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ENGRAIL

Definitions: ENGRAIL

ENGRAIL

Intransitive verb

1. To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

Transitive verb

1. To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.

2. To variegate or spot, as with hail.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



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Crosswords: ENGRAIL

English words defined with "ENGRAIL": Engrailed, Engrailing. (references)

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Modern Translations: ENGRAIL

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

Albanian

  

dhëmbëzoj (Dent, indent, jag, mill, notch, pink, skin over, tooth). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zoubkovat (indenture, jag). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csipkéz (to lace, to tooth, to vandyke, tooth). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

engrailay

   

Portuguese

  

serrilhar (knurr), imprimir (impress, imprison, ingraft, print, printable, publishing, stamp, strike off). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

zimţui (indent, knurl), dantela (indent, lace, notch), cresta (Dent, excise, Harrow, indent, jag, Nick, notch, round, score, scotch, slash, snick, stripe, wound). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

делать нарезку. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ukrasiti ivice. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

adornar en forma de olas. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ENGRAIL

Derivations

Words beginning with "ENGRAIL": engrailed, engrailing, engrails. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ENGRAIL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Engai, Engdahl, englacial, Engrais, Engria, enjail, entrail, Penygraig. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: ENGRAIL

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aligner, nargile, realign, reginal.

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

-1 letter: aliner, angler, earing, gainer, genial, glaire, larine, linage, linear, linger, nailer, reagin, regain, regina, regnal, renail.

-2 letters: agile, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, anger, angle, anile, argil, argle, ariel, elain, garni, glair, glare, glean, gnarl, grail, grain, ingle, lager, large, learn, liane, liang, ligan, liger, liner, linga, range, regal, regna, reign, renal, renig.

-3 letters: ager, agin, airn, anil, aril, earl, earn, egal, elan, gaen, gain, gale, gane, gear, gien, girl, girn, glen, glia, gnar, gran, grin, ilea, lain, lair, lane, lang, lari, lean, lear, liar, lien, lier, line, ling, lira, lire, nail, near, rage, ragi, rail, rain, rale, rang, rani, real, rein, rial, riel, rile, ring.

-4 letters: age, ail, ain, air, ale, ane, ani, are, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, gae, gal, gan, gar, gel, gen, gie, gin, ire, lag, lar, lea, leg, lei, lie, lin, nae, nag, nil, rag, ran, reg, rei, ria, rig, rin.

-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, al, an, ar, el, en, er, in, la, li, na, ne, re.

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

+1 letter: alerting, algerine, aligners, allergin, altering, blearing, clearing, dragline, engrails, finagler, gainlier, ganglier, geranial, geraniol, germinal, gnarlier, grapline, integral, janglier, lagering, layering, learning, maligner, malinger, narghile, nargileh, nargiles, pearling, raveling, realigns, regaling, regional, relacing, relating, relaxing, relaying, signaler, slangier, tanglier, triangle, yearling.

 

+2 letters: algerines, allergins, antiglare, ashlering, aureoling, barreling, cellaring, clavering, clearings, clearwing, declaring, derailing, draglines, earthling, engrailed, enlarging, faltering, finaglers, frangible, geranials, geraniols, girandole, gnarliest, granulite, graplines, graveling, greenmail, haltering, heralding, ignorable, integrals, laagering, lackering, laddering, lappering, lathering, laureling, laveering, lawyering, layerings, learnings, legionary, maligners, malingers, marveling, narghiles, nargilehs, neuralgia, neuralgic, neuroglia, paltering, parceling, pargyline, parleying, pellagrin, rappeling, ravelings, ravelling, realigned, realising, realizing, recalling, recoaling, redialing, refalling, reflating, regionals, reglazing, relapsing, releasing, reloading, reloaning, remailing, renailing, repealing, replacing, replating, replaying, resailing, rescaling, resealing, reslating, retailing, revaluing, revealing, searingly, shearling, signalers, signaller, slavering, spanglier, trameling, traveling, treadling, triangles, wearingly, yearlings.

 

+3 letters: allergenic, anglerfish, appareling, barrelling, becrawling, belaboring, blabbering, blarneying, blathering, blattering, calipering, clabbering, clambering, clattering, clearwings, corelating, earthlings, engrailing, ensnarling, fingernail, flattering, gallerying, galvanizer, generalise, generalist, generality, generalize, germinally, girandoles, grainfield, granulites, gravelling, greenmails, highlander, impearling, inarguable, integrable, integrally, lacerating, lacquering, ladyfinger, languisher, lateraling, laterizing, laundering, laureating, laurelling, lawyerings, leaguering, leathering, leveraging, liberating, lipreading, longhaired, malingered, malingerer, managerial, marcelling, martingale, marvelling, mineralogy, multirange, neuralgias, neuroglial, neuroglias, overlading, overlaying, palavering, parcelling, pargylines, pellagrins, plastering, pleasuring, pregenital, preplacing, prevailing, quarreling, rappelling, ravellings, realigning, realtering, reapplying, reavailing, reclaiming, reclasping, recleaning, redialling, refloating, regelating, regimental, regionally, regulating, regulation, rehandling, relabeling, relearning, relegating, relegation, relocating, repaneling, replanning, replanting, repleading, resaddling, resaluting, resampling, retackling, retailings, ringhalses, ringleader, rosemaling, sanderling, seignorial, shearlings, signallers, slabbering, slandering, slathering, starveling, tolerating, trailering, tramelling, trammeling, travelling, trigeminal, ulcerating, ungainlier, unlearning, unraveling, urogenital, velarizing, waveringly, yearningly.

 

+4 letters: altercating, alternating, apparelling, archangelic, archegonial, arrestingly, banteringly, beclamoring, bedraggling, beglamoring, belabouring, berascaling, bioregional, calendaring, calendering, callipering, caressingly, cartelising, cartelizing, cavaliering, celebrating, centrifugal, cliffhanger, correlating, darlingness, degradingly, dragonflies, egalitarian, elaborating, elutriating, embracingly, embrangling, endearingly, enthralling, equiangular, espaliering, everlasting, falteringly, farewelling, farthingale, filagreeing, fingernails, fireballing, firewalling, flagrancies, freelancing, freeloading, gallantries, gallinipper, galvanizers, generalised, generalises, generalists, generalized, generalizer, generalizes, generalship, generically, glaringness, glengarries, glycerinate, gracileness, grainfields, grandiosely, granitelike, greenmailed, greenmailer, highlanders, impregnable, impregnably, infrangible, ingrainedly, integrality, interlacing, interlaying, ladyfingers, languishers, lateralling, lavendering, lawbreaking, legendarily, legerdemain, legionaries, legionnaire, libertinage, linearising, linearizing, lipreadings, lowercasing, malingerers, malingering, maltreating, marbleising, marbleizing, marginalize, martingales, meliorating, mineralogic, misaltering, mislearning, misrelating, nightwalker, nonallergic, nonintegral, organizable, outlearning, overcalling, overhauling, overlapping, overleaping, overloading, overplaying, oversalting, overtalking, overvaluing, panegyrical, paralleling, pelargonium, percolating, plaistering, plantigrade, plasterings, praelecting, preachingly, precleaning, preclearing, preplanning, preplanting, quarrelling, quaveringly, racewalking, realignment, reallotting, reanalyzing, reassailing, rebalancing, refrangible, regimentals, regionalism, regionalist, regionalize, regulations, reinflating, relabelling, relaunching, relegations, reluctating, repanelling, replicating, rereleasing, retailoring, retaliating, revaluating, revealingly, rewardingly, ringleaders, rosemalings, sanderlings, screamingly, searchingly, seigneurial, serialising, serializing, singularize, splattering, starvelings, subregional, talebearing, trailerings, trammelling, triangulate, trigeminals, umbrellaing, underlaying, unfaltering, unignorable, unravelling, vainglories, verbalizing, vernalizing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ENGRAIL


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

45 4E 47 52 41 49 4C

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)

.    -.    --.    .-.    .-    ..    .-..

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

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

01000101 01001110 01000111 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#78 &#71 &#82 &#65 &#73 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004E 0047 0052 0041 0049 004C

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

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

39484152354346

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INDEX

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


  

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