A register or form of English that gives preference to words of Germanic origin over words of other (especially Latin, French, or Greek) origin.
Adjective
Of, in, or pertaining to this form of English.
anguish
anguish
noun
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
verb
(intransitive) To suffer pain.
(transitive) To cause to suffer pain.
anights
anights
adv
(archaic) In the night time; at night.
ashling
ashling
noun
A small ash tree.
bangash
bashing
bashing
noun
An instance of bashing; a physical or verbal attack.
verb
present participle of bash
bushing
bushing
noun
(electrical engineering) A lining for an opening through which a conductor passes, providing insulation and mechanical protection for the conductor.
(mechanical engineering) A threaded bushing: a fastener element that is inserted into an object, usually to add a threaded hole in a softer or thin material.
(mechanical engineering) A type of bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge.
(mechanical engineering) An elastic bearing used as a type of vibration isolator, commonly made of rubber. An interface between two parts, damping the movement and the energy transmitted.
An adapter for joining pipes of different size.
verb
present participle of bush
cashing
cashing
verb
present participle of cash
changes
changes
noun
(music) Short for chord changes.
plural of change
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of change
changos
chasing
chasing
noun
Engraved or embossed decoration.
verb
present participle of chase
chosing
coshing
coshing
verb
present participle of cosh
cushing
dashing
dashing
adj
Chic, fashionable.
Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
noun
The action of the verb to dash.
verb
present participle of dash
dishing
dishing
adj
Shaped like a dish; concave.
noun
(sometimes figurative) The act of placing in a dish, as when presenting food to be served.
A dish shape or deformation; a concavity.
verb
present participle of dish
engiish
english
english
noun
(by extension, figurative) An unusual or unexpected interpretation of a text or idea, a spin, a nuance.
Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling.
enoughs
enoughs
noun
plural of enough
fashing
fashing
verb
present participle of fash
fishing
fishing
noun
(countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
(uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
(uncountable) The act of catching fish.
(uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
verb
present participle of fish
ganesha
ganesha
Proper noun
A Hindu god of intellect, wisdom, gates and beginnings, son of Parvati and Shiva.
name used in India.
Noun
The psychedelic drug 2,5-dimethoxy-3,4-dimethylamphetamine.
ganjahs
garnish
garnish
noun
(US, slang) Cash.
(cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
(slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
(slang, obsolete) Fetters.
A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
Pewter vessels in general.
Something added for embellishment.
verb
(archaic) To furnish; to supply.
(cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
(law) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
(law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
(slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter.
To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
gashing
gashing
noun
(engineering) The roughing operation for worm gears.
The act of making a gash, or cut.
verb
present participle of gash
genghis
gershon
gershon
Proper noun
The eldest of the sons of Levi, and the patriarchal founder of the Gershonites.
ghassan
githens
glashan
gnashed
gnashed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gnash
gnashes
gnashes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gnash
gnomish
gnomish
adj
(fantasy) Belonging to a race of gnomes.
Resembling a gnome; gnomelike.
aphoristic; gnomic
gonophs
gonophs
noun
plural of gonoph
gorhens
gorhens
noun
plural of gorhen
goschen
grishun
gunship
gunship
noun
(US, air force, military) A transport airplane equipped with large calibre guns typical of armoured fighting vehicles
(aviation) An armed helicopter tasked to attack the enemy.
(nautical) A ship equipped with heavy artillery.
gunshop
gunshop
noun
A shop where guns are sold.
gunshot
gunshot
noun
A bullet, projectile, or other shot fired from a gun.
The act of discharging a firearm.
The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun; the reach or range of a gun.
The sound made by a discharging firearm.
gushing
gushing
adj
Flowing forth suddenly or violently.
Inclined to gush; effusive.
noun
The act or motion of something that gushes.
verb
present participle of gush
gutnish
gutnish
Proper noun
The old language of the island of Gotland in present day Sweden, used both as a spoken and written language until late medieval times. Modern Gutnish is considered to have become a dialect of Swedish.
hagdons
hagdons
noun
plural of hagdon
hangars
hangars
noun
plural of hangar
hangers
hangers
noun
plural of hanger
hangups
hangups
noun
plural of hangup
hashing
hashing
noun
A social, non-competitive sport in which participants of a hash run use clues to follow a hash trail.
verb
present participle of hash
hasping
hasping
verb
present participle of hasp
hassing
hasting
hasting
verb
present participle of haste
havings
havings
noun
plural of having
hawsing
hawsing
verb
present participle of hawse
hayings
hayings
noun
plural of haying
hazings
hazings
noun
plural of hazing
hengest
hengist
hidings
hidings
noun
plural of hiding
higgins
higgins
Proper noun
from County Sligo.
hingers
hingers
noun
plural of hinger
hirings
hirings
noun
plural of hiring
hissing
hissing
noun
The sound of a hiss.
verb
present participle of hiss
histing
histing
verb
present participle of hist
hodgson
hoggins
hoggins
noun
plural of hoggin
hognose
hognose
adj
Having an upturned snout like a pig's.
noun
A hognose snake.
hognuts
hognuts
noun
plural of hognut
hogskin
hogskin
noun
Leather tanned from a hog's skin.
hoising
hoising
verb
present participle of hoise
horsing
horsing
noun
The military punishment of placing somebody on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged.
verb
present participle of horse
hosting
hosting
noun
(computing) Running and maintaining a computer system on someone's behalf.
(obsolete) A battle.
verb
present participle of host
housing
housing
noun
(architecture) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
(countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
(nautical) A houseline.
(nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
(uncountable) Residences, collectively.
(uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
A niche for a statue.
An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
verb
present participle of house
hsingan
hsining
hudgens
hudgins
huggins
hughson
hugonis
hungers
hungers
noun
plural of hunger
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hunger
hushing
hushing
noun
The act of one who hushes, or calls for silence.
The use of a heavy discharge of water to uncover a mineral vein or wash ore.
verb
present participle of hush
husking
husking
noun
A meeting of neighbours or friends to assist in husking maize.
verb
present participle of husk
husting
husting
noun
(historical) An assembly, especially one of the retainers of a ruler.
A platform where candidates in an election give speeches.
huygens
hyginus
insight
insight
noun
(artificial intelligence) An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario.
(marketing) Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be more appealing to customers
(psychiatry) An individual's awareness of the nature and severity of one's mental illness.
A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.
Intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a thing or things; intuition.
Power of acute observation and deduction
joshing
joshing
verb
present participle of josh
knights
knights
noun
plural of knight
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of knight
lashing
lashing
noun
As lashings: lots.
Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.
verb
present participle of lash
lengths
lengths
noun
plural of length
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of length
longish
longish
adj
It was a longish time before I received a reply to my letter.
Somewhat long.
lushing
lushing
verb
present participle of lush
mashing
mashing
noun
The action of soaking malted barley etc., in order to convert starch into sugars as part of the brewing process.
The process by which something is mashed or beaten to pulp.
The process of preparing tea in a teapot.
verb
present participle of mash
meshing
meshing
noun
The act by which something meshes or interlocks.
verb
present participle of mesh
mushing
mushing
noun
A race with a dog team.
Action of the verb to mush (travel with a dog sled).
verb
present participle of mush
naggish
naggish
adj
Synonym of naggy (“prone to nag”)
nashgab
nashgob
naughts
naughts
noun
plural of naught
nighest
nighest
adj
(archaic) superlative form of nigh: most nigh
nighish
noshing
noshing
noun
(slang) A session of eating; a feast.
verb
present participle of nosh
noughts
noughts
noun
plural of nought
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nought
onsight
onsight
adj
(climbing) Without having previously seen the terrain.
verb
(climbing, transitive) To perform a climb without having previously seen the terrain.
pashing
pashing
verb
present participle of pash
phasing
phasing
noun
Movement through phases; arrangement of a sequence or cycle.
verb
present participle of phase
pishing
pishing
verb
present participle of pish
pushing
pushing
adj
(now rare) Aggressively assertive; pushy.
That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
noun
The act by which something is pushed.
verb
present participle of push
rashing
rashing
verb
present participle of rash
rehangs
rehangs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rehang
rushing
rushing
adj
(Canada, US, dated) Full of activity, busy.
Rapidly flowing or surging.
noun
A rapid surging motion.
verb
present participle of rush
sandhog
sandhog
noun
(US, slang, also figuratively) A person employed to dig tunnels, or (more generally) to work underground or under water.
verb
(intransitive, US, slang) To work at digging tunnels, or (more generally) underground or under water.
sashing
sashing
noun
The plain strips used to separate the squares of a quilt.
verb
present participle of sash
saughen
schwing
schwing
intj
(slang, US) An exclamation of excitement or attraction.
seaghan
senghor
shading
shading
noun
The act or result of something being shaded.
verb
present participle of shade
shaking
shaking
noun
A movement that shakes.
verb
present participle of shake
shaming
shaming
noun
The activity by which somebody is shamed.
verb
present participle of shame
shangan
shaping
shaping
noun
(psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in a series of steps in operant conditioning.
The action of the verb to shape.
verb
present participle of shape
sharing
sharing
noun
Something shared; a point in common.
verb
present participle of share
shaughn
shaving
shaving
noun
(countable) A thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material.
(uncountable) The action of having a shave.
verb
present participle of shave
shawing
shebang
shebang
noun
(computing) The character string "#!" used at the beginning of a computer file to indicate which interpreter can process the commands in the file, chiefly used in Unix and related operating systems.
(informal) Any matter of present concern; thing; or business; most commonly in the phrase "the whole shebang".
(informal, US, archaic) A lean-to or temporary shelter.
(informal, US, archaic) A place or building; a store, saloon, or brothel.
(informal, obsolete) A vehicle.
shewing
shewing
verb
(archaic) present participle of shew
shindig
shindig
noun
A noisy party or festivities.
shingle
shingle
noun
(by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
A punitive strap such as a belt.
A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
verb
(transitive) To beat with a shingle.
(transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
(transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
(transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
(transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
shingly
shingly
adj
Covered with shingle or small pebbles.
shingon
shingon
Proper noun
A major school of esoteric Buddhism in Japan.
shining
shining
adj
Having a high polish or sheen.
Having exceptional merit.
noun
A bright emission of light; a gleam.
verb
present participle of shine
shoeing
shoeing
noun
The act of fitting an animal with horseshoes.
verb
present participle of shoe
shoguns
shoguns
noun
plural of shogun
shooing
shooing
noun
The act by which somebody is shooed away.
verb
present participle of shoo
shoring
shoring
noun
Temporary bracing used to prevent something, such as a tunnel, trench, or wall, from collapse.
verb
present participle of shore
shotgun
shotgun
noun
(American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
(US, especially Southern US) A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
(attributive, as a modifier) Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.
(attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the threat of force or dubious means.
(attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result.
(firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
(slang) The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat. Can also be used in situations of claiming other resources such as bedrooms.
verb
(US, slang) To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
(US, slang) To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
(computing, slang) To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
(slang, smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
(transitive, baseball) To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
(transitive, informal) To verbally lay claim to (something)
shoving
shoving
noun
The act of one who shoves.
verb
present participle of shove
showing
showing
noun
A result, a judgement.
An occasion when something is shown.
verb
present participle of show
shuping
shuting
sighing
sighing
noun
The utterance of a sigh.
verb
present participle of sigh
sighten
sighten
verb
(transitive, calico-printing) To add a fugitive colour to (a paste), to enable the printer to determine whether the figures are well-printed or not.
singhal
singpho
songhai
songhai
Proper noun
Any of a group of closely related languages or dialects centred on the middle stretches of the in West Africa, and used as a lingua franca in that region.
The Songhai Empire.
Noun
Any member of a West African people who speak the Songhai languages.
songish
songish
adj
(obsolete) Consisting of or containing songs.
(rare) Characteristic of a song; songlike
stengah
stengah
noun
(Malaysia) whisky and soda.
sughing
throngs
throngs
noun
plural of throng
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of throng
tushing
tushing
verb
present participle of tush
uhtsong
uhtsong
noun
(Christianity, obsolete) The nocturn or night office of the Christian liturgy of the Hours.
unhangs
unhangs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unhang