10 Letter 6 Letter Countdown Words Containing G

AGA (4) [noun] An honorific for high officials used in Turkey and certain Muslim countries. AGE (4) [noun] The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive. | [noun] The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive. | [noun] One of the stages of life. AGO (4) [adjective] Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away. | [adjective] Nearly gone; dead (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century) | [adverb] Before BAG (6) [noun] A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc. | [noun] A handbag | [noun] A suitcase. BEG (6) [noun] The act of begging; an imploring request. | [verb] To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. | [verb] To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. | [noun] A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey. | [noun] The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. BIG (6) [noun] Someone or something that is large in stature | [noun] An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name. | [noun] (as plural) The big leagues, big time. | [verb] To inhabit; occupy | [noun] One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley. BOG (6) [noun] An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp. | [noun] Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas. | [noun] The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland. | [noun] An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). | [noun] Puffery, boastfulness. | [verb] (usually with "off") To go away. BUG (6) [noun] An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). | [noun] Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug. | [noun] Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest. COG (6) [noun] A tooth on a gear. | [noun] A gear; a cogwheel. | [noun] An unimportant individual in a greater system. | [noun] A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull. | [noun] A trick or deception; a falsehood. | [noun] A small fishing boat. DAG (5) [noun] A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. | [noun] A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. | [verb] To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. | [noun] A skewer. | [interjection] Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. | [noun] One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance. | [noun] A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V, E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. | [noun] A misty shower; dew. | [noun] A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding. DIG (5) [noun] An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place. | [noun] A plodding and laborious student. | [noun] A thrust; a poke. | [verb] To understand or show interest in. | [noun] Digoxin. DOG (5) [noun] A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding. | [noun] Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid. | [noun] A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen. DUG (5) [verb] To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way. | [verb] To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up. | [verb] To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts. EGG (5) [noun] An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development. | [noun] The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food. | [noun] The female primary cell, the ovum. | [verb] To encourage, incite. EGO (4) [noun] The self, especially with a sense of self-importance. | [noun] (Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings. ENG (4) [adjective] Narrow. | [noun] Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink. ERG (4) [noun] The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10−7 joules. | [noun] A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara. | [noun] An ergometer. FAG (7) [noun] In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric. | [noun] (dated in US and Canada) A cigarette. | [noun] The worst part or end of a thing. | [noun] A chore: an arduous and tiresome task. | [noun] (usually offensive, sometimes affectionate) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an especially effeminate or unusual one. FIG (7) [noun] A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. | [noun] The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. | [noun] A small piece of tobacco. | [verb] To move suddenly or quickly; rove about. | [noun] A person's figure; dress or appearance. | [verb] To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of: to perform figging upon. FOG (7) [noun] A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. | [noun] A mist or film clouding a surface. | [noun] A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion. | [noun] A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed. FUG (7) [noun] A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area. | [noun] A state of lethargy and confusion; daze. | [noun] A state of chaos or confusion. | [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. GAB (6) [noun] Idle chatter. | [noun] The mouth or gob. | [noun] One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines. GAD (5) [interjection] An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake. | [noun] One who roams about idly; a gadabout. | [verb] To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. | [noun] A greedy and/or stupid person. | [noun] A sharp-pointed object; a goad. GAE (4) GAG (5) [noun] A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap. | [noun] An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject. | [noun] A joke or other mischievous prank. GAL (4) [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints | [noun] Exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon | [noun] 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon") | [noun] A young woman. | [noun] A galileo (a unit of acceleration). GAM (6) [noun] A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg. | [noun] Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod. | [noun] (by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships). GAN (4) [noun] (thieves') Mouth. | [verb] To begin. | [verb] (obsolete outside Northumbria) To go. GAP (6) [noun] An opening in anything made by breaking or parting. | [noun] An opening allowing passage or entrance. | [noun] An opening that implies a breach or defect. | [noun] An elected head of a gewog in Bhutan. GAR (4) [noun] A spear. | [noun] Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws. | [noun] A garfish, Belone belone. | [verb] To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done). GAS (4) [noun] Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly. | [noun] A chemical element or compound in such a state. | [noun] A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles. | [noun] Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel. | [adjective] Comical, zany; fun, amusing GAT (4) [noun] (in old westerns) A Gatling gun. | [noun] (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol. | [verb] To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm. | [noun] A guitar | [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [noun] An opening between sandbanks; a strait. | [noun] A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen. GAY (7) [noun] (chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian. | [noun] Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower. | [noun] An ornament, a knick-knack. | [noun] The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand. GED (5) [noun] The pike or luce. | [noun] A greedy person GEE (4) [interjection] A general exclamation of surprise or frustration. | [noun] A gee-gee, a horse. | [verb] Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right. | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter G. | [noun] Vagina, vulva | [verb] To suit or fit GEL (4) [noun] A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal. | [noun] Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair. | [verb] To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc). | [noun] A girl. GEM (6) [noun] A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine. | [noun] Any precious or highly valued thing or person. | [noun] Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram. GEN (4) [noun] Information | [noun] Information about the location of a bird. | [noun] Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex. | [noun] A member of the Gen Movement, a youth expression of the international Focolare Movement. | [noun] A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy). | [verb] To genetically engineer. | [noun] A shilling. | [noun] A specific version of something in a chronological sequence. GET (4) [noun] Offspring. | [noun] Lineage. | [noun] A difficult return or block of a shot. | [noun] A git. | [noun] A Jewish writ of divorce. GEY (7) [adjective] Fairly good; considerable. | [adverb] Very. GHI (7) [noun] A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee. | [noun] Vegetable oil for cooking. GIB (6) [noun] A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place. | [noun] A castrated male cat or ferret. | [noun] A male cat; a tomcat. | [noun] Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters. | [noun] Plasterboard. GID (5) [noun] A disease of sheep caused by tapeworm. | [noun] A fiddle. GIE (4) GIG (5) [noun] A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role, especially for a musician or performer. | [noun] (by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable. | [noun] A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals. | [noun] Clipped form of gigabyte. | [noun] A playful or wanton girl; a giglot. | [verb] To engender. GIN (4) [noun] A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails. | [noun] Gin rummy. | [noun] Drawing the best card or combination of cards. | [noun] A trick; a device or instrument. | [verb] To begin. | [noun] An Aboriginal woman. | [conjunction] If. GIP (6) [noun] A servant; a gyp. | [verb] (sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately. | [verb] To take out the entrails of (herrings). GIT (4) [noun] A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying or childish person (usually a man). | [verb] To get. | [verb] To get (leave; scram). | [noun] The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting. GNU (4) [noun] A large antelope of the genus Connochaetes, native to Africa, having curved horns. GOA (4) GOB (6) [noun] A lump of soft or sticky material. | [noun] The mouth. | [noun] Saliva or phlegm. GOD (5) [noun] A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe. | [proper noun] The single deity of various monotheistic religions, especially the deity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. | [proper noun] The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions. GOO (4) [noun] Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery; frequently of vague or unknown composition, slime or a bodily fluid. | [noun] Excessive, showy sentimentality. | [verb] To apply goo to something. | [noun] An example of baby talk. GOR (4) GOT (4) [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [verb] To receive. | [verb] (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes. GOX (11) GOY (7) [noun] A non-Jew, a gentile. (See usage notes) GUL (4) GUM (6) [noun] (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth. | [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. | [noun] Any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants. GUN (4) [noun] A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon. | [noun] A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm. | [noun] A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower). | [verb] Nonstandard spelling of going to. GUT (4) [noun] The alimentary canal, especially the intestine. | [noun] The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged | [noun] The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc. GUV (7) [noun] A form of address, usually to an unknown male or a superior. An informal form of sir. GUY (7) [noun] An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November). | [noun] A person of eccentric appearance or dress; a "fright". | [noun] A man, fellow. | [noun] A guide; a leader or conductor. GYM (9) [noun] A sports facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise. | [noun] Physical education class | [verb] To go to the gym. GYP (9) [noun] (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc). | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off. | [verb] (sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately. | [noun] A college servant, one who would attend upon a number of students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks, distinct from a college porter or bedder. | [noun] Gypsophila. | [noun] Pain or discomfort. HAG (7) [noun] A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard. | [noun] An ugly old woman. | [noun] A fury; a she-monster. | [noun] A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled. | [verb] To harass; to weary with vexation. HOG (7) [noun] Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar. | [noun] (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine). | [noun] A greedy person; one who refuses to share. | [verb] To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel. | [noun] A quahog (clam) HUG (7) [noun] A close embrace, especially when charged with such an emotion as represented by: affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, agression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug"). | [noun] A particular grip in wrestling. | [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. JAG (11) [noun] A sharp projection. | [noun] A part broken off; a fragment. | [noun] A cleft or division. | [noun] Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful. JIG (11) [noun] A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue. | [noun] A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig. | [noun] (traditional English Morris dancing) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team. | [noun] A black person. JOG (11) [noun] An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise. | [noun] A sudden push or nudge. | [noun] A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface. JUG (11) [noun] A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top. | [noun] The amount that a jug can hold. | [noun] Jail. | [noun] A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug. KEG (8) [noun] A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer. | [verb] To store in a keg. LAG (4) [noun] A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency. | [noun] Delay; latency. | [noun] One sentenced to transportation for a crime. LEG (4) [noun] A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion. | [noun] In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. | [noun] The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. | [adjective] Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking LOG (4) [noun] The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches. | [noun] Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc. | [noun] A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree. | [noun] A logbook, or journal of a vessel (or aircraft)'s progress | [verb] To move to and fro; to rock. | [noun] A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 1/3 liter). | [noun] Logarithm. LUG (4) [noun] The act of hauling or dragging. | [noun] That which is hauled or dragged. | [noun] Anything that moves slowly. MAG (6) [noun] (abbreviation) magazine (publication or ammunition) | [noun] (abbreviation) magnet | [noun] (abbreviation) mag wheel | [verb] To steal. MIG (6) MOG (6) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). | [verb] To move away; to go off. | [verb] (pickup community) To assert one's dominance over. MUG (6) [noun] A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer. | [noun] The face, often used deprecatingly. | [noun] A gullible or easily-cheated person. | [noun] Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug") NAG (4) [noun] A small horse; a pony. | [noun] An old useless horse. | [noun] A paramour. | [noun] Someone or something that nags. NOG (4) [noun] A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork. | [noun] One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine. | [noun] A treenail to fasten the shores. | [noun] Short for noggin. | [noun] A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy or whisky; popular at Christmas. | [noun] A dark-skinned person; nig-nog. PEG (6) [noun] A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects. | [noun] Measurement between the pegs: after killing an animal hunters used the distance between a peg near the animal's nose and one near the end of its tail to measure its body length. | [noun] A protrusion used to hang things on. PIG (6) [noun] Any of several intelligent mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus scrofa. | [noun] (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine). | [noun] The edible meat of such an animal; pork. | [noun] Earthenware, or an earthenware shard PUG (6) [noun] A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. | [noun] A bargeman. | [noun] Chaff; the refuse of grain | [noun] An elf or hobgoblin. | [noun] One who fights with fists; a boxer. | [noun] Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil) | [noun] The pawprint or footprint of an animal | [noun] A term of endearment. RAG (4) [noun] (in the plural) Tattered clothes. | [noun] A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter. | [noun] A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. | [noun] A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone. | [noun] A prank or practical joke. | [noun] An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands. REG (4) [noun] A regular. | [noun] A regulation. | [noun] Registrar | [noun] A hard surface of rock fragments set in a sandy matrix, found in some hot deserts; regolith, stony desert. RIG (4) [noun] The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft. | [noun] Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose. | [noun] A large truck such as a semi-tractor. | [noun] A ridge. | [noun] A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct. | [noun] An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse. RUG (4) [noun] A partial covering for a floor. | [noun] A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. | [noun] A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. SAG (4) [noun] The state of sinking or bending; a droop. | [noun] The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points. | [noun] The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens. | [noun] An Indian dish made from greens (usually spinach) cooked down to a thick paste. SEG (4) TAG (4) [noun] A small label. | [noun] A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it". | [noun] A skin tag, an excrescence of skin. | [noun] A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls. TEG (4) [noun] A sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old | [noun] A doe in its second year TOG (4) [noun] A cloak. | [noun] A coat. | [noun] A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre | [adverb] At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity. TUG (4) [noun] A sudden powerful pull. | [noun] A tugboat. | [noun] A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles. UGH (7) [interjection] Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance. | [interjection] Used to express inarticulate vocalisations, such as used by a caveman. VEG (7) [noun] Vegetable. | [verb] To vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest | [adjective] Vegetarian | [noun] A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams. VIG (7) [noun] A charge taken on bets, as by a bookie or gambling establishment. | [noun] The interest on a loan of money, especially for loans made by a usurer or loan shark. | [noun] An amount owed on account of or payment of a bookie's charge or of interest. VUG (7) [noun] A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes. WAG (7) [noun] An oscillating movement. | [noun] A witty person. | [verb] To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief. WIG (7) [noun] A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying. | [noun] (among fishermen) An old seal. | [verb] To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.). WOG (7) [noun] Any dark-skinned person. It originally referred specifically to Indians, but later also applied to people of North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry. | [noun] A person of Southern European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Southeastern European ancestry. | [verb] (WWII slang) (Of soldiers stationed abroad) to sell something, especially illicit or stolen goods, to the local inhabitants. | [noun] A tadpole. | [noun] A bug, an insect. | [noun] A person who is not a Scientologist. ZAG (13) [noun] One of a series of sharp turns or reversals. | [noun] Twist in a storyline | [verb] To move with a sharp turn or reversal. ZIG (13) [noun] A sudden or sharp turn or change of direction. | [verb] To make such a turn.

AGAR (5) [noun] A gelatinous material obtained from red algae, especially Gracilaria species, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive. | [noun] A culture medium based on this material. AGAS (5) [noun] An honorific for high officials used in Turkey and certain Muslim countries. AGED (6) [verb] To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. | [verb] To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt. | [verb] To categorize by age. AGEE (5) AGER (5) [noun] One who ages something. | [noun] A substance used to accelerate aging or maturation processes. AGES (5) [noun] The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive. | [noun] The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive. | [noun] One of the stages of life. AGHA (8) [noun] A commander or official of high rank in the Ottoman Empire or other Muslim countries. AGIN (5) [adverb] Another time; once more. | [adverb] Over and above a factor of one. | [adverb] Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion. AGIO (5) [noun] The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio. AGLY (8) AGMA (7) [noun] The nasalized velar consonant found in such words as song or wink. | [noun] The symbol ŋ, used to represent that nasal velar consonant in IPA; eng. AGOG (6) [adjective] In eager desire, eager, astir. | [adjective] (chiefly of eyes) Wide open. | [adverb] In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest. AGON (5) [noun] A struggle or contest, especially in ancient Greek drama between the protagonist and antagonist. | [noun] In ancient Greece, a public competition or athletic contest. AGUE (5) [noun] An acute fever. | [noun] An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. | [noun] The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever ALGA (5) [noun] Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic. ANGA (5) BAGS (7) [noun] A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc. | [noun] A handbag | [noun] A suitcase. | [verb] To reserve for oneself. BANG (7) [noun] A sudden percussive noise. | [noun] A strike upon an object causing such a noise. | [noun] An explosion. | [noun] Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent. BEGS (7) [noun] The act of begging; an imploring request. | [verb] To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. | [verb] To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. BERG (7) [noun] An iceberg. | [noun] Mountain BIGS (7) [noun] Someone or something that is large in stature | [noun] An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name. | [noun] (as plural) The big leagues, big time. BOGS (7) [noun] An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp. | [noun] Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas. | [noun] The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland. BOGY (10) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. BONG (7) [noun] The clang of a large bell. | [noun] Doorbell chimes. | [verb] To pull a bell. | [noun] A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana or pot. | [noun] A very wide piton. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A purse. | [noun] An Australian Aboriginal person. BRAG (7) [noun] A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification. | [noun] The thing which is boasted of. | [noun] (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag. BRIG (7) [noun] A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast | [noun] A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft. | [noun] Bridge. | [noun] Brigadier. BUGS (7) [noun] An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). | [noun] Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug. | [noun] Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest. BUNG (7) [noun] A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc. | [noun] A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal. | [noun] A bribe. | [adjective] Broken, not in working order. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A purse. BURG (7) [noun] A city or town. | [noun] A fortified town in medieval Europe. | [noun] Burger CAGE (7) [noun] An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals. | [noun] The passenger compartment of a lift. | [noun] (water polo) The goal. CAGY (10) [adjective] Wary, careful, shrewd. | [adjective] Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information. CHUG (10) [noun] A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine. | [noun] A large gulp of drink. | [noun] A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival. | [noun] A dog; a cross between a pug and a chihuahua. | [verb] To solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner. | [noun] (racial slur) A person of Native American descent. CLAG (7) [noun] A glue or paste made from starch. | [noun] Low cloud, fog or smog. | [noun] Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit. CLOG (7) [noun] A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel. | [noun] A blockage. | [noun] A shoe of any type. COGS (7) [noun] A tooth on a gear. | [noun] A gear; a cogwheel. | [noun] An unimportant individual in a greater system. CRAG (7) [noun] A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep rock or cliff. | [noun] A rough broken fragment of rock. | [noun] A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age. | [noun] The neck or throat. DAGO (6) [noun] A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or other Mediterranean descent. | [noun] A person of Italian descent. DAGS (6) [noun] A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. | [noun] A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. | [verb] To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. DANG (6) [noun] A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration. | [verb] Damn. | [adjective] Damn. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To dash. DIGS (6) [noun] An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place. | [noun] A plodding and laborious student. | [noun] A thrust; a poke. DING (6) [noun] Very minor damage, a small dent or chip. | [noun] A rejection. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [noun] The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell. | [noun] An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid. DOGE (6) [noun] The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa. | [noun] A dog. | [noun] Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme. DOGS (6) [noun] A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding. | [noun] Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid. | [noun] A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen. DOGY (9) DONG (6) [noun] The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫ | [noun] A penis. | [noun] (by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis. | [noun] Onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch. | [noun] A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea. DRAG (6) [noun] Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it. | [noun] (foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold. | [noun] A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing. | [noun] Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment. DREG (6) DRUG (6) [noun] A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. | [noun] A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. | [noun] Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted. | [verb] To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty. | [noun] A drudge. DUGS (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts. DUNG (6) [noun] Manure; animal excrement. | [noun] A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. | [verb] To fertilize with dung. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out. EDGE (6) [noun] The boundary line of a surface. | [noun] A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet. | [noun] An advantage. EDGY (9) [adjective] Nervous, apprehensive. | [adjective] (entertainment) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge. | [adjective] (entertainment) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué. EGAD (6) [interjection] A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc. EGAL (5) EGER (5) EGGS (6) [noun] An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development. | [noun] The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food. | [noun] The female primary cell, the ovum. EGGY (9) [adjective] Covered with or dipped in egg. | [adjective] Resembling eggs in some way. | [adjective] Of or relating to an egg or eggs. | [adjective] Slightly annoyed. EGIS (5) EGOS (5) [noun] The self, especially with a sense of self-importance. | [noun] (Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings. ENGS (5) ERGO (5) [adverb] Consequently, therefore, thus. | [conjunction] Therefore (especially in syllogisms). | [noun] An ergometer (rowing machine). ERGS (5) [noun] The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10−7 joules. | [noun] A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara. | [noun] An ergometer. FAGS (8) [noun] In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric. | [noun] (dated in US and Canada) A cigarette. | [noun] The worst part or end of a thing. FANG (8) [noun] A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh | [noun] (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom | [verb] To strike or attack with the fangs. | [verb] To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of. | [noun] A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold. FIGS (8) [noun] A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. | [noun] The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. | [noun] A small piece of tobacco. FLAG (8) [noun] A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol. | [noun] An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites). | [noun] A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship. | [verb] To weaken, become feeble. | [noun] Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus. | [noun] A slice of turf; a sod. | [noun] A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc. FLOG (8) [noun] A contemptible, often arrogant person. | [verb] To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment. | [verb] To use something to extreme; to abuse. | [noun] A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service. FOGS (8) [noun] A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. | [noun] A mist or film clouding a surface. | [noun] A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion. FOGY (11) [noun] A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow. | [noun] Extra pay granted to officers for length of service. FRAG (8) [noun] A fragmentation grenade. | [noun] A successful kill in a deathmatch game. | [verb] To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade. FRIG (8) [noun] An act of frigging. | [noun] A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed). | [noun] A fuck. | [noun] An insulated bin, box or cabinet used to keep food or beverages cold. FROG (8) [noun] A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops. | [noun] The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached. | [noun] Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad. | [noun] A French person. | [noun] A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt. | [verb] To unravel part of (a knitted garment) while knitting it in order to correct a mistake. FRUG (8) [noun] (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s. | [verb] To perform this dance. FUGS (8) [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. | [noun] A sexual partner, especially a casual one. | [noun] A highly contemptible person. FUGU (8) [noun] Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins. GABS (7) [noun] Idle chatter. | [noun] The mouth or gob. | [noun] One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines. GABY (10) GADI (6) GADS (6) [noun] One who roams about idly; a gadabout. | [verb] To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. | [noun] A greedy and/or stupid person. GAED (6) GAEN (5) GAES (5) GAFF (11) [noun] A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat. | [noun] A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe. | [noun] A trick or con. | [noun] Rough or harsh treatment; criticism. | [noun] (especially Manchester and Cockney) A place of residence. GAGA (6) [adjective] Mentally senile. | [adjective] Crazy. | [adjective] Infatuated. | [noun] A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon. GAGE (6) [noun] Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). | [noun] Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom. | [verb] To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn. | [noun] A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard | [noun] A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica. | [noun] A quart pot. GAGS (6) [noun] A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap. | [noun] An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject. | [noun] A joke or other mischievous prank. GAIN (5) [noun] The act of gaining; acquisition. | [noun] What is gained. | [noun] The factor by which a signal is multiplied. | [preposition] Against. | [adjective] Straight, direct; near; short. | [noun] A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam. GAIT (5) [noun] Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. | [noun] One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training. | [verb] To teach a specific gait to a horse. | [noun] A sheaf of corn. GALA (5) [noun] Pomp, show, or festivity. | [noun] A showy and festive party. | [adjective] Celebratory; festive. | [noun] A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. GALE (5) [verb] To sing; charm; enchant. | [verb] To cry; groan; croak. | [verb] (of a person) To talk. | [noun] A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale. | [noun] A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens. | [noun] A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity. GALL (5) [noun] Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver. | [noun] The gall bladder. | [noun] Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances. | [noun] A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii. GALS (5) [noun] A young woman. | [noun] A galileo (a unit of acceleration). | [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints GAMA (7) GAMB (9) GAME (7) [noun] A playful or competitive activity. | [noun] A video game. | [noun] (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession. GAMP (9) [noun] An umbrella. GAMS (7) [noun] A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg. | [noun] Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod. | [noun] (by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships). GAMY (10) [adjective] Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat). | [adjective] Plucky, spirited or gritty | [adjective] Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive GANE (5) GANG (6) [verb] To go; walk; proceed. | [noun] A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose. | [noun] A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad. | [verb] (obsolete outside Northumbria) To go. | [verb] To participate in a gangbang. | [noun] The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore. GAOL (5) [noun] A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. | [noun] Confinement in a jail. | [noun] The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). GAPE (7) [noun] An act of gaping; a yawn. | [noun] A large opening. | [noun] A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping. GAPS (7) [noun] An opening in anything made by breaking or parting. | [noun] An opening allowing passage or entrance. | [noun] An opening that implies a breach or defect. GAPY (10) GARB (7) [noun] Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. | [noun] A type of dress or clothing. | [noun] A guise, external appearance. | [noun] A wheat sheaf. GARS (5) [noun] A spear. | [noun] Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws. | [noun] A garfish, Belone belone. GASH (8) [noun] A deep cut. | [noun] A vulva. | [noun] A woman | [adjective] Ghastly; hideous GASP (7) [noun] A short, sudden intake of breath. | [noun] : A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper). | [verb] To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock. GAST (5) GATE (5) [noun] A doorlike structure outside a house. | [noun] Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. | [noun] Movable barrier. | [noun] A way, path. GATS (5) [noun] (in old westerns) A Gatling gun. | [noun] (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol. | [verb] To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm. GAUD (6) [noun] A cheap showy trinket | [noun] Trick; jest; sport | [noun] Deceit; fraud; artifice | [verb] To sport or keep festival. GAUM (7) GAUN (5) GAUR (5) [noun] An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition. GAVE (8) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GAWK (12) [noun] A cuckoo. | [noun] A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person. | [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. GAWP (10) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. GAYS (8) [noun] (chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian. | [noun] Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower. | [noun] An ornament, a knick-knack. GAZE (14) [noun] A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. | [noun] The object gazed on. | [noun] In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed. GEAR (5) [noun] Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. | [noun] Clothing; garments. | [noun] Goods; property; household items. GECK (11) GEDS (6) [noun] The pike or luce. | [noun] A greedy person GEED (6) [verb] Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right. | [verb] To cause an animal to move in this way. | [verb] To agree; to harmonize. GEEK (9) [noun] A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior. | [noun] A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun. | [noun] (by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers. | [noun] A look. GEES (5) [noun] A gee-gee, a horse. | [verb] Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right. | [verb] To cause an animal to move in this way. GEEZ (14) [interjection] An exclamation denoting surprise or frustration. | [noun] Informal address to a male. GELD (6) [noun] Money. | [noun] A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant. | [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). GELS (5) [noun] A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal. | [noun] Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair. | [verb] To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc). GELT (5) [noun] A lunatic. | [noun] Gilding; gilt. | [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). | [noun] Money. | [noun] Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel. GEMS (7) [noun] A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine. | [noun] Any precious or highly valued thing or person. | [noun] Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram. GENE (5) [noun] A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color. | [noun] A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus. GENS (5) [noun] A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium. | [noun] A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line. | [noun] A member of the Gen Movement, a youth expression of the international Focolare Movement. GENT (5) [noun] A gentleman. | [adjective] Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful. | [adjective] Neat; pretty; elegant | [noun] Short for gentamicin. GENU (5) [noun] Knee | [noun] A knee-like bend. GERM (7) [noun] The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore. | [noun] A pathogenic microorganism. | [noun] The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. GEST (5) GETA (5) GETS (5) [noun] Offspring. | [noun] Lineage. | [noun] A difficult return or block of a shot. GEUM (7) [noun] Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants. GHAT (8) [noun] A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place. | [noun] A mountain range. | [noun] A mountain pass. GHEE (8) [noun] A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee. | [noun] Vegetable oil for cooking. GHIS (8) GIBE (7) [noun] Alternative spelling of gybe | [noun] Alternative spelling of jibe | [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe GIBS (7) [noun] A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place. | [noun] A castrated male cat or ferret. | [noun] A male cat; a tomcat. | [noun] The internal organs of certain computer game characters after being splattered to death. GIDS (6) GIED (6) GIEN (5) GIES (5) GIFT (8) [noun] Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. | [noun] A talent or natural ability. | [noun] Something gained incidentally, without effort. GIGA (6) GIGS (6) [noun] A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role, especially for a musician or performer. | [noun] (by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable. | [noun] A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals. GILD (6) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. | [noun] A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages. GILL (5) [noun] (animal anatomy) a breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals | [noun] (of a fish) a gill slit or gill cover | [noun] One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, on the surface of which the spore-producing organs are borne | [noun] A drink measure for spirits and wine (size varies regionally but it is about one quarter of a pint) | [noun] Rivulet | [noun] A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber | [noun] A leech | [noun] A female ferret GILT (5) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. | [noun] A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding. GIMP (9) [noun] A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe. | [noun] Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire. | [noun] The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself. | [noun] A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet. | [adjective] (Scotland and N England) Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant. GINK (9) [noun] (originally United States slang) A guy, a fellow, especially a foolish, unworldly, or socially inept man. GINS (5) [noun] A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails. | [noun] Gin rummy. | [noun] Drawing the best card or combination of cards. GIPS (7) GIRD (6) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. | [noun] A sarcastic remark. GIRL (5) [noun] A female child, adolescent, or a young woman. | [noun] A young female animal. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young woman GIRN (5) [noun] A vocalization similar to a cat's purring. | [verb] To grimace; to snarl. | [verb] To whinge, moan, complain. GIRO (5) [noun] (in Europe) A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions. | [noun] An unemployment benefit cheque. | [verb] To transfer funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions. GIRT (5) [noun] A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts. | [verb] To gird. | [verb] To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. | [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [adjective] Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big. GIST (5) [noun] The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith. | [noun] The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action. | [noun] Resting place (especially of animals), lodging. GITS (5) [noun] The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting. | [noun] A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying or childish person (usually a man). GIVE (8) [noun] The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilence. | [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. GLAD (6) [verb] To make glad | [adjective] Pleased, happy, gratified. | [adjective] Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness. GLED (6) GLEE (5) [noun] Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune. | [noun] Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. | [noun] An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry. GLEG (6) GLEN (5) [noun] A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills. GLEY (8) [noun] A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen. | [verb] To be converted into this kind of soil. | [verb] To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things. GLIA (5) [noun] The network of glial cells that supports nervous system tissue. GLIB (7) [verb] To make glib. | [adjective] Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow. | [adjective] Smooth or slippery. | [noun] A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland. | [verb] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. GLIM (7) [noun] Brightness; splendour | [noun] A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire. | [noun] An eye. GLOB (7) [noun] A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance. | [noun] A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression. | [noun] A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway. GLOM (7) [verb] To steal, to grab. | [verb] To stare. | [verb] To attach. | [noun] Short for glomerulus. GLOP (7) [verb] To stare in amazement. | [noun] Any gooey substance. | [noun] A gooey blob of some substance. GLOW (8) [noun] The state of a glowing object. | [noun] The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings. | [noun] The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face). GLUE (5) [noun] A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance. | [noun] Anything that binds two things or people together. | [noun] Birdlime. GLUG (6) [noun] The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle. | [noun] The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard. | [verb] To flow in noisy bursts. GLUM (7) [adjective] Despondent; moody; sullen | [noun] Sullenness | [verb] To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. GLUT (5) [noun] An excess, too much. | [noun] That which is swallowed. | [noun] Something that fills up an opening. GNAR (5) GNAT (5) [noun] Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera. GNAW (8) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GNUS (5) [noun] A large antelope of the genus Connochaetes, native to Africa, having curved horns. GOAD (6) [noun] A long, pointed stick used to prod animals. | [noun] That which goads or incites; a stimulus. | [verb] To prod with a goad. GOAL (5) [noun] A result that one is attempting to achieve. | [noun] In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object. | [noun] The act of placing the object into the goal. GOAS (5) GOAT (5) [noun] A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra. | [noun] A lecherous man. | [noun] A scapegoat. GOBO (7) [noun] A disc placed between a light and the illuminated object or actor in order to diffuse the glare. | [noun] A template inserted over a light source in order to control the shape of the thrown light. | [noun] A device used to shield a microphone from extraneous sounds. | [noun] The taproot of young burdock plants, eaten as a root vegetable. GOBS (7) [noun] A lump of soft or sticky material. | [noun] The mouth. | [noun] Saliva or phlegm. GOBY (10) [noun] Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker. | [noun] A gudgeon, such as Gobio gobio. GODS (6) [noun] A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe. | [noun] A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed. | [noun] An idol. | [noun] The occupants of the gallery of a theatre. | [verb] To idolize. GOER (5) [noun] One who, or that which, goes. | [noun] Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully. | [noun] A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity. GOES (5) [noun] The act of going. | [noun] A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game). | [noun] An attempt, a try. GOGO (6) [noun] An elasticated hair band. | [noun] Grandmother; elderly woman. GOLD (6) [noun] A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au. | [noun] A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so. | [noun] A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold. | [adjective] (of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing. GOLF (8) [noun] A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes. | [noun] The letter G in the ICAO spelling alphabet. | [verb] To play the game of golf. GONE (5) [verb] To move: | [verb] (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). | [verb] To start; to begin (an action or process). GONG (6) [noun] A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer. | [noun] A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor. | [verb] To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong. | [noun] An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. | [noun] A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi. GOOD (6) [adjective] (of people) | [adjective] (of capabilities) | [adjective] (properties and qualities) | [adverb] Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly. | [noun] The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence. | [verb] To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve. | [verb] To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise. GOOF (8) [noun] A mistake or error. | [noun] A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball. | [noun] A child molester. GOOK (9) [noun] A person of Far Eastern or Oceanian descent, especially a Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese or Korean person. | [noun] A foreigner, especially an enemy soldier in wartime. | [noun] Grime or mud. GOON (5) [noun] A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon'). | [noun] A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish. | [noun] An enforcer or fighter. | [noun] A wine flagon or cask. GOOP (7) [noun] (usually uncountable) A thick, slimy substance; goo. | [noun] A silly, stupid, or boorish person. GOOS (5) GORE (5) [noun] Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. | [noun] Murder, bloodshed, violence. | [noun] Dirt; mud; filth. | [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [noun] A triangular piece of land where roads meet. GORP (7) [noun] A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement for use while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc. GORY (8) [adjective] Covered with blood, very bloody | [adjective] Unpleasant GOSH (8) [interjection] (minced oath) A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm. GOUT (5) [noun] An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints. | [noun] (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch. | [noun] A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae. | [noun] Taste; relish GOWD (9) GOWK (12) [noun] A cuckoo. | [noun] A fool. | [verb] To make foolish; to stupefy. GOWN (8) [noun] A loose, flowing upper garment. | [noun] A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown. | [noun] The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc. GOYS (8) [noun] A non-Jew, a gentile. (See usage notes) GRAB (7) [noun] A sudden snatch at something. | [noun] An acquisition by violent or unjust means. | [noun] A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. | [noun] A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast. GRAD (6) [noun] A unit of angle equal to 0.9 degrees, so that there are 100 gradians in a right angle. | [noun] A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. | [noun] A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school. | [noun] A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this. GRAM (7) [noun] A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g | [noun] A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea. | [noun] The seeds of these plants. | [noun] Grandmother | [adjective] Angry | [noun] A photograph or video shared on this service. GRAN (5) [noun] (usually affectionate) a grandmother | [noun] A grandfather GRAT (5) GRAY (8) [noun] An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. | [noun] An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. | [noun] An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head. | [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy GREE (5) GREW (8) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. | [verb] To be frightened; to shudder with fear. GREY (8) [adjective] Having a color. | [adjective] Having a particular color or kind of color. | [adjective] Having prominent colors; colorful. GRID (6) [noun] A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle. | [noun] A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire. | [noun] A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters). GRIG (6) [noun] A dwarf. | [noun] A cricket or grasshopper. | [noun] A small or young eel. | [noun] Heath or heather. | [verb] To irritate or annoy. GRIM (7) [noun] Specter, ghost, haunting spirit | [verb] To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. | [adjective] Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding | [noun] Anger, wrath. GRIN (5) [noun] A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth. | [verb] To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. | [verb] To express by grinning. | [noun] A snare; a gin. GRIP (7) [verb] To take hold of, particularly with the hand. | [verb] To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense. | [verb] To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief. | [noun] A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand. | [noun] A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain. | [noun] The griffin. GRIT (5) [noun] A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. | [noun] Inedible particles in food. | [noun] A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats. GROG (6) [noun] (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy. | [noun] (by extension) Any alcoholic beverage. | [noun] A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage. GROT (5) [noun] A grotto. | [noun] Any unpleasant substance or material. | [noun] A miserable person. GROW (8) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GRUB (7) [noun] An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A short, thick man; a dwarf. GRUE (5) GRUM (7) GUAN (5) [noun] Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas. GUAR (5) [noun] An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans. GUCK (11) [noun] The hybrid offspring of a goose and a duck | [noun] An unpleasant sticky substance; goo, gunk. GUDE (6) GUFF (11) [noun] Nonsensical talk or thinking. | [noun] Superfluous information. | [noun] Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks. GUID (6) GULF (8) [noun] A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin. | [noun] That which swallows; the gullet. | [noun] That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. GULL (5) [noun] A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae. | [noun] Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora. | [noun] A cheating trick; a fraud. GULP (7) [noun] The usual amount swallowed. | [noun] The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear. | [noun] An unspecified small number of bytes, often two. GULS (5) GUMS (7) [noun] (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth. | [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. GUNK (9) [noun] Dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance | [noun] A subculture of 21st century American males, combining elements of modern gothic culture with punk rock. | [noun] A member of the gunk subculture. GUNS (5) [noun] A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon. | [noun] A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm. | [noun] A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower). GURU (5) [noun] A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher. | [noun] (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor. GUSH (8) [noun] A sudden rapid outflow. | [verb] To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. | [verb] To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. GUST (5) [noun] A strong, abrupt rush of wind. | [noun] (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.). | [verb] To blow in gusts. | [noun] The physiological faculty of taste. | [verb] To taste. GUTS (5) [noun] The alimentary canal, especially the intestine. | [noun] The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged | [noun] The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc. GUVS (8) GUYS (8) [noun] An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November). | [noun] A person of eccentric appearance or dress; a "fright". | [noun] A man, fellow. GYBE (10) [noun] The act of gybing. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation. | [verb] To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind. | [noun] Alternative spelling of jibe GYMS (10) [noun] A sports facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise. | [noun] Physical education class | [verb] To go to the gym. GYPS (10) [noun] (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc). | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off. | [noun] A college servant, one who would attend upon a number of students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks, distinct from a college porter or bedder. GYRE (8) [noun] A swirling vortex. | [noun] A circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current. | [noun] A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. GYRI (8) [noun] A ridge or fold on the cerebral cortex. GYRO (8) [noun] A gyroscope | [noun] A gyrocompass | [noun] An autogyro | [noun] A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce. GYVE (11) [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. | [verb] To shackle, fetter, chain. HAGS (8) [noun] A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard. | [noun] An ugly old woman. | [noun] A fury; a she-monster. HANG (8) [noun] The way in which something hangs. | [noun] A grip, understanding. | [noun] An instance of ceasing to respond to input. | [noun] Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches. | [noun] Name and trademark of a musical instrument invented and built by PANArt Hangbau AG. HIGH (11) [noun] A high point or position, literally or figuratively; an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven. | [noun] A point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best. | [noun] A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs. | [noun] Thought; intention; determination; purpose. | [verb] To hie; to hasten. HOGG (9) [noun] A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget. HOGS (8) [noun] Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar. | [noun] (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine). | [noun] A greedy person; one who refuses to share. HONG (8) HUGE (8) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. HUGS (8) [noun] A close embrace, especially when charged with such an emotion as represented by: affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, agression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug"). | [noun] A particular grip in wrestling. | [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. HUNG (8) [verb] To be or remain suspended. | [verb] To float, as if suspended. | [verb] (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. IGLU (5) JAGG (13) JAGS (12) [noun] A sharp projection. | [noun] A part broken off; a fragment. | [noun] A cleft or division. JIGS (12) [noun] A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue. | [noun] A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig. | [noun] (traditional English Morris dancing) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team. JOGS (12) [noun] An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise. | [noun] A sudden push or nudge. | [noun] A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface. JUGA (12) [noun] One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants. | [noun] A pair of opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant. JUGS (12) [noun] A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top. | [noun] The amount that a jug can hold. | [noun] Jail. KAGU (9) [noun] A New Caledonian endemic bird species, Rhynochetos jubatus, the only surviving member of the family Rhynochetidae. KEGS (9) [noun] A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer. | [noun] Underpants. | [noun] Trousers (pants). KING (9) [noun] A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation. | [noun] A powerful or majorly influential person. | [noun] Something that has a preeminent position. | [noun] A sounding stone, a Chinese musical instrument. LAGS (5) [noun] A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency. | [noun] Delay; latency. | [noun] One sentenced to transportation for a crime. LANG (5) LEGS (5) [noun] A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion. | [noun] In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. | [noun] The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. LING (5) [noun] Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod. | [noun] The common ling, Molva molva. | [noun] Any of various varieties of heather or broom. | [noun] Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod. | [noun] The scientific study of language. LOGE (5) [noun] A booth or stall. | [noun] The lodge of a concierge. | [noun] An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine. LOGO (5) [noun] A visual symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of a company or organization. | [noun] (by extension) An audio recording for the same purpose; a jingle. | [noun] A single graphic which contains one or more separate elements. LOGS (5) [noun] The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches. | [noun] Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc. | [noun] A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree. LOGY (8) [adjective] Slow to respond or react; lethargic. | [noun] A term formed with the -logy suffix. LONG (5) [noun] A long vowel. | [noun] A long syllable. | [noun] A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. | [adverb] Over a great distance in space. | [verb] To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true) | [verb] To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to. | [noun] Longitude | [verb] To belong. LUGE (5) [noun] A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back. | [noun] The sport of racing on luges. | [noun] A piece of ice, bone or other material with a channel down which a (usually alcoholic) drink can be poured into someone's mouth. LUGS (5) [noun] The act of hauling or dragging. | [noun] That which is hauled or dragged. | [noun] Anything that moves slowly. LUNG (5) [noun] A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood. | [noun] (plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath. | [noun] That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place. MAGE (7) [noun] A magician, wizard or sorcerer. MAGI (7) [noun] A magician, wizard or sorcerer. | [noun] (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan | [noun] (special usage) a Zoroastrian priest MAGS (7) [noun] (abbreviation) magazine (publication or ammunition) | [noun] (abbreviation) magnet | [noun] (abbreviation) mag wheel MIGG (8) MIGS (7) MOGS (7) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). MUGG (8) MUGS (7) [noun] A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer. | [noun] The face, often used deprecatingly. | [noun] A gullible or easily-cheated person. NAGS (5) [noun] A small horse; a pony. | [noun] An old useless horse. | [noun] A paramour. NIGH (8) [verb] To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near | [adjective] Near, close by | [adjective] Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate. NOGG (6) NOGS (5) [noun] A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy or whisky; popular at Christmas. | [noun] A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork. | [noun] One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine. OGAM (7) [noun] A single character in this alphabet. OGEE (5) [noun] A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape | [noun] A pointed arch made from two ogees | [noun] An inflection point. OGLE (5) [noun] An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An eye. | [verb] To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously. OGRE (5) [noun] A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh. | [noun] A brutish man reminiscent of the mythical ogre. ORGY (8) [noun] Originally, secret rites or ceremonies, typically involving riotous and dissolute behaviour, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honour of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc). | [noun] A gathering of people to engage in group sex. | [noun] Excessive indulgence in a specified activity. PAGE (7) [noun] One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. | [noun] One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed. | [noun] Any record or writing; a collective memory. | [noun] A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education. PANG (7) [noun] (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. | [noun] (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. | [verb] To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. PEAG (7) PEGS (7) [noun] A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects. | [noun] Measurement between the pegs: after killing an animal hunters used the distance between a peg near the animal's nose and one near the end of its tail to measure its body length. | [noun] A protrusion used to hang things on. PIGS (7) [noun] Any of several intelligent mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus scrofa. | [noun] (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine). | [noun] The edible meat of such an animal; pork. PING (7) [noun] A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. | [noun] (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels. | [noun] A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence. PLUG (7) [noun] A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. | [noun] Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole. | [noun] A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. POGY (10) PONG (7) [noun] A stench, a bad smell. | [verb] To stink, to smell bad. | [verb] To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it. | [noun] A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host. | [noun] A set of three identical tiles. PRIG (7) [noun] A tinker. | [noun] A petty thief or pickpocket. | [noun] A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner. PROG (7) [noun] Progressive rock. | [noun] A program. | [noun] (university slang) A proctor. | [noun] Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. PUGH (10) PUGS (7) [noun] A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. | [noun] A bargeman. | [noun] Chaff; the refuse of grain PUNG (7) QUAG (14) [noun] Quagmire; marsh; bog. RAGA (5) [noun] Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form. | [noun] Passion, love, lust. RAGE (5) [noun] Violent uncontrolled anger. | [noun] A current fashion or fad. | [noun] Any vehement passion. RAGI (5) [noun] A type of grain, Eleusine coracana, cultivated as a cereal in arid areas of Africa and Asia; finger millet. | [noun] A type of yeast traditionally used in winemaking, baking, and brewing, now identified as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. RAGS (5) [noun] (in the plural) Tattered clothes. | [noun] A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter. | [noun] A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. RANG (5) [verb] Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. | [verb] To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound. | [verb] To produce (a sound) by ringing. REGS (5) [noun] A regular. | [noun] A regulation. | [noun] Registrar | [noun] Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana. RIGS (5) [noun] The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft. | [noun] Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose. | [noun] A large truck such as a semi-tractor. RING (5) [noun] (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle. | [noun] (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle. | [noun] A piece of food in the shape of a ring. | [noun] The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it. | [noun] An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation. RUGA (5) RUGS (5) [noun] A partial covering for a floor. | [noun] A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. | [noun] A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. RUNG (5) [noun] A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round. | [noun] A crosspiece between legs of a chair. | [noun] A position in a hierarchy. | [verb] Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. SAGA (5) [noun] An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends. | [noun] Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story. SAGE (5) [noun] A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher. | [adjective] Wise. | [adjective] Grave; serious; solemn | [noun] The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes. | [verb] The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply. SAGO (5) [noun] A powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener. | [noun] A similar starch obtained from a palm-like cycad, Cycas revoluta | [noun] Any of the palms from which sago is extracted. SAGS (5) [noun] The state of sinking or bending; a droop. | [noun] The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points. | [noun] The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens. SAGY (8) SANG (5) [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. | [verb] To soothe with singing. | [noun] A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass). SCAG (7) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SEGO (5) [noun] A perennial bulb lily found in Western North America, the Calochortus nuttallii, which has trumpet-shaped flowers. SEGS (5) SHAG (8) [noun] Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc. | [noun] Coarse shredded tobacco. | [noun] A type of rough carpet pile. | [noun] Several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially the common shag or European shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, found on European and African coasts. | [noun] A swing dance. | [noun] (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married. | [noun] Friend; mate; buddy. SHOG (8) SIGH (8) [noun] A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing. | [noun] Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament. | [noun] A person who is bored. SIGN (5) [noun] (sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication. | [noun] Physical evidence left by an animal. | [noun] A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures. | [verb] To make a mark SING (5) [noun] A gathering at which people sing songs. | [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. SKAG (9) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SKEG (9) [noun] A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller. | [noun] A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel. | [noun] A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard. SLAG (5) [noun] Waste material from a coal mine | [noun] Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal | [noun] Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders SLOG (5) [noun] A long, tedious walk, or session of work. | [noun] An aggressive shot played with little skill. | [verb] To walk slowly, encountering resistance. SLUG (5) [noun] Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. | [noun] A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. | [noun] A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. | [noun] A hard blow, usually with the fist. SMOG (7) [noun] A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution. | [verb] To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions. SMUG (7) [verb] To make smug, or spruce. | [verb] To seize; to confiscate. | [verb] To hush up. SNAG (5) [noun] A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch. | [noun] A dead tree that remains standing. | [noun] A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk. | [noun] A light meal. | [noun] A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons). SNOG (5) [noun] A passionate kiss. | [verb] To kiss passionately. SNUG (5) [noun] A small, comfortable back room in a pub. | [noun] A lug. | [verb] To make secure or snug. SONG (5) [noun] A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing. | [noun] (by extension) Any musical composition. | [noun] Poetical composition; poetry; verse. STAG (5) [noun] An adult male deer. | [noun] A colt, or filly. | [noun] (by extension) A romping girl; a tomboy. SUGH (8) SUNG (5) [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. | [verb] To soothe with singing. SWAG (8) [noun] (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric. | [noun] A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects. | [verb] To (cause to) sway. | [noun] Style; fashionable appearance or manner. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods. | [noun] Initialism of scientific/speculative/sophisticated/stupid wild-ass guess. SWIG (8) [noun] Drink, liquor. | [noun] (by extension) A long draught from a drink. | [noun] A person who drinks deeply. TAGS (5) [noun] A small label. | [noun] A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it". | [noun] A skin tag, an excrescence of skin. TANG (5) [noun] A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor. | [noun] A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself. | [noun] A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. | [noun] A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang. | [noun] Knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed) | [noun] The vagina. TEGS (5) [noun] A sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old | [noun] A doe in its second year THUG (8) [noun] Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire. | [noun] One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her. | [noun] In gardening, an over-vigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed. TING (5) [noun] The sound made when a small bell is struck. | [verb] To make a high sharp sound like a small bell being struck. | [interjection] Used to represent the sound of a small bell. | [noun] An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid. | [noun] (Caribbean creoles) Thing, person. TOGA (5) [noun] A loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome. | [noun] A loose wrap gown. | [noun] An academic gown. TOGS (5) [noun] A cloak. | [noun] A coat. | [noun] A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre TONG (5) [noun] An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands. | [verb] To use tongs. | [verb] To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs. | [noun] A Chinese secret society or gang. | [noun] The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech. TRIG (5) [noun] A dandy; coxcomb. | [adjective] True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful. | [adjective] Safe; secure. | [noun] Trigonometry. | [noun] A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid. | [verb] To fill; to stuff; to cram. | [noun] Triglyceride TRUG (5) [noun] A shallow, oval basket used for gardening | [noun] A trough or tray. | [noun] A hod for mortar. TUGS (5) [noun] A sudden powerful pull. | [noun] A tugboat. | [noun] A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles. TUNG (5) TWIG (8) [noun] A small thin branch of a tree or bush. | [verb] To beat with twigs. | [verb] To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something. | [verb] To twitch; to pull; to tweak. UGHS (8) UGLY (8) [noun] Ugliness. | [noun] An ugly person or thing. | [noun] A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet. URGE (5) [noun] A strong desire; an itch to do something. | [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. VAGI (8) VANG (8) [verb] To take; undertake for. | [verb] (as a godparent) To undertake for at the baptismal font; be godfather or godmother to. | [noun] A line extended down from the end of a yard or a gaff, used to regulate its position VIGA (8) [noun] A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village VIGS (8) VUGG (9) VUGH (11) VUGS (8) [noun] A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes. WAGE (8) [noun] (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour. | [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. WAGS (8) [noun] An oscillating movement. | [noun] A witty person. | [verb] To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief. WHIG (11) [noun] Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage. | [noun] Buttermilk | [verb] Urge forward; drive briskly. WIGS (8) [noun] A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying. | [noun] (among fishermen) An old seal. WING (8) [noun] An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish | [noun] Human arm. | [noun] Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air. WOGS (8) [noun] A tadpole. | [noun] Any dark-skinned person. It originally referred specifically to Indians, but later also applied to people of North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry. | [noun] A person of Southern European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Southeastern European ancestry. YAGI (8) YANG (8) [noun] A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world. | [noun] The monetary unit of Korea from 1892 to 1902, divided into 100 pun. | [noun] The cry of the wild goose; a honk. YEGG (9) [noun] A person who breaks open safes; a burglar. YOGA (8) [noun] Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind. | [noun] The tree Elaeocarpus joga. YOGH (11) [noun] A letter of the Middle English alphabet (capital Ȝ, small ȝ), in form derived from the Old English shape of the letter g, and used to represent various palatal and velar sounds. YOGI (8) [noun] A devotee or adherent of yoga. | [verb] To turn (someone) into a yogi; to lead into practicing yoga. | [verb] (thru-hiker slang) To persuade someone to give you food or other favors without actually begging. YUGA (8) [noun] In Hindu theology, an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years. ZAGS (14) [noun] One of a series of sharp turns or reversals. | [noun] Twist in a storyline ZIGS (14) [noun] A sudden or sharp turn or change of direction. | [verb] To make such a turn. ZING (14) [noun] A short high-pitched humming sound, such as that made by a bullet or vibrating string. | [noun] A witty insult or derogatory remark. | [noun] Zest or vitality.

AARGH (9) [interjection] Expressing annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration. ACING (8) [verb] (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly. | [verb] To win a point by an ace. | [verb] To make an ace (hole in one). ADAGE (7) [noun] An old saying which has obtained credit by long use | [noun] An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim AEGIS (6) [noun] A mythological shield associated with the Greek deities Zeus and Athena (and their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) shown as a short cloak made of goatskin worn on the shoulders, more as an emblem of power and protection than a military shield. The aegis of Athena or Minerva is usually shown with a border of snakes and with the head of Medusa in the center. | [noun] Usually as under the aegis: guidance, protection; endorsement, sponsorship. AGAIN (6) [adverb] Another time; once more. | [adverb] Over and above a factor of one. | [adverb] Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion. AGAMA (8) [noun] Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama. AGAPE (8) [adjective] In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open. | [adjective] Wide open. | [adverb] In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention. | [noun] The love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others. AGARS (6) [noun] Plural of agar, a gelatinous substance derived from seaweed used in laboratories and cooking as a gelling agent. | [noun] Plural of agar, a culture medium used in microbiology. AGATE (6) [noun] A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds. | [noun] The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5 1/2-point. | [noun] One fourteenth of an inch | [adverb] On the way; agoing. AGAVE (9) [noun] A plant of the genus Agave, which includes the maguey or century plant (Agave americana), which produces a gigantic flower stem at maturity. AGAZE (15) [verb] To gaze at; to look steadily at. AGENE (6) [noun] A chemical compound used in flour bleaching and bread improvement, now largely banned due to health concerns. AGENT (6) [noun] One who exerts power, or has the power to act | [noun] One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him/her; someone entrusted to do the business of another | [noun] A person who looks for work for another person AGERS (6) [noun] Plural of ager, one who ages or something that causes aging. | [noun] Plural of ager, a person or thing that ages something else. AGGER (7) [noun] One who aggers; specifically, a person who operates an agger (a Roman battering ram or siege weapon). | [noun] In geology, a ridge or mound of material deposited by glacial action. AGGIE (7) [noun] A student of or graduate from an agricultural college. | [noun] A marble or small stone used in games. AGGRO (7) [noun] Aggravation; bother. | [noun] Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent. | [noun] A measure of how belligerent a player is – a high value may inspire either avoidance or preemptive hostile action from enemies. AGHAS (9) [noun] Plural of agha; a Turkish or Ottoman military commander or official of high rank. AGILE (6) [adjective] Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move | [adjective] Characterised by quick motion | [adjective] Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams. AGING (7) [verb] To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. | [verb] To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt. | [verb] To categorize by age. AGIOS (6) [noun] The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio. AGISM (8) [noun] The treating of a person or people, especially youth or seniors, differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age. AGIST (6) [verb] To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. | [verb] To charge lands etc. with any public burden. AGLEE (6) [adjective] Awry; askew; in a crooked or slanted position. AGLET (6) [noun] The cover at the tip of a shoelace, to prevent it from fraying. | [noun] A catkin. | [noun] A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice. AGLEY (9) [adjective] Wrong; askew. | [adverb] Wrong, awry, askew, amiss, or distortedly. AGLOW (9) [adjective] (sometimes figurative) glowing; radiant AGMAS (8) [noun] The nasalized velar consonant found in such words as song or wink. | [noun] The symbol ŋ, used to represent that nasal velar consonant in IPA; eng. AGONE (6) [adjective] Ago; in the past (archaic or poetic form). AGONS (6) [noun] Plural of agon, meaning a struggle or contest, especially a debate or conflict in ancient Greek drama. | [noun] Plural of agon, referring to the central conflict or dramatic struggle in a literary work. AGONY (9) [noun] Extreme pain. | [noun] The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. | [noun] Violent contest or striving. AGORA (6) [noun] A place for gathering. | [noun] A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece. | [noun] Since 1960, a monetary unit and coin of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel / sheqel. AGREE (6) [verb] To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur. | [verb] To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to. | [verb] To yield assent to; to approve. AGRIA (6) AGUES (6) [verb] To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. AJUGA (13) [noun] Any plant in the genus Ajuga, especially the ornamental ground cover Ajuga reptans. ALANG (6) ALGAE (6) [noun] Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic. | [noun] Algal organisms viewed collectively or as a mass; algal growth. | [noun] A particular kind of algae. ALGAL (6) [noun] An alga. | [adjective] Pertaining to, or like, algae ALGAS (6) ALGID (7) ALGIN (6) ALGOR (6) ALGUM (8) ALIGN (6) [verb] To form a line; to fall into line. | [verb] To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line. | [verb] To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by beginning each item at an offset equal to some multiple of the word size. ALMUG (8) ALONG (6) [adverb] In company; together. | [adverb] Onward, forward, with progressive action. | [preposition] By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to. AMIGA (8) [noun] A female friend or female companion, particularly used in Spanish-speaking contexts but adopted into English informal usage. AMIGO (8) [noun] Friend | [noun] (chiefly California) Mexican | [noun] A native of the Philippines who was friendly toward the Spanish. AMONG (8) [preposition] Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.) | [preposition] Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group. | [preposition] Denotes a sharing of a common feature in a group. ANGAS (6) ANGEL (6) [noun] An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes. | [noun] (Abrahamic tradition) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues. | [noun] A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness. | [noun] A person who has Angelman syndrome. ANGER (6) [noun] A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm. | [noun] Pain or stinging. | [verb] To cause such a feeling of antagonism in. ANGLE (6) [noun] A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle). | [noun] The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere. | [noun] A corner where two walls intersect. | [noun] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. ANGRY (9) [adjective] Displaying or feeling anger. | [adjective] (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful. | [adjective] (said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing. ANGST (6) [noun] Emotional turmoil; painful sadness. | [noun] A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety. | [verb] To suffer angst; to fret. APING (8) [verb] To behave like an ape. | [verb] To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly. | [noun] Foolish imitation or mimicry. ARGAL (6) [noun] A crust of tartar formed during the fermentation of wine. | [adverb] Therefore; consequently (archaic). ARGIL (6) [noun] Potter's clay. ARGLE (6) ARGOL (6) [noun] Potassium tartrate ARGON (6) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Ar) with an atomic number of 18. The third most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, it is a colourless, odourless, inert noble gas. | [noun] A single atom of this element. ARGOT (6) [noun] A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds. | [noun] The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers. ARGUE (6) [verb] To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. | [verb] To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. | [verb] To have an argument, a quarrel. ARGUS (6) [noun] A watchful guardian. | [noun] An alert, observant person. | [noun] Either of two species of pheasant of Southeast Asia having large ocellated tails. AUGER (6) [noun] A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet. | [noun] A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool). | [noun] A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts AUGHT (9) [pronoun] Anything whatsoever, any part. | [noun] Whit, the smallest part, iota. | [noun] Zero | [noun] Estimation. | [noun] Property; possession | [numeral] A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine. AUGUR (6) [noun] A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences. | [noun] An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events. | [verb] To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events. AVGAS (9) [noun] Gasoline fuel for piston-engined aircraft. AWING (9) [adverb] On the wing; flying; fluttering. | [verb] To inspire fear and reverence in. | [verb] To control by inspiring dread. AXING (13) [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). | [verb] To put forward (a question) to be answered. | [verb] To interrogate or enquire of (a person). BADGE (9) [noun] A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization. | [noun] A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information. | [noun] A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area. BAGEL (8) [noun] A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked. | [noun] A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero). | [noun] An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man. BAGGY (12) [adjective] Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body. | [adjective] Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing. | [adjective] Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding. | [noun] A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches. BANGS (8) [noun] A sudden percussive noise. | [noun] A strike upon an object causing such a noise. | [noun] An explosion. | [noun] Brucellosis, a bacterial disease. BARGE (8) [noun] A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo. | [noun] A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions. | [noun] A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel. BEFOG (11) [verb] To envelop in fog or smoke. | [verb] To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties). | [verb] To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.). BEGAN (8) [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation | [verb] To come into existence. BEGAT (8) [noun] An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible | [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. BEGET (8) [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. | [verb] To bring forth. BEGIN (8) [noun] Beginning; start. | [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation BEGOT (8) [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. | [verb] To bring forth. BEGUM (10) [verb] To daub or cover with gum. | [noun] A high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in India and Pakistan | [noun] The form of address for such a woman BEGUN (8) [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation | [verb] To come into existence. BEIGE (8) [noun] A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. | [noun] Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods. | [adjective] Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. BEIGY (11) BEING (8) [noun] A living creature. | [noun] The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state. | [noun] That which has actuality (materially or in concept). BELGA (8) [noun] A monetary unit of Belgium, equal to one hundredth of a franc. BERGS (8) [noun] An iceberg. | [noun] Mountain BEWIG (11) [verb] To put a wig on; to cover with a wig. BHANG (11) [noun] Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent. BIGHT (11) [noun] A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow | [noun] An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf | [noun] A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature. BIGLY (11) [adverb] In a big way, greatly; to a great extent, on a large scale. | [adverb] Strongly, with great force. | [adverb] In a blustering or boastful manner; haughtily, pompously. | [adjective] Habitable, liveable; hence delightful, pleasant, pleasing. BIGOT (8) [noun] One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to one's own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc. | [noun] One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so. BILGE (8) [noun] The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides. | [noun] The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates. | [noun] The water accumulated in the bilge, the bilge water. BILGY (11) BINGE (8) [noun] A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc. | [noun] (by extension) A short period of an activity done in excess, such as watching a television show. | [verb] To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption. BINGO (8) [noun] A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid. | [noun] A win in such a game. | [noun] (Scrabble) A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played. | [noun] Brandy. BOGAN (8) [noun] (derogatory stereotype) An unsophisticated person from a working class background. | [noun] An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts. | [noun] A petrolhead. | [noun] Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater. BOGEY (11) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. | [noun] A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production. | [noun] A swim or bathe; a bath. BOGGY (12) [adjective] Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation. BOGIE (8) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. | [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog. BOGLE (8) [noun] A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear. BOGUS (8) [noun] A liquor made of rum and molasses. | [adjective] Counterfeit or fake; not genuine. | [adjective] Undesirable or harmful. BOING (8) [noun] The sound made by an elastic object (such as a spring) when bouncing; the sound of a bounce. | [verb] To make a boing sound or bouncing motion. BONGO (8) [noun] A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus. | [noun] Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands. | [verb] To play the bongo drums. BONGS (8) [noun] The clang of a large bell. | [noun] Doorbell chimes. | [verb] To pull a bell. BOOGY (11) BOUGH (11) [noun] A firm branch of a tree. | [noun] The gallows. BOURG (8) [noun] A market town or borough, especially in France or other European countries. BRAGS (8) [verb] To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself. | [verb] To boast of. BRIGS (8) [noun] A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast | [noun] A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft. | [noun] Bridge. BRING (8) [verb] (ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere. | [verb] To supply or contribute. | [verb] To occasion or bring about. | [interjection] The sound of a telephone ringing. BRUGH (11) [noun] A fairy mound or underground dwelling in Irish mythology. BUDGE (9) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. | [noun] A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits. BUGGY (12) [noun] A small horse-drawn cart. | [noun] A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy. | [noun] A hearse. BUGLE (8) [noun] A horn used by hunters. | [noun] A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series | [noun] A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga. | [noun] A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim | [noun] A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. BULGE (8) [noun] Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure. | [noun] The bilge or protuberant part of a cask. | [noun] The bilge of a vessel. BULGY (11) [adjective] Having one or more bulges; bulging BUNGS (8) [noun] A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc. | [noun] A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal. | [noun] A bribe. BURGH (11) [noun] A small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names). | [noun] A borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland). BURGS (8) [noun] A city or town. | [noun] A fortified town in medieval Europe. | [noun] Burger CADGE (9) [noun] A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale. | [verb] To beg. | [verb] To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do. CADGY (12) CAGED (9) [verb] To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage. | [verb] To restrict someone's movement or creativity. | [verb] To track individual responses to direct mail, either to maintain and develop mailing lists or to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses. CAGER (8) [noun] A basketball player. | [noun] One who cages or confines animals. CAGES (8) [noun] An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals. | [noun] The passenger compartment of a lift. | [noun] (water polo) The goal. CAGEY (11) [adjective] Wary, careful, shrewd. | [adjective] Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information. CARGO (8) [noun] Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle. | [noun] (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods. CHANG (11) [noun] A type of beer brewed in Tibet and other Himalayan regions. CHUGS (11) [noun] A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine. | [noun] A large gulp of drink. | [noun] A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival. CIGAR (8) [noun] Tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked. | [noun] Penis CLAGS (8) [verb] To stick or adhere; to clog or become blocked. | [noun] Plural of clag, a sticky substance or adhesive. CLANG (8) [noun] A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other. | [noun] Quality of tone. | [noun] The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose. CLING (8) [noun] Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit. | [noun] Adherence; attachment; devotion | [verb] To hold very tightly, as to not fall off. | [verb] To produce a high-pitched ringing sound, like a small bell. CLOGS (8) [noun] A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel. | [noun] A blockage. | [noun] A shoe of any type. CLUNG (8) [verb] To hold very tightly, as to not fall off. | [verb] To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films. | [verb] To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing. COGON (8) [noun] Any of several perennial rhizomatous grasses of genus Imperata, especially Imperata cylindrica. COHOG (11) [noun] A quahog clam, a hard-shelled edible clam found along the Atlantic coast of North America. COIGN (8) [noun] A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone. | [noun] The keystone of an arch. | [noun] A wedge used in typesetting. COLOG (8) CONGA (8) [noun] A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin | [noun] A march of Cuban origin in four-four time in which people form a chain, each holding the hips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and then kick alternate legs outwards at the beat; the chain weaves around the place and allows new participants to join the back of the chain | [verb] To dance the conga. CONGE (8) [noun] An ancient Roman unit of volume in liquid measure consisting of six sextarii or one-eighth amphora (about 118 fluid ounces). | [noun] An ancient Roman unit of weight under Vespasian equal to the weight of a congius of water. | [noun] A curvature found on the top or bottom of certain columns. CONGO (8) [noun] A Latin American dance of African origin, typically performed in a line with a distinctive rhythmic pattern. | [noun] A large drum used in Latin American music, played with the hands. CORGI (8) [noun] A dog of a breed having a small body, short legs and fox-like features. COUGH (11) [noun] A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary. | [noun] A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough. | [noun] Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame CRAGS (8) [noun] A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep rock or cliff. | [noun] A rough broken fragment of rock. | [noun] A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age. CUING (8) [verb] The act of giving a signal or prompt to someone to do something. | [verb] In billiards, striking the cue ball with a cue stick. DAGGA (8) [noun] (Zimbabwe) Indian hemp, Cannabis sativa indica, or a similar plant of the genus Leonotis. | [noun] Cement. DAGOS (7) [noun] A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or other Mediterranean descent. | [noun] A person of Italian descent. DANGS (7) [verb] Damn. | [verb] To dash. DEBUG (9) [noun] The action, or a session, of reviewing source code to find and eliminate errors. | [verb] To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery. | [verb] To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere). DEFOG (10) DEGAS (7) [verb] To remove the gas from. DEGUM (9) DEIGN (7) [verb] To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity. | [verb] To condescend to give; to do something. | [verb] To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice. DIGHT (10) [verb] To deal with, handle. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To dispose, put (in a given state or condition). DIGIT (7) [noun] 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.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DINGE (7) DINGO (7) [noun] Canis lupus dingo, a wild dog native to Australia. DINGS (7) [noun] Very minor damage, a small dent or chip. | [noun] A rejection. | [verb] To hit or strike. DINGY (10) [adjective] Drab; shabby; dirty; squalid | [noun] A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship. | [noun] An inflatable rubber life raft. DIRGE (7) [noun] A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. | [noun] A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring. | [verb] To sing dirges DODGE (8) [noun] An act of dodging. | [noun] A trick, evasion or wile. | [noun] A line of work. DODGY (11) [adjective] Evasive and shifty | [adjective] Unsound and unreliable | [adjective] Dishonest DOGES (7) [noun] The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa. | [noun] A dog. | [noun] Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme. DOGEY (10) DOGGO (8) [noun] A dog. DOGGY (11) [noun] A dog, especially a small one. | [noun] Doggy style | [noun] (armed services) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer. | [adjective] Suggestive of or in the manner of a dog. DOGIE (7) [noun] A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow. DOGMA (9) [noun] An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it. | [noun] A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader. DOING (7) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). | [interjection] The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object. DONGA (7) [noun] A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain. | [noun] A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation. DONGS (7) [noun] The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫ | [noun] A penis. | [noun] (by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis. DOUGH (10) [noun] A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. | [noun] Money. | [verb] To make into dough. DRAGS (7) [noun] Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it. | [noun] (foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold. | [noun] A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing. DREGS (7) [noun] (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine. | [noun] (the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something. DRUGS (7) [noun] A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. | [noun] A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. | [noun] Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted. DUNGS (7) [noun] Manure; animal excrement. | [noun] A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. | [verb] To fertilize with dung. DUNGY (10) DYING (10) [verb] To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | [verb] To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). | [verb] To yearn intensely. EAGER (6) [adjective] Sharp; sour; acid. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. | [adjective] Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. | [noun] A tidal bore EAGLE (6) [noun] Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision. | [noun] A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I. EAGRE (6) [adjective] Sharp; sour; acid. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. | [adjective] Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. | [noun] A tidal bore EDGED (8) [verb] To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin. EDGER (7) EDGES (7) [noun] The boundary line of a surface. | [noun] A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet. | [noun] An advantage. EGADS (7) [interjection] A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc. EGERS (6) EGEST (6) [verb] To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces). EGGAR (7) [noun] Any moth of the family Lasiocampidae. EGGED (8) [verb] To throw eggs at. | [verb] To dip in or coat with beaten egg. | [verb] To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally. EGGER (7) [noun] One who gathers eggs. | [noun] Any of various species of moth, especially the oak egger-moth, Lasiocampa quercus. | [noun] One who eggs or incites. EGRET (6) [noun] Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season. | [noun] A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament. | [noun] The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle. EIGHT (9) [noun] The digit/figure 8. | [noun] Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight. | [noun] A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars. | [noun] An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. EKING (10) [noun] The act or process of adding. | [noun] That which is added. | [noun] A supplementary piece of timber used to lengthen another. | [verb] Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen. ELEGY (9) [noun] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. | [noun] A composition of mournful character. ERGOT (6) [noun] Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses. | [noun] The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi. ERUGO (6) EYING (9) [verb] To observe carefully or appraisingly. | [verb] To appear; to look. FADGE (10) [verb] To be suitable (with or to something). | [verb] To agree, to get along (with). | [verb] To get on well; to cope, to thrive. | [noun] Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried. FAGGY (13) [adjective] Effeminate; homosexual; gay. FAGIN (9) FAGOT (9) [noun] (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.) | [noun] Burdensome baggage. | [noun] A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding. FANGA (9) FANGS (9) [noun] A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh | [noun] (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom | [verb] To strike or attack with the fangs. FAUGH (12) [interjection] An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell. FEIGN (9) [verb] To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate. | [verb] To imagine; to invent; to pretend. | [verb] To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent. FIDGE (10) FIGHT (12) [verb] To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. | [noun] An occasion of fighting. FLAGS (9) [noun] A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol. | [noun] An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites). | [noun] A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship. FLING (9) [noun] An act of throwing, often violently. | [noun] An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance. | [noun] An act or period of unrestrained indulgence. | [verb] To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash. FLOGS (9) [noun] A contemptible, often arrogant person. | [verb] To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment. | [verb] To use something to extreme; to abuse. FLONG (9) FLUNG (9) [verb] To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash. | [verb] To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl. | [verb] To throw; to wince; to flounce. FOGEY (12) [noun] A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow. FOGGY (13) [adjective] Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy | [adjective] Confused, befuddled, etc. FOGIE (9) FORGE (9) [noun] Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape. | [noun] Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them. | [noun] The act of beating or working iron or steel. | [verb] To shape a metal by heating and hammering. | [verb] (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty. FORGO (9) [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. | [verb] To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo. FRAGS (9) [noun] A fragmentation grenade. | [noun] A successful kill in a deathmatch game. | [verb] To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade. FRIGS (9) [noun] An act of frigging. | [noun] A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed). | [noun] A fuck. FROGS (9) [noun] A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops. | [noun] The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached. | [noun] Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad. FRUGS (9) [noun] (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s. FUDGE (10) [noun] A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge. | [noun] Light or frothy nonsense. | [noun] A deliberately misleading or vague answer. FUGAL (9) [adjective] Relating to a fugue | [adjective] Relating to flight (fleeing) FUGGY (13) [adjective] Muggy, stuffy, with bad ventilation FUGIO (9) FUGLE (9) FUGUE (9) [noun] A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody. | [noun] Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality. | [noun] A fugue state. FUGUS (9) FUNGI (9) [noun] Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular. | [noun] A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound. | [noun] A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of ukulele, banjo, guitar and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm. | [noun] A cornmeal dish eaten in the Caribbean, usually made with okra and served with salt fish, shellfish or chicken; variant recipes are also known as cou-cou (coucou) or coo-coo (coocoo). FUNGO (9) [noun] A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught. | [noun] A fungo bat. GABBY (13) [adjective] Inclined to talk too much, especially about trivia. GABLE (8) [noun] The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches). | [noun] A cable. GADDI (8) GADID (8) [noun] Any member of the family Gadidae of fish such as cod and pollack. GADIS (7) GAFFE (12) [noun] A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public. GAFFS (12) [noun] A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat. | [noun] A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe. | [noun] A trick or con. GAGED (8) [verb] To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn. | [verb] To wager, to bet. | [verb] To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. GAGER (7) GAGES (7) [noun] Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). | [noun] Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom. | [noun] A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica. GAILY (9) [adverb] Merrily. | [adverb] Showily. GAINS (6) [noun] The act of gaining; acquisition. | [noun] What is gained. | [noun] The factor by which a signal is multiplied. GAITS (6) [noun] Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. | [noun] One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training. | [verb] To teach a specific gait to a horse. GALAH (9) [noun] A pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla, native to Australia. | [noun] A fool, an idiot. GALAS (6) [noun] Pomp, show, or festivity. | [noun] A showy and festive party. | [noun] A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. GALAX (13) GALEA (6) [noun] A Roman helmet. | [noun] An organ or a part of a plant that is shaped like a galea (helmet). | [noun] A mouthpart found in some species of chewing insect, which is shaped like a galea (helmet). GALES (6) [noun] A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale. | [noun] An outburst, especially of laughter. | [noun] A light breeze. GALLS (6) [noun] Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver. | [noun] The gall bladder. | [noun] Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances. GALLY (9) GALOP (8) [noun] A lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time. | [noun] The music for a dance of this kind. GAMAS (8) GAMAY (11) [noun] Any of several varieties of red grape used for making Beaujolais and other red wines. GAMBA (10) [noun] A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba. | [noun] A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold. | [noun] The metacarpus or metatarsus of ruminants, etc. GAMBE (10) GAMBS (10) GAMED (9) [verb] To gamble. | [verb] To play card games, board games, or video games. | [verb] To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable. GAMER (8) [noun] A person who plays any kind of game. | [noun] A person whose hobby is video games. | [noun] A person who games the system. | [adjective] Willing to participate. GAMES (8) [noun] A playful or competitive activity. | [noun] A video game. | [noun] (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession. GAMEY (11) [adjective] Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat). | [adjective] Plucky, spirited or gritty | [adjective] Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive GAMIC (10) GAMIN (8) [noun] A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy. GAMMA (10) [noun] The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ). | [noun] The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ. | [noun] A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant). GAMMY (13) [adjective] Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs). | [noun] Grandmother. | [noun] A blowjob; fellatio. GAMPS (10) [noun] An umbrella. GAMUT (8) [noun] A (normally) complete range. | [noun] All the notes in the musical scale. | [noun] All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer. GANEF (9) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GANEV (9) GANGS (7) [verb] To go; walk; proceed. | [noun] A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose. | [noun] A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad. GANJA (13) [noun] Marijuana, as used for smoking. GANOF (9) GAOLS (6) [noun] A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. | [noun] Confinement in a jail. | [noun] The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). GAPED (9) [verb] To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise. | [verb] To stare in wonder. | [verb] To open wide; to display a gap. GAPER (8) [noun] One who gapes; a starer. | [noun] Any of several species of burrowing clams. | [noun] The comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla. GAPES (8) [noun] An act of gaping; a yawn. | [noun] A large opening. | [noun] A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping. GAPPY (13) GARBS (8) [noun] Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. | [noun] A type of dress or clothing. | [noun] A guise, external appearance. GARNI (6) GARTH (9) [noun] A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters | [noun] A close; a yard; a croft; a garden. | [noun] A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England GASES (6) [noun] Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly. | [noun] A chemical element or compound in such a state. | [noun] A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles. GASPS (8) [noun] A short, sudden intake of breath. | [noun] : A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper). | [verb] To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock. GASSY (9) [adjective] Having the nature of, or containing, gas. | [adjective] Of food or drink: tending to cause flatulence. | [adjective] Tending to be long-winded or wordy, especially in a boastful and vain manner. GASTS (6) GATED (7) [verb] To keep something inside by means of a closed gate. | [verb] To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out. | [verb] To open a closed ion channel. GATES (6) [noun] A doorlike structure outside a house. | [noun] Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. | [noun] Movable barrier. GATOR (6) [noun] Alligator. GAUDS (7) [noun] A cheap showy trinket | [noun] Trick; jest; sport | [noun] Deceit; fraud; artifice GAUDY (10) [noun] One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. | [adjective] Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner | [adjective] Fun; merry; festive | [noun] A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations. GAUGE (7) [noun] A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard | [noun] An act of measuring. | [noun] An estimate. GAULT (6) [noun] A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks. GAUMS (8) GAUNT (6) [adjective] Lean, angular and bony | [adjective] Haggard, drawn and emaciated | [adjective] Bleak, barren and desolate GAURS (6) [noun] An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition. GAUSS (6) [noun] The unit of magnetic field strength in CGS systems of units, equal to 0.0001 tesla. GAUZE (15) [noun] A thin fabric with a loose, open weave. | [noun] A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing. | [noun] A thin woven metal or plastic mesh. GAUZY (18) [adjective] Having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy. | [adjective] Light; giving the effect of haze. GAVEL (9) [noun] Rent. | [noun] Usury; interest on money. | [noun] An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally. | [noun] A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction. | [noun] A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. | [noun] A gable. GAVOT (9) GAWKS (13) [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. | [verb] To stare conspicuously. GAWKY (16) [noun] An awkward, ungainly person. | [adjective] Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement GAWPS (11) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. GAWSY (12) GAYAL (9) [noun] Bos frontalis, a Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle. GAYER (9) [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Happy, joyful, and lively. | [adjective] Quick, fast. | [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Festive, bright, or colourful. GAYLY (12) GAZAR (15) [noun] A silk organza, a lightweight fabric with a plain weave. GAZED (16) [verb] To stare intently or earnestly. | [verb] To stare at. GAZER (15) GAZES (15) [noun] A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. | [noun] The object gazed on. | [noun] In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed. GEARS (6) [noun] Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. | [noun] Clothing; garments. | [noun] Goods; property; household items. GECKO (12) [noun] Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces. | [verb] To move in the manner of a gecko; to attach to a vertical or upside-down surface. GECKS (12) GEEKS (10) [noun] A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior. | [noun] A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun. | [noun] (by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers. GEEKY (13) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a geek. GEESE (6) [noun] Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks. | [noun] A female goose (sense 1). | [noun] The flesh of the goose used as food. GEEST (6) GELDS (7) [noun] Money. | [noun] A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant. | [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). GELEE (6) GELID (7) [adjective] Very cold; icy or frosty. GELTS (6) GEMMA (10) [noun] A bud; an asexual reproductive structure, as found in liverworts and hydra, able to produce new individuals from a cluster of cells. GEMMY (13) GEMOT (8) GENES (6) [noun] A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color. | [noun] A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus. GENET (6) [noun] Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail. | [noun] The fur of this mammal, or any skin dressed in imitation of it. | [noun] A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi, bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor; a group of ramets. | [noun] A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet. GENIC (8) [adjective] Of, relating to, produced by, or being a gene GENIE (6) [noun] A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form. | [noun] A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container. GENII (6) [noun] Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc. | [noun] Extraordinary mental capacity. | [noun] Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process. | [noun] A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form. GENIP (8) [noun] A succulent berry with a thick rind, the fruit of plants in the genus Genipa. GENOA (6) [noun] A staysail that resembles a jib but extends aft beyond the mast. | [noun] Genoa cake GENOM (8) GENRE (6) [noun] A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks. GENRO (6) GENTS (6) [noun] A gentleman. | [noun] A men's room: a lavatory intended for use by men. | [adjective] Men's: intended for use by men. GENUA (6) [noun] Knee | [noun] A knee-like bend. GENUS (6) [noun] A rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank. | [noun] A group with common attributes. | [noun] A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph. GEODE (7) [noun] A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall. GEOID (7) [noun] (geodesy) The shape that the surface of the oceans of the Earth would take under the influence of the Earth's gravity and rotation alone, extending also through the continents, disregarding other factors such as winds and tides; that is, a surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation. GERAH (9) GERMS (8) [noun] The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore. | [noun] A pathogenic microorganism. | [noun] The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. GERMY (11) [adjective] That carries germs. GESSO (6) [noun] A mixture of plaster of Paris and glue used to prepare a surface for painting. | [noun] A work of art done in gesso. GESTE (6) GESTS (6) GETAS (6) GETUP (8) [noun] Enthusiastic and energetic drive or ambition | [noun] A costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual. | [noun] A fight or altercation. GEUMS (8) [noun] Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants. GHAST (9) GHATS (9) [noun] A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place. | [noun] A mountain range. | [noun] A mountain pass. GHAUT (9) GHAZI (18) [noun] A hero or champion, especially as a Muslim against non-Muslims; often used as a title. GHEES (9) [noun] A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee. | [noun] Vegetable oil for cooking. GHOST (9) [noun] The spirit; the soul of man. | [noun] The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death | [noun] Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image GHOUL (9) [noun] (Muslim demonology) A demon said to feed on corpses. | [noun] A graverobber. | [noun] A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive. GHYLL (12) [noun] A ravine. GIANT (6) [noun] A mythical human of very great size. | [noun] Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology. | [noun] A very tall and large person. GIBED (9) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe GIBER (8) GIBES (8) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe GIDDY (11) [verb] To make dizzy or unsteady. | [verb] To reel; to whirl. | [adjective] Dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down. GIFTS (9) [noun] Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. | [noun] A talent or natural ability. | [noun] Something gained incidentally, without effort. GIGAS (7) GIGHE (10) GIGOT (7) [noun] A leg of lamb or mutton. | [noun] Short for gigot sleeve. GIGUE (7) [noun] An Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period). GILDS (7) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. GILLS (6) [noun] (animal anatomy) a breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals | [noun] (of a fish) a gill slit or gill cover | [noun] One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, on the surface of which the spore-producing organs are borne GILLY (9) GILTS (6) [noun] Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding. | [noun] Money. | [noun] A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged) GIMEL (8) GIMME (10) [noun] That which is easily obtained, or certain to occur. GIMPS (10) [noun] A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe. | [noun] Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire. | [noun] The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself. GIMPY (13) GINKS (10) [noun] (originally United States slang) A guy, a fellow, especially a foolish, unworldly, or socially inept man. GINNY (9) GIPON (8) GIPSY (11) [noun] (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc). | [noun] An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other while maintaining eye contact (but not touching as in a swing). (Compare whole gyp, half gyp, and gypsy meltdown, in which this step precedes a swing.) GIRDS (7) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. GIRLS (6) [noun] A female child, adolescent, or a young woman. | [noun] A young female animal. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young woman GIRLY (9) [noun] Girl. | [adjective] Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, sweet; unmasculine. GIRNS (6) [verb] To grimace; to snarl. | [verb] To whinge, moan, complain. | [verb] To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition. GIRON (6) GIROS (6) [noun] (in Europe) A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions. | [noun] An unemployment benefit cheque. | [verb] To transfer funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions. | [noun] A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce. GIRSH (9) GIRTH (9) [noun] A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place. | [noun] The part of an animal around which the girth fits. | [noun] One's waistline circumference, most often a large one. GIRTS (6) [noun] A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts. | [verb] To gird. | [verb] To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. GISMO (8) [noun] Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term. GISTS (6) [noun] The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith. | [noun] The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action. | [noun] Resting place (especially of animals), lodging. GIVEN (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GIVER (9) [noun] One who gives; a donor or contributor. GIVES (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. | [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. GIZMO (17) [noun] Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term. GLACE (8) GLADE (7) [noun] An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. | [noun] An everglade. | [noun] An open space in the ice on a river or lake. GLADS (7) [verb] To make glad GLADY (10) GLAIR (6) [noun] Egg-white, especially as used in various industrial preparations. | [noun] Any viscous, slimy substance. | [noun] A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd. GLAND (7) [noun] An organ that synthesizes a substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland). | [noun] A secretory structure on the surface of an organ. | [noun] A compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier, such as: GLANS (6) [noun] The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis. | [noun] The vascular body which forms the extremity of the clitoris. | [noun] The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits. GLARE (6) [noun] An intense, blinding light. | [noun] Showy brilliance; gaudiness. | [noun] An angry or fierce stare. GLARY (9) GLASS (6) [verb] To apply fibreglass to. | [noun] An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime. | [noun] A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material. GLAZE (15) [noun] The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb). | [noun] A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint. | [noun] A smooth edible coating applied to food. GLAZY (18) GLEAM (8) [noun] A small or indistinct shaft or stream of light. | [noun] A glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something. | [noun] Brightness or shininess; splendor. GLEAN (6) [noun] A collection made by gleaning. | [verb] To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering. | [verb] To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard). | [noun] Cleaning; afterbirth GLEBA (8) GLEBE (8) [noun] Turf; soil; ground; sod. | [noun] In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. | [noun] A meadow, land or fields GLEDE (7) GLEDS (7) GLEED (7) GLEEK (10) GLEES (6) [noun] Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune. | [noun] Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. | [noun] An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry. GLEET (6) [noun] (except Scots) Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk. | [noun] (except Scots) Any slimy, viscous substance. | [noun] A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhoea. GLENS (6) [noun] A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills. GLEYS (9) [noun] A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen. GLIAL (6) GLIAS (6) GLIDE (7) [noun] The act of gliding. | [noun] A transitional sound, especially a semivowel. | [noun] An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact. GLIFF (12) GLIME (8) GLIMS (8) [noun] Brightness; splendour | [noun] A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire. | [noun] An eye. GLINT (6) [noun] A short flash of light. | [verb] To flash or gleam briefly. | [verb] To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. GLITZ (15) [noun] Garish, brilliant showiness. GLOAM (8) GLOAT (6) [noun] An act or instance of gloating. | [verb] To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune. | [verb] To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel. GLOBE (8) [noun] Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object. | [noun] The planet Earth. | [noun] A spherical model of Earth or any planet. GLOBS (8) [noun] A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance. | [noun] A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression. | [noun] A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway. GLOGG (8) [noun] A Scandinavian version of vin chaud or mulled wine; a hot punch made of red wine, brandy and sherry flavoured with almonds, raisins and orange peel. GLOMS (8) [verb] To steal, to grab. | [verb] To stare. | [verb] To attach. GLOOM (8) [noun] Darkness, dimness or obscurity. | [noun] A melancholic, depressing or despondent atmosphere. | [noun] Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. GLOPS (8) [verb] To stare in amazement. | [noun] Any gooey substance. | [noun] A gooey blob of some substance. GLORY (9) [noun] Great or overwhelming beauty or splendour. | [noun] Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown. | [noun] That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour. GLOSS (6) [noun] A surface shine or luster/lustre | [noun] A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance | [verb] To give a gloss or sheen to. | [noun] A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text. | [verb] To add a gloss to (a text). GLOST (6) [noun] Lead glazing used for pottery. GLOUT (6) GLOVE (9) [noun] An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers. | [noun] A baseball mitt. | [noun] The ability to catch a hit ball. GLOWS (9) [noun] The state of a glowing object. | [noun] The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings. | [noun] The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face). GLOZE (15) [noun] A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary. | [noun] Flattery. | [noun] (False) appearance. GLUED (7) [verb] To join or attach something using glue. | [verb] To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively. GLUER (6) GLUES (6) [noun] A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance. | [noun] Anything that binds two things or people together. | [noun] Birdlime. GLUEY (9) [adjective] Viscous and adhesive, as glue. GLUGS (7) [noun] The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle. | [noun] The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard. GLUME (8) [noun] A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae). GLUON (6) [noun] A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force. GLUTS (6) [noun] An excess, too much. | [noun] That which is swallowed. | [noun] Something that fills up an opening. GLYPH (14) [noun] A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. | [noun] Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information. | [noun] A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style. GNARL (6) [noun] A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree. | [noun] Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs. | [verb] To knot or twist something. | [verb] To snarl or growl; to gnar. GNARR (6) GNARS (6) GNASH (9) [noun] A sudden snapping of the teeth. | [verb] To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger. | [verb] To grind between the teeth. GNATS (6) [noun] Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera. GNAWN (9) GNAWS (9) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GNOME (8) [noun] A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying. | [noun] (magic, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth. | [noun] (fantasy literature) One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually even smaller than dwarves and more focussed on engineering than mining. GOADS (7) [noun] A long, pointed stick used to prod animals. | [noun] That which goads or incites; a stimulus. | [verb] To prod with a goad. GOALS (6) [noun] A result that one is attempting to achieve. | [noun] In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object. | [noun] The act of placing the object into the goal. GOATS (6) [noun] A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra. | [noun] A lecherous man. | [noun] A scapegoat. GOBAN (8) GOBOS (8) [noun] A disc placed between a light and the illuminated object or actor in order to diffuse the glare. | [noun] A template inserted over a light source in order to control the shape of the thrown light. | [noun] A device used to shield a microphone from extraneous sounds. GODET (7) [noun] A drinking cup. | [noun] A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset. | [noun] A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing. GODLY (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a god | [adjective] Devoted to a god or God; devout; righteous. | [adjective] Gloriously good. GOERS (6) [noun] One who, or that which, goes. | [noun] Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully. | [noun] A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity. GOFER (9) [noun] A worker who runs errands; an errand boy. GOGOS (7) GOING (7) [verb] To move: | [verb] (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). | [verb] To start; to begin (an action or process). GOLDS (7) [noun] A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au. | [noun] A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so. | [noun] A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold. GOLEM (8) [noun] A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic. | [noun] (by extension) A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic. GOLFS (9) [verb] To play the game of golf. | [verb] To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf) GOLLY (9) [interjection] God! | [noun] A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel. | [noun] (racist) A black person. | [noun] A galosh. | [noun] (juvenile) Chewing gum. GOMBO (10) GONAD (7) [noun] A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The testicles. GONEF (9) GONER (6) [noun] Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case. GONGS (7) [noun] A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer. | [noun] A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor. | [verb] To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong. GONIA (6) GONIF (9) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GONOF (9) GONZO (15) [noun] Gonzo journalism or a journalist who produces such journalism. | [noun] A wild or crazy person. | [adjective] Using an unconventional, exaggerated and highly subjective style, often when the reporter takes part in the events of the story. GOODS (7) [noun] The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence. | [noun] A result that is positive in the view of the speaker. | [noun] The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc. GOODY (10) [noun] A good character in a story, often a hero. | [noun] A small amount of something good to eat. | [noun] Any small, usually free, item. GOOEY (9) [adjective] Of or relating to goo | [adjective] Soft, sticky and viscous GOOFS (9) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To engage in mischief. GOOFY (12) [adjective] Silly, quirky | [noun] One who rides with the right foot forward. | [adjective] Riding with the right foot forward. GOOKS (10) [noun] A person of Far Eastern or Oceanian descent, especially a Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese or Korean person. | [noun] A foreigner, especially an enemy soldier in wartime. | [noun] Grime or mud. GOOKY (13) GOONS (6) [noun] A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon'). | [noun] A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish. | [noun] An enforcer or fighter. GOONY (9) GOOPS (8) [noun] (usually uncountable) A thick, slimy substance; goo. | [noun] A silly, stupid, or boorish person. GOOPY (11) GOOSE (6) [noun] Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks. | [noun] A female goose (sense 1). | [noun] The flesh of the goose used as food. GOOSY (9) [noun] A goose. | [noun] A foolish person; a silly. | [adjective] Characteristic of a goose; anserine GORAL (6) [noun] A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus. GORED (7) [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [verb] To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear. | [verb] To cut in a triangular form. GORES (6) [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [verb] To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear. | [noun] A triangular piece of land where roads meet. GORGE (7) GORPS (8) GORSE (6) [noun] Evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having spiny leaves and yellow flowers. GORSY (9) GOUGE (7) [noun] Senses relating to cutting tools. | [noun] A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp. | [noun] (originally United States) An act of gouging. GOURD (7) [noun] Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae). | [noun] A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita. | [noun] The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration. GOUTS (6) [noun] An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints. | [noun] (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch. | [noun] A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae. GOUTY (9) [adjective] Suffering from gout. GOWAN (9) [noun] The common daisy. | [noun] Decomposed granite. GOWDS (10) GOWKS (13) [noun] A cuckoo. | [noun] A fool. GOWNS (9) [noun] A loose, flowing upper garment. | [noun] A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown. | [noun] The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc. GOXES (13) GOYIM (11) [noun] A non-Jew, a gentile. (See usage notes) GRAAL (6) GRABS (8) [noun] A sudden snatch at something. | [noun] An acquisition by violent or unjust means. | [noun] A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. GRACE (8) [noun] Charming, pleasing qualities. | [noun] A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal. | [noun] In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules. GRADE (7) [noun] A rating. | [noun] The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score. | [noun] A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality. GRADS (7) [noun] A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this. | [noun] A unit of angle equal to 0.9 degrees, so that there are 100 gradians in a right angle. | [noun] A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. GRAFT (9) [noun] A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. | [noun] A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. | [noun] A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty. | [noun] A ditch, a canal. | [noun] Corruption in official life. GRAIL (6) [noun] The Holy Grail. | [noun] The object of an extended or difficult quest.http//www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grail | [noun] A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. | [noun] Small particles of earth; gravel. | [noun] One of the small feathers of a hawk. GRAIN (6) [noun] The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley. | [noun] Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa. | [noun] A single seed of grass food crops. | [noun] A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant. GRAMA (8) GRAMP (10) [noun] Grandpa, grandfather. GRAMS (8) [noun] A photograph or video shared on this service. | [noun] A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g | [noun] Grandmother | [noun] Grandmother GRANA (6) [noun] A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis. GRAND (7) [noun] (plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.) | [noun] (plural "grands") A grand piano | [adjective] Of a large size or extent; great. | [noun] A grandparent or grandchild. GRANS (6) [noun] (usually affectionate) a grandmother | [noun] A grandfather GRANT (6) [noun] The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission. | [noun] The yielding or admission of something in dispute. | [noun] The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. GRAPE (8) [noun] A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis. | [noun] A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis. | [noun] A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes. GRAPH (11) [noun] (applied mathematics) A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers. | [noun] A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m, y)\in\R^{m+1}, where y=f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m) for a given function f: \R^m\rightarrow\R. | [noun] (formally) An ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V; (less formally) a set of vertices (or nodes) together with a set of edges that connect (some of) the vertices. GRAPY (11) GRASP (8) [noun] (sometimes figurative) Grip. | [noun] Understanding. | [noun] That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability. GRASS (6) [noun] Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. | [noun] Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses. | [noun] A lawn. GRATE (6) [noun] A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot | [noun] A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning | [verb] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars | [verb] To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater | [adjective] Serving to gratify; agreeable. | [adjective] Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big. GRAVE (9) [noun] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial | [noun] Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. | [noun] (by extension) Death, destruction. | [verb] To dig. | [noun] A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`). | [noun] A count, prefect, or person holding office. | [verb] To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose. GRAVY (12) [noun] A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked. | [noun] A type of gravy. | [noun] (Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta. GRAYS (9) [noun] An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. | [noun] An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. | [noun] An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head. GRAZE (15) [noun] The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. | [noun] A light abrasion; a slight scratch. | [noun] The act of animals feeding from pasture. GREAT (6) [noun] A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | [noun] The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | [noun] (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships. GREBE (8) [noun] Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes. GREED (7) [noun] A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions. | [verb] To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire. GREEK (10) [noun] An inhabitant, resident, or person of descent from Greece. | [noun] Unintelligible speech or text, such as foreign speech or text, or regarding subjects the listener is not familiar with, such as mathematics or technical jargon; or statements that the listener does not understand or agree with. | [noun] A member of a college fraternity or sorority, which are characterised by being named after Greek letters. (See also Greek system.) GREEN (6) [adjective] Having green as its color. | [adjective] (of people) Sickly, unwell. | [adjective] Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. | [noun] The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. | [verb] To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. GREES (6) GREET (6) [verb] To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or over the phone/internet | [verb] To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy) | [verb] To accost; to address. | [adjective] (obsolete outside Scotland) Great. | [noun] Mourning, weeping, lamentation. GREGO (7) GREYS (9) [noun] An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. | [noun] An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. | [noun] An extraterrestrial humanoid with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head. GRIDE (7) GRIDS (7) [noun] A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle. | [noun] A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire. | [noun] A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters). GRIEF (9) [noun] Suffering, hardship. | [noun] Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. | [noun] Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial. GRIFF (12) [noun] Griffin, (white) newcomer | [noun] Grasp; reach | [noun] An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods. | [noun] Marijuana. GRIFT (9) [noun] A confidence game or swindle. | [verb] To obtain illegally, as by con game. | [verb] To obtain money illegally. GRIGS (7) [noun] A dwarf. | [noun] A cricket or grasshopper. | [noun] A small or young eel. GRILL (6) [noun] A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack. | [noun] On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it. | [noun] A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English | [verb] To make angry; provoke; incite. | [noun] Harm. GRIME (8) [noun] Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove. | [noun] A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop. | [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIMY (11) [adjective] Stained or covered with grime. | [adjective] From the urban musical genre called grime. GRIND (7) [noun] The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. | [noun] Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground. | [noun] A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans. | [noun] A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands. GRINS (6) [noun] A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth. | [verb] To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. | [verb] To express by grinning. GRIOT (6) [noun] A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet. | [noun] A Haitian dish of fried pork. GRIPE (8) [noun] A complaint, often a petty or trivial one. | [noun] A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems. | [noun] Grasp; clutch; grip GRIPS (8) [verb] To take hold of, particularly with the hand. | [verb] To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense. | [verb] To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief. GRIPT (8) GRIPY (11) GRIST (6) [noun] Grain that is to be ground in a mill. | [noun] A group of bees. | [noun] Supply; provision. GRITH (9) GRITS (6) [noun] (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge. | [verb] Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger. GROAN (6) [noun] A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief. | [noun] A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration, disapproval, or ecstasy. | [noun] (of an object) A low creaking sound from applied pressure or weight. GROAT (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain. | [noun] Any of various old coins of England and Scotland. | [noun] A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins. GROGS (7) [noun] (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy. | [noun] (by extension) Any alcoholic beverage. | [noun] A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage. GROIN (6) [noun] The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region. | [noun] The area adjoining this fold or depression. | [noun] The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults | [verb] To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur. | [noun] An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater. GROOM (8) [noun] A man who is about to marry. | [noun] A person who cares for horses. | [noun] One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department. GROPE (8) [noun] An act of groping, especially sexually. | [noun] An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel | [verb] To feel with or use the hands; to handle. GROSS (6) [noun] Twelve dozen = 144. | [noun] The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net. | [noun] The bulk, the mass, the masses. GROSZ (15) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Polish zloty. GROTS (6) [noun] A grotto. | [noun] Any unpleasant substance or material. | [noun] A miserable person. GROUP (8) [noun] A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. | [noun] A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. | [noun] An effective divisor on a curve. GROUT (6) [noun] A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry. | [noun] Coarse meal; groats. | [noun] (typically used in the plural) Dregs, sediment. GROVE (9) [noun] A small forest. | [noun] An orchard of fruit trees. | [noun] (Druidism) A place of worship. GROWL (9) [noun] A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal. | [noun] (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a person's stomach when hungry. | [noun] (by extension) An aggressive grumbling. GROWN (9) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GROWS (9) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GRUBS (8) [noun] An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A short, thick man; a dwarf. GRUEL (6) [noun] A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill. | [verb] To exhaust; use up; disable; to punish. GRUES (6) GRUFF (12) [verb] To speak gruffly. | [adjective] Having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature. | [adjective] Hoarse-voiced. GRUME (8) [noun] A thick semisolid | [noun] A clot (of blood) GRUMP (10) [noun] A habitually grumpy or complaining person. | [noun] A grumpy mood. | [verb] To complain. GRUNT (6) [noun] A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak. | [noun] The snorting cry of a pig. | [noun] Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae. GUACO (8) GUANO (6) [noun] Dung from a sea bird or from a bat. | [noun] A variety of seabird. GUANS (6) [noun] Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas. GUARD (7) [noun] A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something. | [noun] A garda; a police officer. | [noun] A squad responsible for protecting something. GUARS (6) [noun] An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans. GUAVA (9) [noun] A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava. | [noun] Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color. | [noun] A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink). GUCKS (12) GUDES (7) GUESS (6) [verb] To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion. | [verb] To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. | [verb] To suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility). | [noun] A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support. GUEST (6) [noun] A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another. | [noun] A patron or customer in a hotel etc. | [noun] An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast. GUFFS (12) [noun] Nonsensical talk or thinking. | [noun] Superfluous information. | [noun] Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks. GUIDE (7) [noun] Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation. | [noun] A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. | [noun] A sign that guides people; guidepost. | [verb] To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. GUIDS (7) GUILD (7) [noun] A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages. | [noun] A corporation. | [noun] A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits. GUILE (6) [noun] Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception. | [noun] Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty. | [verb] To deceive, beguile, bewile. GUILT (6) [noun] Responsibility for wrongdoing. | [noun] The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings. | [noun] The regret of having done wrong. | [verb] To commit offenses; act criminally. GUIRO (6) [noun] A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound. | [noun] A genre of traditional Cuban music, used in santería rituals. | [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a gourd surrounded by a net of beads. GUISE (6) [noun] Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.) | [noun] External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape. | [noun] Misleading appearance; cover, cloak. GULAG (7) [noun] A prison camp. | [noun] The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period. | [verb] To force into this prison or a similar system. GULAR (6) [noun] A plate or scale in the throat region of the body of a fish or reptile (especially a snake). | [adjective] Particularly of an animal: of, pertaining to, or located at the gula or the throat. | [noun] Ficus racemosa, a species of plant native to India, southeast Asia, and Australia. GULCH (11) [noun] A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully. | [noun] An act of gulching or gulping. | [noun] A glutton. GULES (6) [noun] The throat; the gullet. | [noun] Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines. | [adjective] In blazon, of the colour red. GULFS (9) [noun] A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin. | [noun] That which swallows; the gullet. | [noun] That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. GULFY (12) GULLS (6) [noun] A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae. | [noun] Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora. | [noun] A cheating trick; a fraud. GULLY (9) [noun] A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside. | [noun] A small valley. | [noun] A drop kerb. | [noun] (northern UK) A large knife. GULPS (8) [noun] The usual amount swallowed. | [noun] The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear. | [noun] An unspecified small number of bytes, often two. GULPY (11) GUMBO (10) [noun] A soup or stew made with okra. | [noun] A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy. | [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. GUMMA (10) [noun] A soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis. GUMMY (13) [noun] A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth. | [adjective] Showing the gums. | [noun] A species of shark, Mustelus antarcticus, endemic to southern and south-eastern Australia, the meat of which is sold as flake. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A gummi candy. GUNKS (10) GUNKY (13) [adjective] Greasy, messy or dirty. GUNNY (9) [noun] A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp. | [noun] A gunny sack. | [noun] A gunnery sergeant. GUPPY (13) [noun] A tiny freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males. | [noun] By extension, any tiny fish. | [noun] A tube holding paintballs before they are loaded into the gun. GURGE (7) GURRY (9) [noun] A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time. | [noun] The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour. | [noun] A small fort. | [noun] Fishing offal GURSH (9) GURUS (6) [noun] A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher. | [noun] (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor. GUSHY (12) [adjective] Gushing; effusive and often emotional. | [adjective] Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid. GUSSY (9) [verb] To dress up or decorate in a showy way GUSTO (6) [noun] Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor. GUSTS (6) [noun] A strong, abrupt rush of wind. | [noun] (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.). | [verb] To blow in gusts. GUSTY (9) [adjective] (of wind) Blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous. | [adjective] (by extension, metaphoric) Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression | [adjective] (metaphoric) Bombastic, verbose. | [adjective] With gusto GUTSY (9) [adjective] Marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; having guts | [adjective] Not showing due respect GUTTA (6) GUTTY (9) [adjective] Charged or sprinkled with drops. | [noun] One who works in a slaughterhouse cutting out the internal organs. | [adjective] Gutsy; brave. | [noun] An urchin or delinquent. GUYED (10) [adjective] Fitted with or attached to a guy. | [adjective] Fitted to serve as a guy. | [verb] To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November. GUYOT (9) [noun] A flat-topped seamount. GYBED (12) [verb] To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind. | [verb] Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other. | [verb] Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel. GYBES (11) [noun] The act of gybing. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation. | [noun] Alternative spelling of jibe GYPSY (14) [noun] (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc). | [adjective] (sometimes offensive) Of or belonging to the Romani people or one of it sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichel, etc). | [noun] An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny. GYRAL (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a gyrus | [adjective] Moving circularly or spirally; gyratory; whirling. GYRED (10) [verb] To whirl GYRES (9) [noun] A swirling vortex. | [noun] A circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current. | [noun] A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. GYRON (9) [noun] A triangular form having an angle at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon. GYROS (9) [noun] A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce. | [noun] A gyroscope | [noun] A gyrocompass | [noun] A gyroscope GYRUS (9) [noun] A ridge or fold on the cerebral cortex. GYVED (13) GYVES (12) [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. HANGS (9) [verb] To be or remain suspended. | [verb] To float, as if suspended. | [verb] (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. HAUGH (12) [noun] A low-lying meadow by the side of a river. HEDGE (10) [noun] A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden. | [noun] A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm. | [noun] A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land. | [verb] To enclose with a hedge or hedges. HEDGY (13) HEIGH (12) [interjection] An exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc. HEUGH (12) [noun] A steep crag or cliff, especially one with overhanging sides | [noun] A glen with steep, overhanging sides | [noun] A steep excavation, especially a coal pit HIGHS (12) [noun] A high point or position, literally or figuratively; an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven. | [noun] A point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best. | [noun] A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs. HIGHT (12) [verb] To call, name. | [verb] To be called or named. | [verb] To command; to enjoin. | [noun] The distance from the base of something to the top. HINGE (9) [noun] A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. | [noun] A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve. | [noun] A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album. HOAGY (12) [noun] A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll; a submarine sandwich. HOGAN (9) [noun] A one-room Navajo dwelling or ceremonial lodge, constructed of wood and earth and covered with mud. HOGGS (10) [noun] A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget. HONGS (9) HUGER (9) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. HYING (12) [verb] To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. | [verb] To hurry (oneself). | [noun] Haste ICING (8) [noun] A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting. | [noun] A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this. | [noun] The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface. | [verb] To cool with ice, as a beverage. IGLOO (6) [noun] A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow. | [noun] A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the sea ice. | [noun] A reinforced bunker for the storage of nuclear weapons. IGLUS (6) IMAGE (8) [noun] An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture. | [noun] A mental picture of something not real or not present. | [noun] A statue or idol. IMAGO (8) [noun] The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis. | [noun] An idealised concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes. INCOG (8) [noun] Incognito. | [adjective] Incognito. | [adverb] Incognito. INGLE (6) [noun] An open fireplace. | [noun] A catamite. | [noun] A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart. | [noun] A male lover. INGOT (6) [noun] A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents. | [verb] To form (scraps of metal) into ingots. IRING (6) JAGER (13) JAGGS (14) JAGGY (17) [adjective] Jagged, toothed or serrated JAGRA (13) JINGO (13) [noun] One who supports policy favouring war. JUDGE (14) [noun] A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice. | [noun] A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question. | [noun] A person officiating at a sports event or similar. | [verb] To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on. JUGAL (13) [noun] A bone found in the skull of most reptiles, amphibians and birds; the equivalent of a malar in mammals. | [adjective] Relating to a yoke or marriage. | [adjective] Pertaining to the jugal bone. JUGUM (15) [noun] One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants. | [noun] A pair of opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant. KAGUS (10) [noun] A New Caledonian endemic bird species, Rhynochetos jubatus, the only surviving member of the family Rhynochetidae. KEDGE (11) [noun] A small anchor used for warping a vessel; also called a kedge anchor. | [noun] A glutton. | [verb] To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it. KIANG (10) [noun] A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau. KINGS (10) [noun] A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation. | [noun] A powerful or majorly influential person. | [noun] Something that has a preeminent position. KLONG (10) [noun] A canal on the central plain of Thailand. KLUGE (10) [verb] To build or use a kludge. | [noun] Something that should not work, but does. | [noun] A device assembled from components intended for disparate purposes. KUGEL (10) [noun] A traditional Jewish dish consisting of baked pudding of rice, pasta, or potatoes with vegetables or raisins and spices | [noun] Traditional house ornament made of glass | [noun] Overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish woman LAGAN (6) [noun] Goods or materials found or left on the sea floor, attached to a floating marker that indicates ownership. LAGER (6) [noun] A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast. | [verb] To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification. | [noun] A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers. LAIGH (9) LARGE (6) [noun] An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves. | [noun] Liberality, generosity. | [noun] (plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds. LARGO (6) [noun] A very slow tempo | [noun] A musical piece or movement in such a tempo | [adjective] Strong and stately LAUGH (9) [noun] An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. | [noun] Something that provokes mirth or scorn. | [noun] A fun person. LEDGE (7) [noun] A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery. | [noun] A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks. | [noun] A layer or stratum. | [noun] A lege; a legend. | [noun] A provincial or territorial legislature building. LEDGY (10) LEGAL (6) [noun] The legal department of a company. | [noun] Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm). | [noun] A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc. LEGER (6) LEGES (6) LEGGY (10) [adjective] (chiefly of a woman) Having long, attractive legs; long-legged. | [adjective] (chiefly of a woman) Exposing the bare or pantyhose-clad legs, especially the thighs. | [adjective] Taller or longer than usual. LEGIT (6) [noun] A legitimate; a legitimate actor. | [noun] A legitimate child. | [adjective] Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid. LIANG (6) LIEGE (6) [noun] A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign. | [noun] (in full liege lord) A king or lord. | [noun] The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman. LIGAN (6) LIGER (6) [noun] An animal born to a male lion and a tigress. LIGHT (9) [noun] Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light. | [noun] A source of illumination. | [noun] Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information. | [verb] To start (a fire). | [adjective] Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure. | [noun] A stone that is not thrown hard enough. | [verb] To find by chance. LINGA (6) [noun] (Shaivism) The aniconic representation traditionally worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva. LINGO (6) [noun] Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group, field, or region; jargon or a dialect. LINGS (6) [noun] Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod. | [noun] The common ling, Molva molva. | [noun] Any of various varieties of heather or broom. LINGY (9) LODGE (7) [noun] A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin. | [noun] Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially as a college mailroom. | [noun] A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons. LOGAN (6) [noun] A rocking or balanced stone. | [noun] A marsh. LOGES (6) [noun] A booth or stall. | [noun] The lodge of a concierge. | [noun] An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine. LOGGY (10) LOGIA (6) [noun] A traditional saying of a religious leader. | [noun] (specifically) A saying that is attributed to Jesus in ancient or reconstructed texts that was (originally) handed down without narrative context. LOGIC (8) [noun] A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method. | [noun] The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration. | [noun] The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements. LOGOI (6) LOGOS (6) [noun] A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument. | [noun] Alternative letter-case form of Logos | [noun] A visual symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of a company or organization. LONGE (6) [noun] A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing. | [noun] A lunge; a thrust. | [noun] The training ground for a horse. | [noun] A musical note equal to two or three breves, i.e. four or six whole notes. LONGS (6) [noun] A long vowel. | [noun] A long syllable. | [noun] A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. LOUGH (9) [noun] A lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in Ireland. LUGED (7) [verb] To travel by luge; to ride a luge. LUGER (6) [noun] Someone who competes in the luge. LUGES (6) [noun] A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back. | [noun] The sport of racing on luges. | [noun] A piece of ice, bone or other material with a channel down which a (usually alcoholic) drink can be poured into someone's mouth. LUNGE (6) [noun] A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword. | [noun] A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing. | [noun] An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position. LUNGI (6) [noun] A garment worn around the waist, especially by men, in Southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan. LUNGS (6) [noun] A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood. | [noun] (plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath. | [noun] That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place. LYING (9) [verb] To rest in a horizontal position on a surface. | [verb] To be placed or situated. | [verb] To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition. | [verb] To rest in a horizontal position on a surface. MAGES (8) [noun] A magician, wizard or sorcerer. MAGIC (10) [noun] The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them | [noun] A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell. | [noun] The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual MAGMA (10) [noun] The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. | [noun] A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation. | [noun] Any soft doughy mass. MAGOT (8) MAGUS (8) [noun] (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan | [noun] (special usage) a Zoroastrian priest MANGE (8) [noun] A skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.). MANGO (8) [noun] A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica. | [noun] The fruit of the mango tree. | [noun] A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed. MANGY (11) [adjective] Afflicted with mange. | [adjective] (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit. MARGE (8) [noun] Margin; edge; verge. | [noun] Margarine. MERGE (8) [noun] The joining together of multiple sources. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. MIDGE (9) [noun] Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera | [noun] Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge MIGGS (9) MIGHT (11) [noun] Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group. | [noun] Physical strength or force. | [noun] The ability to do something. | [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). MINGY (11) [adjective] Mean, miserly, stingy. MOGGY (12) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). MOGUL (8) [noun] A rich or powerful person; a magnate. | [noun] A hump or bump on a skiing piste. | [noun] A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs. MONGO (8) [noun] Still-usable things salvaged (by sanmen) from garbage. MUGGS (9) MUGGY (12) [adjective] (Of the weather, air, etc) humid, or hot and humid. | [adjective] Wet or mouldy MUNGO (8) [noun] A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woollen goods or worsted. NAGGY (10) NEGUS (6) [noun] A drink of wine, lemon, sugar, nutmeg and hot water. | [noun] A ruler of Ethiopia or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the supreme ruler of Ethiopia before 1974. NEIGH (9) [noun] The cry of a horse. | [verb] (of a horse) To make its cry. | [verb] To make a sound similar to a horse's cry. NGWEE (9) [noun] A currency of Zambia, one hundredth of a kwacha. NIGHS (9) NIGHT (9) [noun] The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark. | [noun] (Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight. | [noun] (Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise. NOGGS (7) NUDGE (7) [noun] A gentle push. | [noun] A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound. | [noun] The rotation by one step of a fruit machine reel of the player's choice. OGAMS (8) [noun] A single character in this alphabet. OGEES (6) [noun] A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape | [noun] A pointed arch made from two ogees | [noun] An inflection point. OGHAM (11) [noun] A single character in this alphabet. | [proper noun] An ancient Celtic alphabet historically used to write Primitive Irish. OGIVE (9) [noun] The curve of a cumulative distribution function. | [noun] A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault. | [noun] The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket. OGLED (7) [verb] To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously. OGLER (6) OGLES (6) [noun] An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An eye. | [verb] To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously. OGRES (6) [noun] A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh. | [noun] A brutish man reminiscent of the mythical ogre. OHING (9) OLOGY (9) [noun] Any branch of learning, especially one ending in “-logy”. OMEGA (8) [noun] The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω. | [noun] (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence. | [noun] Angular velocity; symbol: ω. OPING (8) [verb] To open. ORANG (6) [noun] An orangutan. ORGAN (6) [noun] A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions. | [noun] (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions. | [noun] A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such. ORGIC (8) OUGHT (9) [noun] Property; possession | [noun] Duty; place; office OUTGO (6) [noun] The act or process of going out. | [noun] A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow. | [noun] An expenditure, cost or outlay. OWING (9) [verb] To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone. | [verb] To have debt; to be in debt. | [adjective] Still to be paid; owed as a debt. PAGAN (8) [noun] A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion. | [noun] (by extension) An uncivilized or unsocialized person. | [noun] (by extension) An unruly, badly educated child. PAGED (9) [verb] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript. | [verb] (often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication. | [verb] To furnish with folios. PAGER (8) [noun] A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages. | [noun] A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time. | [noun] (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages. PAGES (8) [noun] One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. | [noun] One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed. | [noun] Any record or writing; a collective memory. PAGOD (9) PANGA (8) [noun] A large broad-bladed knife. | [noun] Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus. | [noun] A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia. | [noun] A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America. PANGS (8) [noun] (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. | [noun] (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. | [verb] To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. PARGE (8) [noun] A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls. | [verb] To apply a parge on to a surface. PARGO (8) PEAGE (8) PEAGS (8) PENGO (8) [noun] The monetary unit of Hungary from January, 1927 to July, 1946, divided into 100 fillér. PHAGE (11) [noun] A virus that is parasitic on bacteria. PIGGY (12) [noun] (hypocoristic) A pig (the animal). | [noun] (hypocoristic) A guinea pig. | [noun] (hypocoristic) A toe. PIGMY (13) [noun] (often capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature. | [noun] A member of a race of dwarfs. | [noun] Any dwarfish person or thing. PIING (8) PINGO (8) [noun] A conical mound of earth with an ice core caused by permafrost uplift, particularly if lasting more than a year. | [noun] (Sri Lanka) A flexible pole supported on one shoulder, with a load suspended from each end; a carrying pole or carrying yoke. | [noun] (Sri Lanka) A measure of weight equivalent to that which can be carried using a pingo, perhaps about 55 pounds (25 kilograms) (see the 2013 quotation). PINGS (8) [noun] A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. | [noun] (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels. | [noun] A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence. PIROG (8) [noun] A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe. PLAGE (8) [noun] A region; country | [noun] A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun PLUGS (8) [noun] A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. | [noun] Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole. | [noun] A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. PODGY (12) [adjective] Slightly fat. POGEY (11) [noun] A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc. | [noun] (often with the) Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance. PONGS (8) [noun] A stench, a bad smell. | [verb] To stink, to smell bad. | [verb] To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it. PORGY (11) [noun] Any of several fish of the family Sparidae; the sea bream. PRANG (8) [noun] An aeroplane crash. | [noun] A bombing raid. | [noun] An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties. | [noun] A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Thailand and Cambodia. PRIGS (8) [noun] A tinker. | [noun] A petty thief or pickpocket. | [noun] A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner. PROGS (8) [noun] Progressive rock. | [noun] A program. | [noun] (university slang) A proctor. PRONG (8) [noun] A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool. A tine. | [noun] A branch; a fork. | [noun] The penis. PUDGY (12) [adjective] Fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby. PUGGY (12) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a pug dog. | [adjective] Sticky, claylike PUNGS (8) PURGE (8) [noun] An act of purging. | [noun] An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting. | [noun] A cleansing of pipes. PYGMY (16) [noun] (often capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature. | [noun] A member of a race of dwarfs. | [noun] Any dwarfish person or thing. QUAGS (15) [noun] Quagmire; marsh; bog. RAGAS (6) [noun] Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form. | [noun] Passion, love, lust. RAGED (7) [verb] To act or speak in heightened anger. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc. | [verb] To enrage. RAGEE (6) RAGES (6) [noun] Violent uncontrolled anger. | [noun] A current fashion or fad. | [noun] Any vehement passion. RAGGY (10) [adjective] Raglike; like a rag. | [adjective] Scruffy; tending to dress in rags. | [adjective] Similar in style to ragtime music. RAGIS (6) RANGE (6) [noun] A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc. | [noun] A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates. | [noun] Selection, array. RANGY (9) [adjective] Slender and long of limb; lanky | [adjective] Prone to roaming around. | [adjective] Having or permitting range or scope; roomy; commodious. REGAL (6) [adjective] Of or relating to royalty. | [adjective] Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress. | [noun] A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; today it has been revived for the performance of music from those times. REGES (6) REGMA (8) REGNA (6) REIGN (6) [noun] The exercise of sovereign power. | [noun] The period during which a monarch rules. | [noun] The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled. RENIG (6) REPEG (8) RERIG (6) RETAG (6) RIDGE (7) [noun] The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. | [noun] Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip. | [noun] The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground. RIDGY (10) RIGHT (9) [adjective] Straight, not bent. | [adjective] Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines. | [adjective] Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc. | [adverb] On the right side. | [noun] That which complies with justice, law or reason. | [verb] To correct. RIGID (7) [noun] A bicycle with no suspension system. | [adjective] Stiff, rather than flexible. | [adjective] Fixed, rather than moving. RIGOR (6) [noun] Short for rigor mortis. | [noun] Severity or strictness. | [noun] Harshness, as of climate. RINGS (6) [noun] (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle. | [noun] (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle. | [noun] A piece of food in the shape of a ring. ROGER (6) [interjection] (radio telecommunications) Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood) | [verb] Of a man, to have sexual intercourse with (someone), especially in a rough manner. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse. ROGUE (6) [noun] A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person. | [noun] A mischievous scamp. | [noun] A vagrant. ROUGE (6) [noun] Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher. | [noun] Any reddish pink colour. | [noun] A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored. (This scoring term is not often used in Canada, with the term single being more commonly used.) ROUGH (9) [noun] The unmowed part of a golf course. | [noun] A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. | [noun] A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce. RUGAE (6) RUGAL (6) RUGBY (11) [noun] (usually uncountable) A form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar. | [noun] A loose fitting shirt with a collar, as worn by rugby players. | [noun] Rubber cement, contact cement. RUING (6) [verb] To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. | [verb] To cause to feel sorrow or pity. | [verb] To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place. RUNGS (6) [noun] A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round. | [noun] A crosspiece between legs of a chair. | [noun] A position in a hierarchy. SAGAS (6) [noun] An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends. | [noun] Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story. SAGER (6) SAGES (6) [noun] A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher. SAGGY (10) [adjective] Baggy or loose-fitting. | [adjective] That sinks or droops from wear or its own weight. SAGOS (6) [noun] A powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener. | [noun] A similar starch obtained from a palm-like cycad, Cycas revoluta | [noun] Any of the palms from which sago is extracted. SAGUM (8) SAIGA (6) [noun] Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia. SANGA (6) [noun] Sandwich. SANGH (9) SARGE (6) [noun] Sergeant | [verb] (pickup community) to go out and engage women in order to pick them up SAUGH (9) SCAGS (8) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SCRAG (8) [noun] A thin or scrawny person or animal. | [noun] The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. | [noun] The neck, especially of a sheep. SEDGE (7) [noun] Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedge, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species. | [noun] Any plant of the family Cyperaceae. | [noun] Certain other plants resembling sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus. | [noun] A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly. | [noun] Alternative spelling of segge SEDGY (10) SEGNI (6) SEGNO (6) SEGOS (6) [noun] A perennial bulb lily found in Western North America, the Calochortus nuttallii, which has trumpet-shaped flowers. SEGUE (6) [noun] An instance of segueing, a transition. | [verb] To move smoothly from one state or subject to another. | [verb] To make a smooth transition from one theme to another. SENGI (6) SERGE (6) [noun] A type of worsted cloth. | [noun] (by metonymy) A garment made of this fabric. | [verb] To overlock. | [noun] A large wax candle used in some church ceremonies. SHAGS (9) [noun] Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc. | [noun] Coarse shredded tobacco. | [noun] A type of rough carpet pile. SHOGS (9) SHRUG (9) [noun] A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge. | [noun] A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted. | [verb] To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc. SIEGE (6) [noun] (heading) Military action. | [noun] (heading) A seat. | [noun] A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory. SIGHS (9) [noun] A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing. | [noun] Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament. | [noun] A person who is bored. SIGHT (9) [noun] (in the singular) The ability to see. | [noun] The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view. | [noun] Something seen. SIGIL (6) [noun] A seal, signature or signet. | [noun] An occult or magical sign, image or symbol. | [noun] A nonalphanumeric character affixed to a symbol (e.g. variable) to indicate a property such as type or scope. SIGMA (8) [noun] The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets, the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient. | [noun] The symbol Σ, used to indicate summation of a set or series. | [noun] The symbol σ, used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution. SIGNS (6) [noun] (sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication. | [noun] Physical evidence left by an animal. | [noun] A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures. SINGE (6) [noun] A burning of the surface; a slight burn. | [verb] To burn slightly. | [verb] To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. SINGS (6) [noun] A gathering at which people sing songs. | [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. SKAGS (10) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SKEGS (10) [noun] A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller. | [noun] A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel. | [noun] A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard. SLAGS (6) [noun] Waste material from a coal mine | [noun] Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal | [noun] Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders SLANG (6) [noun] Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register. | [noun] Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon. | [noun] The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant. | [verb] To throw with a circular or arcing motion. | [noun] Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. | [noun] A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. | [verb] To sell (especially illegal drugs). SLING (6) [noun] An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. | [noun] A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported. | [noun] A loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby or other such load. | [noun] A young or infant spider, such as one raised in captivity. SLOGS (6) [noun] A long, tedious walk, or session of work. | [noun] An aggressive shot played with little skill. SLUGS (6) [noun] Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. | [noun] A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. | [noun] A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. SLUNG (6) [verb] To throw with a circular or arcing motion. | [verb] To throw with a sling. | [verb] To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle. SMOGS (8) [noun] A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution. | [verb] To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions. SNAGS (6) [noun] A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch. | [noun] A dead tree that remains standing. | [noun] A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk. SNOGS (6) [noun] A passionate kiss. | [verb] To kiss passionately. SNUGS (6) [noun] A small, comfortable back room in a pub. | [noun] A lug. | [verb] To make secure or snug. SOGGY (10) [adjective] Soaked with moisture or other liquid. SONGS (6) [noun] A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing. | [noun] (by extension) Any musical composition. | [noun] Poetical composition; poetry; verse. SORGO (6) SOUGH (9) [noun] A murmuring sound; rushing, rustling, or whistling sound. | [noun] A gentle breeze; a waft; a breath. | [noun] A (deep) sigh. | [noun] A small drain; an adit. SPANG (8) [noun] A shiny ornament or object; a spangle | [verb] To set with bright points: star or spangle. | [verb] To hitch; fasten. | [verb] (of a flying object such as a bullet) To strike or ricochet with a loud report | [noun] A bound or spring; a leap. | [noun] A span. SPRAG (8) [adjective] Lively, full of energy | [noun] A billet of wood; a piece of timber, a similar solid object or constructed unit used as a prop. | [verb] To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep slope, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel. | [noun] A young salmon. SPRIG (8) [noun] A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray. | [noun] An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig. | [noun] One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace. SPRUG (8) SQUEG (15) STAGE (6) [noun] A phase. | [noun] A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given. | [noun] A floor or storey of a house. STAGS (6) [noun] An adult male deer. | [noun] A colt, or filly. | [noun] (by extension) A romping girl; a tomboy. STAGY (9) [adjective] Theatrical | [adjective] Unnaturally showy | [adjective] Melodramatic; sensationalized STAIG (6) STANG (6) STING (6) [noun] A bump left on the skin after having been stung. | [noun] A bite by an insect. | [noun] A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack. | [verb] To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both. STOGY (9) [noun] A type of sturdy work boot; a brogan. STUNG (6) [verb] To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both. | [verb] (of an insect) To bite. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain. SUGAR (6) [noun] Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink. | [noun] A specific variety of sugar. | [noun] Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy. SUGHS (9) SUING (6) [verb] To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action. | [verb] To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. | [verb] (of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.). | [noun] The act of one who sues for something. SURGE (6) [noun] A sudden transient rush, flood or increase. | [noun] The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation | [noun] A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current. SURGY (9) SWAGE (9) [noun] A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for cold shaping of a metal item. | [verb] To bend or shape through use of a swage. | [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). SWAGS (9) [noun] Initialism of scientific/speculative/sophisticated/stupid wild-ass guess. | [noun] (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric. | [noun] A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects. SWANG (9) SWIGS (9) [noun] Drink, liquor. | [noun] (by extension) A long draught from a drink. | [noun] A person who drinks deeply. SWING (9) [noun] The manner in which something is swung. | [noun] The sweep or compass of a swinging body. | [noun] A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing. SWUNG (9) [verb] To rotate about an off-centre fixed point. | [verb] To dance. | [verb] To ride on a swing. TAIGA (6) [noun] A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere. TANGO (6) [noun] A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango. | [noun] A piece of music suited to such a dance. | [noun] The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet. TANGS (6) [noun] A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor. | [noun] A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself. | [noun] A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. TANGY (9) [adjective] Having a sharp, pungent flavor TARGE (6) [noun] A small shield | [noun] A tassel or pendant TEGUA (6) TERGA (6) [noun] The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod. TEUGH (9) THEGN (9) [noun] A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron. THIGH (12) [noun] The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. | [noun] That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect. THING (9) [noun] That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept. | [noun] A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity. | [noun] An individual object or distinct entity. THONG (9) [noun] A strip of leather. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour. | [noun] An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more. THUGS (9) [noun] Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire. | [noun] One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her. | [noun] In gardening, an over-vigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed. TIGER (6) [noun] Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia. | [noun] A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms. | [noun] A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress. | [noun] A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer. TIGHT (9) TIGON (6) [noun] A cross between a male tiger and a lioness. TINGE (6) [noun] A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing. | [noun] The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint. | [verb] To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing. TINGS (6) [noun] The sound made when a small bell is struck. | [noun] An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid. | [noun] The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept. TOGAE (6) TOGAS (6) [noun] A loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome. | [noun] A loose wrap gown. | [noun] An academic gown. TOGUE (6) TONGA (6) [noun] A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. | [noun] A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum. TONGS (6) [noun] An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips. | [noun] (by extension) A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs. | [noun] An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands. | [verb] To use tongs. | [noun] An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands. TOUGH (9) [noun] A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully. | [verb] To endure. | [verb] To toughen. TRAGI (6) [noun] The small piece of thick cartilage of the external ear that is immediately in front of the ear canal. TRIGO (6) TRIGS (6) [noun] A dandy; coxcomb. | [noun] Trigonometry. | [noun] A trigonometric point, trig point. TRUGS (6) [noun] A shallow, oval basket used for gardening | [noun] A trough or tray. | [noun] A hod for mortar. TUNGS (6) TWANG (9) [noun] The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument. | [noun] A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars. | [noun] A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice. TWIGS (9) [noun] A small thin branch of a tree or bush. | [verb] To beat with twigs. | [verb] To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something. TYING (9) [verb] To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely. | [verb] To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like. | [verb] To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like. UNGOT (6) UNPEG (8) [verb] To remove from a peg. UNRIG (6) [verb] To remove the rigging from (a vessel, etc.). | [verb] To disable. | [verb] To undress (someone). URGED (7) [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. | [verb] To provoke; to exasperate. URGER (6) [noun] One who urges. URGES (6) [noun] A strong desire; an itch to do something. | [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. USAGE (6) [noun] The manner or the amount of using; use. | [noun] Habit or accepted practice. | [noun] The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis. USING (6) [verb] To utilize or employ. | [verb] To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.) | [verb] (except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.) VAGAL (9) [adjective] Of or relating to the vagus nerve. VAGUE (9) [noun] A wandering; a vagary. | [noun] An indefinite expanse. | [verb] To wander; to roam; to stray. VAGUS (9) VANGS (9) [noun] A line extended down from the end of a yard or a gaff, used to regulate its position VEGAN (9) [noun] A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products | [noun] A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism. | [adjective] (of a product or practice, especially food) Not containing animal products (meat, eggs, milk, leather, etc) or inherently involving animal use. VEGIE (9) [noun] A vegetable. | [noun] A vegetarian. VENGE (9) VERGE (9) [noun] A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. | [noun] An edge or border. | [noun] The phallus. | [verb] To be or come very close; to border; to approach. VIGAS (9) [noun] A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village VIGIL (9) [noun] An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray. | [noun] A period of observation or surveillance at any hour. | [noun] The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions. VIGOR (9) [noun] Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy. | [noun] Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action. | [noun] Strength; efficacy; potency. VIRGA (9) [noun] A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone. | [noun] A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer. | [noun] (measurement) A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch. VOGIE (9) VOGUE (9) [noun] The prevailing fashion or style. | [noun] Popularity or a current craze. | [noun] A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s. VUGGS (10) VUGGY (13) VUGHS (12) VULGO (9) VYING (12) [verb] To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something. | [verb] To rival (something), etc. | [verb] To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy. WAGED (10) [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. | [verb] To employ for wages; to hire. WAGER (9) [noun] Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. | [noun] That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. | [noun] A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. | [noun] Agent noun of wage; one who wages. WAGES (9) [noun] (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour. | [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. WAGON (9) [noun] A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. | [noun] A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front. | [noun] An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck. WAUGH (12) WEDGE (10) [noun] One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering. | [noun] A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape. | [noun] A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. | [noun] (Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos. WEDGY (13) WEIGH (12) [verb] To determine the weight of an object. | [verb] Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale. | [verb] To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. WHANG (12) [noun] A blow; a whack. | [noun] A large piece or slice; a chunk. | [noun] A house-cleaning party. WHIGS (12) [noun] Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage. | [noun] Buttermilk | [verb] Urge forward; drive briskly. WIGAN (9) WIGGY (13) [adjective] Crazy. | [adjective] Uninhibited. | [adjective] Wiglike. WIGHT (12) [noun] A living creature, especially a human being. | [noun] A being of one of the Nine Worlds of Heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor. | [noun] A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity. | [adjective] (except in dialects) Brave, valorous, strong. WINGS (9) [noun] An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish | [noun] Human arm. | [noun] Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air. WINGY (12) WODGE (10) [noun] A bulk quantity, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad. WRANG (9) WRING (9) [noun] A powerful squeezing or twisting action. | [noun] Pain or distress. | [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. | [noun] A device for pressing or compressing, especially for cider. WRONG (9) [noun] Something that is immoral or not good. | [noun] An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer). | [noun] The incorrect or unjust position or opinion. WRUNG (9) [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. | [verb] To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it. | [verb] To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force. YAGER (9) YAGIS (9) YANGS (9) YEGGS (10) [noun] A person who breaks open safes; a burglar. YOGAS (9) YOGEE (9) YOGHS (12) [noun] A letter of the Middle English alphabet (capital Ȝ, small ȝ), in form derived from the Old English shape of the letter g, and used to represent various palatal and velar sounds. YOGIC (11) YOGIN (9) YOGIS (9) [noun] A devotee or adherent of yoga. | [verb] To turn (someone) into a yogi; to lead into practicing yoga. | [verb] (thru-hiker slang) To persuade someone to give you food or other favors without actually begging. YOUNG (9) [noun] People who are young; young people, collectively; youth. | [noun] Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal). | [noun] (possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism. YUGAS (9) [noun] In Hindu theology, an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years. ZINGS (15) [noun] A short high-pitched humming sound, such as that made by a bullet or vibrating string. | [noun] A witty insult or derogatory remark. | [noun] Zest or vitality. ZINGY (18)

AAHING (10) AARRGH (10) ABYING (12) ACHING (12) [verb] To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed. | [verb] To cause someone or something to suffer pain. | [noun] The feeling of an ache; a dull pain. ACTING (9) [verb] To do something. | [verb] To do (something); to perform. | [verb] To perform a theatrical role. ADAGES (8) [noun] An old saying which has obtained credit by long use | [noun] An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim ADAGIO (8) [noun] A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully. | [noun] A passage having this mark. | [noun] A male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts. ADDING (9) [verb] To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. | [verb] To sum up; to put together mentally. | [verb] To combine elements of (something) into one quantity. AERUGO (7) [noun] A greenish or brownish patina that forms on the surface of copper or bronze when exposed to air or moisture; verdigris. AFGHAN (13) [noun] A blanket or throw, usually crocheted or knitted. | [noun] A type of iced chocolate biscuit, sometimes containing cornflakes and topped with a walnut. AGAMAS (9) [noun] Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama. AGAMIC (11) [adjective] Occurring without the union of male and female gametes; asexual AGAPAE (9) [noun] Plural of agape, referring to Christian love or brotherly love, or plural of agape referring to a type of mollusk shell. AGAPAI (9) AGARIC (9) [noun] Any of various fungi, principally of the order Agaricales, having fruiting bodies consisting of umbrella-like caps, on stalks, with numerous gills beneath. | [noun] A dried fruiting body of a fungus formerly used in medicine (now Fomitopsis officinalis, formerly Fomes officinalis, Polyporus officinalis). AGATES (7) [noun] A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds. | [noun] The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5 1/2-point. | [noun] One fourteenth of an inch AGAVES (10) [noun] A plant of the genus Agave, which includes the maguey or century plant (Agave americana), which produces a gigantic flower stem at maturity. AGEDLY (11) [adverb] In a manner characteristic of old age; in an aged way. AGEING (8) [verb] To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. | [verb] To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt. | [verb] To categorize by age. AGEISM (9) [noun] The treating of a person or people, especially youth or seniors, differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age. AGEIST (7) [noun] A person who behaves in an ageist manner. | [adjective] Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age. AGENCY (12) [noun] The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power. | [noun] The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. | [noun] A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved. AGENDA (8) [noun] A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to. | [noun] A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting). | [noun] A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner. AGENES (7) AGENTS (7) [noun] One who exerts power, or has the power to act | [noun] One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him/her; someone entrusted to do the business of another | [noun] A person who looks for work for another person AGGERS (8) AGGIES (8) [noun] Students or graduates of Texas A&M University. | [noun] Plural of aggie, a type of playing marble made of agate or ceramic material. AGGROS (8) [verb] Third person singular present of "aggro," meaning to annoy, provoke, or irritate someone. AGHAST (10) [adjective] Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. AGINGS (8) [noun] The plural of aging; the process of growing older or the period during which something matures. | [noun] In wine or spirits production, the processes of maturing beverages in storage. AGISMS (9) [noun] Plural of agism; discrimination or prejudice based on age. | [noun] Plural of agism; prejudiced attitudes or beliefs about people based on their age. AGISTS (7) [verb] To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. | [verb] To charge lands etc. with any public burden. AGLARE (7) [adjective] In a glaring state; glowing or shining brightly. | [adverb] In a glaring manner; so as to glare. AGLEAM (9) [adjective] Glowing with subdued light. AGLETS (7) [noun] The cover at the tip of a shoelace, to prevent it from fraying. | [noun] A catkin. | [noun] A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice. AGNAIL (7) [noun] A corn or sore on the toe or finger. | [noun] Torn skin near a toenail or fingernail. AGNATE (7) [noun] A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family. | [noun] Any paternal male relative. | [adjective] Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family. AGNIZE (16) [verb] To recognise; to acknowledge. AGONAL (7) [adjective] Relating to or resembling agony or the final struggle before death. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to an agon (a struggle or contest in ancient Greek drama). AGONES (7) [noun] Plural of agone, an archaic or dialectal word meaning "ago" or past events. | [noun] Plural of agon, meaning contests or struggles, particularly in ancient Greek drama. AGONIC (9) [adjective] Having no magnetic declination; relating to a line on Earth's surface where magnetic north and true north coincide. AGORAE (7) [noun] A place for gathering. | [noun] A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece. AGORAS (7) [noun] A place for gathering. | [noun] A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece. AGOROT (7) [noun] Since 1960, a monetary unit and coin of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel / sheqel. AGOUTI (7) [noun] A rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs, of the family Dasyprocta. | [noun] A fur containing a pattern of pigmentation in which individual hairs have several bands of light and dark pigment with black tips; any of several genes responsible for this pigmentation. AGOUTY (10) AGRAFE (10) [noun] A clasp or buckle used to fasten garments or armor. | [noun] In architecture, an ornamental clasp or fastening device. AGREED (8) [verb] To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur. | [verb] To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to. | [verb] To yield assent to; to approve. AGREES (7) [verb] To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur. | [verb] To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to. | [verb] To yield assent to; to approve. AGRIAS (7) [noun] Plural of agria, a tropical American tree (Spondias mombin) that produces edible yellow fruit, also known as hog plum. | [noun] A skin disease characterized by pustules or sores. AGUISH (10) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of an ague; feverish or shivering. | [adjective] Inclined to cause ague or fever. AIDING (8) [verb] To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist. | [verb] To climb with the use of aids such as pitons. | [noun] The act of one who aids or assists. AIGLET (7) [noun] A metal or plastic tip on the end of a shoelace or cord. AIGRET (7) [noun] A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a head ornament. | [noun] A spray of gems or jewels worn as a brooch or ornament. AILING (7) [verb] To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.) | [verb] To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled. | [noun] An ailment. AIMING (9) [verb] To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it | [verb] To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive | [verb] To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object AIRING (7) [verb] To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it. | [verb] To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate. | [verb] To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic. AJUGAS (14) [noun] Any plant in the genus Ajuga, especially the ornamental ground cover Ajuga reptans. ALEGAR (7) ALGINS (7) ALGOID (8) ALGORS (7) ALGUMS (9) ALIGHT (10) [verb] (with from) To get off or exit a vehicle or animal; to descend; to dismount. | [verb] (with on or at) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop. | [verb] (followed by upon) To find by accident; to come upon. | [verb] To make light or less heavy; lighten; alleviate. | [verb] To light; light up; illuminate. | [adjective] Lit, on fire, switched on. ALIGNS (7) [verb] To form a line; to fall into line. | [verb] To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line. | [verb] To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by beginning each item at an offset equal to some multiple of the word size. ALLEGE (7) [verb] To state under oath, to plead. | [verb] To cite or quote an author or his work for or against. | [verb] To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc. | [verb] To lighten, diminish. ALMUGS (9) AMBAGE (11) AMIGAS (9) [noun] Plural of amiga; female friends (Spanish word used in English contexts). AMIGOS (9) [noun] Friend | [noun] (chiefly California) Mexican | [noun] A native of the Philippines who was friendly toward the Spanish. ANALOG (7) [noun] Something that bears an analogy to something else | [noun] An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin | [noun] A structural derivative of a parent compound that often differs from it by a single element ANERGY (10) [noun] Dilute or disorganized energy, which cannot be transformed into work. | [noun] Deficiency of energy. | [noun] Lack of immunity to an antigen. ANGARY (10) [noun] The right of one belligerent (government) in a conflict to seize, use or destroy the property of another belligerent or neutral state, or the private citizens thereof, provided compensation is paid. ANGELS (7) [noun] An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes. | [noun] (Abrahamic tradition) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues. | [noun] A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness. ANGERS (7) [noun] A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm. | [noun] Pain or stinging. | [verb] To cause such a feeling of antagonism in. ANGINA (7) [noun] An inflammatory infection of the throat, particularly quinsy. | [noun] Short for angina pectoris. | [noun] A chest pain or shortness of breath occurring with lesser degrees of arterial blockage. ANGLED (8) [verb] (often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle. | [verb] To change direction rapidly. | [verb] To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint. ANGLER (7) [noun] A person who fishes with a hook and line. | [noun] An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius. | [noun] Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive. ANGLES (7) [noun] A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle). | [noun] The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere. | [noun] A corner where two walls intersect. ANGORA (7) [noun] An angora cat. | [noun] A goat of a domesticated breed that produces mohair. | [noun] A rabbit belonging to the Angora rabbit breed, one of the oldest domestic breeds of rabbits in the world, raised chiefly in Europe for its silky and long hair (a subspecies of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus) ANGSTS (7) [noun] Plural of angst; feelings of anxiety, apprehension, or existential dread. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of angst; to feel or express angst. ANLAGE (7) [noun] A primordium, the initial clustering of embryonic cells from which a body part develops. | [noun] An allele, a specific version of a gene (as used by Gregor Mendel). | [noun] Temperament, the predominant personality type. ANTING (7) [noun] The practice of some birds of rubbing live ants or occasionally other items into the feathers, possibly as a means of controlling parasites. APOGEE (9) [noun] The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is furthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter. | [noun] (more generally) The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet: the apoapsis of any satellite. | [noun] (possibly obsolete outside astrology) The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is furthest from the Earth. APOLOG (9) ARCING (9) [verb] To move following a curved path. | [verb] To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc. | [verb] To form an electrical arc. ARGALA (7) [noun] A Sanskrit term for an astrology concept, or a bolting or fastening device. | [noun] In Hindu architecture, a projection or corbel used as a decorative or structural element. ARGALI (7) [noun] Ovis ammon, the largest wild sheep, which roams the highlands of Central Asia. ARGALS (7) [noun] Pellets of dried animal dung, especially from goats or sheep, used as fuel in areas with little wood. ARGENT (7) [noun] The metal silver. | [noun] The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms. | [noun] Whiteness; anything that is white. ARGILS (7) [noun] Plural of argil, a type of clay or pottery material used in ceramics and earthenware production. ARGLED (8) [verb] Past tense of "argle," meaning to argue or dispute, particularly in a petty or prolonged manner. ARGLES (7) ARGOLS (7) [noun] Crude tartar deposits that form on the sides of wine casks during fermentation. ARGONS (7) [noun] Plural of argon, a colorless, odorless noble gas that is inert and used in lighting and welding. ARGOSY (10) [noun] A merchant ship. | [noun] A merchant flotilla, fleet. | [noun] An abundant supply, boatload. ARGOTS (7) [noun] A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds. | [noun] The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers. ARGUED (8) [verb] To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. | [verb] To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. | [verb] To have an argument, a quarrel. ARGUER (7) [noun] One who argues; a person who engages in argument or debate. ARGUES (7) [verb] To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. | [verb] To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. | [verb] To have an argument, a quarrel. ARGUFY (13) [verb] To argue without any aim; to dispute; to disagree. | [verb] To weary with arguing. | [verb] To be evidence of something; to be of importance or relevance. ARGYLE (10) [noun] A pattern of diamond-shaped areas on a solid background; used especially of knitwear | [noun] A sock having this pattern ARGYLL (10) [noun] A pattern of diamond shapes with contrasting colors, typically used on socks and sweaters. | [noun] A county in Scotland. ARIGHT (10) [adverb] Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form. | [adverb] To or on the right-hand side. | [verb] To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly. ARMING (9) [verb] To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. | [verb] To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons. | [verb] To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate. ASHING (10) [verb] The act of reducing something to ashes by burning. | [verb] Coating or covering with ash. ASKING (11) [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). | [verb] To put forward (a question) to be answered. | [verb] To interrogate or enquire of (a person). ASSIGN (7) [noun] An assignee. | [noun] A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance. | [noun] An assignment or appointment. AUDING (8) [verb] The present participle of "audi," meaning to listen or hear; used in some contexts related to audio or auditory processes. AUGEND (8) [noun] A quantity to which another is added. AUGERS (7) [noun] A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet. | [noun] A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool). | [noun] A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts AUGHTS (10) [noun] The first decade of a century, such as 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009, whose digit in the tens place is zero; the oughts, the noughties. AUGITE (7) [noun] A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt. AUGURS (7) [noun] A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences. | [noun] An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events. | [verb] To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events. AUGURY (10) [noun] A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals. | [noun] (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy. | [noun] An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come. AUGUST (7) [adjective] Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable. | [adjective] Of noble birth. | [verb] To make ripe; ripen. | [noun] A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface. AVENGE (10) [noun] An act of vengeance; a revenge. | [verb] To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. | [verb] To take vengeance. AWEIGH (13) [adjective] Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; said of the anchor. AWEING (10) [verb] Present participle of "awe," meaning to inspire wonder, astonishment, or reverence in someone. AWNING (10) [noun] A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. | [noun] That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin. AZYGOS (19) [adjective] Not paired or unpaired, especially referring to anatomical structures that occur singly rather than in pairs. BAAING (9) [verb] To make the characteristic cry of a sheep. | [noun] The bleating of a sheep. BADGED (11) [verb] To mark or distinguish with a badge. | [verb] To show a badge to. | [verb] To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge. BADGER (10) [noun] Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger). | [noun] A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin. | [noun] A brush made of badger hair. | [noun] 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. BADGES (10) [noun] A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization. | [noun] A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information. | [noun] A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area. BAGASS (9) [noun] The fibrous residue left after the extraction of juice from sugar cane or similar plants, used as fuel or in paper production. BAGELS (9) [noun] A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked. | [noun] A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero). | [noun] An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man. BAGFUL (12) [noun] The amount that a bag can hold or contain. BAGGED (11) [verb] To put into a bag. | [verb] To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting. | [verb] To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something. BAGGER (10) [noun] A person or machine that bags things, such as groceries or harvested crops. | [noun] In golf, a player who wins a specified number of holes or matches. | [noun] A large excavating machine used in mining and construction. BAGGIE (10) [noun] A small bag, especially a small, clear, plastic bag. BAGMAN (11) [noun] A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments. | [noun] An assistant to a police detective, most commonly in the British police force. | [noun] A bookmaker. BAGMEN (11) [noun] A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments. | [noun] An assistant to a police detective, most commonly in the British police force. | [noun] A bookmaker. BAGNIO (9) [noun] A brothel. | [noun] A building for bathing, sweating. | [noun] In Turkey, a prison for slaves. BAGUET (9) BAGWIG (13) [noun] A type of wig with the back hair gathered into a bag or pouch, popular in the 18th century. BAKING (13) [verb] (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven. | [verb] (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven. | [verb] To be warmed to drying and hardening. BALING (9) [verb] To remove water from a boat with buckets etc. | [noun] A collection of material packaged into a bale. BANDOG (10) [noun] A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog. | [noun] (specifically) A type of large, ferocious dog, bred by crossing American pit bull terriers with Neapolitan mastiffs. | [noun] A bailiff or prison guard. BANGED (10) [verb] To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something. | [verb] To hit hard. | [verb] To engage in sexual intercourse. BANGER (9) [noun] A thing or person which bangs, in any sense. | [noun] : A firework that makes a bang. | [noun] A woman's breast. BANGLE (9) [noun] A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp. | [verb] To beat about or beat down, as corn by the wind. | [verb] To waste away little by little; squander carelessly; fritter (away). | [noun] The cut branch of a tree; a large, rough stick; the largest piece of wood in a bundle of twigs BANING (9) BAREGE (9) [noun] A type of gauzy fabric used for making dresses, originally made in Barèges. BARGED (10) [verb] To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner. | [verb] To push someone. BARGEE (9) [noun] A crewman of a working barge. BARGES (9) [noun] A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo. | [noun] A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions. | [noun] A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel. BARING (9) [verb] To uncover; to reveal. | [noun] The act by which something is laid bare. BARONG (9) [noun] A cutting weapon similar to a cleaver, with a thick back and thin razor-like edge, used by the Moros of the Philippines. BASING (9) [verb] To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of. | [verb] To be located (at a particular place). | [verb] (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer. BATING (9) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. BAYING (12) [verb] To howl. | [verb] To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay. | [verb] To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds. BEAGLE (9) [noun] A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet. | [noun] A person who snoops on others; a detective. | [noun] A bailiff. BECLOG (11) BEDBUG (12) [noun] A small nocturnal insect (Cimex lectularius), of the family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts. BEDRUG (10) [verb] To drug again or excessively. BEFLAG (12) [verb] To mark or decorate with flags. BEFOGS (12) [verb] To envelop in fog or smoke. | [verb] To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties). | [verb] To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.). BEGALL (9) BEGAZE (18) [verb] To gaze at; to look steadily or intently upon. BEGETS (9) [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. | [verb] To bring forth. BEGGAR (10) [noun] A person who begs. | [noun] A person suffering from extreme poverty. | [noun] (sometimes affectionate) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel. BEGGED (11) [verb] To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. | [verb] To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. | [verb] In the phrase beg the question: to assume. BEGINS (9) [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation | [verb] To come into existence. BEGIRD (10) [verb] To encircle or gird about; to surround or bind with a belt or band. BEGIRT (9) [verb] To gird about; to encircle or surround. | [verb] Past tense of begird, meaning to have encircled or girt about. BEGLAD (10) BEGONE (9) [interjection] Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away. | [verb] To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun. | [verb] To clothe, dress. BEGRIM (11) [verb] To make dirty or grimy; to soil or smudge. BEGULF (12) BEGUMS (11) [noun] A high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in India and Pakistan | [noun] The form of address for such a woman BEIGES (9) [noun] A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. | [noun] Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods. BEINGS (9) [noun] A living creature. | [noun] The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state. | [noun] That which has actuality (materially or in concept). BELGAS (9) [noun] Plural of belga, a monetary unit formerly used in Belgium. BELONG (9) [verb] To have its proper place. | [verb] (followed by to) To be part of, or the property of. | [verb] (followed by to) To be the spouse or partner of. | [preposition] (Australian Aboriginal, optionally followed by to) Of, belonging to. BELUGA (9) [noun] A cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean. | [noun] A fish, Huso huso, found in the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, that is a source of caviar. BENIGN (9) [adjective] Kind; gentle; mild. | [adjective] (of a climate or environment) mild and favorable | [adjective] (in combination) Not harmful to the environment. BEWIGS (12) [verb] Third person singular of "bewig," meaning to put a wig on someone or to cover with a wig. BHANGS (12) [noun] Cannabis or a preparation made from cannabis, especially bhang, a drink or paste made from cannabis leaves and flowers used in India. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of "bhang," to prepare or consume bhang. BIDING (10) [noun] An awaiting; expectation. | [noun] Residence; habitation. | [verb] To bear; to endure; to tolerate. BIGAMY (14) [noun] The state of having two (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously. | [noun] A second marriage after the death of a spouse. BIGEYE (12) [noun] Any fish in the taxonomic family Priacanthidae, which have large eyes. | [noun] Any of certain fish or shark species identified by their large eyes, in particular bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus. BIGGER (10) [adjective] Of great size, large. | [adjective] (of an industry or other field, often capitalized) Thought to have undue influence. | [adjective] Popular. BIGGIE (10) [noun] Something large in size in comparison to similar things. | [noun] Something impressive in comparison to similar things. | [noun] (chiefly in the negative) Big deal. BIGGIN (10) [noun] A close-fitting cap worn by babies or young children in historical contexts. | [noun] A coffee pot or brewing vessel. BIGHTS (12) [noun] A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow | [noun] An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf | [noun] A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature. BIGOTS (9) [noun] One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to one's own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc. | [noun] One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so. BIGWIG (13) [noun] A person of importance to a group or organization. BIKING (13) [verb] To ride a bike. | [verb] To travel by bike. | [verb] To transport by bicycle BILGED (10) [verb] To spring a leak in the bilge. | [verb] To bulge or swell. | [verb] To break open the bilge(s) of. BILGES (9) [noun] The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides. | [noun] The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates. | [noun] The water accumulated in the bilge, the bilge water. BINGED (10) [verb] To go; walk; come; run | [verb] Making the sound of a bounce | [verb] To bounce BINGER (9) [noun] A person who binges, especially on food or drink. | [noun] In Scrabble, a player who uses all seven tiles in a single turn to form a word on the board. BINGES (9) [noun] A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc. | [noun] (by extension) A short period of an activity done in excess, such as watching a television show. | [verb] To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption. BINGOS (9) [noun] A score in Scrabble achieved by using all seven tiles in a single turn. | [noun] Plural of bingo, the game or the exclamation. BIOGAS (9) [noun] A mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, produced by anaerobic digestion of organic waste matter, used as a fuel BIOGEN (9) BITING (9) [verb] To cut into something by clamping the teeth. | [verb] To hold something by clamping one's teeth. | [verb] To attack with the teeth. BLIGHT (12) [noun] Any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts. | [noun] The bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition. | [noun] (by extension) Anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life. BLUING (9) [verb] To make or become blue. | [verb] To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust. | [verb] (laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid) BLUNGE (9) [verb] To mix clay and water. BODEGA (10) [noun] A storehouse for maturing wine, a winery. | [noun] A store specializing in Hispanic groceries. | [noun] Any convenience store. BODING (10) [verb] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell. | [verb] (followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future. | [noun] An omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent. BOGANS (9) [noun] (derogatory stereotype) An unsophisticated person from a working class background. | [noun] An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts. | [noun] A petrolhead. BOGEYS (12) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. BOGGED (11) [verb] (now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland. | [verb] To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress. | [verb] (now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland. BOGGLE (10) [noun] A scruple or objection. | [noun] A bungle; a botched situation. | [verb] Either literally or figuratively to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle. | [noun] A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear. BOGIES (9) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. BOGLES (9) [noun] A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear. BONGED (10) [verb] To pull a bell. | [verb] To ring a doorbell. BONGOS (9) [noun] A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus. | [noun] Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands. BONING (9) [verb] To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. | [verb] To fertilize with bone. | [verb] To put whalebone into. BOOGER (9) [noun] A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril. | [noun] Something suggestive of this material. | [noun] A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing. | [noun] (mildly derogatory) A bodyboarder. BOOGEY (12) [noun] A score of one stroke over par on a golf hole. | [noun] A frightening creature or ghost, often used to scare children. BOOGIE (9) [noun] A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity. | [noun] A black person. | [noun] Dancing usually prominently exhibiting movements of the buttocks. BOOING (9) [verb] To shout extended boos derisively. | [verb] To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision. | [noun] A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience. BORAGE (9) [noun] Borago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored leaves, used in salads. BORING (9) [verb] To inspire boredom in somebody. | [verb] To make a hole through something. | [verb] To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool. BOUGHS (12) [noun] A firm branch of a tree. | [noun] The gallows. BOUGHT (12) [verb] To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods | [verb] To obtain by some sacrifice. | [verb] To bribe. | [noun] A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle. BOUGIE (9) [noun] A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie. | [noun] A wax candle. | [adjective] (usually derogatory) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery). BOURGS (9) [noun] Plural of borg, a fortified town or village in medieval times. | [noun] Plural of borg, a designation for a walled settlement in Scandinavian regions. BOWING (12) [verb] To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow. | [verb] To become bent or curved. | [verb] To make something bend or curve. BOWLEG (12) [noun] A leg that curves outward at the knee, causing the feet to be wide apart when standing with the legs together. | [verb] To have or develop bowlegs. BOXING (16) [verb] To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. | [verb] Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in. | [verb] To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical. | [verb] To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. BRAGGY (13) [adjective] Given to or characterized by bragging; boastful or prone to making exaggerated claims about one's achievements or possessions. BREGMA (11) [noun] The point on the skull where the coronal and sagittal sutures meet. BRIDGE (10) [noun] A construction or natural feature that spans a divide. | [noun] An arch or superstructure. | [noun] A connection, real or abstract. | [noun] A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each. BRIGHT (12) [noun] An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head. | [noun] Splendour; brightness | [noun] A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements. BRINGS (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere. | [verb] To supply or contribute. | [verb] To occasion or bring about. BROGAN (9) [noun] A heavy working shoe; a brogue BROGUE (9) [noun] 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. | [noun] A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips. | [noun] A heavy shoe of untanned leather. | [verb] To fish for eels by disturbing the waters. BRUGHS (12) [noun] Plural of brugh, a fairy mound or underground dwelling in Irish mythology. BUDGED (11) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. BUDGER (10) [noun] One who budges or moves slightly. | [noun] A person or thing that refuses to budge. BUDGES (10) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. BUDGET (10) [noun] The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame. | [noun] An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue. | [noun] A wallet, purse or bag. BUDGIE (10) [noun] A budgerigar. BUGEYE (12) [noun] A person with protruding or bulging eyes. | [adjective] Having large, protruding eyes. BUGGED (11) [verb] To annoy. | [verb] To install an electronic listening device or devices in. | [adjective] (on one's person or of a telephone line, dwelling, room, etc.) Containing a bug (interceptive listening device). BUGGER (10) [noun] A heretic. | [noun] Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite. | [noun] A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person. | [noun] One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs. BUGLED (10) [verb] To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle | [adjective] Ornamented with bugles. | [adjective] Played by a bugle. BUGLER (9) [noun] A person who plays a bugle, a brass instrument similar to a trumpet. BUGLES (9) [noun] A horn used by hunters. | [noun] A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series | [noun] A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga. BUGSHA (12) BULGED (10) [verb] To stick out from (a surface). | [verb] To bilge, as a ship; to founder. BULGER (9) [noun] One who bulges or protrudes. | [noun] A tool or device used for bulging metal. BULGES (9) [noun] Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure. | [noun] The bilge or protuberant part of a cask. | [noun] The bilge of a vessel. BULGUR (9) [noun] Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried and crushed; a staple of Middle Eastern cooking. BUNGED (10) [verb] To plug, as with a bung. | [verb] To put or throw somewhere without care; to chuck. | [verb] To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell. BUNGEE (9) [noun] An elastic fabric-bound strap with a hook at each end, used for securing luggage. | [noun] An elastic cord tied to the ankles of the jumper in bungee jumping. | [noun] A rubber eraser. BUNGLE (9) [noun] A botched or incompetently handled situation. | [verb] To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly. BURGEE (9) [noun] A flag, usually a broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail, flown by yachts to identify the owner's yacht club. BURGER (9) [noun] A hamburger. | [noun] (chiefly as a combining form) A similar sandwich or patty. | [noun] A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class. BURGHS (12) [noun] A small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names). | [noun] A borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland). BURGLE (9) [verb] To commit burglary. | [verb] To take the ball legally from an opposing player. BURGOO (9) [noun] A dish which originated among seafarers during the days of sail: a sort of porridge seasoned with sugar, salt and butter. | [noun] A spicy stew, typically made with a combination of meats and vegetables, and often served with cornbread or corn muffins. BUSING (9) [verb] To transport via a motor bus. | [verb] To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. | [verb] To travel by bus. BUYING (12) [verb] To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods | [verb] To obtain by some sacrifice. | [verb] To bribe. BYGONE (12) [noun] (usually plural) An event that happened in the past. | [adjective] Having been or happened in the distant past. CADGED (11) [verb] To beg. | [verb] To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do. | [verb] To carry hawks and other birds of prey. CADGER (10) [noun] A person who cadges; someone who begs or obtains things by begging or borrowing. CADGES (10) [noun] A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale. | [verb] To beg. | [verb] To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do. CAGERS (9) [noun] Players of basketball. | [noun] People or things that cage. CAGIER (9) [adjective] Wary, careful, shrewd. | [adjective] Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information. CAGILY (12) [adverb] In a cagy manner. CAGING (10) [verb] To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage. | [verb] To restrict someone's movement or creativity. | [verb] To track individual responses to direct mail, either to maintain and develop mailing lists or to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses. CAKING (13) [verb] Coat (something) with a crust of solid material. | [verb] To form into a cake, or mass. | [verb] To cackle like a goose. CANGUE (9) [noun] A wooden collar or frame formerly used as an instrument of punishment or torture in China and other parts of Asia. CANING (9) [verb] To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement | [verb] To destroy; to comprehensively defeat | [verb] To do something well, in a competent fashion CARGOS (9) [noun] Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle. | [noun] (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods. CARING (9) [verb] To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about). | [verb] (polite) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards. | [verb] (with for) To look after or look out for. CASING (9) [verb] To propose hypothetical cases. | [verb] To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment. | [verb] To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose. CATGUT (9) [noun] A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, especially of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc. | [noun] The material from which such cords are made. | [noun] A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices. CAUGHT (12) [verb] (heading) To capture, overtake. | [verb] (heading) To seize hold of. | [verb] (heading) To intercept. CAVING (12) [verb] To surrender. | [verb] To collapse. | [verb] To hollow out or undermine. CAWING (12) [verb] To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven. | [noun] The act of producing a caw sound. CEDING (10) [verb] To give up; yield to another. | [verb] To give way. CERING (9) [verb] Present participle of "cere," meaning to wrap (a dead body) in a cerecloth or winding sheet for burial. | [noun] A waxy covering at the base of a bird's upper beak. CHANGE (12) [noun] The process of becoming different. | [noun] Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination. | [noun] A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes CHANGS (12) [noun] Plural of chang, a type of alcoholic beverage made from grain in Tibet and other Himalayan regions. CHARGE (12) [noun] The amount of money levied for a service. | [noun] A ground attack against a prepared enemy. | [noun] A forceful forward movement. CHEGOE (12) [noun] A tropical flea that burrows into the skin of humans and animals, causing irritation and infection. CHIGOE (12) [noun] A small tropical flea, Tunga penetrans, whose females burrow under the skin of animals, including humans, and lay their eggs, causing strong irritation and sores. CHOUGH (15) [noun] Either of two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia. | [noun] The white-winged chough, of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands. CIGARS (9) [noun] Tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked. | [noun] Penis CITING (9) [verb] To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another. | [verb] To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context. | [verb] To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court. CLANGS (9) [noun] A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other. | [noun] Quality of tone. | [noun] The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose. CLERGY (12) [noun] Body of persons, such as ministers, sheiks, priests and rabbis, who are trained and ordained for religious service. CLINGS (9) [noun] Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit. | [noun] Adherence; attachment; devotion | [verb] To hold very tightly, as to not fall off. CLINGY (12) [adjective] Having a tendency to cling. | [adjective] (usually derogatory) Pathetically attached to, or possessive of someone, usually a significant other. CLOGGY (13) [adjective] Tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky. | [adjective] Somewhat clogged or impeded. CLOUGH (12) [noun] A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge. | [noun] A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. | [noun] A cliff; a rocky precipice. | [noun] Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. CLUING (9) [verb] Providing hints or information to help someone guess or solve something. | [verb] In crossword puzzles, giving clues that lead to puzzle answers. CODGER (10) [noun] An amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man. CODING (10) [verb] To write software programs. | [verb] To add codes to a dataset. | [verb] To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes. COGENT (9) [adjective] Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence. | [adjective] Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning. | [adjective] Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent. COGGED (11) [verb] To furnish with a cog or cogs. | [verb] To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat. | [verb] To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently. COGITO (9) [noun] (often preceded by the, sometimes capitalized) The argument "cogito, ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") from the philosophy of René Descartes; the mental act of thinking this thought; a conscious being which performs this mental act. COGNAC (11) [noun] A brandy distilled from white wine in the region around Cognac in France. COGONS (9) [noun] A coarse tropical grass with sharp-edged leaves, native to Southeast Asia and used for thatching and fodder. COGWAY (15) COHOGS (12) [noun] Plural of cohog, a hard-shell clam found along the Atlantic coast of North America. COIGNE (9) [noun] A corner or angle, especially an external angle of a wall or building. | [noun] A cornerstone or quoin. COIGNS (9) [noun] A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone. | [noun] The keystone of an arch. | [noun] A wedge used in typesetting. COKING (13) [verb] To produce coke from coal. | [verb] To turn into coke. | [verb] To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion. COLOGS (9) COLUGO (9) [noun] An arboreal gliding mammal of the family Cynocephalidae native to South-east Asia. COMING (11) [verb] To move from further away to nearer to. | [verb] To arrive. | [verb] To appear, to manifest itself. | [noun] The act of arriving; an arrival CONGAS (9) [noun] A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin | [noun] A march of Cuban origin in four-four time in which people form a chain, each holding the hips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and then kick alternate legs outwards at the beat; the chain weaves around the place and allows new participants to join the back of the chain | [verb] To dance the conga. CONGEE (9) [noun] Leave, formal permission for some action, : | [noun] Formal dismissal; any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony. | [noun] Formal leavetaking; any farewell. | [noun] A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat. CONGER (9) [noun] Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters | [noun] A chain of booksellers. CONGES (9) [noun] A curvature found on the top or bottom of certain columns. | [noun] Leave, formal permission for some action, : | [noun] Formal dismissal; any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony. CONGII (9) [noun] An ancient Roman unit of volume in liquid measure consisting of six sextarii or one-eighth amphora (about 118 fluid ounces). | [noun] An ancient Roman unit of weight under Vespasian equal to the weight of a congius of water. CONGOS (9) [noun] Plural of congo, a type of drum used in Latin music and percussion ensembles. | [noun] Plural of congo, a lively group dance or the line formed by people dancing it. CONGOU (9) [noun] A type of Chinese black tea, also known as congou tea or lapsang souchong. CONING (9) [verb] To fashion into the shape of a cone. | [verb] To form a cone shape. | [verb] (frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones COOING (9) [verb] To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon. | [verb] To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about. | [noun] A coo; a cooing sound. COPING (11) [verb] To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult. | [verb] To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal. | [verb] To clip the beak or talons of a bird. CORGIS (9) [noun] A dog of a breed having a small body, short legs and fox-like features. CORING (9) [verb] To remove the core of an apple or other fruit. | [verb] To extract a sample with a drill. | [noun] The production of a core by means of drilling | [noun] The dual of a ring. COSIGN (9) [noun] The promotion of one musical artist (usually less successful) by another. | [verb] To sign a document jointly with another person, sometimes as an endorsement. | [verb] To agree with or endorse COTING (9) [verb] Present participle of "cote," meaning to pass by or overtake. | [noun] A shelter or coop for birds or animals, such as a dovecote. COUGAR (9) [noun] A mountain lion; Puma concolor. | [noun] An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”. COUGHS (12) [noun] A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary. | [noun] A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough. | [noun] Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame COVING (12) [noun] A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall. | [noun] The vertical sides connecting the jambs with the breast of a fireplace. COWAGE (12) [noun] A tropical climbing plant (Mucuna pruriens) with stinging hairs on its pods, also spelled cowhage or cowhitch. COWING (12) [verb] (chiefly in the passive voice) To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of. COXING (16) [verb] To act as coxswain for. COYDOG (13) [noun] Any hybrid of a coyote (Canis latrans) and a (usually feral) dog (Canis lupus familiaris). | [noun] A hybrid between a male coyote and a female dog. COYING (12) [verb] Present participle of "coy," meaning to act shy, modest, or reluctant in a playful or coquettish manner. | [verb] Behaving in a way that is not straightforward or direct; being evasive or elusively playful. CRAGGY (13) [adjective] Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features. CRINGE (9) [noun] A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling. | [noun] A servile obeisance. | [noun] A crick. CRYING (12) [verb] To shed tears; to weep. | [verb] To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly. | [verb] To shout, scream, yell. CUBAGE (11) [noun] A cubic measurement. CUBING (11) [verb] To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. | [verb] To form into the shape of a cube. | [verb] To cut into cubes. CUDGEL (10) [noun] A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon. | [noun] Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another. | [verb] To strike with a cudgel. CUEING (9) [verb] Providing a signal or prompt to someone to begin or continue an action. | [verb] In billiards, striking a ball with a cue stick. CURAGH (12) [noun] A light, portable boat made of animal skins stretched over a wooden or wicker frame, used traditionally in Ireland and other Celtic regions. CURING (9) [verb] To restore to health. | [verb] To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end. | [verb] To cause to be rid of (a defect). | [noun] The act by which something is cured. CYBORG (14) [noun] A person who is part machine, a robot who is part organic. | [noun] A robot who has an organic past. | [noun] A human with electronic or bionic prostheses. CYGNET (12) [noun] The young of a swan. DAGGAS (9) DAGGER (9) [noun] A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade. | [noun] The text character †; the obelus. | [noun] 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 | [noun] A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame. DAGGLE (9) DAGOBA (10) DAGOES (8) [noun] A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or other Mediterranean descent. | [noun] A person of Italian descent. DAMAGE (10) [noun] Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact. | [noun] Cost or expense. | [verb] To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction. DANGED (9) [verb] Damn. | [verb] To dash. | [adjective] Damned; accursed; objectionable DANGER (8) [noun] Exposure to likely harm; peril. | [noun] An instance or cause of likely harm. | [noun] Mischief. DANGLE (8) [noun] An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group. | [noun] The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style. | [noun] A dangling ornament or decoration. DARING (8) [verb] To have enough courage (to do something). | [verb] To defy or challenge (someone to do something) | [verb] To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to DATING (8) [verb] To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution. | [verb] To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of. | [verb] To determine the age of something. DAWING (11) DAZING (17) [verb] To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear DEBUGS (10) [verb] To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery. | [verb] To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere). | [verb] To remove insects from (somewhere), especially lice. DEFANG (11) [verb] To remove the fangs from (something). | [verb] To render harmless. DEFOGS (11) DEGAGE (9) DEGAME (10) DEGAMI (10) DEGERM (10) DEGREE (8) [noun] 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.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DEGUMS (10) DEGUST (8) [verb] To taste carefully to fully appreciate it. | [verb] To savour DEIGNS (8) [verb] To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity. | [verb] To condescend to give; to do something. | [verb] To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice. DEKING (12) [verb] To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery. | [verb] To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports. DELUGE (8) [noun] A great flood or rain. | [noun] An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction. | [noun] (military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System. DENGUE (8) [noun] An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain. DESIGN (8) [noun] A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem. | [noun] A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system. | [noun] A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture. DEWING (11) [verb] To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten. | [noun] A contributor to corrosion? DIALOG (8) [noun] A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals. | [noun] In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters. | [noun] A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation. DICING (10) [verb] To play dice. | [verb] To cut into small cubes. | [verb] To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes. DIEING (8) DIGAMY (13) DIGEST (8) [verb] To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. | [verb] To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. | [verb] To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. | [noun] That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles DIGGED (10) DIGGER (9) [noun] A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator. | [noun] A tool for digging. | [noun] A spade (playing card). DIGHTS (11) [verb] To deal with, handle. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To dispose, put (in a given state or condition). DIGITS (8) [noun] 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.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DIGLOT (8) DIKING (12) [noun] The process of building a dike. DINGED (9) [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To dash; to throw violently. | [verb] To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking. DINGER (8) [noun] A bell or chime. | [noun] The suspended clapper of a bell. | [noun] One who rings a bell. DINGES (8) [noun] A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor. | [noun] A fool or incompetent person. | [noun] Penis DINGEY (11) DINGHY (14) [noun] A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship. | [noun] An inflatable rubber life raft. | [verb] To travel by dinghy. DINGLE (8) [noun] A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley. DINGUS (8) [noun] A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor. | [noun] A fool or incompetent person. | [noun] Penis DINING (8) [verb] To eat; to eat dinner or supper. | [verb] To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. | [verb] To dine upon; to have to eat. DIRGES (8) [noun] A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. | [noun] A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring. DIVING (11) [verb] To swim under water. | [verb] To jump into water head-first. | [verb] To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance. DODGED (10) [verb] To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. | [verb] To avoid; to sidestep. | [verb] To go hither and thither. DODGEM (11) [noun] A bumper car in an amusement park. DODGER (9) [noun] Someone who dodges. | [noun] 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. | [noun] An advertising leaflet; a flyer. DODGES (9) [verb] To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. | [verb] To avoid; to sidestep. | [verb] To go hither and thither. DOGDOM (11) [noun] The state or essence of being a dog. DOGEAR (8) DOGEYS (11) DOGGED (10) [verb] To pursue with the intent to catch. | [verb] To follow in an annoying or harassing way. | [verb] To fasten a hatch securely. | [adjective] Stubbornly persevering, steadfast DOGGER (9) [noun] A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch. | [noun] A participant in the sexual activity of dogging. | [noun] A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron. DOGGIE (9) [noun] A dog, especially a small one. | [noun] Doggy style | [noun] (armed services) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer. DOGIES (8) [noun] A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow. DOGLEG (9) [noun] A sharp bend in the fairway (before the hole) | [noun] A configuration of stairs where a flight ascends to a half landing before turning 180 degrees and continuing upwards. | [noun] A sharp bend in a canyon or ravine. DOGMAS (10) [noun] An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it. | [noun] A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader. DOGNAP (10) [verb] To abduct (a dog). DOINGS (8) [noun] A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it. DOLING (8) [verb] To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource. | [noun] The act of one who doles. DOMING (10) DONGAS (8) [noun] A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain. | [noun] A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation. DOPING (10) [verb] To affect with drugs. | [verb] To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.). | [verb] To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon). DORBUG (10) DOSAGE (8) [noun] The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing. | [noun] The addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something, e.g. sugar to wine. | [noun] The measured amount so administered or added; the dose. DOSING (8) [noun] The administration of a dose DOTAGE (8) [noun] Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility. | [noun] Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree. | [noun] Foolish utterance(s); drivel. DOTING (8) [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. | [verb] To act in a foolish manner; to be senile. | [noun] Excessive fondness; reverence. DOUGHS (11) [noun] A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. | [noun] Money. DOUGHT (11) DOUGHY (14) [adjective] Having the characteristics of dough especially in appearance or consistency: as DOWING (11) DOZING (17) [verb] To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. | [verb] To make dull; to stupefy. | [verb] To bulldoze. DRAGEE (8) [noun] A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc. DRAGGY (12) [adjective] Moving or developing very slowly; tending to drag on; dull. DRAGON (8) [noun] A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature. | [noun] An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance: | [noun] (with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco. | [noun] A transvestite man, or more broadly a male-to-female transgender person. DREDGE (9) [noun] Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: | [noun] Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. | [verb] To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge. | [noun] A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation. | [noun] A mixture of oats and barley. DREGGY (12) DREIGH (11) DRIEGH (11) DROGUE (8) [noun] (whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving. | [noun] A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to. | [noun] A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute. DRONGO (8) [noun] Any bird of the family Dicruridae. | [noun] A fool, an idiot, a stupid fellow. DRUDGE (9) [noun] A person who works in a low servile job. | [noun] Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else. | [verb] To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. DRUGGY (12) [noun] A drug addict or abuser. | [adjective] Acting as if on drugs; torpid, uncoordinated, etc. DRYING (11) [verb] To lose moisture. | [verb] To remove moisture from. | [verb] To be thirsty. DUDING (9) [verb] To address someone as dude. | [verb] To take a vacation in a dude ranch. | [verb] Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes. DUGONG (9) [noun] A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus Dugong, found in tropical regions. DUGOUT (8) [noun] A canoe made from a hollowed-out log. | [noun] A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire. | [noun] A sunken shelter at the side of a baseball or football (soccer) field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game. DUKING (12) [verb] To hit or beat with the fists. | [verb] To give cash to; to give a tip to. DUNGED (9) [verb] To fertilize with dung. | [verb] (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant. | [verb] To release dung: to defecate. DUOLOG (8) DUPING (10) [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [verb] To duplicate. DURING (8) [verb] To last, continue, endure. | [preposition] For all of a given time interval. | [preposition] At any time or period within a given time interval. DYEING (11) [verb] To colour with dye, or as if with dye. | [noun] The act by which something is dyed. DYINGS (11) DYKING (15) [noun] The process of building a dike. EAGERS (7) EAGLES (7) [noun] Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision. | [noun] A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I. EAGLET (7) [noun] The immature young of an eagle; an eagle chick. EAGRES (7) [noun] A tidal bore EARING (7) EARWIG (10) [noun] Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen. | [noun] One who whispers insinuations; a secret counsellor. | [noun] A flatterer. EASING (7) [verb] To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc. | [verb] To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain). | [verb] To give respite to (someone). EATING (7) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. | [noun] The act of ingesting food. EBBING (11) [verb] To flow back or recede | [verb] To fall away or decline | [verb] To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb ECHING (12) EDGERS (8) EDGIER (8) [adjective] Nervous, apprehensive. | [adjective] (entertainment) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge. | [adjective] (entertainment) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué. EDGILY (11) EDGING (9) [verb] To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin. EFFIGY (16) [noun] A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated. | [noun] A likeness of a person. EGESTA (7) [noun] The waste which is carried out from a cell or an organism; the result of egestion; excrement EGESTS (7) [verb] To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces). EGGARS (8) [noun] Any moth of the family Lasiocampidae. EGGCUP (12) [noun] A small dish used to support a boiled egg while it is eaten. EGGERS (8) [noun] One who gathers eggs. | [noun] Any of various species of moth, especially the oak egger-moth, Lasiocampa quercus. | [noun] One who eggs or incites. EGGING (9) [verb] To throw eggs at. | [verb] To dip in or coat with beaten egg. | [verb] To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally. EGGNOG (9) [noun] A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy or whisky; popular at Christmas. EGISES (7) EGOISM (9) [noun] The tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind. | [noun] The belief that moral behavior should be directed toward one's self-interest only. | [noun] (by confusion of the similar words) Egotism. EGOIST (7) EGRESS (7) [noun] An exit or way out. | [noun] The process of exiting or leaving. | [noun] The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one. | [verb] To exit or leave; to go or come out. EGRETS (7) [noun] Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season. | [noun] A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament. | [noun] The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle. EIGHTH (13) [noun] The person or thing in the eighth position. | [noun] One of eight equal parts of a whole. | [noun] An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs. EIGHTS (10) [noun] An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. | [noun] The digit/figure 8. | [noun] Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight. EIGHTY (13) [numeral] The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80. ELEGIT (7) ELOIGN (7) EMERGE (9) [verb] To come into view. | [verb] To come out of a situation, object or a liquid. | [verb] To become known. EMIGRE (9) [noun] One who has departed their native land, often as a refugee. | [noun] An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another. ENCAGE (9) [verb] To lock inside a cage; to imprison. ENDING (8) [noun] A termination or conclusion. | [noun] The last part of something. | [noun] (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending"). | [verb] To come to an end ENERGY (10) [noun] The impetus behind all motion and all activity. | [noun] The capacity to do work. | [noun] A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent. ENGAGE (8) [verb] (heading) To interact socially. | [verb] (heading) To interact antagonistically. | [verb] (heading) To interact contractually. ENGILD (8) ENGINE (7) [noun] A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc. | [noun] A tool; a utensil or implement. | [noun] A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects. ENGIRD (8) [verb] To gird around; to ingirt. ENGIRT (7) ENGLUT (7) ENGRAM (9) [noun] A postulated physical or biochemical change in neural tissue that represents a memory. | [noun] A painful, negative mental image representing a past event. ENGULF (10) [verb] To overwhelm. | [verb] To surround; to cover. | [verb] To cast into a gulf. ENIGMA (9) [noun] Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable. | [noun] A riddle, or a difficult problem. ENOUGH (10) [adverb] Sufficiently. | [adverb] Fully; quite; used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very. | [pronoun] A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc. ENRAGE (7) [verb] To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious. ENSIGN (7) [noun] A badge of office, rank, or power. | [noun] The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade. | [noun] A flag or banner carried by military units; a standard or color/colour. EPIGON (9) EPILOG (9) [noun] A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play | [noun] The performer who gives this speech | [noun] A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword ERGATE (7) ERGOTS (7) [noun] Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses. | [noun] The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi. ERINGO (7) ERRING (7) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To sin. | [verb] To stray. | [verb] To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er. ERUGOS (7) ERYNGO (10) [noun] The root of sea holly, Eryngium maritimum, formerly candied and taken as confectionery and held to have aphrodisiac properties. | [noun] Any other plant of the same genus, Eryngium. EULOGY (10) [noun] An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral. | [noun] Speaking highly of someone or something; the act of praising or commending someone or something. EXOGEN (14) EYEING (10) [verb] To observe carefully or appraisingly. | [verb] To appear; to look. FACING (12) [verb] (of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something). | [verb] (of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else). | [verb] To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. FADGED (12) FADGES (11) [verb] To be suitable (with or to something). | [verb] To agree, to get along (with). | [verb] To get on well; to cope, to thrive. FADING (11) [verb] To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant. | [verb] To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. | [verb] To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. FAGGED (12) [verb] (used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out. | [verb] To droop; to tire. | [verb] For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools. FAGGOT (11) [noun] (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.) | [noun] Burdensome baggage. | [noun] A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding. FAGINS (10) FAGOTS (10) [noun] (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.) | [noun] Burdensome baggage. | [noun] A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding. FAKING (14) [verb] To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob. | [verb] To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is | [verb] To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify. FAMING (12) FANEGA (10) FANGAS (10) FANGED (11) [verb] To strike or attack with the fangs. | [verb] To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs. | [verb] To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of. FARING (10) [noun] A structure on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag | [noun] A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair. | [noun] Something edible; fare. FATING (10) [verb] To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable. FAXING (17) [verb] To send a document via a fax machine. FAYING (13) FAZING (19) [verb] To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. FEEING (10) [verb] To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. | [noun] The hiring of servants for a fee FEIGNS (10) [verb] To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate. | [verb] To imagine; to invent; to pretend. | [verb] To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent. FETING (10) [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). FEUING (10) [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FIDGED (12) FIDGES (11) FIDGET (11) [noun] A nervous wriggling or twitching motion. | [noun] A person who fidgets, especially habitually. | [noun] A toy intended to be fidgeted with. FIFING (13) [verb] To play this instrument. FIGGED (12) [verb] To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. | [verb] To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible. | [verb] (soap-making) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations. FIGHTS (13) [verb] To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. FIGURE (10) [noun] A drawing or diagram conveying information. | [noun] The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body. | [noun] A person or thing representing a certain consciousness. FILING (10) [verb] To commit (official papers) to some office. | [verb] To place in an archive in a logical place and order | [verb] To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer. FINGER (10) [noun] A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, exclusive of the thumb. | [noun] Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly: | [noun] Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly: FINING (10) [verb] To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify. | [verb] To become finer, purer, or cleaner. | [verb] To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc. FIRING (10) [verb] To set (something, often a building) on fire. | [verb] To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc. | [verb] To drive away by setting a fire. FIXING (17) [verb] To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. | [verb] To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. | [verb] To mend, to repair. FIZGIG (20) [noun] A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt. | [noun] Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket. | [verb] To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant. | [noun] A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise. | [noun] A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish; a type of harpoon. | [noun] A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone elseor provoke them to commit a crime. | [noun] The common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris). FLAGGY (14) FLAGON (10) [noun] A large bottle for drinks such as wine, cider or beer. | [noun] The amount that such a bottle holds, about 1.13 litres. | [noun] A large vessel usually with a handle, spout and lid, for drinks such as wine or cider. FLANGE (10) [noun] An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place. | [noun] The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component. | [noun] An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees. FLEDGE (11) [verb] To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight. | [verb] To grow, cover or be covered with feathers. | [verb] To decorate with feathers. FLEDGY (14) FLIGHT (13) [noun] The act of flying. | [noun] An instance of flying. | [noun] The act of fleeing. | [noun] The act of fleeing. FLINGS (10) [noun] An act of throwing, often violently. | [noun] An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance. | [noun] An act or period of unrestrained indulgence. FLONGS (10) FLYING (13) [verb] To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb). | [verb] To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface. | [verb] To flee, to escape (from). | [noun] An act of flight. FODGEL (11) FOGBOW (15) [noun] A white arc or circle, similar to a rainbow, which can appear in the sky in foggy conditions as sunlight passes through small airborne water droplets. FOGDOG (12) FOGEYS (13) [noun] A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow. FOGGED (12) [verb] To become covered with or as if with fog. | [verb] To become obscured in condensation or water. | [verb] To become dim or obscure. FOGGER (11) FOGIES (10) [noun] A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow. FORAGE (10) [noun] Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses. | [noun] An act or instance of foraging. | [noun] The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population FOREGO (10) [verb] To precede, to go before. | [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. FORGAT (10) FORGED (11) [verb] To shape a metal by heating and hammering. | [verb] To form or create with concerted effort. | [verb] To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully. FORGER (10) [noun] A person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud, e.g. to create a false will or illicit copies of currency; counterfeiter. | [noun] A person who forges metals. FORGES (10) [noun] Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape. | [noun] Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them. | [noun] The act of beating or working iron or steel. FORGET (10) [verb] To lose remembrance of. | [verb] To unintentionally not do, neglect. | [verb] To unintentionally leave something behind. FORGOT (10) [verb] To lose remembrance of. | [verb] To unintentionally not do, neglect. | [verb] To unintentionally leave something behind. FOUGHT (13) [verb] To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. FOXING (17) [verb] To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity. | [verb] To confuse or baffle (someone). | [verb] To act slyly or craftily. FRIDGE (11) [noun] A refrigerator. | [verb] To place inside of a refrigerator. | [verb] To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove a character, usually female, from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character, usually male, and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s). | [verb] To rub, chafe. FRIGHT (13) [noun] A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm. | [noun] Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion. | [verb] To frighten. | [adjective] Frightened; afraid; affright FRIGID (11) [adjective] Very cold; lacking warmth; icy. | [adjective] Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive. | [adjective] Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman. FRINGE (10) [noun] Hair hanging over the forehead. | [noun] A hairstyle including such hair, especially cut straight across the forehead. | [noun] Brucellosis, a bacterial disease. FRINGY (13) FROGGY (14) [noun] A frog. | [noun] A Frenchman. | [adjective] Froglike. FRUGAL (10) [adjective] Avoiding unnecessary expenditure either of money or of anything else which is to be used or consumed; avoiding waste. FRYING (13) [verb] A method of cooking food. | [verb] To be affected by extreme heat or current. | [noun] The action of the verb fry. FUDGED (12) [verb] To try to avoid giving a direct answer. | [verb] To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral. | [verb] To botch or bungle something. FUDGES (11) [noun] A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge. | [noun] Light or frothy nonsense. | [noun] A deliberately misleading or vague answer. FUGATO (10) [noun] A fugal passage in a composition that is not a strict or complete fugue. FUGGED (12) FUGIOS (10) FUGLED (11) FUGLES (10) FUGUED (11) FUGUES (10) [noun] A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody. | [noun] Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality. | [noun] A fugue state. FULGID (11) FUMING (12) [verb] To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. | [verb] To apply or offer incense to. | [verb] To emit fumes. FUNGAL (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a fungus or fungi. FUNGIC (12) FUNGUS (10) [noun] Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular. | [noun] A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound. FUSING (10) [verb] To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. | [verb] To melt together. | [verb] To furnish with or install a fuse. FUZING (19) [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. GABBED (12) [verb] To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie. | [verb] To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects. | [verb] To speak or tell falsely. GABBER (11) [noun] A liar; a deceiver. | [noun] One who is addicted to idle talk. | [noun] A subgenre of hardcore techno characterised by an intense, distorted kick sound and controversial lyrics or samples. GABBLE (11) [noun] Confused or unintelligible speech. | [verb] To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning. | [verb] To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity. GABBRO (11) [noun] Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite. GABIES (9) GABION (9) [noun] A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag). | [noun] A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride. | [noun] A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks. GABLED (10) GABLES (9) [noun] The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches). | [noun] A cable. GABOON (9) [noun] A receptacle for spit; a spittoon, a spitbox; a spit bucket. GADDED (10) [verb] To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. GADDER (9) GADDIS (9) GADFLY (14) [noun] Any dipterous insect of the family Oestridae, commonly known as botflies. | [noun] A horsefly: any of various species of fly, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals and sucking their blood. | [noun] One who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant. GADGET (9) [noun] A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey. | [noun] Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated. | [noun] Any consumer electronics product. GADIDS (9) [noun] Any member of the family Gadidae of fish such as cod and pollack. GADOID (9) [noun] Any fish of the family Gadidae | [adjective] Of or pertaining to cod or to the Gadidae family of related fish. GAEING (8) GAFFED (14) [verb] To use a gaff, especially to land a fish. | [verb] To cheat or hoax. | [verb] To gamble. GAFFER (13) [noun] A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production. | [noun] A glassblower. | [noun] An old man. GAFFES (13) [noun] A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public. GAGAKU (12) GAGERS (8) GAGGED (10) [verb] To experience the vomiting reflex. | [verb] To cause to heave with nausea. | [verb] To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth. GAGGER (9) GAGGLE (9) [noun] (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water. | [noun] (by extension) Any group or gathering of related things. | [verb] To make a noise like a goose; to cackle. GAGING (9) [verb] To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn. | [verb] To wager, to bet. | [verb] To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. GAGMAN (10) GAGMEN (10) GAIETY (10) [noun] The state of being happy or merry. | [noun] Merrymaking or festivity. GAIJIN (14) [noun] (from the perspective of a Japanese person) A non-Japanese person. GAINED (8) [verb] To acquire possession of. | [verb] To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress. | [verb] To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition. GAINER (7) GAINLY (10) [adjective] Proper; suitable; becoming. | [adjective] Ready to help; kindly; gracious. | [adjective] (of conduct) Graceful; tactful GAINST (7) [preposition] Against GAITED (8) GAITER (7) [noun] A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep. | [noun] A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe. | [noun] Part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop. GALAGO (8) [noun] Any of several species of small, nocturnal and arboreal African primates, of the genus Galago, with a catlike head and very large, translucent eyes. GALAHS (10) [noun] A pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla, native to Australia. | [noun] A fool, an idiot. GALAXY (17) [noun] The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth. | [noun] Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe. | [noun] Any print or pattern reminiscent of a galaxy, generally consisting of blending, semiopaque patches of vibrant color on a dark background. GALEAE (7) [noun] A Roman helmet. | [noun] An organ or a part of a plant that is shaped like a galea (helmet). | [noun] A mouthpart found in some species of chewing insect, which is shaped like a galea (helmet). GALEAS (7) [noun] A type of rowable vessel of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to a galley but larger, and normally equipped with sails. GALENA (7) [noun] A mineral, lead sulphide (PbS), mined as an ore for lead. | [noun] A remedy or antidote for poison; theriac. GALERE (7) GALIOT (7) [noun] A light galley. GALLED (8) [verb] To bother or trouble. | [verb] To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury. | [verb] To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin. GALLET (7) GALLEY (10) [noun] A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era. | [noun] A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure. | [noun] One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war. GALLIC (9) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or derived from galls. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to gallic acid or its derivatives. | [adjective] Relating to, or containing, gallium. GALLON (7) [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints | [noun] Exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon | [noun] 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon") GALLOP (9) [noun] The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously. | [noun] An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop. | [verb] (of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop. GALLUS (7) GALOOT (7) [noun] A clumsy or uncouth person. GALOPS (9) [noun] A lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time. | [noun] The music for a dance of this kind. GALORE (7) [noun] An abundance; plenty. | [adjective] In abundance. GALOSH (10) [noun] A waterproof overshoe used to provide protection from rain or snow. | [noun] A waterproof rubber boot, intended to be worn in wet or muddy conditions. | [verb] To walk while wearing, or as if wearing, galoshes; to splash about. GALYAC (12) GALYAK (14) GAMAYS (12) [noun] Any of several varieties of red grape used for making Beaujolais and other red wines. GAMBAS (11) [noun] A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba. | [noun] A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold. GAMBES (11) GAMBIA (11) GAMBIR (11) [noun] Uncaria gambir, a plant from Indonesia. | [noun] An astringent substance prepared from the leaves of the plant, used in tanning and dyeing. GAMBIT (11) [noun] An opening in chess, in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage. | [noun] Any ploy or stratagem. | [noun] A remark intended to open a conversation. GAMBLE (11) [noun] A bet or wager. | [noun] A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain. | [noun] A risky venture. GAMBOL (11) [noun] An instance of running or skipping about playfully. | [noun] An instance of more general frisking or frolicking. | [verb] To move about playfully; to frolic. GAMELY (12) [adjective] Sportive; lively; joyful. | [adjective] (hunting, fishing, etc.) Of or pertaining to game. | [adverb] In a game or plucky manner; in a willing and spirited fashion. GAMERS (9) [noun] A person who plays any kind of game. | [noun] A person whose hobby is video games. | [noun] A person who games the system. GAMEST (9) [adjective] Willing to participate. | [adjective] (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely. | [adjective] Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above. GAMETE (9) [noun] A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes. GAMIER (9) GAMILY (12) GAMINE (9) [noun] A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl. | [noun] A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman. | [adjective] (of a girl) Having a boyish, mischievous charm; tomboyish. GAMING (10) [verb] To gamble. | [verb] To play card games, board games, or video games. | [verb] To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable. GAMINS (9) [noun] A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy. GAMMAS (11) [noun] The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ). | [noun] The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ. | [noun] A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant). GAMMED (12) GAMMER (11) [noun] An old woman. GAMMON (11) [noun] A cut of quick-cured pork leg. | [verb] To cure bacon by salting. | [noun] A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone. | [noun] A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning). | [noun] Chatter, ridiculous nonsense. | [noun] A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively. GAMUTS (9) [noun] A (normally) complete range. | [noun] All the notes in the musical scale. | [noun] All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer. GANDER (8) [noun] A male goose. | [noun] A fool, simpleton. | [noun] (used only with “have”, “get” and “take”) A glance, look. GANEFS (10) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GANEVS (10) GANGED (9) [verb] To go; walk; proceed. | [verb] To attach similar items together to form a larger unit. | [verb] To participate in a gangbang. GANGER (8) [noun] One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker. | [noun] A horse that goes quickly. | [noun] One who oversees a gang of workmen. GANGLY (11) [adjective] Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness. GANGUE (8) [noun] The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore. GANJAH (17) GANJAS (14) GANNET (7) [noun] Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater. | [noun] A voracious eater; a glutton. GANOFS (10) GANOID (8) [noun] One of the Ganoidei, a disused taxonomic grouping of fishes, including the bowfin, gars, and sturgeons. | [adjective] Having a smooth, shining surface, as if polished or enameled: specifically applied to those scales or plates of fishes which are generally of an angular form and composed of a bony or hard horny tissue overlaid with enamel. | [adjective] Having ganoid scales or plates, as a fish; specifically, of or pertaining to the Ganoidei. GANTRY (10) [noun] A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something. | [noun] A supporting framework for a barrel. | [noun] A gantry crane or gantry scaffold. GAOLED (8) [verb] To imprison. GAOLER (7) [noun] One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison. GAPERS (9) [noun] One who gapes; a starer. | [noun] Any of several species of burrowing clams. | [noun] The comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla. GAPING (10) [verb] To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise. | [verb] To stare in wonder. | [verb] To open wide; to display a gap. | [noun] The act of one who gapes. GAPPED (12) GARAGE (8) [noun] A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items. | [noun] (20th century) A place where cars are serviced and repaired. | [noun] A petrol filling station. GARBED (10) [verb] To dress in garb. GARBLE (9) [noun] Confused or unintelligible speech. | [noun] Refuse; rubbish. | [noun] Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings. GARCON (9) [noun] A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant). GARDEN (8) [noun] An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. | [noun] The grounds at the front or back of a house. | [noun] The twentieth Lenormand card. GARGET (8) [noun] The throat. | [noun] An inflammation on a cow's or sheep's udder. | [noun] A distemper in pigs accompanied by staggering and loss of appetite. GARGLE (8) [noun] A liquid used for gargling | [noun] The sound of gargling | [noun] Lager, drink | [noun] A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters. GARISH (10) [adjective] Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste. GARLIC (9) [noun] A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking. | [verb] To flavour with garlic GARNER (7) [noun] A granary; a store of grain. | [noun] An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something. | [verb] To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. GARNET (7) [noun] A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives. | [noun] A dark red color, like that of the gemstone. | [adjective] Of a dark red colour. | [noun] A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out. | [verb] To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused. GAROTE (7) GARRED (8) GARRET (7) [noun] An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house. GARRON (7) [noun] A small and usually disdained type of horse, typically bred in Scotland and Ireland. GARTER (7) [noun] A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking. | [noun] A bendlet. | [verb] To fasten with a garter GARTHS (10) [noun] A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters | [noun] A close; a yard; a croft; a garden. | [noun] A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England GARVEY (13) GASBAG (10) [noun] A bag or bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon. | [noun] A person who is overly garrulous or prone to making empty, unsupportable statements; a windbag. | [verb] To speak foolishly, pompously, or at length; to blather. GASCON (9) GASHED (11) [verb] To make a deep, long cut; to slash. | [adjective] Having gashes; slashed. GASHER (10) GASHES (10) [noun] A deep cut. | [noun] A vulva. | [noun] A woman GASIFY (13) [verb] To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes. GASKET (11) [noun] A length of rope used for reefing a sail, or holding a stowed sail in place. | [noun] Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression. | [noun] A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration. GASKIN (11) [noun] (in the plural) Trousers, hose. | [noun] Part of the hind leg of a horse, between the stifle and the hock. | [noun] A gasket. GASLIT (7) [verb] To manipulate (someone) psychologically such that they question their own memory, perception, and sanity, thereby evoking in them cognitive dissonance and low self-esteem. | [adjective] Illuminated by burning gas. GASMAN (9) [noun] A worker for a company that supplies gas (in the sense of the gaseous fuel), especially one who visits premises to read the meter, test appliances etc. | [noun] A man employed in the manufacture of gas. | [noun] The man who controls the lights of the stage. GASMEN (9) [noun] A worker for a company that supplies gas (in the sense of the gaseous fuel), especially one who visits premises to read the meter, test appliances etc. | [noun] A man employed in the manufacture of gas. | [noun] The man who controls the lights of the stage. GASPED (10) [verb] To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock. | [verb] To breathe laboriously or convulsively. | [verb] To speak in a breathless manner. GASPER (9) [noun] Agent noun of gasp; a person or animal that gasps. | [noun] A cigarette. | [noun] (BDSM) One who is aroused by asphyxiation. GASSED (8) [verb] To kill with poisonous gas. | [verb] To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter. | [verb] To impose upon by talking boastfully. GASSER (7) [adjective] Comical, zany; fun, amusing | [noun] One who gasses, or poisons with gas. | [noun] Something highly entertaining or remarkable. GASSES (7) [noun] Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly. | [noun] A chemical element or compound in such a state. | [noun] A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles. GASTED (8) GASTER (7) GATEAU (7) [noun] A rich, usually iced, cake. | [noun] A dish of minced meat made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould. GATHER (10) [noun] A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. | [noun] The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. | [noun] The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb). GATING (8) [verb] To keep something inside by means of a closed gate. | [verb] To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out. | [verb] To open a closed ion channel. GATORS (7) [noun] Alligator. GAUCHE (12) [adjective] Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling. | [adjective] Skewed, not plane. | [adjective] Describing a torsion angle of 60°. GAUCHO (12) [noun] A cowboy of the South American pampas. GAUGED (9) [verb] To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of. | [verb] To estimate. | [verb] To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of. GAUGER (8) GAUGES (8) [noun] A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard | [noun] An act of measuring. | [noun] An estimate. GAULTS (7) [noun] A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks. GAUMED (10) GAUZES (16) [noun] A thin fabric with a loose, open weave. | [noun] A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing. | [noun] A thin woven metal or plastic mesh. GAVAGE (11) [noun] A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras | [noun] A process of force-feeding cattle for veal | [noun] Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach GAVELS (10) [noun] Rent. | [noun] Usury; interest on money. | [noun] An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally. GAVIAL (10) [noun] The crocodilian Gavialis gangeticus; any species of the family Gavialidae. GAVOTS (10) GAWKED (15) [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. | [verb] To stare conspicuously. GAWKER (14) GAWPED (13) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. GAWPER (12) GAWSIE (10) GAYALS (10) [noun] Bos frontalis, a Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle. GAYEST (10) [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Happy, joyful, and lively. | [adjective] Quick, fast. | [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Festive, bright, or colourful. GAYETY (13) [noun] The state of being happy or merry. | [noun] Merrymaking or festivity. GAZABO (18) GAZARS (16) GAZEBO (18) [noun] A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn. GAZERS (16) GAZING (17) [verb] To stare intently or earnestly. | [verb] To stare at. | [noun] The act by which somebody gazes. GAZUMP (20) [noun] The act of gazumping. | [verb] To swindle; to extort. | [verb] To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one. | [noun] An automobile. GEARED (8) [verb] To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio. | [verb] To be in, or come into, gear. | [verb] To dress; to put gear on; to harness. GECKED (14) GECKOS (13) [noun] Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces. | [verb] To move in the manner of a gecko; to attach to a vertical or upside-down surface. GEEGAW (11) [noun] A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration. GEEING (8) [verb] Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right. | [verb] To cause an animal to move in this way. | [verb] To agree; to harmonize. GEESTS (7) GEEZER (16) [noun] (dated in US) A male person. | [noun] (chiefly Cockney) Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy. | [noun] Term of address for a male. GEISHA (10) [noun] A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy. GELADA (8) [noun] A species of Old World monkey, Theropithecus gelada, distinguished from baboons by the bright patch of skin on their chests. GELANT (7) GELATE (7) GELATI (7) [noun] Gelato, Italian style ice-cream; a serving of gelato, often in a cone. | [noun] An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form. GELATO (7) [noun] An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form. GELDED (9) [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). | [verb] To deprive of anything essential; to weaken. | [adjective] Castrated. GELDER (8) GELEES (7) GELLED (8) [verb] To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc). | [verb] To become a gel. | [verb] To develop a rapport. GEMMAE (11) [noun] A bud; an asexual reproductive structure, as found in liverworts and hydra, able to produce new individuals from a cluster of cells. GEMMED (12) [verb] To adorn with, or as if with, gems. GEMOTE (9) GEMOTS (9) GENDER (8) [noun] Class; kind. | [noun] (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate. | [noun] (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species). | [verb] To engender. GENERA (7) [noun] A rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank. | [noun] A group with common attributes. | [noun] A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph. GENETS (7) [noun] Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail. | [noun] The fur of this mammal, or any skin dressed in imitation of it. | [noun] A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi, bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor; a group of ramets. GENEVA (10) GENIAL (7) [adjective] Friendly and cheerful. | [adjective] (especially of weather) Pleasantly mild and warm. | [adjective] Marked by genius. | [adjective] Relating to the chin; genian. GENIES (7) [noun] A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form. | [noun] A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container. GENIPS (9) [noun] A succulent berry with a thick rind, the fruit of plants in the genus Genipa. GENIUS (7) [noun] Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc. | [noun] Extraordinary mental capacity. | [noun] Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process. GENOAS (7) [noun] A staysail that resembles a jib but extends aft beyond the mast. | [noun] Genoa cake GENOME (9) [noun] The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism. GENOMS (9) GENRES (7) [noun] A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks. GENROS (7) GENTES (7) [noun] A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium. | [noun] A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line. GENTIL (7) GENTLE (7) [noun] A person of high birth. | [noun] A maggot used as bait by anglers. | [noun] A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil. GENTLY (10) [adverb] In a gentle manner GENTOO (7) GENTRY (10) [noun] Birth; condition; rank by birth. | [noun] Courtesy; civility; complaisance. | [noun] People of education and good breeding. GEODES (8) [noun] A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall. GEODIC (10) GEOIDS (8) GERAHS (10) GERBIL (9) [noun] One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus and certain other genera in subfamily Gerbillinae, with leaping powers resembling the jerboa, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe. | [verb] To rotate inside a monowheel or similar apparatus due to sudden acceleration or braking. | [verb] To insert a small animal into one's rectum (a sexual practice in urban myth). GERENT (7) GERMAN (9) [noun] A near relative. | [adjective] Having the same mother and father; a full (brother or sister). | [adjective] Being born to one’s blood aunt or uncle, a first (cousin). | [noun] An elaborate round dance, often with a waltz movement. GERMEN (9) GERUND (8) [noun] (grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language) | [noun] (grammar) In some languages such as Dutch, Italian or Russian, a verbal form similar to a present participle, but functioning as an adverb to form adverbial phrases or continuous tense. These constructions have various names besides gerund, depending on the language, such as conjunctive participles, active participles, adverbial participles, transgressives, etc. GESTES (7) GESTIC (9) GETTER (7) [noun] One who gets. | [noun] A function used to retrieve the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the setter. | [noun] A material which is included in a vacuum system or device for removing gas by sorption. GETUPS (9) [noun] Enthusiastic and energetic drive or ambition | [noun] A costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual. | [noun] A fight or altercation. GEWGAW (14) [noun] A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration. | [adjective] Showy; unreal; pretentious. GEYSER (10) [noun] A boiling natural spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam. | [noun] An instantaneous, and often dangerous, hot water heater. | [noun] A domestic water boiler. GHARRI (10) GHARRY (13) [noun] A wheeled cart or carriage (usually horsedrawn), used especially in Myanmar. | [noun] A jeep or small truck for conveying troops. GHAUTS (10) GHAZIS (19) [noun] A hero or champion, especially as a Muslim against non-Muslims; often used as a title. GHERAO (10) [noun] A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc. until demands are met. | [verb] To surround for this purpose. GHETTO (10) [noun] An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) | [noun] An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race. | [noun] An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. GHIBLI (12) [noun] (Libya) sirocco GHOSTS (10) [noun] The spirit; the soul of man. | [noun] The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death | [noun] Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image GHOSTY (13) GHOULS (10) [noun] (Muslim demonology) A demon said to feed on corpses. | [noun] A graverobber. | [noun] A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive. GHYLLS (13) [noun] A ravine. GIANTS (7) [noun] A mythical human of very great size. | [noun] Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology. | [noun] A very tall and large person. GIAOUR (7) [noun] A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians. GIBBED (12) [verb] To fasten in place with a gib. | [verb] To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs. | [verb] To install plasterboard. GIBBER (11) [noun] Gibberish, unintelligible speech. | [verb] To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently. | [noun] A boulder, a stone; a mass of stone. | [noun] A balky horse. GIBBET (11) [noun] An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display. | [noun] The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. | [noun] A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal. GIBBON (11) [noun] A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch. GIBERS (9) GIBING (10) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe | [noun] A gibe. GIBLET (9) [noun] (usually in the plural) the edible viscera of a bird GIBSON (9) GIDDAP (11) [interjection] (directed at a horse) Move on!, go faster! GIEING (8) GIFTED (11) [verb] To give as a gift or donation. | [verb] To give away, to concede easily. | [adjective] Endowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities. GIGGED (10) [verb] To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear. | [verb] To engage in musical performances. | [verb] To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending. GIGGLE (9) [noun] A high-pitched, silly laugh. | [noun] Fun; an amusing episode. | [verb] To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way. GIGGLY (12) [adjective] Prone to giggling. GIGLET (8) GIGLOT (8) GIGOLO (8) [noun] A man who has a sexual relationship with a woman from whom he receives payment. | [noun] A hired escort or dancing partner for a woman. GIGOTS (8) [noun] A leg of lamb or mutton. | [noun] Short for gigot sleeve. GIGUES (8) [noun] An Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period). GILDED (9) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. GILDER (8) GILLED (8) [adjective] Having gills GILLER (7) GILLIE (7) [noun] A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief. | [noun] A fishing and hunting guide; a man or boy who attends to a person who is fishing or hunting, especially in Scotland. | [verb] To be a gillie, a fishing or hunting guide, for (someone). | [noun] A gill of an alcoholic drink. GIMBAL (11) [noun] A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped. | [verb] To suspend using a gimbal or gimbals. | [verb] To move a reaction engine about on a gimbal so as to obtain pitching and yawing correction moments. GIMELS (9) GIMLET (9) [noun] A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes. | [noun] A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice. | [verb] To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet). GIMMAL (11) GIMMES (11) [noun] That which is easily obtained, or certain to occur. GIMMIE (11) GIMPED (12) [verb] (of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped. | [verb] To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves. | [verb] To limp; to hobble. GINGAL (8) GINGER (8) [noun] The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative. | [noun] The plant that produces this rhizome. | [noun] Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus Zingiber | [verb] To move gingerly, very careful and cautious. | [noun] A homosexual. GINGKO (12) [noun] Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds. | [noun] The seed of the ginkgo tree. GINKGO (12) [noun] Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds. | [noun] The seed of the ginkgo tree. GINNED (8) [verb] To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin. | [verb] To trap something in a gin. | [adjective] Drunk GINNER (7) GIPONS (9) GIPPED (12) GIPPER (11) GIRDED (9) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. GIRDER (8) [noun] A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure. | [noun] One who girds; a satirist. GIRDLE (8) [noun] That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference | [noun] A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery. | [noun] The zodiac; also, the equator. | [noun] A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked. GIRLIE (7) [noun] A magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or semi-nude photographs of women. | [noun] A young girl. | [adjective] Of entertainment, involving attractive women or images thereof, usually nude or wearing skimpy clothing. GIRNED (8) [verb] To grimace; to snarl. | [verb] To whinge, moan, complain. | [verb] To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition. GIRONS (7) GIRTED (8) GIRTHS (10) [noun] A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place. | [noun] The part of an animal around which the girth fits. | [noun] One's waistline circumference, most often a large one. GISMOS (9) [noun] Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term. GITANO (7) GITTIN (7) GIVENS (10) [noun] A condition that is assumed to be true without further evaluation. GIVERS (10) [noun] One who gives; a donor or contributor. GIVING (11) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GIZMOS (18) [noun] Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term. GLACES (9) GLACIS (9) [noun] A gentle incline in front of a fortification. | [noun] The angled armour plate on the front of a tank; glacis plate. | [noun] An erosional or depositional landform, with little slope. GLADES (8) [noun] An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. | [noun] An everglade. | [noun] An open space in the ice on a river or lake. GLADLY (11) [adverb] In a glad manner; happily. | [adverb] Willingly; certainly. GLAIRE (7) GLAIRS (7) GLAIRY (10) GLAIVE (10) [noun] A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head. | [noun] A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve. | [noun] A sword, particularly a broadsword. GLAMOR (9) [noun] Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seems beauteous. | [noun] Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal). | [noun] Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing. GLANCE (9) [noun] A brief or cursory look. | [noun] A deflection. | [noun] A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side. GLANDS (8) [noun] An organ that synthesizes a substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland). | [noun] A secretory structure on the surface of an organ. | [noun] A compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier, such as: GLARED (8) [verb] To stare angrily. | [verb] To shine brightly. | [verb] To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid. GLARES (7) [noun] An intense, blinding light. | [noun] Showy brilliance; gaudiness. | [noun] An angry or fierce stare. GLASSY (10) [noun] Glass marble. | [adjective] Of or like glass, especially in being smooth and somewhat reflective. | [adjective] Including a lot of glass. GLAZED (17) [verb] To install windows. | [verb] To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating. | [verb] To become glazed or glassy. GLAZER (16) GLAZES (16) [noun] The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb). | [noun] A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint. | [noun] A smooth edible coating applied to food. GLEAMS (9) [noun] A small or indistinct shaft or stream of light. | [noun] A glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something. | [noun] Brightness or shininess; splendor. GLEAMY (12) [adjective] Shiny, bright, glowing GLEANS (7) [verb] To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering. | [verb] To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard). | [verb] To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit. GLEBAE (9) GLEBES (9) [noun] Turf; soil; ground; sod. | [noun] In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. | [noun] A meadow, land or fields GLEDES (8) GLEEDS (8) GLEEKS (11) GLEETS (7) GLEETY (10) GLEGLY (11) GLEYED (11) GLIBLY (12) GLIDED (9) [verb] To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly. | [verb] To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish. | [verb] To cause to glide. GLIDER (8) [noun] The act of gliding. | [noun] A transitional sound, especially a semivowel. | [noun] An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact. GLIDES (8) [noun] The act of gliding. | [noun] A transitional sound, especially a semivowel. | [noun] An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact. GLIFFS (13) GLIMED (10) GLIMES (9) GLINTS (7) [noun] A short flash of light. GLIOMA (9) [noun] A tumour that arises from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord GLITCH (12) [noun] A problem affecting function. | [noun] An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time. | [noun] A bug or an exploit. GLITZY (19) [adjective] Brilliantly showy. GLOAMS (9) GLOATS (7) [noun] An act or instance of gloating. | [verb] To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune. | [verb] To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel. GLOBAL (9) [noun] A globally scoped identifier. | [adjective] Concerning all parts of the world. | [adjective] Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal: GLOBBY (14) GLOBED (10) [verb] To become spherical. | [verb] To make spherical. GLOBES (9) [noun] Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object. | [noun] The planet Earth. | [noun] A spherical model of Earth or any planet. GLOBIN (9) GLOGGS (9) GLOMUS (9) GLOOMS (9) [noun] Darkness, dimness or obscurity. | [noun] A melancholic, depressing or despondent atmosphere. | [noun] Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. GLOOMY (12) [adjective] Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening. | [adjective] Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. GLOPPY (14) GLORIA (7) [noun] A lightweight fabric used for umbrellas and dresses. | [noun] A doxology. GLOSSA (7) GLOSSY (10) [noun] A glossy magazine. | [noun] A glossy photograph. | [noun] A film depicting people with glamorous lifestyles. GLOSTS (7) GLOUTS (7) GLOVED (11) [verb] To catch the ball in a baseball mitt. | [verb] To put a glove or gloves on. | [verb] To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball. GLOVER (10) [noun] A person who makes or sells gloves. GLOVES (10) [noun] An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers. | [noun] A baseball mitt. | [noun] The ability to catch a hit ball. GLOWED (11) [verb] To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated. | [verb] To radiate some emotional quality like light. | [verb] To gaze especially passionately at something. GLOWER (10) [noun] An angry glare or stare. | [verb] To look or stare with anger. | [noun] That which glows or emits light. GLOZED (17) [verb] To extenuate, explain away, gloss over. | [verb] To use flattering language. | [verb] To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation. GLOZES (16) [noun] A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary. | [noun] Flattery. | [noun] (False) appearance. GLUCAN (9) [noun] Any polysaccharide that is a polymer of glucose GLUERS (7) GLUIER (7) [adjective] Viscous and adhesive, as glue. GLUILY (10) GLUING (8) [verb] To join or attach something using glue. | [verb] To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively. | [noun] The act of attaching something with glue. GLUMES (9) [noun] A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae). GLUMLY (12) GLUMPY (14) GLUNCH (12) GLUONS (7) [noun] A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force. GLUTEI (7) [noun] One of the several muscles of nates, which arises from a pelvis and inserted into a femur. | [noun] Short for gluteus maximus, the large muscles in the human buttocks. GLUTEN (7) [noun] Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours"). | [noun] Any gluey, sticky substance. | [noun] The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread. GLYCAN (12) [noun] (cabrohydrate) Any polysaccharide or oligosaccharide, especially one that is part of a glycoprotein or glycolipid. GLYCIN (12) GLYCOL (12) [noun] Any aliphatic diol. | [noun] A thick, colourless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds and used as an antifreeze; ethylene glycol. GLYCYL (15) GLYPHS (15) [noun] A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. | [noun] Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information. | [noun] A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style. GNARLS (7) [noun] A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree. | [noun] Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs. | [verb] To knot or twist something. GNARLY (10) [adjective] Having or characterized by gnarls; gnarled. | [adjective] Excellent; attractive. | [adjective] Dangerous; difficult. GNARRS (7) GNATTY (10) GNAWED (11) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GNAWER (10) GNEISS (7) [noun] A common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock having bands or veins, but not schistose. GNOMES (9) [noun] A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying. | [noun] (magic, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth. | [noun] (fantasy literature) One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually even smaller than dwarves and more focussed on engineering than mining. GNOMIC (11) [adjective] Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings). | [adjective] (of a saying or aphorism) Mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise. | [adjective] (grammar) Expressing general truths or aphorisms. GNOMON (9) [noun] An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. | [noun] An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the observer's latitude. | [noun] The index of the hour circle of a globe. GNOSES (7) GNOSIS (7) [noun] (gnosticism) an immanent form of knowledge or transcendent insight, such as sought by the Gnostics | [noun] Act or process of knowing | [noun] An altered state of awareness in which the will is magically effective GOADED (9) [verb] To prod with a goad. | [verb] To encourage or stimulate. | [verb] To incite or provoke. GOALED (8) GOALIE (7) [noun] A goalkeeper or goaltender. | [verb] To act as a goalie, to tend the goals, to mind the net. GOANNA (7) [noun] Any of various monitor lizards native to Australia. GOATEE (7) [noun] A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin. GOBANG (10) GOBANS (9) GOBBED (12) [verb] To gather into a lump. | [verb] To spit, especially to spit phlegm. | [verb] To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine. GOBBET (11) [noun] A quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch. | [noun] A lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat. | [noun] An extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, discussion, or translation in an examination. GOBBLE (11) [noun] Fellatio; blowjob | [noun] An act of eating hastily or greedily. | [verb] To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up) | [noun] The sound of a turkey. GOBIES (9) [noun] Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker. | [noun] A gudgeon, such as Gobio gobio. GOBLET (9) [noun] A drinking vessel with a foot and stem. GOBLIN (9) [noun] One of various hostile supernatural creatures, now especially (fantasy literature) a malevolent and grotesque diminutive humanoid. GOBOES (9) GOBONY (12) [adjective] Compony GODDAM (11) [noun] (Gallicism, chiefly in the plural) An English person, from the perspective of a French person or in the context of French history. | [interjection] An expression of anger, surprise, intense excitment or frustration. GODDED (10) GODETS (8) [noun] A drinking cup. | [noun] A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset. | [noun] A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing. GODOWN (11) [noun] A warehouse. GODSON (8) [noun] A male child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent. GODWIT (11) [noun] Any of four species of long-billed, migratory wading birds in the genus Limosa, of the family Scolopacidae. GOFERS (10) [noun] A worker who runs errands; an errand boy. GOFFER (13) [verb] To make wavy; to crimp. | [noun] Soft drink; non-alcoholic drink GOGGLE (9) [noun] A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye. | [noun] (in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses. | [verb] To stare (at something) with wide eyes. GOGGLY (12) GOGLET (8) GOINGS (8) [noun] A departure. | [noun] The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc. | [noun] Progress. GOITER (7) [noun] An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland. GOITRE (7) [noun] An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland. GOLDEN (8) [noun] Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia. | [adjective] Made of, or relating to, gold. | [adjective] Having a colour or other richness suggestive of gold. | [verb] To become gold or golden (in colour). GOLDER (8) GOLEMS (9) [noun] A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic. | [noun] (by extension) A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic. GOLFED (11) [verb] To play the game of golf. | [verb] To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf) | [adjective] Having had its source code made as short as possible, as in code golf. GOLFER (10) [noun] Someone who plays golf. GOLOSH (10) GOMBOS (11) GOMUTI (9) GONADS (8) [noun] A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The testicles. GONEFS (10) GONERS (7) [noun] Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case. GONGED (9) [verb] To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong. | [verb] To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device. | [verb] To give an award or medal to. GONIFF (13) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GONIFS (10) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GONION (7) GONIUM (9) GONOFS (10) GONOPH (12) GOOBER (9) [noun] The language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe. | [noun] A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe. | [noun] A native or resident of the state of Georgia in the United States of America. GOODBY (13) [noun] An utterance of goodbye, the wishing of farewell to someone. GOODIE (8) [noun] A good character in a story, often a hero. | [interjection] Expression of pleasure; yippee. GOODLY (11) [adjective] Good; pleasing in appearance; attractive; comely; graceful; pleasant; desirable. | [adjective] Quite large; considerable; sufficient; adequate; more than enough. | [adverb] In a goodly way; courteously, graciously. GOOFED (11) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To engage in mischief. GOOGLY (11) [noun] A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery. | [adjective] (of the eyes) Bulging. | [adjective] (usually of eyes, sometimes of persons) Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious. GOOGOL (8) [numeral] The number 10^{100}, or ten to the power of a hundred. GOOIER (7) [adjective] Of or relating to goo | [adjective] Soft, sticky and viscous GOONEY (10) GOONIE (7) GOORAL (7) GOOSED (8) [verb] To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters. | [verb] To stimulate, to spur. | [verb] To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator. GOOSES (7) [verb] To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters. | [verb] To stimulate, to spur. | [verb] To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator. GOOSEY (10) [noun] A goose. | [noun] A foolish person; a silly. | [adjective] Characteristic of a goose; anserine GOPHER (12) [noun] A small burrowing rodent, especially in the family Geomyidae. | [noun] The gopher tortoise. | [noun] The gopher rockfish. | [noun] A worker who runs errands; an errand boy. GORALS (7) [noun] A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus. GORGED (9) [adjective] With a stomach stuffed full of food. | [adjective] With the neck collared or encircled by an object. | [adjective] Having a gorge or throat. GORGER (8) [noun] One who gorges | [noun] Someone who is not a Romani, Sinti, Gypsy, or Traveller GORGES (8) GORGET (8) [noun] A piece of armour for the throat. | [noun] A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple. | [noun] An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc. GORGON (8) [noun] A vicious female monster from Greek mythology with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. One of the three sisters: Medusa, Stheno and Euryale | [noun] An intimidating, ugly, or disgusting woman; anything hideous or horrid. | [adjective] Like a gorgon; very ugly or terrifying. GORHEN (10) GORIER (7) [adjective] Covered with blood, very bloody | [adjective] Unpleasant GORILY (10) GORING (8) [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [verb] To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear. | [verb] To cut in a triangular form. GORSES (7) [noun] Evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having spiny leaves and yellow flowers. GOSPEL (9) [noun] The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the life, crucifixion, death, resurrection, and teachings of Jesus. | [noun] An account of the life, crucifixion, death, resurrection, and teachings of Jesus, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era. | [noun] The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments. GOSSAN (7) [noun] Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein GOSSIP (9) [noun] Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business. | [noun] Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present. | [noun] Idle conversation in general. GOTHIC (12) [adjective] Of or relating to the Goths or their language. | [adjective] Barbarous, rude, unpolished, belonging to the “Dark Ages”, medieval as opposed to classical. | [adjective] Of or relating to the architectural style favored in Western Europe in the 12th to 16th centuries, with high-pointed arches, clustered columns, etc. GOTTEN (7) [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [verb] To receive. | [verb] (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes. GOUGED (9) [verb] To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. | [verb] To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price. | [verb] To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket. GOUGER (8) GOUGES (8) [noun] Senses relating to cutting tools. | [noun] A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp. | [noun] (originally United States) An act of gouging. GOURDE (8) [noun] The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes. GOURDS (8) [noun] Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae). | [noun] A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita. | [noun] The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration. GOVERN (10) [noun] The act of governing | [verb] To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in. | [verb] To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain. GOWANS (10) [noun] The common daisy. | [noun] Decomposed granite. GOWANY (13) GOWNED (11) [verb] To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown. GOYISH (13) GRAALS (7) GRABBY (14) [adjective] Tending to grab, especially rudely or greedily. GRABEN (9) [noun] An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area. GRACED (10) [verb] To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. | [verb] To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour. | [verb] To supply with heavenly grace. GRACES (9) [noun] Charming, pleasing qualities. | [noun] A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal. | [noun] In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules. GRADED (9) [verb] To assign scores to the components of an academic test. | [verb] To assign a score to overall academic performance. | [verb] To organize in grades. GRADER (8) [noun] A machine used in road maintenance and construction for leveling large surfaces. | [noun] One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated. | [noun] (in combination) One who belongs to a certain grade at school. GRADES (8) [noun] A rating. | [noun] The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score. | [noun] A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality. GRADIN (8) [noun] Any of a series of terraced steps or seats, as in an arena or an altar. GRADUS (8) [noun] A handbook used as an aid in a difficult art or practice, specifically, a dictionary of Greek or Latin prosody used as a guide in writing of poetry in Greek or Latin. GRAFTS (10) [noun] A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. | [noun] A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. | [noun] A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty. GRAHAM (12) [noun] Flour made by grinding wheat berries including the bran. | [noun] A graham cracker. GRAILS (7) [noun] The Holy Grail. | [noun] The object of an extended or difficult quest.http//www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grail | [noun] A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. GRAINS (7) [noun] Pigeons' dung used in tanning. See grainer. | [noun] The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley. | [noun] Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa. GRAINY (10) [adjective] Resembling grains; granular. | [adjective] Coarsely ground or gritty. GRAMAS (9) GRAMME (11) [noun] Gram (unit of mass) GRAMPS (11) [noun] Grandpa, grandfather. | [noun] (by extension) Old man. GRANDS (8) [noun] (plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.) | [noun] (plural "grands") A grand piano | [noun] A grandparent or grandchild. GRANGE (8) [noun] A granary. | [noun] A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse or manor. | [noun] A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization. GRANNY (10) [noun] A grandmother. | [noun] An elderly woman. | [noun] (knots) A granny knot. GRANTS (7) [noun] The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission. | [noun] The yielding or admission of something in dispute. | [noun] The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. GRANUM (9) [noun] A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis. GRAPES (9) [noun] A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis. | [noun] A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis. | [noun] A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes. GRAPEY (12) GRAPHS (12) [noun] (applied mathematics) A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers. | [noun] A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m, y)\in\R^{m+1}, where y=f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m) for a given function f: \R^m\rightarrow\R. | [noun] (formally) An ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V; (less formally) a set of vertices (or nodes) together with a set of edges that connect (some of) the vertices. GRAPPA (11) [noun] An Italian grape-based spirit of between 80 and 100 proof, made from the distillation of pomace. | [noun] A variety or serving of grappa. GRASPS (9) [noun] (sometimes figurative) Grip. | [noun] Understanding. | [noun] That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability. GRASSY (10) [adjective] Covered with grass. | [adjective] Resembling grass. GRATED (8) [verb] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars | [verb] To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater | [verb] To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something GRATER (7) [noun] A tool with which one grates, especially cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump GRATES (7) [noun] A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot | [noun] A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning | [verb] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars GRATIN (7) [noun] The top crust of a dish, consisting of breadcrumbs or grated cheese heated under a grill; the dish itself. GRATIS (7) [adjective] Free, without charge. | [adverb] Free, without charge. GRAVED (11) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. GRAVEL (10) [noun] Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast. | [noun] A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics. | [noun] A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale GRAVEN (10) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. | [verb] To make graven or engraved | [verb] To make or become grave (serious or sombre) GRAVER (10) [noun] A burin | [noun] A carver, sculptor, or engraver | [adjective] Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful. GRAVES (10) [noun] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial | [noun] Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. | [noun] (by extension) Death, destruction. GRAVID (11) [adjective] Pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically. GRAYED (11) [verb] To become gray. | [verb] To cause to become gray. | [verb] To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region) GRAYER (10) [adjective] Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember. | [adjective] Dreary, gloomy. | [adjective] Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality. GRAYLY (13) GRAZED (17) [verb] To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. | [verb] To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture) | [verb] To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. GRAZER (16) GRAZES (16) [noun] The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. | [noun] A light abrasion; a slight scratch. | [noun] The act of animals feeding from pasture. GREASE (7) [noun] Animal fat in a melted or soft state | [noun] (extension) Any oily or fatty matter. | [noun] Shorn but not yet cleansed wool GREASY (10) [adjective] Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease. | [adjective] Containing a lot of grease or fat. | [adjective] Shady, sketchy, dodgy, detestable, unethical. GREATS (7) [noun] A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | [noun] The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | [noun] (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships. GREAVE (10) [noun] A bush; a tree; a grove. | [noun] A bough; a branch. | [noun] A ditch or trench. | [noun] A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin. | [verb] To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave. GREBES (9) [noun] Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes. GREEDS (8) GREEDY (11) [adjective] Having greed; consumed by selfish desires. | [adjective] Prone to overeat. | [adjective] Tending to match as much text as possible. GREENS (7) [noun] The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. | [noun] (sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist. | [noun] A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole. | [verb] To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. GREENY (10) [noun] An environmentalist; someone who shows concern for the environment. | [noun] (by extension) A member of the Green Party. | [noun] (Wyoming) A person from Colorado; after the color of the Colorado license plate. GREETS (7) [verb] To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or over the phone/internet | [verb] To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy) | [verb] To accost; to address. GREGOS (8) GREIGE (8) [adjective] (of textiles) Unfinished; not fully processed; neither bleached nor dyed. | [noun] A colour between grey and beige, closely akin to taupe. | [adjective] Of a colour between grey and beige. GREMMY (14) GREYED (11) [verb] To become grey. | [verb] To cause to become grey. | [verb] To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region. GREYER (10) [adjective] Having a color. | [adjective] Having a particular color or kind of color. | [adjective] Having prominent colors; colorful. GREYLY (13) GRIDED (9) GRIDES (8) GRIEFS (10) [noun] Suffering, hardship. | [noun] Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. | [noun] Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial. GRIEVE (10) [verb] To cause sorrow or distress to. | [verb] To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for. | [verb] To experience grief. | [noun] A governor of a town or province. GRIFFE (13) GRIFFS (13) GRIFTS (10) [noun] A confidence game or swindle. | [verb] To obtain illegally, as by con game. | [verb] To obtain money illegally. GRIGRI (8) GRILLE (7) [noun] A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack. | [noun] On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it. | [noun] A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English GRILLS (7) [noun] A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack. | [noun] On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it. | [noun] A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English GRILSE (7) [noun] A young salmon after its first return from the sea. GRIMED (10) [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIMES (9) [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIMLY (12) [adjective] Grim-looking, grim-natured. | [adverb] In a grim manner. GRINCH (12) [noun] A grouch or killjoy. | [noun] A person who aggressively sets out to ruin the Christmas holidays for others. GRINDS (8) [noun] The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. | [noun] Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground. | [noun] A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans. GRINGO (8) [noun] A white person from an English-speaking country, particularly the United States. GRIOTS (7) [noun] A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet. | [noun] A Haitian dish of fried pork. GRIPED (10) [verb] To complain; to whine. | [verb] To annoy or bother. | [verb] To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm. GRIPER (9) GRIPES (9) [noun] A complaint, often a petty or trivial one. | [noun] A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems. | [noun] Grasp; clutch; grip GRIPEY (12) GRIPPE (11) [noun] Influenza, the flu. GRIPPY (14) [adjective] Having a tight grip, or tending to grip well. | [adjective] Tight-fisted, greedy, stingy. | [adjective] Afflicted with, or relating to, grippe, or influenza. GRISLY (10) [adjective] Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying. | [adverb] In a horrible or terrible manner; in a terrifying way. GRISON (7) [noun] A small, carnivorous South American mammal, of the genus Galictis, somewhat resembling a weasel. GRISTS (7) GRITHS (10) GRITTY (10) [adjective] Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles. | [adjective] Spirited; resolute; unyielding. | [adjective] Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence. GRIVET (10) [noun] An Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face. GROANS (7) [noun] A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief. | [noun] A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration, disapproval, or ecstasy. | [noun] (of an object) A low creaking sound from applied pressure or weight. GROATS (7) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain. | [noun] Any of various old coins of England and Scotland. | [noun] A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins. GROCER (9) [noun] A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery. | [verb] To sell groceries; to act as a grocer. GROGGY (12) [adjective] Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc. | [adjective] Of a horse: bearing wholly on its heels when trotting. GROINS (7) [noun] The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region. | [noun] The area adjoining this fold or depression. | [noun] The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults GROOMS (9) [noun] A man who is about to marry. | [noun] A person who cares for horses. | [noun] One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department. GROOVE (10) [noun] A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression. | [noun] A fixed routine. | [noun] The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit. GROOVY (13) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or having grooves. | [adjective] Set in one's ways. | [noun] A trendy and fashionable person. GROPED (10) [verb] To feel with or use the hands; to handle. | [verb] To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see. | [verb] To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually. GROPER (9) [noun] Agent noun of grope; one who gropes. | [noun] An employee of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially those who perform inspections on passengers. | [noun] Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. GROPES (9) [noun] An act of groping, especially sexually. | [noun] An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel | [verb] To feel with or use the hands; to handle. GROSZE (16) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Polish zloty. GROSZY (19) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Polish zloty. GROTTO (7) [noun] A small cave. | [noun] An artificial cavern-like retreat. | [noun] A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure. GROTTY (10) [adjective] Unpleasant, dirty, slovenly or offensive GROUCH (12) [noun] A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor. | [noun] One who is grumpy or irritable. | [verb] To be grumpy or irritable; to complain. GROUND (8) [noun] The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground. | [noun] Terrain. | [noun] Soil, earth. | [verb] To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion. GROUPS (9) [noun] A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. | [noun] A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. | [noun] An effective divisor on a curve. GROUSE (7) [noun] Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere. | [verb] To seek or shoot grouse. | [noun] A cause for complaint. | [adjective] Excellent. GROUTS (7) [verb] To insert mortar between tiles. GROUTY (10) GROVED (11) GROVEL (10) [verb] To be prone on the ground. | [verb] To crawl. | [verb] To abase oneself before another person. GROVES (10) [noun] A small forest. | [noun] An orchard of fruit trees. | [noun] (Druidism) A place of worship. GROWER (10) [noun] A farmer; one who grows things. | [noun] Something that grows. | [noun] Someone or something who becomes more likeable over time GROWLS (10) [noun] A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal. | [noun] (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a person's stomach when hungry. | [noun] (by extension) An aggressive grumbling. GROWLY (13) [adjective] Resembling the sound of a growl; throaty GROWTH (13) [noun] An increase in size, number, value, or strength. | [noun] The act of growing, getting bigger or higher. | [noun] Something that grows or has grown. GROYNE (10) [noun] An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater. GRUBBY (14) [noun] Any species of Cottus; a sculpin. | [adjective] Dirty, unwashed, unclean. | [adjective] Having grubs in it. GRUDGE (9) [noun] Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to a past misdeed or mistreatment. | [verb] To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). | [verb] To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. GRUELS (7) GRUFFS (13) GRUFFY (16) GRUGRU (8) GRUMES (9) [noun] A thick semisolid | [noun] A clot (of blood) GRUMPS (11) [noun] A habitually grumpy or complaining person. | [noun] A grumpy mood. | [verb] To complain. GRUMPY (14) [adjective] Dissatisfied and irritable. GRUNGE (8) [noun] Dirt or filth, especially when difficult to clean. | [noun] The state of being filthy; grubbiness. | [noun] A subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington, which melds punk and metal. GRUNGY (11) [adjective] Dirty; shabby; in disrepair. | [adjective] Of or relating to grunge music. GRUNTS (7) [noun] A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak. | [noun] The snorting cry of a pig. | [noun] Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae. GRUTCH (12) GUACOS (9) GUAIAC (9) [noun] A paper treated with alpha-guaiaconic acid, used in tests to detect blood in the faeces. GUANAY (10) GUANIN (7) GUANOS (7) [noun] Dung from a sea bird or from a bat. | [noun] A variety of seabird. GUARDS (8) [noun] A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something. | [noun] A garda; a police officer. | [noun] A squad responsible for protecting something. GUAVAS (10) [noun] A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava. | [noun] Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color. | [noun] A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink). GUENON (7) [noun] An Old World monkey of the genus Cercopithecus. GUESTS (7) [noun] A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another. | [noun] A patron or customer in a hotel etc. | [noun] An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast. GUFFAW (16) [noun] A boisterous laugh. | [verb] To laugh boisterously. GUGGLE (9) GUGLET (8) GUIDED (9) [verb] To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. | [verb] To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot. | [verb] To exert control or influence over someone or something. GUIDER (8) [noun] One who guides. GUIDES (8) [noun] Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation. | [noun] A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. | [noun] A sign that guides people; guidepost. GUIDON (8) [noun] A small pennant or banner carried by infantry soldiers to direct troop movement. | [noun] A soldier assigned to carry such a banner. GUILDS (8) [noun] A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages. | [noun] A corporation. | [noun] A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits. GUILED (8) GUILES (7) GUILTS (7) [verb] To commit offenses; act criminally. | [verb] To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour. GUILTY (10) [noun] A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge. | [noun] A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime. | [noun] One who is declared guilty of a crime. GUIMPE (11) [noun] Gimp; a narrow flat braid or reinforced cord of fabric used for ornamental trimming. | [noun] A kind of short, high-necked blouse with sleeves of the late Victorian era, designed to be worn under a low-cut dress, jumper, or pinafore dress. | [noun] A kind of short chemisette or yoke insert made of lace, embroidery, or the like, worn with a low-necked dress. GUINEA (7) [noun] A person of Italian descent. | [noun] A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings. | [noun] Any of several African birds of the family Numididae (6 species) resembling partridges. GUIROS (7) [noun] A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound. | [noun] A genre of traditional Cuban music, used in santería rituals. | [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a gourd surrounded by a net of beads. GUISED (8) GUISES (7) [noun] Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.) | [noun] External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape. | [noun] Misleading appearance; cover, cloak. GUITAR (7) [noun] A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick). | [noun] Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. | [verb] To play the guitar. GULAGS (8) [noun] A prison camp. | [noun] The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period. GULDEN (8) [noun] An old currency of the Netherlands (and its overseas territory the Netherlands Antilles). GULFED (11) GULLED (8) [verb] To deceive or cheat. | [verb] To mislead. | [verb] To trick and defraud. GULLET (7) [noun] The throat or esophagus. | [noun] The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested. | [noun] The space between the teeth of a saw blade. GULLEY (10) [noun] A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside. | [noun] A small valley. | [noun] A drop kerb. GULPED (10) [verb] To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow. | [verb] To react nervously by swallowing. GULPER (9) [noun] One who gulps. | [noun] A gulper eel. GUMBOS (11) [noun] A soup or stew made with okra. | [noun] A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy. | [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. GUMMAS (11) [noun] A soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis. GUMMED (12) [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. | [verb] (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to. GUMMER (11) GUNDOG (9) [noun] A breed of dog used by hunters to find, flush out and retrieve birds and other game. GUNITE (7) [noun] A form of shotcrete in which a dry cementitious mixture is blown through a hose to the nozzle, with water injected only at the point of application. GUNMAN (9) [noun] A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer. GUNMEN (9) [noun] A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer. GUNNED (8) [verb] (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm. | [verb] To speed something up. | [verb] To offer vigorous support to a person or cause. GUNNEL (7) [noun] A small eel-shaped marine fish of the family Pholidae, especially Pholis gunnellus. | [noun] The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck. GUNNEN (7) GUNNER (7) [noun] Artillery soldier, or such who holds private rank. Abbreviated Gnr. | [noun] A person who operates a gun. | [noun] An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition. | [noun] (Cebu) The person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session. GUNSEL (7) [noun] (dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother. | [noun] A promiscuous woman, slut, whore. | [noun] A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman. | [noun] A gun-carrying hoodlum or other criminal. GURGED (9) GURGES (8) GURGLE (8) [noun] A gurgling sound. | [verb] To flow with a bubbling sound. | [verb] To make such a sound. GURNET (7) GURNEY (10) [noun] A stretcher having wheeled legs. GUSHED (11) [verb] To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. | [verb] To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. | [verb] (especially of a woman) To ejaculate during orgasm. GUSHER (10) [noun] One who gushes (makes an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment). | [noun] An oil well that has a natural flow and so requires no pumping. GUSHES (10) [noun] A sudden rapid outflow. | [verb] To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. | [verb] To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. GUSSET (7) [noun] A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet. | [noun] A small piece of mail, providing some protection where two plates of armor are joined, usually at the elbows, under the shoulders, and behind the knees. | [noun] (machinery) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler. GUSSIE (7) GUSTED (8) [verb] To blow in gusts. | [verb] To taste. | [verb] To have a relish for. GUTTAE (7) GUTTED (8) [verb] To eviscerate. | [verb] To remove or destroy the most important parts of. | [adjective] Eviscerated. GUTTER (7) [noun] A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water. | [noun] A ditch along the side of a road. | [noun] A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough. | [noun] One who or that which guts. GUTTLE (7) GUYING (11) [verb] To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November. | [verb] To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo. | [verb] To play in a comedic manner. GUYOTS (10) [noun] A flat-topped seamount. GUZZLE (25) [noun] Drink; intoxicating liquor. | [noun] A drinking bout; a debauch. | [noun] An insatiable thing or person. GWEDUC (13) GYBING (13) [verb] To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind. | [verb] Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other. | [verb] Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel. GYPPED (15) [verb] (sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately. GYPPER (14) GYPSUM (14) [noun] A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. GYRASE (10) GYRATE (10) [verb] To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve. | [adjective] Having coils or convolutions GYRENE (10) GYRING (11) [verb] To whirl GYRONS (10) [noun] A triangular form having an angle at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon. GYROSE (10) GYVING (14) HADING (11) [verb] To slope or incline from the vertical. HAEING (10) HAGBUT (12) HAGDON (11) HAGGED (12) HAGGIS (11) [noun] A traditional Scottish dish made from minced sheep offal with oatmeal and spices, etc., originally boiled in the stomach of a sheep but now often in an artificial casing, and usually served with neeps and tatties (mashed swede and potatoes) and accompanied with whisky. | [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HAGGLE (11) [verb] To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller. | [verb] To hack (cut crudely) | [verb] To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. HALING (10) [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HANGAR (10) [noun] A large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept. | [noun] A covered shed for carriages. | [verb] To store (an aircraft) in a hangar. HANGED (11) [verb] To be or remain suspended. | [verb] To float, as if suspended. | [verb] (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. HANGER (10) [noun] One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc. | [noun] A person who attempts suicide by hanging. | [noun] That by which a thing is suspended. | [noun] Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger. HANGUL (10) HANGUP (12) [noun] An emotional difficulty or a psychological inhibition; a complex. | [noun] An unforeseen obstacle to progress; a hitch. HARING (10) [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. HATING (10) [verb] To dislike intensely or greatly. | [verb] To experience hatred. HAUGHS (13) [noun] A low-lying meadow by the side of a river. HAVING (13) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAWING (13) HAYING (13) [verb] To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder. | [verb] To lay snares for rabbits. | [noun] The act of gathering hay. HAZING (19) [verb] To be or become hazy, or thick with haze. | [verb] To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit. | [verb] To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work. HEDGED (12) [verb] To enclose with a hedge or hedges. | [verb] To obstruct or surround. | [verb] To offset the risk associated with. HEDGER (11) HEDGES (11) [noun] A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden. | [noun] A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm. | [noun] A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land. HEGARI (10) HEGIRA (10) [noun] A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus. HEIGHT (13) [noun] The distance from the base of something to the top. | [noun] The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse). | [noun] The highest point or maximum degree. HEUGHS (13) [noun] A steep crag or cliff, especially one with overhanging sides | [noun] A glen with steep, overhanging sides | [noun] A steep excavation, especially a coal pit HEWING (13) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. HEXING (17) [verb] To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch. | [noun] The act of casting a hex or curse. HIDING (11) [verb] To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. | [verb] To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight. | [verb] To beat with a whip made from hide. | [noun] A beating or spanking. HIEING (10) [verb] To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. | [verb] To hurry (oneself). HIGGLE (11) [verb] To hawk or peddle provisions. | [verb] To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle. HIGHER (13) [adjective] Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty. | [adjective] Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. | [adjective] Having a specified elevation or height; tall. HIGHLY (16) [adverb] In a high or esteemed manner. | [adverb] Extremely; greatly; very much. HIGHTH (16) HIGHTS (13) HIKING (14) [verb] To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise. | [verb] To unfairly or suddenly raise a price. | [verb] To snap the ball to start a play. HINGED (11) [verb] To attach by, or equip with a hinge. | [verb] (with on or upon) To depend on something. | [verb] The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break. HINGER (10) HINGES (10) [noun] A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. | [noun] A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve. | [noun] A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album. HIRING (10) [verb] To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. | [verb] To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job. | [verb] To exchange the services of for remuneration. HIVING (13) [verb] To enter or possess a hive. | [verb] To form a hive-like entity. | [verb] To collect into a hive. HOAGIE (10) [noun] A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll; a submarine sandwich. HOEING (10) [verb] To care, be anxious, long. | [verb] To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool. | [verb] To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe. HOGANS (10) [noun] A one-room Navajo dwelling or ceremonial lodge, constructed of wood and earth and covered with mud. HOGGED (12) [verb] To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others. | [verb] To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly. | [verb] To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom. HOGGER (11) [noun] Agent noun of hog; one who, or that which, hogs. | [noun] A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work. | [noun] A marijuana cigarette HOGGET (11) [noun] A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth). | [noun] The meat of a young sheep. | [noun] A young boar of the second year. HOGNUT (10) [noun] The pignut or hickory (Carya glabra of family Juglandaceae). | [noun] Conopodium majus, a tuberous plant of the Apiaceae. | [noun] Bunium bulbocastanum (black cumin) of the Apiaceae. HOGTIE (10) [noun] The act of tying the feet together in this way. | [verb] To tie an animal's or someone's feet together; originally all four legs of a quadruped. | [verb] To render helpless. HOKING (14) [verb] To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc. | [verb] To scrounge, to grub. HOLING (10) [verb] To make holes in (an object or surface). | [verb] (by extension) To destroy. | [verb] To go into a hole. | [noun] Undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass HOMAGE (12) [noun] A demonstration of respect, such as towards an individual after their retirement or death | [noun] An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style. Recently, the pronunciation /oʊˈmɒːʒ/ has been introduced from French for this usage; see hommage, which preserves the French spelling. | [noun] In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights. HOMING (12) [verb] (of animals) To return to its owner. | [verb] (always with "in on") To seek or aim for something. HONING (10) [verb] To sharpen with a hone; to whet. | [verb] To use a hone to produce a precision bore. | [verb] To refine or master (a skill). HOPING (12) [verb] To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might. | [verb] To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes. | [verb] To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in. HOSING (10) [verb] To water or spray with a hose. | [verb] To deliver using a hose. | [verb] To provide with hose (garment) | [noun] A spraying or washing with a hose. | [noun] Material used for making hosiery. HOTDOG (11) [noun] A sandwich consisting of a frankfurter, or wiener, in a bread roll, usually served with ketchup, mustard, relish, etc. | [noun] A sausage of the type used as a general ingredient in this sandwich. | [noun] A show-off or daredevil, especially in such sports as surfing, skateboarding, or skiing. HUGELY (13) [adverb] Greatly; to a huge extent HUGEST (10) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. HUGGED (12) [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. | [verb] To cling closely together. | [verb] To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms. HUGGER (11) [noun] One who hugs or embraces. | [verb] To conceal; to lurk in ambush. HUMBUG (14) [noun] A hoax, jest, or prank. | [noun] A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable). | [noun] A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite. HUNGER (10) [noun] A need or compelling desire for food. | [noun] (by extension) Any strong desire. | [verb] To be in need of food. HUNGRY (13) [adjective] Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food. | [adjective] Causing hunger | [adjective] Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something. HYPING (15) [verb] To throw (an opponent) using this technique. | [verb] To promote heavily; to advertise or build up. ICINGS (9) [noun] A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting. | [noun] A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this. | [noun] The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface. IDLING (8) [verb] To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume. | [verb] To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business. | [verb] Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over. IGLOOS (7) [noun] A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow. | [noun] A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the sea ice. | [noun] A reinforced bunker for the storage of nuclear weapons. IGNIFY (13) IGNITE (7) [verb] To set fire to (something), to light (something) | [verb] To spark off (something), to trigger | [verb] To commence burning. IGNORE (7) [verb] To deliberately not listen or pay attention to. | [verb] To pretend to not notice someone or something. | [verb] Fail to notice. IGUANA (7) [noun] A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet | [noun] In zoology, any member of the genus Iguana | [noun] Colloquially, in America and the Pacific, any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae. IMAGED (10) [verb] To represent by an image or symbol; to portray. | [verb] To reflect, mirror. | [verb] To create an image of. IMAGER (9) [noun] One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. | [noun] A system that creates a digital copy such as a disk image. IMAGES (9) [noun] An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture. | [noun] A mental picture of something not real or not present. | [noun] A statue or idol. IMAGOS (9) [noun] The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis. | [noun] An idealised concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes. IMPING (11) [verb] To plant or engraft. | [verb] To graft, implant; to set or fix. | [verb] To engraft (feathers) into a bird's wing. IMPUGN (11) [verb] To assault, attack. | [verb] To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of. INCAGE (9) INCOGS (9) INDIGN (8) INDIGO (8) [noun] A purplish-blue colour | [noun] An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye. | [noun] An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush). INGATE (7) INGEST (7) [noun] The process of importing data or other material into a system. | [verb] To take a substance (e.g. food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract. | [verb] To bring or import into a system. INGLES (7) [noun] An open fireplace. | [noun] A catamite. | [noun] A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart. INGOTS (7) [noun] A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents. INGULF (10) [verb] To overwhelm. | [verb] To surround; to cover. | [verb] To cast into a gulf. INKING (11) [verb] To apply ink to; to cover or smear with ink. | [verb] To sign (a contract or similar document). | [verb] To apply a tattoo to (someone). INNING (7) [noun] A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game. | [noun] A similar period of play. | [noun] A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul. | [verb] To house; to lodge. IRKING (11) [verb] To irritate; annoy; bother ISLING (7) ISOGON (7) ISOLOG (7) JADING (15) JAEGER (14) [noun] Any of three seabirds in the skua genus Stercorarius. | [noun] A hunter's guide. | [noun] A rifle. JAGERS (14) JAGGED (16) [verb] To cut unevenly. | [verb] To tease. | [adjective] Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut. JAGGER (15) JAGRAS (14) JAGUAR (14) [noun] A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca. JANGLE (14) [noun] A rattling metallic sound. | [noun] Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble. | [verb] To make a rattling metallic sound. JANGLY (17) JAPING (16) [verb] To jest; play tricks. | [verb] To mock; deride. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. JARGON (14) [noun] A technical terminology unique to a particular subject. | [noun] Language characteristic of a particular group. | [noun] Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish. | [noun] A variety of zircon. JAWING (17) [verb] To assail or abuse by scolding. | [verb] To scold; to clamor. | [verb] To talk; to converse. JAYGEE (17) JEEING (14) JEWING (17) JIBING (16) [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. JIGGED (16) [verb] To move briskly, especially as a dance. | [verb] To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks. | [verb] To fish with a jig. JIGGER (15) [noun] A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1 1/2 fluid ounces, the other typically 1 fluid ounce. | [noun] A measure of 1 1/2 fluid ounces of liquor. | [noun] A drink of whisky. | [noun] A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe. | [noun] A prison; a jail cell. JIGGLE (15) [noun] A weak, shaking movement. | [verb] To shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle. | [verb] To shake, rattle, or wiggle. JIGGLY (18) JIGSAW (17) [noun] A saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal. | [noun] A jigsaw puzzle. | [verb] To cut something using a jigsaw. JINGAL (14) JINGKO (18) JINGLE (14) [noun] The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself. | [noun] A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played. | [noun] A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial. JINGLY (17) JIVING (17) [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. JOGGED (16) [verb] To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt. | [verb] To shake, stir or rouse. | [verb] To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along. JOGGER (15) [noun] A person who jogs (as exercise). | [noun] A tracksuit, particularly the trousers. | [noun] A printing press operator who removes, jogs, and stacks the sheets or signatures of paper. JOGGLE (15) [noun] A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends. | [noun] A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping. | [verb] To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog. JOKING (18) [verb] To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously. | [verb] (intransitive, followed by with) To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with. | [verb] To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally. JOWING (17) JOYING (17) [verb] To feel joy, to rejoice. | [verb] To enjoy. | [verb] To give joy to; to congratulate. JUDGED (16) [verb] To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on. | [verb] To sit in judgment, to act as judge. | [verb] To form an opinion on. JUDGER (15) JUDGES (15) [noun] A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice. | [noun] A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question. | [noun] A person officiating at a sports event or similar. JUGATE (14) JUGFUL (17) JUGGED (16) [verb] To stew in an earthenware jug etc. | [verb] To put into jail. | [verb] To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale. JUGGLE (15) [noun] (juggling) The act of throwing and catching each prop at least twice, as opposed to a flash. | [noun] The handling or managing of many tasks at once. | [noun] The performance of a magic trick. JUGULA (14) JUGUMS (16) JUKING (18) [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [verb] To stab JUNGLE (14) [noun] A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest. | [noun] Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat. | [noun] A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality. JUNGLY (17) [adjective] Overgrown with jungle. KALONG (11) [noun] A fruit bat, especially the Indian edible fruit bat or black-eared flying fox (Pteropus melanotus). KEDGED (13) [verb] To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it. | [verb] (of a vessel) To move with the help of a kedge, as described above. KEDGES (12) [noun] A small anchor used for warping a vessel; also called a kedge anchor. | [noun] A glutton. KEGLER (11) KEYING (14) [verb] To fit (a lock) with a key. | [verb] To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them. | [verb] To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class. KIANGS (11) [noun] A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau. KIAUGH (14) KINGED (12) [verb] To crown king, to make (a person) king. | [verb] To rule over as king. | [verb] To perform the duties of a king. KINGLY (14) [adjective] Of or belonging to a king or kings; exercised by a king. | [adjective] Characteristic of kings, majestic, regal. | [adverb] In a royal manner. KITING (11) [noun] The act of writing a check on an account with insufficient funds, expecting that funds will become available by the time the check clears. | [noun] The act of tampering with a medical prescription, increasing the number of pills or other item. KLONGS (11) [noun] A canal on the central plain of Thailand. KLUDGE (12) [noun] (electronics engineering) An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design. | [noun] Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently. | [noun] An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts. KLUGES (11) [noun] Something that should not work, but does. | [noun] A device assembled from components intended for disparate purposes. KNIGHT (14) [noun] A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord. | [noun] A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire. | [noun] (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages. | [verb] To confer knighthood upon. KUGELS (11) [noun] A traditional Jewish dish consisting of baked pudding of rice, pasta, or potatoes with vegetables or raisins and spices | [noun] Traditional house ornament made of glass | [noun] Overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish woman KURGAN (11) [noun] A prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia. LAAGER (7) [noun] A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers. | [noun] A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply. | [verb] To arrange in a circular formation for defence. LACING (9) [verb] To fasten (something) with laces. | [verb] To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink). | [verb] To interweave items. LADING (8) [verb] To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment). | [verb] To weigh down, oppress, or burden. | [verb] To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water). LAGANS (7) LAGEND (8) LAGERS (7) [noun] A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers. | [noun] A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply. | [noun] A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast. LAGGED (9) [verb] To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind | [verb] To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer) | [verb] To transport as a punishment for crime. LAGGER (8) LAGOON (7) [noun] A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar. LAGUNA (7) LAGUNE (7) LAIGHS (10) LAKING (11) LAMING (9) [noun] The act or process of rendering lame | [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to become lame. | [verb] To shine. LANGUE (7) [noun] Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language. LANGUR (7) [noun] Any of the Old World monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae, in the genera Simias, Trachypithecus (lutungs), Presbytis, (surilis), and Semnopithecus, (gray langurs). | [noun] A gibbon of the genus Hoolock. LANUGO (7) [noun] Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area. LAPDOG (10) [noun] A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner. | [noun] (by extension) A person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning lover. LARGER (7) [adjective] Of considerable or relatively great size or extent. | [adjective] Abundant; ample. | [adjective] Full in statement; diffuse; profuse. LARGES (7) [noun] An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves. | [noun] Liberality, generosity. | [noun] (plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds. LARGOS (7) [noun] A very slow tempo | [noun] A musical piece or movement in such a tempo LASING (7) [verb] To use a laser beam on, as for cutting. | [verb] To operate as a laser, to release coherent light due to stimulation. | [noun] The application of a laser beam. LATIGO (7) LAUGHS (10) [noun] An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. | [noun] Something that provokes mirth or scorn. | [noun] A fun person. LAVAGE (10) [noun] A washing. | [noun] A washing of a hollow organ. | [verb] To wash a hollow organ LAVING (10) [verb] To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. | [verb] To draw, as water; drink in. | [verb] To give bountifully; lavish. LAWING (10) LAYING (10) [verb] To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position. | [verb] To cause to subside or abate. | [verb] To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle). LAZING (16) [verb] To be lazy, waste time. | [verb] To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge. LEAGUE (7) [noun] A group or association of cooperating members. | [noun] An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship. | [noun] (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level. | [noun] (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers). LEDGER (8) [noun] A book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records; a record book, a register. | [noun] A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb. | [noun] A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits. LEDGES (8) [noun] A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery. | [noun] A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks. | [noun] A layer or stratum. LEGACY (12) [noun] Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will. | [noun] Something inherited from a predecessor or the past. | [noun] The descendant of an alumnus. LEGALS (7) LEGATE (7) [noun] A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions. | [noun] An ambassador or messenger. | [noun] The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome. LEGATO (7) [noun] A slur curve above or below a passage of notes indicating that they should be played in a legato manner. | [adverb] Smoothly, in a connected manner. LEGEND (8) [noun] An unrealistic story depicting past events. | [noun] A person related to a legend or legends. | [noun] A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc. LEGERS (7) LEGGED (9) [noun] (in combinations) Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs | [adjective] Having legs, or a certain type or number of legs | [verb] To remove the legs from an animal carcass. LEGGIN (8) LEGION (7) [noun] The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops. | [noun] A combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery | [noun] A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia. LEGIST (7) LEGITS (7) LEGMAN (9) [noun] (originally United States) A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner. | [noun] (originally United States) A reporter who frequently travels to conduct research, interview witnesses, etc., and then conveys the information to a rewriteman who writes up the story. LEGMEN (9) [noun] (originally United States) A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner. | [noun] (originally United States) A reporter who frequently travels to conduct research, interview witnesses, etc., and then conveys the information to a rewriteman who writes up the story. LEGONG (8) LEGUME (9) [noun] The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food. | [noun] Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers). | [noun] A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea. LENGTH (10) [noun] The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object. | [noun] Duration. | [noun] The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race. LIANGS (7) LIEGES (7) [noun] A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign. | [noun] (in full liege lord) A king or lord. | [noun] The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman. LIGAND (8) [noun] An ion, molecule, or functional group that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex. | [noun] A letter that orthography requires to be ligated with one or more other letters. LIGANS (7) LIGASE (7) [noun] Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the binding of two molecules; synthetase. LIGATE (7) [verb] To bind with a ligature or bandage. | [verb] To connect text characters with a ligature. LIGERS (7) [noun] An animal born to a male lion and a tigress. LIGHTS (10) [noun] Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light. | [noun] A source of illumination. | [noun] Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information. | [verb] To start (a fire). LIGNIN (7) [noun] A complex non-carbohydrate aromatic polymer present in all wood. LIGULA (7) [noun] A strap or strap-shaped object, especially such a development in plants or insects. LIGULE (7) [noun] A strap-shaped structure. | [noun] A portion of a leaf found at the base of the petiole, when present. | [noun] In many grasses (Poaceae) and some sedges (Cyperaceae), the membranous appendage or ring of hairs projecting from the inner side of a leaf at the junction between the blade and the sheath. LIGURE (7) LIKING (11) [verb] To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of. | [verb] To please. | [verb] To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something. | [noun] A like; a predilection. LIMING (9) [verb] To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime). | [verb] To smear with birdlime. | [verb] To apply limewash. LINAGE (7) [noun] Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage. | [noun] A number of lines of text in a column. LINGAM (9) [noun] (Shaivism) The aniconic representation traditionally worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva. LINGAS (7) [noun] (Shaivism) The aniconic representation traditionally worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva. LINGER (7) [verb] To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so; to loiter. | [verb] To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually. | [verb] (often followed by on) To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic thinking or discussion. LINGUA (7) LINING (7) [verb] To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align. | [verb] To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify. | [verb] To form a line along. LIVING (10) [verb] To be alive; to have life. | [verb] To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside. | [verb] To survive; to persevere; to continue. LODGED (9) [verb] To be firmly fixed in a specified position. | [verb] To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady. | [verb] To stay in any place or shelter. LODGER (8) [noun] A person who lodges in another's house (compare tenant). LODGES (8) [noun] A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin. | [noun] Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially as a college mailroom. | [noun] A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons. LOGANS (7) [noun] A rocking or balanced stone. | [noun] A marsh. LOGGED (9) [verb] To cut trees into logs. | [verb] To cut down (trees). | [verb] To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood. LOGGER (8) [noun] A worker whose occupation is to harvest trees. | [noun] That which logs, such as a computer program to keep track of events. LOGGIA (8) [noun] A roofed, open gallery, usually on an upper level. LOGGIE (8) LOGICS (9) [noun] A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method. | [noun] The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration. | [noun] The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements. LOGIER (7) [adjective] Slow to respond or react; lethargic. LOGILY (10) LOGION (7) [noun] A traditional saying of a religious leader. | [noun] (specifically) A saying that is attributed to Jesus in ancient or reconstructed texts that was (originally) handed down without narrative context. LOGJAM (16) [noun] An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts. | [noun] A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress. LOGWAY (13) LONGAN (7) [noun] An evergreen tree, Dimocarpus longan, of the Sapindaceae family, native to southern China. | [noun] The fruit from the longan tree. LONGED (8) [verb] To take a long position in. | [verb] To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true) | [verb] To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to. LONGER (7) [adjective] Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below). | [adjective] Having great duration. | [adjective] Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring. | [noun] One who longs or yearns for something. LONGES (7) [noun] A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing. | [noun] A lunge; a thrust. | [noun] The training ground for a horse. LONGLY (10) LOOING (7) LOPING (9) [verb] To travel an easy pace with long strides. | [verb] To jump, leap. LOSING (7) [verb] To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons. | [verb] To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from. | [verb] To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc). LOUGHS (10) [noun] A lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in Ireland. LOUNGE (7) [noun] A waiting room in an office, airport etc. | [noun] A domestic living room. | [noun] An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television. LOUNGY (10) LOVAGE (10) [noun] A perennial Mediterranean herb, Levisticum officinale, with odor and flavor resembling celery. | [noun] A liquor made from this herb. | [noun] Various species in the genus Ligusticum (generally with an adjective to differentiate them from Levisticum) LOVING (10) [verb] (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something). | [verb] To need, thrive on. | [verb] To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like. LOWING (10) [verb] To depress; to lower. | [verb] To moo. | [verb] To burn; to blaze. LOXING (14) LUGERS (7) [noun] Someone who competes in the luge. LUGGED (9) [verb] (sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull. | [verb] To run at too slow a speed. | [verb] To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing. LUGGER (8) [noun] That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses. | [noun] One who lugs, especially one whose job entails pulling or moving heavy objects. | [noun] A conman. | [noun] A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. | [noun] An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon. LUGGIE (8) LUNGAN (7) LUNGED (8) [verb] To (cause to make) a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging). | [verb] To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing). | [adjective] Having lungs (breathing organs). LUNGEE (7) LUNGER (7) LUNGES (7) [noun] A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword. | [noun] A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing. | [noun] An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position. LUNGIS (7) [noun] A garment worn around the waist, especially by men, in Southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan. | [noun] A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow. LUNGYI (10) LURING (7) [verb] To attract by temptation etc.; to entice | [verb] To recall a hawk with a lure | [noun] Allurement LUTING (7) [verb] To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. | [verb] To fix or fasten something with lute. | [noun] Lute (a kind of sticky clay or cement) LYINGS (10) [noun] The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground. | [noun] An act of telling a lie or falsehood. LYSING (10) [verb] To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis. | [verb] To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis. MACING (11) [verb] To hit someone or something with a mace. | [verb] To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device. | [verb] To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can. MAGGOT (10) [noun] A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. | [noun] A worthless person. | [noun] A whimsy or fancy. MAGIAN (9) MAGICS (11) [noun] The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them | [noun] A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell. | [noun] The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual MAGILP (11) [noun] A mixture of linseed oil with turpentine or mastic varnish, used as a thickener for oil paints but later discredited as a source of cracking and yellowing. MAGLEV (12) [noun] A train propelled by magnetic levitation. | [adjective] Describing a train, system, etc, that operates by magnetic levitation. MAGMAS (11) [noun] The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. | [noun] A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation. | [noun] Any soft doughy mass. MAGNET (9) [noun] A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism. | [noun] (preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun. MAGNUM (11) [noun] A bottle of wine containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard bottle. | [noun] A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet. | [noun] A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre. MAGOTS (9) MAGPIE (11) [noun] One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae | [noun] A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen. | [noun] Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects. MAGUEY (12) [noun] Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana. MAIGRE (9) [noun] A kind of fish; the meagre. | [adjective] Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day). | [adjective] Belonging to a fast day or fast. MAKING (13) [noun] The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction. | [noun] Process of growth or development. | [verb] To create. MALGRE (9) MALIGN (9) [verb] To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce. | [verb] To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong. | [adjective] Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence. MANAGE (9) [noun] The act of managing or controlling something. | [noun] (horseriding) Manège. | [verb] To direct or be in charge of. MANEGE (9) [noun] The art of training and riding horses; dressage. | [noun] A riding school. | [noun] A riding arena (enclosed, but usually unroofed area, in contradistinction to a riding hall). MANGEL (9) [noun] The sugar beet, which can be refined to equal cane sugar in all manners save for botanical origin. | [noun] A mangelwurzel, a plant of the beet family raised as cattle feed. MANGER (9) [noun] A trough for animals to eat from. MANGES (9) MANGEY (12) [adjective] Afflicted with mange. | [adjective] (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit. MANGLE (9) [verb] To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. | [verb] To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc. | [noun] A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry. | [noun] Mangrove (tree) MANGOS (9) [noun] A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica. | [noun] The fruit of the mango tree. | [noun] A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed. MARGAY (12) [noun] Leopardus wiedii, a spotted cat native to Central and South America. MARGES (9) [noun] Margin; edge; verge. | [noun] Margarine. MARGIN (9) [noun] The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc. | [noun] The edge or border of any flat surface. | [noun] The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group. MASKEG (13) MATING (9) [verb] To put the king of an opponent into checkmate. | [verb] (by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape. | [verb] To match, fit together without space between. MAUGER (9) MAUGRE (9) MAWING (12) MAYING (12) [verb] To gather may, or flowers in general. | [verb] To celebrate May Day. | [noun] The celebrations traditionally held to celebrate May Day. MAZING (18) [verb] To amaze, astonish, bewilder | [verb] To daze, stupefy, or confuse MEAGER (9) [verb] To make lean. | [adjective] Having little flesh; lean; thin. | [adjective] Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent MEAGRE (9) [noun] Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae. | [verb] To make lean. | [adjective] Having little flesh; lean; thin. MEGASS (9) MEGILP (11) [noun] A mixture of linseed oil with turpentine or mastic varnish, used as a thickener for oil paints but later discredited as a source of cracking and yellowing. MEGOHM (14) [noun] One million (106) ohms, abbreviated as MΩ. MEGRIM (11) [noun] A headache; a migraine. | [noun] A fancy, a whim, a caprice. | [noun] (in the plural) See megrims. | [noun] A type of European deep water flatfish, Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis; the whiff or sail-fluke. MENAGE (9) [noun] A household; a domestic situation. | [noun] A type of cooperative society whereby all members pay a regular sum of savings, or through which goods can be paid for in installments. | [noun] A group of people living together in a sexual relationship. MERGED (10) [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To blend gradually into something else. MERGER (9) [noun] One that merges. | [noun] The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit. | [noun] The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party. MERGES (9) [noun] The joining together of multiple sources. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. METAGE (9) [noun] Measurement, especially of coal. | [noun] A fee paid for a measurement. METING (9) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). | [noun] The act of one who metes; a distribution or handing out. MEWING (12) [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. | [verb] (of a bird) To moult. | [verb] (of a bird) To cause to moult. MIDGES (10) [noun] Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera | [noun] Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge MIDGET (10) [noun] A little sandfly. | [noun] Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10". MIDGUT (10) [noun] The central loop of the alimentary canal of an embryo between the foregut and the hindgut. MIDLEG (10) MIGGLE (10) MIGHTS (12) MIGHTY (15) [noun] A warrior of great strength and courage. | [adjective] Very strong; possessing might. | [adjective] Very heavy and powerful. MIGNON (9) MIKING (13) [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. MILAGE (9) [noun] The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles. | [noun] The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel. | [noun] An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile. MIMING (11) [verb] To mimic. | [verb] To act without words. | [verb] To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound. MINGLE (9) [noun] A mixture. | [noun] The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group | [verb] To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product MINING (9) [verb] To remove (ore) from the ground. | [verb] To dig into, for ore or metal. | [verb] To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). MIRAGE (9) [noun] An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, giving the appearance of there being refuge in the distance. | [noun] An illusion. | [verb] To cause to appear as or like a mirage. MIRING (9) [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [verb] To sink into mud. | [verb] To weigh down. MIXING (16) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. MOGGED (11) MOGGIE (10) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). MOGULS (9) [noun] A rich or powerful person; a magnate. | [noun] A hump or bump on a skiing piste. | [noun] A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs. MONGER (9) [noun] (chiefly in combination) A dealer in a specific commodity. | [noun] (in combination) A person promoting something undesirable. | [noun] A small sea vessel. MONGOE (9) MONGOL (9) [noun] A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian. | [noun] A member of any of the various Mongol ethnic groups living in The Mongolian People's Republic, the (former) USSR, Tibet and Nepal. | [noun] (usually mongol) A person with Down's syndrome. MONGOS (9) MONGST (9) MOOING (9) [verb] Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound. | [noun] The action of the verb moo; a mooing sound. | [adjective] (of a steak) very rare MOPING (11) [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. | [verb] To make spiritless and stupid. | [noun] The act of one who mopes. MORGAN (9) [noun] A unit for expressing the relative distance between genes on a chromosome. MORGEN (9) [noun] A unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent to about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare. MORGUE (9) [noun] A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance. | [noun] A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts. | [noun] The archive and background information division of a newspaper. MOVING (12) [verb] To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another. | [verb] To act; to take action; to begin to act | [verb] To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in. MOWING (12) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. | [verb] To make grimaces, mock. MUGFUL (12) MUGGAR (10) MUGGED (11) [verb] To strike in the face. | [verb] To assault for the purpose of robbery. | [verb] To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner. MUGGEE (10) MUGGER (10) [noun] A street robber. | [noun] A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner. | [noun] A large crocodile, Crocodilus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout. MUGGUR (10) MULING (9) MUNGOS (9) MURING (9) [verb] To wall in or fortify | [verb] To enclose or imprison within walls. MUSING (9) [verb] To become lost in thought, to ponder. | [verb] To say (something) with due consideration or thought. | [verb] To think on; to meditate on. MUSKEG (13) [noun] A terrain composed of peat bog with tussocky meadow and woody vegetation including spruce. MUTING (9) [verb] To silence, to make quiet. | [verb] To turn off the sound of. | [verb] Of a bird: to defecate. NAGANA (7) [noun] A disease of vertebrates in southern Africa, characterised by swelling and lethargy and caused by trypanosomes transmitted by tsetse flies. NAGGED (9) [verb] To continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters. | [verb] To bother with persistent thoughts or memories. | [verb] To bother or disturb persistently in any way. NAGGER (8) NAMING (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To give a name to. | [verb] To mention, specify. | [verb] To identify as relevant or important NAUGHT (10) [noun] Nothingness. | [numeral] (old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought | [pronoun] Nothing. NEGATE (7) [verb] To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict. | [verb] To nullify or cause to be ineffective. | [verb] To be negative; bring or cause negative results. NEIGHS (10) [noun] The cry of a horse. | [verb] (of a horse) To make its cry. | [verb] To make a sound similar to a horse's cry. NIDGET (8) NIDING (8) NIGGER (8) [noun] (see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent. | [noun] (see usage notes) A member of another typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations, e.g. prairie nigger, sand nigger). | [noun] An informal term of address. NIGGLE (8) [noun] A minor complaint or problem. | [noun] Small, cramped handwriting. | [verb] To trifle with; to deceive; to mock. NIGHED (11) NIGHER (10) NIGHTS (10) [adverb] At night. | [adverb] Every night. | [noun] The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark. NIGHTY (13) NILGAI (7) [noun] A large antelope, of the genus Boselaphus, from northern India; the blue bull. NILGAU (7) NIXING (14) [verb] To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. | [verb] To destroy or eradicate. NOGGED (9) NOGGIN (8) [noun] A small mug, cup or ladle. | [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) A small measure of spirits equivalent to a gill. | [noun] The head. NONAGE (7) [noun] The state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor. | [noun] A payment formerly made to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods. NONEGO (7) NONGAY (10) NOODGE (8) NOSING (7) [verb] To move cautiously by advancing its front end. | [verb] To snoop. | [verb] To detect by smell or as if by smell. NOTING (7) [verb] To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed. | [verb] To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. | [verb] To denote; to designate. NOUGAT (7) [noun] A confection of honey or sugar and roasted nuts, often with other ingredients. NOUGHT (10) [noun] Nothing; something which does not exist. | [noun] A thing or person of no worth or value; nil. | [noun] Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game. NUDGED (9) [verb] To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal. | [verb] To near or come close to something. NUDGER (8) NUDGES (8) [verb] To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal. | [verb] To near or come close to something. NUGGET (8) [noun] A small, compact chunk or clump. | [noun] A chicken nugget. | [noun] A tidbit of something valuable. NUKING (11) [verb] To use a nuclear weapon on a target. | [verb] To destroy or erase completely. | [verb] (by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user). NUTMEG (9) [noun] An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds. | [noun] The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice. | [noun] A grey-brown colour. OARING (7) [verb] To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars. OBLIGE (9) [verb] To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means. | [verb] To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation). | [verb] To be indebted to someone. OBLONG (9) [noun] Something with an oblong shape. | [noun] A rectangle having length greater than width or width greater than length. | [adjective] Longer than wide or wider than long; not square. OFFING (13) [verb] To kill. | [verb] To switch off. | [noun] The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground. OGDOAD (9) [noun] A thing made up of eight parts. OGHAMS (12) [noun] A single character in this alphabet. OGIVAL (10) OGIVES (10) [noun] The curve of a cumulative distribution function. | [noun] A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault. | [noun] The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket. OGLERS (7) OGLING (8) [verb] To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously. | [noun] Action of the verb to ogle. OGRESS (7) [noun] A female ogre | [noun] A fierce, unfriendly woman. | [noun] A roundel sable. OGRISH (10) OGRISM (9) OHMAGE (12) OILING (7) [verb] To lubricate with oil. | [verb] To grease with oil for cooking. | [noun] An application of oil. OMEGAS (9) [noun] The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω. | [noun] (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence. | [noun] Angular velocity; symbol: ω. ONAGER (7) [noun] The Asiatic wild ass or hemione (Equus hemionus), an animal of the horse family native to Asia; specifically, the Persian onager, Persian wild ass, or Persian zebra (Equus hemionus onager). | [noun] A military engine acting like a sling which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket powered by the torsion from a bundle of ropes or sinews operated by machinery; a torsion catapult. ONAGRI (7) OOGAMY (12) OOGENY (10) OOHING (10) [verb] To exclaim ooh. | [noun] An ooh sound. OOLOGY (10) [noun] The study of birds' eggs. | [noun] The hobby or practice of collecting birds' eggs, especially those of wild birds. OOLONG (7) [noun] A partially fermented tea, often roasted, which combines the characteristics of green tea and black tea. OOZING (16) [verb] To be secreted or slowly leak. | [verb] To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude. | [noun] Something that oozes; a seepage. OPPUGN (11) [verb] To contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement. OPTING (9) [verb] To choose; select. ORANGE (7) [noun] An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis. | [noun] The fruit of an orange tree; a citrus fruit with a slightly sour flavour. | [noun] The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow. ORANGS (7) [noun] An orangutan. ORANGY (10) ORBING (9) ORGANA (7) [noun] A type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong. | [noun] A method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted. ORGANS (7) [noun] A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions. | [noun] (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions. | [noun] A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such. ORGASM (9) [noun] A spasm or sudden contraction. | [noun] A rush of sexual excitement; now specifically, the climax or peak of sexual pleasure, which occurs during sexual activity and which in males may include ejaculation and in females vaginal contractions. | [noun] A creamy white alcoholic cocktail containing amaretto, Irish cream, and coffee liqueur. ORGEAT (7) [noun] A sweet syrup made from sugar and almonds (or originally barley) and rose water or orange flower water. ORGIAC (9) ORGIES (7) [noun] Originally, secret rites or ceremonies, typically involving riotous and dissolute behaviour, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honour of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc). | [noun] A gathering of people to engage in group sex. | [noun] Excessive indulgence in a specified activity. ORGONE (7) [noun] In the psychoanalytic theory of Wilhelm Reich, a form of sexual energy or life force distributed throughout the universe and available for collection, storage, and further use. ORIGAN (7) ORIGIN (7) [noun] The beginning of something. | [noun] The source of a river, information, goods, etc. | [noun] The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect. OTALGY (10) OUGHTS (10) OURANG (7) OUTAGE (7) [noun] A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply. | [noun] The amount of something lost in storage or transportation. OUTBEG (9) OUTGAS (7) [verb] To release gaseous substances into the air, especially of a polymer material as it is aged or heated. OUTGUN (7) [verb] To defeat in terms of firepower. OUTING (7) [verb] To eject; to expel. | [verb] To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc). | [verb] To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective. OWNING (10) [verb] To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to. | [verb] To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. | [verb] To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. OXYGEN (17) [noun] The chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 15.9994. It is a colorless and odorless gas. | [noun] Molecular oxygen (O2), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature, also called dioxygen. | [noun] A mixture of oxygen and other gases, administered to a patient to help them breathe. PACING (11) [verb] To walk back and forth in a small distance. | [verb] To set the speed in a race. | [verb] To measure by walking. PADNAG (10) PAGANS (9) [noun] A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion. | [noun] (by extension) An uncivilized or unsocialized person. | [noun] (by extension) An unruly, badly educated child. PAGERS (9) [noun] A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages. | [noun] A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time. | [noun] (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages. PAGING (10) [verb] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript. | [verb] (often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication. | [verb] To furnish with folios. PAGODA (10) [noun] A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple. | [noun] (usually in form pagod) An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol. | [noun] A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India. PAGODS (10) PALING (9) [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [verb] To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. PANGAS (9) [noun] A large broad-bladed knife. | [noun] Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus. | [noun] A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia. PANGED (10) PANGEN (9) PARANG (9) [noun] A short, heavy, straight-edged knife used in Malaysia and Indonesia as a tool and weapon. | [noun] A style of music originating from Trinidad and Tobago, strongly influenced by Venezuelan music. PARGED (10) [verb] To apply a parge on to a surface. PARGES (9) [noun] A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls. PARGET (9) [noun] Gypsum. | [noun] Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. | [noun] Paint, especially for the face. PARGOS (9) PARING (9) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PAVING (12) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAWING (12) [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. | [verb] (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw. | [verb] (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. PAYING (12) [verb] To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | [verb] To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. | [verb] To be profitable for. PEAGES (9) PEEING (9) [verb] To urinate. | [verb] (mildly vulgar) To drizzle. PEGBOX (18) [noun] The part of a violin or similar stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs. PEGGED (11) [verb] To fasten using a peg. | [verb] To affix or pin. | [verb] To fix a value or price. PELAGE (9) [noun] Fur, or any other form of the coat of a mammal PENANG (9) PENGOS (9) [noun] The monetary unit of Hungary from January, 1927 to July, 1946, divided into 100 fillér. PHAGES (12) [noun] A virus that is parasitic on bacteria. PHLEGM (14) [noun] One of the four humors making up the body in ancient and mediaeval medicine; said to be cold and moist, and often identified with mucus. | [noun] Viscid mucus produced by the body, later especially mucus expelled from the bronchial passages by coughing. | [noun] A watery distillation, especially one obtained from plant matter; an aqueous solution. PHOTOG (12) [noun] A photographer, especially a professional one. PIDGIN (10) [noun] An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers. | [noun] A person's business, occupation, work, or trade. PIEING (9) PIGEON (9) [noun] One of several birds of the family Columbidae, which consists of more than 300 species. | [noun] The meat from this bird. | [noun] A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game. PIGGED (11) [verb] (of swine) to give birth. | [verb] To greedily consume (especially food). | [verb] To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed. PIGGIE (10) PIGGIN (10) PIGLET (9) [noun] A young pig PIGNUS (9) PIGNUT (9) [noun] The edible tuber of Conopodium majus, native to western Europe. | [noun] Any of various types of hickory or their fruits; a hognut. | [noun] Simmondsia chinensis, jojoba. PIGOUT (9) PIGPEN (11) [noun] A pigsty; an enclosure where pigs are kept. | [noun] Something extremely dirty or messy. | [noun] The pigpen cipher PIGSTY (12) [noun] An enclosure where pigs are kept. | [noun] A dirty or very untidy place. PIKING (13) [verb] To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike. | [verb] To assume a pike position. | [verb] To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money. PILING (9) [verb] (often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate | [verb] To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. | [verb] To add something to a great number. PINANG (9) PINGED (10) [verb] To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. | [verb] (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects. | [verb] To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility. PINGER (9) [noun] A device that emits a short, high-pitched sound burst, such as in sonar or other echo location systems. | [noun] A device that periodically emits a signal that can be monitored to permit movement tracking. | [noun] A computer program that sends a ping message over a network. PINGOS (9) [noun] A conical mound of earth with an ice core caused by permafrost uplift, particularly if lasting more than a year. | [noun] (Sri Lanka) A flexible pole supported on one shoulder, with a load suspended from each end; a carrying pole or carrying yoke. | [noun] (Sri Lanka) A measure of weight equivalent to that which can be carried using a pingo, perhaps about 55 pounds (25 kilograms) (see the 2013 quotation). PINING (9) [verb] To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress. | [verb] To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering. | [verb] To grieve or mourn for. PIPAGE (11) PIPING (11) [verb] To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute. | [verb] To shout loudly and at high pitch. | [verb] To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. PIROGI (9) [noun] A square- or crescent-shaped dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of these, or with a fruit filling. | [noun] A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe. PLAGAL (9) [adjective] Designating a mode lying a perfect fourth below the authentic form. | [adjective] Designating a cadence in which the subdominant chord precedes the tonic. PLAGES (9) [noun] A region; country | [noun] A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun PLAGUE (9) [noun] (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis. | [noun] An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease. | [noun] A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution. PLAGUY (12) [adjective] Causing annoyance or bother; irritating. PLEDGE (10) [noun] A solemn promise to do something. | [noun] A security to guarantee payment of a debt. | [noun] A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved. PLIGHT (12) [noun] A dire or unfortunate situation. | [noun] A (neutral) condition or state. | [noun] Good health. | [noun] Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril. | [verb] To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait. | [noun] A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment. PLOUGH (12) [noun] The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres. | [noun] A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting. | [noun] The use of a plough; tillage. PLUNGE (9) [noun] The act of plunging or submerging | [noun] A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water) | [noun] A swimming pool PLYING (12) [verb] To bend; to fold; to mould; to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit. | [verb] To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.). | [verb] To work at (something) diligently. POGEYS (12) POGIES (9) POGROM (11) [noun] A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews. | [noun] An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators. | [verb] To persecute or massacre a particular group of people. POKING (13) [verb] To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick. | [verb] To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning. | [verb] To rummage; to feel or grope around. POLING (9) [verb] To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole. | [verb] To identify something quite precisely using a telescope. | [verb] To furnish with poles for support. PONGED (10) [verb] To stink, to smell bad. | [verb] To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it. PONGEE (9) [noun] A soft unbleached silk, from China or India, from silkworms that feed on oak leaves. PONGID (10) [noun] Any primate once considered to belong in the family Pongidae; the great apes excluding humans POPGUN (11) [noun] A toy gun that emits a loud pop by firing a cork from a barrel in which a piston slides, compressing the air and forcing the cork out. The cork is traditionally attached to the toy by a piece of string. | [noun] A firearm of unimpressive appearance. PORING (9) [verb] To study meticulously; to go over again and again. | [verb] To meditate or reflect in a steady way. | [noun] The act of one who pores. POSING (9) [verb] To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect. | [verb] To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.). | [verb] To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.). POTAGE (9) [noun] A thick creamy soup. POXING (16) PRANGS (9) [noun] An aeroplane crash. | [noun] A bombing raid. | [noun] An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties. PROLEG (9) [noun] An appendage of the abdomen of some insect larvae, such as caterpillars, which is used like a leg. PROLOG (9) [noun] A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel. | [noun] A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine. PRONGS (9) [noun] A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool. A tine. | [noun] A branch; a fork. | [noun] The penis. PRYING (12) [verb] To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy. | [verb] To keep asking about something that does not concern one. | [verb] To look closely and curiously at (something closed or not public). PUGGED (11) [verb] To mix and stir when wet. | [verb] To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. PUGGRY (13) PUGREE (9) PUKING (13) [verb] To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach. | [verb] To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market. | [noun] The act of one who pukes or vomits. PULING (9) [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. PUNGLE (9) PURGED (10) [verb] To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities. | [verb] To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds | [verb] To remove by cleansing; to wash away. PURGER (9) PURGES (9) [noun] An act of purging. | [noun] An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting. | [noun] A cleansing of pipes. PUTLOG (9) [noun] One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose. QUAGGA (17) [noun] A southern-African subspecies of zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes. QUAGGY (20) QUAHOG (19) [noun] An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria. | [noun] A similar edible clam found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters, the ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam or Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica | [verb] To dig for quahogs. QUAIGH (19) [noun] A traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin symbolizing friendship. It was originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor. | [noun] (by extension) Any two-handled drinking vessel or trophy. QUANGO (16) [noun] An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it. QUOHOG (19) RACING (9) [verb] To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest). | [verb] To compete against in such a race. | [verb] To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed. RAGBAG (10) [noun] A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things. RAGEES (7) RAGGED (9) [adjective] In tatters, having the texture broken. | [adjective] Having rough edges; jagged or uneven | [adjective] Harsh-sounding; having an unpleasant noise | [verb] To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag. RAGGEE (8) RAGGLE (8) RAGING (8) [verb] To act or speak in heightened anger. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc. | [verb] To enrage. RAGLAN (7) [noun] An overcoat with sleeves of this type. | [adjective] (of a sleeve) Being or having a kind of sleeve that continues in one piece up to the neck of a garment, without a shoulder seam. RAGMAN (9) [noun] A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man. | [noun] A statute issued by Edward I in 1276. | [noun] A document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull. RAGMEN (9) [noun] A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man. RAGOUT (7) [noun] A stew of meat and vegetables mixed together | [noun] (by extension) any stew, soup, or sauce | [verb] To prepare (food) as a ragout. RAGTAG (8) [adjective] Unkempt, shabby, or in a state of disrepair. | [adjective] Very diverse; having irregular and dissimilar components. RAGTOP (9) [noun] A convertible automobile. RAKING (11) [verb] To walk; to roam, to wander. | [verb] Of animals (especially sheep): to graze. | [verb] To roam or wander through (somewhere). RANGED (8) [verb] To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. | [verb] To rove over or through. | [verb] To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. RANGER (7) [noun] One who ranges; a rover. | [noun] A keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region (generally of wilderness) to protect the area or enforce the law. | [noun] That which separates or arranges; a sieve. RANGES (7) [noun] A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc. | [noun] A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates. | [noun] Selection, array. RAPING (9) RARING (7) [verb] To rear, rise up, start backwards. | [verb] To rear, bring up, raise. | [adjective] Eager. RASING (7) [verb] To rub along the surface of; to graze | [verb] To rub or scratch out; to erase | [verb] To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze RATBAG (9) [noun] A despicable person. | [noun] (sometimes affectionate) A mischievous person, especially a child. RATING (7) [verb] To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level. | [verb] To evaluate or estimate the value of. | [verb] To consider or regard. RAVAGE (10) [noun] Grievous damage or havoc. | [noun] Depredation or devastation | [verb] To devastate or destroy something. RAVING (10) [verb] To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. | [verb] To speak or write wildly or incoherently. | [verb] To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on. RAXING (14) RAYING (10) [verb] To emit something as if in rays. | [verb] To radiate as if in rays. | [verb] To arrange. RAZING (16) [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. | [verb] To scrape as if with a razor. REAGIN (7) [noun] An antibody. | [noun] A substance elaborated by the spirochetes of syphilis and yaws, having the property of uniting with lipoids, and of fixing complement. REDBUG (10) REDING (8) [verb] To govern, protect. | [verb] To discuss, deliberate. | [verb] To advise. REDLEG (8) REFUGE (10) [noun] A state of safety, protection or shelter. | [noun] A place providing safety, protection or shelter. | [noun] Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort. REGAIN (7) [verb] To get back; to recover possession of. REGALE (7) [noun] A feast, meal. | [verb] To please or entertain (someone). | [verb] To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink. REGARD (8) [noun] A steady look, a gaze. | [noun] One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. | [noun] (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. | [verb] To look at; to observe. REGAVE (10) REGEAR (7) REGENT (7) [noun] A ruler. | [noun] One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled. | [noun] A member of a municipal or civic body of governors, especially in certain European cities. REGGAE (8) [noun] A form of music originating in Jamaica and associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line and percussive rhythm guitar on the offbeat, often with close vocal harmonies. REGILD (8) [verb] To gild again. REGILT (7) REGIME (9) [noun] Mode of rule or management. | [noun] A form of government, or the government in power. | [noun] A period of rule. REGINA (7) REGION (7) [noun] Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons. | [noun] An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country. | [noun] The inhabitants of a region or district of a country. REGIUS (7) REGIVE (10) REGLET (7) [noun] A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title pages and other open matter. | [noun] A flat, narrow moulding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. REGLOW (10) REGLUE (7) REGNAL (7) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch (or pope) | [adjective] Describing the year of a monarch's reign starting from the date of accession | [adjective] Relating to a regnum REGNUM (9) REGRET (7) [noun] Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing. | [noun] Dislike; aversion. | [verb] To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. REGREW (10) [verb] To grow again a part that has been lost, shed or destroyed. REGROW (10) [verb] To grow again a part that has been lost, shed or destroyed. REGULI (7) [noun] An impure metal formed beneath slag during the smelting of ores. REHANG (10) [verb] To hang again. REHUNG (10) [verb] To hang again. REIGNS (7) [noun] The exercise of sovereign power. | [noun] The period during which a monarch rules. | [noun] The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled. RENEGE (7) [verb] To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word. | [verb] In a card game, to break one's commitment to follow suit when capable. | [verb] To deny; to renounce RENIGS (7) REPEGS (9) REPUGN (9) RERIGS (7) RESIGN (7) [verb] To give up; to relinquish ownership of. | [verb] To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another. | [verb] To quit (a job or position). | [verb] To sign again; to provide one's signature again. RETAGS (7) RICING (9) [verb] To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes). | [verb] To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.) | [verb] To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding). RIDGED (9) [verb] To form into a ridge | [verb] To extend in ridges | [adjective] Having ridges. RIDGEL (8) RIDGES (8) [noun] The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. | [noun] Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip. | [noun] The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground. RIDGIL (8) RIDING (8) [verb] To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. | [verb] To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. | [verb] (chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. | [noun] Any of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties of England. RIGGED (9) [verb] To fit out with a harness or other equipment. | [verb] To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards. | [verb] To dress or clothe in some costume. RIGGER (8) [noun] One who rigs or dresses; as: | [noun] A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum. | [noun] A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery. | [noun] Any of various projecting beams or spars that provide support for a sailing ship's mast. RIGHTO (10) [interjection] Okay; all right. RIGHTS (10) [noun] That which complies with justice, law or reason. | [noun] A legal, just or moral entitlement. | [noun] The right side or direction. RIGHTY (13) [noun] A right-handed person. | [noun] A right-wing person. | [interjection] Right; used to indicate agreement or change of topic. RIGORS (7) [noun] Short for rigor mortis. | [noun] Severity or strictness. | [noun] Harshness, as of climate. RIGOUR (7) [noun] Severity or strictness. | [noun] Harshness, as of climate. | [noun] A trembling or shivering response. RILING (7) [verb] To make angry | [verb] To stir or move from a state of calm or order RIMING (9) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. | [adjective] That rimes (i.e., covers with rime or hoar frost) something. | [noun] (done to wool or yarn) The action or process of dying red-brown by steeping in water with alder twigs. | [noun] The process of riming (i.e., covering with rime or hoar frost). RINGED (8) [verb] To enclose or surround. | [verb] To make an incision around; to girdle. | [verb] To attach a ring to, especially for identification. RINGER (7) [noun] Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer. | [noun] A crowbar. | [noun] (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole. | [noun] A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team. | [noun] A top performer. | [noun] Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor. | [noun] (in combination) An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve. RIPING (9) RISING (7) [verb] To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. | [verb] To increase in value or standing. | [verb] To begin; to develop. RIVAGE (10) RIVING (10) [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. | [noun] A strip of a townfield. ROBING (9) [verb] To clothe; to dress. | [verb] To put on official vestments. | [noun] The act of putting on ceremonial clothing. ROGERS (7) [verb] Of a man, to have sexual intercourse with (someone), especially in a rough manner. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse. ROGUED (8) [verb] To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination. | [verb] To cheat. | [verb] To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. ROGUES (7) [noun] A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person. | [noun] A mischievous scamp. | [noun] A vagrant. ROPING (9) [verb] To tie (something) with rope. | [verb] To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something). | [verb] To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread. ROSING (7) [verb] To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush. | [verb] To perfume, as with roses. | [noun] The process of imparting a pink tint to raw white silk. ROTGUT (7) [noun] Raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor ROUGED (8) [verb] To apply rouge (makeup). ROUGES (7) [noun] Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher. | [noun] Any reddish pink colour. | [noun] A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored. (This scoring term is not often used in Canada, with the term single being more commonly used.) ROUGHS (10) [noun] The unmowed part of a golf course. | [noun] A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. | [noun] A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce. ROVING (10) [verb] To shoot with arrows (at). | [verb] To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area. | [verb] To roam or wander through. ROWING (10) [verb] To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars. | [verb] To transport in a boat propelled with oars. | [verb] To be moved by oars. RUBIGO (9) RUGATE (7) RUGGED (9) [adjective] Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough. | [adjective] Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven. | [adjective] Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy. | [verb] To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear. RUGGER (8) [noun] Rugby | [noun] Rugby player RUGOLA (7) RUGOSA (7) [noun] A plant of the rose species Rosa rugosa, or of any hybrid developed from it. RUGOSE (7) [adjective] Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation. | [adjective] Rugged, rough, unrefined. | [adjective] Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. rugose-veined or rugose-leaved. RUGOUS (7) RULING (7) [verb] To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over. | [verb] To excel. | [verb] To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines). RYKING (14) SAGBUT (9) SAGELY (10) [adverb] In the manner of a sage, with wisdom, wisely. SAGEST (7) SAGGAR (8) [noun] A ceramic container used inside a fuel-fired kiln to protect pots from the flame. | [noun] Fireclay used to make ceramic casings. SAGGED (9) [verb] To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane. | [verb] (by extension) To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position. | [verb] To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced. SAGGER (8) [noun] A ceramic container used inside a fuel-fired kiln to protect pots from the flame. | [noun] Fireclay used to make ceramic casings. | [verb] Alternative form of saggar | [noun] A young male who wears trousers very low on his hips, exposing underwear and/or his buttocks or lower abdominals. SAGIER (7) SAIGAS (7) [noun] Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia. SANGAR (7) [noun] A stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post. SANGAS (7) [noun] Sandwich. SANGER (7) [noun] A sandwich. | [noun] A stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post. SANGHS (10) SANING (7) SARGES (7) SARONG (7) [noun] A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, and the Pacific islands. SATANG (7) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Thai baht. SATING (7) [verb] To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up. SAUGER (7) [noun] A freshwater perciform fish, Sander canadensis SAUGHS (10) SAUGHY (13) SAVAGE (10) [noun] An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian. | [noun] A defiant person. | [verb] To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint. SAVING (10) [verb] To prevent harm or difficulty. | [verb] To put aside, to avoid. | [noun] A reduction in cost or expenditure. SAWING (10) [verb] To cut (something) with a saw. | [verb] To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. | [verb] To be cut with a saw. SAWLOG (10) [noun] The part of a tree stem that will be processed at a sawmill, rather than becoming pulpwood. SAYING (10) [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. | [verb] To tell, either verbally or in writing. SCRAGS (9) [noun] A thin or scrawny person or animal. | [noun] The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. | [noun] The neck, especially of a sheep. SEABAG (9) [noun] A duffel bag used by sailors or marines. SEADOG (8) [noun] A sailor accustomed to the sea. | [noun] A pirate. | [noun] A seal. (marine mammal) SEDGES (8) [noun] Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedge, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species. | [noun] Any plant of the family Cyperaceae. | [noun] Certain other plants resembling sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus. SEEING (7) [verb] (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight. | [verb] To form a mental picture of. | [verb] (social) To meet, to visit. | [conjunction] Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that. SEGGAR (8) SEGNOS (7) SEGUED (8) [verb] To move smoothly from one state or subject to another. | [verb] To make a smooth transition from one theme to another. | [verb] (of a disk jockey) To play a sequence of records with no talk between them. SEGUES (7) [noun] An instance of segueing, a transition. | [verb] To move smoothly from one state or subject to another. | [verb] To make a smooth transition from one theme to another. SENEGA (7) SERGES (7) SERING (7) SEWAGE (10) [noun] A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed. | [noun] Sewerage. SEWING (10) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. | [noun] The action of the verb to sew. SEXING (14) [verb] To determine the sex of an animal. | [verb] To have sex with. | [noun] The determination of the sex of a young bird (typically poultry) SHAGGY (14) [adjective] With long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool. | [adjective] With a surface like shaggy hair; rough nap. SHAUGH (13) SHEUGH (13) [noun] A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries. | [noun] The space between the buttocks. | [noun] The Atlantic ocean, the sea. SHOGUN (10) [noun] The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan. SHRUGS (10) [noun] A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge. | [noun] A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted. SHYING (13) [verb] To avoid due to timidness or caution. | [verb] To jump back in fear. | [verb] To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling SIDING (8) [noun] A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building. | [verb] To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with" | [verb] To lean on one side. | [noun] A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for loading or unloading freight, storing trains or other rail vehicles; or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction) (the latter sense is probably an American definition). SIEGED (8) SIEGES (7) [noun] (heading) Military action. | [noun] (heading) A seat. | [noun] A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory. SIGHED (11) [verb] To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like. | [verb] To lament; to grieve. | [verb] To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over. SIGHER (10) SIGHTS (10) [noun] (in the singular) The ability to see. | [noun] The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view. | [noun] Something seen. SIGILS (7) [noun] A seal, signature or signet. | [noun] An occult or magical sign, image or symbol. | [noun] A nonalphanumeric character affixed to a symbol (e.g. variable) to indicate a property such as type or scope. SIGLOI (7) SIGLOS (7) SIGMAS (9) [noun] The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets, the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient. | [noun] The symbol Σ, used to indicate summation of a set or series. | [noun] The symbol σ, used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution. SIGNAL (7) [noun] A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel. | [noun] Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection. | [noun] A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action. SIGNED (8) [verb] To make a mark | [verb] To make the sign of the cross | [verb] To indicate SIGNEE (7) [noun] One who signs a contract, especially in athletic contexts SIGNER (7) SIGNET (7) [noun] An object (especially a ring) formerly used to impress a picture into the sealing wax of a document as a proof of its origin SIGNOR (7) [noun] A courtesy title for a man of Italian origin. SILAGE (7) [noun] Fermented green forage fodder stored in a silo. | [verb] To ensilage. SINGED (8) [verb] To burn slightly. | [verb] To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. | [verb] To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame. SINGER (7) [noun] A person who sings, often professionally. | [noun] (square dance) dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure. | [noun] A person who, or device which, singes. SINGES (7) [noun] A burning of the surface; a slight burn. | [verb] To burn slightly. | [verb] To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. SINGLE (7) [noun] A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B. | [noun] A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track. | [noun] One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner. SINGLY (10) [adverb] In a single or unaccompanied manner; without a companion. | [adverb] Individually; particularly; severally. | [adverb] Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed. SIPING (9) SIRING (7) [verb] (of a male) to procreate; to father, beget, impregnate. | [noun] An act of procreation, especially between animals. SITING (7) [verb] To situate or place a building. | [noun] The act of finding a site for something. SIZING (16) [verb] To adjust the size of; to make a certain size. | [verb] To classify or arrange by size. | [verb] To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of. SKEIGH (14) SKIING (11) [verb] To move on skis | [verb] To travel over (a slope etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport) | [noun] A group of sports utilizing skis as primary equipment. SKYING (14) [verb] To hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high. | [verb] To clear (a hurdle, high jump bar, etc.) by a large margin. | [verb] To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well seen. SLAGGY (11) SLANGS (7) [noun] Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register. | [noun] Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon. | [noun] The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant. SLANGY (10) [adjective] Including or given to slang. SLEDGE (8) [noun] A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc. | [verb] To hit with a sledgehammer. | [noun] A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass. | [verb] To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered unsportsmanlike). SLEIGH (10) [noun] A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller) | [verb] To ride or drive a sleigh. | [adjective] Sly. SLIGHT (10) [noun] The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy. | [noun] Sleight. | [verb] To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of. SLINGS (7) [noun] An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. | [noun] A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported. | [noun] A loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby or other such load. SLOGAN (7) [noun] A catch phrase associated with the product or service being advertised. | [noun] A distinctive phrase of a person or group of people. | [noun] A battle cry among the ancient highlanders of Scotland. SLOUGH (10) [noun] The skin shed by a snake or other reptile. | [noun] Dead skin on a sore or ulcer. | [verb] To shed (skin). | [noun] A muddy or marshy area. SLUDGE (8) [noun] Solids separated from suspension in a liquid. | [noun] A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes. | [noun] A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler. SLUDGY (11) SLUING (7) [verb] To rotate something on an axis. | [verb] To turn something sharply. | [verb] To rotate on an axis; to pivot. SMEGMA (11) [noun] A whitish sebaceous secretion that collects between the glans penis and foreskin or in the vulva. SMIDGE (10) [noun] A very small quantity or amount. SMOGGY (13) SMUDGE (10) [noun] A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. | [noun] Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation. | [noun] A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. | [verb] To obscure by blurring; to smear. SMUDGY (13) [adjective] Marked with smudges. | [adjective] Like a thick smoke (such as is emitted by a smudge pot). SMUGLY (12) [adverb] In a self-satisfied manner. SNAGGY (11) [adjective] Covered in snags, or similar sharp projections. SNUGLY (10) [adverb] Tightly, with limited space to move, in a snug manner. SOCAGE (9) [noun] In the Middle Ages (and chiefly but not exclusively medieval England), a legal system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord. SOGGED (9) SOIGNE (7) [adjective] Fashionable and elegant, well-groomed. SOLGEL (7) SOLING (7) [verb] To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug. | [verb] To put a sole on (a shoe or boot) SORGHO (10) SORGOS (7) SORING (7) SOUGHS (10) [verb] To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound. | [verb] To drain. SOUGHT (10) [verb] To try to find; to look for; to search for. | [verb] To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. | [verb] To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at. SOWING (10) [verb] To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). | [verb] To spread abroad; to propagate. | [verb] To scatter over; to besprinkle. SPARGE (9) [noun] The step or process in brewing beer which separates the mash into clear liquid wort and grain. | [verb] To sprinkle or spray. | [verb] To introduce bubbles into (a liquid). SPIGOT (9) [noun] A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask. | [noun] The plug of a faucet or cock. | [noun] A faucet. SPONGE (9) [noun] Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica. | [noun] A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic). | [noun] A porous material such as sponges consist of. SPONGY (12) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous. | [adjective] Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. | [adjective] Drunk. SPRAGS (9) [noun] A billet of wood; a piece of timber, a similar solid object or constructed unit used as a prop. | [noun] A young salmon. SPRANG (9) [verb] To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation | [verb] To burst forth. | [verb] (of beards) To grow. SPRIGS (9) [noun] A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray. | [noun] An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig. | [noun] One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace. SPRING (9) [verb] To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation | [noun] An act of springing: a leap, a jump. | [noun] The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life, variously reckoned as SPRUGS (9) SPRUNG (9) [verb] To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation | [verb] To burst forth. | [verb] (of beards) To grow. SPUING (9) SPURGE (9) [noun] Any plant of the genus Euphorbia, a diverse genus of over 2,000 species. | [verb] To emit foam; to froth; said of the emission of yeast from beer during fermentation. SPYING (12) [verb] To act as a spy. | [verb] To spot; to catch sight of. | [verb] To search narrowly; to scrutinize. SQUEGS (16) STAGED (8) [verb] To produce on a stage, to perform a play. | [verb] To demonstrate in a deceptive manner. | [verb] To orchestrate; to carry out. STAGER (7) [noun] An actor on the stage. | [noun] One who stages a theatrical performance. | [noun] One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience. STAGES (7) [noun] A phase. | [noun] A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given. | [noun] A floor or storey of a house. STAGEY (10) [adjective] Theatrical | [adjective] Unnaturally showy | [adjective] Melodramatic; sensationalized STAGGY (11) STAIGS (7) STALAG (7) [noun] A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II. | [noun] A genre of Nazi exploitation Holocaust pornography in Israel that flourished in the 1950s and early 1960s. STANGS (7) STIGMA (9) [noun] A mark of infamy or disgrace. | [noun] A scar or birthmark. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural stigmata) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically. | [noun] A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ). STINGO (7) STINGS (7) [noun] A bump left on the skin after having been stung. | [noun] A bite by an insect. | [noun] A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack. STINGY (10) [adjective] Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean | [adjective] Small, scant, meager, insufficient | [adjective] Stinging; able to sting. STODGE (8) [noun] Heavy, dull, often starchy food, such as a steamed pudding | [verb] To stuff; to cram. STODGY (11) [adjective] (of food) Having a thick, semi-solid consistency; glutinous; heavy on the stomach. | [adjective] Dull, old-fashioned. | [adjective] Badly put together. STOGEY (10) STOGIE (7) [noun] A cigar. | [noun] A type of sturdy work boot; a brogan. STOOGE (7) [noun] One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe. | [noun] A straight man. | [noun] A secret informant for police. STRANG (7) STRING (7) [noun] A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses. | [noun] (metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner. | [noun] A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers. STRONG (7) [adjective] Capable of producing great physical force. | [adjective] Capable of withstanding great physical force. | [adjective] (of water, wind, etc.) Having a lot of power. STRUNG (7) [verb] To put (items) on a string. | [verb] To put strings on (something). | [verb] To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. STYING (10) [verb] To place in, or as if in, a sty | [verb] To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place | [verb] To ascend, rise up, climb. SUBGUM (11) SUGARS (7) [noun] Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink. | [noun] A specific variety of sugar. | [noun] Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy. SUGARY (10) [adjective] Of food, drink, etc, containing or covered with a large amount of sugar | [adjective] Of behavior, exaggeratedly sweet and pleasant, often to the point of aversion. | [adjective] Fond of sweets. SUGHED (11) SUNDOG (8) [noun] Either of two bright spots, caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals, sometimes seen on the parhelic circle. SURGED (8) [verb] To rush, flood, or increase suddenly. | [verb] To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly. | [verb] To slack off a line. SURGER (7) SURGES (7) [noun] A sudden transient rush, flood or increase. | [noun] The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation | [noun] A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current. SWAGED (11) [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). | [verb] To pacify or soothe (someone). | [verb] To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate. SWAGER (10) SWAGES (10) [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). | [verb] To pacify or soothe (someone). | [verb] To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate. SWINGE (10) [noun] A swinging blow. | [noun] Power; sway; influence. | [verb] To singe. SWINGS (10) [noun] The manner in which something is swung. | [noun] The sweep or compass of a swinging body. | [noun] A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing. SWINGY (13) [adjective] Having a swinging motion. | [adjective] Characteristic of swing music. | [adjective] Having many swing voters. SYNGAS (10) [noun] Synthesis gas or coal gas SYZYGY (25) [noun] An alignment of three celestial bodies (for example, the Sun, Earth, and Moon) such that one body is directly between the other two, such as occurs at an eclipse. | [noun] An archetypal pairing of contrasexual opposites, symbolizing the communication of the conscious and unconscious minds. | [noun] A relation between generators of a module. TAGGED (9) [verb] To label (something). | [verb] (graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag. | [verb] To remove dung tags from a sheep. TAGGER (8) [noun] One who or that which tags. | [noun] A device for removing taglocks from sheep. | [noun] That which is pointed like a tag. | [noun] The penis. | [noun] (in the plural) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge. TAGRAG (8) TAIGAS (7) TAKING (11) [verb] To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force. | [verb] To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc). | [verb] To remove. TAMING (9) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. TANGED (8) [verb] To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper. | [verb] To make a ringing sound; to ring. | [adjective] Having a tang. TANGLE (7) [noun] A tangled twisted mass. | [noun] A complicated or confused state or condition. | [noun] An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight. | [noun] Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria. TANGLY (10) TANGOS (7) [noun] A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango. | [noun] A piece of music suited to such a dance. | [noun] The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet. TAPING (9) [verb] To bind with adhesive tape. | [verb] To record, particularly onto magnetic tape. | [verb] (passive) To understand, figure out. TARGES (7) [noun] A small shield | [noun] A tassel or pendant TARGET (7) [noun] A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile. | [noun] A goal or objective. | [noun] A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war. TARING (7) TAUGHT (10) [verb] To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate. | [verb] (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to. | [verb] To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher. TAUTOG (7) [noun] A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina (Tautoga onitis). TAWING (10) [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [verb] To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them. TAXING (14) [verb] To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company). | [verb] To impose and collect a tax on (something). | [verb] To make excessive demands on. TEEING (7) [verb] To draw; lead. | [verb] To draw away; go; proceed. | [verb] To place a ball on a tee TEGMEN (9) [noun] A covering or integument, usually referring to a thin layer or membrane in an organism. | [noun] An integument such as the inner membrane of the coat of a seed. | [noun] A covering such as the thin layer of bone in the roof of the middle ear of mammals. TEGUAS (7) TELEGA (7) TERGAL (7) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the tergum; dorsal TERGUM (9) [noun] The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod. TEWING (10) THEGNS (10) [noun] A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron. THIGHS (13) [noun] The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. | [noun] That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect. THINGS (10) [noun] That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept. | [noun] A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity. | [noun] An individual object or distinct entity. THONGS (10) [noun] A strip of leather. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour. | [noun] An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more. THOUGH (13) [adverb] Despite that; however. | [adverb] (degree) Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed. | [conjunction] Despite the fact that; although. THRONG (10) [noun] A group of people crowded or gathered closely together. | [noun] A group of things; a host or swarm. | [verb] To crowd into a place, especially to fill it. TIDING (8) [verb] To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream. | [verb] To pour a tide or flood. | [verb] To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse. TIEING (7) TIGERS (7) [noun] Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia. | [noun] A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms. | [noun] A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress. TIGHTS (10) [noun] A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet. | [noun] A similar, non-sheer garment worn by dancers of either sex, especially by ballet dancers. | [noun] A garment, similar to briefs, worn chiefly by professional wrestlers. TIGLON (7) [noun] A fertile hybrid cross between a male tiger (Panthera tigris) and a lioness (Panthera leo). TIGONS (7) [noun] A cross between a male tiger and a lioness. TILING (7) [verb] To cover with tiles. | [verb] To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface). | [verb] To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique. TIMING (9) [verb] To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. | [verb] To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. | [verb] To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. TINGED (8) [verb] To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing. | [verb] To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing. | [verb] To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing. | [verb] To make a high sharp sound like a small bell being struck. TINGES (7) [noun] A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing. | [noun] The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint. TINGLE (7) [noun] A prickling or mildly stinging sensation. | [verb] To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation. | [verb] To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation. TINGLY (10) [adjective] Producing or feeling tingles. TINING (7) TIRING (7) [verb] To become sleepy or weary. | [verb] To make sleepy or weary. | [verb] To become bored or impatient (with). TOEING (7) [verb] To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe. | [verb] To touch, tap or kick with the toes. | [verb] To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to. TOGAED (8) TOGATE (7) TOGGED (9) [adjective] Dressed; clothed. TOGGLE (8) [noun] A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope or chain to be secured to any other loop, ring, or bight, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat. | [noun] (in particular) A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric. | [noun] A toggle switch. TOGUES (7) TOKING (11) [verb] To give a gratuity to. | [verb] To smoke marijuana. | [verb] To inhale a puff of marijuana TOLING (7) TONGAS (7) [noun] A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. TONGED (8) [verb] To use tongs. | [verb] To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs. TONGER (7) TONGUE (7) [noun] The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech. | [noun] This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).− | [noun] (metonym) A language. TONING (7) [verb] To give a particular tone to | [verb] To change the colour of | [verb] To make (something) firmer TOPING (9) [verb] To drink excessively; to get drunk. TOTING (7) [verb] To carry or bear. | [verb] To add up; to calculate a total. TOUGHS (10) [noun] A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully. TOUGHY (13) TOWAGE (10) [noun] The act of towing. | [noun] A charge for towing. TOWING (10) [noun] The act by which something is towed. TOYING (10) [verb] To play (with) in an idle or desultory way. | [verb] To ponder or consider. | [verb] To stimulate with a sex toy. TRAGIC (9) [noun] An obsessive fan, a superfan | [noun] A writer of tragedy. | [noun] A tragedy; a tragic drama. TRAGUS (7) [noun] The small piece of thick cartilage of the external ear that is immediately in front of the ear canal. TRIAGE (7) [noun] Assessment or sorting according to quality. | [noun] The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury). | [noun] (by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed. TRIGLY (10) TRIGON (7) [noun] A triangle. | [noun] An ancient triangular harp of Oriental origin which had four strings and was often used for banquet music. Also called sabbeka, sackbut, sambuca. | [noun] A division consisting of three signs. TRIGOS (7) TROGON (7) [noun] A bird of a species in the family Trogonidae, most of which live in Central and South America, have colorful feathers, and nest in holes in trees. TROUGH (10) [noun] A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals. | [noun] Any similarly shaped container. | [noun] A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates. TRUDGE (8) [noun] A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk. | [verb] To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps. | [verb] To trudge along or over a route etc. TRUING (7) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. | [noun] The alignment (and cutting) of a wheel (especially a grinding wheel) such that its surface is concentric with its axis. TRYING (10) [verb] To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive. | [verb] To divide; to separate. | [verb] To test, to work out. TSKING (11) TUBING (9) [verb] To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. | [verb] To ride an inner tube. | [verb] To intubate. TUGGED (9) [verb] To pull or drag with great effort | [verb] To pull hard repeatedly | [verb] To tow by tugboat TUGGER (8) TUGRIK (11) [noun] The Mongolian unit of currency; abbreviated MNT, ₮; formerly subdivided into 100 möngö. TUNING (7) [verb] To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches. | [verb] To adjust or modify (esp. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally. | [verb] To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel. TURGID (8) [adjective] Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. | [adjective] (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic. TURGOR (7) [noun] Turgidity | [noun] The pressure produced by a solution in a space that is enclosed by a differentially permeable membrane. TWANGS (10) [noun] The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument. | [noun] A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars. | [noun] A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice. TWANGY (13) TWIGGY (14) TWINGE (10) [noun] A pinch; a tweak; a twitch. | [noun] A sudden sharp pain. | [verb] To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak. TYNING (10) TYPING (12) [verb] To put text on paper using a typewriter. | [verb] To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard. | [verb] To determine the blood type of. TYRING (10) UGLIER (7) [adjective] Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing. | [adjective] Displeasing to the ear or some other sense. | [adjective] Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality. UGLIES (7) UGLIFY (13) UGLILY (10) UGSOME (9) ULLAGE (7) [noun] In a wine bottle, the empty space between the cork and the top of the wine. | [noun] In a cask or barrel, the empty space, occupied by air, that is created by not completely filling the cask or barrel, or through spillage. | [noun] The topping-up of such a barrel with fresh wine. UMPING (11) [verb] To act as an umpire. UNAGED (8) UNCAGE (9) [verb] To take out of or release from a cage. | [verb] (by extension) To unleash; to remove from restraints. UNCLOG (9) [verb] To remove a blockage from. | [verb] To have a blockage removed. UNGIRD (8) [verb] To loosen the girdle or band of. | [verb] To unbind or unload. UNGIRT (7) UNGLUE (7) UNGUAL (7) [noun] A modified toe bone, typically ending in a hoof or claw. | [adjective] Pertaining to or resembling a creature's nail, claw or hoof; unguinal. UNGUES (7) [noun] The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage. | [noun] One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect. | [noun] The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; an ungula. UNGUIS (7) [noun] The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage. | [noun] One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect. | [noun] The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; an ungula. UNGULA (7) UNHANG (10) [verb] Hypothetically, to undo the execution of (a person) by hanging. | [verb] To take down something (such as a picture) from a hanging position UNHUNG (10) [adjective] (of a person) Not (yet) executed by hanging; unhanged. | [adjective] (of a painting) Not selected for exhibition. | [adjective] (of game) Cooked without being hung to mature. UNPEGS (9) [verb] To remove from a peg. UNPLUG (9) [verb] To disconnect from a supply, especially an electrical socket. | [verb] To stop using electronic devices, especially for relaxation or to reduce stress. | [verb] To remove a blockage from (especially a water pipe or drain). UNRIGS (7) [verb] To remove the rigging from (a vessel, etc.). | [verb] To disable. | [verb] To undress (someone). UNSUNG (7) [adjective] Which has not been lauded or appreciated. | [adjective] Not sung. UPGAZE (18) UPGIRD (10) UPGIRT (9) UPGREW (12) UPGROW (12) UPPING (11) [verb] To increase or raise. | [verb] To promote. | [verb] (usually in combination with another verb) To act suddenly. URGENT (7) [adjective] Requiring immediate attention. URGERS (7) [noun] One who urges. URGING (8) [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. | [verb] To provoke; to exasperate. USAGES (7) [noun] The manner or the amount of using; use. | [noun] Habit or accepted practice. | [noun] The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis. VAGARY (13) [noun] An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action. | [noun] An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim. VAGILE (10) VAGINA (10) [noun] The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals. | [noun] A similar part in some invertebrates. | [noun] A sheath-like structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem. VAGROM (12) VAGUER (10) [adjective] Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms. | [adjective] Not having a precise meaning. | [adjective] Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight. VALGUS (10) [adjective] Knock-kneed (having the distal part of a limb displaced or twisted away from the midline of the body) VEGANS (10) [noun] A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products | [noun] A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism. VEGETE (10) VEGGIE (11) [noun] A vegetable. | [noun] A vegetarian. | [adjective] Vegetarian; suitable for vegetarians VEGIES (10) [noun] A vegetable. | [noun] A vegetarian. VENGED (11) VENGES (10) VERGED (11) [verb] To be or come very close; to border; to approach. | [verb] To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope. VERGER (10) [noun] One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. | [noun] A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton. | [noun] An usher; also, in major ecclesiastical landmarks, a tour guide. VERGES (10) [noun] A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. | [noun] An edge or border. | [noun] The phallus. VEXING (17) [verb] To trouble aggressively, to harass. | [verb] To annoy, irritate. | [verb] To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. VICING (12) VIGILS (10) [noun] An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray. | [noun] A period of observation or surveillance at any hour. | [noun] The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions. VIGORS (10) VIGOUR (10) [noun] Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy. | [noun] Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action. | [noun] Strength; efficacy; potency. VIKING (14) [noun] One of the Scandinavian or other Northern European seafaring warriors that raided (and then settled) the British Isles and other parts of Europe in the 8th to the 11th centuries and, according to many historians, were the first Europeans to reach North America. | [noun] (by extension) A stock character common in the fantasy genre, namely a barbarian, generally equipped with an axe or sword and a helmet adorned with horns. | [noun] A Norseman (mediaeval Scandinavian). VINING (10) [noun] A twisting, twining pattern or motion. | [adjective] Growing in the manner of a vine; twisting and entwining. VIRAGO (10) [noun] A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation. | [noun] A woman who is scolding, domineering, or highly opinionated. | [noun] A woman who is rough, loud, and aggressive. VIRGAS (10) VIRGIN (10) [noun] A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all. | [noun] (early Christian Church) a woman noted for religious piety who has never been married. | [noun] One who has never used or experienced a specified thing. VISAGE (10) [noun] Countenance; appearance; one's face. VISING (10) VOGUED (11) [verb] To dance in the vogue dance style. | [verb] To light a cigarette. VOGUER (10) VOGUES (10) [noun] The prevailing fashion or style. | [noun] Popularity or a current craze. | [noun] A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s. VOLING (10) VOTING (10) [verb] To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election | [verb] To choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent | [noun] Action of the verb to vote VOWING (13) [verb] To make a vow; to promise. | [verb] To make a vow regarding (something). | [verb] To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation. VOYAGE (13) [noun] A long journey, especially by ship. | [noun] The act or practice of travelling. | [verb] To go on a long journey. VULGAR (10) [noun] (classicism) A common, ordinary person. | [noun] (collective) The common people. | [noun] The vernacular tongue or common language of a country. VULGUS (10) WADING (11) [verb] To walk through water or something that impedes progress. | [verb] To progress with difficulty | [verb] To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading WAGERS (10) [noun] Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. | [noun] That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. | [noun] A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. WAGGED (12) [verb] To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief. | [verb] To play truant from school. | [verb] To be in action or motion; to move; progress. WAGGER (11) WAGGLE (11) [noun] A wobbling motion. | [noun] The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke. | [verb] To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble. WAGGLY (14) [adjective] Frequently waggling. WAGGON (11) [noun] A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. | [noun] A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front. | [noun] An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck. WAGING (11) [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. | [verb] To employ for wages; to hire. WAGONS (10) [noun] A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. | [noun] A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front. | [noun] An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck. WAKING (14) [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. | [verb] (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep. | [verb] To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. WALING (10) WANGAN (10) WANGLE (10) [noun] The act of wangling | [verb] To obtain through manipulative or deceitful methods. | [verb] To falsify, as records. WANGUN (10) WANING (10) [verb] To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline. | [verb] Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength. | [verb] Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible. | [noun] The fact or act of becoming less or less intense. WARING (10) [verb] To be ware or mindful of something. | [verb] To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary. | [verb] To wear, or veer. WAUGHT (13) WAVING (13) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAXING (17) [verb] To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. | [verb] To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply. | [verb] To defeat utterly. WEDGED (12) [verb] To support or secure using a wedge. | [verb] To force into a narrow gap. | [verb] To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles. WEDGES (11) [noun] One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering. | [noun] A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape. | [noun] A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. WEDGIE (11) [noun] A wedge-heeled shoe. | [noun] A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks. | [noun] A situation where a person's underpants are stuck uncomfortably between their buttocks. WEIGHS (13) [verb] To determine the weight of an object. | [verb] Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale. | [verb] To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. WEIGHT (13) [noun] (physical) Matter, material. | [noun] A large quantity; a sum. | [noun] The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism. WHANGS (13) [verb] (chiefly of an object) To make a noise like something moving quickly through the air. | [verb] To throw with a rapid slamming motion. | [verb] To whack or beat. WHINGE (13) [noun] A cry. | [noun] A peevish complaint. | [verb] To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner. WIDGET (11) [noun] A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product. | [noun] Portable code that can be easily installed and executed by an end user. | [noun] A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened. | [noun] Any one of the components of a computer application's graphical user interface, such as a Cancel button or text input box that a user interacts with. WIFING (13) WIGANS (10) WIGEON (10) [noun] Any of three freshwater dabbling ducks. | [noun] A fool. WIGGED (12) [verb] To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.). | [verb] To upbraid, reprimand. | [verb] To become extremely emotional or excitable; to lose control of one's emotions. WIGGLE (11) [noun] A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular. | [noun] An alternating state or characteristic. | [noun] (in the plural) See wiggles. WIGGLY (14) WIGHTS (13) [noun] A living creature, especially a human being. | [noun] A being of one of the Nine Worlds of Heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor. | [noun] A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity. WIGLET (10) WIGWAG (14) [noun] An act of wigwagging. | [noun] Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states. | [noun] A signal sent by waving a flag to and fro. WIGWAM (15) [noun] A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States. | [noun] (possibly obsolete) Any more or less similar dwelling used by indigenous people in other parts of the world. | [verb] To dry (flax or straw) by standing it outside in the shape of a wigwam. WILING (10) [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. | [verb] To loiter. WINGED (11) [adjective] Having wings. | [adjective] Flying or soaring as if on wings. | [adjective] Swift. | [verb] To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm. | [verb] To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner. WINGER (10) [noun] One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships. | [noun] An offensive player who plays on either side of the center. WINING (10) [verb] To entertain with wine. | [verb] To drink wine. | [noun] A session of drinking wine socially. WIPING (12) [verb] To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.) | [verb] To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out. | [verb] To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out. WIRING (10) [verb] To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing. | [verb] To string on a wire. | [verb] To equip with wires for use with electricity. WISING (10) [verb] To become wise. | [verb] Usually with "up", to inform or learn. | [verb] To instruct. WITING (10) WIVING (13) [verb] To marry (a woman). | [verb] To provide (someone) with a wife. WODGES (11) [noun] A bulk quantity, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad. WOOING (10) [verb] To endeavor to gain someone's support. | [verb] (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with | [verb] To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. WOWING (13) [verb] To amaze or awe. WRANGS (10) WRIGHT (13) [noun] A builder or maker of something. WRINGS (10) [noun] A powerful squeezing or twisting action. | [noun] Pain or distress. | [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. WRONGS (10) [noun] Something that is immoral or not good. | [noun] An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer). | [noun] The incorrect or unjust position or opinion. WRYING (13) WYLING (13) WYTING (13) YAGERS (10) YAWING (13) [verb] To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course. | [verb] To swerve off course to port or starboard. | [verb] To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course. YOGEES (10) YOGINI (10) [noun] A female yogi YOGINS (10) YOGURT (10) [noun] A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring. | [noun] (especially in compounds) Any similar product based on other substances (e.g. soy yogurt). YOKING (14) [verb] To link or to join. | [verb] To unite, to connect. | [verb] To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine. YOUNGS (10) YOWING (13) ZAFTIG (19) [adjective] Of a woman, having a plump and sexually attractive figure; voluptuous, well-proportioned; large. ZAGGED (18) [verb] To move with a sharp turn or reversal. ZEUGMA (18) [noun] The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one. | [noun] Syllepsis. ZIGGED (18) [verb] To make such a turn. ZIGZAG (26) [noun] A line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions | [noun] One of such sharp turns | [verb] To move or to twist in a zigzag manner. ZINGED (17) [verb] To move very quickly, especially while making a high-pitched hum. ZINGER (16) [noun] A very rapidly moving object, especially one that is thrown. | [noun] A surprising or unusually pointed, humorous and impressive insult or insulting quip. | [noun] An event that when experienced leaves the witness dazed, either physically or metaphorically. ZOFTIG (19) [adjective] Of a woman, having a plump and sexually attractive figure; voluptuous, well-proportioned; large. ZONING (16) [verb] To divide into or assign sections or areas. | [verb] To define the property use classification of an area. | [verb] To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off. ZYGOID (20) ZYGOMA (21) [noun] The cheekbone. ZYGOSE (19) ZYGOTE (19) [noun] A fertilized egg cell.