aglet | (noun) ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform | Synonyms: aiglet, aiguillette |
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(noun) metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon | Synonyms: aiglet |
aiglet | (noun) ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform | Synonyms: aglet, aiguillette |
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(noun) metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon | Synonyms: aglet |
angle | (noun) a biased way of looking at or presenting something | Synonyms: slant |
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(noun) the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians | - |
angledozer | (noun) a bulldozer with an angled moldboard to push earth to one side | - |
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angler | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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(noun) a fisherman who uses a hook and line | Synonyms: troller |
(noun) a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage | - |
anglerfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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bangle | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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(noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bracelet |
beagle | (noun) a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound | - |
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bingle | (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base | Synonyms: single |
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boondoggle | (noun) work of little or no value done merely to look busy | - |
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bugle | (noun) a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares | - |
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(noun) a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration | - |
(noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugleweed |
bugler | (noun) someone who plays a bugle | - |
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bugleweed | (noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugle |
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(noun) a mildly narcotic and astringent aromatic herb having small whitish flowers; eastern United States | Synonyms: Lycopus virginicus |
bungle | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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bungler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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cringle | (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: eyelet, grommet, grummet, loop |
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dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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dingle | (noun) a small wooded hollow | Synonyms: dell |
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disentanglement | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: extrication, unsnarling, untangling |
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disentangler | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: unraveler, unraveller |
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dogleg | (noun) a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway | - |
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(noun) angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog | - |
dongle | (noun) (computer science) an electronic device that must be attached to a computer in order for it to use protected software | - |
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eagle | (noun) any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight | Synonyms: bird of Jove |
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(noun) an emblem representing power | - |
(noun) a former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars | - |
(noun) (golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole | - |
eaglet | (noun) a young eagle | - |
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entanglement | (noun) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim | Synonyms: web |
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euglena | (noun) minute single-celled green freshwater organism having a single flagella; often classed as algae | - |
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euglenid | (noun) marine and freshwater green or colorless flagellate organism | Synonyms: euglenoid, euglenophyte |
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euglenoid | (noun) marine and freshwater green or colorless flagellate organism | Synonyms: euglenid, euglenophyte |
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euglenophyte | (noun) marine and freshwater green or colorless flagellate organism | Synonyms: euglenid, euglenoid |
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finagler | (noun) a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods | Synonyms: wangler |
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fugleman | (noun) a leader and organizer and spokesman (especially a political leader) | - |
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gaggle | (noun) a flock of geese | - |
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gargle | (noun) the sound produced while gargling | - |
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(noun) a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth | Synonyms: mouthwash |
giggle | (noun) a foolish or nervous laugh | - |
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giggler | (noun) a person who laughs nervously | Synonyms: titterer |
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gleam | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleaming, glow, lambency |
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(noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleaming, glimmer |
gleaming | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, glow, lambency |
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(noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleam, glimmer |
gleaner | (noun) someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters | - |
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(noun) someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully | - |
gleba | (noun) fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn | - |
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glebe | (noun) plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office | - |
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glee | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: gleefulness, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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(noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: gloat, gloating |
gleefulness | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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gleet | (noun) a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea | - |
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glen | (noun) a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains) | - |
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goggles | (noun) (plural) tight-fitting spectacles worn to protect the eyes | - |
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gurgle | (noun) the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck | - |
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haggle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggling, wrangle, wrangling |
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haggler | (noun) an intense bargainer | - |
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inglenook | (noun) a corner by a fireplace | Synonyms: chimney corner |
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jangle | (noun) a metallic sound | Synonyms: jingle |
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jiggle | (noun) a slight irregular shaking motion | Synonyms: joggle |
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jingle | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel, doggerel verse |
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(noun) a metallic sound | Synonyms: jangle |
joggle | (noun) a slight irregular shaking motion | Synonyms: jiggle |
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(noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel, dowel pin |
jongleur | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour |
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juggle | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggling |
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(noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggling |
juggler | (noun) a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity | - |
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jugglery | (noun) the performance of a juggler | - |
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(noun) artful trickery designed to achieve an end | - |
jungle | (noun) a place where hoboes camp | Synonyms: hobo camp |
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(noun) an impenetrable equatorial forest | - |
(noun) a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival | - |
kinglet | (noun) small birds resembling warblers but having some of the habits of titmice | - |
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langley | (noun) unit of solar radiation | - |
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longlegs | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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maglev | (noun) high-speed rail technology; train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction | Synonyms: magnetic levitation |
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mangle | (noun) clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers | - |
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mangler | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: maimer, mutilator |
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meaninglessness | (noun) the quality of having no value or significance | - |
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(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
neglect | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, negligence, nonperformance |
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(noun) willful lack of care and attention | Synonyms: disregard |
(noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglectfulness, negligence |
(noun) lack of attention and due care | Synonyms: disregard |
(noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: disuse |
neglecter | (noun) a person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities | - |
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neglectfulness | (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, negligence |
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niggler | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: carper |
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ogler | (noun) a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person | - |
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paigle | (noun) early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers | Synonyms: cowslip, Primula veris |
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(noun) Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one-sided umbel | Synonyms: oxlip, Primula elatior |
pegleg | (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: leg, peg, wooden leg |
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pentangle | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentacle, pentagram |
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piglet | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, shoat, shote |
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porbeagle | (noun) voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Lamna nasus |
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quadrangle | (noun) a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings | Synonyms: quad |
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(noun) a four-sided polygon | Synonyms: quadrilateral, tetragon |
rectangle | (noun) a parallelogram with four right angles | - |
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ringleader | (noun) a person who leads (especially in illicit activities) | - |
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ringlet | (noun) any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae | Synonyms: ringlet butterfly |
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(noun) a little ring | - |
(noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: curl, whorl |
(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, roll, scroll, whorl |
shingle | (noun) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. | - |
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(noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shake |
(noun) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) | - |
shingler | (noun) a worker who shingles roofs | - |
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shingles | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, zoster |
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single | (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base | Synonyms: bingle |
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(noun) the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 1, ace, I, one, unity |
singleness | (noun) the quality of concentrating on one central objective | - |
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(noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
singles | (noun) tennis played with one person on each side | - |
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(noun) badminton played with one person on each side | - |
singlestick | (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: backsword, fencing stick |
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singlet | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: undershirt, vest |
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singleton | (noun) the playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt | - |
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(noun) a set containing a single member | - |
(noun) a single object (as distinguished from a pair) | - |
smuggler | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, runner |
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snuggle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: cuddle, nestle |
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spangle | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: diamante, sequin |
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squiggle | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: curlicue |
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(noun) an illegible scrawl | - |
straggle | (noun) a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons) | - |
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straggler | (noun) someone who strays or falls behind | Synonyms: strayer |
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stranglehold | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe | - |
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(noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, throttlehold |
strangler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler |
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(noun) an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree | Synonyms: strangler tree |
strangles | (noun) an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes | Synonyms: equine distemper |
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struggle | (noun) strenuous effort | - |
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(noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something | Synonyms: battle |
(noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, conflict |