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CSW: NEW INFLECTIONS AND VARIANTS
This is an analysis of existing SOWPODS words of up to nine letters impacted by new CSW words.
'New' words appear in red throughout.
The types of impact are coded as follows:
pl new plural for old word
si new singular for old word
+v new verb inflections for old word
+c new comparative/superlative for old word
+y new -Y for old word
+r new -R for old word (for old words of up to 8 letters)
ad new adverb for old word
ed new adjectival –ED for old word
va new variant(s) for old word
| Old Word | New Form(s) | Notes | |
| abdominal | pl | abdominals | +noun: an abdominal muscle |
| ableist | pl | ableists | +noun: one who discriminates against the disabled |
| acantha | pl | acanthae | a thorn, a prickle: prev pl ACANTHAS |
| accolade | +v | accoladed accolading | +verb: to bestow an accolade on |
| accusable | ad | accusably | chargeable with a crime or fault |
| ackers | si | acker | (Aust. sl.) an academic: prev ACKERS pl noun only |
| activize | va | activise | to activate |
| actor | ad | actorly | in the manner of an actor |
| addendum | pl | addendums | something to be added: prev pl ADDENDA |
| adiabatic | pl | adiabatics | +noun: a curve on a graph relating to an adiabatic process |
| adjacent | pl | adjacents | +noun: a side in a right-angled triangle |
| adnominal | pl | adnominals | +noun: a word attached to a noun |
| adrenal | ad | adrenally | relating to a type of gland |
| adze | +v | adzed adzing | +verb: to shape with an adze |
| afterlife | pl | afterlifes | life after death: prev pl AFTERLIVES |
| ag | pl | ags | +noun: agriculture |
| agape | pl | agapes | Christian love: prev pl AGAPAI |
| agatize | va | agatise | to convert into agate |
| agenize | va | agenise | to treat flour with agene, a whitening agent |
| alimony | ed | alimonied | provided with alimony |
| alkalise | +r | alkaliser | an agent that alkalises |
| alkalize | +r | alkalizer | an agent that alkalizes |
| allegiant | pl | allegiants | +noun: one who is loyal |
| allowable | pl | allowables | +noun: something allowable |
| almond | +y | almondy | like an almond |
| alnico | pl | alnicos | a permanent magnet alloy: prev pl ALNICOES |
| altricial | pl | altricials | +noun: a bird having young requiring lengthy care |
| amazonian | pl | amazonians | +noun: a woman of masculine manners |
| amp | +v | amped amping | +verb: to excite or become excited |
| angst | +y | angsty | displaying or feeling angst |
| annular | ad | annularly | ring-shaped |
| antenatal | pl | antenatals | +noun: an examination during pregnancy |
| anticize | va | anticise | to play antics |
| anticult | pl | anticults | +noun: an organisation opposed to religious cults |
| antielite | pl | antielites | +noun: a group opposed to an elite |
| antilife | +r | antilifer | a person in favour of abortion |
| antinuke | +r | antinuker | +noun: a person opposed to nuclear weapons or energy |
| antique | +y | antiquey | having the appearance of an antique |
| antiradar | pl | antiradars | +noun: something designed to foil radar |
| antishock | pl | antishocks | +noun: a device designed to prevent shock |
| antisnob | pl | antisnobs | +noun: a person opposed to snobbery |
| antitumor | pl | antitumors | +noun: a measure designed to prevent tumors |
| antrorse | ad | antrorsely | turned upward and forward |
| aperture | ed | apertured | having an aperture |
| apple | +y | appley | like apple |
| aqueous | ad | aqueously | watery |
| arabicize | va | arabicise | to make Arabic |
| arborize | va | arborise | to take on or give tree-like shape |
| arcana | pl | arcanas | ARCANA, pl of ARCANUM, is now a singular in own right |
| arse | +v | arsed arsing | +verb: to bother with |
| asocial | pl | asocials | +noun: one without social organisation |
| assuage | +r | assuager | one who assuages |
| attractor | va | attracter | somehting or someone that attracts |
| attending | pl | attendings | +noun: the act of attending |
| audible | +v | audibled audibling | +verb: to call an audible in American football |
| audiotape | +v | audiotaped audiotaping | +verb: to record on audiotape |
| aureate | ad | aureately | pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poets |
| averaging | pl | averagings | +noun: an act of averaging |
| aversive | pl | aversives | +noun: a tool or technique intended to repel animals |
| avianize | va | avianise | to make e.g. a virus less severe by repeated culture |
| aweto | va | awheto awato awhato | the so-called vegetable caterpillar of New Zealand. AWETO takes an -S, but the new variants do not |
| azotemia | va | azotaemia | the retention of waste materials normally excreted, aza URAEMIA |
| azotemic | va | azotaemic | relating to AZOTEMIA |
| babyish | ad | babyishly | |
| backhoe | +v | backhoed backhoeing | +verb: to dig with a backhoe |
| backroom | pl | backrooms | +noun: a room at the back |
| backstage | pl | backstages | +noun: the back area of a stage |
| bacterial | pl | bacterials | +noun: a bacterial substance |
| bagpipe | +v | bagpiped | +verb: to play the bagpipes. BAGPIPING was already noun |
| balancing | pl | balancings | +noun: the act of balancing |
| baptise | +r | baptiser | one who baptises |
| bareback | +v | barebacks barebacking | +verb: to practise unprotected sex. BAREBACKED was already valid as an adjective |
| barmbrack | va | barnbrack | a kind of currant bun |
| barney | +v | barneyed barneying | +verb: to argue or quarrel |
| barre | +v | barreed barreing | +verb: to execute guitar chords with the barre |
| baseband | pl | basebands | +noun: a device operating over a narrow frequency range |
| baseless | ad | baselessly | |
| batik | +v | batiked batiking | +verb: to produce designs on cloth by batik |
| battering | pl | batterings | +noun: an act of battering |
| beanie | va | beany | a small close-fitting hat |
| beard | +y | beardy | having a beard: BEARDIER, BEARDIEST |
| beat | +y | beaty | of music, having a marked beat: BEATIER, BEATIEST |
| beaucoup | pl | beaucoups | +noun: a lot of |
| beckoning | pl | beckonings | +noun: an act of beckoning |
| begrudge | +r | begrudger | one who begrudges |
| believing | pl | believings | +noun: an act of believing |
| belling | pl | bellings | +noun: a mock serenade for newlyweds |
| bench | +y | benchy | of a hillside, hollowed out in benches: BENCHIER, BENCHIEST |
| benchmark | +v | benchmarked | to test by a benchmark (BENCHMARKING was already valid) |
| berley | +v | berleyed berleying | +verb: to tease |
| berm | +v | bermed berming | +verb: to create a berm |
| berserk | va | berko | out of control |
| bevvy | +v | bevvying | +verb: to engage in a drinking session. [BEVVIED was already valid as adj meaning drunk] |
| bialy | pl | bialies | an onion roll: prev pl BIALYS |
| biassed | ad | biassedly | |
| biceps | si | bicep | the two-headed muscle at the front of the arm |
| bickering | pl | bickerings | +noun: an act of beckoning |
| bigfoot | +v | bigfooted bigfooting | +verb: to throw one's weight around |
| bile | +v | biled biling | +verb: to boil |
| billowing | pl | billowings | +noun: an act of billowing |
| bilobate | va | bilobated | having two lobes |
| bine | +r | biner | short for KARABINER |
| bingo | pl | bingoes | a lottery-type game: prev pl BINGOS only |
| binominal | pl | binominals | +noun: a binomial |
| biracial | ad | biracially | of two races |
| bistable | pl | bistables | +noun: a bistable system |
| bitmap | +v | bitmapped bitmapping | +verb: to use a pattern of bits representing a graphical object |
| blackish | ad | blackishly | |
| blade | +r | blader | a person skating with in-line skates |
| blague | +r | blaguer | one who blagues |
| blagging | pl | blaggings | +noun: an act of theft |
| bleb | +v | blebbing | +verb: to form a bleb. BLEBBED was already valid |
| blebby | +c | blebbier blebbiest | containing blebs |
| blemish | ad | blemisher | one who blemishes |
| blob | +y | blobby | blob-shaped: BLOBBIER, BLOBBIEST |
| blubbery | +c | blubberier blubberiest | swollen; protuberant |
| blueline | +r | blueliner | a machine for making blueprints |
| bluenose | ed | bluenosed | puritanical |
| blurred | ad | blurredly | |
| boarish | ad | boarishly | swinish, brutal |
| boasting | ad | boastingly | |
| bogie | +v | bogied bogieing | +verb: (Aust. sl.) to bathe or swim |
| bogus | ad | bogusly | not genuine, counterfeit |
| boiling | ad | boilingly | |
| bolshevik | pl | bolsheviki | a violent revolutionary: prev pl BOLSHEVIKS |
| bombproof | +v | bombproofs bombproofing bombproofed | +verb: to proof against bombs. (Was adjective only) |
| boney | +c | boneyer boneyest | bony |
| bonking | pl | bonkings | +noun: the act of bonking |
| bonsella | va | pasela bansela bonsela | (Zulu) a gratuity |
| bookmark | +v | bookmarked bookmarking | +verb: to mark with a bookmark |
| bool | +v | booled booling | +verb: to play bowls |
| booming | ad | boomingly | |
| boozing | pl | boozings | +noun: an act of boozing |
| borty | +c | bortier bortiest | relating to bort, diamond dust |
| botanic | pl | botanics | +noun: any drug or pesticide made from parts of a plant |
| botanise | +r | botaniser | one who botanises |
| botanize | +r | botanizer | one who botanizes |
| botched | ad | botchedly | |
| boutique | +y | boutiquey | like a boutique |
| boxy | ad | boxily | |
| boys | +y | boysy | like boys or young men: BOYSIER, BOYSIEST |
| bragging | pl | braggings | +noun: an act of bragging |
| branding | pl | brandings | +noun: an act of branding |
| brandish | ad | brandisher | one who brandishes |
| bratpack | pl | bratpacks | +noun: a clique of film stars (was adjective only) |
| brazier | va | braziery | a container for hot coals |
| bred | pl | breds | +noun: a person who lives in a small remote place |
| brimful | ad | brimfully | full to the brim |
| broadband | pl | broadbands | +noun: broadband transmission |
| broaden | ad | broadener | one who broadens |
| bromize | va | bromise | to prepare or treat with bromine |
| brooding | pl | broodings | +noun: an act of brooding |
| brule | pl | brules | +noun: a mixed race person, Canadian Indian and French |
| brushfire | pl | brushfires | +noun: a border war on a small and local scale |
| brut | pl | bruts | +noun: a very dry champagne |
| bucko | pl | buckos | a swaggerer, a domineering bully: prev pl BUCKOES only |
| buff | +c | buffest | dull yellowish brown: BUFFER was already valid as noun |
| bummalo | pl | bummalos | a small marine Asiatic fish: prev pl BUMMALOTI |
| burbs | si | burb | (contraction for) suburb |
| burley | +v | burleyed burleying | +verb: to scatter bait on water |
| bushies | si | bushie | someone who lives in the bush: prev only BUSHY |
| business | +y | businessy | relating to business |
| bustee | va | basti busti | in India, a flimsy hut, a squatter colony |
| buttinski | pl | buttinskis | a person given to butting in: prev pl BUTTINSKIES |
| cabalism | va | kabalism | the secret science of the cabalists |
| cabalism | va | qabalism | the secret science of the cabalists |
| cabalist | va | qabalist | one who practises cabalism |
| cabbage | +y | cabbagey | like a cabbage. Also CABBAGY, which was already valid |
| cable | +r | cabler | a cable company |
| cacuminal | pl | cacuminals | +noun: a sound made with the tongue-tip curled up |
| caftan | ed | caftaned | wearing a caftan, a kind of tunic |
| cajoling | ad | cajolingly | |
| calking | pl | calkings | +noun: the act of provide with a calk |
| calming | ad | calmingly | |
| calming | pl | calmings | +noun: the act of calming |
| calo | pl | calos | +noun: a Spanish argot used by chicano youths |
| calorize | va | calorise | to coat steel with aluminium |
| calpac | va | kalpac | a triangular Turkish or Tatar felt cap |
| calvarium | pl | calvariums | the upper skull: prev pl CALVARIA |
| camas | si | cama | the offspring of camel and llama. CAMAS prev sing only |
| cannoli | pl | cannolis | a tube of pastry. No –S prev |
| cannulate | +v | cannulates cannulating cannulated | +verb: to insert a cannula into. Prev adjective only, meaning in the form of a cannula, a narrow tube |
| canoe | +r | canoer | one who travels by canoe |
| canola | pl | canolas | edible oil from rape plant. No –S before |
| canoodle | +r | canoodler | one who canoodles |
| carapace | ed | carapaced | having a carapace |
| cardies | si | cardie | a cardigan: prev only CARDI |
| carhop | +v | carhopped carhopping | to work as a carhop |
| caroling | pl | carolings | +noun: singing carols |
| carolling | pl | carollings | +noun: singing carols |
| castrate | +r | castrater | one who castrates |
| castrato | pl | castratos | a castrated male singer: prev pl CASTRATI |
| catabolic | va | katabolic | relating to catabolism |
| cedar | +y | cedary | of or like cedar |
| cellular | pl | cellulars | +noun: a cellular phone |
| cementum | pl | cementums | hard tissue covering roots of teeth: prev pl CEMENTA |
| cercarian | pl | cercarians | +noun: the larval form of a trematode worm |
| chalumeau | pl | chalumeaus | an early rustic reed instrument: prev pl CHALUMEAUX |
| chapati | pl | chapaties | a flat piece of unleavened bread: prev pl CHAPATIS |
| chapatti | pl | chapatties | a flat piece of unleavened bread: prev pl CHAPATTIS |
| charcoal | +y | charcoaly | like charcoal |
| cheap | +v | cheaped cheaping | +verb: to take the cheapest option |
| cheddar | +y | cheddary | like cheddar cheese |
| chef | +v | chefed chefing | +verb: to work as a chef |
| chi | va | ki | the spirit of Japanese martial art |
| chichi | +c | chichier chichiest | pretentious, fussy |
| chiffon | +y | chiffony | like chiffon, a sheer silk fabric |
| chloasma | pl | chloasmas | a skin condition: prev pl CHLOASMATA |
| chook | +v | chooked chooking | +verb: to make the sound of a chicken |
| chrome | +y | chromy | like chrome: CHROMIER, CHROMIEST |
| chromize | va | chromise | to chrome |
| churidars | si | churidar | (Hindi) as in CHURIDAR pyjamas |
| cingulate | va | cingulated | having a girdle |
| cinnamon | +y | cinnamony | like cinnamon |
| citrusy | va | citrussy | like citrus |
| clank | +y | clanky | making a clanking sound: CLANKIER+, CLANKIEST+ |
| classing | pl | classings | +noun: an act of classing |
| clavate | ad | clavately | club-shaped |
| clearcole | +v | clearcoled clearcoling | +verb: to coat with a priming coat consisting of size or glue with whiting |
| cleck | +y | clecky | broody |
| cloggy | ad | cloggily | lumpy, sticky |
| coastal | ad | coastally | in a manner pertaining to a coast |
| cockle | +r | cockler | one who collects cockles |
| coelomic | va | celomic | relating to the COELOM, a fluid-filled cavity within the body of an animal |
| cognise | +r | cogniser | one who cognises |
| collotype | va | collotypy | a method of printing illustrations from hardened gelatin film |
| coloboma | pl | colobomas | a fissure of the eye or eyelid: prev pl COLOBOMATA |
| colonise | +r | coloniser | one who colonises |
| commune | +r | communer | one who communes |
| color | +y | colory | possessing color |
| colorize | va | colorizer | to add colour with a computer |
| combined | pl | combineds | +noun: a skiing competition combining two events |
| combining | pl | combinings | +noun: the act of combining |
| comitia | pl | comitias | a public assembly of the Roman. No –S prev |
| completer | pl | completers | +noun: one who completes |
| concertize | pl | concertise | to perform professionally in concerts |
| concha | pl | conchas | the plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse: prev pl CONCHAE |
| conniver | +y | connivery | an act of conniving |
| conqueror | va | conquerer | one who conquers |
| contango | +v | contangoes | to exercise right of contango: prev only CONTANGOS |
| cootie | va | kutu | (Maori) a body louse: KUTUS |
| cornea | pl | corneae | a material protecting the eyeball: prev pl CORNEAS only |
| corrode | +r | corroder | an agent that corrodes |
| coseismal | pl | coseismals | +noun: a line connecting points affected by earthquake |
| coseismic | pl | coseismics | +noun: points experiencing earthquake shock same time |
| cotyloid | pl | cotyloids | +noun: cavity which receives the head of the thigh bone |
| courier | +v | couriered couriering | +verb: to deliver by courier |
| cowboy | +v | cowboyed cowboying | +verb: to work or behave as a cowboy |
| cowrite | +r | cowriter | one who cowrites |
| crackjaw | pl | crackjaws | +noun: a word hard to pronounce |
| crampon | +v | cramponed cramponing | +verb: to climb using crampons |
| cratering | pl | craterings | +noun: the act of forming a crater |
| craunch | +y | craunchy | crunchy |
| creative | pl | creatives | +noun: a creative person |
| creep | +v | creeped | prev pt CREPT only |
| cress | +y | cressy | like cress. No comp! |
| crimini | pl | criminis | an ejaculation of surprise or impatience. No –S prev |
| crimini | va | criminy | an ejaculation of surprise. Note no CRIMINIES* |
| crispate | va | crispated | curled; crisped |
| cristate | va | cristated | with an appendage resembling a crest |
| crosstie | ed | crosstied | tied with a transverse tie. N.B. no CROSSTYING* |
| crowded | ad | crowdedly | in a crowded fashion |
| crunching | pl | crunchings | +noun: the act of crunching |
| crutching | pl | crutchings | +noun: the wool clipped from a sheep's hindquarters |
| cubitus | pl | cubiti | an old measure of length: prev pl CUBITUSES only |
| cult | +y | culty | intended to appeal to a small group of people |
| cyprinoid | pl | cyprinoids | +noun: a member of the carp family |
| daemon | pl | daemones | an inward spirit: prev pl DAEMONS |
| dance | +y | dancey | relating to dance music |
| danish | pl | danishes | a pastry of raised dough: no plural before |
| darga | va | durgah | structure over a place where a holy person was buried |
| darnedest | pl | darnedests | one's utmost: no –S prev |
| darzi | va | durzi | (Hindi) a tailor |
| database | +v | databased databasing | +verb: to put data into a database |
| daydream | +y | daydreamy | given to daydreaming |
| deadline | +v | deadlined deadlining | +verb: to put a time limit on an action, decision etc |
| debus | +v | debused debusing | prev only DEBUSSES, DEBUSSING, DEBUSSED |
| decal | +v | decaled decalled decaling decalling | +verb: to transfer by decalcomania |
| decaliter | va | dekalitre | a cubic volume of ten liters |
| decalitre | va | dekalitre | a cubic volume of ten liters |
| deceiving | pl | deceivings | +noun: the act of deceiving |
| decouple | +r | decoupler | one who decouples |
| deducible | ad | deducibly | capable of being deduced or inferred |
| defence | +v | defencing | +verb: to make a defence. DEFENCED was already adj |
| deforce | +r | deforcer | one who deforces, keeps out of possession by force |
| defuse | +r | defuser | one who defuses |
| deionize | va | deionise | to remove the ions from |
| deionizer | +r | deioniser | an apparatus for removing ions |
| dekaliter | va | dekalitre | a cubic volume of ten liters |
| dekameter | va | dekametre | a measure of length, ten meters |
| deke | +v | dekeing | to fake in ice hockey: prev only DEKING |
| deluding | ad | deludingly | |
| demivolt | va | demivolte | a half-turn on the hind legs |
| demo | +v | demoed demoing | +verb: to demonstrate |
| denim | ed | denimed | wearing denim |
| dentate | ad | dentately | toothed |
| deplete | +r | depleter | one who depletes |
| derange | +r | deranger | one who deranges |
| detailing | pl | detailings | +noun: the act of detailing |
| deverbal | pl | deverbals | +noun: a word deriving from a verb |
| devore | pl | devores | +noun: velvet or satin having a design etched with acid |
| dewclaw | ed | dewclawed | having a dewclaw |
| dharma | va | dhamma | custom or law regarded as duty |
| diapsid | pl | diapsids | +noun: type of reptile |
| diastema | pl | diastemas | large space between teeth: prev pl DIASTEMATA only |
| diazotize | va | diazotise | to convert a compound into a diazo compound |
| dibbuk | pl | dibbukkim | dead person's soul in living person: prev pl DIBBUKIM |
| diecious | ad | dieciously | male and female sexual organs in different individuals |
| diethyl | pl | diethyls | +noun: a compound having two ethyl groups |
| dieting | pl | dietings | +noun: the act of dieting |
| digastric | pl | digastrics | +noun: a muscle of the lower jaw |
| dilatable | ad | dilatably | able to be dilated |
| dingo | +v | dingoed dingoing | +verb: to act in a cowardly manner |
| dinkies | si | dinkie | a double-income, no kids person: prev only DINKY |
| dioicous | ad | dioicously | having male and female sexual organs in different individuals |
| dipteron | pl | dipterons | an insect of the order Diptera: prev pl DIPTERA only |
| disable | +r | disabler | one who disables |
| disgorge | +r | disgorger | one who disgorges |
| disprove | +r | disprover | one who disproves |
| disunite | +r | disuniter | one who disunites |
| djellaba | va | jellabah | an Arab cloak with a hood and wide sleeves |
| dognaping | pl | dognapings | +noun: the abduction of a dog |
| dogsbody | +v | dogsbodied dogsbodying | +noun: to act as a dogsbody |
| domical | ad | domically | like a dome |
| done | +r | doner | as in doner kebab |
| doofus | va | dufus | a fool |
| dook | va | douk | to dip, plunge |
| dopy | ad | dopily | foolish |
| dormer | +v | dormered | having dormer windows |
| dosimeter | va | dosemeter | an instrument for measuring dose of radiation |
| doubtable | ad | doubtably | capable of being doubted; questionable |
| doupioni | va | douppioni | a kind of silk yarn |
| downcome | +r | downcomer | a pipe that connects a cistern to a WC |
| downlink | +v | downlinked downlinking | +noun: to download a transmission from a spacecraft |
| dracaena | va | dracena | a genus of liliaceous plants |
| dramedy | va | dramady | a play with both drama and comedy |
| draughty | ad | draughtily | |
| drenching | pl | drenchings | +noun: the act of drenching |
| drinkable | ad | drinkably | able to be drunk |
| drippy | ad | drippily | silly, inane |
| driving | ad | drivingly | |
| drool | +y | drooly | given to drooling |
| drywall | +v | drywalled drywalling | +verb: to build a wall without mortar |
| dualize | va | dualise | to make twofold |
| duchess | +v | duchessed duchessing | +noun: to overwhelm with flattery and attention |
| ductile | ad | ductilely | |
| duet | +v | dueted dueting | to take part in playing a composition for two: prev only DUETTED, DUETTING |
| duiker | va | duikerbok | a small S. African antelope |
| duncish | ad | duncishly | somewhat like a dunce |
| dungarees | ed | dungareed | wearing dungarees |
| dusting | pl | dustings | +noun: the act of dusting |
| dweeb | +y | dweeby | like a dweeb |
| dybbuk | pl | dybbukkim | dead person's soul a living person: prev pl DYBBUKIM |
| dynein | pl | dyneins | an enzyme involved in cell movement: prev no -S |
| dysthymic | pl | dysthymics | +noun: one who is despondent |
| dystopian | pl | dystopians | +noun: a believer in dystopia |
| eagle | +v | eagled eagling | +verb: to score two under par in golf |
| earrings | +v | earringed | wearing earrings |
| ease | +r | easer | one who eases |
| easy | +v | easied easying | +verb: to stop rowing |
| eatery | va | eaterie | a dining establishment |
| eclipse | +r | eclipser | one who eclipses |
| ecologist | va | oecologist | one concerned with ecology |
| editing | pl | editings | +noun: the act of editing |
| edition | +v | editioned editioning | +verb: to produce multiple copies of an original work of art |
| editor | va | editrix | a female editor: EDITRICES or EDITRIXES |
| educable | va | educatable | that can be educated |
| effing | pl | effings | +noun: the act of effing |
| eirenic | va | eirenical | conducive to or working toward peace |
| ejective | ad | ejectively | relating to ejection |
| ekistic | va | ekistical | relating to ekistics, the study of human settlements |
| elenctic | va | elenchtic | relating to argument, cross-examination or refuting |
| embrasure | ed | embrasured | having an embrasure, a loophole in fortifications |
| embus | +v | embuses embused embusing | to put on a bus: prev only EMBUSSES, EMBUSSED, EMBUSSING |
| emerita | pl | emeritas | a (female) honorary retiree: prev pl EMERITAE only |
| emphatic | pl | emphatics | +noun: an emphatic consonant, as used in Arabic |
| endleaf | pl | endleafs | an endpaper: prev pl ENDLEAVES only |
| engaged | ad | engagedly | |
| enokidake | va | enokitake | (Japanese) a type of mushroom |
| enraged | ad | enragedly | |
| enthral | +r | enthraller | one who enthrals |
| envelope | +r | enveloper | one who envelops |
| enwreathe | va | enwreath | to encircle with a wreath |
| ephemeron | pl | ephemerons | a creature that lives one day: prev pl EPHEMERA only |
| epicentre | va | epicentrum | the focus of an earthquake |
| epoxidize | va | epoxidise | to convert into an epoxide, an epoxy compound |
| epyllion | pl | epyllia | a short epic poem: prev pl EPYLLIONS only |
| eremurus | pl | eremuruses | a flower, the foxtail lily: prev pl EREMURI only |
| ergative | pl | ergatives | +noun: a grammatical case found in certain languages |
| ergo | pl | ergos | +noun: an ergometer |
| erotize | va | erotise | to invest with erotic significance |
| ethereal | va | aethereal | characterized by lightness and insubstantiality |
| etherise | +r | etheriser | one who etherises |
| eudaemon | va | eudaimon | a benevolent spirit |
| eulogise | +r | eulogiser | one who eulogises |
| eutexia | va | eutaxia | the property of being easily melted |
| euthyroid | pl | euthyroids | +noun: one characterized by normal thyroid function |
| evading | ad | evadingly | |
| ex | va | exed exing | +verb: to cross out or delete |
| excitable | ad | excitably | |
| exile | +r | exiler | one who exiles |
| eyas | va | eyass | a young hawk taken from the nest for training |
| fab | pl | fabs | +noun: a fabrication |
| facedown | pl | facedowns | +noun: the act of forcing someone to back down |
| facia | pl | faciae | a nameplate or sign above shop: prev pl FACIAS only |
| faddish | ad | faddishly | |
| faggy | +c | faggier faggiest | homosexual |
| fainting | ad | faintingly | |
| falcula | pl | falculae | a curved sharp-pointed claw: prev pl FALCULAS only |
| faradise | +r | faradiser | one who faradises |
| faradize | +r | faradizer | one who faradizes |
| farinose | ad | farinosely | resembling or yielding flour |
| fasces | si | fascis | a bundle of rods, symbol of authority: no sing prev |
| fasciate | ad | fasciately | in bundles |
| fashion | +y | fashiony | fashionable |
| fathering | pl | fatherings | +noun: the act of fathering |
| favoring | ad | favoringly | |
| feck | +v | fecked fecking | +verb: to fuck |
| fegs | si | feg | (Dial.) segment of an orange: prev FEGS = mild oath |
| feigning | ad | feigningly | |
| feisty | ad | feistily | |
| feldsher | va | feldschar feldscher | in Russia and Eastern Europe, a partly trained doctor, or one who assists a doctor on the battlefield |
| fellator | va | fellatrix | a female who performs fellatio |
| feral | pl | ferals | +noun: a person who displays wild tendencies |
| ferrotype | +v | ferrotyped ferrotyping | +verb: to take a photographic picture on an iron plate by a collodion process |
| fest | +y | festy | very bad |
| fetation | va | foetation | the process of development of a foetus |
| feverous | ad | feverously | affected with fever |
| fez | +y | fezzy | like a fez, a red brimless cap |
| fiberize | va | fiberise | to break into fibers |
| fibrous | ad | fibrously | containing, or consisting of, fibers |
| fier | pl | fiers | +noun: a companion: before FIER was only adj, the comp of FIE |
| figural | ad | figurally | represented by figure or delineation |
| figurate | ad | figurately | of a definite form or figure |
| figured | ad | figuredly | |
| filigree | va | fillagree | a kind of ornamental metallic lacework |
| fillister | va | fillester | a rabbet plane used in making window sashes |
| fioritura | va | fioratura | a florid embellishment to a melody: FIORATURAE |
| firearm | ed | firearmed | carrying a firearm |
| firedrake | va | firedragon | a fire-breathing dragon |
| fishwife | ad | fishwifely | in the manner of a fishwife, vituperatively |
| fizgig | +v | fizgigged fizgigging | +verb: to inform on criminals to the police |
| flambee | +v | flambees flambeeing | to douse with a liqueur and ignite. FLAMBEED already valid from FLAMBE |
| flatline | +r | flatliner | one who flatlines |
| flatties | si | flattie | (Coll.) a flat tyre. Prev only FLATTY |
| flaunty | ad | flauntily | in a flaunting fashion |
| flavorful | va | flavourful | full of flavour |
| fleishig | va | fleishik | (Yiddish) made of meat or meat products |
| fleshy | va | fleshily | |
| flextime | +r | flextimer | one who does flextime |
| flexuous | ad | flexuously | flexing |
| floreat | +v | floreant | 3rd. pers. pl. may they flourish |
| fluidise | +r | fluidiser | one who fluidises |
| fluky | ad | flukily | |
| flunkies | si | flunkie | a liveried servant: prev FLUNKY or FLUNKEY only |
| foetid | ad | foetidly | |
| foldaway | pl | foldaways | +noun: something which can be folded and put away |
| folky | +c | folkier folkiest | folk-like |
| fondling | ad | fondlingly | |
| fondue | +v | fondueing fonduing fondued | +verb: to cook and serve as a fondue |
| footer | +v | footered footering | to mess around aimlessly |
| footwear | +y | footweary | weary from walking |
| forbear | +v | forbare | prev only FORBORE |
| forcemeat | va | farcemeat | meat chopped fine used as a stuffing |
| forcing | ad | forcingly | |
| foreign | ad | foreignly | |
| forespeak | +v | forespake | prev only FORSPOKE |
| formable | ad | formably | that can be formed |
| formicate | +v | formicates formicating formicated | +verb: to crawl around like ants |
| fornenst | va | ferninst | right opposite to in location |
| forswear | +r | forswearer | one who forswears |
| fortunate | pl | fortunates | +noun: a fortunate person |
| fortunize | va | fortunise | to make fortunate or happy |
| fracture | +r | fracturer | one who fractures |
| frankfurt | va | frankfort | a small smoked sausage |
| frizzy | pl | frizzies | frizzy hair, as in 'a bad case of the frizzies' |
| fro | pl | fros | +noun: a hairstyle |
| frontline | pl | frontlines | +noun |
| frosh | pl | froshes | a freshman: no plural before |
| fructans | si | fructan | a type of polymer of fructose, present in fruit |
| frumpish | ad | frumpishly | |
| funky | ad | funkily | |
| furcate | ad | furcately | forked |
| fusillade | +v | fusilladed fusillading | +verb: to make a simultaneous or successive discharge of firearms |
| gabionade | va | gabionnade | a traverse made with gabions between guns |
| galabea | va | galabiyah | a loose-fitting cloak worn by Arabs |
| galant | +y | galanty | as in galanty show, a pantomime shadow play |
| gan | +v | gans ganning ganned | +verb: to go |
| gangbang | gangbanged gangbanging | +verb: to carry out a group rape | |
| gapy | +c | gapier gapiest | infested with gapeworm |
| garbage | +y | garbagey garbagy | like garbage |
| garlic | +v | garlicking | +verb: to flavour with garlic. GARLICKED was already adj |
| gasbag | +v | gasbagging gasbagged | +verb: to talk at length |
| gaspereau | pl | gaspereaux | a fish of herring family: prev pl GASPEREAUS only |
| gate | +r | gater | an alligator |
| gator | va | gater | an alligator |
| gaugeable | ad | gaugeably | capable of being gauged |
| gazing | pl | gazings | +noun: the act of gazing |
| gelati | pl | gelatis | a layered dessert of frozen custard and ice cream |
| geminate | ad | geminately | twinned |
| gen | +v | genning genned | +verb: to gain information |
| genizah | pl | genizoth | synagogue book room: prev pl GENIZAHS only |
| genoa | va | genny | a large jib which overlaps the mainsail |
| geophagy | va | geophagia | the practice of feeding on soil |
| germanize | va | germanise | to make German |
| geropiga | va | jerepigo | a sweet fortified wine similar to port |
| ghibli | va | gibli | a hot, dry, dusty wind, a sirocco |
| gingko | pl | gingkos | a kind of tree: prev pl GINKGOES only |
| gippo | pl | gippoes | a gypsy: prev pl GIPPOS only |
| girding | ad | girdingly | |
| girly | +c | girlier girliest | girlish |
| git | +v | gitted gitting | +verb: to get |
| glaucous | ad | glaucously | |
| glazy | ad | glazily | |
| glitchy | glitchier glitchiest | full of snags or problems | |
| glint | +y | glinty | full of glints |
| glitz | +v | glitzing glitzed | +verb: to make something more attractive |
| globose | ad | globosely | having a rounded form like a globe |
| globular | pl | globulars | +noun: a globular star cluster |
| gloomful | ad | gloomfully | full of gloom |
| gloppy | +c | gloppier gloppiest | like glop, gooey |
| glossator | va | glossist | a writer of glosses or comments |
| glossing | ad | glossingly | |
| glum | pl | glums | +noun: gloomy feelings |
| gluteus | va | glute | any of the three large muscles of the buttocks |
| glutting | ad | gluttingly | |
| gnawing | ad | gnawingly | |
| gnomical | ad | gnomically | signifying general truth; relating to aphorisms or proverbs |
| gnostic | pl | gnostics | +noun: one who knows |
| goatish | ad | goatishly | lustful |
| goiter | ed | goitered | affected with goiter, an enlargement of the thyroid |
| golly | +v | gollied gollying | +verb: to spit |
| gooey | ad | gooily | |
| goony | +c | goonier gooniest | stupid |
| goor | +y | goory | a mongrel, a native dog |
| gorgio | va | gadjo | a non-gypsy. No -S |
| gossiper | va | gossipper | one who gossips |
| goujons | si | goujon | strips of fish deep-fried: prev no sing |
| gradely | +c | gradelier gradeliest | decent; orderly |
| graecize | va | graecise | to make Greek, to hellenize |
| graecize | va | grecise | to make Greek, to hellenize |
| graffiti | +v | graffitiing or graffiting, graffitied | +verb: to inscribe with GRAFFITI |
| grazing | ad | grazingly | |
| greatest | pl | greatests | +noun: the most outstanding individual in a given field |
| greek | ed | greeked | with text represented as grey lines on a computer screen GREEKING was already valid as noun. Still no verb GREEK, and the noun GREEK still does not take an –S |
| greyhound | va | grayhound | a tall slender dog of an ancient breed used for coursing |
| grice | +v | griced | +verb: to be a railway fan. GRICING was already noun. |
| grid | ed | gridded | having a grid |
| grieving | pl | grievings | |
| griller | +y | grillery | a place where food is grilled |
| gringo | va | gringa | a female gringo |
| grinning | pl | grinnings | +noun: the act of grinning |
| grisly | pl | grislies | +noun: a large American bear, a grizzly |
| groaning | ad | groaningly | |
| grommet | ed | grommeted grommeting | +verb: to fit with grommets |
| grooming | pl | groomings | +noun: the act of grooming |
| grotto | ed | grottoed | having a grotto |
| grummets | +v | grummeted grummeting | +verb: to fit with grummets |
| grumpish | ad | grumpishly | grumpy |
| grunge | +r | grunger | a fan of grunge music |
| guacamole | va | guachamole | a kind of dip |
| guildsman | va | gildsman | a male member of a gild |
| gulping | ad | gulpingly | |
| gummy | pl | gummies | +noun: a kind of small shark |
| gummy | ad | gummily | sticky with gum |
| gunge | +v | gunged gunging | +verb: to block or crust with gunge |
| gunky | gunkier gunkiest | like GUNK, any unpleasant, dirty, sticky material | |
| gunpowder | +y | gunpowdery | like gunpowder |
| gyronny | va | gironny | of a heraldic field, divided in a triangle pattern |
| habanera | va | habanero | a slow and seductive Cuban dance |
| habergeon | va | haubergeon | a sleeveless mail coat |
| hacksaw | +v | hacksawing hacksawed | hacksawn +verb: to cut with a hacksaw |
| hafiz | pl | hafizes | one who knows the Koran by heart: prev pl HAFIS* only, now no longer allowed |
| haftorah | pl | haftoros | a Biblical selection: prev pl HAFTORAHS, HAFTOROT, HAFTOROTH |
| haiku | pl | haikus | a Japanese syllabic verse-form: prev no –S |
| halacha | pl | halachoth | Jewish oral law: prev pl HALACHOT, HALACHAS |
| halakha | va | halakhah | Jewish oral law: HALAKHAHS, HALAKHOTH |
| halloo | va | hulloo | to hail: HULLOOS, HULLOOING, HULLOOED |
| halloumi | va | haloumi | a Greek meal of goat's cheese: HALOUMIS |
| handball | +v | handballed handalling | +verb: to play handball |
| handsome | pl | handsomes | +noun: a handsome person |
| haphtara | va | haphtarah | a Biblical selection: HAPHTARAHS |
| hardbound | pl | hardbounds | +noun: a book bound in hard covers |
| hardcore | pl | hardcores | +noun: a style of rock music |
| harelip | ed | harelipped | having a harelip |
| harrowing | pl | harrowings | +noun: the act of harrowing |
| hastate | ad | hastately | spear-shaped |
| hasteful | ad | hastefully | hurried |
| hatcheck | pl | hatchecks | +noun: the checking of hats |
| hautbois | va | haubois | a large kind of strawberry |
| havdalah | va | havdoloh | a Jewish end-of-Sabbath ceremony: HAVDOLOHS |
| hawthorn | +y | hawthorny | like hawthorn |
| headache | +y | headachey | suffering from a headache |
| heather | ed | heathered | covered with heather |
| hebrize | va | hebraise | to convert into the Hebrew idiom |
| hectogram | va | hektogram | a hundred grams |
| hegumen | va | hegumenos | the head of a monastery: HEGUMENOI |
| heimish | va | haimish | homelike. |
| heliotype | +v | heliotyped heliotyping | +verb: to obtain a picture obtained by the process of heliotypy |
| helleri | pl | helleris | a tropical fish: prev pl HELLERIES only |
| hemagog | va | haemagogue | a drug that promotes the flow of blood |
| hemagog | va | hemagogue | a drug that promotes the flow of blood |
| hematein | va | haematein | an indicator and biological stain |
| hemolysin | va | haemolysin | any substance that breaks down of red blood cells |
| hemolyze | va | hemolyse | to break down red blood cells |
| herpetic | pl | herpetics | +noun: a person suffering from herpes, a skin disease |
| hibakusha | pl | hibakushas | atom bomb survivor: prev pl HIBAKUSHI only |
| hickies | si | hickie | a gadget, a doo-dah: prev sing HICKEY only |
| hieratic | va | hieratical | pertaining to priests |
| hillock | ed | hillocked | having hillocks |
| him | pl | hims | +noun: a male |
| hindering | pl | hinderings | +noun: an act of hindering |
| hinting | pl | hintings | +noun: an act of hinting |
| hip | ad | hiply | trendy |
| hissy | +c | hissier hissiest | like a tantrum |
| holey | +c | holeyer holeyest | full of holes |
| holster | +v | holstering | +verb: to place in a holster. HOLSTERED was already valid |
| homey | pl | homeys | +noun: one who is home-loving |
| hominize | va | hominise | to adapt the environment for evolving man |
| honeydew | ed | honeydewed | covered with honeydew |
| honeyed | ad | honeyedly | sweetened with or as with honey |
| hongi | va | hongies hongiing hongied | +verb: to greet by touching nose to nose |
| honied | ad | honiedly | sweetened with or as with honey |
| hoolie | pl | hoolies | +noun: a lively party |
| hopple | +r | hoppler | one who hopples |
| hosannah | pl | hosannahs | a shout of praise or adoration: prev no –S |
| hose | +y | hosey | to choose sides in a child's game |
| hothouse | +v | hothoused hothousing | +verb: to rear intensively |
| hourly | pl | hourlies | +noun: something done by the hour |
| huffing | pl | huffings | +noun: the act of huffing |
| humanise | +r | humaniser | one who humanises |
| hummus | va | houmous | a Middle Eastern hors d'oeuvre |
| hunkies | si | hunkie | a person of Hungarian descent, = HUNKY |
| hyperpnea | va | hyperpnoea | abnormally fast breathing |
| hyping | pl | hypings | +noun: the act of hyping |
| hypomanic | pl | hypomanics | +noun: a sufferer from hypomania, a mild mania |
| icecap | ed | icecapped | having an icecap, a small ice sheet |
| illusion | ed | illusioned | having an illusion |
| imbecile | ad | imbecilely | |
| immerse | +r | immerser | one who immerses |
| immunise | +r | immuniser | one who immunises |
| immunize | +r | immunizer | one who immunizes |
| impeding | ad | impedingly | |
| impleaded | va | impled | new past of IMPLEAD, to prosecute a suit against: prev pt IMPLEADED only |
| implicit | +y | implicity | the state of being implicit |
| importing | pl | importings | +noun: the act of importing |
| increate | ad | increately | existing without having been created |
| inedible | ad | inedibly | |
| infallible | pl | infallibles | +noun: someone infallible |
| inferable | ad | inferably | that can be inferred |
| infimum | pl | infima | the greatest lower bound: prev pl INFIMUMS only |
| inflated | ad | inflatedly | |
| infuscate | va | infuscated | clouded or tinged with brown |
| inion | pl | inions | the external occipital protuberance: prev pl INIA only |
| initiator | va | initiatrix | a female initiator: INITIATRIXES |
| insectan | va | insectean | pertaining to insects |
| insomuch | va | inasmuch | in view of the fact that |
| intact | ad | intactly | |
| integrant | pl | integrants | +noun: an integrant part or thing |
| intifada | va | intifadah intifadeh | the resistance by Palestinians to Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of Jordan |
| inutile | ad | inutilely | useless |
| inverse | +v | inversed inversing | +verb: to make something opposite or contrary in effect |
| involute | ad | involutely | |
| iodise | +r | iodiser | one that iodises, treats with iodine |
| irrigable | ad | irrigably | that can be irrigated |
| islet | ed | isleted | having islets |
| isodose | pl | isodoses | +noun: a point that receives an equal dose of radiation |
| isopycnic | pl | isopycnics | +noun: a line connecting points of equal density |
| isostasy | va | isostacy | equilibrium in the earth's crust |
| itemise | +r | itemiser | one who itemises |
| iwis | si | iwi | (Maori) a tribe. Prev only IWIS = certainly |
| jabbing | ad | jabbingly | |
| jacking | pl | jackings | +noun: raising with a type of lever |
| jacksie | va | jaxie jaxy | the posterior, the anus |
| jaggy | pl | jaggies | +noun: a jagged computer image |
| jake | +y | jakey | a homeless alcoholic |
| jamming | pl | jammings | +noun: the act of jamming |
| japanize | va | japanise | to make Japanese |
| jargon | +y | jargony | like jargon |
| jarovize | va | jarovise | to hasten the flowering of a plant |
| jaunting | ad | jauntingly | |
| jequirity | va | jequerity | the tropical shrub Indian liquorice |
| jerking | ad | jerkingly | |
| jewfish | va | jewie | an Australian fish |
| jimmies | si | jimmie | a short crowbar used by burglars. Prev only JIMMY |
| jinni | pl | jinnis | one of a class of Muslim spirits: prev pl JINN only |
| jivey | va | jivy | jazzy, lively: JIVIER, JIVIEST |
| jollier | pl | jolliers | +noun: a joker |
| jones | +v | jonesed jonesing | to desire |
| joshing | ad | joshingly | teasing |
| journal | +v | journaled journaling | +verb: to record in a journal |
| judging | ad | judgingly | |
| jumar | +v | jumared jumaring | +verb: to climb using jumars |
| jumping | ad | jumpingly | |
| jumping | pl | jumpings | +noun: the act of jumping |
| junket | +v | junketted junketting | to go on a pleasure trip: prev only JUNKETED, JUNKETING |
| junketer | junketter | one who junkets, feasts | |
| kabbala | va | qabala | a mystical tradition of Jewish rabbis |
| kaddish | pl | kaddishes | a Jewish prayer: prev pl KADDISHIM only |
| kaffiyeh | va | kaffiyah keffiyah | the cloth head gear worn by many Palestinians |
| kazi | va | khazi | a lavatory |
| keg | +v | kegged kegging | +verb: to put in kegs |
| kemp | +y | kempy | like KEMP, coarse hair: KEMPIEST, KEMPIEST |
| keno | va | keeno | a gambling variety of lotto: KEENOS |
| keno | va | quino | a gambling variety of the game of lotto: QUINOS |
| kerbing | pl | kerbings | +noun |
| kerfuffle | va | kurfuffle | commotion |
| keying | pl | keyings | +noun: the act of keying |
| kgotla | va | lekgotla | a Botswanan assembly: LEKGOTLAS |
| kidnaping | pl | kidnapings | +noun: an act of kidnap |
| kindies | si | kindie | a nursery school. Prev sing KINDY only |
| kittel | pl | kittels | a white robe used in Jewish ceremonies: prev no –S |
| klezmer | pl | klezmers | a Jewish style of music: prev pl KLEZMORIM only |
| kludge | +v | kludging kludged | +verb: to botch |
| kludge | +y | kludgey | botched |
| kluge | +v | kluged kluging | +verb: to botch |
| knaidel | va | kneidel | in Jewish cooking, a dumpling. No -S |
| knarl | +y | knarly | like a knarl, a knot in wood |
| knarry | +c | knarrier knarriest | knotty |
| knawel | va | knawe | a cornfield weed of the chickweed family |
| kneidlach | va | knaidlach | in Jewish cooking, a dumpling |
| knob | +v | knobbing | +verb: to supply with knobs; KNOBBED was already valid as adj |
| knolly | +c | knollier knolliest | like a knoll |
| kobo | pl | kobos | a monetary unit of Nigeria: prev no –S |
| koi | pl | kois | a Japanese carp: prev no –S |
| kombu | va | konbu | a kind of Japanese seaweed |
| koori | pl | koories | a young Aborigine girl: prev pl KOORIS only |
| korero | +v | koreroed koreroing | +verb: to talk, converse |
| korma | va | qorma | (Hindi) an Indian dish, a mild curry |
| kreplach | va | kreplech | small dough dumplings usu. served in soup |
| kuchen | pl | kuchens | a yeast-raised coffee cake: prev no –S |
| kumara | va | kumera | the sweet potato |
| kuri | va | goorie goory | a mongrel, an extinct native dog |
| kvetchy | ad | kvetchily | whiny |
| kye | pl | kyes | Korean-American banking club: prev KYE = cattle, no -S |
| laari | pl | laaris | a monetary unit of the Maldives: prev no –S |
| labored | ad | laboredly | |
| laboring | ad | laboringly | |
| laboured | ad | labouredly | |
| labourism | va | laborism | support for workers' rights |
| lacertian | pl | lacertians | +noun: a lizard |
| lackaday | va | alackaday | alas |
| lacteal | ad | lacteally | |
| lambing | pl | lambings | +noun: giving birth to a lamb |
| lamellar | ad | lamellarly | flat and thin |
| laminal | pl | laminals | +noun: a consonant articulated with the blade of the tongue |
| lampers | si | lamper | cyclostome fish: prev only LAMPERS, a horse disease |
| landfill | ed | landfilled | LANDFILLING was already valid as a noun |
| landmark | +v | landmarked landmarking | +verb: to mark with a boundary line |
| langer | pl | langers | +noun: a penis |
| laryngal | pl | laryngals | +noun: a sound articulated at the larynx |
| lashing | ad | lashingly | |
| lat | pl | latu | a Latvian unit of currency: prev LATS or LATI |
| lateral | +v | lateralling lateralled | +verb: to throw a sideways pass in football |
| laterize | va | laterise | to convert into laterite |
| latinize | va | latinise | to convert into Latin |
| latticing | pl | latticings | +noun: latticework |
| leading | ad | leadingly | |
| leal | +c | lealer lealest | loyal |
| lechayim | va | lechaim lehaim | a traditional Jewish toast |
| leeward | ad | leewardly | towards the lee side |
| legalise | +r | legaliser | one who legalises |
| lentoid | pl | lentoids | +noun: something shaped like a lens or lentil |
| lesion | +v | lesioning | +verb: to cause lesions: LESIONED already adj |
| levigate | +r | levigator | one who levigates, grinds to powder |
| levitate | +r | levitator | one who levitates |
| lezzie | va | lezza | a lesbian |
| life | pl | lifes | as in still lifes |
| ligulate | va | ligulated | resembling or shaped like a strap |
| lineolate | va | lineolated | marked with fine lines |
| linotype | +r | linotyper | a linotyping machine |
| lint | +v | linted linting | +verb: to put lint on |
| lipolytic | va | lipolitic | relating to lipolsyis, the disintegration of fat |
| liver | +v | livered livering | +verb: to thicken or gel |
| livyer | va | liveyer liveyere | a permanent resident of Newfoundland |
| lobular | ad | lobularly | shaped like a lobe |
| locking | pl | lockings | +noun: the act of locking |
| loculate | va | loculated | to divide into compartments |
| logjam | +v | logjammed logjamming | +verb: to cause a jam of logs on a river |
| lollop | +y | lollopy | given to lolloping |
| loo | va | lou | (Scots) to love: LOUS, LOUING, LOUED |
| loony | ad | loonily | crazy |
| loopy | ad | loopily | crazy |
| loosing | pl | loosings | +noun: an act of loosing |
| loppy | pl | loppies | +noun: a man who does maintenance tasks on a ranch |
| lory | va | lowrie lowry | a kind of small parrot |
| loup | va | lowp | (Scots) to leap: LOWPS, LOWPING, LOWPED |
| louse | +r | louser | an unpleasant person |
| lowbrow | va | lowbrowed | of vulgar tastes |
| lowse | ed | lowsed | to loosen. Prev past only LOWSIT |
| lube | +v | lubed lubing | +verb: to lubricate with oil |
| lumping | ad | lumpingly | |
| lunate | pl | lunates | +noun: a crescent-shaped bone of the wrist |
| lunatic | va | lunatical | crazy |
| luring | ad | luringly | |
| lurking | ad | lurkingly | |
| lutefisk | va | lutfisk | dried codfish |
| maar | pl | maare | a volcanic crater without a cone: prev pl only MAARS |
| maas | pl | maases | thick soured milk: prev MAAS only 3rd of MAA |
| macabre | ad | macabrely | grim, gruesome |
| macaroni | va | maccaroni | a form of pasta |
| machete | va | matchet | a broad heavy knife used for cutting or as a weapon |
| machining | pl | machinings | +noun: an act of machining |
| madrasah | va | medrese | (Arabic) an Islamic college |
| mafioso | pl | mafiosos | a member of a mafia: prev plural only MAFIOSI |
| mahimahi | pl | mahimahis | the dolphin-fish: prev no –S |
| maieutic | va | maieutical | of or relating to the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers |
| maik | va | meck | (Scots) an old halfpenny |
| maladroit | pl | maladroits | +noun: one who is clumsy, unskilful |
| mallam | va | malam | a man learned in Koranic studies, used as title |
| malleable | ad | malleably | easily hammered into a sheet |
| malling | pl | mallings | +noun: a mauling |
| mamillate | va | mammillate | with nipple-like projections |
| manicotti | pl | manicottis | tubular stuffed pasta shells: prev no -S |
| manlike | ad | manlikely | like a man |
| manoao | va | monoao | (Maori) a New Zealand plant with rigid leaves. No -S |
| marbleise | va | marbelise | to stain or grain in imitation of marble |
| marcato | pl | marcatos | +noun: a direction to play in a marked emphatic manner |
| marsupial | va | marsupian | a pouched mammal |
| martial | pl | martials | as in court martials |
| massive | pl | massives | +noun: a group of friends or associates |
| matelote | va | matelotte | (Fr.) a kind of rich fish stew |
| maturer | pl | maturers | +noun: one who matures |
| maty | pl | maties | +noun: a friend |
| maudlin | ad | maudlinly | |
| maulvi | va | moolvi moolvie | (Urdu) a teacher in Islam: MOOLVIS |
| max | +v | maxed maxing | +verb: to reach the full extent |
| maximise | +r | maximiser | one who maximises |
| maximum | ad | maximumly | |
| maze | +y | mazey | dizzy |
| mayhap | va | mayhappen | perhaps |
| mealie | va | mielie | an ear of maize |
| mecca | va | mekka | a place visited by many people |
| med | pl | meds | +noun: medication |
| meddling | ad | meddlingly | |
| medevacking medevacked | +v | medevacing medevaced | new variant tense forms for MEDEVAC, to evacuate the wounded from the battlefield by helicopter |
| medevac | va | medivac | to evacuate the wounded from the battlefield by helicopter: MEDIVACS, MEDIVACING, MEDIVACED |
| medicable | ad | medicably | capable of being medicated |
| megillah | va | megilla | (Hebrew) a scroll containing a book of the Old Testament: MEGILLAS |
| melanize | va | melanise | to make dark |
| melodise | +r | melodiser | one who melodises |
| memorise | +r | memoriser | one who memorises |
| mensch | +y | menschy | like a mensch, a person of integrity and honor |
| merc | pl | merces | a mercenary: prev plural MERCS only |
| merging | pt | mergings | +noun: the act of merging |
| mering | pl | merings | +noun, a marking off |
| mescaline | va | mezcaline | the principal alkaloid in mescal, used as a hallucinogen |
| meshuga | pl | meshugas | +noun: a mad person |
| meshugaas | pl | meshugasen | madness, foolishness |
| meshugaas | va | mishegoss | (Yiddish) madness, foolishness |
| metestrus | va | metoestrus | the period in the oestrous cycle following oestrus, characterized by lack of sexual activity |
| micella | pl | micellas | a group of molecular chains: prev pl MICELLAE only |
| miche | va | mich | to play truant |
| micronize | va | micronise | to reduce to a few microns in diameter |
| middy | va | middie | a 285ml beer glass |
| midge | +y | midgy | full of midges: MIDGIER, MIDGIEST |
| midlife | +r | midlifer | one in midlife |
| midrash | pl | midrashot | rabbinic oral tradition: prev pl MIDRASHIM or MIDRASHOTH only |
| mignonne | pl | mignonnes | +noun: a darling |
| mikveh | pl | mikvos mikvot | a place for ritual bathing by Orthodox Jews: prev pl MIKVEHS only |
| milchig | va | milchik | (Yiddish) made of or derived from milk or dairy products |
| mild | va | milded milding | +verb: to become gentle |
| milksop | +y | milksoppy | like a milksop, a spiritless man or youth |
| minaret | ed | minareted | having a minaret, a kind of tower |
| minatory | ad | minatorily | menacing |
| minge | +r | minger | an unpleasant person |
| minidisk | va | minidisc | a small recordable compact disk |
| minimise | +r | minimiser | one who minimises |
| misinform | va | disinform | to inform incorrectly |
| misjudge | +r | misjudger | one who misjudges |
| misprize | +r | misprizer | one who misprizes |
| misquote | +r | misquoter | one who misquotes |
| misshape | +r | misshaper | one who misshapes |
| moaning | ad | moaningly | |
| moaning | pl | moanings | +noun: the sound of moaning |
| mob | +y | moby | a mobile phone |
| mobbish | ad | mobbishly | like a mob |
| mobby | va | mauby | a frothy beverage made from boiled tree-bark |
| mocker | +v | mockered mockering | +verb: to clothe |
| moderne | pl | modernes | +noun: a design style of the 1920s and 1930s |
| modular | pl | modulars | +noun: a thing composed of modules |
| mogul | va | moghul mughal | an influential person, a magnate |
| molasses | si | molasse | soft sediment: prev only MOLASSES = sugary stuff |
| molluscan | pl | molluscans | +noun: a mollusk |
| molluskan | pl | molluskans | +noun: a mollusk |
| monachist | pl | monachists | +noun: an adherent of monachism, a monk |
| monatomic | va | monoatomic | consisting of, or containing, one atom |
| monkish | ad | monkishly | like a monk |
| monolog | va | monologged monologging | +verb: to give a dramatic piece for a single performer |
| monologue | va | monologued monologuing | +verb: to give a dramatic piece for a single performer |
| monster | +v | monstered monstering | +verb: to criticise severely |
| moonshine | +v | moonshined moonshining | +verb: to distil illicit liquor |
| moribund | ad | moribundly | dying |
| motty | pl | motties | +noun: a target at which coins are aimed in pitch-and-toss |
| muddling | ad | muddlingly | |
| muddling | pl | muddlings | +noun: the act of muddling |
| muddly | +c | muddlier muddliest | |
| muirburn | va | moorburn | the seasonal burning of heather on moorland |
| mules | +v | muleses mulesing mulesed | +verb: to perform the Mules operation on a sheep |
| multifid | ad | multifidly | having many divisions |
| multilane | pl | multilanes | +noun: a highway having several lanes |
| multipole | pl | multipoles | +noun: something having many poles |
| multitone | pl | multitones | +noun: something having many tones |
| mungo | pl | mungoes | wool waste: prev pl MUNGOS only |
| muscadel | va | muscadelle | a rich spicy wine derived from muscat grapes |
| muscovado | va | muscavado | raw or unrefined sugar: MUSCAVADOS |
| music | va | musick | music |
| mutch | +v | mutching mutched | +verb: to cadge |
| mycorhiza | pl | mycorhizae | a plant root fungus: prev pl MYCORHIZAS only |
| myrmidon | pl | myrmidones | a loyal follower: prev pl MYRMIDONS only |
| naartje | va | naartjie | (Afrikaans) a small sweet orange like the mandarin |
| naff | +v | naffed | +verb: to go away: NAFFING was already adj |
| naff | +c | naffer naffest | |
| naif | ad | naifly | |
| nape | +v | naping naped | +verb: to attack with napalm |
| nates | si | natis | (Lat.) a buttock: previously only in pl NATES |
| nautch | va | nauch | (Hindi) a dancing entertainment in India |
| navicular | va | naviculare | a boat-shaped bone of the wrist |
| nectary | ed | nectaried | having a nectary |
| neddy | +c | neddier neddiest | like a ned, a hooligan |
| neglecter | va | neglector | one who neglects |
| nick | +y | nicky | as in nicky nicky nine doors, a child's game |
| nightlife | pl | nightlives | life that goes on at night: prev pl NIGHTLIFES only |
| nilpotent | pl | nilpotents | +noun: equal to zero when raised to some power |
| noctiluca | pl | noctilucas | a marine dinoflagellate: prev pl NOCTILUCAE only |
| noddy | +c | noddier noddiest | easy to understand |
| noncola | pl | noncolas | +noun: a soft drink other than cola |
| nonedible | pl | nonedibles | +noun , something not edible |
| nonethnic | pl | nonethnics | +noun: one not of ethnic origin |
| nonexempt | pl | nonexempts | +noun: one who is not exempt |
| nonglare | pl | nonglares | +noun: a nonglare material |
| nonhuman | pl | nonhumans | +noun: a creature that is not human |
| nonimage | pl | nonimages | +noun: a person who is not a celebrity |
| nonjury | pl | nonjuries | +noun: a trial without a jury |
| nonkosher | pl | nonkoshers | +noun: a food that is not kosher |
| nonliving | pl | nonlivings | +noun: something not living |
| nonmarket | pl | nonmarkets | +noun: not related to the market |
| nonparty | pl | nonparties | +noun: something that is not a political party |
| nonstop | pl | nonstops | +noun: a nonstop flight |
| nonvocal | pl | nonvocals | +noun: a music track without singing |
| noodling | pl | noodlings | +noun: the act of improvising on a musical instrument |
| nopal | pl | nopales | +noun: a type of cactus: prev pl NOPALS only |
| nosedived | +v | nosedove | new variant pt of NOSEDIVE, to dive straight down |
| noshery | va | nosherie | a cafe or restaurant |
| nouveau | pl | nouveaux | (Fr.) new: prev no plural |
| nowt | +y | nowty | bad-tempered |
| nugget | +v | nuggeting nuggetting nuggeted nuggetted | +verb: to polish footwear |
| numbering | pl | numberings | +noun: the act of numbering |
| nunchaku | va | numchuck | a martial arts weapon |
| nuptial | ad | nuptially | relating to a wedding |
| nurd | +y | nurdy | like a NURD: NURDIER, NURDIEST |
| oak | ed | oaked | referring to wine stored in an oak cask |
| oaky | pl | oakies | +noun: an ice-cream |
| obligate | +r | obligator | one who obligates |
| oda | va | odah | a room in a harem |
| odorize | va | odorise | to give an odour to |
| oenophile | va | enophile | one who loves wine |
| officinal | pl | officinals | +noun: an officinal preparation or plant |
| offshore | pl | offshores | +noun: a company operating abroad for tax reasons |
| ogreish | ad | ogreishly | like an ogre |
| oligaemia | va | oligemia | abnormal deficiency of blood |
| olykoek | va | olicook | a kind of American doughnut |
| omnibus | pl | omnibusses | prev pl OMNIBUSES only |
| onium | pl | oniums | +noun: a compound with name ending in -onium |
| ony | va | onie | (Scots) any |
| oof | +y | oofy | having money: OOFIER, OOFIEST |
| opposable | ad | opposably | able to be opposed |
| opposing | ad | opposingly | |
| opsonize | va | opsonise | to form opsonins in |
| optimise | +r | optimiser | one who optimises |
| orbital | ad | orbitally | relating to an orbit |
| ordinal | ad | ordinally | |
| orinasal | ad | orinasally | |
| orthotone | pl | orthotones | +noun: word taking accent in some positions not others |
| oscitancy | va | oscitance | yawning, sleepiness |
| osmic | ad | osmically | relating to the sense of smell |
| osseous | ad | osseously | composed of bone |
| ostinato | pl | ostinati | a short repeated melody: prev pl OSTINATOS only |
| ou | pl | ous | +noun: a man, a bloke |
| ouguiya | pl | ouguiyas | a monetary unit of Mauritania: prev no -S |
| outgasses | +v | outgases | new variant for 3rd person: to release occluded gas |
| outmoded | ad | outmodedly | |
| outswing | +v | outswinging outswung | +verb: to cause to swing outwards |
| oven | +v | ovened ovening | +verb: to cook in an oven |
| overarm | +v | overarms overarming overarmed | +verb: to throw a ball overarm |
| overbred | +v | overbreed overbreeding | + verb, to produce by too much selective breeding; OVERBRED was already adj |
| overbrief | +v | overbriefs overbriefed overbriefing | +verb: to brief excessively: prev adj only |
| overlearn | +v | overlearnt | prev past OVERLEARNED only |
| overspill | +v | overspilt | to spill over: prev past OVERSPILLED only |
| ovoidal | pl | ovoidals | +noun: something egg-shaped |
| paganizer | va | paganiser | one who paganises |
| pair | +c | pairer pairest | (Scots) poor |
| pakfong | va | pakthong | (Chinese) a Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper |
| pallet | +v | palleting | +verb: to load on a pallet: PALLETED already adj |
| palmist | va | palmister | a person who tells fortunes by reading palms |
| palpebra | pl | palpebras | the eyelid: old plural PALPEBRAE only |
| panatela | va | panetella | (Spanish) a long thin cigar |
| panic | ad | panically | resulting from panic |
| pansexual | pl | pansexuals | +noun: one open to any sexual activity |
| pantalets | si | pantalet | long drawers extending below the skirts |
| pappadom popadum poppadum puppodum | va | papadam papadom papadum pappadam poppadom | (Tamil) a thin circle of dough fried in oil until crisp |
| parashah | pl | parashahs parashot | a passage in Jewish literature: prev pl PARASHOTH or PARASHIOTH only |
| parasol | ed | parasoled | having a parasol |
| pareve | va | parev | in Judaism, containing neither dairy nor meat ingredients |
| parulis | pl | parulides | an inflamed spot on the gum: prev pl PARULISES only |
| parvenue | pl | parvenues | a female parvenu, or upstart: prev no -S |
| pasquil | +v | pasquilling pasquilled | +verb: to ridicule with a satire or lampoon |
| passage | +r | passager | as in passager hawk |
| passing | ad | passingly | |
| pasty | ad | pastily | |
| pathogen | va | pathogene | an agent that causes disease |
| patina | ed | patinaed | having a patina |
| patinize | va | patinise | to cover with a patina |
| patulous | ad | patulously | spreading |
| pavis | va | pavisse | a shield for the entire body |
| pavlova | va | pav | a type of meringue |
| peachy | ad | peachily | |
| peckish | ad | peckishly | hungry |
| pedaller | va | pedaler | one who pedals |
| pederasty | va | paederasty | anal intercourse between a man and a boy |
| pelagic | pl | pelagics | +noun: any creature living in the open sea |
| peltate | ad | peltately | having stalk attached to edge but near the middle |
| pendant | ad | pendantly | hanging |
| pennill | pl | pennillion | a verse or stanza in Welsh poetry: prev pl PENILLION |
| pennill | va | penill | a verse or stanza in Welsh poetry: PENILLION |
| peptise | +r | peptiser | an agent that peptises |
| perchery | pl | percheries | +noun: a modified deep litter system |
| pereion | pl | pereions | the thorax of some crustaceans: prev pl PEREIA only |
| pereon | pl | pereons | the thorax of some crustaceans: prev pl PEREA only |
| perfumer | va | perfumier | a person engaged in making or selling perfumes |
| periodid | va | periodide | an iodid, a salt of hydriodic acid |
| peritrich | pl | peritrichs | a bacterium with cilia: prev pl PERITRICHA only |
| permeant | pl | permeants | +noun: something that permeates |
| peroxy | va | peroxo | containing the bivalent group O2 |
| pertussis | pl | pertusses | whooping cough: prev pl PERTUSSISES |
| petnap | petnaping | prev pp PETNAPPING only | |
| pharyngal | pl | pharyngals | +noun: pertaining to the pharynx, or throat |
| phasing | pl | phasings | +noun: an act of phasing |
| philistia | pl | philistias | the class or world of cultured Philistines: prev no –S |
| philomel | va | philomela | a nightingale |
| phreak | +v | phreaked | +verb: to use equipment to obtain free telephone calls: PHREAKING was already noun |
| physique | ed | physiqued | having a particular physique |
| picketing | pl | picketings | +noun: the act of picketing |
| picky | ad | pickily | choosy |
| picturize | va | picturise | to picture |
| piddling | ad | piddlingly | |
| pidginize | va | pidginise | to make into pidgin |
| piert | pl | pierts | +noun: a small plant with small greenish flowers |
| pigsticked | va | pigstuck | new variant pt of PIGSTICK, to hunt pigs with a spear |
| pike | +y | pikey | a gypsy or vagrant |
| piking | pl | pikings | +noun: piercing with a pike |
| pilau | va | pilao pulao | (Persian) a dish of rice |
| pilea | pl | pileas | the artillery or gunpowder plant: prev only pl of PILEUM |
| pilula | pl | pilulae | a small pill; prev pl PILULAS only |
| pinball | +v | pinballing pinballed | +verb: to ricochet |
| pisolite | va | pisolith | a variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate |
| pistoleer | va | pistolier | one who uses a pistol |
| pize | +v | pizing pized | +verb: to strike someone a blow |
| planta | pl | plantae | the sole of the foot: prev pl PLANTAS only |
| plastic | ad | plasticly | |
| playlist | +v | playlisting playlisted | +verb: to select to be broadcast regularly by a radio station |
| pleased | ad | pleasedly | |
| plenary | pl | plenaries | +verb: a book read at the Eucharist |
| pleuch | +v | pleuching pleuched | +verb: to plough |
| pleugh | +v | pleughing pleughed | +verb: to plough |
| plew | va | plu plue | a beaver pelt |
| plinking | pl | plinkings | +noun: informal shooting |
| plook | +y | plooky | pimply |
| plookie | va | plooky | pimply |
| plouk | +y | plouky | pimply |
| ploukie | va | plouky | pimply |
| plum | +c | plummer plummest | dark reddish-blue |
| plumose | ad | plumosely | having feathers or plumes |
| plunk | +y | plunky | sounding like a plucked banjo string |
| plus | si | plu | a beaver pelt |
| pocosin | va | pocosen pocoson | (Am. Ind.) an upland swamp of the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S |
| poddies | si | poddie | a user of an iPod |
| podzolize | va | podzolise | to make into a podzol, a type of leached soil |
| pokies | si | pokie | a poker machine |
| police | +r | policer | one who polices |
| policing | pl | policings | +noun: the act of policing |
| pollinate | va | pollenate | to fertilise with pollen |
| poly | pl | polies | a polytechnic: prev pl POLYS only |
| polypary | va | polyparium | the base of a polyp colony, esp coral: POLYPARIA |
| polypod | va | polyped | a many-legged animal |
| polythene | va | polyethene | the systematic name for polythene |
| poncho | ed | ponchoed | wearing a poncho, a South American cloak |
| poofy | va | pouffy | effeminate |
| poonce | +v | poonced pooncing | to behave effeminately |
| poortith | va | puirtith | (Scots) poverty |
| porcino | pl | porcinis | an edible mushroom: prev pl PORCINI only |
| porcupine | +y | porcupiny | |
| poriferan | pl | poriferans | +noun: a member of the Porifera, sponges |
| pork | +v | porking porked | +verb: to make a croaking sound |
| poromeric | pl | poromerics | +noun: a substance permeable to water vapour |
| portiere | ed | portiered | having a portiere, a curtain hanging across a doorway |
| postcava | pl | postcavas | the inferior vena cava: prev pl POSTCAVAE only |
| postil | +v | postiling postiled | +verb: to gloss |
| postteen | pl | postteens | +noun: a young adult |
| poteen | va | poitin | (Irish) illicitly distilled Irish whisky |
| pouff | +y | pouffy | effeminate |
| prandial | ad | prandially | of or relating to dinner |
| preadult | pl | preadults | +noun: one of preadult age |
| preaxial | ad | preaxially | situated in front of any transverse axis in body of animal |
| precocial | pl | precocials | +noun: a bird having downy young |
| predella | pl | predelle | a platform for an altar: prev pl PREDELLAS only |
| predinner | pl | predinners | +noun: the period before dinner |
| prefixal | ad | prefixally | relating to a prefix |
| preflight | pl | preflights | +noun: the period before a flight |
| pregame | pl | pregames | +noun: a period before a sports match |
| premarket | +v | premarkets premarketed | +noun: to market in advance: PREMARKETING was already a noun |
| prenatal | pl | prenatals | +noun: a prenatal examination |
| prerinse | +v | prerinsing prerinsed | +verb: to rinse beforehand |
| presale | pl | presales | +noun: arranging a sale of a product before it is available |
| preseason | pl | preseasons | +noun: the period before the advent of the sports season |
| presummit | pl | presummits | +noun: a meeting held prior to a summit |
| preterm | pl | preterms | +noun: a baby born prematurely |
| prework | +v | preworks preworking preworked | +verb: to work beforehand |
| pricing | pl | pricings | +noun: the act of pricing |
| pricy | ad | pricily | expensive |
| primatial | pl | primatials | +noun: a primate |
| probing | ad | probingly | |
| processor | va | processer | something that processes |
| promo | +v | promoed promoing | +verb: to promote something using a promo |
| pronephros | pl | pronephra pronephroi | a primitive kidney that disappears early in embryonic development |
| propylon | pl | propylons | a porch, vestibule: prev pl PROPYLA only |
| prosoma | pl | prosomata | anterior of animal’s body: prev pl PROSOMAS only |
| protector | va | protecter | one who protects |
| protozoon | pl | protozoons | any member of the Protozoa: prev pl PROTOZOA only |
| pub | +v | pubbed pubbing | +verb: to visit a pub |
| pubes | si | pube | pubic hair |
| puck | +v | pucked pucking | +verb: to strike the ball in hurling |
| purfle | +r | purfler | one who purfles |
| puzzled | ad | puzzledly | |
| pyengadu | va | pyinkado | (Burmese) the ironwood tree: PYINKADOS |
| pyjamas | si | pyjama | no singular before |
| pyralid | va | pyralidid | a kind of moth |
| pyrolize | va | pyrolise | to decompose by pyrolysis, the application of heat |
| pyrolyse | +r | pyrolyser | an agent that pyrolyses |
| pzazz | va | pazzazz pizzaz pizzazz | panache, flamboyance |
| quack | +y | quacky | given to quacking |
| quadriga | pl | quadrigas | carriage drawn by four horses: prev pl QUADRIGAE |
| quantal | ad | quantally | of or pertaining to a quantum |
| quantizer | va | quantiser | one who quantises |
| quercetin | va | quercitin | compound obtained from the bark of quercitron oak |
| quintuple | ad | quintuply | fivefold |
| rabbinic | pl | rabbinics | +noun: the study of rabbinic literature of the post-Talmudic period |
| racemose | ad | racemosely | growing in the form of a raceme |
| racemous | ad | racemously | growing in the form of a raceme |
| rachet | +v | racheted racheting | +verb: to move by use of a rachet |
| rachidial | va | rhachidial | of or like a rhachis |
| rachilla | va | rhachilla | the axis of a grass spikelet |
| racquet | +v | racqueted racqueting | +verb: to strike with a racquet |
| rafting | pl | raftings | +noun: conveyance by raft |
| raggedy | +c | raggedier raggediest | somewhat ragged |
| raiding | pl | raidings | +noun: the act of raiding |
| rammish | ad | rammishly | like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious |
| ramous | ad | ramously | branched |
| ramtil | va | ramtilla | an Indian plant |
| rancour | ed | rancoured | full of rancour |
| randy | ad | randily | |
| ranging | pl | rangings | +noun: the act of ranging |
| rangy | ad | rangily | slim and long-limbed |
| raster | +v | rastered rastering | +verb: to create an image by use of a raster |
| ratable | pl | ratables | +noun: property that is liable to rates |
| rattan | va | rotan | (Malay) any of various esp Malaysian climbing plants |
| ratteen | va | rateen | a rough dress fabric |
| ratty | ad | rattily | bad-tempered |
| ravening | ad | raveningly | |
| ravigote | va | ravigotte | (Fr.) vinegar sauce: minced onion, capers, and herbs |
| rayless | ad | raylessly | without rays |
| reasoned | ad | reasonedly | |
| reblend | +v | reblent | to blend again: prev pt REBLENDED only |
| reclad | +v | reclads recladding recladded | +verb: to clad again |
| recon | +v | reconned reconning | +verb: to reconnoitre |
| reddish | ad | reddishly | somewhat red |
| redline | +r | redliner | one who redlines |
| redlining | pl | redlinings | +noun: the act of running an engine into the red |
| redresser | va | redressor | one who redresses |
| reeking | ad | reekingly | |
| reforming | pl | reformings | +noun: the act of reforming |
| reheating | pl | reheatings | +noun , the act of reheating |
| reinstall | va | reinstal | to instal again |
| removed | ad | removedly | |
| renewed | ad | renewedly | |
| renting | pl | rentings | +noun: the act of renting |
| replete | ad | repletely | |
| reprieve | +r | repriever | one who reprieves |
| reshod | va | reshoed | new variant of pt for RESHOE, to shoe again |
| retie | +v | retieing | to tie again: prev only RETYING |
| retrace | +r | retracer | one who retraces |
| reusable | pl | reusables | +noun: a product that can be used more than once |
| revamping | pl | revampings | +noun: the act of revamping |
| revokable | ad | revokably | that can be revoked |
| revulsive | pl | revulsives | +noun: a counter-irritant |
| rheophil | va | rheophile | living in flowing water |
| rhubarb | +v | rhubarbed | +verb. RHUBARBING was already valid as noun |
| rightable | ad | rightably | that can be righted |
| ripsaw | +v | ripsawing ripsawed ripsawn | +verb: to cut with a ripsaw |
| rocking | ad | rockingly | |
| rollaway | pl | rollaways | +noun: something mounted on rollers for easy movement |
| rotula | pl | rotulae | the kneecap: prev pl ROTULAS only |
| rounded | ad | roundedly | |
| rubbit | +y | rubbity | a pub |
| rugelach | va | rugalach | in Jewish cooking, small crescent-shaped pastries |
| runtish | ad | runtishly | somewhat like a runt |
| rustproof | +v | rustproofs rustproofing rustproofed | +verb: to proof against rust: prev adj only |
| sad | +v | sads sadding sadded | +verb: to express sadness |
| saddo | pl | saddoes | an unsociable person: prev pl SADDOS only |
| sahib | va | saheb | (Hindi) an Englishman or other European |
| saintly | ad | saintlily | like a saint |
| salinize | va | salinise | to render saline |
| sam | +v | samming sammed sams | +verb: to gather |
| samiti | va | samithi | (Hindi) in India, an organisation or committee of workers |
| sanitise | +r | sanitiser | one who sanitises |
| sanitize | +r | sanitizer | one who sanitizes |
| sannyasi | va | sanyasi | (Hindi) a Hindu ascetic or hermit who lives by begging |
| santims | va | santimu | a former coin of Latvia. No –S |
| santir | va | santoor | (Arabic) an Eastern dulcimer |
| sapient | pl | sapients | +noun: a wise person |
| sardine | va | sardined sardined | +verb: to cram tightly together |
| satay | va | satai | a Malaysian dish of meat barbecued on skewers |
| satchel | ed | satcheled | carrying a satchel |
| saturate | +r | saturater | one who saturates |
| saucier | pl | sauciers | +noun: a chef who makes sauce |
| sauna | +v | saunaing saunaed | +verb: to have a sauna |
| saveloy | va | sav | a highly seasoned sausage |
| savvy | ad | savvily | shrewd |
| saxatile | va | saxicole | rock-dwelling |
| sayed | pl | sayeds | a Muslim claiming descent from Mohammed's grandson |
| scag | +v | scagging scagged | +verb: to make a tear in cloth |
| scatty | ad | scattily | crazy, foolish |
| scenic | pl | scenics | +noun: something scenic |
| scheming | ad | schemingly | |
| schlump | +y | schlumpy | moving in a lazy way |
| schmear | +v | schmearing schmeared | +verb: to spread or smear |
| schmooz | +y | schmoozy | gossipy |
| schmooze | +r | schmoozer | one who schmoozes |
| schmutter | va | schmatte | (Yiddish) clothing, rags |
| schnapps | va | shnapps | (Ger) a kind of brandy |
| schnorrer | va | shnorrer | (Yiddish) a beggar |
| schnoz | pl | schnozes | (Yiddish) the nose: prev pl SCHNOZZES only |
| schul | pl | schuls | a synagogue: prev no -S |
| sciamachy | va | sciomachy | fighting with a shadow or an imaginary opponent |
| scrawny | ad | scrawnily | |
| scrubby | ad | scrubbily | like scrub |
| scuba | +v | scubaing scubaing | +verb: to dive using a scuba |
| scummy | ad | scummily | covered with scum |
| seasonal | pl | seasonals | +noun: a seasonal thing |
| seething | ad | seethingly | |
| seiten | va | seitan | wheat gluten, widely used in Far Eastern and vegetarian cookery |
| selfward | va | selfwards | towards oneself |
| sequent | ad | sequently | following |
| sequin | +v | sequining | +verb: to apply sequins to: SEQUINED already valid |
| serge | ed | serged | with sewn seam |
| serge | +r | serger | a machine for serging |
| serpigo | pl | serpigos | a scaly eruption on skin: prev pl SERPIGOES only |
| sesterce | va | sestertius | (Lat) a Roman coin: SESTERTII |
| sexennial | pl | sexennials | +noun: something happening once in six years |
| shack | +v | shacking shacked | +verb: to evade work or responsibility |
| shadchan | va | schatchen shadkhan | (Hebrew) a matchmaker |
| shamable | ad | shamably | that can be shamed |
| shameable | ad | shameably | that can be shamed |
| sharia | va | shariah | the body of Islamic law |
| shastra | va | sastra | (Sanskrit) any of the sacred writings of Hinduism |
| shekel | pl | shekalim shekelim | standard currency of Israel: prev pl SHEKELS only |
| sheqel | pl | sheqels | an ancient unit of weight: prev pl SHEQALIM only |
| shikse | va | shikseh | a non-Jewish girl or young woman |
| shinty | +v | shintying shintied | +verb: to play shinty |
| shire | +v | shiring shired | +verb: to refresh or rest |
| shitty | ad | shittily | |
| shlock | +y | shlocky | of poor quality |
| shochet | pl | shochets | a kosher slaughterer: prev pl SHOCHETIM only |
| shortwave | +v | shortwaved shortwaving | +verb: to broadcast on shortwave |
| shout | +y | shouty | given to shouting |
| shoving | pl | shovings | +noun: the act of shoving |
| shtick | +y | shticky | like a shtick, a comedian’s line of chat |
| shura | va | shoora | (Arabic) the Islamic principle of (rule by) consultation |
| shuttle | +r | shuttler | one who uses a shuttle |
| sidereal | ad | sidereally | of or relating to the stars |
| sidling | ad | sidlingly | |
| sigla | pl | siglas | prev SIGLA existed only as a pl. of SIGLUM, a list of signs |
| silkaline | va | silkalene | a soft light cotton fabric resembling silk |
| simonize | va | simonise | to shine or polish to a high sheen, especially with wax |
| simpatico | va | sympatico | (Ital.) of like mind or temperament; agreeable; pleasing |
| simpering | pl | simperings | +noun: the act of simpering |
| singular | +y | singulary | of a mathematical operator, monadic |
| sirupy | +c | sirupier sirupiest | of or like sirup |
| siwash | +v | siwashed siwashing | +verb: to camp out with only natural shelter |
| skewback | va | skewbacked | architectural term relating to an arch |
| skimobile | +v | skimobiled skimobiling | +verb: to travel by a motorized vehicle on skis |
| skinflint | +y | skinflinty | stingy, like a skinflint |
| skol | +v | skols skolling skolled | +verb: to down an alcoholic drink in one go |
| skoosh | va | scoosh | to squirt, spurt |
| skull | +v | skulling | +verb: to strike on the head: SKULLED was already adj |
| skunk | +y | skunky | like a skunk: SKUNKIER, SKUNKIEST |
| slagging | pl | slaggings | +noun: the act of slagging |
| slighter | pl | slighters | +noun: one who slights |
| slinter | va | slanter | a dodge, a trick |
| slippy | ad | slippily | slippery |
| sludge | +v | sludging sludged | +verb: to cover with soft mud or mire |
| slushy | pl | slushies | +noun: an unskilled kitchen assistant |
| smirky | ad | smirkily | given to smirking |
| smoko | va | smokeho | a Falkland Isles 11 am meal: SMOKEHOS |
| smooch | va | smoodge smooge | to kiss closely |
| smudged | ad | smudgedly | |
| smudging | pl | smudgings | +noun: the act of smudging |
| snarky | ad | snarkily | crotchety |
| snatching | pl | snatchings | +noun: the act of snatching |
| snazzy | ad | snazzily | trendily smart |
| snide | +v | sniding snided | +verb: to fill or load |
| snitch | +y | snitchy | bad-tempered or irritable |
| snorkel | +v | snorkelled | +verb: SNORKELLING was already valid as noun |
| snuggery | va | snuggerie | a small bar in a pub |
| soapbox | +v | soapboxing soapboxed | +verb: to deliver a speech from a soapbox |
| soapsuds | +y | soapsudsy | like soapsuds |
| sodger | +v | sodgering sodgered | +verb: to soldier |
| softbound | pl | softbounds | +noun: a book bound in soft covers |
| sook | +v | sooking sooked | +verb: to suck |
| sororal | ad | sororally | pertaining to sisters |
| sostenuto | pl | sostenuti | drawn out piece of music: prev pl SOSTENUTOS only |
| sotted | ad | sottedly | drunk |
| souk | va | souking souked | +verb: to suck |
| spacial | ad | spacially | relating to space |
| spag | +v | spagging spagged | +verb: of a cat, to scratch a person |
| spatzle | pl | spatzles | (in Jewish cooking) a small dumpling: prev no -S |
| special | +v | specialling specialled | +verb: to advertise and sell an item at a reduced price |
| spend | +y | spendy | expensive |
| spide | pl | spides | SPIDE prev existed only as an obs form of SPIED, now is a noun meaning a young Irishman |
| spiffy | +v | spiffies spiffying spiffied | +verb: to make spiffy |
| spinose | ad | spinosely | full of spines |
| spoofing | pl | spoofings | +noun: the act of spoofing |
| sporty | pl | sporties | +noun: a young person who is sporty |
| spousal | ad | spousally | relating to marriage |
| spraying | pl | sprayings | +noun: the act of spraying |
| squamate | pl | squamates | +noun: a creature covered with scales |
| squamose | ad | squamosely | like, having or covered with scales |
| squamous | ad | squamously | like, having or covered with scales |
| squatty | ad | squattily | squat; dumpy |
| squiggle | +r | squiggler | one who squiggles, wriggles |
| stagnancy | va | stagnance | the state of being stagnant |
| standup | pl | standups | +noun: a standup comedian |
| stank | +v | stanking stanked | +verb: to dam |
| stedfast | ad | stedfastly | constant |
| steenbok | va | steenbuck | (Afrikaans) a small S. African antelope |
| stingy | pl | stingies | +noun: a stinging nettle |
| stockish | ad | stockishly | like a stock; stupid |
| stonk | +v | stonked | +verb: STONKING was already adj |
| stot | va | stott | to bound with a stiff gait |
| stotter | +v | stottering stottered | +verb: to stagger |
| strange | pl | stranges | +noun: an unfamiliar person or thing |
| street | +v | streeting | +verb: STREETED was already adj |
| stricken | ad | strickenly | |
| stroppy | ad | stroppily | |
| stubby | va | stubbie | a small squat beer bottle |
| student | +y | studenty | like a student |
| stushie | va | stoushie | fuss, ado, disturbance |
| subduable | ad | subduably | able to be subdued |
| subimago | pl | subimagoes | a stage in certain insects: prev pl SUBIMAGOS or SUBIMAGINES only |
| suck | +y | sucky | not good |
| sulfitic | va | sulphitic | relating to a sulphite |
| sulfurize | va | sulfurise | to combine with sulphur or any of its compounds |
| sullen | pl | sullens | +noun: a sullen mood |
| sum | +y | sumy | pl SUM, now also monetary unit of Uzbekistan |
| sundown | +v | sundowning sundowning | +verb: to arrive at a place to stay too late to do any work |
| sundry | ad | sundrily | |
| sunless | ad | sunlessly | without sun |
| sunspot | ed | sunspotted | showing sunspots |
| suntan | +v | suntanning | +verb: SUNTANNED was already adj |
| supersell | +v | superselling supersold | +verb: to sell in exceptional quantities |
| supersize | pl | supersizes | +noun: a very large size |
| superwide | pl | superwides | +noun: a very wide camera lens |
| surimi | pl | surimis | synthetic Japanese crabmeat: prev no -S |
| surplus | +v | surplusses surplusing surplussing surplused surplussed | +verb: to be left over |
| surveil | +v | surveiling surveiled | +verb: to observe, keep under surveillance |
| swaddy | va | swaddie | a private soldier |
| swarthy | ad | swarthily | dark-complexioned, blackish |
| sweer | +v | sweers sweering | +verb: to swear: SWEERED existed already as an adj meaning slothful |
| sweir | +v | sweirs sweiring sweired | +verb: to swear |
| sweir | +c | sweirer sweirest | lazy |
| sweptwing | pl | sweptwings | +noun: an aircraft with sweptback wings |
| swift | +y | swifty | a trick |
| swine | pl | swines | a pig, a brute: prev no -S |
| swiz | va | swizz | (Coll) a swindle or disappointment |
| swollen | ad | swollenly | |
| swoon | +y | swoony | given to swooning |
| swoop | +y | swoopy | given to swooping |
| symposiac | pl | symposiacs | +noun: a symposium |
| syndactyl | pl | syndactyls | +noun: an animal with digits joined together |
| syngeneic | va | syngenic | with the same genetic makeup |
| synkaryon | pl | synkarya | nucleus of fertilized egg: prev pl SYNKARYONS only |
| synoptic | pl | synoptics | +noun: one of the three synoptic gospels |
| synovial | ad | synovially | relating to the synovia, a lubricating fluid in joints |
| syphering | pl | sypherings | +noun: the act of syphering |
| tabbouleh | va | tabbouli tabouleh | (Arabic) a kind of Lebanese salad |
| tacet | pl | tacets | musical direction be silent: prev no –S |
| tackies | va | takkies | tennis shoes or plimsolls |
| tailless | ad | taillessly | without a tail |
| tajine | va | tagine | a conical clay pot used in N African cooking |
| tall | pl | talls | +noun: a garment size for a tall person |
| tallis | pl | tallises | a Jewish prayer shawl: prev pl TALLISIM only |
| tallit | pl | tallites tallitot tallits | the traditional prayer shawl worn by Jewish men: prev pl TALLITIM only |
| tammy | +v | tammying tammied | +verb: to strain soup etc through a tammy |
| taproot | ed | taprooted | having a taproot |
| tapster | va | tapstress | a female tapster |
| tarboosh | va | tarbouche | (Arabic) a fez, a hat worn by Muslim men |
| tartish | ad | tartishly | somewhat tart |
| tartrate | ed | tartrated | in the form of a tartrate, a salt of tartaric acid |
| tarty | ad | tartily | like a tart |
| taxpaying | pl | taxpayings | +noun: paying taxes |
| tchotchke | va | tsatske | (Yiddish) a knickknack, a cheap trinket |
| techie | va | tekkie | a technician |
| tectum | pl | tectums | a roof-like body structure: prev pl TECTA only |
| tedder | +v | teddering teddered | +verb: to stir and spread hay, to expedite its drying |
| telamon | pl | telamons | a kind of statue: prev pl TELAMONES only |
| telnet | +v | telneting telnetting telneted telnetted | +verb: to use a system of remote access to computers by telecommunications |
| tenement | ed | tenemented | possessing tenements |
| tensile | ad | tensilely | of or relating to stretching |
| tenure | +v | tenuring | +verb: to grant tenure to: TENURED was already adj |
| teraflop | pl | teraflops | +noun: a trillion calculations per second |
| tessitura | pl | tessiture | normal range of pitch: prev pl TESSITURAS only |
| teutonize | va | teutonise | to render German |
| text | +v | texting texted | +verb: to send a text message |
| thebe | pl | thebes | a monetary unit of Botswana: prev no -S |
| thermidor | pl | thermidors | +noun: in cooking lobsters, a method of preparation |
| thermite | va | thermit | an incendiary explosive |
| thespian | va | thesp | a member of the acting profession |
| tic | +v | ticcing ticced | +verb: to twitch |
| ticketing | pl | ticketings | +noun: the act of ticketing |
| tiki | +v | tikiing tikied | +verb: to take a scenic tour round an area |
| tikka | pl | tikkas | a dish of marinated meat or vegetables: prev no -S |
| timber | +y | timbery | like timber |
| titivate | +r | titivator | one who titivates |
| tock | +y | tocky | muddy |
| tokoloshe tokoloshi | va | tikoloshe | (Zulu) in Bantu folklore, a hairy malevolent dwarflike creature with supernatural powers |
| toll | +y | tolly | a castrated calf |
| toothing | pl | toothings | +noun: the act of cutting into teeth |
| topos | si | topo | (coll) a map of climbing routes: prev TOPOS existed only as sing noun |
| toric | pl | torics | +noun: a rounded swelling |
| touchtone | pl | touchtones | +noun: a phone having a pushbutton rather than a dial |
| tourist | ed | touristed | busy with tourists |
| tracheate | pl | tracheates | +noun: an animal breathing by means of tracheae |
| transom | ed | transomed | having a transom, a bar dividing a window |
| tref | va | treifa | in the Jewish religion, forbidden as food, not kosher |
| trevally | pl | trevallys | a kind of horse-mackerel: prev pl TREVALLIES only |
| trialling | pl | triallings | +noun: an acting of trialing |
| tribal | pl | tribals | +noun: a member of a tribe |
| triceps | si | tricep | a muscle of the arm |
| trickling | ad | tricklingly | in a trickling manner |
| trifacial | pl | trifacials | +noun: the trifacial nerve |
| trike | va | tryke | a tricycle |
| tropical | pl | tropicals | +noun: a tropical thing or place |
| trough | +v | troughing troughing | +verb: to consume greedily |
| truant | ad | truantly | like a truant |
| tubular | ad | tubularly | in the form of a tube |
| tubulous | ad | tubulously | resembling, or in the form of, a tube |
| tucotuco | va | tucutucu | an American rodent of mole-like habits |
| tunneling | pl | tunnelings | +noun: an act of tunneling |
| tussis | pl | tusses | a cough: prev pl TUSSISES only |
| tussocks | ed | tussocked | having tussocks |
| tutu | ed | tutued | wearing a tutu |
| tween | pl | tweens | +noun |
| tweeny | va | tweenie | a between-maid |
| twerp | +y | twerpy | like a twerp: TWERPIER, TWERPIEST |
| twerp | va | twirpy | like a twerp: TWIRPIER, TWIRPIEST |
| twoccer | va | twocker | a person who takes a car without the owner's consent |
| tyronic | va | tironic | like a tyro |
| tzitzith | va | tsitsith | (Hebrew) religious tassels and fringes |
| umbles | si | umble | as in umble pie: prev plural only, a deer’s entrails |
| ump | +y | umpy | an umpire |
| umpteenth | pl | umpteenths | +noun: an indefinitely large number in a sequence |
| unaided | ad | unaidedly | |
| unchaste | +c | unchaster unchastest | |
| unco | +c | uncoer uncoest | strange, foreign |
| unco | pl | uncoes | a stranger, a piece of news: prev pl UNCOS only |
| uncurable | ad | uncurably | incurable |
| underlie | +r | underlier | one who underlies |
| uneager | ad | uneagerly | not eager |
| unfussy | +c | unfussier unfussiest | not fussy |
| unhip | +c | unhipper unhippest | square, not trendy |
| unhuman | ad | unhumanly | not human |
| unicycle | +v | unicycling unicycled | +verb: to ride a uncicycle |
| uninsured | pl | uninsureds | +noun: one who is not insured |
| unionise | +r | unioniser | one who unionises |
| uniramous | va | uniramose | of appendages of crustaceans, consisting of single branch |
| unitise | +r | unitiser | one who unitises |
| univalve | ed | univalved | having a single-piece shell |
| unkempt | ad | unkemptly | |
| unleaded | pl | unleadeds | +noun: unleaded petrol |
| unmoral | ad | unmorally | immoral |
| unpure | ad | unpurely | not pure |
| unsalable | ad | unsalably | |
| unsavory | ad | unsavorily | not savory |
| unsayable | pl | unsayables | +noun: something that cannot be said |
| unsober | ad | unsoberly | not sober |
| untenable | ad | untenably | not tenable |
| untie | +v | untieing | to release from being tied: prev only UNTYING |
| untracked | +v | untrack | +verb: UNTRACKED was already valid |
| untread | +v | untreaded | to tread back, to retrace: prev pt UNTROD only |
| updraft | va | updraught | an upwards movement of air |
| uplink | +v | uplinked | +verb: UPLINKS and UPLINKING were already valid |
| upstage | +r | upstager | one who upstages |
| upthrust | +v | upthrusted | +verb: UPTHRUSTS and UPTHRUSTING were already valid |
| usability | va | useability | the state of being usable |
| useful | pl | usefuls | +noun: an odd-jobman or general factotum |
| vamp | +y | vampy | like a vamp: VAMPIER, VAMPIEST |
| vampish | ad | vampishly | seductive |
| vanadate | va | vanadiate | a salt of vanadic acid |
| vaporable | va | vapourable | capable of being converted into vapor |
| varia | pl | varias | a literary miscellany: prev no -S |
| variform | ad | variformly | of various forms |
| vegetal | ad | vegetally | like a plant or vegetable |
| vendable | pl | vendables | +noun: things that can be vended |
| vending | pl | vendings | +noun: the act of vending |
| venerable | pl | venerables | +noun: a title given to an archdeacon |
| verjuice | +v | verjuicing | +verb: to make sour: VERJUICED was already adj |
| vibe | +y | vibey | lively |
| vilipend | +r | vilipender | one who vilipends, treats with contempt |
| villous | ad | villously | abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs |
| viperish | ad | viperishly | like a viper |
| virilised | +v | virilise virilises | +verb: to cause male characteristics to appear in a female VIRILISING and VIRILISED already valid |
| virilized | +v | virilize virilizes | +verb: to cause male characteristics to appear in a female VIRILIZING and VIRILIZED already valid |
| vitreous | ad | vitreously | glassy |
| viverrine | pl | viverrines | +noun: a member of the ferret or the civet family |
| vixenish | ad | vixenishly | in the manner of a vixen |
| voguish | ad | voguishly | in vogue |
| volva | pl | volvae | a saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops: prev pl VOLVAS only |
| voodoo vaudoo vaudoux vodun vodoun voudou | va | vodou voudon voudoun | a primitive religion of the W Indies |
| voting | pl | votings | +noun: the act of voting |
| votive | pl | votives | +noun: a votive offering |
| vrow | va | vrou | (Afrikaans) a woman, esp a married woman |
| vugh | va | vughy | like a vugh, a rock cavity: VUGHIER, VUGHIEST |
| vying | pl | vyings | +noun: the act of vying |
| wack | +c | wackest | bad, unfashionable: WACKER already valid as a noun |
| waddly | +c | waddlier waddliest | |
| waggling | ad | wagglingly | |
| wagonette | va | waggonette | a carriage with one crosswise seat in front, two seats in back |
| wagonload | va | waggonload | the contents of a full wagon |
| waiter | +v | waitered | +verb: to serve at table: WAITERING already noun |
| wardrobe | +v | wardrobing wardrobed | +verb: to keep in a wardrobe |
| warranty | +v | warrantying warrantied | +verb: to guarantee |
| washy | ad | washily | watery; damp |
| wasting | ad | wastingly | |
| weakish | ad | weakishly | somewhat weak |
| weaning | pl | weanings | +noun: an act of weaning |
| weepy | ad | weepily | |
| wersh | va | wairsh | tasteless, insipid: WAIRSHER, WAIRSHEST |
| wha | va | whae | who |
| whirling | ad | whirlingly | |
| whisht | va | wisht | an interjection meaning keep silent |
| whitrack | va | whitrick | a weasel |
| whoopee | va | whoopie | an exclamation of delight |
| widebody | pl | widebodies | +noun: an aircraft having a wide fuselage |
| widower | ed | widowered | made into a widower |
| wifie | va | wifey | an endearment for wife |
| wimp | +v | wimping wimped | +verb: to behave like a wimp |
| windgall | ed | windgalled | having windgall, a puffy swelling of a horse's joints |
| window | +y | windowy | like a window |
| wingding | va | whingding | a lively party |
| witan | pl | witans | a member of the Anglo-Saxon council: prev no -S |
| wiz | pl | wizzes | a very skilful person: prev pl WIZES only |
| woful | +c | wofuller wofullest | full of woe |
| wooden | +v | woodens woodening woodened | +verb: to fell or kill a person or animal |
| woodwaxen | va | woadwaxen | a plant, aka dyer's greenweed |
| workable | ad | workably | |
| worrit | va | wherrit | to worry, annoy |
| wounded | ad | woundedly | |
| wrang | +v | wranging wranged | +verb: to wrong |
| wurley | va | wurlie | a nest; an aboriginal hut |
| wuss | va | woose | a wimp |
| xeroderma | pl | xerodermae | morbid dryness of skin: prev pl XERODERMAS only |
| xerophile | pl | xerophiles | +noun: a plant adapted to dry conditions |
| yabby | +v | yabbying yabbied | +verb: to go out to catch yabbies, small freshwater crayfish |
| yacca | va | yacka | an Australian plant with a woody stem and grasslike leaves |
| yapping | ad | yappingly | |
| yarding | pl | yardings | +noun: a group of animals displayed for sale |
| yarraman | pl | yarramen | (Native Australian) a horse: prev pl YARRAMANS only |
| yeah | pl | yeahs | +noun: yes |
| yike | +v | yiked yiking | +verb: to argue, squabble |
| you | pl | yous | (coll.) YOU |
| yurta | pl | yurtas | a Mongolian felt tent: prev YURTA existed only as pl. of YURT |
| zakuska | va | zakouska | (Russian) a hors d'oeuvre: ZAKOUSKI |
| zebrine | pl | zebrines | +noun: a zebra-like animal |
| zesty | ad | zestily | full of zest |
| zila | va | zilla zillah | an administrative district in India |
| zinkenite | va | zinckenite | a steel-gray metallic mineral, a sulphide of antimony and lead |
| zoea | va | zoaea | a larval stage in certain crustaceans: ZOAEAE or ZOAEAS |
| zoo | +y | zooey zooier zooiest | relating to a zoo |
| zoon | +v | zooned zooning | +verb: to zoom |
| zucchetto | pl | zucchetti | Catholic priest’s skullcap: prev pl ZUCCHETTOS only |
| zugzwang | +v | zugzwanged zugzwanging | +verb: to place in zugzwang (a chess term) |
| zygomatic | pl | zygomatics | +noun: a cheek bone |