
noun
(geometry) A polygon with ten sides and ten angles.
decalog
decalog
noun
Alternative form of decalogue
discage
discage
verb
(transitive) To free from a cage.
dockage
dockage
noun
(nautical) A charge levied for docking.
(nautical) The act of docking.
dogface
dogface
noun
(US military, slang) A foot soldier, especially during World War II.
(slang, derogatory) An ugly person.
Either of two pierid butterflies of the New World genus Zerene.
eclegma
elegiac
elegiac
adj
Expressing sorrow or mourning.
Of or relating to an elegy.
noun
A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
ellagic
ellagic
adj
Of or pertaining to gallnuts.
encaged
encaged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of encage
encages
encages
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encage
engrace
engrace
verb
(transitive) To instill grace into.
escuage
escuage
noun
(historical, Middle Ages) Payment to a lord in lieu of military service.
galeche
galenic
galenic
adj
of, or containing galena
gallice
gametic
gametic
adj
Of or pertaining to gametes.
ganched
ganched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ganch
garance
garceau
garnice
garniec
gaucher
gedackt
gemaric
gemaric
Adjective
Pertaining to the Gemara.
genarch
geranic
geratic
gerlach
glaceed
glacier
glacier
noun
(geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
glanced
glanced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of glance
glancer
glancer
noun
One who glances.
glances
glances
noun
plural of glance
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glance
glecoma
glucase
glucase
noun
(dated, biochemistry) Any enzyme that converts starch into glucose.
glucate
gouache
gouache
noun
(painting) A thick, opaque watercolour paint made with gum containing an inert white pigment to make it opaque.
(painting, countable) A painting made with this paint.
verb
To produce work in the gouache medium.
gracile
gracile
adj
(also figuratively) Lean, slender, thin.
(chiefly zoology, anthropology, paleontology) Of an animal or skeletal element: having a slender frame.
Graceful or gracefully slender.
grackle
grackle
noun
(formerly) Any of several Asian myna birds of the genus Gracula.
Any of several American blackbirds of the genus Quiscalus, and related genera, having iridescent plumage.
grecale
grecian
grimace
grimace
noun
(obsolete) Affectation, pretence.
A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.
verb
(intransitive) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
guanche
gynecia
gynecia
noun
plural of gynecium
hogmace
incaged
incaged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of incage
incages
incages
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incage
jackleg
jackleg
adj
(US) Amateur, untrained; incompetent.
(US) Dishonest, unscrupulous.
(US) Ineptly built or operated; makeshift.
noun
(US) A shyster or con artist; a gambler who cheats; a generally dishonest or reprehensible person.
(US) An amateur; an untrained or incompetent person.
A type of drill operated by means of compressed air.
lacygne
legnica
lochage
lochage
noun
(historical) The head of a lochos in Ancient Greece; an officer or commander.
lockage
lockage
noun
(colloquial) A situation where things lock together.
A toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.
Materials for locks in a canal.
The amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.