(in particular, especially in compounds) The affixing and securing on of armor.
(nautical) A piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.
(nautical, chiefly in the plural) One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays, or used as a visual screen during times of action.
The act of preparing a tool or a weapon for action; activation.
The act of supplying (oneself or others) with armor and (now especially) arms and ammunition in preparation for a conflict; the act of providing with the means of defense and attack.
The act of supplying with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task.
verb
present participle of arm
bimong
coming
coming
adj
(obsolete) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.
Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.
noun
The act of arriving; an arrival.
verb
present participle of come
deming
doming
doming
verb
present participle of dome
enigma
enigma
noun
A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.
A rare species of moth, Heliothis enigma.
A riddle, or a difficult problem.
A species of grasshopper, Oedaleonotus enigma.
A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.
Alternative form of Enigma
Mysteriousness; obscurity; lack of clarity.
Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.
faming
faming
verb
present participle of fame
fuming
fuming
adj
That which fumes.
Very angry.
noun
The act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.
verb
present participle of fume
gamine
gamine
adj
(of a girl) Having a boyish, mischievous charm; elfish, typically with short hair.
noun
A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl.
A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman.
gaming
gaming
noun
Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.
Ellipsis of videogaming.
Synonym of gambling
The playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and games of chance.
verb
present participle of game
gamins
gamins
noun
plural of gamin
gemina
gemini
geonim
germin
germin
noun
(biochemistry) Any of a group of proteins, resistant to proteases, associated with the germination of cereals
gigman
gigman
noun
(dated) One who exhibits gigmanity; a person with petty pride in his or her status.
One who operates a gig (a kind of carriage).
gilman
gnomic
gnomic
adj
(grammar) Expressing general truths or aphorisms.
(of a saying or aphorism) Mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise.
Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings).
gonium
gymnic
gymnic
adj
(now rare) Gymnastic; athletic.
noun
(in the plural, now rare) Gymnastics.
homing
homing
verb
present participle of home
igname
imagen
imagen
noun
A unit of imagery, analogous to a logogen, but applicable to non-verbal systems.
imogen
imping
imping
noun
A practice used on birds to fix important broken feathers.
The act or process of grafting or mending.
verb
present participle of imp
impugn
impugn
verb
(transitive) To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of.
(transitive, obsolete) To assault, attack.
ingham
ingmar
ingram
ingram
Proper noun
name, in modern use transferred back from the surname.
An unincorporated community in California
A village in Northumberland, England
A borough in Pennsylvania
A city in Texas
A village in Wisconsin
ingrim
jigman
jigman
noun
(mining) Synonym of jigger (“one who sorts ore by jigging”)
(textiles) One who dyes cloth with a jigger.
jigmen
jigmen
noun
plural of jigman
laming
laming
noun
The act or process of rendering lame
verb
present participle of lame
leming
leming
verb
present participle of leme
lignum
lignum
noun
A perennial shrub, Duma florulenta, native to semiarid areas of inland Australia.
Land covered by lignum.
liming
liming
noun
An application of lime (calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide).
verb
(Caribbean, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, slang) hanging around, usually in a public place with friends, enjoying the scene.
present participle of lime
lingam
lingam
noun
(Shaivism) The aniconic phallic representation traditionally worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva.
(rare and/or euphemistic) The penis.
macing
macing
verb
present participle of mace
maeing
magani
magian
making
making
noun
Process of growth or development.
The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
verb
present participle of make
malign
malign
adj
(oncology) Malignant.
Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
Malevolent.
verb
(transitive) To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce.
(transitive, archaic) To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong.
margin
margin
noun
(figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
(typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
That which is ancillary; periphery.
The edge or border of any flat surface.
margin of victory
verb
(transitive) To add a margin to.
(transitive) To enter (notes etc.) into the margin.
(transitive, finance) To trade (securities etc.) on margin (collateral).
mating
mating
adj
Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.
noun
(zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.
(zoology) Sexual union; copulation.
verb
present participle of mate
mawing
maying
maying
noun
(chiefly historical) The celebrations traditionally held to celebrate May Day.
verb
present participle of may
mazing
mazing
verb
present participle of maze
meting
meting
noun
The act of one who metes; a distribution or handing out.
verb
present participle of mete
mewing
mewing
noun
The act of one who mews (in any sense).
The act of producing a mew sound.
verb
present participle of mew
migeon
mignon
mignon
adj
Small and cute; pretty in a delicate way; dainty.
noun
(historical) One of the court favourites of Henry III of France.
(rare, obsolete) A cute or pretty person; a dandy; a pretty child.
miking
miking
verb
present participle of mike
miming
miming
noun
A performance in mime.
verb
present participle of mime
mingie
mingle
mingle
noun
(obsolete) A mixture.
The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group
verb
(intransitive) To socialize with different people at a social event.
(transitive) To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship
(transitive) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
(transitive) To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product
(transitive) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
(transitive, obsolete) To put together; to join.
to cause or allow to intermarry
to intermarry.
mingus
minhag
minhag
noun
(Judaism) a longstanding religious custom or tradition that is not required by Jewish law
mining
mining
noun
(cryptocurrencies) Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof of work.
(figuratively) Any activity that extracts or undermines.
(military) The activity of placing mines (the explosive devices).
The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
verb
present participle of mine
minong
miring
miring
verb
present participle of mire
miting
miting
noun
(obsolete, term of endearment) A little one; a mite.
mixing
mixing
adj
(statistics) Of a stochastic process, to be asymptotically independent (in a precise mathematical sense).
noun
The act, or the result of making a mixture.
verb
present participle of mix
moigno
moling
mooing
mooing
adj
(humorous) (of a steak) very rare
noun
The action of the verb moo; a mooing sound.
verb
present participle of moo
moping
moping
noun
The act of one who mopes.
verb
present participle of mope
moving
moving
adj
(not comparable) That moves or move.
That causes someone to feel emotion.
noun
(countable) A causing of a movement
(uncountable) The relocation of goods
verb
present participle of move
mowing
mowing
noun
Land from which grass is cut.
The activity by which something is mown.
verb
present participle of mow
mozing
mozing
noun
The raising of nap on cloth, as in a gig-mill.
muling
muling
verb
present participle of mule
muring
muring
verb
present participle of mure
musing
musing
adj
Absorbed in thought; contemplative
noun
thought, meditation, contemplation
verb
present participle of muse
muting
muting
noun
The dung of birds.
The process by which something is muted or silenced.
verb
present participle of mute
nagami
naming
naming
adj
Giving a name to a person or thing.
noun
A ritual or ceremony in which a person's name is given or announced.
The process of giving names to things.
verb
present participle of name
pigman
pigman
noun
(obsolete) A dealer in crockery.
A farm worker who looks after pigs.
rignum
riming
riming
adj
(rare) That rimes (i.e., covers with rime or hoar frost) something.
noun
(Ireland, now rare, done to wool or yarn) The action or process of dying red-brown by steeping in water with alder twigs.
The process of riming (i.e., covering with rime or hoar frost).
verb
present participle of rime
signum
signum
noun
(history) A medieval tower bell used particularly for ringing the 8 canonical hours.
(mathematics) A function that extracts the sign of a real number x, yielding -1 if x is negative, +1 if x is positive, or 0 if x is zero.
A sign, mark, or symbol.
taming
taming
noun
The process by which a person, animal or thing is tamed.
verb
present participle of tame
tignum
timing
timing
noun
(countable) An instance of recording the time of something.
(countable, obsolete) An occurrence or event.
(countable, uncountable) The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.
(countable, uncountable) The time when something happens.
(uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.