Relating to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus.
calgary
calgary
Proper noun
The largest city of the province of Alberta (Canada).
A village on the isle of Mull, Scotland, the eponym of the Canadian city.
cangler
cargill
carlage
carling
carling
noun
(nautical) A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking.
A cultivar of field pea or maple pea, dried, soaked, boiled, then fried.
Alternative form of carlin (old woman)
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.
clangor
clangor
noun
Canada, US standard spelling of clangour.
clinger
clinger
noun
(informal) An emotionally clingy person.
One who clings.
clogger
clogger
noun
(soccer, slang) A physically aggressive player.
A maker of the shoes called clogs.
One who, or that which, clogs.
cograil
cograil
noun
One of the rails of a cog railway, which engages the cog; the rack of a rack railway.
cowgirl
cowgirl
noun
(card games, slang) A playing card of queen rank.
A sex position where the woman is on top; cowgirl position.
A woman who identifies with cowboy culture, including clothing such as the cowboy hat.
A woman who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
verb
(rare, intransitive) To work as a cowgirl, herding cattle.
(rare, transitive) To mount someone and have sexual intercourse in the cowgirl position.
crengle
cringle
cringle
noun
(nautical) A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.
A withe for fastening a gate.
verb
(nautical, transitive) To fasten or attach with a cringle.
culrage
culrage
noun
(dated) smartweed
curling
curling
noun
(uncountable) A winter sport where players aim and slide stones down a sheet of ice and attempt to get their color stones closest to the house (a circular target marked on the ice).
The action or motion of something that curls or is curled.
verb
present participle of curl
garlics
garlics
noun
(rare) plural of garlic
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of garlic
gerlach
glacier
glacier
noun
(geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
glancer
glancer
noun
One who glances.
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.
grallic
grallic
adj
(zoology, archaic) Of or relating to the Grallae, a former taxonomic classification of wading birds.
grecale
grockle
grockle
noun
(slang, Britain, various parts of the West Country) A tourist from elsewhere in the country