metallic rust, particularly of brass or copper; verdigris
agenor
aggers
aggers
noun
plural of agger
aglare
aglare
adj
(postpositive) Glaring (either verb sense)
agorae
agrace
agrace
verb
Alternative form of aggrace
agrafe
agrafe
noun
A hook or fastener on clothing.
agreat
agreed
agreed
adj
In harmony.
intj
Indicates agreement on the part of the speaker.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of agree
agreer
agreer
noun
A person who agrees
agrees
agrees
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agree
agrege
agrest
agrief
agrief
adv
(obsolete) In grief; amiss.
agrise
agrise
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified.
(obsolete, transitive) To make tremble, to terrify.
agrope
agrope
adv
In the act of groping.
agrote
agrufe
aigret
aigret
noun
Alternative spelling of aigrette
alarge
alegar
alegar
noun
vinegar produced from fermented ale.
aleger
aleger
adj
(obsolete) gay; cheerful; sprightly
alegre
algren
amberg
anergy
anergy
noun
(immunology) Lack of immunity to an antigen.
(pathology) Deficiency of energy.
(physics) Dilute or disorganized energy, which cannot be transformed into work.
angers
angers
noun
plural of anger
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anger
angier
angler
angler
noun
(archaic, UK, thieves' cant) A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.
A person who fishes with a hook and line.
An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius.
Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.
arenga
arenig
argean
argean
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the mythical ship Argo.
argema
argent
argent
adj
(heraldry): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
Of silver or silver-coloured.
noun
(archaic) The metal silver.
(heraldry) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
(obsolete, poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
arghel
argile
argine
argive
argled
argles
argued
argued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of argue
arguer
arguer
noun
One who argues.
argues
argues
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of argue
argute
argute
adj
(literary) Sharp; perceptive; shrewd.
(literary) Shrill in sound.
argyle
argyle
noun
a pattern of diamond-shaped areas on a solid background; used especially of knitwear
a sock having this pattern
aridge
ariege
arigue
arleng
arrage
asgeir
augers
augers
noun
plural of auger
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of auger
augier
augres
augres
noun
plural of augre
augure
badger
badger
noun
(in the plural, obsolete, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
(obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
(obsolete) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
verb
To pester, to annoy persistently; press.
bagger
bagger
noun
A retail employee who bags customers' purchases and carries them to the customers' vehicles.
A touring motorcycle equipped with saddlebags.
One who bags.
banger
banger
noun
(Britain) A firework that makes a bang.
(Britain, New Zealand, Australia, food, slang) A sausage.
(Britain, music, slang) A powerfully energetic piece of music, especially dance music.
(Britain, sexuality, slang) A man's penis.
(Britain, sexuality, slang) A woman's breast.
(Britain, slang, by extension) Any particularly good or pleasing thing.
(US, automotive, slang) A car or an engine; referring to the cylinders of an engine in a car. From the explosive bangs on every cylinder firing.
(US, crime, slang) Clipping of gangbanger; a member of a gang.
(automotive, slang) An old, worn-out car. From a stereotypical one backfiring, making banging noises.
(curling) One of the rocks that end up crashing against another, making banging sounds, after a throw.
(curling) One of the rocks that results in a score at the finish of an end.
(military, slang) A Bangalore torpedo.
(sexuality, slang) A person who has sex.
barege
barege
noun
Alternative spelling of barège
barged
barged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of barge
bargee
bargee
noun
A crewman of a working barge.
barger
barger
noun
(obsolete) The manager of a barge.
One who barges or shoves.
barges
barges
noun
plural of barge
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of barge
beberg
bedrug
bedrug
verb
(transitive) To drug abundantly or excessively.
begari
begary
beggar
beggar
noun
(UK) A minced oath for bugger.
(colloquial, sometimes endearing) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
A person suffering from extreme poverty.
A person who begs.
verb
(transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
(transitive, figurative) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.
begger
begger
noun
Obsolete form of beggar.
begird
begird
verb
(transitive, archaic) To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.
(transitive, archaic) To encircle, surround, as with a gird; enclose; encompass.
begirt
begirt
verb
simple past tense and past participle of begird
begray
begrim
bergen
bergen
noun
(UK, military) A large rucksack.
berger
berget
bergin
bergoo
bergut
bering
bering
verb
(transitive, intransitive, dated) To encircle (something) with a ring or some other circular object (such as a shackle).
bigger
bigger
adj
comparative form of big: more big
verb
(nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.
bigler
bigner
binger
binger
noun
Someone who binges.
bodger
bodger
noun
A woodworker in the traditional style characterised by the use of hand tools, a pole lathe and use of green timber.
One who works in a rough and ready, slipshod manner.
bogier
bolger
booger
booger
noun
(US, Canada, Philippines, slang) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.
(US, slang) A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing.
(US, slang) Something suggestive of this material.
(surfing, slang, mildly derogatory) A bodyboarder.
borage
borage
noun
Borago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored leaves and stems, used in salads and cooked.
borger
borges
brager
breger
bregma
bregma
noun
(anatomy) the anatomical structure on the skull where the coronal suture and sagittal suture meet
bridge
bridge
noun
(anatomy) The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
(billiards, snooker, pool) A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.
(billiards, snooker, pool) A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
(bowling) The gap between the holes on a bowling ball
(card games) A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each.
(chemistry) An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
(computing) A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner.
(cycling) The situation where a lone rider or small group of riders closes the space between them and the rider or group in front.
(dentistry) A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.
(diplomacy) A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord.
(electronics) An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
(electronics) Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit
(graph theory) An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.
(gymnastics) A similar position in gymnastics.
(medicine) A rudimentary procedure before definite solution
(music) A contrasting section within a song that prepares for the return of the original material section.
(music, lutherie) The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.
(nautical) An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
(networking) A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2 of OSI model.
(poetry) A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.
(programming) A software component connecting two or more separate systems.
(roller derby) An elongated chain of teammates, connected to the pack, for improved blocking potential.
(wrestling) A defensive position in which the wrestler is supported by his feet and head, belly-up, in order to prevent touch-down of the shoulders and eventually to dislodge an opponent who has established a position on top.
A connection, real or abstract.
A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
A day falling between two public holidays and consequently designated as an additional holiday.
A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.
A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.
Anything supported at the ends and serving to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
verb
(computing, communication) To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge.
(music) To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping.
(roller derby) To employ the bridge tactic. (See Noun section.)
(wrestling) To go to the bridge position.
To be or make a bridge over something.
To span as if with a bridge.
brigue
brigue
noun
(obsolete) Intrigue; secretive machinations.
verb
(obsolete) To achieve or obtain by underhand methods.
brogle
brogue
brogue
noun
(dated) A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
A strong dialectal accent. In Ireland it used to be a term for Irish spoken with a strong English accent, but gradually changed to mean English spoken with a strong Irish accent as English control of Ireland gradually increased and Irish waned as the standard language.
verb
(dialect) to fish for eels by disturbing the waters.
(intransitive) To walk.
(transitive) To kick.
(transitive) To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
(transitive, intransitive) To speak with a brogue (accent).
bruges
brugge
budger
budger
noun
One who budges.
bugger
bugger
intj
(slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
noun
(Britain law) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
(obsolete) A heretic.
(slang, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Someone who is very fond of something
(slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, South Africa) A situation that causes dismay.
(slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, South Africa) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
(slang, US) A whippersnapper, a tyke.
(slang, dated) A damn, anything at all.
(slang, derogatory, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, South Africa) A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
verb
(slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
(slang, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To be fatigued.
(slang, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To be surprised.
(slang, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To feel contempt for some person or thing.
(slang, vulgar in, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To break or ruin.
(vulgar, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To have anal sex with, sodomize.
bugler
bugler
noun
Someone who plays a bugle.
bulger
bulger
noun
(dated, slang) Anything very large; a whopper.
(electronics) A capacitor with a bulging top.
(golf) A driver or a brassy with a convex face.
bunger
bunger
noun
(Australia) A cigarette.
(Australia) A firecracker.
burgee
burgee
noun
A flag, usually a broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail, flown by yachts to identify the owner's yacht club.
burger
burger
noun
(Internet slang, 4chan, derogatory) An American.
(Pakistan, usually derogatory) A stereotypical well-off Pakistani aspiring to a westernized lifestyle.
(chiefly as a combining form) A similar sandwich or patty.
(informal) A hamburger.
Alternative form of burgher
burget
burgle
burgle
verb
(Australia, Britain, New Zealand, Ireland) To commit burglary.
(UK, sports) To take the ball legally from an opposing player.
cadger
cadger
noun
(archaic) A hawker or peddler.
(sometimes Tyneside) A beggar.
cagers
cagers
noun
plural of cager
cagier
cagier
adj
comparative form of cagey: more cagey
cerago
cerago
noun
beebread
cerigo
cering
cering
verb
present participle of cere
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.
chegre
cierge
cierge
noun
A wax candle used in religious rites.
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.
codger
codger
noun
(informal) An amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man.
cogger
cogger
noun
A flatterer or deceiver.
Someone who cheats at dice.
conger
conger
noun
(historical) A chain of booksellers.
Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters
corage
courge
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
curage
dagger
dagger
noun
(basketball, American football) A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win.
(typography) The text character †; the obelus.
(weaponry) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.
verb
To pierce with a dagger; to stab.
danger
danger
noun
(mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
(obsolete) Liability.
(obsolete) Mischief.
An instance or cause of likely harm.
Exposure to likely harm; peril.
verb
(obsolete) To claim liability.
(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
(obsolete) To run the risk.
darger
dargue
dargue
noun
Alternative form of darg (day's work, or set quantity of work)
degerm
degerm
verb
To remove the germ from a cereal grain etc.
degger
degras
degras
noun
A semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly used as a dressing for hides.
degree
degree
noun
(algebra) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
(algebra, field theory) The dimensionality of a field extension.
(genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
(geography) A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
(geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
(grammar) Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
(graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
(logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.
(now rare) One's relative state or experience; way, manner.
(obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
(physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
(surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
digger
digger
noun
(Australia, dated) A friend; used as a term of endearment.
(Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
(Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
A spade (playing card).
A tool for digging.
One who digs.
dinger
dinger
noun
(Australian slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
(Australian slang) A condom.
(Australian slang) The buttocks, the anus.
(Canada, US, slang) The penis.
(MLE, slang) An unregistered car.
(US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
A bell or chime.
One who rings a bell.
The suspended clapper of a bell.
dirged
dirged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dirge
dirges
dirges
noun
plural of dirge
dirgie
dirige
dirige
noun
A Roman Catholic service for the dead, being the first antiphon of matins for the dead, of which dirige is the first word; a dirge.
dodger
dodger
noun
(countable) A person full of tricks or street smarts.
(countable) Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving).
(countable, Australia, slang) An advertising leaflet; a flyer.
(countable, nautical) A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.
(uncountable, Australia, US, slang, dated) Bread.
dogear
dogear
noun
Alternative form of dog-ear
dogger
dogger
noun
(Australia) A wild dog trapper employed in the pastoral industry.
(Australia, New Zealand) A dogman.
(Britain) A participant in the sexual activity of dogging.
A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.
A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.
dradge
dradge
noun
(mineralogy) Inferior ore, separated from the better ore by cobbing.
dragee
dragee
noun
Alternative spelling of dragée
dredge
dredge
noun
(cooking, countable) A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation.
(uncountable) A mixture of oats and barley.
A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
A dredging machine.
An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
The act of dredging.
Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
verb
(cooking, transitive) To sprinkle (food) with spices or seasonings, using a dredge.