(historical) A small gold coin once used in England; a half angel.
(rare) A little angel.
angelot
angelot
noun
(music) An old musical instrument of the lute kind.
A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI, bearing the image of Saint Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.
A sort of small, rich cheese made in Normandy.
angrite
angrite
noun
An achondrite consisting mostly of augite with some olivine and troilite
angster
anteing
anteing
verb
present participle of ante
antigen
antigen
noun
(immunology) A substance that induces an immune response, usually foreign.
argante
argenta
argents
argents
noun
plural of argent
atangle
atangle
adj
In a tangled condition; mixed confusedly together.
athogen
atingle
atingle
adj
Tingling.
attagen
attagen
noun
(obsolete) A Pallas's sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus) of Central Asia and occurring as a vagrant in Europe.
(obsolete) A grey partridge (Perdix perdix) of Eurasia.
attinge
attinge
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To touch lightly.
augment
augment
noun
(grammar) In some Bantu languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
(grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
An increase.
verb
(grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
(intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
(music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
(transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
bagonet
baignet
banteng
banteng
noun
A wild ox, Bos javanicus, found in Borneo, Malaysia and the Indochina peninsula.
beating
beating
noun
A heavy defeat or setback.
The action by which someone or something is beaten.
The pulsation of the heart.
verb
present participle and gerund of beat
beignet
beignet
noun
(UK) A fritter (with a fruit or vegetable filling).
(US) A Louisiana-style fried doughnut or fritter covered in powdered sugar.
belting
belting
adj
(Northern English dialect) Very good; exceptional (can also be used adverbially)
noun
(figuratively) A thorough defeat; a thrashing.
(music, uncountable) The act of singing in chest voice above one's vocal break in a higher range typically sung in head voice.
A beating with a belt.
A system of beltwork, as in a conveyor or other mechanical device.
The material from which belts for machinery are made.
verb
present participle of belt
benight
benight
verb
(chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
To darken; to shroud or obscure.
To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.
bentang
benting
bergton
besting
besting
verb
present participle of best
betinge
betting
betting
adj
Describing one who bets or gambles.
noun
The act of placing a bet.
verb
present participle of bet
bettong
bettong
noun
Any marsupial of the genus Bettongia, closely related to kangaroos.
centage
centage
noun
Rate by the hundred; percentage.
chengtu
coagent
coagent
noun
An associate in an act; a coworker.
cognate
cognate
adj
(linguistics) Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.
noun
(law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
(law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
(linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
congest
congest
noun
(Ireland, Scotland, agriculture, history) A farmer whose lands do not support him adequately.
verb
To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
cygnets
cygnets
noun
plural of cygnet
denting
denting
verb
present participle of dent
dieting
dieting
noun
The practice of following a diet.
verb
present participle of diet
dragnet
dragnet
noun
(fishing) A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
(law enforcement) Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.
verb
(fishing) To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water.
(law enforcement) To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect.
dugento
easting
easting
noun
(cartography) The distance east of a standard reference meridian.
(nautical) A distance traveled eastward.
A turning towards the east.
eatings
eatings
noun
plural of eating
editing
editing
noun
An act or instance of something being edited.
verb
present participle of edit
egarton
egerton
egerton
Proper noun
Either of two villages in England.
A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
eggment
elating
elating
verb
present participle of elate
elegant
elegant
adj
(Ireland, colloquial, archaic) Fine; doing well.
Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.
eligent
eluting
eluting
verb
present participle of elute
emoting
emoting
verb
present participle of emote
endgate
endgate
noun
(US) tailboard
englute
engluts
engluts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of englut
engraft
engraft
adj
(rare) Engrafted.
verb
To fix firmly into place
To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant
enlight
enlight
verb
(archaic, transitive) To illuminate.
enright
ergotin
ergotin
noun
(medicine) An extract made from ergot.
estaing
etching
etching
noun
(countable) The image created by this process.
(uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
verb
present participle of etch
ettling
ettling
noun
(obsolete) Earnings; wages.
(obsolete) The act or process of intending; intention; purpose; endeavour.
the act of managing, conducting or administrating something.
getling
getting
getting
noun
That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
verb
present participle of get
gigante
gignate
gillnet
gillnet
noun
(fishing) A vertical net, often resting on the sea floor, which entangles fish in the netting, frequently by the gills.
verb
To fish using a gillnet.
giltner
giltner
Proper noun
A village in Hamilton County, Nebraska State.
giterne
githens
gittern
gittern
noun
A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.
verb
To play on the gittern.
glinted
glinted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of glint
glisten
glisten
noun
A glistening shine from a wet surface.
verb
(intransitive, of a wet or greasy surface) To reflect light with a glittering luster; to sparkle, coruscate, glint or flash.
glutens
glutens
noun
plural of gluten
gnatter
gnetums
godsent
godsent
adj
Sent by God or as if by God; unexpectedly beneficial.
gondite
gownlet
gownlet
noun
A little gown.
granate
granate
noun
Archaic form of garnet.
granite
granite
noun
(petrology) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.
(uncountable, figurative) Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.
granted
granted
adj
non-gloss definition|used to mark the premise of a syllogistic argument
adv
Used to concede a point or to express acknowledgment, often before stating some contrasting information.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grant
grantee
grantee
noun
The person to whom something is granted.
granter
granter
noun
One who grants.
gratine
gratten
greaten
greaten
verb
(intransitive) To become great or large; increase; dilate.
(intransitive, obsolete) To become great with child; become pregnant.
(transitive) To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase.
greenth
greenth
noun
The state or quality of being green; verdure, verdancy.