Bennett’s Wordfinder

A handy companion to the second edition of the world’s most famous book on modern English usage

Introduction It is frustrating when you cannot find information that you think must be in the second edition (1965) of the world’s most famous book on modern English usage (which, for reasons made necessary by law, I shall call that book). I made this word finder to help you find words that are not listed alphabetically in that book. The word abdomen is listed in its natural place in that book, so it is pointless to include abdomen in this word finder. If you want to know something about the word referral, however, you will not be able to find it listed under the r’s in that book. This word finder includes the word referral, and it asks you to look under the article headed -al nouns. Always look in that book first. If Fowler listed a word alphabetically, that word is probably not listed in this word finder. Sometimes a word will appear in this word finder as well as appearing in alphabetical order in that book. This means I have found another reference to the word that you may not have found by looking at the alphabetical listing in that book only; protagonist, for example, appears seven times. Two square brackets after a word mean that I have inserted something I thought would help you. (For example, immoral]] refers the reader to amoral even though immoral is not mentioned in that book under amoral.) You will find many words repeated rather than being listed once with several references being set off, as in most indexes. This saved me a lot of work, and it will not inconvenience you.

Set in Times 9/9 and alphabetically sorted using Microsoft Word 6.0. Page layout done on Adobe Pagemaker 6.0. 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blurb @ Americanisms best @ synonym bi-weekly @ hybrids blurb @ spiv bestow @ extend bizzare @ -er and -est1 blushing honours thick @ bête noire @ foreign danger black @ -en verbs from hackneyed phrases beth @ noun and verb accent adjectives bluy @ -ey and -y in adjective bethe @ noun and verb accent black ]] @ mulatto Blyth @ pronunciation10 Bethune @ pronunciation10 blackcap @ one word or two boarding house @ euphemisms betroth @ noun and verb accent blacken @ -en verbs from bobbed @ -b -bb betrothed @ intended adjectives bobby @ -ey and -y in pet names better half @ half blackie ]] @ -ey and -y in pet bodeful @ Saxonism better @ analogy3 names bodeful @ working and stylish words bowdlerize @ new verbs in -ize British @ England bodily @ corporal bowler @ derby Britishism @ Briticism Boeotian @ -æ, -œ bowstring @ hamstringed Briton @ America Bohun @ pronunciation10 bowstring @ stringed, strung Briton @ England boiling @ -ll boycott @ eponymous words Brittanic @ England boisterous @ spelling points4 boyfriend @ intended Brittany, Britain @ spelling bold @ brash bra @ curtailed words points1&2 bolt @ cotter brace @ collectives broad @ wide boluses @ -s-, -ss-, -sss- braces @ suspenders broadcast @ forecastle bombardment @ intensive brachycephalic @ -cephalic broaden @ -en verbs from bona fide @ false quantity bracket @ group adjectives bona fide @ foreign danger bracket @ popularised Broadmoor @ euphemisms bonnet (of car) @ Americanisms technicality broadways @ -wise, -ways bonuses @ -s-, -ss-, -sss- bradshaw @ eponymous words brocade @ -ade, -ado bony @ -ey and -y in adjective braille @ eponymous words broider @ archaism bonzer ]] @ fabulous branch @ field broidery @ archaism booby @ -ey and -y in pet names brandy and soda @ hendiadys broke @ break boogie @ jazz brandy and sodas @ plural Broke @ pronunciation10 boogie-woogie @ reduplicated anomalies bromide @ commonplace words brass tacks @ rhyming slang bromine @ -in and -ine bookie @ -ey and -y in pet brass @ -en adjectives brook @ bourne names brass @ noun and verb accent brook @ breeches bookie @ -y brass @ revivals broth @ -th and -dh boom @ bumblebee bravado @ -ade, -ado brothel @ pronunciation5 boom ]] @ onomatopoeia brave @ formal words brother @ names boon @ true and false etymology brave @ Gallicisms brother @ pronunciation5 boorish @ -r-, -rr- bravo @ -o(e)s brothers-in-law ]] @ plural boot (of car) @ Americanisms braze @ noun and verb accent anomalies bootee @ -ee braze @ revivals brougham @ eponymous words boozed @ drunk brazen @ -en adjectives Bruin @ generic names bop ]] @ jazz brazen @ -er and -est2 brunch @ facetious formations borderline @ marginal bread ]] (money) @ bean brusk @ brusque boredly @ -edly breadthways @ -wise, -ways Brussells @ didacticism borne @ bourne breakage @ hybrids brutal @ -er and -est4 borough @ pronunciation9 breakfast @ facetious formations brutalist @ -ll bosk @ revivals breakthrough @ vogue words4 Bruxelles @ didacticism bosom @ genteelism breast @ genteelism bubbyjok @ facetious bosomed @ -m-, -mm- breath @ -th and -dh formations botanic(al) @ -ic breathalyser @ hybrids buccaneer (vb) @ scavenger both @ false emphasis breathe @ noun and verb accent buck-up @ relax both @ incompatibles breeches @ pantaloons bucketfuls ]] @ plural anomalies bother @ pother breeder @ -d-, -dd- buddy @ -d-, -dd- botheration @ ruination breek @ breeches buddy @ -ey and -y in pet names bottle (hay) @ hay breezy @ -ey and -y in adjective budget @ revivals bottled @ drunk briar @ brier building @ working and stylish bottleneck @ iron out briar @ true and false etymology words bottommed @ -m-, -mm- bridal @ true and false built-in @ vogue words4 bough @ pronunciation9 etymology bulk @ largely boulted @ flour briefs @ pantaloons bull and cow @ rhyming slang bound by @ -able -ible1 brier @ true and false etymology bull @ -ll bound @ true and false bright @ colourful bull @ cattle etymology brighten @ -en verbs from bulletin @ French words boundary @ infringe adjectives bulletin @ garage boundary @ quandary brightsome @ -some bullock @ cattle bounden @ archaism brinded @ brindled bully @ coward bounteous @ plenteous briny @ -ey and -y in adjective bully @ dastard bounty @ plenteous brisken @ -en verbs from bullyrag @ ballyrag bourn @ bourne adjectives bulrush @ spelling points1&2 bovine @ canine Britain, Brittany @ spelling bulwark @ -ll bow and scrape @ Siamese twins points1&2 bum, buttocks @ true and false bow down @ kowtow Britannia @ spelling points1&2 etymology bow @ bay Britannicism @ Briticism bumblebee @ needless variants bowdlerize @ eponymous words British @ America bumbledom @ sheriffalty buncombe @ bunkum by-lane @ by calves-foot @ -ve and -ves bunion @ spelling points1&2 bylaw @ Americanisms camellia @ spelling points1&2 bunkum @ facetious formations by-law @ by cameo @ -o(e)s bunny @ -ey and -y in pet names by-name @ by cameo @ intaglio bunsen @ eponymous words bypass @ by cameradie ]] @ rotary burden @ needless variants bypath @ by Camford @ Oxbridge bureau (pl) @ x by-product @ by Camford @ portmanteau bureaucracy @ hybrids bystander @ by can have (vb) @ perfect burgess @ Saxonism bystreet @ by infinitive burgher @ Saxonism byword @ by can not @ elision burgle @ back formation can @ Americanisms burgle @ perorate can @ differentiation burke @ eponymous words C cancel @ retract burlesque @ comedy C-spring @ cee-spring candour @ transparent burn @ bourne cab @ curtailed words candy @ Americanisms burned @ -t and -ed cabbage @ collectives canine @ false quantity burnt @ -t and -ed cabby @ -b -bb canned @ drunk bus @ curtailed words cablegram @ hybrids cannon (billiards) @ bus ]] @ charabanc cachet @ sign Americanisms bus ]] @ Latin plurals cachinnation @ polysyllabic cannon @ collectives buskin @ battered ornaments humour cannot @ elision bust @ burst caddie @ -ey and -y in pet names canon @ -on bustle @ pronunciation2 caddish @ -d-, -dd- canonical @ spelling points1&2 busyness @ business caddy @ -ey and -y in pet names cant @ jargon bus, buses @ -s-, -ss-, -sss- cadre @ garage cantankerous @ contradictious but (starting sentence with) @ Caesarean @ Herculean canvases @ -s-, -ss-, -sss- superstitions Caeseris @ pace cany @ -ey and -y in adjective but @ conjunction caffeine @ -ies capable @ -able -ible4 but @ save (except) Cain and Able @ rhyming slang capacity @ -ty and -ness butcher @ euphemisms Caius @ pronunciation10 caper @ singular ‘s’ butter @ collectives caky @ -ey and -y in adjective capitalist @ worsened words buttle @ back formation calculable @ -able -ible1 capsicum @ chilli buttocks, bum @ true and false calculable @ calculate captious @ contradictious etymology calculate @ pronunciation8 capulets @ French words buttonhole @ true and false calculate @ reckon car @ Americanisms etymology calculated @ apt cardigan @ eponymous words buxom @ -er and -est2 calculated @ purposive care @ cark buxom @ worsened words calculation @ dilatation careful @ meticulous buy @ dear calculator @ dilatation caretaker @ Americanisms buy @ formal words calf @ -ve and -ves cargo @ -o(e)s buy @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye calf @ cattle caricature @ burlesque buyable @ -able -ible1 calf @ noun and verb accent caries @ -ies buyer @ -er and -or calf @ pronunciation8 carnelian @ cornelian buying on time @ Americanisms calfish @ -ve and -ves carnivora @ fauna buz @ -z-, -zz- calfs-foot @ -ve and -ves carolled @ -ll buzzer @ -z-, -zz- calibre @ French words carom @ Americanisms BVDs ]] @ pantaloons Caliph @ didacticism carotty @ -t, -tt by hook or by crook @ Siamese call over @ coal carousel @ carousal twins call @ pronunciation8 carping @ -p-, -pp- by the same token @ token call-ups @ plural anomalies carrel @ revivals by the skin of your teeth @ calling @ avocation carriageway @ road misquotations callous @ callus carrier @ -er and -or by the way @ incidentally callous @ pronunciation8 carry out @ implement by which @ which with and or callow @ brash carry out @ working and stylish but callus @ -us words 8 by which @ which Calne @ pronunciation8 carry @ formal words by @ per calography @ calligraphy cartoon @ vulgarization by-and-by @ presently calorimeter @ caloric carve @ grave by-and-large @ popularised calumny @ libel carven @ revivals technicality calumny @ vogue words4 cascade @ -ade, -ado by-blow @ by calve @ noun and verb accent case @ elegant variation bye-bye @ reduplicated words calve @ pronunciation8 case @ periphrasis by-election @ by calves @ -ve and -ves Cassandra @ vaticinate cast @ cease centennial @ centenary adjectives cast @ formal words centimetre @ meter cheat @ fiddle caste @ mulatto cento @ -o(e)s cheat @ relation2 caster ]] @ -or centre @ -re and -er check out ]] @ phrasal verbs castle @ pronunciation2 centring @ spelling points4 check up on @ phrasal verbs castor @ -or cereal @ flour checker @ chequer castor @ caster ceremonial @ pairs and snares checkers @ Americanisms casual @ misprints ceremonious @ ceremonial checkmate @ mate casual @ promiscuous ceremonious @ pairs and snares checkmate @ popularised casuality @ misprints certain @ in- and un- technicality casualize @ new verbs in -ize certain @ various cheeky @ brash casualness @ -ty and -ness certainty @ certitude cheerful @ -er and -est4 casualty @ -ty and -ness certes @ archaism cheery @ cheerful casualty @ misprints certificate @ scrip chef d’oeuvre @ -æ, -œ casuistic(al) @ -ic cess @ tax, duty chemise @ -ise cat @ homonym chain reaction @ reaction chemist @ Americanisms catalyst @ vogue words3 chaired @ -r-, -rr- cheque @ check catarrh @ working and stylish chairwoman @ feminine chequeredly @ -edly words designations cherished belief @ hackneyed catastrophe @ dénoument chalk @ white phrases catch @ differentiation challenging @ vogue words6 cherub @ -b -bb catchup @ ketchup chamois @ hart Cherwell @ pronunciation10 catechism @ Greek champaign @ champagne chetnik @ resistance category @ description champion @ misapprehension cheval de @ chevaux de category @ popularised champion @ protagonist chevaux de frise @ true and false technicality champion @ synonym etymology cater @ cinque chance @ benign chewing the cud @ cateress @ feminine designations chance @ promiscuous misquotations caterwaul @ miaow chancy @ -ey and -y in adjective chianti @ Italian sounds catgut @ true and false change tense @ sequence of chic @ French words etymology tenses chicke @ collectives catholic @ cinema changeable @ mute ‘e’ chicken pox @ plural anomalies catholicism @ -ism and -ity changeing @ mute ‘e’ chicory @ Americanisms catholicity @ -ism and -ity changeling @ mute ‘e’ chid @ chide catholicize @ -c -ck changing @ mute ‘e’ chide @ archaism cation @ -on Chanticleer @ generic names chief @ major catsup @ ketchup chaotic @ analogy2 chiff-chaff @ reduplicated words cattle @ collectives chaotic @ bathetic chilblain @ -ll causal @ misprints chap @ gentleman childlike @ childish causal]] @ -al nouns chap @ guy childly @ revivals cause @ background chaperon @ garage chill @ literary words causey @ causeway char-a-bancs @ plural anomalies chin-chin @ reduplicated words causey-way @ causeway character @ mentality china @ collectives cautious @ suppositious character @ periphrasis china @ porcelain cavalcade @ -ade, -ado character @ sign Chinaman @ Asian cavilling @ contradictious characteristic @ sign Chinee @ back formation Ceasarian @ Herculean charade @ -ade, -ado Chinee @ Chinaman cease and desist ]] @ pleonasm chargeable @ -able -ible4 Chinee @ Portuguese cease to … @ prolate Charibdis @ generic names Chinee @ singular ‘s’ cease @ formal words charlatan @ recessive accent chink (money) @ bean cease @ in- and un- charm @ distinction Chink @ Chinaman Cecilia @ degree charmedly @ -edly chippie ]] @ -ey and -y in pet cede @ spelling points4 chartered libertine @ libertine names ceiling @ vogue words4 charwoman @ euphemisms chippy ]] @ -ey and -y in pet celerity @ -ty and -ness chase @ differentiation names cello @ violoncello chastise @ -ize chirruped @ -p-, -pp- cellular @ -ular chateau (pl) @ x chit-chat @ reduplicated words cellule @ -ular chateau @ recessive accent chivalry @ king celtice @ latine chatter @ facetious formations chivalry @ needless variants Cema @ curtailed words chatter @ frequentative chivy @ chevy cenotaph @ cinema chatter @ natter chlorine @ -in and -ine cenripetal @ centrifugal cheap @ dear Choephoroe @ trilogy centenary @ recessive accent cheapen @ -en verbs from choler @ archaism choleric @ archaism clad @ clothe close @ noun and verb accent Cholmondeley @ claim @ slipshod extension closet @ Americanisms pronunciation10 claim @ vogue words4 closure @ revivals choose @ prefer claimant @ -m-, -mm- cloth @ -th and -dh chop and change @ Siamese clamour @ -our and -or- cloth @ differentiation twins clangour @ -our and -or- cloth @ noun and verb accent chop @ chap clap-trap @ reduplicated words clothe @ noun and verb accent choral @ moral Clarenceux @ king clothes @ differentiation chorale @ moral clarionet, clarinet @ suffragette clothes @ pronunciation1 chore @ char(e) clarity @ -ty and -ness clôture @ revivals chortle @ facetious formations class @ category clove @ cleave Christ @ facetious formations class @ description cloven @ cleave Christian name @ forename class @ worsened words cloven @ prove Christian name @ revivals classify @ breakdown clubbable @ -able -ible4 Christian @ Hebrew clayey @ -ey and -y in adjective clue @ clew chronic @ parlous Claytons ]] @ generic names coa vestis @ preient chronic @ popularised clayy @ -ey and -y in adjective coaccervation @ co- technicality clean slate @ tabula coach (railway) @ Americanisms chronic @ slipshod extension cleanse @ de- and dis- coach @ charabanc chronic @ strategic(al) clear up @ resolve coadjutor @ co- chronometer @ meter clear @ negotiate coadunate @ co- chrysalis, crystal @ spelling clear @ perspic- coagulate @ co- points1&2 clearness @ -ty and -ness coal-tit @ coal chuckle @ facetious formations clearway @ road coalesce @ co- chute @ pronunciation6 cleavage @ dichotomy coalition @ co- cicala @ cicada cleave @ prove coarsen @ -en verbs from cicatriser @ -ize cleaved @ cleave adjectives cicatrix @ -trix cleft @ cleave coast waiter @ coastal cicatrix @ cicatrice clematis @ false quantity coast @ littoral cicerone @ Italian sounds clerestory @ storey, story coastal @ hybrids -cide ]] @ parricide clergyman @ minister coastguard @ coastal cider @ y and i clergyship @ lecturship coastguard @ pronunciation2 cigala @ cicada clerical @ executive coastline @ coastal cigarette @ suffragette clerihew @ eponymous words coastwise @ -wise, -ways cinders @ true and false clerk of the weather @ coatee @ -ee etymology hackneyed phrases co-authorship @ co- cinema @ false quantity clerk @ journal coaxial @ co- cinema @ movies clerkship @ relationship co-belligerent @ co- cinematograph @ false quantity clever @ -er and -est1 cocaine @ ptomaine cinquecento @ trecento clever-clever @ reduplicated coccyx @ soccer cioccolata @ Italian sounds words Cockburn @ pronunciation10 cipher @ y and i climactic @ hybrids cockneyfied @ -fied Circe @ cinema climate @ framework cockroach @ true and false circles @ personification climate @ vogue words3 etymology circles @ source climb every mountain @ cockscomb @ cock’s-comb circular ]] @ brochure negative cocoa, coconut @ true and false circumbendibus @ facetious climb every mountain ]] @ tic etymology formations douloureux coconut @ cocoa circumcise @ -ize climb every mountain @ coconut, cocoa @ true and false circumlocution @ officialese hackneyed phrases etymology circumstance @ factor clinch @ clench codeine @ -ies circus @ road clinker @ clench codex @ -ex, -ix Cirencester @ pronunciation1 clinker, clinkers @ scoria coeducational @ co- cissy @ -ey and -y in pet names clippie @ -ey and -y in pet coefficient @ co- cithern @ needless variants names coequal @ co- citizen @ Saxonism clipping service @ coerce @ co- cittern @ cither Americanisms coessential @ co- city names ]] @ didacticism clipping @ Americanisms coeval @ co- civil @ -er and -est4 cloaks @ euphemisms coexecutor @ co- civil @ in- and un- clockwise @ -wise, -ways coexist @ co- civilianize @ new verbs in -ize close down @ phrasal verbs coexistence @ vogue words5 civiliser @ -ize close @ cagey coextensive @ co- civillest @ -ll close @ genteelism coffee @ mocha coffer @ differentiation comfy @ -ey and -y in pet names company @ pairs and snares coffin @ differentiation comfy @ hypocorisma company @ pronunciation5 cognate @ co- comic @ false quantity comparatively few @ few cognizance @ sign comic(al) @ -ic comparatively @ relative cohabit @ co- comical(al) @ -ic comparatively @ some4 coheir @ co- comity of nations @ true and compare to @ different cohere @ co- false etymology comparison @ simile coiffure @ hair-do comity @ pairs and snares compass @ field coign @ differentiation comity, committee @ spelling compass ]] @ field coin @ differentiation points1&2 compass ]] @ radius coincide @ co- comium @ -um compassion @ female coined @ -n-, -nn- comma @ -ae, -as compel @ enforce coinstantaneous @ co- command @ invite compelling @ literary critic coition @ co- commando @ -o(e)s compendium @ -um Coke @ pronunciation10 commence @ begin compensate @ recessive accent coker @ cocoa commence @ formal words competenc(y)e @ -ce -cy colander @ cullander commendable @ recessive competence @ needless variants co-latitude @ co- accent competency @ independence cold war @ cliché commentary @ questionnaire complacence @ -ce -cy cold @ working and stylish commercial traveller @ complacence @ needless words Americanisms variants cold-bloodedly @ -edly commercial traveller @ complacent @ pairs and snares cold-heartedly ]] @ -edly euphemisms complain @ maunder cole-tit @ coal commisary @ mandatory complaining (it’s no use) @ collaboration @ collusion commission @ -ion and -ment sturdy indefensibles collaborator @ worsened words commission @ audience complaisance @ -ce -cy collectedly @ -edly commissionaire @ garage complaisance @ complacent collectives @ number6 commit @ -ion and -ment complaisant @ pairs and snares collector @ -or commitment @ -ion and -ment complement @ noun and verb college @ conservatoire committal @ commitment accent collie @ -ey and -y in pet names committee want(s) ]] @ number6 complete @ formal words colloquial @ try committee want(s) ]] @ complete @ implicit collywobble @ facetious personification complete @ in- and un- formations committee @ collectives complete @ overall colon @ cinema committee, comity @ spelling complete @ replete colonialism @ worsened words points1&2 completed @ finalize colonize @ new verbs in -ize commodity @ -ty and -ness completely @ fairly colonnade @ piazza common sense @ commonsense completely @ partially color @ -our and -or common @ -er and -est2 completely @ total coloration @ hybrids common @ banal complex @ popularised colour of rose @ Gallicisms common @ epicene technicality colour @ -our and -or common @ mutual complex @ slipshod extension colour @ primary colours commonplace @ banal complex @ vogue words3 colour @ tint commonplace @ platitude compliment @ noun and verb coloured @ mulatto common, commonest @ spelling accent Colquhoun @ pronunciation10 points1&2 component @ factor column @ pronunciation5 communal @ false quantity compose @ comprise combat @ pronunciation5 communal @ recessive accent compose @ include combatant @ protagonist commune @ noun and verb compose @ pairs and snares combination @ novelty hunting accent composed @ incondite combination @ synthesis communism @ idealogue composedly @ -edly combine @ integrate community want(s) ]] @ composite @ -ite combine @ vogue words4 number6 composition @ composure combine @ working and stylish community want(s) ]] @ composition @ grammar words personification compound @ noun and verb come Sunday @ come commuter @ Americanisms accent Comecon ]] @ curtailed words compact @ noun and adjective comprehend @ apprehend comedy @ burlesque accent comprehension @ apprehend comestibles @ working and compact @ pronunciation5 comprehensive @ overall stylish words companion @ comity comprehensivize @ new verbs in comfort station ]] @ companionable @ -able -ible4 -ize euphemisms company @ comity compress @ noun and verb comfortable @ -able -ible4 company @ number6 accent comprise @ -ize independence contemplate @ envisage comprise @ differentiation conjure @ differentiation contemplative @ recessive comprise @ pairs and snares connected @ dual accent comrade @ pronunciation5 connectedly @ -edly contemptible @ pairs and snares Comtist @ humanist connection @ periphrasis contemptuous @ contemptible con @ differentiation conned @ -n-, -nn- contemptuous @ pairs and conceal @ formal words connexion @ -xion, -xive snares concede @ spelling points4 connexive @ -xion, -xive contend @ claim conceitedly @ -edly conquer @ langour contend @ contest conceived by @ different conquerer @ -or content @ noun and adjective concensus @ misprints conquest @ langour accent concept @ popularised consensus @ misprints contentedly @ -edly technicality consent @ sanction context @ framework conception @ concept consequence @ end product continuance @ differentiation concernment @ needless consequence @ repercussion continuation @ differentiation variants consequent results @ continue to remain @ pleonasm concert @ noun and verb accent adjectivally contract @ noun and verb accent concision @ -ion and -ness consequent @ pairs and snares contractile @ tactile concision @ conciseness consequential @ pairs and snares contractual @ instinctual conclude @ pronunciation6 consider @ analogy3 contradicting @ contradictious conclusive @ damning consider @ cast iron idiom contrariety @ falsehood concomitance @ needless consider @ expect contrary to @ quasi-adverbs variants consider @ express contrary @ quasi-adverbs concrete @ discrete consider ]] @ feel contrary @ recessive accent concubine @ euphemisms considerable @ adjectivally contraryness ]] @ falsehood concurring @ pronunciation7 considerable @ infinite contrast @ noun and verb accent condemn @ in toto considerable @ mean contribution @ tax, duty condemned @ adopted considerateness @ -ion and -ness control @ governance condense @ -en verbs from consideration @ -ion and -ness controllable @ -ll adjectives consideration @ factor contumacity @ long variants1&2 condition @ position consistenc(y)e @ -ce -cy contumacy @ long variants1&2 conditional @ conjunctive consistence @ differentiation conundrum @ -um condole @ commiserate consistency @ differentiation convenience @ euphemisms condone @ agree consolidate @ integrate conventionee ]] @ superfluous conducive ]] @ conduce consols @ curtailed words words conduct @ differentiation conspectus @ -us conversable @ -able -ible4 conductor @ Americanisms conspicuity @ -ty and -ness conversation @ frequentative conductorette @ feminine conspicuous by absence @ conversationalist @ -ist, -alist, designations hackneyed phrases -tist conductress @ feminine conspicuous @ absence conversationist @ -ist, -alist, -tist designations conspicuousness @ -ty and -ness converse @ contrary2 conduit @ differentiation constant @ -er and -est2 convert @ noun and verb accent conduit @ pronunciation5 conster @ construct convertible @ -able -ible2 confer @ -r-, -rr- constituent @ factor convey @ differentiation conferrible @ conferable constitute @ comprise convey @ true and false confess @ admit2 constitution @ infringe etymology confessedly @ -edly constitutionalist @ -ist, -alist, convey @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye confidant @ archaism -tist conveyer @ -or confidant @ French words constitutionist @ -ist, -alist, -tist convict @ noun and verb accent confidante @ feminine constrainedly @ -edly convict @ participles5 designations construe @ construct convince @ convict confine @ noun and verb accent consult with @ phrasal verbs convinced @ satisfy confirm @ agree consult @ council convincing @ inevitable conflict @ noun and verb accent consultant ]] @ euphemisms convincing @ viable conformable @ -able -ible4 consumedly @ -edly convoy @ differentiation conformist @ -ist, -alist, -tist consumedly @ battered convoy @ noun and verb accent confoundedly @ -edly ornaments cookbook @ Americanisms confront @ envisage consumedly @ terribly cooker @ Americanisms confusable @ -able -ible2 consummate @ participles5 cookery book @ Americanisms confusedly @ -edly consummation @ hackneyed cookie @ -ey and -y in pet congenial @ sympathetic phrases names congratulate @ formal words contact @ strategy, tactics cookie @ true and false Congregationalism @ containerize @ new verbs in -ize etymology coolie @ -ey and -y in pet names cothurnus @ battered ornaments crash @ headline language coop, co-op @ diaresis co-tidal @ co- crawfish @ crayfish co-op @ curtailed words co-trustee @ co- crayfish @ true and false cooperate @ co- cottage @ cot etymology coopt @ co- cotylotron @ -on crazy @ -ey and -y in adjective coordinate @ co- couch @ genteelism create @ -atable coparcenary @ co- cough @ pronunciation9 creation @ confection copartner @ co- could be @ maybe credentials @ credence co-pilot @ co- could have (vb) @ perfect credibility @ credence cops @ headline language infinitive credible @ -able -ible4 copulative @ disjunctive could @ in order that credible @ credence copy @ replica council school @ Americanisms credible @ long variants3 copy @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye councilloress @ feminine credible @ viable copy @ vulgarization designations credit @ credence copyist @ -ist, -alist, -tist counsel @ collectives creditable @ long variants3 copyright ]] @ infringe counsel @ council creditor @ -or coquettish @ -t, -tt counsellor @ council creed @ idealogue corbie @ -ey and -y in pet names countenance @ sanction creedal @ hybrids cord @ accord counteract @ antagonize creepy-crawly @ reduplicated cordon @ garage countess @ lady words co-religionist @ co- countrified @ -fied creole @ mulatto co-respondent @ co- countryfied @ -fied crêpe @ crape corn @ Americanisms coupon @ French words crept @ -t and -ed corner ]] @ negotiate coupon @ garage crescendo @ -o(e)s cornflour @ flour courtesy @ comity crescent @ road coronal @ recessive accent courtesy @ curtsy Crespigny @ pronunciation10 coronary @ false quantity courtesy @ differentiation cretin @ align corpora @ -us courts martial @ plural cretinocratic @ literary critic corporeal @ ordeal anomalies crew @ collectives corps @ plural anomalies courtyard @ true and false crew @ crow corpulence @ needless variants etymology crier @ skier corpus @ -us cousin @ names crikey @ facetious formations correct @ correctitude cousin @ relation2 crinkle @ crick correction @ -ion and -ness cousinship @ relationship crinkum-crankum @ facetious correctitude @ differentiation coûte que coûte @ French words formations correctitude @ long variants3 Covent Garden @ Coventry crinkum-crankum @ correctitude @ needless variants Covent @ pronunciation5 reduplicated words corrective services ]] @ gaol Coventry @ pronunciation5 crisis @ slipshod extension correctness @ -ion and -ness cow @ cattle crispness @ -ty and -ness correctness @ correctitude coward @ dastard criss-cross @ reduplicated words correctness @ differentiation cowardly @ -lily criteria @ -on correctness @ long variants3 co-worker @ co- criterion @ -on correctness @ needless variants Cowper @ pronunciation10 criterion @ sign corrector @ -or cox @ curtailed words critical @ crucial corroborate @ false quantity coxcomb @ cock’s-comb critical ]] @ necessary corrupter @ -or coxcomb @ egrerious criticism @ -c -ck corruption @ recessive accent coz @ relation2 criticism @ critique cortex @ -ex, -ix cozen @ relation2 croak @ onomatopoeia cosecant @ co- crabbed @ cramp Croesus @ generic names co-secretary @ co- crabbedly @ -edly crooked @ -er and -est2 coseismal @ co- crack @ top crookedly @ -edly co-signatory @ co- crackerjack @ facetious croquet @ crochet cosine @ co- formations cross-tie @ Americanisms cost @ dear crackers and cookies @ crowd @ number6 costal @ coastal Americanisms Crown, the @ metonomy co-star @ feature craft ]] @ science Crown, the @ personification costermonger @ warmonger craftiness @ pawky crucial @ slipshod extension costume @ noun and verb accent craftsman @ feminine crucial ]] @ necessary costumne @ differentiation designations crudeness @ -ty and -ness cot @ true and false etymology crafty @ worsened words cruel @ -er and -est2 cotangent @ co- cramming @ -m-, -mm- cruel, cruellest @ spelling cote @ cot cramped @ cramp points1&2 co-tenant @ co- cranium @ -um crumbly @ friable crumenam @ argumentum ad cutter @ -t, -tt dauber @ -b -bb cry down @ belittle cutting (newspaper) @ daughter of Eve @ battered cryptic @ avoidance of the Americanisms ornaments obvious cycle @ cinema daughter of joy @ Gallicisms cryptogram @ program cycle @ time daughter @ names crystal, chrysalis @ spelling cyclopean @ Herculean dauntless @ -less points1&2 cyclopian @ Herculean Daventry @ pronunciation1 cubic @ cinema cyclotron @ -on days @ plural anomalies cubic @ strategic(al) cyder @ y and i deaconess @ feminine cubic(al) @ -ic cynic(al) @ -ic designations cubicles @ ablutions cynicism @ humour dead accurate @ reckon cubiclize @ new verbs in -ize cypher @ cipher dead-beat @ beat cuckoo @ onomatopoeia cypher @ y and i dead letter @ slipshod extension cud @ differentiation Cytherean @ Herculean dead reckoning @ cuddlesome @ -some Cyzicene @ Magdalene misapprehension cuddling @ smouch dead reckoning @ popularised cui bono @ battered ornaments technicality cui bono @ foreign danger D dead reckoning @ reckon cul-de-sac @ French words dad @ names dead right @ reckon culinary @ polysyllabic humour dad-dad @ reduplicated words deaden @ -d-, -dd- cullender @ colander daddy @ -ey and -y in pet names deaden @ -en verbs from cultivable @ long variants1&2 dado @ -ed, ‘d adjectives cultivatable @ long variants1&2 daggers @ cognate deadpan @ pawky cultured @ cultivated dailies @ euphemisms deadworthy @ worthy3 cumbrous @ slumb(e)rous daily help @ char(e) deaf @ genteelism cumulative @ accumulative daily ]] @ journal deafen @ -en verbs from cumulative @ encyclopaedia Dalkeith @ pronunciation8 adjectives cunning @ -er and -est4 dalliance @ hybrids dealt @ -t and -ed cup that cheers @ hackneyed dam @ -er and -est4 dear @ cheap phrases dam @ differentiation dear @ differentiation cupboard @ Americanisms Dame (prefix @ sir dearen @ -en verbs from cupboard @ buffet dame @ differentiation adjectives cupfuls @ -ful damn with fair praise @ dearie @ -ey and -y in pet names cupidity @ -ty and -ness hackneyed phrases dearly @ dear cupsful @ -ful damn @ unthinkable dearth @ periphrasis curate’s egg @ hackneyed damp @ long variants1&2 deary @ -ey and -y in pet names phrases dampen @ -en verbs from death @ -th and -dh cure @ receipt adjectives death @ demise curiosity @ -ty and -ness dampen @ long variants1&2 deb @ curtailed words curious @ -er and -est4 dampen @ superfluous words debauchee @ -ee curious @ facetiae dancer @ artiste debility @ -ty and -ness curled @ -ll dandiacal @ hybrids debris @ French words currently @ presently dandy @ spiv debunk @ de- and dis- curriculum @ -um dandyfied @ -fied debus @ de- and dis- currish @ -r-, -rr- danger @ real debus @ debark currish @ pronunciation7 Daniel @ generic names deca- @ centi- curse @ damning darbies @ derby decanter @ -or cursedly @ -edly darby @ derby deceased ]] @ euphemisms curst @ -t and -ed dare say @ dare deceased ]] @ stock pathos curtail @ true and false darken @ -en verbs from decent @ false quantity etymology adjectives decent @ meiosis curtsy @ differentiation darkest @ -er and -est6 deci- @ centi- curve @ popularised technicality darkey @ -ey and -y in pet decidedly @ -edly custom @ differentiation names decimate @ incompatibles customer @ patron darkie @ -ey and -y in pet names decimate @ 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teenager depreciate @ Saxonism defamation @ libel delivery truck @ Americanisms depreciate @ signal default @ fail delouse @ new verbs in -ize deproletarionize @ new verbs in defeat @ indefeasible delphinium @ -um -ize defect @ pronunciation1 delude @ pronunciation6 depth @ -th nouns defective @ differentiation demagog @ Greek derangedly @ -edly defective @ mentality demand that @ shall derangement @ malapropisms defects of his qualities @ démarche @ French words derate @ de- and dis- hackneyed phrases demean, mean @ true and false deratize @ new verbs in -ize defects @ corporal etymology derby @ eponymous words defence @ synonym dementedly @ -edly derequisition @ de- and dis- Defence, the ]] @ metonomy demesne ]] @ infringe derestrict @ de- and dis- defender @ protagonist demigod @ demi deride @ belittle defense d’uriner @ euphemisms demijohn @ demi derisive @ derisory defer @ conferable demi-monde @ half derisive @ differentiation defer @ differentiation demise @ -ize derisive @ 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working and definitely @ meaningless words demurring @ pronunciation7 stylish words definitely @ quite demur, demurring @ spelling desegregation @ de- and dis- definitive @ adjectivally points1&2 deserter @ -or definitive @ differentiation demy @ demi deserve @ condign definitive @ intensive denigrate ]] @ belittle deservedly @ -edly definitive @ long variants3 denote @ connote desiccated @ spelling points1&2 definitive @ pairs and snares denounce @ long variants1&2 desiderata @ -um deflation @ de- and dis- dense @ -en verbs from desiderate @ slipshod extension deflection @ -xion, -xive adjectives designed @ purposive deformity @ corporal dentifrice @ genteelism designedly @ -edly desirable @ malapropisms devoted @ -er and -est5 dilemma @ synonym desire that @ shall devotedly @ -edly diligent @ -er and -est5 desire @ desiderate devout @ in- and un- dilly-dally @ reduplicated words desire @ double passives dexter @ sinister dilogy @ duologue desire @ genteelism dextrous @ facile dilute @ participles5 desirous @ malapropisms dextrous @ spelling points4 dilute @ pronunciation6 desist @ formal words diabolic(al) @ -ic dilutee @ -ee desk clerk @ Americanisms diagnose @ back formation diluter @ -ee desolate @ participles5 diagram @ program dim religious light @ hackneyed despatch @ dispatch diagrammatic @ -m-, -mm- phrases despatch, dispatch @ true and dial @ irrelevant allusion diminutives ]] @ sobriquet false etymology dialect @ jargon dimmest @ -m-, -mm- despise @ -ize dialectic @ -ics ding-dong @ reduplicated words despiteous @ mute ‘e’ dialectical @ dialectal dingo @ -o(e)s dessert @ desert dialogue @ diarchy dininish @ minify destiny @ benign diameter @ -re and -er dinner jacket @ jacket destroy @ in- and un- diameter @ meter dint @ dent destroy @ internecine diaphanous @ transparent diocess @ diocese destroy @ sabotage diarize @ new verbs in -ize dioxide @ diarchy destroy @ scotch diarrhoea @ -æ, -œ diplomat @ moral destroy @ synonym diarrhoea, diarrhœa @ spelling 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meaningless disfigure @ slipshod extension distressed area @ euphemisms words disgustedly @ -edly distributor @ -or donate @ formal words disgustful @ needless variants district @ terrain donkeys @ plural anomalies disharmony @ de- and dis- disyllable @ diarchy doomsday @ Domesday dishonest @ ethic ditto @ -o(e)s Dora @ curtailed words disillusion @ delusion ditto @ duologue dosh (money) @ bean disimperialism @ de- and dis- dittologue @ duologue dotard @ mute ‘e’ disincentive @ de- and dis- divalent @ -valent doteard @ mute ‘e’ disinflation @ de- and dis- divan @ couch double @ dual disinterested @ differentiation divers @ differentiation double entendre @ à l’outrance disinterested @ interest divers @ various double-entendre @ paronomasia disinterested @ objective and diverse @ differentiation double entente @ à l’outrance subjective divide @ watershed double rhyme @ rhyme disinterested @ pairs and snares divided @ dual double @ avoidance of the disinterestedly @ -edly dividend stripping @ bond obvious disjointedly @ -edly washing doublethink @ doubletalk dislike @ allergic divining rod @ douse doubly sure @ misquotations dismast @ disillusion division @ revivals doubt @ avoidance of the dismayedly @ -edly divorced @ adopted obvious disorder @ synonym do away with @ working and doubt @ long variants1&2 disparage @ belittle stylish words doubt @ working and stylish dispatch @ formal words do one’s possible @ Gallicisms words dispatch, despatch @ true and do you understand? @ OK doubtless @ quasi-adverbs false etymology dob ]] @ dub dough (money) @ bean dispersedly @ -edly docile @ -ile dove @ pigeon dispiritedly @ -edly docile @ fragile dovecote @ cot dispiteous @ revivals docilely @ spelling points4 dovey @ -ey and -y in pet names display @ cavalcade docketted @ -t, -tt dow @ dhow displeasuredly @ -edly doctor (vb) @ new verbs in -ize down @ phrasal verbs dispose of @ negotiate doctress @ feminine down-line @ up and down1 disposition @ mentality designations dowry @ dower dispraise @ de- and dis- doctrinal @ cervical dowse @ douse disputable @ recessive accent doctrinal @ false quantity dowsing @ douse disputable @ refutable doctrinal @ recessive accent doyen @ dean disreputable @ refutable dodecaphonic @ atonal doyly @ doily dissatisfied @ mis- dodge @ gimmick doyly ]] @ eponymous words dissaving @ de- and dis- doer @ -or dozen @ million dissemble @ needless variants dogged @ -er and -est4 dozen @ pronunciation5 dissent from @ analogy3 doggedly @ -edly Draconian @ generic names dissentients @ analogy2 doggie @ -ey and -y in pet draft @ homophone dissention @ analogy2 names dragooned @ -n-, -nn- disservice @ mis- doggie @ -y dram @ drachm dissimulate @ disassemble doggy @ -ey and -y in pet names drama @ -ae, -as dissimulate @ needless variants dogma @ Latin plurals drama @ analogy2 dissipated @ intransitive p.p. doily @ eponymous words dramatic unity @ unity dissoluble @ recessive accent dolce far niente @ battered dramatic @ lyric dissolute @ dissoluble ornaments dramatist @ comedian dissolution @ revivals dole out @ eke out draper’s shop @ Americanisms dissolve @ -able -ible2 dole @ revivals draught @ homophone dissolve @ dissoluble doleful @ -er and -est5 draughts @ Americanisms dissolve @ in- and un- dolichocephalic @ -cephalic draughts @ chequer distiguished @ distinction domain @ demesne drawers @ pantaloons distil @ -ll domain @ field drawing pin @ Americanisms distinct @ decided domain @ infringe dread @ analogy2 distinct @ differentiation domestic @ exterior dreadful @ dire distinct @ distinction domicile @ -ile dreadfully @ terribly distinct @ long variants3 Dominie Samson @ generic dreamed, dreamt @ -t and -ed distinctive @ differentiation names dressed @ clothe distinctive @ distinction domino @ -o(e)s dribble @ frequentative distinctive @ long variants3 don’t have @ Americanisms dribble @ slaver drift @ purport dust-bin @ Americanisms words drink @ working and stylish dustman @ euphemisms edify @ codify words dutiable @ -able -ible4 editio cum notis @ variorum drive @ enforce dutiful @ duteous editress @ feminine designations drivel @ slaver dutiful @ plenteous educable @ educate droll @ jocose dutious @ plenteous educationalist, educationist @ - drollness @ dullness duty @ plenteous ist, -alist, -tist drool @ slaver duty @ pronunciation6 educative @ maieutic drop off @ phrasal verbs duty @ tax, duty eduction @ educate dropping ‘of’ @ noun adjectives dwell @ working and stylish eel @ electric dropping preps @ preposition words eezi @ hybrids dropping dwellance @ hybrids effect @ affect dropt @ -t and -ed dye @ tint effect @ impact drown out @ phrasal verbs dye @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye effect @ pairs and snares drowsy @ back formation dyeing @ mute ‘e’ effective @ adjectivally druggist @ Americanisms dyeing @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye effective @ naïf, naïve etc. drum majorette @ feminine dying @ mute ‘e’ effective @ viable designations dyke @ dike effeminacy @ feminineness drummer @ -m-, -mm- dynamic(al) @ -ic effeminate ]] @ feminineness drunk @ intransitive pp dynamite @ -ite Efta @ curtailed words drunk @ popularised technicality dyologue @ duologue e.g. see start of ‘E’ section dry goods store @ Americanisms egghead @ intelligent dual @ avoidance of the obvious egg head @ Philistine dualism @ monadism E egg on @ true and false dualistic @ popularised e.g. @ pairs and snares etymology technicality ea sunt @ i.e. ego @ popularised technicality dubiety @ avoidance of the each and every @ Siamese twins egocentric @ egoism obvious each and every ]] @ pleonasm egocentric @ popularised dubiety @ long variants1&2 each other @ other technicality dubiety @ working and stylish eager @ anxious egoism @ differentiation words eager @ avoidance of the egoist @ -ist, -alist, -tist ducentenary @ centenary obvious egotism @ differentiation duchess @ Netherlands eager @ fain egotist @ -ist, -alist, -tist duck @ collectives earl @ lord egrerious @ revivals duckie @ -ey and -y in pet earnest @ jocose eirenikon @ eirenicon names earth @ mould either @ neither ducky @ -ey and -y in pet names earthen @ -en adjectives either @ nor ductile @ tactile easy @ -ey and -y in adjective ejector @ -or due to @ Americanisms easy @ avoidance of the obvious eke @ pedantic humour due to @ analogy3 easy @ facile elaborate @ participles5 due to @ owing to eatables @ working and stylish elective @ nominative due to @ unattached participle words electric(al) @ -ic due to ]] @ compound -eau (pl) @ x electricity @ -c -ck preposition eccentric @ soccer electro @ -o- due to ]] @ connexion echelon @ popularised electro @ electrocute due @ tax, duty technicality electron @ -on duecedly @ -edly echelon @ slipshod extension electron @ atom duely @ mute ‘e’ echo @ false quantity elegiac @ lyric duke @ lord eclipse @ limb elegiacs @ elegy dullness @ -ll ecology @ oe element @ factor duly @ commercialese economic sanctions @ sanction elephant @ collectives duly @ mute ‘e’ economic @ differentiation Elephant’s trunk @ rhyming duodecimo @ -o(e)s economic(al) @ -ic slang duplex @ -ex, -ix economical @ differentiation elevator @ Americanisms duplicate @ replica economics ]] @ -ics elf @ -ve and -ves durable @ -able -ible4 ecumenical @ -æ, -œ elf @ elvish durable @ viable ecumenical @ oe elfin @ -ve and -ves duration @ periphrasis ecumenical, oecumenical, eliminate @ popularised duration @ time œcumenical @ spelling technicality 2 during @ absolute construction points1&2 elves @ -ve and -ves durst @ dare edge-bone @ aitch-bone elvish @ -ve and -ves dust cart @ Americanisms edgeways @ -wise, -ways Elysium @ -um dustbin @ pronunciation2 edifice @ working and stylish emaciation @ -ciation embarass @ involve enema @ false quantity entrapped @ -p-, -pp- embarassedly @ -edly enemy attack @ noun-adjective entrench @ em- and im-, en- and embarrass, harass @ spelling enfant terrible @ French words in- points1&2 enflame ]] @ inflame entresol @ floor embed @ em- and im-, en- and enfold @ em- and im-, en- and entrust @ em- and im-, en- and in- in- in- emblem @ sign enforce @ reinforce entwine @ em- and im-, en- and emblematic @ -m-, -mm- enforceable @ -able -ible2 in- embryo @ -o(e)s enfranchise @ -ize entwist @ em- and im-, en- and emendation @ -ion and -ment engaged @ literary critic in- Emerald Isle @ battered engagement @ Americanisms enure @ em- and im-, en- and ornaments engaging @ sympathetic in- emerge @ transpire engender @ ingeminate enveloping @ -p-, -pp- emergence @ differentiation engine-driver @ Americanisms environment @ ambience emergency @ differentiation engineer @ Americanisms environment @ environs emergency @ euphemisms England eleven @ noun- environment ]] @ tautology emergency @ vogue words2 adjective environmental health officer @ eminent @ big England team @ noun-adjectives ratcatcher emissary @ mandatory England @ America environs @ recessive accent empanel @ em- and im-, en- and England @ didacticism envisage @ Gallicisms in- english (to) @ Saxonism envisage @ materialize emphatically @ faithfully English vs French words @ envisage @ working and stylish employee @ -ee Saxonism words employees @ personnel English vs Latin words @ envoy @ headline language employer @ -er and -or Saxonism enwrap @ em- and im-, en- and employment exchange @ English @ America in- euphemisms engraft @ em- and im-, en- and enzootic @ endemic emporium @ -um in- eon @ aeon empower ]] @ em- and im-, en- engrain @ em- and im-, en- and epic @ lyric and in- in- epic @ vulgarization empty @ avoidance of the engrave ]] @ grave epidemic @ endemic obvious enlarge @ -en verbs from epidermis @ polysyllabic en rapport @ rapport adjectives humour en- @ incrust enlightenment @ recessive epigram @ aphorism encage @ em- and im-, en- and accent epigrammatic @ -m-, -mm- in- enlisted man @ Americanisms epistemology @ metaphysics encase @ em- and im-, en- and enormity @ -ty and -ness epistolary @ long variants1&2 in- enormity @ differentiation epistolatory @ long variants1&2 enclose @ em- and im-, en- and enormity @ revivals epitaph @ malapropisms in- enormousness @ -ty and -ness epithets @ malapropisms encroach @ infringe enormousness @ differentiation epizzotic @ endemic encrust @ em- and im-, en- and enough @ genteelism epoch @ date in- enough]] @ ample epoch @ time encrust @ incrust enquire @ em- and im-, en- and epode @ pindarics encyclopaedia @ dictionary in- equable @ false quantity encyclopædia @ encyclopaedia enquire @ genteelism equal @ inadequate end product @ popularised enquire @ inquire equalling @ -ll technicality enquiry @ differentiation equally as @ as end @ working and stylish enrol @ -ll equally as @ pleonasm words Ensa @ curtailed words equate @ vogue words3 endeavour @ double passives ensure @ em- and im-, en- and equation @ personal equation endeavour @ formal words in- equerry @ recessive accent endive @ Americanisms entail @ noun and verb accent equerry @ true and false endorse @ em- and im-, en- and entangle @ involve etymology in- entente @ double entendre equine @ equerry endorsement @ em- and im-, en- entering @ -r-, -rr- equipped @ -p-, -pp- and in- enterprise @ -ize equivalent @ -valent endue @ em- and im-, en- and enthrall @ -ll equivocation @ fallacy in- enthralment @ -ll -er @ feminine designations endure ]] @ em- and im-, en- enthuse @ back formation era @ time and in- enthuse @ perorate erase @ rase endways @ -wise, -ways entirely @ altogether eraser @ -or Énée @ Mahomet entirely @ total Erastianism @ Jansenism ere @ incongrous euphoric @ popularised excuse @ apology ere @ vulgarization technicality excuse @ noun and verb accent erectile @ tactile euphuism @ pairs and snares excuses (making) @ superiority ergo @ pedantic humour euphuism @ popularised execrable @ -able -ible1 Ernie @ curtailed words technicality execution @ electrocute eros @ analogy2 Eurasian @ Asian executive @ Americanisms erotic @ facetiae Eurasian @ mulatto executrix @ -trix errand @ true and false evaluate @ long variants3 executrix @ feminine etymology evangeliser @ -ize designations errata @ -um evanish @ vulgarization exemplary @ vindictive erratic @ strategic(al) eve @ literary words exercise @ -ize erring @ pronunciation7 even date @ commercialese exhibit @ evidence error @ pronunciation7 even tenor @ misquotations exhibit @ feature erstwhile @ incongrous evening prayers @ morning exordinum @ -um erstwhile @ pedantic humour evening service @ morning exotic @ exoteric erudite @ -ite evensong @ morning exotic @ strategic(al) escalade @ escalate event @ factor expect that @ shall escalate @ superfluous words event @ happening expect @ analogy3 escapee @ superfluous words events @ Saxonism expect @ anticipate escapee ]] @ -ee eventuate @ happening expect @ hope escarped @ -p-, -pp- eventuate @ materialize expectorate @ genteelism escort @ noun and verb accent eventuate @ Saxonism expedient @ receipt esoteric @ exoteric ever so @ never so expedite @ formal words especial @ aphaeresia every one @ every one expeditious @ suppositious especial @ differentiation everybody @ every one expensive @ dear Esperanto @ basic English everyone @ every one expensive @ differentiation esplanade @ -ade, -ado everyone @ one experienced @ intransitive pp -ess @ feminine designations everyone @ they, them, their experiencedly @ -edly essay @ assay evince @ formal words experiment @ long variants1&2 essay @ differentiation evocative @ literary critic experiment @ noun and verb essay @ noun and verb accent evoke @ evince accent essay @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye ex tempore @ long variants1&2 experimentalize @ long Essential World English @ basic ex-officer @ prefix variants1&2 English ex-service man @ Americanisms expert @ noun and adjective essential @ necessary exact @ love of the long word accent estate car ]] @ break exact @ meticulous expertise @ -ise esteemed @ commercialese exaggerate @ spelling points1&2 expiable @ -able -ible1 estimable @ esteem exam @ curtailed words explain @ -en verbs from estimatable @ esteem examine @ metaphor1 adjectives estimate @ esteem examinee @ -ee explain @ resolve estimate @ long variants3 exceedingly @ differentiation explanation @ apology estimate @ participles5 except @ archaism explanation @ background estimation @ long variants3 except @ long variants3 explicitly @ faithfully estrange @ -en verbs from except @ save (except) exploit @ noun and verb accent adjectives except @ vulgarization explore every avenue @ esurient @ polysyllabic humour excepting @ long variants3 hackneyed phrases et cetera @ ceteris exception proves rule @ explore every avenue @ negative et cetera @ false quantity popularised technicality explore every avenue @ tic et seq @ seq exceptional @ unique douloureux et sequentia @ seq., seqq. excessively @ differentiation expo ]] @ Gallicisms ethic @ -ics excessively @ sensible, exposition @ exposé ethic @ strategic(al) sensitive, susceptible exposition @ Gallicisms ethics @ false quantity excessively @ terribly exposure @ exposé ethics @ moral exchange @ change express @ implicit -etic @ false quantity excise @ -ize expression @ locution Eton jacket @ jacket excise @ tax, duty expressly @ faithfully -ette @ feminine designations excitation @ -ion and -ment extemporaneously @ long etymology @ grammar excite @ -ion and -ment variants1&2 eulogy @ a1 exciteable @ mute ‘e’ extemporary @ eulogy @ fabulous excitedly @ -edly extemporaneously Eumenides @ trilogy excitement @ -ion and -ment extempore @ extemporaneously euphemism @ pairs and snares excursion @ alarm extend @ formal words euphemisms ]] @ sociologese excuse @ alibi extensive @ intensive external @ exterior failure @ non fateful @ pairs and snares extra words @ overzeal fainné @ phoney Father Christmas @ Santa Claus extract @ noun and verb accent fair and square @ Siamese twins father figure @ popularised extract @ participles5 fair sex @ hackneyed phrases technicality extraordinary @ massive fair-spoken @ -spoken father @ names extraordinary @ phenomenal fairly @ pretty father ]] @ minister extraordinary @ pronunciation1 fairy @ vulgarization fathers-in-law ]] @ plural extravagance @ de- and dis- faith @ idealogue anomalies extravaganza @ comedy faithfully yours @ letter forms fathom @ collectives extremist @ ultra faithworthy @ worthy3 fatten @ -en verbs from extrinsic @ factious falcon @ pronunciation8 adjectives extrovert @ popularised fall @ Americanisms fatty @ -ey and -y in pet names technicality fall @ pronunciation8 faucet @ Americanisms exuberance @ luxurious fallacy of @ ignoratio elenchi faultless @ indefeasible eye’d ]] @ -ed, ‘d fallen @ fall faultworthy @ worthy3 eyeglass @ monocle false @ fallacy fauna’d @ -ed, ‘d eyeing @ -ey and -y in adjective false @ pronunciation8 favour @ commercialese eyeing @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye falsehood @ differentiation favourite @ -our and -or- eying @ -ey and -y in adjective falseness @ -ty and -ness fawney @ phoney eyry @ aery falseness @ differentiation fay 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enforce formulae @ Latin plurals fridge @ curtailed words forceful @ avoidance of the formulas @ Latin plurals fridge @ refrigerate obvious forsake @ for- fried ]] @ drunk forceful @ pairs and snares forswear @ for- friend of Jim(’s) @ out of the forceps @ biceps forte @ moral frying pan forceps @ Latin plurals fortune @ archaism friendly society @ Americanisms forceps @ plural anomalies fortune @ pronunciation1 friendship @ relationship forceps @ singular ‘s’ forum @ -um frightfully @ terribly forceps ]] @ pair forum(s) @ -um frillies @ -ey and -y in pet names forcepses @ Latin plurals forward @ brash frills and furbelows @ Siamese forcible @ -able -ible2 forwards @ -ward twins forcible @ avoidance of the foul @ -en verbs from adjectives frilly @ -ey and -y in pet names obvious found @ fount frith @ firth forcible @ forceful found @ locate frivol @ back formation forcible @ pairs and snares foundress @ feminine friz @ -z-, -zz- forcipes @ Latin plurals designations froggy @ -ey and -y in pet fore ordained @ for- fountain @ fount names fore @ farther four-in-hands @ plural from whence @ whence forebearance @ hybrids anomalies from @ phrasal verbs forebears @ for- fourfold @ manifold frontispiece @ polysyllabic forebeer @ forebears fourth estate @ estate humour forebode @ for- fourth @ -th and -dh fructification @ fruition foreclose @ for- fracture @ fragile fructification @ pairs and snares forefather @ forebears fragile @ -ile fruggy @ -g-, -gg- forefinger @ finger fragment @ fragile fruit machine @ Americanisms foregoing @ for- fragmentize @ new verbs in -ize fruit @ collectives foregone @ for- frail @ fragile fruitfulness @ prolific forehead @ pronunciation1 frailness @ -ty and -ness fruition @ pairs and snares foreign city names ]] @ frailty @ -ty and -ness frustrate @ sabotage didacticism framework @ periphrasis fry @ friable foreign words @ Saxonism framework @ vogue words2 fryable @ friable foreman @ for- France and Spain @ rhyming fubsy ]] @ portmanteau forename @ revivals slang fuddled @ flustered forerunner @ -type frangrantize @ new verbs in -ize fuddy-duddy @ reduplicated forerunner @ forebears franticly @ frantically words foresee @ formal words fraternal order @ Americanisms fugacious @ polysyllabic foresee @ materialize fratricide @ parricide humour foresee @ working and stylish free verse @ ves libre -ful @ spelling points3 words free @ de- and dis- -ful, -fully @ spelling points1&2 foreshadow @ predicate free @ flamboyant fulfil @ -ll foreshore ]] @ littoral free, gratis @ hackneyed phrases fulfil @ implement forestall @ anticipate free-spoken @ -spoken fulfil @ materialize forewarn @ for- freeway ]] @ road fuliginous @ polysyllabic foreword @ prefix freight train etc. @ humour foreword @ Saxonism Americanisms full stop in abbreviations @ forfeit @ for- freight @ Americanisms period in abbreviations forfend @ for- french polish, windows, kiss etc. full @ implicit forget-me-nots @ plural @ capitals fullness @ -ll anomalies French @ avoidance of the fullness @ dullness forgetful @ oblivious obvious fulsome @ -some forgivable @ -able -ible1 French @ Hibernian function @ working and stylish forgo @ for- Frenches @ plural anomalies words forlorn hope @ true and false Frenchified @ -fied fundamental @ basal etymology frenzied @ frantically funeral director @ euphemisms forlorn @ for- frenziedly @ -edly funeral director @ mortician funeral furnisher @ euphemisms gantlope, gauntlet @ true and geographic(al) @ -ic funeral @ pronunciation6 false etymology geography @ geo- fungus @ mould gaol @ margarine geology @ geo- funniment @ -ment gaoler @ euphemisms geometric(al) @ -ic funniment @ hybrids gap @ interregnum geometry @ geo- funny @ jocose garage @ recessive accent geriatrics @ Greek funny @ phoney garbage can @ Americanisms germ @ mico-organism funny @ pronunciation7 garbage truck @ Americanisms Germany @ didacticism furious @ frantically garbo ]] @ euphemisms Germanys @ plural anomalies furlough @ noun and verb garbologist ]] @ euphemisms germinate @ ingeminate accent garden @ academy gerund @ object further @ far gardens @ road Gesu @ Italian sounds further @ farther garter @ king get into touch with @ contact furtherance @ hybrids garters @ Americanisms get over @ negotiate furze @ synonym gas @ liquid get past @ negotiate fuse @ integrate gas(oline) @ Americanisms get round @ negotiate fuse @ true and false etymology gasmeter @ hybrids get @ formal words fusible @ -able -ible2 gasoline @ gas get @ phrasal verbs fusible @ infuse gasoline @ kerosine get-at-able @ come-at-able fusillade @ -ade, -ado gasometer @ hybrids gew-gaws @ reduplicated words gasometer @ meter ghastly @ -lily gassy @ gaseous ghastly @ vulgarization G gas, gassy @ spelling points1&2 ghetto @ -o(e)s ga-ga @ reduplicated words gate @ road ghetto @ Italian sounds gag @ closure gather @ centre ghiberrish @ gibber gage @ synonym Gatt @ curtailed words gibbering @ meticulous gage @ weather gauge gauge @ synonym gibberish @ jargon gain @ asset gaugeable @ mute ‘e’ Gil Blas @ picaresque gainsay @ literary words Gaulish @ Briticism gild the lily @ misquotations gainsay @ verbs in -ie, -y and gauntlet (run the) @ true and gilded youth @ Gallicisms -ye false etymology Gillian @ gill gall and wormwood @ Siamese gay @ colourful gillyflower @ gillie twins gear @ wear gimmick @ Americanisms gallant @ hon gelatine @ -in and -ine gimmickry @ summitry gallant @ worsened words gemmed @ -m-, -mm- gin and tonic ]] @ hendiadys Gallic @ avoidance of the gen @ curtailed words gin and tonics @ plural obvious gender in pronouns @ number11 anomalies Gallic @ Hibernian gender problems @ or2 gingerly @ true and false Gallice @ latine gender @ female etymology Gallicism @ Briticism gender-free pronouns @ or2 gins and French @ plural galligaskin @ facetious gender-free pronouns @ they, anomalies formations them, their Giotto @ Italian sounds Gallio @ -o(e)s genealogy @ -logy gipsy @ y and i gallop @ facetious formations genera @ -us giraffe @ camelopard galloped @ -p-, -pp- genera @ Latin plurals girasole @ true and false galloper @ -p-, -pp- general @ overall etymology gallows @ plural anomalies generalissimo @ -o(e)s gird @ harness Gallup @ pollster generate @ ingeminate girl singer ]] @ cantatrice galop @ gallop genii @ Latin plurals girl @ feminine designations galoping @ -p-, -pp- genius @ talent girl @ pronunciation1 galumph @ facetious formations geniuses @ Latin plurals girlfriend @ intended galvanize @ eponymous words genre ]] @ garage girlie @ -ey and -y in pet names galvanize @ new verbs in -ize genteel @ worsened words girth @ -th and -dh gambado @ -ade, -ado gentle sex @ battered ornaments gittern @ cither gambit @ popularised gentleman @ U and non-U give furiously @ Gallicisms technicality gentlemanlike @ superfluous give to think @ give game @ collectives words give @ extend gamesmanship @ brinkmanship gentrified ]] @ -fied give @ formal words gamesome @ -some gentryfied ]] @ -fied glad @ -en verbs from adjectives gamut @ field gents @ euphemisms glad @ fain gamy @ -ey and -y in adjective genuine @ authentic gladden @ -en verbs from gang (going) @ ginger genus @ -us adjectives gangway @ aisle genuses @ Latin plurals gladioli @ Latin plurals gladiollus @ false quantity goodies @ -ey and -y in pet gravity @ pawky gladsome @ -some names grease @ noun and verb accent Glamis @ pronunciation10 goodish @ -d-, -dd- grease @ verdigris glamorous @ vulgarization goods train @ Americanisms greasy @ -ey and -y in adjective glance @ glimpse goods @ Americanisms Great Britain @ America glanders @ plural anomalies goodself @ commercialese Great Britain @ England glands (she’s got) @ n goodwill @ know-how great many @ few glandular @ -ular goody @ -ey and -y in pet names great measure @ measure glandule @ -ular goody-goody @ reduplicated great @ big glass @ noun and verb accent words great @ infinite glass @ transparent goosey, goosy @ -ey and -y in great @ large glaze @ noun and verb accent pet names great @ less glibbest @ -b -bb gorblimey @ facetious greaten @ -en verbs from glissande @ -ade, -ado formations adjectives global @ vogue words3 gorse @ furze greater @ major globose @ -ular gorse @ synonym gredile @ grid globular @ -ular gory @ -ey and -y in adjective gredire @ grid gloomy @ -m-, -mm- gosh @ facetious formations greedy @ avoidance of the glorious uncertainty @ gossip @ sibling obvious hackneyed phrases gossipmonger @ warmonger greedy @ lickerish glory @ kudos gossipy @ -p-, -pp- Greek meets Greek @ glossary @ questionnaire got @ get misquotations Gloucester ]] @ pronunciation1 gotten @ get Greek @ Helene gloze @ gloss gourmande @ gormandize greengage @ eponymous words glue @ pronunciation6 gov @ names greenth @ -th nouns gluey @ -ey and -y in adjective governess @ feminine greyhound @ true and false gluey @ mute ‘e’ designations etymology gluy @ -ey and -y in adjective government @ number6 gridiron @ true and false glycerine @ -in and -ine governmental @ noun-adjective etymology gnatter @ natter Governor Generals @ plural grief @ noun and verb accent gnome @ aphorism anomalies grieve @ noun and verb accent go sick @ sick governor @ -or grimy @ -ey and -y in adjective go to bed @ genteelism governor @ -our and -or grist @ purport go up @ phrasal verbs governor @ lady ground @ terrain go @ -o(e)s governor @ names group verbs ]] @ number6 go @ formal words grace and favour @ Siamese group verbs ]] @ personification go @ trek twins group want(s) ]] @ number6 goat @ hart grade crossing @ Americanisms group want(s) ]] @ goatee @ -ee grade @ Americanisms personification gobbledygook @ facetious gradient @ Americanisms group ]] @ comity formations graece @ latine groups, singular or plural @ go-between @ intermediary grain @ Americanisms which, that, who8 God wot @ wit (vb) gram flour ]] @ flour grouse @ collectives God @ facetious formations gram ]] @ collectives grouse @ maunder godwottery @ facetious gramme @ deca grove @ road formations grand @ -en verbs from grovel @ back formation going places @ preposition adjectives growl @ maunder dropping grandee @ -ee growth @ -th and -dh gold @ -en adjectives grandfather @ names growth @ -th nouns golden @ -en adjectives grandiloquent @ orotund gruesome @ -some golden @ leaden grandmother @ names guano @ -o(e)s golf @ pronunciation1 graneous @ -ular guard (of passenger train) @ goluptuous @ facetious granny @ -ey and -y in pet Americanisms formations names guardedly @ -edly gone @ pronunciation4 granose @ -ular Guelfo @ Italian sounds good deal of @ considerable granular @ -ular guerdon @ number1 good few @ few grateful thanks @ adjectivally guerilla, guerrilla @ resistance good many @ few gratefully @ sensible, sensitive, guess @ langour good @ ethic susceptible guess @ reckon good @ mean gratify @ codify guest house @ euphemisms good-humouredly @ -edly grave crisis @ adjectivally guest @ genteelism good-naturedly @ -edly grave @ jocose guest @ langour good-temperdly @ -edly gravelly @ -ll guiberrish @ gibber guide, philosopher and friend @ halve @ pronunciation8 he who consents @ hackneyed phrases hammy @ -m-, -mm- misquotations guild @ langour hamstrung ]] @ hamstringed he @ number11 guile @ langour handedly @ -edly head up @ phrasal verbs guillotine @ closure handfuls @ plural anomalies headdress ]] @ wear guillotine @ eponymous words handfuls, handsful @ -ful headedly @ -edly guiltless @ innocent of handfuls, handsful @ spelling headwear @ wear guinea-fowl @ fowl points3 healthy @ non guiser @ geezer handicapped @ -p-, -pp- heaps @ number6 guiser ]] @ geyser handkerchiefs @ -ve and -ves heart and soul @ Siamese twins gullible @ hybrids handsome @ -some heartedly @ -edly gumma @ Latin plurals hankering @ cast iron idiom hearth @ -th and -dh gun @ Americanisms hanky @ -ey and -y in pet names hearty @ aesthete gun @ arms hanky @ hypocorisma heat @ caloric gun @ cannon hanky-panky @ reduplicated heatedly @ -edly gush @ slaver words heath @ -th and -dh guv @ names Hansard @ eponymous words heavenlily @ -lily guy @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye hansom @ eponymous words heavenly @ -lily gybe @ gibe ha’p’orth, ha’path @ half heavenly @ paradise gym @ curtailed words happen @ chance Hebe @ generic names gymnastic @ -ics happen @ materialize Hebraism @ Hebrew gynaecology @ -æ, -œ happenings @ Saxonism Hebrew @ yiddish gynaecology @ Greek harass, embarrass @ spelling hectic @ popularised gyp @ scout points1&2 technicality gypsy @ y and i hard of hearing @ genteelism hecto @ centi- hard @ -er and -est1,3 Hector @ curtailed words hard @ brash heebie-jeebies ]] @ reduplicated H hard(ly) @ unidiomatic -ly words H-bone @ aitch-bone (also see hard-wove @ wove heedless @ oblivious cee-spring) harden @ -d-, -dd- heeless @ -less H-iron @ cee-spring harden @ -en verbs from hegemony @ Greek habiliments @ polysyllabic adjectives heifer @ cattle humour hardly @ -ly1 height @ sleight habit of body @ hectic hardly @ analogy3 heinous @ grievous habit @ habitude hardly @ scarcely heir apparent @ apparent 4 habitual @ a1 hardly @ without heir @ homophone habitual @ instinctual hardware dealer @ heirs presumptive @ plural habitude @ superfluous words Americanisms anomalies hadn’t half @ meiosis hardy annual @ hackneyed helicopter @ heliotrope hair @ collectives phrases heliograph @ heliotrope hairdresser @ euphemisms hardy annual @ popularised help @ domestic halcyon @ pronunciation8 technicality help @ genteelism half (didn’t) @ meiosis hare @ hart help/assist @ irrelevant half (of) @ number6 harebell @ bluebell helter-skelter @ reduplicated half breed @ mulatto Harewood @ pronunciation10 words half caste @ mulatto harmless @ -less hem @ limb half penny @ half harmonious @ in- hemiplegia @ Greek half seasover @ drunk harmonium @ -um hempen @ -en adjectives half @ demi harmony @ de- and dis- Henry VI @ trilogy half @ noun and verb accent harsh @ brash her (doing something) @ fused half @ pronunciation8 harshen @ -en verbs from participle half- @ half adjectives Her Majesty @ personification half- @ semi- harum-scarum @ reduplicated her @ number11 half-and-half @ dual words her(s) @ absolute possessives half-breed @ mulatto hasten @ formal words herb @ hotel half-caste @ mulatto hasty @ -ey and -y in adjective here @ hither half-world @ Gallicisms hasty @ brash hereditary @ a1 halfpenny @ half haul over @ coal Hermes @ hermetically halfpenny @ pronunciation8 have a temperature @ n hero @ -o(e)s hallmark @ sign have your say @ say heroics @ -ics halma @ pronunciation8 have @ get heroine @ feminine designations halo @ -ed, ‘d haven’t got @ Americanisms herpes @ -ies halve @ noun and verb accent he or you were @ or2 hers @ number11 herself @ number11 formations hope @ analogy3 hesitation @ frequentative hocus-pocus @ reduplicated hope @ double passives hiati @ Latin plurals words hope @ optimism hiatus @ -us hodge-podge @ reduplicated hopeful @ optimism hiatus @ Latin plurals words hopeful @ synonym hibernice @ latine hoe @ tiptoe hopeful @ vogue words4 Hibernicism @ Briticism hog raising @ Americanisms hopeful @ vulgarization hiccough @ pronunciation9 hoi polloi @ battered ornaments hornswoggle @ facetious hiccuped @ -p-, -pp- hoise, hoised @ hoist formations hidalgo @ pronunciation8 hoity-toity @ reduplicated words horribly @ -lily hidden @ cryptic hokey-pokey @ reduplicated horribly ]] @ meaningless words hide @ formal words words horribly @ terribly hieing @ mute ‘e’ hokum @ facetious formations horror @ -our and -or higgeldy-piggledy @ hold @ stokehold horsemanship @ relationship reduplicated words hold-up @ phrasal verbs horsewhipped @ -p-, -pp- high cocalorum @ facetious hole @ -ey and -y in adjective horsewoman @ feminine formations hole @ stokehold designations high degree @ big holey @ -ey and -y in adjective horsy @ -ey and -y in adjective High German @ German holey @ mute ‘e’ horsy @ mute ‘e’ high road @ road holiday @ Americanisms hospitable @ -able -ible4 high street @ road holidays @ vacancies hospitable @ recessive accent high @ less holily @ -lily hospital almoner @ almoner high-strikes @ hugeous hollandais, hollondais @ hospital @ hotel highbrow @ intelligent Netherlands hospital @ mentality highbrow @ Philistine holm-oak @ -ex, -ix hospitalize @ new verbs in -ize highflown @ orotund holus-bolus @ facetious hostess @ feminine designations highstrikes @ facetious formations hostile @ noun-adjective formations holy @ -er and -est1 hostile @ popularised highway @ road holy @ -ey and -y in adjective technicality hill @ road holy @ mute ‘e’ hot and strong @ Siamese twins hillal @ hybrids Home @ pronunciation10 hot potato @ rhyming slang him (doing something) @ fused homeo @ homo hotchpotch @ hotch potch participle homeopathic @ pedantic humour hotel @ a1 him @ number11 homeopathy @ -æ, -œ hotel @ pronunciation1 himself @ number11 Homer @ metonomy hotpot @ hotch potch hindrance @ hybrids Homeric laughter @ laudable hotsy-totsy @ reduplicated hingeing @ mute ‘e’ Homeric laughter @ popularised words hip and thigh @ Siamese twins technicality hough @ hock hippodrome @ syndrome homicide ]] @ parricide hough @ pronunciation9 hippy ]] @ beat hominem @ argumentum ad hour @ a1 hire purchase @ Americanisms homio @ homo house (vb) @ inhabit his (doing something) @ fused homo sapiens @ sapient house @ accommodation participle homo @ curtailed words house @ noun and verb accent His Majesty ]] @ personification homy @ -ey and -y in adjective houseman @ feminine his own worst enemy @ honest @ Gallicisms designations hackneyed phrases honest @ pronunciation5 housing @ love of the long word his @ absolute possessives honestly @ straight(ly) hove @ heave his @ number11 honesty @ -ty and -ness hovel @ pronunciation5 historian @ a1 honey @ pronunciation5 hover @ pronunciation5 historian ]] @ pronunciation1 honor @ -our and -or howbeit @ archaism historic @ differentiation honorary @ hon however @ conjunction historic @ strategic(al) honour @ -our and -or however @ false scent historical @ differentiation honour @ langour however @ illiteracies history @ a1 honourable @ -our and -or- however @ incompatibles history ]] @ pronunciation1 honourable @ hon hubble-bubble @ reduplicated hit the nail on the head @ nail honoured @ privileged words hither and thither @ Siamese honourworthy @ worthy3 hubby @ -ey and -y in pet names twins hood @ Americanisms hubub @ -b -bb hoarding @ Americanisms hoodie @ -ey and -y in pet hue and cry @ Siamese twins hob-nob @ reduplicated words names hue @ tint hobnob @ -b -bb hoof @ -ve and -ves huge @ massive hock @ pronunciation9 hooves @ -ve and -ves huge @ pronunciation6 hocus-pocus @ facetious hope that @ shall hugger-mugger @ reduplicated words I don’t think @ rather ill-gotten @ get hulk @ shear hulk I or you were @ or2 ill-naturedly @ -edly hulla-baloo @ reduplicated I remain, @ letter forms ill-temperedly @ -edly words I say @ well2 illegitimate @ illegal hum and ha @ Siamese twins I shouldn’t wonder @ negative illicit @ illegal hum @ bumblebee mishandling illimitable @ in- human @ in- i.e. @ pairs and snares illiterate @ in- humaniser @ -ize i.e. @ viz, sc, i.e. illness @ dullness humanism @ -ism and -ity -ices or -exes @ -ex, -ix illth @ -th nouns humanity @ -ism and -ity icing @ mute ‘e’ illusion @ delusion humanity @ -ty and -ness icon ]] @ sign illusive @ elusive humanize @ sensitize icy @ -ey and -y in adjective image @ vogue words2 humble pie, umbles @ true and ida @ false quantity imagine @ envisage false etymology idea @ -ae, -as imbecile @ -ile humble @ hotel idea @ image imbrue @ -im humblebee @ bumblebee idea ]] @ concept imbrute @ -im humbugged @ -g-, -gg- idea’d @ -ed, ‘d imbue @ inculcate humdrum @ workaday ideal @ beau ideal imbue @ infuse humour @ -our and -or- idealism @ -ism and -ity imitation @ ersatz humour @ hotel ideality @ -ism and -ity immanent @ popularised humour @ pronunciation1 identic(al) @ -ic technicality humouredly @ -edly identify @ slipshod extension immaterial @ in- humourist @ -ist, -alist, -tist ideology @ idealogue immaterial @ unmaterial hundred @ avoidance of the idiom @ analogy3 immediacy @ literary critic obvious idiom @ jargon immediate @ mediatize hundred @ million idiosyncracy @ false analogy immediately @ instantly hundredth @ centenary idiosyncrasy @ vogue words3 immediately @ momentarily hundredweight @ collectives idiot @ worsened words immediately @ presently hunting @ Americanisms idle @ idyl immense @ colossal hurdy-gurdy @ reduplicated idol @ idyl imminent @ immanent words idolatory @ -ist, -alist, -tist immoral @ in- hurly-burly @ reduplicated idolatory @ syncope immoral @ non words idolatrous @ slumb(e)rous immoral]] @ amoral hurriance @ hybrids idolatry @ -latry immortalize @ sensitize hurriedly @ -edly idolatry @ syncope immovable @ differentiation hurry @ pronunciation7 idololatry @ -latry immovable @ pairs and snares husband @ intended idols of market @ popularised immunize @ new verbs in -ize husband @ names technicality impact @ vogue words2 husht @ -t and -ed idyl @ false quantity impair @ analogy3 hussy @ housewife -ies @ plural anomalies impale @ -im huxameter @ meter -iety @ false quantity imparadise @ -im hydro @ -o- if and when @ pleonasm impark @ -im hydrocephalic @ -cephalic if I may use that term (etc.) @ impartial @ objective and hydrocephalic @ needless superiority subjective variants if possible @ position of adverb impartiality @ indeifferent hydrocephalous @ needless if @ conjunction impassable @ pairs and snares variants if @ except impassible @ pairs and snares hyperbaton @ -on if @ provided that impassive @ impassable hypercritical @ hyper- if @ which with and or but impassive @ synonym hypocrite @ hyper- ignorami @ Latin plurals impawn @ -im hypocrite @ journal ignoramic @ analogy2 impayable @ French words hypocritical @ hyper- ignoramus @ -us impayable @ Gallicisms hypothesis @ hypothecate ignoramus @ analogy2 impedance @ hybrids hypothesis @ worsened words ignorant ]] @ oblivious imperative @ mood hypothetic(al) @ -ic ignorantium @ argumentum ad imperialism @ worsened words hysteric(al) @ -ic ignoratio elenchi @ fallacy imperil @ -im hysterical @ a1 ikon ]] @ sign impermeablize @ new verbs in hysterics @ facetious formations ilex @ -ex, -ix -ize hysterics @ hugeous ilk @ slipshod extension impermissible @ illegal ill advised @ intransitive pp impertinent @ irrelevant ill @ sick impetuous @ brash I ill-gotten gain @ hackneyed impetus @ -us ‘i’ before ‘e’ @ spelling points4 phrases impinging @ dye implement @ noun and verb in regard to ]] @ with inanity @ -ty and -ness accent in relation to @ compound inappeasable @ in- and un- implement @ vogue words2 preposition inapproachable @ in- and un- implement @ working and in relation to @ connexion inarguable @ in- and un- stylish words in relation to @ periphrasis inartistic @ in- and un- implicit confidence @ in respect to @ periphrasis inartistic @ unartistic hackneyed phrases in 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interject @ interpellate Irishman @ Hibernian jeopardize @ new verbs in -ize interjection @ expletive iron curtain @ cliché jerrybuilt @ gerrymander internal revenue @ iron curtain @ vogue words5 Jerusalem artichoke @ true and Americanisms ironclad @ clothe false etymology internal @ cognate ironical detachment @ pawky jesting @ jocose internal @ exterior ironicalist @ -ist, -alist, -tist jetsam @ flotsam internecine @ false quantity ironicist @ -ist, -alist, -tist jetties @ plural anomalies internecine @ popularised ironist @ -ist, -alist, -tist jettison @ jetsam technicality ironmonger @ Americanisms jeu (pl) @ x interpellate @ misprints ironmonger @ warmonger jeu de mots @ French words interpolate @ misprints irony of fate @ hackneyed jeweller @ -ll interpolate ]] @ interpellate phrases jiggery-pokery @ reduplicated interpolation @ farce irony @ humour words interpose @ interpellate irreconcilable @ in- and un- jim-jam @ reduplicated words interpret @ construct irredeemable @ in- and un- jinee @ genie interregnum @ -um irrefutable @ refutable jinn @ genie interregnum @ pedantic humour irrelevencies @ -ce -cy job centre ]] @ euphemisms interring @ -r-, -rr- irreligious @ in- and un- jobation @ facetious formations interrupt @ interpellate irremovable @ differentiation jobe @ jobation interstice @ recessive accent irremovable @ immovable jocose @ arch interval @ intermission irremovable @ pairs and snares jocoseness @ -ty and -ness interviewee ]] @ -ee irreparable @ reparable jocosity @ false quantity intestine @ internecine irresoluble @ resoluble jodphurs @ pantaloons inthroning @ new verbs in -ize irrespective @ quasi-adverbs johnnies @ -ey and -y in pet inthronization @ new verbs in irretentive @ in- and un- names -ize irridescent @ inceptive Johnnies @ plural anomalies intimacy @ euphemisms irripressible @ -able -ible3 johnny @ -ey and -y in pet intinerate @ new verbs in -ize is or are? @ number names intinerize @ new verbs in -ize isle, island @ true and false join @ integrate intoxicated @ drunk etymology jointly ]] @ mutual intoxicated @ popularised isn’t half @ meiosis jollily @ -lily technicality issue @ vogue words2 jolly @ -lily intraneous @ exterior it be ]] @ incongrous jolly @ meaningless words intransigent @ negligible it is believed … @ passive Joneses @ plural anomalies intrepid @ worsened words disturbances jot and tittle @ Siamese twins journalist @ coulmnist kilometre, kilometer @ meter lack @ dearth journey @ journal kilt @ plaid lack @ periphrasis journeys ]] @ plural anomalies kilties @ -ey and -y in pet names lacteal @ polysyllabic humour joyfullest @ -ll kilty @ -ey and -y in pet names lacunae @ -ae, -as Juan @ didacticism kind of @ sort of lacunae, lacunas @ Latin plurals Judaism @ Hebrew kind @ description lacy @ -ey and -y in adjective Judas @ generic names kind @ incompatibles ladder @ lather judgematical @ facetious kind @ working and stylish laddie @ -ey and -y in pet names formations words ladies @ euphemisms judgement @ mute ‘e’ kindling @ collectives ladies @ madam judgement @ personal equation kinema @ false quantity Lady Chatterly’s Lover @ judicial @ executive kinematic @ cinema euphemisms judicial @ pairs and snares kinematograph @ cinema lady dog @ genteelism judicious @ pairs and snares kinematograph @ false quantity lady killer @ feminine judo @ ju-jitsu kinetic @ cinema designations jug @ Americanisms King Lear @ sin lady @ feminine designations jumble @ new verbs in -ize king @ crown lady @ gentlewoman jump to the eye @ Gallicisms King, the ]] @ personification ladyfied @ -fied juncture @ time kingly @ monarchical ladylike @ -like Jupiter Pluvius @ pedantic kiss @ smouch ladylike @ gentlemanly humour kist @ -t and -ed ladyly @ gentlemanly just @ exactly kith and kin @ Siamese twins lakh @ lac just @ in- and un- kittie @ -ey and -y in pet names lamb @ collectives justiciable @ misprints kittle @ which with and or but lame @ -en verbs from justifiable @ -able -ible1 kleen @ hybrids adjectives justifiable @ misprints knave @ worsened words Lampsacene @ Magdalene justification @ apology kneeled @ -t and -ed land of cakes @ land jute @ pronunciation6 knelt @ -t and -ed lane @ road juvenile @ teenager knetta @ natter language pretence ]] @ knick-knack @ reduplicated sociologese words larboard @ port K knicker @ curtailed words lardy-dardy @ reduplicated kangaroo @ closure knickerbockers @ pantaloons words Kashmir @ portmanteau knickers @ pantaloons large @ -en verbs from keen @ avoidance of the obvious knife @ -ve and -ves adjectives keener @ -n-, -nn- knight of industry @ Gallicisms large @ big keepence @ hybrids knived @ -ve and -ves large @ small keeping up with the Jonses @ knives @ -ve and -ves largely @ -ly1 plural anomalies knock-knee @ knee largeness @ -ty and -ness kelt @ celt knock-outs @ plural anomalies largesse @ big kept @ -t and -ed Knollys @ pronunciation10 largesse ]] @ laches kept @ implement know @ appreciate laryngitis @ Greek Ker @ pronunciation10 know-how @ Americanisms lassie @ -ey and -y in pet names kerb @ curb know-how @ gimmick last but not least @ hackneyed kerosene @ Americanisms knowle @ knoll phrases ketchup @ catsup knowledge @ pronunciation1 last infirmity @ misquotations 4 Keynes @ pronunciation10 knowledgeable @ -able -ible last @ field khalif @ caliph kudos @ pronunciation6 lasting @ viable Khalif @ didacticism kudos @ singular ‘s’ lastly @ first Khan @ cham kultur @ cultivated lateish @ mute ‘e’ kicky-wicky @ reduplicated kultur @ ethos latent @ patent words latest @ last kiddies @ -ey and -y in pet latex @ -ex, -ix names L lath @ -th and -dh kiddy @ -ey and -y in pet names L-joint @ cee-spring latinism @ -ism and -ity kidnapped @ -p-, -pp- laboratory @ recessive accent latinity @ -ism and -ity kill oneself @ reflective labour exchange @ euphemisms latinity @ latinism kill @ scotch labour @ -our and -or- latrine @ euphemisms kill @ slay labouredly @ -edly laudable @ pairs and snares kilo ]] @ collectives labourworthy @ worthy3 laudatory @ laudable kilo- @ centi- laburnum @ -um laudatory @ pairs and snares kilometer, kilometre @ -re and - lachesse @ laches laughable @ -able -ible4 er lachrymose @ posthumous laughworthy @ worthy3 laundrette ]] @ suffragette leaving out ‘to’ @ preposition liberalism @ -ism and -ity laurus @ laurustinus dropping liberalism @ -ll lavatory @ ablutions leaving @ careen liberality @ -ism and -ity lavatory @ euphemisms lecher @ lickerish liberalize @ sensitize lavish @ massive leer @ worsened words liberate @ euphemisms law @ infringe left @ sinister liberation @ -ty and -ness Law, the ]] @ metonomy legal holiday @ Americanisms liberation @ doubletalk lawful ]] @ illegal legal ]] @ illegal liberty @ -ty and -ness lay @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye legalese @ officialese Libia @ y and i lazy @ -er and -est1 legalism @ -ism and -ity libido @ popularised lazy @ back formation legality @ -ism and -ity technicality lead @ -en adjectives legend @ myth lichgate @ y and i leaden @ -en adjectives legendary @ fabulous licit ]] @ illegal leader @ love of the long word Legh @ pronunciation10 lick @ lickerish leader @ membership legible @ readable lie @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye leader @ misapprehension legislation @ differentiation lief @ lifelong leaderette @ suffragette legislative @ differentiation Lieutenant General @ general leadership @ membership legislative @ executive Lieutenant Generals @ plural leading (print) @ leaded legitimate @ participles5 anomalies leading question @ popularised legitimate ]] @ illegal life @ -ve and -ves technicality legitimise @ superfluous words life @ noun and verb accent leaf @ -lived lend @ loan lifelike @ -like leaf @ -ve and -ves length ]] @ pronunciation2 lifemanship @ brinkmanship leaf @ noun and verb accent lengthways @ -wise, -ways lifer @ -ve and -ves leaflet ]] @ brochure lenity @ -ty and -ness lift @ Americanisms leaft @ -t and -ed lenses @ singular ‘s’ lift @ elevator league @ comity leonine @ canine ligature @ diagraph leak @ headline language leopard @ camelopard ligatures @ -æ, -œ leak @ transpire leprous @ slumb(e)rous lighten @ -en verbs from leal @ land les couvenences @ French words adjectives lean over backwards @ tic less @ least lightsome @ -some douloureux less @ little like (conj) @ Americanisms leaned @ -t and -ed less @ more2 like you (like me) @ sturdy leanen @ -en verbs from less @ much indefensibles adjectives lessee @ -ee like @ incompatibles leant @ -t and -ed lessen @ -en verbs from like @ similar leap to the eye @ Gallicisms adjectives like, @ meaningless words leaped @ -t and -ed lessen @ homophone likeable @ mute ‘e’ leaper @ -p-, -pp- lessen @ minify likely @ -er and -est1 leaps and bound @ Siamese lesson @ homophone likely @ apt twins lest @ cast iron idiom likely @ mute ‘e’ leapt @ -t and -ed lest @ conjunction liken @ -en verbs from learned @ -t and -ed let or hindrance @ Siamese adjectives learned @ hon twins likewise @ -wise, -ways learnedly @ -edly letters patent @ patent likewise @ illiteracies learnt @ -t and -ed level crossing @ Americanisms likly @ mute ‘e’ least @ less level @ slipshod extension limit @ deadline least @ little level @ vogue words2 limit @ field leastways @ -wise, -ways levelled, unparalleled @ spelling limit @ vogue words4 leather @ -en adjectives points1&2 limited @ in- and un- leatherette @ suffragette level, levelling @ spelling limited @ slipshod extension leathern @ -en adjectives points1&2 limit, limited @ spelling leave no stone @ hackneyed levity @ faithfully points1&2 phrases levy @ tax, duty line @ Americanisms leave no stone @ negative lewd @ worsened words line @ field leave no stone @ tic douloureux lexicon @ -on line @ ratlin leave severely alone @ lexicon @ dictionary lineal @ ordeal hackneyed phrases liable @ -able -ible1 linen @ collectives leave @ noun and verb accent liable @ differentiation lingerie @ genteelism leave @ park liaise @ back formation lingo @ -o(e)s leaved @ -lived liar @ egrerious lingo @ gibber leaving out ‘of’ @ preposition liar @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye lingo @ jargon dropping libel @ lampoon lingua franca @ jargon linguistic @ -ics loathly @ loath Lords of Appeal @ plural linguistics @ grammar loathsome @ -some anomalies liny @ -ey and -y in adjective loathsome @ loath Lords of Session @ plural lion @ collectives local @ moral anomalies liqueur @ garage locale @ chorale lordship @ relationship liquid @ langour locale @ field lorry @ Americanisms liquidate @ euphemisms locale @ moral lose out on @ Americanisms liquidate @ popularised locale @ rationale lose out on @ phrasal verbs technicality locality @ locale lose @ noun and verb accent liquidate @ slipshod extension locate @ formal words loss @ pronunciation4 liquidate @ vogue words4 locate @ synonym loss @ reparable liquidate @ working and stylish locomote @ back formation loth @ loath words locum tenens @ locus Lothario @ -o(e)s liquor @ langour locus classicus @ locus lots @ number6 liquor @ lickerish locus standi @ locus louden @ -en verbs from liquorice, liquorish @ lickerish lodestar @ load, lode adjectives liquorous @ spiritual lodestone @ load, lode lough @ pronunciation9 lissome @ lithesome lodgement @ judgment lounge @ genteelism listen @ pronunciation2 lodger @ genteelism love child ]] @ vogue words listen @ well2 lodgings @ accommodation loveable @ mute ‘e’ listeners-in @ plural anomalies log jam ]] @ iron out loved and lost @ stock pathos lists ]] @ enumeration logic @ -ics loveing @ mute ‘e’ lit up @ drunk logistics @ strategy, tactics lovelily @ -lily lit @ light, (vb) lolly (money) @ bean lover @ intended litany @ true and false Lombard @ pronunciation5 lovesome @ -some etymology London @ didacticism lovey @ -ey and -y in pet names literally @ decimate Londres @ didacticism lovey-dovey @ -ey and -y in pet literally @ slipshod extension long arm of the law @ names literate @ in- and un- hackneyed phrases lovey-dovey @ reduplicated literature @ belles lettres long sentences @ trailers words lithe @ lithesome long @ broad loving @ mute ‘e’ lithe @ portmanteau long @ lengthy Low German @ German lithesome @ superfluous words long-lived @ -lived low @ less lithostrotos @ irrelevant allusion long-windedly @ -edly low-spiritedly @ -edly litre @ deca longing @ cast iron idiom lower income bracket @ little finger @ finger longways @ -wise, -ways euphemisms little joe ]] @ cinque loo @ euphemisms lower @ belittle little knowledge, a @ look for @ formal words lower @ lour misquotations look here @ well2 loyalist @ -ll little @ less loom @ largely loyalness @ -ty and -ness little @ small loose @ -en verbs from loyalty @ -ty and -ness liturgy @ true and false adjectives lozenge @ pronunciation5 etymology loose @ differentiation lucre @ -re and -er live @ dwell loose @ synonym lucre ]] (money) @ bean live @ noun and verb accent loosen @ -en verbs from lucubration @ truculent live @ working and stylish adjectives luggage @ Americanisms words loosen @ differentiation luggage @ baggage livelong @ lifelong loosing @ dénoument lugubrious @ truculent liven @ -en verbs from lop-sidedly @ -edly lumbago @ -o(e)s adjectives Lord Chancellors @ plural lumber @ Americanisms -ll- ]] @ dullness anomalies lump in the throat @ stock lo and behold @ Siamese twins Lord Lyon @ king pathos lo @ well2 Lord Mayors @ plural anomalies lunatic fringe @ ultra loaded dice @ cog Lord Provosts @ plural lunatic @ euphemisms loaded @ lade anomalies lunch @ facetious formations loadstar @ load, lode Lords Commissioners @ plural lurch @ careen loadstone @ load, lode anomalies lure @ lour loaf @ -ve and -ves Lords in Waiting @ plural lustful @ lickerish loam ]] @ mould anomalies lustreless @ mat loan @ Americanisms Lords Justices @ plural lustrum @ -um loan @ revivals anomalies lute @ pronunciation6 loathe @ loath Lords Lieutenant @ plural luxuriant @ differentiation loathly @ literary words anomalies luxuriant @ pairs and snares luxurious @ differentiation superiority marquess @ lord luxurious @ noun-adjective maladjusted @ euphemisms marriageable @ -able -ible4 luxurious @ pairs and snares maladjustment @ euphemisms marry @ wed luxury hotel @ noun-adjective malapropisms ]] @ marry @ well2 -ly or not? @ unidiomatic -ly misapprehension marvellous @ unique Lybya @ y and i malapropisms ]] @ misprints Marylebone @ pronunciation1 lyceum @ -um male rhyme @ rhyme Marys @ plural anomalies lyceum @ academy maleficent @ benign mascara’d @ -ed, ‘d lychgate @ y and i malevolent @ benign masculine rhyme @ rhyme Lycidas @ elegy malfeasance @ slipshod masculine @ male Lycidas @ misquotations extension masochist @ popularised Lydia @ y and i malice @ constructive technicality lye @ lay malign @ benign masseuse @ feminine lying @ leasing malign @ malignancy designations lyric @ strategic(al) malignant @ benign massive @ vogue words6 lyric(al) @ -ic malignant @ malignancy massiveness @ -ty and -ness lyrics @ vulgarization malignity @ malignancy master builders ]] @ plural lytch gate @ lich-gate malnutrition @ synonym anomalies lyte @ lich-gate maltese terrier ]] @ capitals master mariners @ plural Malvern @ pronunciation8 anomalies mama @ names master @ domestic M mammy @ -ey and -y in pet master @ feminine designations macadam @ eponymous words names Master @ names macintosh @ eponymous words man up @ phrasal verbs master @ provost mad @ -en verbs from adjectives -man @ feminine designations masterful @ differentiation mad @ Americanisms man @ gentleman masterful @ malapropisms mad @ frantically manageable @ -able -ible1 masterful @ pairs and snares madam @ gentlewoman management ]] @ judgment masterly understatement @ madam @ lady mandamus @ -us adjectivally madden @ -en verbs from manic @ popularised masterly @ derisory adjectives technicality masterly @ differentiation mae west @ eponymous words manicurist @ chiropodist masterly @ malapropisms maffick @ back formation manifesto @ -o(e)s masterly @ pairs and snares Magdala @ Magdalene mannequin @ model mastodon @ -on Magdalen @ pronunciation10 mannish @ -n-, -nn- match up @ phrasal verbs magic @ -ics manœuvering @ spelling points4 mate @ checkmate magic ]] @ strategic(al) manoeuvre @ -æ, -œ mater @ names magic(al) @ -ic manœuvre @ -re and -er material @ corporal magnify @ minify mansard @ eponymous words material @ in- and un- Mahomet and mountain @ manservants ]] @ plural material @ transparent hackneyed phrases anomalies matériel @ material mail @ Americanisms manuscript @ longhand materiel @ personnel main @ major many @ a2 matrices @ -trix mainstream @ jazz many @ less matricide @ parricide maintain @ claim many @ manifold matrix @ -ex, -ix Mainwaring ]] @ many @ number6 matrix @ -trix pronunciation10 many @ various matron @ sister maize @ Americanisms maquis @ resistance matt @ pot maize @ flour marchioness @ lady mat(t) @ set(t) majolica @ faience marg @ curtailed words mattens @ matins Major Generals @ plural margarine @ -in and 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men @ personnel twins misquote @ garble men’s hairdresser @ might and main @ hendiadys misrepresent @ garble Americanisms might have (vb) @ perfect miss out on @ phrasal verbs mend @ Americanisms infinitive Miss @ names mendacity @ pairs and snares might @ in order that missile @ -ile mendicity @ pairs and snares mightily @ terribly mis-shapen @ -s-, -ss-, -sss- menfolk @ folk Mikado @ -ade, -ado mis-spelt @ -s-, -ss-, -sss- meningitis @ Greek mike @ curtailed words missy @ -ey and -y in pet names menservants @ plural anomalies mileage @ mute ‘e’ mistake @ reparable -ment @ -ion and -ment miles apart ]] @ toto caelo mistaken clemency @ mental deficiency @ defective milieu @ ambience intransitive pp mental disorder @ defective military @ false quantity mistress @ domestic mental disorder @ euphemisms militate @ pairs and snares mistress @ euphemisms mental hospital @ euphemisms millenary @ centenary -mistress @ feminine mental illness @ defective millenary @ millenerian designations 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more @ much Muhammad @ Mahomet misapprehension moreover @ farther multiplicity @ -ty and -ness mobile ablution centre @ morning prayer @ matins mum-mum @ reduplicated ablutions morning @ forenoon words mobile @ -ile moron @ popularised mumble-jumble @ reduplicated moccasin @ spelling points1&2 technicality words mock @ ersatz morphology @ grammar mummer @ geezer mod @ curtailed words morphoses @ Latin plurals mummy @ -ey and -y in pet mode @ mood morse @ eponymous words names moderate @ participles5 mortal remains @ stock pathos mumps @ plural anomalies moderately @ pretty mortal @ internecine murder @ slay modern @ jazz mortgagor @ margarine murderess @ feminine modernism @ -ism and -ity mortician @ euphemisms designations modernity @ -ism and -ity mortise @ -ise murderous @ internecine modify @ codify morum @ foreign danger murderous @ slumb(e)rous Mohammed @ Mahomet most @ -er and -est murex @ -ex, -ix moisten @ -en verbs from most @ least Muses @ mews adjectives most @ proportion 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anomalies mountaineer (vb) @ scavenger My Lord @ feminine monkery @ monachal mountaineer @ -eer designations monkish @ monachal mounty @ -ey and -y in pet my @ mine monocotyledon @ diarchy names myself @ absolute construction2 monologist @ Greek mouse @ noun and verb accent myself @ self monologue @ diarchy mousey @ mute ‘e’ mysterious @ cryptic monosyllable @ diarchy moustache @ mustachio mysterious @ mystic monoxide @ diarchy mousy @ -ey and -y in adjective mysterious @ vulgarization monstrosity @ -ty and -ness mouth @ -th and -dh mystic @ vulgarization monstrous @ slumb(e)rous mouth @ noun and verb accent mystifiedly @ -edly mood @ true and false mouthfuls @ plural anomalies mystify @ intrigue etymology movable, moveable @ mute ‘e’ Myteline @ y and i mop and mow @ mow movement @ resistance myth @ -th and -dh moped @ autocar Mr @ names myth @ popularised technicality moped @ portmanteau Mrs @ names mythical @ fabulous moral @ ethic MS, MSS @ longhand moral @ in- and un- Ms @ names morale @ chorale Ms ]] @ Mr N 2 morale @ rationale much less @ more -n, -ness @ spelling points1&2 morbidness @ -ty and -ness much more @ more2 Naafi @ curtailed words more especially @ pleonasm much more @ much Naboth’s vineyard @ generic more in sorrow than in anger @ much @ infinite names hackneyed phrases much @ less nadder, naddre @ aphaeresia more preferable @ pleonasm much @ small Nafta ]] @ curtailed words nag @ facetious formations negro @ -o(e)s nine-pins @ Americanisms nag @ natter neither fish, flesh … @ Nineteen-Eighty-Four @ naif @ French words hackneyed phrases doubletalk naif @ spirituel neither rhyme nor reason @ ning-nong @ reduplicated words naive @ diaresis hackneyed phrases nippy @ -ey and -y in pet names naive @ spirituel neither @ nor no doubt @ doubtless naivety @ naïf, naïve etc. nem con @ unanimous no mean … @ mean nakedly @ -edly nemine contradicente @ no one @ every one Nalgo @ curtailed words unanimous no one @ no5 namby-pamby @ reduplicated Nero @ -o(e)s no one @ one words Nero @ Eros no sooner than @ analogy3 name @ nomenclature nerve and fibre @ Siamese twins no sooner than @ hardly2 nameworthy @ worthy3 nerve @ love of the long word no sooner @ scarcely nancy @ -ey and -y in pet names nervy @ -ey and -y in adjective no stone unturned @ negative nanny @ -ey and -y in pet names -ness, -n @ spelling points1&2 no strings attached @ napkin @ genteelism -ness @ -ion and -ness unconditional nappy @ -ey and -y in pet names net @ overall no thinking person … @ think4 narcissi @ Latin plurals net(t) @ set(t) no use complaining @ sturdy narcissism @ popularised nether garments @ euphemisms indefensibles technicality nether garments @ pantaloons no wise @ no5 narcissuses @ Latin plurals nett @ pot no-one @ every one narrow @ -er and -est1 neurological @ nervous diseases noble @ -er and -est1 nasturtium @ -um neuroses @ Latin plurals noblesse oblige @ names natatory art @ polysyllabic neurosis @ nervous diseases nobody @ every one humour neurotic @ psychopathic nobody @ they, them, their national assistance @ neuter @ epicene nobody ]] @ one euphemisms neutral pronouns @ they, them, nocturnal @ diurnal native @ exterior their noise level @ level Nato @ curtailed words neutral @ committed noisome @ -some Natsopa @ curtailed words neutralise @ antagonize noisy @ -ey and -y in adjective natter @ facetious formations neutron @ -on nom be plume @ à l’outrance natural @ naïf, naïve etc. neutron @ atom nom de guerre @ à l’outrance natural ]] @ cinque nevertheless @ for nomadic @ -d-, -dd- naturalist @ -ll nevertheless @ however nominative @ objective and naturalness @ -ty and -ness New Deal @ deal subjective nature @ periphrasis new @ -en verbs from adjectives non-aligned @ align naturedly @ -edly new-mowed, new-mown @ mow non-aligned @ committed navy @ arms news (pl) @ plural anomalies non-attendance @ non ne’er-do-well @ wastrel newspaper reports @ oratio non-combatant @ non ne’er-do-wells @ plural obliqua non-effective @ non anomalies Newspeak @ doubletalk non-entity @ nonentity nearing @ -r-, -rr- newsworthy @ worthy3 non-human @ non nearly @ practically nexus @ -us non-moral @ amoral necessary @ essential nice @ vogue words1 non-moral @ non necessary @ necessarian nicety @ -ty and -ness non-natural @ non necessitarian @ necessarian niche @ French words non-plus @ prise necessitarian @ needless nicish @ nice non-plussed @ -s-, -ss-, -sss- variants Nicky @ curtailed words non possumus @ -us necessity @ necessarian nicotine ]] @ eponymous words non-professional @ non necking @ smouch nicotine @ -in and -ine non sequitur @ fallacy nectar @ paradise nicy @ -ey and -y in pet names non-sick @ non Neddy @ curtailed words niddle-noddle @ reduplicated non-skid @ non need @ must, need words non-success @ non needful (money) @ bean nigger @ stockpile nonchalant @ recessive accent needs must @ need niggling @ finical nonconformist @ non negative @ privative nighty @ -ey and -y in pet names nongenary @ centenary negatives, sorting out @ to and nihilism @ pronunciation3 nonsuch @ nonesuch fro puzzles nimbuses @ -s-, -ss-, -sss- nor @ conjunction neglects @ different nimbuses @ Latin plurals nor @ or1 negligent of @ different nimi @ Latin plurals Norfolk jacket @ jacket negligible @ quantity niminy-piminy @ reduplicated normality @ normalcy negotiation @ -ciation words Norroy and Ulster @ king negrillo @ -o(e)s Nimrod @ generic names northerly @ easterly Northern Ireland @ America oaf @ -ve and -ves Octu @ curtailed words northern @ -th and -dh oak @ -en adjectives oddment @ -ment nostalgic @ slipshod extension oaken @ -en adjectives odds and ends @ Siamese twins nostrum @ -um oat @ -en adjectives odor, odour @ -our and -or nosy @ -ey and -y in adjective oaten @ -en adjectives odour @ false quantity nosy @ -ey and -y in pet names oath @ -th and -dh odour @ genteelism not at all @ thank you oath @ expletive oecumenical, œcumenical, not half @ rather obdurate @ recessive accent ecumenical @ spelling not my pigeon @ pidgin obediently (yours) @ letter points1&2 not only @ well1 forms oedema @ oe not to be @ stock pathos obiter dictum @ per pro Oedipus @ -æ, -œ not wisely but too well @ object of the excercise @ Oedipus @ oe hackneyed phrases exercise Oedipus, Œdipus @ spelling notable @ materialize object @ cognate points1&2 notary @ mandatory objection @ prejudice oesophagus @ oe note (paper money) @ objectionable @ -able -ible4 oestrum @ oe Americanisms objectionable @ fissionable of (leaving out) @ plenty note @ sign objective @ popularised of (leaving out) @ preposition noteworthy @ worthy3 technicality dropping nothing @ naught objective @ vogue words4 of (repeating) @ side-slip notice @ constructive obligable @ obligated of a … nature @ nature notice @ critique obligate @ obligated of any sort or kind @ pleonasm noticeable @ mute ‘e’ oblige @ beholden of course @ course notions @ Americanisms oblige @ commercialese …, of course @ superiority notoriety @ -ty and -ness oblige @ obligated of mine, of his etc. @ absolute notwithstanding @ pace obligeable @ obligated possessives nought @ naught obliged @ obligated of sorts @ sort of noumenal @ phenomenal obligee @ obligated of that ilk @ hackneyed phrases noumenon @ -on obliging @ complacent of the character of @ compound noun as verb @ position obligor @ obligated preposition noun @ nominal obliqueness @ differentiation of the character of @ connexion nounal @ noun obliquity @ differentiation of the nature of @ compound nouns of multitude @ number6 oblivious @ analogy3 preposition nouns of multitude @ oblivious @ suppositious of the nature of @ connexion personification obscure @ avoidance of the of the order of @ compound novel @ noun-adjective obvious preposition novel @ pronunciation5 obscure @ cryptic of the order of @ connexion novelty @ -ty and -ness obscure @ metaphysics of the … persuasion @ now then, @ well2 obscure @ transparent persuasion now @ presently obsequiousness @ -ty and -ness of the … persuasion @ now, … @ well2 observance @ pairs and snares hackneyed phrases noways @ -wise, -ways observation @ pairs and snares of which @ possessive puzzles nth degree @ popularised observe @ formal words of which @ whose technicality observe @ implement of @ material nu- @ hybrids observed of all observers @ offendedly @ -edly nucleus @ atom hackneyed phrases offer @ extend nude @ pronunciation6 observence @ hybrids official @ officious null and void @ Siamese twins obstreperous @ spelling points4 offshore ]] @ oversea number of @ number6 obstruct @ sabotage often @ -er and -est3 number @ -re and -er obtain @ formal words often @ knowledge numbers after plurals @ number obtain @ get often @ pronunciation2 numbers after verbs @ number occasion @ time often @ sensible, sensitive, numerical value @ number occult @ metaphysics susceptible numerous @ number6 occupier @ -er and -or ogrish @ spelling points4 nunky @ -ey and -y in pet names occur @ materialize oh @ o and oh nurse @ sister occurence @ pronunciation7 ohmmeter @ hybrids nursey @ -ey and -y in pet ochrous @ spelling points4 oiled @ drunk names octavo @ folio old ‘un @ un, ‘un nutritious @ suppositious octigenary @ centenary old dutch @ true and false nylon @ -on octigentenary @ centenary etymology octopi @ Latin plurals old lag @ recidivist octopus @ -us old words revived @ revivals O octoroon @ mulatto old @ -en verbs from adjectives old @ elder operable @ -able -ible4 over @ phrasal verbs old @ group operatic @ analogy2 overall majority @ plurality old-fashionedly @ -edly opinative @ opinionated overall @ love of the long word olden @ -en verbs from opinion @ climate overall @ novelty hunting adjectives opinion @ personal equation overall @ vogue words2 olden @ superfluous words opinion @ reaction overarch ]] @ overall olfactory @ polysyllabic humour opinion @ vogue words4 overcome @ negotiate olive branch @ hackneyed opportune @ -lily overcramming @ -m-, -mm- phrases opportunity @ gambit overriding @ overall ologies @ -logy oppose @ antagonize oversee @ overlook olympian @ differentiation opposite meanings @ unbending oversight @ overlook olympic @ differentiation opposite to @ quasi-adverbs overthrow @ overthrowal omen @ sign opposite @ -ite overtones @ vogue words6 ominous @ bodeful opposite @ contrary2 overview ]] @ overlook ominous @ Saxonism optative @ conjunctive overwhelming @ massive ominous @ working and stylish optic @ pedantic humour overworked @ work words optimism @ popularised overwrought @ work omitting -ing @ tow technicality owedly ]] @ -edly omnibi @ Latin plurals optimism @ slipshod extension owing to @ analogy3 omnibus @ -us optimistic @ sanguine owing to @ compound omniumgatherum @ facetious optimistic @ synonym preposition formations optimistic @ vogue words4 owing to @ connexion on forty pounds @ optimistic @ vulgarization own the soft impeachment @ misquotations opus @ -us battered ornaments on one hand @ other or @ nor ownedly @ -edly on the basis of @ compound oracular @ malapropisms ox @ cattle preposition oral @ verbal Oxbridge @ portmanteau on the basis of @ connexion orarium @ -um oxymoron @ -on on the one hand @ other orate @ back formation on the other hand @ other oratress @ feminine designations on the q.v. @ viva orchestra @ collectives P on the qui vive @ viva orchises @ -s-, -ss-, -sss- p.a. @ per on the whole @ altogether orders of chivalry @ king p.p. @ per pro on to @ onto ordinance @ Americanisms pace @ foreign danger on which @ which8 organiser @ -ize pachyderm @ Greek on @ among organon @ -on pachydermatous @ polysyllabic one and a half @ half origin @ background humour one and a quarter @ half ornithology @ Saxonism pacificist @ -ist, -alist, -tist one and a third @ half orphan @ often pacificist @ sensitize one another @ other orthoepy @ grammar pacificist @ syncope one touch of nature @ nature orthography @ grammar pacifist @ -ist, -alist, -tist one @ a1 osculatory @ polysyllabic pacifist @ hybrids one @ incompatibles humour pacifist @ rotary one @ more2 -osity @ false quantity pacifist @ sensitize one @ they, them, their ostensible @ soi-disant pacifist @ syncope one’s own accord @ accord other than @ other pacify @ codify one-upmanship @ brinkmanship otherwise @ -wise, -ways pacist @ -ist, -alist, -tist one-way ticket @ Americanisms otherwise @ other pack @ number6 oneness @ -ty and -ness ottoman @ couch pack (of cards) @ Americanisms only (position of) @ sturdy ought @ pronunciation9 pact @ headline language indefensibles our(s) @ absolute possessives paedagogy @ -æ, -œ ontology @ metaphysics out @ drunk paediatrics @ -æ, -œ onward @ -ward outcome @ end product paganism @ hybrids oof (money) @ bean outlandish @ exoteric pageant @ cavalcade oozy @ -ey and -y in adjective outline @ formal words painedly @ -edly op @ curtailed words outline @ predicate painfully @ sensible, sensitive, opacity @ differentiation outplaced ]] @ fire susceptible opaque @ transparent outside @ exterior paintress @ feminine opaqueness @ differentiation outspoken @ -spoken designations open-armedly @ -edly outstanding @ egrerious paintworthy @ worthy3 open-handedly @ -edly oven @ Americanisms pajamas @ Americanisms opera @ -us over and above ]] @ pleonasm Pakistan @ portmanteau opera @ opus over @ below paleish @ mute ‘e’ palfrey @ pronunciation8 part @ love of the long word Paymaster Generals @ plural palish @ mute ‘e’ part @ partially anomalies Pall Mall @ mall part @ proportion pea @ nepenthe pallor @ -our and -or part @ synonym pea @ singular ‘s’ palm @ pronunciation8 partake @ working and stylish peaceable @ -able -ible4 palsiedly @ -edly words peaceful coexistence @ cliché palsy @ Parkinson partial @ objective and peak body ]] @ vogue word palsy @ pronunciation8 subjective peak ]] @ top paltry @ sorry, sorrow partial @ partially pease @ nepenthe pamperedly @ -edly partially @ long variants3 peculiar to @ unique pamphlet @ brochure parting shot @ Parthian shot peculiarities @ idiosyncrasy pandit @ pundit partisan @ resistance pedagogy @ -æ, -œ panickly @ -c -ck partition (vb) @ new verbs in pedagogy @ Greek panjandrum @ -um -ize peddler @ Americanisms panjandrum @ facetious partition @ position pedestrian @ workaday formations partly @ long variants3 pediatrics @ -æ, -œ pant @ curtailed words partly @ partially pedicurist @ chiropodist pantalettes @ pantaloons party @ number6 pedigree’d @ -ed, ‘d panties @ pantaloons party @ popularised technicality peevish @ contrary papa @ names pasquinade @ lampoon peewit @ pewit par exemple @ French words pass muster ]] @ past master pekinese (dog)]] @ capitals para @ curtailed words pass @ pronunciation4 pelagic @ littoral parable @ allegory passion @ ambiguity pell-mell @ mall parable @ simile and metaphor passionate @ frantically pell-mell @ reduplicated words parachute @ para- passive voice @ we3 pellucid @ transparent paradisaic @ paradise passive @ synonym pen name @ nom-de-geurre paradisal @ paradise past @ pass pen @ true and false etymology paradisean @ paradise pasteurize @ new verbs in -ize pencil @ true and false paradisiac @ paradise pasty @ tart etymology paradisial @ paradise patent @ infringe pendant @ differentiation paradisian @ paradise pater @ names pendulum @ -um paradisic @ paradise paterfamilias @ polysyllabic pennant @ differentiation paradox @ para- humour pennon @ differentiation paraffin @ Americanisms path @ -th and -dh penology @ -æ, -œ paragon @ beau ideal pathetic fallacy @ popularised pensile @ tactile paragraph @ para- technicality pensive @ naïf, naïve etc. parallel @ para- pathetic @ bathetic pensiveness @ -ty and -ness parallel @ simile pathetic @ false quantity pentameter @ meter parallelism @ parallel pathology @ pathos people @ folk parallelity @ parallel pathos @ pathetic fallacy people @ personnel paralogism @ Greek patient @ mentality people @ Saxonism paralytic @ strategic(al) patois @ dialect per head @ per capita paramedic ]] @ para- patois @ jargon per person @ per capita parameter ]] @ field patresfamilias @ paterfamilias per stripes @ per capita parameter ]] @ meter patricide @ parricide per @ commercialese paramilitary @ para- patriot @ false quantity per @ intensive, gram. paramour @ euphemisms patrol wagon @ Americanisms peradventure @ archaism paramour @ replace patroness @ feminine perambulate @ polysyllabic parapet @ para- designations humour paraphrase @ para- pattern @ beau ideal perambulator @ Americanisms paraplegia @ Greek pauciority @ minority perceivable @ -able -ible2 parasol @ para- pavement @ Americanisms percentage @ love of the long parity of esteem @ cliché pavior @ -our and -or word parlance @ jargon paviour @ -our and -or percentage @ popularised parlous @ archaism pay (off) (vb) @ viable technicality parlous @ pedantic humour pay off @ phrasal verbs percentage @ synonym parochial @ insular pay rise @ raise perceptible @ -able -ible2 parody @ burlesque pay @ dear perceptive @ literary critic parole @ Americanisms pay @ remunerate perchance @ archaism parson @ facetious formations pay @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye perchance @ working and stylish parson @ reverend payable @ -able -ible1 words part and parcel @ Siamese twins payee @ -or perdurable @ intensive, gram. part @ hermetically paying guest @ genteelism peregrinate @ polysyllabic humour pertinent @ irrelevant pidgin, pigeon @ true and false peremptory @ recessive accent peruke @ periwig etymology perfect @ indefeasible peruse @ working and stylish pie @ tart perfection @ beau ideal words piffle-paffle ]] @ reduplicated perform @ implement pervade @ infuse words perfume @ new verbs in -ize pervading @ immanent piffling @ finical perfume @ noun and verb accent pervasive @ immanent pig breeding @ Americanisms perhaps @ maybe perverse @ contrary pigeon @ pidgin perhaps @ working and stylish pessimism @ optimism pigeon, pidgin @ true and false words pessimism @ popularised etymology Periclean @ Herculean technicality piggy @ -ey and -y in pet names perilous @ parlous pest control @ ratcatcher piggy-wiggy @ reduplicated periment @ pediment pestle @ pronunciation2 words perimeter @ meter pet names @ sobriquet pigmy @ pygmy period @ time petitio principii @ fallacy pigmy @ y and i periodic(al) @ -ic petition @ audience pigmy, pygmy @ true and false periodical @ -d-, -dd- petition @ position etymology periphrastic @ circumlocutional Petrachian @ sonnet pilgrimage @ -m-, -mm- perish @ internecine petrol @ Americanisms Pilgrims Progress, the @ simile perishable @ -able -ible4 petroleum @ -um and metaphor periwigged @ -g-, -gg- pettish @ -t, -tt pilotage @ -t, -tt perjuredly @ -edly phantasmagoria @ foreign pin @ cotter permanenc(y)e @ -ce -cy danger pincers @ Latin plurals permanent way @ Americanisms phantom @ phantasm pinchbeck @ eponymous words permeating @ immanent phenomenon @ -æ, -œ ping-pong @ onomatopoeia permissible ]] @ illegal phenomenon @ -on ping-pong @ reduplicated words permission @ sanction phial ]] @ homophone pink @ beau ideal pernickety @ meticulous philanthropist @ -ist, -alist, -tist pinky ]] @ finger perpetrator @ -or philharmonic @ pronunciation3 pinny @ -ey and -y in pet names perplex @ intrigue philhellenic @ philharmonic pique @ intrigue perplexedly @ -edly philhellenic @ pronunciation3 piquet @ picket persistenc(y)e @ -ce -cy philogynist @ Greek Pirates of Penzance @ often -person ]] @ feminine philology @ grammar pis aller @ liquid designations philosophic(al) @ -ic piscatorial @ polysyllabic persona @ popularised philosophy @ metaphysics humour technicality phisiognomy @ countenance pissed ]] @ drunk personable @ -able -ible4 phiz @ physiognomy pistol @ arms personal equation @ personal phobia @ popularised pitcher @ Americanisms personal equation @ popularised technicality piteous @ mute ‘e’ technicality phone @ curtailed words piteous @ plenteous personal @ corporal phonology @ grammar pith @ purport personal @ material photo @ -o(e)s pitiful @ plenteous personality @ idiosyncrasy photo @ -o- pitiless @ -less personality @ misprints photo @ curtailed words pitter-patter @ reduplicated personality @ personage phrasal verb plurals ]] @ plural words personality @ personal(i)ty anomalies pity @ mute ‘e’ personalty @ misprints phrase @ locution pity @ plenteous personify, personnel @ spelling physical @ psychical pizza ]] @ Italian sounds points1&2 physicist @ zinc pizzicato @ Italian sounds personnel @ material physicking @ zinc place @ position personnel, personify @ spelling physics @ -ics place @ road points1&2 physiognomy @ polysyllabic placing of apostrophe @ perspex @ -ex, -ix humour possessive puzzles perspicacious @ perspic- piazza ]] @ Italian sounds plaided @ -d-, -dd- perspicacity @ -ty and -ness pibble-pabble @ reduplicated plain sailing @ popularised perspicacity @ pairs and snares words technicality perspicous @ perspic- pickle @ mickle plain unvarnished tale @ perspicuity @ -ty and -ness pickled @ drunk misquotations perspicuity @ pairs and snares picknicked @ zinc plain @ -en verbs from perspicuousness @ -ty and -ness picture @ pronunciation1 adjectives perspire @ genteelism pictures @ movies plaindrome @ syndrome persuasion (of the …) @ picturesque @ colourful plainness @ hybrids hackneyed phrases picturize @ new verbs in -ize plan @ program plan @ vogue words4 poetic @ strategic(al) portent @ sign plane @ curtailed words poetry @ rhyme portion @ pairs and snares plane @ plain point of view @ point portion @ synonym plastered @ drunk point @ field portmanteau (pl) @ x plateau (pl) @ x pointedly @ -edly Portugee @ Portuguese plateau @ recessive accent points (railway) @ pose @ position plates of meat @ rhyming slang Americanisms posh @ fabulous platitude @ banal poke @ irrelevant allusion position of apostrophe @ platitude @ commonplace Pole Carew @ pronunciation10 possessive puzzles Plato @ Eros pole @ homonym position of possessive s @ out of platypus @ -us pole @ synonym the frying pan plausible @ -able -ible4 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rendezvous @ French words recountal @ -al nouns regard @ envisage rendezvous @ venue recourse @ misprints regard @ express renew @ -en verbs from recourse @ pairs and snares regard @ periphrasis adjectives re-cover @ re- regardless @ irrespective renunciation @ renounce recover @ true and false regardless @ quasi-adverbs reorganize @ re- etymology regenerate @ participles5 repair @ re- re-create @ re- regenreate @ re- repast @ formal words recriminatory @ recessive accent regicide ]] @ parricide repay @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye recrudesce @ inceptive régime @ olden repeal @ re- recrudescence @ slipshod regiment @ pronunciation1 repeated word in sentence ]] @ extension region @ field elegant variation recta @ oratio obliqua region @ terrain repeatedly @ -edly rectitude @ correctitude register @ -or repeater @ -t, -tt rectitude @ needless variants register @ field repeating ‘in’ @ side-slip rector @ vicar registrar @ mandatory repeating ‘of’ @ side-slip recurrence @ pronunciation7 registrary @ mandatory repeating ‘that’ @ side-slip recurring @ pronunciation7 registry @ register repeating prepositions @ redaction @ Gallicisms regretful @ pairs and snares overzeal redden @ -d-, -dd- regretfully @ sensible, sensitive, repeating things @ overzeal redden @ -en verbs from susceptible repeating ‘which’ etc @ overzeal adjectives regrettable @ pairs and snares repel @ dispel reddle @ ruddle regrettable @ regretful repercussion @ vogue words3 redeem @ in- and un- regroup @ re- repertory @ repertoire redundant @ slipshod extension reindeer @ hart repetition @ rep redundant @ vogue words4 reined @ -n-, -nn- replace @ object shuffling re-entry @ re- reiterate @ re- replace @ re- reeve @ ruff reiterate ]] @ scarce replace @ synonym re-examine @ re- reject @ in toto replenish @ re- refer @ -r-, -rr- reject @ noun and verb accent replica @ vulgarization referable @ conferable rejoice @ cockle reported speech @ oratio obliqua referable @ inferable relate @ analogy2 reporting @ 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@ summitry resist @ antagonize Reynard @ generic names rococo @ baroque resistor @ portmanteau rhetoric @ -ics rococo @ popularised resolutely @ determinately rhetoric @ worsened words technicality resort @ misprints rhino (money) @ bean rodent operator @ euphemisms resort @ pairs and snares rhodomontade @ rodomontade rodent operator @ ratcatcher resource @ asset rhubarb @ -b -bb Roget’s Thesaurus @ synonym resource @ pairs and snares rhyme nor reason @ Siamese roll @ role respect to ]] @ with twins roly-poly @ reduplicated words respect @ periphrasis rhythm @ rhyme Roman Catholic @ Catholic respectable @ worsened words rib @ chop Romeo @ -o(e)s respectfully yours @ letter forms riband @ ribbon roof @ -ve and -ves -ress @ -trix rich @ group roost (rule the) @ rule rest up @ phrasal verbs riches @ laches roost, rule the @ roast2 rest @ balance riches @ singular ‘s’ root (stem) @ stem, n restaurant @ garage richesse @ laches rootedly @ -edly restless @ restive rick @ crick rose garden @ 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pronunciation8 rumour @ scotch sanative @ sanat-, sanit- scaly @ -ey and -y in adjective run down @ belittle sanatorium @ sanat-, sanit- scandal @ libel run the gauntlet @ true and false sanatory @ sanat-, sanit- scandalmonger @ warmonger etymology sanction @ agree scanties @ pantaloons runner @ -n-, -nn- sanctum @ pedantic humour scarce @ short supply Russo- @ -o- sand blind @ true and false scarcely @ hardly2 ruth @ -th and -dh etymology scarcely @ sensible, sensitive, Ruthven @ pronunciation10 sandbagged @ -g-, -gg- susceptible rye @ flour sandwich @ eponymous words scarf @ -ve and -ves Sandys @ pronunciation10 scarify @ true and false sang @ sing etymology S sanguinary @ internecine scelerosis @ scleroma S-piece @ cee-spring sanitarium @ sanat-, sanit- scenario @ scena s, position of @ bucketfuls sanitary @ in- and un- scenario ]] @ vogue words s, position of @ trade union sanitary @ sanat-, sanit- scene @ field sabotage @ slipshod extension sanitation @ -ty and -ness scene @ 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genteelism sailer @ sail satirist @ -ist, -alist, -tist schoolmistress @ feminine sailor @ sail satisfiedly @ -edly designations science @ -ics designations sent down @ up and down2 science @ art season @ time sentence without verb @ science, silence @ spelling seasonable @ -able -ible4 verbless sentence points1&2 seasonable @ pairs and snares sentence @ aphorism scientific language ]] @ seasonal @ pairs and snares sentences, long @ trailer sociologese seasoning @ dub separate @ in- and un- scil. @ viz, sc, i.e. seat (vb) @ inhabit separationist @ -ist, -alist, -tist scilicet @ viz, sc, i.e. seaworthy @ worthy3 separatist @ -ist, -alist, -tist sciolist @ scholiast secede @ spelling points4 sepsis @ sceptic sciolto @ Italian sounds second intention @ intention2 septic @ sceptic scissor-shaped @ three-quarter secondly @ first septigenary @ centenary scissors @ Latin plurals secret @ council sequatious @ fugacious scissors @ pair secretaress @ feminine sere and yellow @ Siamese scissors @ true and false designations twins etymology secretary @ mandatory serenade @ -ade, -ado sclerosis @ scleroma secretary @ pronunciation2 serf @ villain scold @ chide secretive @ recessive accent serial (music) @ atonal scollop @ scallop secretory @ mandatory series @ -ies scone @ Americanisms section @ clause serious @ jocose scope @ field secundum quid @ simpliciter seriousness @ -ty and -ness scope @ purport sedan @ Americanisms sermoneer @ -eer scope @ radius sedate @ jocose serpent @ snake scorbic ]] @ lime sedative @ calmative servant @ domestic scorbutic @ lime seditious @ suppositious servant @ genteelism scorbutic @ strategic(al) see below @ vide servicize @ service score @ million see your way @ way serviette @ genteelism scorium @ scoria see @ diocese serviette @ napkin scornworthy @ worthy3 see @ formal words servile @ -ile scotch and soda ]] @ hendiadys see-saw @ reduplicated words sescenary @ centenary Scotch @ Briticism seek @ double passives sessile @ tactile scotch @ pawky seek @ formal words set @ phrasal verbs scotch @ slipshod extension seem to … @ prolate set-to @ phrasal verbs scotched @ incompatibles seemed to @ appeared setee @ -ee Scoticism @ Briticism seemed @ incompatibles setee @ couch Scottice @ latine self @ -ve and -ves sett @ pot Scottish ]] @ Briticism self-determination @ cliché setting @ framework scrape off @ rase self-determination @ doubletalk settle @ resolve scrappy @ -p-, -pp- self-styled @ soi-disant settler @ -or scratch-pad @ Americanisms sell @ dear several @ analogy3 screech @ scream semantics @ grammar several @ divers screw your courage @ semaphore @ false quantity several @ number6 misquotations semasiology @ semantics several @ various screwed @ drunk seminal @ creative severe @ chronic scribbling-block @ seminal @ literary critic severe @ chronic Americanisms seminal @ vogue words3 severe @ hectic scribe, your @ we3 semtex ]] @ -ex, -ix severly @ irrelevant allusion script @ longhand senatus @ -us sex in pronouns @ number11 scrum @ curtailed words send for @ formal words sex-centenary @ centenary scrum @ scrimmage send @ formal words sex-free pronouns @ they, them, scrupulous @ meticulous senile @ false quantity their scrutineer @ -eer sensational @ fabulous sexed pronouns @ or2 scud @ spindrift sensational @ vogue words6 shabby @ sorry, sorrow sculptor, sculptress @ feminine sense @ synonym shade @ tint designations sensibility @ -ty and -ness shady @ -ey and -y in adjective scum @ foam sensible of @ sensible, sensitive, Shaef @ curtailed words Scylla @ generic names susceptible shake off @ incongrous sea change @ irrelevant allusion sensible @ realistic shake the dust from … @ sea shanty @ chanty sensibleness @ -ty and -ness hackneyed phrases sea shore ]] @ littoral sensitive to @ sensible, Shakespearian @ sonnet seal @ cachet sensitive, susceptible shaky @ -ey and -y in adjective seal @ hermetically sensual @ pairs and snares shall @ ambiguity seal @ sign sensual @ sensous shall @ Americanisms seamstress @ feminine sensuous @ pairs and snares shall @ in order that shall @ like, v1 shoot (picture) @ snapshot signal out @ misprints shall @ will2 shooting brake @ break signalize @ sensitize sham @ ersatz shooting @ Americanisms significant @ slipshod extension sham @ phoney shop @ Americanisms significant @ vogue words4 shambles @ slipshod extension shop @ jargon signposts @ overzeal shambles @ synonym shop-walker @ Americanisms silencer (of car) @ shanghai’d @ -ed, ‘d shoral @ hybrids Americanisms shanty @ chanty shore ]] @ littoral silence, science @ spelling shape or form @ Siamese twins shorn @ shear points1&2 Shape @ curtailed words short @ short silent partner @ Americanisms shape @ mould short-sidedly @ -edly silex @ -ex, -ix share @ working and stylish shorten @ -en verbs from silhouette @ eponymous words words adjectives silk @ -en adjectives sharp @ brash shorthand @ longhand silken @ -en adjectives sharpen @ -en verbs from shorts @ pantaloons silkern @ -en adjectives adjectives shorts ]] @ pair sillabub @ -b -bb shawl @ plaid shot @ arms sillabub @ y and i she (doing something) @ fused shot @ collectives sillily @ -lily participle should @ ambiguity silly @ hugeous she (for boats etc) @ should @ in order that silly @ worsened words personification should @ like, v1 silvan @ y and i she or you were @ or2 should @ shall silver @ collectives she @ number11 show @ evidence simian @ false quantity s/he @ or2 show @ formal words Simon Magus @ simony sheaf @ -ve and -ves show @ shew simper, simpering @ spelling shears @ Latin plurals showy @ flamboyant points1&2 shears @ pair shrapnel @ eponymous words simple @ naïf, naïve etc. sheath @ -th and -dh shred ]] @ scintilla simulate @ disassemble sheath @ noun and verb accent shrewd @ perspic- simulate @ needless variants sheathe @ noun and verb accent shriek @ scream simulation @ ersatz shed @ watershed shrievalty @ sheriffalty since @ conjunction shed, schedule @ spelling shrillness @ dullness since @ for points1&2 shroff ]] @ shereef since @ owing to sheep @ collectives shrouding @ transparent sincerely yours @ letter forms sheep @ ship shrubbery @ -b -bb Sind @ portmanteau sheerhulk @ shear hulk shuffle @ new verbs in -ize sinful @ worsened words sheerlegs @ shear hulk shunt @ Americanisms singeing @ dye shelf @ -ve and -ves shut @ genteelism singeing @ mute ‘e’ shelf @ noun and verb accent shute @ shoot singer @ artiste shelter @ cot shy @ -er and -est1 singer @ cantatrice shelve @ noun and verb accent shyness @ farouche singing @ mute ‘e’ shepherdess @ feminine sibboleth @ will2 single out @ misprints designations Sibyl @ sibyl(ine) single pronouns @ they, them, sherd @ shard sibyl @ y and i their Sheridan @ malapropisms sice @ cinque single rhyme @ rhyme shewbread @ show sicken @ -en verbs from single ticket @ Americanisms shibboleth @ sign adjectives single @ signal shibboleth @ slipshod extension sideboard @ buffet single-mindedly ]] @ -edly shibboleth @ will2 sidedly @ -edly single-out @ signal shilly-shally @ reduplicated side-lines @ Americanisms singlet ]] @ vest words sidelong @ sidle singular bodies ]] @ number6 shimmy @ -ey and -y in pet sideslipped @ -p-, -pp- singular bodies ]] @ names sidewalk @ Americanisms personification ship @ formal words sidewise @ -wise, -ways singular or plural groups @ -ship @ membership sidle @ back formation which, that, who8 -ship ]] @ brinkmanship sidy @ -ey and -y in adjective singular vs plural @ number6 shipping @ -p-, -pp- sift evidence @ metaphor1 singular vs plural @ shit-faced ]] @ drunk sift @ garble personification shoal @ school sightedly @ -edly singular @ unique shoar @ shear sign manual @ cachet Sino-]] @ -o- shock @ electric sign @ cachet sinuous @ flamboyant shock @ novelty hunting sign @ character siphon @ -on shoe @ tiptoe signal-box @ Americanisms siphon @ y and i sir @ hon slim @ new verbs in -ize snip-snap-snorum @ facetious sir @ lady slimy @ -ey and -y in adjective formations sir @ names slimy @ portmanteau snippety @ -t, -tt siren @ y and i slithy @ portmanteau snort @ facetious formations sister @ names slobber @ slaver snowball @ reaction sisters-in-law ]] @ plural slogan @ sign so far as … @ compound anomalies slope @ talus preposition sitting room @ genteelism sloshed @ drunk so far as … @ connexion situation @ position slot machine @ Americanisms so far as … @ far situation ]] @ tautology sloth @ -th and -dh so far as … @ concern sizable @ -able -ible4 slough @ pronunciation9 so forth @ forth size @ sice slow or slowly? @ slow(ly) so on @ forth sizeable @ mute ‘e’ slow or slowly? @ unidiomatic - so that @ analogy3 sizzle @ onomatopoeia ly so to speak (etc.) @ superiority skatable @ -able -ible4 slow-down @ phrasal verbs so @ conjunction skedaddle @ facetious slowen @ -en verbs from so @ far formations adjectives so, @ sic skeleton @ -on slow-wittedly @ -edly socialism @ idealogue skeptic @ sceptic slow worm @ true and false socio-economic group ]] @ sketch @ vogue words4 etymology euphemisms ski’d @ -ed, ’d slubber @ slaver sock suspenders @ skiagraphy @ sciagraphy slubberdegullion @ facetious Americanisms skilful @ -ll formations sock @ battered ornaments skilful @ spelling points1&2 sluggard @ -g-, -gg- Socrates @ Eros skill @ know-how slumber @ working and stylish Socrates @ false quantity skill-less @ -less words sofa @ -ae, -as skilledly @ -edly slumbrous @ spelling points4 sofa @ couch skills ]] @ know-how slung @ sling sofa @ genteelism skills ]] @ tautology slurring @ pronunciation7 soft @ piano skin artist ]] @ pedantic humour small by degrees @ soft @ pronunciation4 skirting @ -t, -tt misquotations soft-spoken @ -spoken skit @ lampoon small @ big soft-spoken @ intransitive pp skulduggery @ facetious small @ limit soften @ -en verbs from formations small @ marginal adjectives skyer @ skier small @ short soften @ pronunciation2 slabber @ slaver small-clothes @ pantaloons softlier @ -er and -est3 slack @ differentiation smaller @ less soil ]] @ mould slacken @ -en verbs from smallest @ little soiled linen @ genteelism adjectives small-ness @ -less sojourn @ pronunciation5 slacken @ differentiation smallness @ dullness soldier (vb) @ scavenger slacks @ pantaloons smallpox @ plural anomalies soldierly @ -lily slanderous @ slumb(e)rous smarten @ -en verbs from sole @ unique slang @ jargon adjectives solely @ spelling points4 slang @ sling smashing @ fabulous solemn @ jocose slantwise @ -wise, -ways smashing @ super solemness, solemnness @ slash @ headline language smear @ libel spelling points1&2 slaughterous @ internecine smear @ vogue words4 solemnly @ faithfully slavey @ -ey and -y in pet names smell @ genteelism Solicitor Generals @ plural slay @ internecine smelled @ -t and -ed anomalies sleep of the just @ hackneyed smelt @ -t and -ed solicitress @ feminine phrases smirch @ smudge designations sleep @ slumber smith @ -th and -dh solid @ vogue words4 sleep @ working and stylish smog @ facetious formations soliloquy @ duologue words smoke @ facetious formations soliloquy @ monocle sleeper @ Americanisms smoke @ smog soliloquy(ies) @ plural sleeping partner @ smoky @ -ey and -y in adjective anomalies Americanisms smooch ]] @ smouch solipsism @ egoism sleepy @ -p-, -pp- smooth @ -en verbs from solitary @ false quantity sleigh @ sledge adjectives soluble @ -able -ible2 slenderize @ new verbs in -ize smoothen @ -en verbs from soluble @ dissoluble slept @ -t and -ed adjectives soluble @ in- and un- sleuth @ headline language smoothen @ superfluous words solvable @ -able -ible2 slew @ slay snaky @ -ey and -y in adjective solve @ in- and un- some one @ no5 spasmodic @ strategic(al) spoil the ship @ ship some @ love of the long word spec @ curtailed words spoiled @ -t and -ed some @ meiosis special pleading @ popularised spoilt @ -t and -ed some @ number6 technicality spokesman @ feminine some @ various special @ aphaeresia designations someone @ every one special @ differentiation spondulicks @ facetious someone @ no5 special @ especial formations someone @ one speciality @ -ty and -ness sponduliks @ bean somerset @ somersault specialty @ differentiation sponge @ relation2 somewhat @ endeavour species @ -ies spongy @ -ey and -y in adjective somewhat @ incompatibles species @ hygiene spoom @ spindrift somewhat @ rather species @ Latin plurals spoon @ spindrift somewhat @ some4 specify @ codify spoondrift @ spindrift son @ homophone spectacles @ pair spoonerism @ eponymous words son @ names spectrum @ -um spoonfuls, spoonsful @ -ful song @ ode speculatist @ -ist, -alist, -tist spoonfuls, spoonsful @ plural songstress @ cantatrice speculum @ -um anomalies songworthy @ worthy3 speech reported @ oratio obliqua spooning @ smouch sonneteer @ -eer speed the parting guest @ sportsman @ feminine sonny @ -ey and -y in pet names hackneyed phrases designations sonorous @ recessive accent speed @ -o- sportswoman @ feminine sons-in-law @ plural anomalies speedo @ -o- designations sonship @ relationship speedometer @ -o- sprain @ crick soon @ -er and -est3 speedometer @ hybrids spring from @ stem, vb soon @ position of adverb speedometer @ meter springbok @ hart sooty @ -t, -tt spell @ time sprint @ differentiation Sophoclean @ Herculean spelled @ -t and -ed spurring @ pronunciation7 sorceress @ feminine spelt @ -t and -ed spurt @ differentiation designations spencer ]] @ vest squandermania @ facetious sore @ -en verbs from adjectives spending @ de- and dis- formations sorrow @ true and false spendthrift @ wastrel square brackets ]] @ scilicet etymology sphere @ field square deal @ deal sorry @ true and false etymology spick and span @ Siamese twins square @ road sort of thing @ meaningless spick and span @ hendiadys squaretoed @ square words spicy @ -ey and -y in adjective squarson @ facetious formations sort or kind @ Siamese twins spies @ plural anomalies squat @ -quat- sort @ garble spiff @ spiv squat @ swat sort @ working and stylish spiffing @ fabulous squib @ lampoon words spiflicate @ facetious formations squiffy @ drunk soubriquet @ sobriquet spiky @ -ey and -y in adjective squire @ facetious formations sough @ pronunciation9 spilled @ -t and -ed St John @ pronunciation10 soulal @ spiritual spilt @ -t and -ed St Leger @ pronunciation10 soulless @ -less spilth @ -th nouns St Mary Axe @ pronunciation1 sound out @ phrasal verbs spinach @ broccoli stadium @ -um sound @ -er and -est3 spirit @ differentiation staff nurse @ sister soupçon @ Gallicisms spiritedly @ -edly staff @ -ve and -ves soupçon @ suspicion spiritism @ differentiation staff @ personnel source @ homophone spiritous @ differentiation stagy @ -ey and -y in adjective souren @ -en verbs from spiritual @ differentiation staid @ jocose adjectives spiritual @ material stalely @ spelling points4 southerly @ easterly spiritualism @ -ism and -ity stalemate @ popularised Southern English @ received spiritualism @ differentiation technicality pronunciation spirituality @ -ism and -ity stalen @ -en verbs from southern @ -th and -dh spit @ expectorate adjectives souvenir @ recessive accent spit @ genteelism stamina @ -ae, -as sovereign state @ independence spite @ mute ‘e’ stamina @ stamen sovereign @ pronunciation5 splendid isolation @ hackneyed stamp collecting @ philately sovereignty @ infringe phrases stamp duty @ tax, duty soviet @ collectives splendiferous @ facetious stamp @ cachet sozzled @ drunk formations stamp @ sign span @ time split infinitive @ position of stand and deliver @ hendiadys spark @ electric adverb standard English @ received sparkle @ frequentative split infinitive @ superstitions pronunciation standardize @ new verbs in -ize stoppance @ hybrids technicality standpoint @ point stopt @ -t and -ed subject @ field stands to reason @ reason store @ Americanisms subjunctive @ conjunctive stands to reason @ think4 storey @ differentiation subjunctive @ mood stanza @ -ae, -as storey @ floor subjunctive ]] @ incongrous star @ feature story @ differentiation subjunctive problems @ side- starboard @ port stout @ -en verbs from slip starred @ feature adjectives subnormality @ defective start up @ phrasal verbs stouten @ -en verbs from subordinate clause @ start @ commence adjectives consecutive clause starting sentence with straighten @ -en verbs from subordinate @ participles5 preposition @ superstitions adjectives subpoena @ -ae, -as state of the world @ noun- strain every nerve @ hackneyed subpoena’d @ -ed, ‘d adjective phrases subscription @ donation state @ claim strain every nerve @ tic subscription @ ultra statedly @ -edly douloureux subsidence @ false quantity statelily @ -lily straiten @ -en verbs from substance @ essence statesmanlike @ -like adjectives substance @ purport statesmanship @ polity straitlaced @ square substantial @ essence station wagon ]] @ break strange @ -en verbs from substantially @ practically stationmaster, stationmistress ]] adjectives substantival @ adjectivally @ feminine designations strata @ -ae, -as substantivally @ adjectivally status @ -us strata @ road substantively @ adjectivally staunch @ stanch stratosphere @ stratom substitute @ object shuffling staves @ -ve and -ves stratum @ -um substitute @ replace stay @ stop, vb straw @ collectives substitute @ succedaneum steady @ intended streamline @ rationalize substitute @ synonym steal @ noun and verb accent streamlined @ vogue words3 subtelty @ -ty and -ness steal @ ordeal street vendor @ Americanisms subtelty @ metaphysics stealth @ noun and verb accent street @ road subtle @ -er and -est1 steepen @ -en verbs from street car @ Americanisms subtle @ supple adjectives strength @ pronunciation2 subtly @ supple steer @ cattle strengthen @ -en verbs from subtopia @ portmanteau step @ adjectivally adjectives suburb @ portmanteau step @ genteelism stress out ]] @ phrasal verbs suburb @ subtopia step- @ -in law stricken @ stock pathos suburbanize @ new verbs in -ize sterile @ -ile strict @ love of the long word subway @ Americanisms sterile @ fragile strides @ pantaloons succedaneum @ superfluous stewardess @ feminine strife @ noun and verb accent words designations striking @ colourful succendanea @ -um stewardette @ feminine strings attached @ unconditional success of esteem @ Gallicisms designations striptease @ comedy success @ soccer sticking-point @ misquotations strive @ noun and verb accent succour @ -our and -or stiffen @ -en verbs from striveing, striving @ mute ‘e’ such as @ relative pronouns adjectives strongly @ -ly1 such @ popularised technicality stile @ y and i strophe @ pindarics sudden @ -er and -est2 still less @ much studiedly @ -edly sudden @ brash still more @ much stuffing @ farce suffer @ battered ornaments stillness @ dullness stuffy @ square suffer @ formal words stiltedly @ -edly stumble @ replace suffices @ different stimie, stimy @ y and i stunt @ Americanisms sufficient for @ different stink @ smell stunt @ spiv sufficient @ enough stir ]] @ bestir stupendous @ fabulous sufficient @ genteelism stirred @ -r-, -rr- stupidity @ -ty and -ness suffrage @ female stock certificate @ scrip sty @ differentiation sugar @ pronunciation6 stockdove @ pigeon stye @ differentiation suit @ pronunciation6 stockings @ hose style @ y and i sullen @ farouche stoic(al) @ -ic stymy, stimie @ y and i sum total @ total stomach @ belly sub @ below summarize @ new verbs in -ize stony @ -ey and -y in adjective sub @ curtailed words summersault @ somersault stop off @ phrasal verbs sub @ ultra summerset @ somersault stop @ cease subaltern @ ultra summit @ top stop @ formal words subconscious @ popularised summon @ formal words sun @ heliotrope swing @ jazz tactics @ strategy, tactics sun @ homophone switch @ Americanisms tactile @ -ile sung @ sing switch-tower @ Americanisms tactless @ brash sunk @ sink swither @ haver tactual @ superfluous words sunwise @ -wise, -ways swollen @ swell tactual @ tactile super @ below swoop @ headline language tailless @ -less super @ fabulous Sybil @ sibyl tailor @ rationalize super-duper @ reduplicated sybyl @ y and i tailoress @ feminine words syce @ sice designations superfluous @ redundant syllabate @ syllabize take advantage @ opportunity superfluous @ vogue words4 syllabation @ syllabize take away @ formal words superior to @ prefer syllabicate @ syllabize take my name in vain @ superior @ analogy3 syllabication @ syllabize hackneyed phrases supernatural @ metaphysics syllabification @ syllabize take notice @ pay supersede @ replace syllabization @ syllabize take place of @ replace supersede @ spelling points4 syllable @ sillabub take @ phrasal verbs supervise @ -ize syllabub @ y and i take-offs @ plural anomalies supine @ noun and adjective syllabub ]] @ -b -bb take-over @ phrasal verbs accent sylvan @ gypsy Talbot @ pronunciation8 supply @ issue sylvan @ silvan talc @ pronunciation8 support @ credence sylvan @ y and i talk @ pronunciation8 supposal @ -al nouns symbol @ sign tameable @ mute ‘e’ suppose @ assume symbology @ -ist, -alist, -tist tamper with @ tinker suppose @ expect symbology @ syncope tangible @ corporal suppose @ purport symbolology @ -ist, -alist, -tist tap @ Americanisms supposed @ soi-disant symbolology @ syncope tardiness @ -ty and -ness supra @ vide sympathetic @ didacticism target @ vogue words4 supraorbital @ polysyllabic sympathize @ commiserate targum @ -um humour sympathize @ hybrids tarmac ]] @ eponymous words supreme sacrifice @ stock sympathy for @ different tart @ brash pathos sympathy @ affinity tartan @ plaid supreme @ overall sympathy @ female tar, tarring @ spelling points1&2 surcease @ archaism Symposium @ platitude taste @ personal equation surmise @ -ize symptom @ sign tasteful @ tasty surmount @ in- and un- synonym @ homonym -tative @ interprative surmount @ negotiate syntax @ grammar -tative @ preventive surmountable @ -able -ible3 synthesis @ novelty hunting ta-ta @ reduplicated words surname @ forename synthetic @ ersatz tatler @ tattler surprisal @ -al nouns syphon @ gypsy tatterdemalion @ facetious surprise @ -ize syphon @ y and i formations surroundings @ ambience syren @ gypsy tauten @ -en verbs from surroundings @ novelty hunting syren @ siren adjectives surtax @ tax, duty syren @ y and i tautology @ pleonasm survey @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye syrup, syrupy @ spelling TB @ phthisis Susan @ pronunciation6 points1&2 teachworthy @ worthy3 suspect @ noun and verb accent systematic @ systemic teachy @ tetchy suspicion @ Gallicisms systematist @ systemic tealady ]] @ char(e) sustain @ formal words systemist @ systemic techy @ tetchy sweat of thy brow @ systemize @ systemic teddy @ -ey and -y in pet names misquotations sytematic @ -m-, -mm- tediousness @ -ty and -ness sweat @ genteelism tee-square @ cee-spring sweat @ swat teeming @ luxurious sweeping @ massive T teenager @ Americanisms sweet-tooth @ lickerish T-bone ]] @ cee-spring teeny-weeny @ reduplicated sweeten @ -en verbs from T-piece ]] @ cee-spring words adjectives T-square @ cee-spring teeth @ -th and -dh sweetheart @ intended ta-ta @ reduplicated words teeth @ noun and verb accent sweeties @ -ey and -y in pet tableau (pl) @ x teethe @ noun and verb accent names tableau @ recessive accent telecommunications @ tele sweets @ Americanisms tabs @ unconditional telecontrol @ tele sweety @ -ey and -y in pet tabu @ taboo telegram @ cachet names Tacitean @ Herculean telegram @ program swept @ -t and -ed tactic @ -ics telegram @ tele telegraph @ pronunciation4 designations therefore @ for telegraph @ tele testy @ tetchy therefore @ however telegrapheme @ tele tête-à-tête @ French words therein lies the problem ]] @ telegraphist @ -ist, -alist, -tist tether @ field hackneyed phrases telepathy @ tele tetralogy @ duologue therein @ thereafter telephone @ tele tetralogy @ trilogy thereof @ thereafter telephoney @ phoney teutonice @ latine thereto @ thereafter teleprinter @ tele textile @ tactile therewith @ thereafter telescope @ tele textual @ tactile thermometer @ hybrids televise @ -ize than @ prefer Thesaurus @ synonym televise @ tele thankworthy @ worthy3 theses @ Latin plurals television @ tele that (leaving out) @ ellipsis4 ‘they’ is plural only ]] @ tell it not in Gath @ battered that (leaving out) @ state, vb superstitions ornaments that (repeating) @ overzeal they @ their tell @ bid that or who @ which, that, who1 thick and thin @ Siamese twins tell @ inform that @ conjunction thicken @ -en verbs from telly @ cinema that @ differentiation adjectives telly @ curtailed words that @ relative pronouns thief @ noun and verb accent telly ]] @ tele that’s correct @ quite thieve @ noun and verb accent temperature values @ tautology that’s right ]] @ quite thine @ absolute possessives temperature @ feverish that, repeating @ side-slip think @ bethink temperature, have a @ n the Crown @ metonomy think @ expect temperedly @ -edly the Defence ]] @ metonomy think @ working and stylish temptess @ feminine the fact that @ compound words designations preposition thinnen @ -en verbs from ten thousand @ myriad the fact that @ connexion adjectives ten-pins @ Americanisms the fact that @ owing to thin, thinnest @ spelling tenable @ ten the hon @ hon points1&2 tenant @ ten The King ]] @ personification thirdworthy @ worthy3 tend @ trend the last infirmity @ this day and age @ day and age tendency @ trend misquotations this thusness @ pedantic humour tender mercy @ hackneyed the Law ]] @ metonomy thither @ hither phrases the mark @ save (vb) thorn @ ye tender mercy @ mercy the number of … @ number6 Thoth @ hermetically tender @ -er and -est1 the present writer @ we3 though @ among tender @ new verbs in -ize the Prosecution ]] @ metonomy though @ if tenderize @ new verbs in -ize The Queen @ personification though @ pronunciation9 tenderloin @ Americanisms the reason that @ reason thousand @ million tenderness @ -ty and -ness the reason why @ reason thraldom @ -ll tenet @ ten The Rivals @ degree threaten @ double passives tenon @ -on The Rivals @ malapropisms threaten @ predicate tenon @ mortise the writer @ we3 three sheets to the wind ]] @ tenon @ ten their (doing something) @ fused drunk tenor @ purport participle threefold @ manifold tenseness @ -ty and -ness their @ they, them, their threnody @ elegy tensile @ tactile their(s) @ absolute possessives thriven @ thrive tercentenary @ centenary theisim @ deism through thick and thin @ Teresa @ pronunciation1 them (doing something) @ fused hackneyed phrases term @ time participle through @ pronunciation9 terminal @ Americanisms them @ their throve @ thrive terminate @ working and stylish them @ they, them, their throw @ cease words theme @ field throw @ formal words terminate ]] @ fire themself ]] @ -ve thumb @ finger terminological inexactitude @ themselves ]] @ number11 thumb-tack @ Americanisms polysyllabic humour then @ position of adverb thunderous @ slumb(e)rous terminus @ Americanisms theorem @ aphorism thus, @ sic terms of reference @ referendum theoretical @ metaphysics thymol @ thyme terrace @ road theory @ metaphysics thymus @ thyme territorial @ exterritorial there’s the rub @ hackneyed Thyrsis @ elegy territory @ infringe phrases tick-tack @ reduplicated words test @ sign thereabouts @ thereby ticket-of-leave @ Americanisms testatrix @ -trix therefore @ conjunction tick–tic @ spelling points1&2 testatrix @ feminine therefore @ ergo tic–tick @ spelling points1&2 tidbit @ titbit to sin one’s mercies @ sin tragedy @ cothurnus tidal @ hybrids to which @ which8 tragic @ strategic(al) tiddle-taddle @ reduplicated to @ phrasal verbs tragic(al) @ -ic words tobacconist @ -ist, -alist, -tist trainee @ -ee tiddly @ drunk toddy @ -ey and -y in pet names trait @ sign tie @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye toil & moil @ Siamese twins tram @ Americanisms tight @ -er and -est3 toil and moil @ hendiadys tranquilizer @ nepenthe tight @ drunk toil and moil @ kith and kin transcendent @ differentiation tighten @ -en verbs from toilet @ euphemisms transcendent @ immanent adjectives token @ sign transcendent @ long variants3 tiler @ y and i toll @ tax, duty transcendent @ pairs and snares till @ until tomato paste ]] @ ketchup transcendental @ differentiation tillage @ tilth tomato @ -o(e)s transcendental @ long variants3 tilling @ tilth tomb @ hecatomb transcendental @ pairs and timber (sawn) @ Americanisms tommies @ plural anomalies snares timber @ collectives tommy @ -ey and -y in pet transfer @ -r-, -rr- time frame @ time scale names transfer @ portmanteau time frame ]] @ tautology tongue-in-cheek @ persiflage transferable @ conferable time scale @ tautology tonne ]] @ collectives transferable @ inferable timely @ -lily tonsillitis @ spelling points1&2 transgress @ infringe timeous @ mute ‘e’ tonsorial @ euphemisms transistor @ portmanteau timid @ -er and -est4 tonsorial @ pedantic humour translate @ construct timid @ meticulous too many words @ overzeal translate @ Saxonism timpano @ tympano too previous @ previous translucent @ transparent tin (money) @ bean tooth powder @ genteelism transmit @ formal words tin @ Americanisms tootsy-wootsy @ reduplicated transmogrify @ facetious tintacks ]] @ brass tacks words formations tinus @ laurustinus topping @ fabulous transom @ Americanisms tip-top @ reduplicated words topsy-turvy @ reduplicated transpire @ materialize tipsy @ drunk words transpire @ slipshod extension tire @ differentiation tornado @ -ade, -ado transport @ long variants3 tire @ y and i tortoishell @ transparent transportation @ long variants3 tiredly ]] @ -edly tost @ -t and -ed trapezium @ -um tireless @ -less tot up @ foot trapped @ -p-, -pp- tiresome @ -some total @ love of the long word trauma @ novelty hunting tiro @ y and i total @ novelty hunting trauma @ popularised ’tis @ elision total @ overall technicality titillate @ pairs and snares toto caelo @ foreign danger traveller @ -ll titivate @ pairs and snares touch @ sign travel, travelled @ spelling titivate @ titillate touch-lines @ Americanisms points1&2 tittle-tattle @ reduplicated words touchy @ tetchy travest @ burlesque tittlebat @ stickleback toughen @ -en verbs from tray @ cinque to and fro @ Siamese twins adjectives treacle @ Americanisms to (leaving out) @ preposition tour de force @ French words treason @ lèse-majesté dropping toward @ -ward treason @ treachery to be able to … @ prolate towel, throw in the @ sponge trecenary @ centenary to be desirous to … @ prolate tower of strength @ hackneyed treed ]] @ -ed, ’d to be or not to be @ hackneyed phrases trellised @ -s-, -ss-, -sss- phrases town ]] @ city tremor @ -our and -or to be said to @ prolate townified @ -fied trench (vb) @ trend to be willing to … @ prolate tracasseries @ French words trephine @ trepan to be wont to … @ prolate trace @ sign trespass @ infringe to begin to … @ prolate traceable @ mute ‘e’ trews @ pantaloons to boldly go ]] @ position of trachea @ recessive accent triable @ -able -ible1 adverb tracheotomy @ Greek triable @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye to cease to … @ prolate track @ terrain trial @ -al nouns -to do @ try trad @ jazz trialize @ new verbs in -ize to hand @ commercialese trafficator @ portmanteau trial, trialed, trialled ]] @ to have (vb) @ perfect infinitive trafficking @ -c -ck spelling points1&2 to not have (vb) @ perfect trafficking @ zinc tribunal @ false quantity infinitive trafflc circle or rotary @ tributary @ mandatory to pay (off) @ viable Americanisms tribute @ tax, duty to seem to … @ prolate tragedian @ comedian triceps @ biceps trichinosis @ Greek truth @ real tyro @ y and i trick cyclist @ facetious truth @ tilth Tyrrhene @ Magdalene formations try and do, try to do @ try Tyrwhitt @ pronunciation10 tricksy @ differentiation try out @ phrasal verbs tricky @ differentiation try @ aim tricky @ tricksy try @ formal words U triedly @ -edly tub @ academy U-bolt @ cee-spring trier @ verbs in -ie, -y and -ye tubal @ -ular ultimate analysis @ popularised trifling @ material tuberculosis @ consumption technicality trifling ]] @ finical tuberculosis @ metamorphosis ultimatum @ -um trilbys @ plural anomalies tuberculosis @ phthisis ultimo @ commercialese trilogy @ duologue tubular @ -ular umbles, humble pie @ true and trimmings @ fix tuft @ flock false etymology trip @ replace tug at the heartstrings @ stock un-come-at-able @ superfluous tripartite ]] @ -ite pathos words triphibious @ amphibious tugs of war @ plural anomalies unabatedly @ -edly triphibious @ hybrids tummy @ -ey and -y in pet unable @ in- and un- triple rhyme @ rhyme names unacceptable @ in- and un- triplex @ -ex, -ix tummy @ belly unaccountable @ in- and un- Trismegistos @ hermetically tumultuous @ tumultary unadvisable @ in- and un- tritagonist @ protagonist tune @ pronunciation6 unaffected @ naïf, naïve etc. trite @ banal tuny @ -ey and -y in adjective unaffectedly @ -edly triumph @ facetious formations turbanned @ -n-, -nn- unalterable @ in- and un- triumphal @ differentiation turbid @ transparent 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@ blink womanish @ -n-, -nn- wraith @ -th and -dh winking @ analogy3 womanish @ female wrap up @ involve winning @ -n-, -nn- women clerks @ plural wrapped @ rapt winsome @ -some anomalies wrapt @ rapt winsome @ worsened words women @ personnel wreath @ -th and -dh wire @ cable womenfolk @ folk wreath @ noun and verb accent wire-wove @ wove womenfolk @ woman wreathe @ noun and verb accent wireless @ Americanisms won @ wont wreck @ sabotage wiry @ -ey and -y in adjective wonderworthy @ worthy3 wreck @ vogue words4 wise in his generation @ wondrous @ slumb(e)rous Wren @ curtailed words hackneyed phrases wooden @ -en adjectives wretched @ sorry, sorrow wise @ -en verbs from adjectives woodpile @ stockpile wretchedly @ -edly wise @ realistic woolen @ -en adjectives wrick @ crick wiselier @ -er and -est3 word @ locution wrinkle @ crick wish @ analogy3 work @ working and stylish writ @ largely wishful @ complacent words writ @ write2 wishy-washy @ reduplicated workable @ novelty hunting write me @ preposition dropping words workable @ realistic writer @ penman wistaria’d @ -ed, ‘d workable @ viable writer, the @ we3 wistful @ wishful workable @ vogue words4 wrong phrase, using @ wit @ humour workable @ working and stylish misapprehension witch @ wych words wrong @ ethic with a view to @ cast iron idiom worker @ intelligent wrong(ly) @ right3 with a view to @ compound workers ]] @ personnel wrong-headedly @ -edly preposition world situation @ noun- wych-elm @ y and i with a view to @ connexion adjective with it @ with worldwide @ global with no strings @ unconditional worming @ -m-, -mm- X, Y, Z with reference to @ compound worriedly @ -edly Y-track @ cee-spring preposition worse (medically) @ sick yankeefied @ -fied with reference to @ connexion worsen @ -en verbs from ye @ olden with regard to @ compound adjectives year’s, years’ @ year preposition worship @ cult … years old @ of7 with regard to @ connexion worshipped @ -p-, -pp- yoking @ syllepsis with regard to @ 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