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Definition: Agnail |
AgnailNoun1. 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: AgnailSynonym: hangnail (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Agnail |
| Etymologies containing "agnail": hangnail. (references) |
| 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 espigão (capstone, crest, dowel, gable, gardenbed, pier, pintle, plug, rough, spigot, Spike, spur, stake). (various references) pieliţã (Peel), panariţiu (felon, panaris, panaritium, whitlow). (various references) заусеница (burr, hangnail). (various references) zanoktica (cuticle, hangnail, paronychia). (various references) trasigt nagelband. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "agnail": agnails. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| Words rhyming with "agnail" (pronounced 'Ag"nail'): Doornail, hangnail, Horsenail, treenail. (additional references) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 67 6E 61 69 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- --. -. .- .. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100111 01101110 01100001 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A g n a i l |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357380677578 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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