A traditional sport of Bhutan, resembling shot put.
dirge
dirge
noun
(informal) A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.
A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
verb
To sing dirges
dirgy
dirgy
adj
Like a dirge; funereal.
dogra
drago
drags
drags
noun
plural of drag
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drag
drang
dregs
dregs
noun
(collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
(figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.
dreng
dreng
noun
(historical, UK) A kind of feudal free tenant with military duties, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
drogh
drugi
drugs
drugs
noun
plural of drug
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drug
drung
durga
durga
Proper noun
A powerful Indian female deity.
name, common in India. Another name of Parvati
durgy
durgy
adj
(UK, dialect) Small; undersized.
edgar
edger
edger
noun
A tool that is used to trim the edges of a lawn.
One who practises the sexual technique of edging.
egrid
fgrid
gader
garad
garda
garda
noun
(Ireland) A member of the national police force of the Republic of Ireland, the Gardaí.
garde
garde
noun
Obsolete form of guard.
gardy
gerda
gerda
Proper noun
name occasionally used in English, mostly around 1900.
gerdi
gerdy
girds
girds
noun
plural of gird
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gird
gordo
gordy
gored
gored
adj
(textiles) Having a gore or gores.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gore
gourd
gourd
noun
(informal) loaded dice.
(obsolete) Any of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins, and cucumbers.
(slang) Head.
A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.
Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.
grade
grade
noun
(Canada, US, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
(Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
(chiefly Canada, US) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
(geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
(linguistics) Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
(mathematics) A gradian.
(medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
(ophthalmology, Philippines) An eyeglass prescription.
(systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
A rating.
A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
The level of the ground.
verb
(Canada, no longer current, intransitive) To pass from one school grade into the next.
(chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
(intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
(linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
(sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
(music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.
(usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).
Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
Of a large size or extent; great.
noun
(music, plural "grands") A grand piano
(plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)
A grandparent or grandchild.
greed
greed
noun
A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
verb
To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire.
gride
gride
noun
A harsh grating sound.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive, of a weapon or sharp object) To travel through something.
(obsolete, transitive) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
grids
grids
noun
plural of grid
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grid
grind
grind
noun
(archaic, slang) One who studies hard.
(slang) Hustle; hard work.
(uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
A tedious and laborious task.
A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
verb
(computing, dated) To automatically format and indent code.
(intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
(intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
(metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
(slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
(slang, Hawaii) To eat.
(slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
(sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
(transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
(transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
(transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
(transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
(transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
(video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
To instill through repetitive teaching.
To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
grond
gryde
gryde
verb
Obsolete form of gride.
guard
guard
noun
(American football) Either of two offensive positions between the centre and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.
(Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
(Ireland) A garda; a police officer.
(aviation) The aircraft emergency frequency, a radio frequency reserved for emergency communications, typically 121.5MHz for civilian use.
(basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or centre.
(computing, programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
(cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
(martial arts) A ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their legs.
(military) A squad responsible for protecting something.
(rail transport) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
(sports) A player playing a position named guard.
(uncountable) A state of caution; posture of defence.
A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
A watchchain.
Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
verb
To fasten by binding; to gird.
To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
gurdy
gurdy
noun
(nautical) A manual crank used on fishing lines
gyred
gyred
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gyre
igdyr
raged
raged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rage
redig
redig
verb
To dig again.
redug
redug
verb
simple past tense and past participle of redig
ridge
ridge
noun
(anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
(fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
(meteorology) An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
(oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
A chain of hills.
A chain of mountains.
Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
verb
(intransitive) To extend in ridges
(transitive) To form into a ridge
ridgy
ridgy
adj
Having ridges; ridged.
Rising in a ridge or ridges.
rigid
rigid
adj
Fixed, rather than moving.
Rigorous and unbending.
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Uncompromising.
noun
(aviation) An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.