Agile

  

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Agile

Definitions: Agile

Agile

Adjective

1. Moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it".

2. Mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits".

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

Date "agile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Agile \Ag"ile\, adjective. [French expression agile, from Latin expression agilis, from agere to move. See Agent.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Agile

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

AGILE

EnglishAnti-Guerilla Insurgency Light EquipmentMilitary & Defense

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

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Specialty Definition: Agile programming language

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Agile is a term sometimes applied to programming languages that are well-suited to a wide variety of tasks, can be used in a wide variety of ways, permit rapid prototyping, or in general are easy to use but also powerful.

The term dates from around April 2003 and, thus far, has mostly been applied to Python. To a lesser extent, other scripting languages such as Ruby are sometimes described as agile.

See also

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Agile programming language."

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Synonyms: Agile

Synonyms: nimble (adj), quick (adj), spry (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Agile

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Activity

Nimble, nimble as a squirrel; agile; light-footed, nimble-footed; featly, tripping.

Velocity

Adjective: fast, speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet; aliped; nimble, agile, expeditious; express; active; flying, galloping; Verb: light footed, nimble footed; winged, eagle winged, mercurial, electric, telegraphic; light-legged, light of heel; swift as an arrow; Noun: quick as lightning; Noun: quick as a thought.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Agile

English words defined with "agile": agilely, agoutibandicoot, bush baby, bushbabycaprine animalDasyprocta aguti, deinonychusgalago, Genet, Genetta genetta, goatIbizan hound, Ibizan Podencomangabey, marten, marten cat, mongoosenimble, nimblyOryzomys palustrispolo ponyquick, Quick with childrice ratscincid, scincid lizard, skink, spryUngka-putiwhiptail, whiptail lizard, Wou-wou. (references)
Specialty definitions using "agile": GoatsMongooses. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Agile" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (agile, dexterous, limber, lissome, lithe, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, ready, sharp, slippy, swift, willowy, witty), Italian (agile, dexterous, dextrous, fleet, lean, light, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nimble, quick, slippy, supple).

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Modern Usage: Agile

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Picasso at the Lapin Agile (2003)

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

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Commercial Usage: Agile

DomainTitle

References

  • Agile Software Corp. Delaware: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process (reference)

  • Agile Software Development (reference)

  • Floral Patterns (Shambhala Agile Rabbit Editions) (reference)

  • Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays : Picasso at the LapinAgile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for a Floating Lady, WASP (reference)

  • Surviving Object-Oriented Projects (The Agile Series for Software Developers) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Agile Manufacturing: Moving to the Next Level (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Agile

Illustrations:
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Sounds Captioned with "Agile".

PlayCaption
Fast; quick; ASAP; abrupt; accelerated; active; agile; alert; animated; breakneck; brief; brisk; cursory; curt; double time; energetic; expeditious; expeditive; express; fleet; flying; get going; harefooted; hasty; headlong; hurried; immediate; impatient.
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Use in Literature: Agile

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Although old, he was agile.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

A team of cricketers passed, agile young men in flannels and blazers, one of them carrying the long green wicketbag.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Agile

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Smaller and more agile equipment that can maneuver easily throughout the forest is gradually in demand to handle the new harvesting styles. (references)

After the privatization process, several infrastructure projects were taken to term, making the waterways transportation mode more competitive and services more agile. (references)

Economic History

Zimbabwe

The merchant and investment banks are quite sophisticated and agile. (references)

Chile

The electronic infrastructure would make all process steps more agile and efficient. (references)

Dominican Republic

It is a challenging business environment for U.S. firms, although agile exporters and investors can profit doing business in the Dominican Republic. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Agile

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George W. Bush

2001-2005We need to replace aging aircraft and make our military more agile, to put our troops anywhere in the world quickly and safely.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Agile

"Agile" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Agile" is used about 154 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%15425,326

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Agile

CountryName
USA

Agile Software Corp. Delaware

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Agile

Expression using "agile": have an agile mind. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "agile": agile-thinking.

Ending with "agile": frequency-agile, none-too-agile.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Agile

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

agile

98

agile guitar

33

agile software

25

agile lapin picasso

17

agile viewer

16

agile manufacturing

14

agile software development

10

agile development

7

agile system

7

agile programming

4

agile lapin

4

agile frequency receiver

4

agile express

4

agile frequency transmitter

4

agile material

4

agile combat support

3

agile modulator

3

agile les paul

3

agile audio

3

agile jacket

2
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Modern Translations: Agile

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

Afrikaan

  

lewendig (adroit, alert, brisk, keen). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

i zhdërvjellët (dexterous, dextrous, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, supple, versatile), i shpejtë (arrowy, brisk, dashing, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleet of foot, fleet-footed, fleeting, flying, hasty, imminent, mercurial, prompt, quick, rapid, smart, spanking, speedy, swift, volant, wanton, winged, wing-footed), i shkathët (adroit, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, habile, knacky, light-handed, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, natty, neat, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سريع الخاطر (quick-witted, witty), ‏ذكي (acute, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, cute, dashing, fox, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, luminous, natty, penetrating, quick, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, wise, witty), ‏خفيف الحركة (spry), ‏خفيف (brisk, easy-moving, light, light footed, lively, nimble, quick, sprightly, spry, swift), ‏رشيق (active, airy, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, ready, sharp, spry, svelte, swift, willowy, zippy). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сръчен (able, adroit, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, feat, handy, ingenious, knacky, knowing, light-handed, neat-handed, practised, pretty, skilful, skillful, smart, two-handed), жив (above ground, active, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), ловък (able, adroit, artful, dodgy, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, natty, neat, neat-handed, peart, politic, pretty, shrewd, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tricksy, tricky, wary, whizbang), бърз (brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), пъргав (active, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy), подвижен (adjustable, adjusting, airy, ambulatory, detachable, drop, flexible, floating, light, limber, lissome, lithe, live, lively, mobile, movable, moveable, moving, nimble, nippy, ready, removable, resilient, shifting, sliding, traveling, travelling, versatile). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

靈活 (flexible, nimble), 敏捷. (various references)

   

Czech

  

agilní, mrštný (nimble), hbitý (deft, light-heeled, nimble, prompt, sprightly, swift, voluble). (various references)

   

Danish

  

livlig (adroit, alert, brisk, keen, lively). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wakker (adroit, alert, awake, brisk, keen), vief (adroit, alert, brisk, keen), tierig (adroit, alert, brisk, keen), rap (adroit, alert, brisk, keen), opgewekt (adroit, alert, animated, brisk, cheerful, gay, keen, lively, merry), levendig (adroit, alert, animated, brisk, keen, lively), lenig (flexible), kwiek (adroit, alert, brisk, keen), kras (adroit, alert, block rake, brisk, cut, graze, keen, scratch), druk (adroit, alert, animated, brisk, busy, compression, edition, impression, keen, lively, pressure, print). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

vakin (adroit, alert, brisk, keen), lívligur (adroit, alert, brisk, keen), kátur (adroit, airy-fairy, alert, brisk, cheerful, frolic, frolicsome, gay, keen, merry, petulant). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فرز (Nimble, Quick, Spry, Swift), چابک (Adroit, Brisk, Clever, Handy, Light, Lissome, Nimble, Perky, Quick, Rapid, Speedy, Spry, Swift), سریع الانتقال , زیرک (Acute, Adroit, Alert, Astute, Brilliant, Cagey, Canny, Clever, Cunning, Gash, Keen, Perspicacious, Sagacious, Sharp, Shrewd, Smart, Subtle, Uncanny), زرنگ (Adroit, Apt, Bright, Clever, Dapper, Jaunty, Nimble, Pawky, Shifty, Shrewd, Slicker, Smart, Snide, Spry). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pirteä (alert, fresh, lively, perky, piquant, sharp, spirited, term applied to wines containing adequate but not excess acidity), notkea (flexible, pliant, supple), nopsa (nimble), ketterä (alert, nimble). (various references)

   

French

  

agile. (various references)

   

German

  

wendig (flexible, maneuverable, manoeuvrable, mobile, nimble, tractable, versatilely), beweglich (fluid, free, limber, loose, maneuverable, mobile, movable, moving, nimble, supple), lebhaft (animated, bouncy, breezy, brisk, briskly, chirpy, eager, feisty, fresh, frisky, gay, lively, mercurial, mobile, quick, quicksilver, spiritedly, sprightly, vivace, vivacious, vivid, vividly), flink (adroit, alert, brisk, briskly, deft, keen, nimble, nimbly, nippy, quick, rapid, slippy, smart, swift, swiftly, zippy), behende (able, adroit, clever, dexterous, nimble, nimbly, proficient, quick, skillful, swift). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εύστροφοσ (nimble, shifty, versatile), ευκίνητοσ (light footed, lithe, mobile, nimble, nippy, spry, svelte, vanquishable, vincible). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קל ת וע" (spry), זריז (adroit, alert, dexterous, mercurial, nimble, quick, spanking, swift). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fürge (beany, brisk, deft, fleet, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, lively, mercurial, nifty, nimble, nippy, perky, quick, rattling, smart, spry, swift), agilis (active, full of action, go-ahead, kinetic). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tangkas (cute, dapper, deft, dexterous, prompt), gapah (aroit, skillful), galir (articulate, fluent, glib, nimble, spry), cerdas (adroit, brainy, brilliant, educated, intelligent, mentally agile). (various references)

   

Italian

  

agile (dexterous, dextrous, fleet, lean, light, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nimble, quick, slippy, supple). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

身軽 (carefree, casual, light, nimble), 速い (nimble, quick), 早い (fast, prompt, quick), 敏捷 (nimble, prompt, quick, shrewd, smart). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すばやい (fast, nimble, prompt, quick), び"しょう (nimble, prompt, quick, shrewd, smart), みがる (carefree, casual, light, nimble). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

민첩한 (Nimble). (various references)

   

Manx

  

skibbylt (acrobatic, active, active as person, bouncing, jig, light-footed, nimble, skip, vivacious), gastey (active, athletic, clever, lively, speedy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agileay

   

Portuguese

  

ágil (able, active, adroit, alert, brisk, clever, deft, dexterous, keen, kittenish, light footed, lightsome, limber, lissome, list, lithe, lithium, nimble, skillful, springy, spry, volant). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

agil (agilely, nimble, quick), ager (active, acute, clever, cute, fast, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, quick, sagacious, sharp, shrewd, skilful, skillful, spirited, understanding), activ (acting, active, actively, afoot, aggressive, alive, assets, bouncing, brisk, busy, dapper, diligent, dynamic, efficient, energetic, fierce, go ahead, industrious, living, operative, pragmatic, quick, regular, spry), sprinten (agilely, alive, fleet, fleet-footed, light footed, lightsome, lissom, lithe, lively, nimble, nimbly, nippy, quick, trippingly, wanton, wing-footed), mlãdios (adaptable, graceful, limber, lissom, lithe, supple), iute (alert, alive, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, lively, mercurial, merry, nippy, peppered, peppery, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, spanking, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

проворный (adroit, brisk, deft, dexterous, dextrous, light-footed, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, nimble, nippy, on the jump, quick, rash, zippy), подвижный (corky, mercurial, mobile, motile, movable, rip-roaring). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

lùthmhor (able, powerful, supple), cliste (expert, nimble, swift). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

agilan (energetic), okretan (nimble, rangy, swift-handed, tripping), hitar (expeditious, fast, light-heeled, light-legged, nippy, quick, rangy, rash, trig), žustar (brisk, dashing, glowing, hot, lively, pert, smart, snappy, spry, spunky). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ágil (able, adroit, clever, deft, dexterous, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nifty, nimble, nippy, proficient, quick, skillful, spry, zappy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vig (lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nimble). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

atik (alert, lissom, lissome, nimble, quick, snappy), kıvrak (active, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, quick, strong, supple, tripping), becerikli (adept, adroit, capable, clever, deft, designing, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, facile, gifted, handsome, ingenious, knowing, light-handed, neat, nimble-fingered, performing, practical, pushful, pushing, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skilled, skillful, skilly, slick, smart, versatile, wise), çevik (brisk, dapper, fleet, glib, light footed, limber, lissom, lissome, nimble, nippy, spry, swift, tripping, volant). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

зalasyn (quick). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

спритний (adroit, alert, arch, artful, canny, cunning, deft, dexterous, dodgy, fly, handy, light fingered, light-handed, natty, nifty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, pert, politic, practical, shuffling, slick, tactical, whipping, wide awake, zippy), рухливий (flexile, nimble, running), швидкий (arrowy, dapper, double quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleeting, hasty, nippy, precipitate, present, prompt, quick, rapid, snappy, spanking, speedy, summary, swift, whipping, zippy), моторний (adroit, alert, dapper, dashing, deft, dexterous, lissome, lithesome, mercurial, motor, nimble, nippy, ready, spry, volant), жвавий (active, airy, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, chirpy, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, slippy, sprightly, vivid, whisky, youthful, zippy). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nhanh nhẹn (alert, alive, crispy, dapper, spry, tripping), nhanh nhẩu (breezy, brisk), lẹ l ng, lanh lợi (clever, cute, sharp-witted, subtle). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

sionc (active, brisk, nimble), heini (active, brisk, lively, nimble), gwisgi (brisk, lively, nimble, ripe), chwim (nimble, quick). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Agile

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

agitati, bernice, celeres, celerius. (various references)

Avestan200-600

revîm. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Agile

Derivations

Words beginning with "agile": agilely. (additional references)

Words ending with "agile": fragile, unagile, vagile. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Agile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abile, Abileah, Afgie, Agace, agail, agal, agale, Agalev, agalevn, Agcl, Agebe, agelet, agi, agie, agil, agila, agild, agiled, agilis, agily, agine, agire, agite, agive, agle, agli, aglio, agoal, Aguila, agula, agule, Ahilo, aige, aigle, Aigles, Aiglet, Ailbe, aile, Aileu, aille, ailo, algie, Apilu, argile, arile, asile, atila, atile, augelli, Avilez, avili, Awiel, aygula, Azgul, Eagil, egile, Egilo, Faigele, Gaiole, gaylee, Gile, Jagielo, Magiglo, Makgill, Nagylak, Ogilvey, Zagalo. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Agile"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "agile" (pronounced a"jul)
4a" j u lfragile.
3-j u langel, Archangel, cordial, cudgel, vigil.

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Anagrams: Agile

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: egal, gale, glia, ilea.

-2 letters: age, ail, ale, gae, gal, gel, gie, lag, lea, leg, lei, lie.

-3 letters: ae, ag, ai, al, el, la, li.

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

+1 letter: aiglet, gelati, genial, glaire, glaive, goalie, ligase, ligate, linage, milage, silage, vagile.

 

+2 letters: agilely, aiglets, aligned, aligner, aneling, angelic, anglice, atingle, dealing, eanling, egalite, elating, elegiac, engrail, epigeal, eulogia, finagle, foliage, fragile, galenic, galilee, gallein, gallied, gallies, gelatin, geminal, genital, geoidal, glacier, gladier, glaiket, glaired, glaires, glaived, glaives, glarier, glassie, glazier, goalies, gracile, gremial, healing, illegal, leading, leafing, leaking, leaning, leaping, leasing, leaving, ligases, ligated, ligates, ligulae, linages, lineage, linguae, linkage, milages, mileage, millage, nargile, pealing, pelagic, pillage, realign, regalia, reginal, sealing, silages, soilage, taglike, tillage, unagile, vealing, village, weigela, yealing.

 

+3 letters: agential, agitable, aglimmer, aglitter, aguelike, aiguille, alerting, algerine, algicide, alginate, alienage, aliening, alighted, aligners, alleging, allergic, allergin, altering, angelica, angeling, atheling, belaying, blearing, bleating, blindage, cageling, cleaning, clearing, cleating, cleaving, collegia, dealings, delating, delaying, diallage, dialoged, dialoger, dialogue, diplegia, dragline, eanlings, effigial, egalites, elapsing, elegiacs, emailing, empaling, enabling, engrails, enlacing, ensilage, equaling, eulogiae, eulogias, exalting, exhaling, fanglike, filagree, finagled, finagler, finagles, flaggier, foliaged, foliages, gadflies, gainable, gainless, gainlier, galabieh, galaxies, galenite, galilees, galleins, galleria, gamelike, ganglier, gantline, gasalier, gaselier, gasolier, gasoline, gatelike, gaveling, gelatine, gelating, gelatins, gelation, gelsemia, genially, genitals, geranial, geraniol, germinal, gestical, gilthead, gimbaled, girasole, giveable, glaceing, glaciate, glaciers, glacises, gladiate, gladiest, gladlier, glairier, glariest, glassier, glassies, glassine, glaziers, glaziery, glaziest, gleamier, gleaming, gleaning, gliadine, glissade, gnarlier, gnatlike, goadlike, goatlike, graciles, grapline, greasily, gremials, grillade, grillage, guerilla, guidable, healings, idealogy, illegals, integral, janglier, labeling, lacewing, ladening, lagering, latening, latigoes, lawgiver, layering, leaching, leadings, leaguing, leanings, learning, leashing, leasings, leavings, legacies, legalise, legalism, legalist, legality, legalize, legatine, legating, legation, levigate, liegeman, liftgate, ligament, ligative, ligature, ligulate, lineages, linkages, litharge, litigate, maligned, maligner, malinger, medaling, megalith, megillah, metaling, mileages, millages, mucilage, multiage, narghile, nargileh, nargiles, obligate, otalgies, paneling, pearling, pedaling, pelagial, perigeal, philabeg, pillaged, pillager, pillages, pilotage, pleading, pleasing, pleating, pupilage, raveling, realigns, regaling, regality, regional, relacing, relating, relaxing, relaying, remigial, semigala, seraglio, shealing, shigella, signaled, signaler, singable, slaggier, slangier, sleaving, slippage, snaglike, soilages, spillage, spoilage, stealing, tailgate, tangible, tanglier, teazling, tegminal, teiglach, thirlage, tillages, triangle, ungenial, valeting, villager, villages, weakling, weanling, weigelas, weigelia, yealings, yeanling, yearling.

 

+4 letters: abseiling, aetiology, agilities, aiguilles, algaecide, algebraic, algerines, algicides, alginates, alienages, alignment, allegiant, allergies, allergins, allergist, allogenic, almsgiver, alongside, analgesia, analgesic, analgetic, analogies, analogize, angelfish, angelical, angelicas, anglesite, anglicise, anglicize, annealing, antiglare, apologiae, apologies, apologise, apologize, appealing, aquilegia, argillite, armigeral, ashlering, athelings, aureoling, barreling, becalming, befalling, befleaing, begalling, beladying, belauding, beleaping, bengaline, bewailing, bigeminal, bleaching, blindages, bricolage, cagelings, calcifuge, canceling, cartilage, cellaring, chelating, cingulate, clavering, cleansing, clearings, clearwing, clientage, cogitable, coleading, coliphage, collegial, collegian, colligate, congenial, coxalgies, curtilage, deadlight, declaring, declawing, deflating, defleaing, deglazing, deleading, deleaving, deplaning, derailing, desalting, detailing, devaluing, diallages, dialogers, dialogued, dialogues, diplegias, draglines, earthling, eglantine, eightball, elegiacal, elevating, embalming, emblazing, emplacing, emplaning, emulating, enameling, enflaming, engrailed, enhaloing, enlarging, enplaning, ensilaged, ensilages, enslaving, entailing, equalling, evangelic, exampling, faltering, fatigable, fellating, fenagling, filagreed, filagrees, finaglers, flagellin, flaggiest, flambeing, frangible, gainliest, galabiehs, galantine, galenical, galenites, galingale, gallamine, gallerias, galleried, galleries, galleting, gallflies, gallicize, gallinule, galvanise, galvanize, gangliest, gantlines, garlicked, gasaliers, gaseliers, gasoliers, gasolines, gauzelike, gavelkind, gavelling, gelatines, gelations, geminally, genetical, geniality, genically, genitalia, genitalic, genitally, genitival, genocidal, geranials, geraniols, ghastlier, giantlike, giltheads, gimballed, girandole, girasoles, glaciated, glaciates, gladliest, glairiest, glamorise, glamorize, glassiest, glassines, gleamiest, gleanings, gliadines, glissaded, glissader, glissades, globalise, globalize, glutamine, gnarliest, granulite, grapelike, graplines, grasslike, graticule, graveling, greenmail, grillades, grillages, grisaille, guerillas, guerrilla, haltering, hanseling, headlight, heralding, idealogue, ignitable, ignorable, illegally, inelegant, integrals, irregular, jangliest, laagering, labelling, lacewings, lackering, lackeying, laddering, lagniappe, lamenting, lappering, lathering, laureling, laveering, lawgivers, lawyering, layerings, learnings, leavening, legalised, legalises, legalisms, legalists, legalized, legalizer, legalizes, legations, legionary, legislate, lethargic, levanting, levigated, levigates, lifeguard, liftgates, ligaments, ligatured, ligatures, lightface, lilangeni, litharges, litigable, litigated, litigates, litterbag, logaoedic, maligners, malingers, marveling, meaningly, medalling, megaliths, megillahs, meningeal, metalling, mucilages, multipage, narghiles, nargilehs, navigable, neuralgia, neuralgic, neuroglia, obligated, obligates, paltering, panelings, panelling, papergirl, parceling, pargyline, parleying, pedalling, pellagrin, philabegs, pigtailed, pilferage, pillagers, pilotages, pleaching, pleadings, poleaxing, pupilages, pupillage, rappeling, ravelings, ravelling, realigned, realising, realizing, recalling, recoaling, redialing, refalling, reflating, regicidal, regionals, reglazing, relapsing, releasing, reloading, reloaning, remailing, renailing, repealing, replacing, replating, replaying, resailing, rescaling, resealing, reslating, retailing, revaluing, revealing, rigmarole, sacrilege, safelight, salesgirl, salpinges, searingly, seraglios, shaveling, shealings, shearling, shigellae, shigellas, signalers, signalise, signalize, signalled, signaller, signalmen, slaggiest, slangiest, slavering, slippages, sloganize, spanglier, spillages, spoilages, squealing, stagelike, stealings, tableting, tailgated, tailgater, tailgates, tangibles, tangliest, tasseling, teaseling, teasingly, teazeling, thirlages, trameling, traveling, treadling, treillage, trialogue, triangles, unaligned, unleading, unsealing, upleaping, vestigial, viceregal, vigesimal, vigilance, vigilante, villagers, villagery, villenage, vulgarise, vulgarize, weaklings, weanlings, wearingly, weaseling, weigelias, weighable, wineglass, yeanlings, yearlings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Agile


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

41 67 69 6C 65

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

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

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    --.    ..    .-..    .

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

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

01000001 01100111 01101001 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#103 &#105 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0067 0069 006C 0065

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

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

3573757871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Company Usage
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Abbreviations
18. Acronyms
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes
21. Anagrams
22. Orthography
23. Bibliography


  

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