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Definitions: Agile |
AgileAdjective1. 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) |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AGILE | English | Anti-Guerilla Insurgency Light Equipment | Military & Defense |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Agile programming language."
Synonyms: AgileSynonyms: nimble (adj), quick (adj), spry (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Agile |
| English words defined with "agile": agilely, agouti ♦ bandicoot, bush baby, bushbaby ♦ caprine animal ♦ Dasyprocta aguti, deinonychus ♦ galago, Genet, Genetta genetta, goat ♦ Ibizan hound, Ibizan Podenco ♦ mangabey, marten, marten cat, mongoose ♦ nimble, nimbly ♦ Oryzomys palustris ♦ polo pony ♦ quick, Quick with child ♦ rice rat ♦ scincid, scincid lizard, skink, spry ♦ Ungka-puti ♦ whiptail, whiptail lizard, Wou-wou. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "agile": Goats ♦ Mongooses. (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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Movie/TV Titles | Picasso at the Lapin Agile (2003) | |
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| 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. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We need to replace aging aircraft and make our military more agile, to put our troops anywhere in the world quickly and safely. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 154 | 25,326 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Agile Software Corp. Delaware |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "agile": have an agile mind. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "agile": agile-thinking. | |
Ending with "agile": frequency-agile, none-too-agile. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 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) 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) 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) lùthmhor (able, powerful, supple), cliste (expert, nimble, swift). (various references) 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) ágil (able, adroit, clever, deft, dexterous, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nifty, nimble, nippy, proficient, quick, skillful, spry, zappy). (various references) vig (lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nimble). (various references) 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) зalasyn (quick). (various references) 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) nhanh nhẹn (alert, alive, crispy, dapper, spry, tripping), nhanh nhẩu (breezy, brisk), lẹ l ng, lanh lợi (clever, cute, sharp-witted, subtle). (various references) sionc (active, brisk, nimble), heini (active, brisk, lively, nimble), gwisgi (brisk, lively, nimble, ripe), chwim (nimble, quick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | agitati, bernice, celeres, celerius. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | revîm. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "agile": agilely. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "agile": fragile, unagile, vagile. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "agile" (pronounced a"jul) |
| 4 | a" j u l | fragile. |
| 3 | -j u l | angel, Archangel, cordial, cudgel, vigil. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 67 69 6C 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- --. .. .-.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100111 01101001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A g i l e |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3573757871 |
| 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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