Agnail

  

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Agnail

Definition: Agnail

Agnail

Noun

1. A loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Agnail \Ag"nail\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression angn[ae]gl; ange vexation, trouble n[ae]gel nail. Compare to Hangnail.]. (Websters 1913)



Synonym: Agnail

Synonym: hangnail (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Agnail

Etymologies containing "agnail": hangnail. (references)

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Modern Translations: Agnail

Language Translations for "agnail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

забелена кожица около нокът (hangnail). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zádìra. (various references)

   

German

  

niednagel (hangnail). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"חס (density, pressure, whitlow). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

beszakadt körömágy. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

거스러미. (various references)

   

Manx

  

gorley ingney. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agnailay

   

Portuguese

  

espigão (capstone, crest, dowel, gable, gardenbed, pier, pintle, plug, rough, spigot, Spike, spur, stake). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pieliţã (Peel), panariţiu (felon, panaris, panaritium, whitlow). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

заусеница (burr, hangnail). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zanoktica (cuticle, hangnail, paronychia). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

trasigt nagelband. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Agnail

Derivations

Words beginning with "agnail": agnails. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Agnail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: a'gahil, agail, Agcaoli, agnails, Agnaou, Agni, Alguacil, anai, Anaik, aneil, anial, baginal, Bagnaia, Bagnoli, Ignalia, Pagnall, Ragnhild. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Agnail"

Words rhyming with "agnail" (pronounced 'Ag"nail'): Doornail, hangnail, Horsenail, treenail. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Agnail

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-l-n"

-1 letter: again, alang, algin, align, lagan, lanai, liana, liang, ligan, linga.

-2 letters: agin, alan, alga, anal, anga, anil, gain, gala, glia, lain, lang, ling, nail.

-3 letters: aal, aga, ail, ain, ala, ana, ani, gal, gan, gin, lag, lin, nag, nil.

-4 letters: aa, ag, ai, al, an, in, la, li, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-l-n"
 

+1 letter: agnails, analgia, anginal, ganglia, logania, paginal, vaginal.

 

+2 letters: ablating, agential, alarming, alginate, alienage, allaying, analgias, analogic, angelica, antalgic, availing, bangtail, canaling, craaling, diagonal, gainable, galivant, gallican, galvanic, ganglial, gangliar, geranial, gonadial, hangnail, imaginal, kaoliang, kraaling, larrigan, magnolia, marginal, unialgal.

 

+3 letters: acylating, adulating, alaruming, alginates, alienages, allegiant, amazingly, amygdalin, analgesia, analgesic, analgetic, analogies, analogist, analogize, analysing, analyzing, angelical, angelicas, annealing, antalgics, antiglare, appalling, appealing, ashlaring, assailing, balancing, balsaming, bangtails, caballing, canalling, diagonals, franglais, galantine, galenical, galingale, galivants, gallamine, gallivant, galvanise, galvanism, galvanize, genitalia, geranials, halloaing, hangnails, inaugural, kaoliangs, laagering, lactating, lagniappe, lariating, larrigans, lawmaking, magnolias, malignant, manacling, napalming, navigable, navigably, neuralgia, nostalgia, oxalating, palpating, parlaying, placating, salaaming, salarying, salvaging, sandaling, signalman, tallaging, vaginally, valancing, valuating, vulgarian, waylaying.

 

+4 letters: aboriginal, acclaiming, airmailing, alarmingly, algolagnia, alienating, alkalising, alkalizing, alkylating, allegation, allegiance, allocating, ambulating, amygdalins, anaglyphic, anagogical, analgesias, analgesics, analgetics, analogical, analogists, analogized, analogizes, angularity, angulating, angulation, antifungal, antiplague, appareling, applauding, asphalting, assaulting, assignable, balbriggan, ballasting, banalizing, calamining, canalising, canalizing, canulating, caracoling, cataloging, catalyzing, catcalling, damagingly, diagonally, emalangeni, escalading, escalating, evaluating, galantines, galenicals, galingales, galivanted, gallamines, gallanting, gallivants, galvanised, galvanises, galvanisms, galvanized, galvanizer, galvanizes, garlanding, glaciating, glaciation, granadilla, gyrational, imaginable, imaginably, inarguable, inarguably, inaugurals, jaculating, jaywalking, lacerating, lagniappes, lambasting, laminating, lapidating, lateraling, laureating, lawmakings, maculating, magnifical, malignance, malignancy, managerial, marginalia, marginally, marshaling, martingale, nasalising, nasalizing, negational, neuralgias, nostalgias, organismal, palavering, palisading, palliating, paralysing, paralyzing, placarding, plateauing, playacting, playmaking, reavailing, salivating, salmagundi, sandalling, scandaling, sporangial, tabulating, tailgating, tangential, travailing, triangular, unavailing, validating, vulgarians, wassailing, zabaglione.

 

+5 letters: aboriginals, acclimating, acetylating, acidulating, actualizing, affiliating, agglutinate, agitational, algolagniac, algolagnias, alkalifying, allegations, allegiances, alleviating, alloantigen, allowancing, alphabeting, altercating, alternating, analogizing, angelically, angioplasty, angulations, animalizing, annualizing, antiburglar, antifungals, antilogical, antiplagues, antiwhaling, appallingly, apparelling, appealingly, aquaplaning, archangelic, archegonial, autoclaving, autoloading, avalanching, backhauling, backlashing, balbriggans, balkanizing, berascaling, cakewalking, calculating, calendaring, calibrating, callipygian, caracolling, carpogonial, cataloguing, catapulting, cavaliering, charcoaling, coagulating, coagulation, defalcating, devaluating, diagnosable, diagonalize, egalitarian, egomaniacal, ejaculating, elaborating, enigmatical, equiangular, evangelical, farthingale, flagrancies, galavanting, galivanting, gallantries, gallivanted, galvanising, galvanizers, galvanizing, gestational, glaciations, glassmaking, glutaminase, gradational, granadillas, grandiflora, granularity, granulating, granulation, gratulating, gratulation, hallmarking, handrailing, imaginarily, labializing, laborsaving, lancinating, landscaping, lateralling, lawbreaking, madrigalian, malignances, malignantly, maltreating, manhandling, marginality, marginalize, marshalling, martingales, megalomania, megalomanic, migrational, organically, organizable, palpitating, panegyrical, panhandling, paralleling, parasailing, placatingly, plantigrade, platemaking, playactings, playmakings, racewalking, railroading, reanalyzing, reassailing, rebalancing, retaliating, revaluating, sailboating, sailplaning, salmagundis, scandalling, selaginella, stagflation, stalemating, submarginal, talebearing, tantalising, tantalizing, tracklaying, translating, triangulate, unappealing, unbalancing, vacillating, vandalising, vandalizing, zabagliones.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Agnail


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 67 6E 61 69 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100111 01101110 01100001 01101001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#103 &#110 &#97 &#105 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0067 006E 0061 0069 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

357380677578

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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