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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 |
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| 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 boun |