(chiefly Scotland) Wrong, awry, askew, amiss, or distortedly.
ailey
alley
alley
noun
(baseball) The area between the outfielders.
(bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
(bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.
(perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
(tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
A glass marble or taw.
A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.
A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
alsey
alyce
alyse
arley
asyle
ately
ayelp
ayelp
adv
yelping.
aylet
aylet
noun
(heraldry) A black bird with red feet and beak.
bayle
belay
belay
noun
(climbing) A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner.
(climbing) The object to which a rope is secured.
(climbing) The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection.
verb
(intransitive, nautical) The general command to stop or cease.
(transitive) To lay aside; stop; cancel.
(transitive, climbing) To handle a climbing rope to prevent (a climber) from falling to the ground.
(transitive, intransitive, nautical) To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat.
(transitive, obsolete) To besiege; invest; surround.
(transitive, obsolete) To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.
(transitive, obsolete) To overlay; adorn.
(transitive, obsolete) To surround; environ; enclose.
simple past tense of belie (“encompass”)
claye
claye
noun
Obsolete spelling of clay
daley
dayle
delay
delay
noun
(chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
(music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
(programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”)
A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
verb
(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
(obsolete) To dilute, temper.
(transitive, intransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
(transitive, obsolete) To allay; to temper.
To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
eably
eakly
eakly
Proper noun
A town in Oklahoma.
early
early
adj
(astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, hotter than the sun.
Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
Having begun to occur; in its early stages.
Near the start of the day.
Near the start or beginning.
adv
At a time before expected; sooner than usual.
Soon; in good time; seasonably.
noun
(informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day.
elayl
elayl
noun
(chemistry, obsolete) ethylene
enlay
enlay
verb
Archaic form of inlay.
fleay
galey
gayel
gayle
gayle
noun
A skin lesion, accompanied by swelling, occurring in those who have handled the bodies of sheep that have died from gayle.
Puerperal septicemia in sheep.
gelya
haley
haley
Proper noun
a common spelling variant of Hayley.
name, popular in the US in the 1990s and the 2000s.
Any of several places in the US and Canada named after persons with the surname.
healy
kayle
kayle
noun
A pin used in kayles or skittles.
lacey
lacey
adj
Alternative spelling of lacy
lahey
lakey
laney
layed
layed
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of lay
layer
layer
noun
(computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) one in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
A hen kept to lay eggs.
A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
An item of clothing worn under or over another.
One of the items in a hierarchy.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To arrange in layers.
(transitive, intransitive) To cut or divide into layers.
layne
leady
leady
adj
Resembling lead (the metal); leaden.
leafy
leafy
adj
(of a place) wealthy, middle- or upper-class
containing much foliage
covered with leaves
in the form of leaves (of some material)
resembling a leaf
leahy
leaky
leaky
adj
Having leaks; not fully sealed.
leany
leany
adj
(obsolete) lean
leary
leary
adj
Alternative spelling of leery
leavy
leavy
adj
Archaic form of leafy.
lehay
lemay
lesya
leyla
lyase
lyase
noun
(biochemistry) Any of many classes of enzyme that catalyze the breaking of a specific form of bond
lycea
lynea
lyrae
maely
mealy
mealy
adj
Resembling meal (the foodstuff).
The pale yellow color of a canary.
noun
A canary of a pale yellow color.
nealy
paley
rayle
relay
relay
noun
(athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. Most common events are 4x100 meter and 4x400 meter competitions.
(by extension) A new set of anything.
(electronics) An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.
(hunting, rare) A new set of hounds.
(now chiefly historical) A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired.
A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.
verb
(intransitive, now rare) To take on a new relay of horses; to change horses.
(obsolete, intransitive, hunting) To release a new set of hounds.
(transitive) To pass on or transfer (information).
(transitive, now rare) To place (people or horses) in relays, such that one can take over from another.