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-LING

Definitions: -LING

-LING

1. An adverbial suffix; as, darkling, flatling.

2. A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: -LING

Etymologies containing "-LING": Earthling, EightlingFatlinggroundlingLordlingNurslingsanderling, ScatterlingTimberlingunderlingVetchlingWhimling, Whitling, Witherling, WitlingYeanling. (references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: -LING

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Calluna vulgaris Hull, Lota molva, Molva molva. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: -LING

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ling.

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

-1 letter: gin, lin, nil.

-2 letters: in, li.

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

+1 letter: algin, align, cling, fling, glint, ingle, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, lings, lingy, lungi, lying, sling.

 

+2 letters: agnail, ailing, algins, aligns, baling, bluing, clings, clingy, cluing, dingle, doling, eloign, engild, filing, flings, flying, gainly, genial, gentil, gingal, glints, globin, gluing, glycin, goblin, haling, holing, idling, ingles, ingulf, isling, jingal, jingle, jingly, kingly, lacing, lading, laking, laming, lasing, laving, lawing, laying, lazing, leggin, legion, liangs, ligand, ligans, lignin, liking, liming, linage, lingam, lingas, linger, lingua, lining, living, logion, looing, loping, losing, loving, lowing, loxing, lubing, luging, lungis, lungyi, luring, luting, lyings, lysing, malign, mingle, muling, niggle, nilgai, nilgau, ogling, oiling, paling, piling, plying, poling, puling, riling, ruling, signal, single, singly, slings, sluing, soling, tiglon, tiling, tingle, tingly, toling, voling, waling, wiling, wyling.

 

+3 letters: ablings, addling, agnails, aligned, aligner, alining, allying, ambling, analgia, aneling, angelic, anginal, anglice, angling, angrily, ankling, antilog, argling, atingle, bailing, balding, balking, balling, bawling, belling, belting, belying, bilging, bilking, billing, biltong, birling, blaming, blaring, blawing, blazing, blowing, blueing, bluings, bluming, boiling, bolling, bolting, bowling, bugling, bulging, bulking, bulling, burling, butling, byrling, cabling, calking, calling, calming, calving, carling, catling, ceiling, celling, cingula, clawing, claying, cleping, clewing, clinged, clinger, cloning, closing, cloying, clueing, coaling, codling, coiling, cooling, cowling, cringle, culling, culming, curling, cycling, cymling, darling, dealing, deleing, delving, dialing, dingily, dingles, dirling, dolling, dueling, dulling, eanling, elating, eliding, eloigns, eloping, eluding, eluting, engilds, english, engrail, erlking, exiling, fabling, failing, falling, fatling, feeling, felling, felting, filings, filling, filming, finagle, flaking, flaming, flaring, flawing, flaying, fleeing, flexing, fleying, flinger, fliting, flowing, fluking, fluming, fluting, fluxing, flyings, flyting, foaling, foiling, folding, fooling, fouling, fowling, fueling, fugling, fulling, furling, gabling, gainful, galenic, gallein, galling, ganglia, gaoling, gelatin, gelding, gelling, geminal, genital, gentile, gilding, gilling, gillnet, gingall, gingals, gingeli, gingely, gingili, glaring, glazing, glenoid, gleying, gliadin, gliding, gliming, glinted, glisten, globing, globins, glonoin, gloving, glowing, glozing, glueing, glycine, glycins, goaling, goblins, godling, golfing, gosling, graplin, gremlin, guiling, gulfing, gulling, gulping, guyline, hailing, haloing, halting, halving, hauling, healing, heeling, heiling, helling, helming, helping, helving, hilding, hilling, hilting, holding, holking, howling, hulking, hulling, hurling, ignoble, ignobly, indulge, ingulfs, inkling, intagli, jailing, jelling, jilting, jingall, jingals, jingled, jingler, jingles, jolting, keeling, kegling, kelping, killing, kilning, kilting, kinglet, kitling, lacings, lacking, ladings, ladling, lagging, lairing, lakings, lalling, lambing, lamming, lamping, lancing, landing, languid, lapping, lapsing, lapwing, larding, larking, lashing, lasting, lathing, lauding, lawings, lazying, leading, leafing, leaking, leaning, leaping, leasing, leaving, leching, leering, legging, leggins, legions, legumin, lemming, lending, lensing, lentigo, letting, levying, licking, lidding, lifting, ligands, lighten, lignify, lignins, lignite, ligroin, likings, lilting, limbing, limning, limping, linages, lineage, lingams, lingcod, lingers, lingier, lingoes, linguae, lingual, linings, linkage, linking, linsang, lipping, lisping, listing, livings, loading, loafing, loaming, loaning, lobbing, locking, locoing, lodging, lofting, logania, logging, logions, lolling, longies, longing, longish, looking, looming, looping, loosing, looting, lopping, lording, losings, lotting, louping, louring, lousing, louting, lowings, lucking, luffing, lugeing, lugging, lulling, lumping, lunging, lungyis, lunting, lurking, lushing, lusting, lutings, lyingly, mailing, maligns, malling, malting, mangily, marling, mauling, melding, melling, melting, mewling, milking, milling, milting, mingled, mingler, mingles, moiling, molding, molting, mulling, nailing, nargile, neglige, niggled, niggler, niggles, nightly, nilgais, nilgaus, nilghai, nilghau, nilling, nulling, nurling, nylghai, paginal, palings, palling, palming, parling, pealing, peeling, pelting, pignoli, pilings, pilling, placing, planing, plating, playing, plowing, ploying, pluming, polling, pooling, pulings, pulling, pulping, pulsing, purling, railing, realign, reeling, reginal, relying, rifling, rilling, ringlet, roiling, rolfing, rolling, rulings, sailing, salting, salving, sapling, scaling, sealing, seeling, selfing, selling, shingle, shingly, sibling, sidling, signals, silking, siloing, silting, singled, singles, singlet, slaking, slating, slaving, slaying, slewing, slicing, sliding, sliming, slinger, sliping, sloping, slowing, smiling, sniggle, soiling, soloing, solving, spiling, staling, styling, sulking, swingle, tabling, tailing, talcing, talking, telling, tholing, tiglons, tilings, tilling, tilting, tingled, tingler, tingles, tirling, titling, toiling, tolling, tooling, unagile, unsling, upfling, vaginal, vailing, valuing, valving, vealing, veiling, vialing, vyingly, wailing, walking, walling, wauling, wawling, welding, welling, welting, whaling, whiling, wilding, willing, wilting, winglet, witling, wolfing, yawling, yealing, yelling, yelping, yodling, yowling.

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

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Alternative Orthography: -LING


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

2D 4C 49 4E 47

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

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

00101101 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#45 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

002D 004C 0049 004E 0047

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

1546434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Ancient
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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