Handle

Definition: Handle

Handle

Noun

1. The appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it.

Verb

1. Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old".

2. Interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently".

3. Deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China".

4. Touch, lift, or hold with the hands.

5. Handle effectively; "The burglar wielded an axe".

6. Hold and move repeatedly.

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

Date "handle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Computing

Electrical Engineering

Engineering & Technology

Geography

Industry

Language

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Metallurgy

Slang in 1811

Sports & Leisure

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

Synonyms: Handle

Conduct

Deal with, have to do with; treat, handle a case; take steps, take measures.

Direction

Take the helm, be at the helm; have the reins, handle the reins, hold the reins, take the reins; drive, tool.

Dissertation

Verb: expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject, descant upon a subject, write upon a subject, touch upon a subject; treat a subject, treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject, take up a subject, ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject.

Dissuasion

Verb: pretend, plead, allege; shelter oneself under the plea of; excuse; (vindicate); lend a color to; furnish a handle; Noun: make a pretext of, make a handle of; use as a plea; Noun: take one's stand upon, make capital out of, pretend; (lie).

Handle, peg to hang on, room locus standi; stalking-horse, cheval de bataille, cue.

Excitability

Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.

Instrument

Handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm, treadle, key; turnscrew, screwdriver; knocker.

Nomenclature

Style, proper name; praenomen, agnomen, cognomen; patronymic, surname; cognomination; eponym; compellation, description, antonym; empty name; handle to one's name; namesake.

Smoothness

Phrase: smooth as silk;Phrase: smooth as silk; slippery as coonshit on a pump handle; slippery as a greased pig.

Title

Highness, excellency, grace; lordship, worship; reverence, reverend; esquire, sir, master, Mr., signor, se$or, Mein Herr, mynheer; your honor, his honor; serene highness; handle to one's name.

Touch

Verb: touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.

Use

Render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of.

Ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try.

Vindication

Verb: justify, warrant; be an excuse; n.for; lend a color, furnish a handle; vindicate; exculpate, disculpate; acquit; clear, set right, exonerate, whitewash; clear the skirts of.

Violence

Explode, make a row, kick up a row; boil, boil over; fume, foam, come on like a lion, bluster, rage, roar, fly off the handle, go bananas, go ape, blow one's top, blow one's cool, flip one's lid, hit the ceiling, hit the roof; fly into a rage (anger).

Crosswords: Handle

Danish (do business, negotiate, trade).

See the way the handle on her pruning shears matches her gardening clogs (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

I think we can handle one little girl (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Milo, baby, lemme handle this one, eh (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

This is how we handle things down in Toontown (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price)

I trust you can handle this contraption, Q (Octopussy; writing credit: George MacDonald Fraser)

DO I HANDLE MY BUISNESS (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

'Cause you can't handle me (I'm Outta Love; performing artist: Anastacia; writing credit: Anastacia Newkirk, Sam Watters, Louis Biancaniello)

See I don't know if I can handle you as just a friend (Rock Wit U(Awww Baby); performing artist: ASHANTI)

Tell me can you handle it (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K)

Too hot to handle, baby (Cruel Summer; performing artist: Bananarama)

Life is fragile, handle with prayer. (references; author: unknown)

I used to have a handle on life, but it broke. (references; author: unknown)

I know God won't give me more than I can handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much. (references; author: unknown)

Handle with Care (1965)

Too Hot to Handle (1959)

Handle with Care (1955)

Part 4: Handle with Care: From Compound to Aircraft Aviation Fuel Handling (1954)

Too Hot to Handle (1950)

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

Books

• Japanese Cultural Encounters and How to Handle Them (reference)

• My First Bible in Pictures (no handle) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Buitenlandse Handle - Dutch Edition (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hard to Handle - Bob Dylan with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (reference)

• Too Hot to Handle (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Clarke-Boland Big Band: Handle With Care (reference)

• Too Hot to Handle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• VANGUARD MK-3 Mid-Size Tripod with Carrying Handle (reference)

• DOUBLE HANDLE COMPUTER BAG (reference)

• Port Inc. 2.1 Series 1680 Commuter Carry Case with Ergon Handle (Black) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Le Creuset 12-Inch Skillet with Iron Handle, Black (reference)

• Le Creuset 2-Quart Saucepan with Iron Handle, White (reference)

• DeWalt DW321KK Heavy Duty Variable Speed Top Handle Jig Saw Kit with 25 Blades a $40.00 Value (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Some manipulator arms have tactile feedback and can handle delicate items. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Col. Hank Morrow, commander of the 149th Fighter Wing, Texas Air National Guard, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, wears the new Libelle anti-gravity flight-suit that should improve a pilot's ability to handle the latest generation of high-performance jet airc.

A bowl of berries is a treat for the eye as well as a delight for the palate. But these tasty little morsels happen to be quite tricky to grow, harvest, and handle. These crops tend to have brief growing seasons and are vulnerable to insects, disease, and even birds, so ARS scientists have given them lots of attention. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Jug Handle Arch along the Potash Road near Moab, Utah. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Rock-handling Process (1908). Measured drawing delineated by Richard K. Anderson, Jr., 1978. (Reproduction Number: HAER, MI-2, sheet 18 of 34) Like many copper-mining operations on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Quincy Mining Company depended on complex processes such as the one illustrated in this HAER drawing to handle the copper and rock blasted from mines. At the company's No. 2 mine, the Shaft-Rockhouse separated the copper and rock mechanically into three distinct groups: "mass" copper (pure ore), poor rock containing little or no copper ore, and ore-rich rock and chunks larger than twenty inches. Once separated, the mass copper was shipped directly to smelters via the Great Lakes, the poor rock was crushed for use in road construction, and the material in the third group was crushed before shipment to smelters. Credit: Library of Congress.

[Needles and handle for suturing]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

FRAGILE Handle With Care : When you're angry, don't shake your baby...reach for help. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Specialist (Y) 2nd Class Janna Hoffman (with microphone) and Specialist (Y) Helen Lu Dooley (with telephone) handle control tower duties, circa 1944-45. The Specialist (Y) rating represented the occupation of Control Tower Operator. Credit: NAVY.

Dr. H. B. Stewart of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, on the left, viewing the tractor winch component of the ship's deep-sea winch during installation in around late 1959. Note the numerous turns of the wire around the two drums of this winch that were necessary to give the device enough traction to handle its designed 40,000 pound load. Credit: NAVY.

Sir Arthur took it up by the handle. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

When he turned the handle round, The man fell fainting to the ground

At the same time he extended his arm, and laid upon the naked flesh the glowing chisel, which he held in his right hand, by the, wooden handle.

Little wells of tea lay here and there on the board and a knife with a broken ivory handle was stuck through the pith of a ravaged turnover

On the sink shelf lay an old beer opener and a broken fork with its wooden handle gone

Her knives were twice as long as a scythe set straight upon the handle.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Handle food properly. (references)

You may even be able to handle higher doses of certain treatments. (references)

If an animal bites your pet, handle your pet carefully so you do not get bitten. (references)

Business

Private ports today handle 85 percent of bulk cargo. (references)

Exclusive distributors usually handle 2-3 foreign brands. (references)

Port facilities are computerized to handle cargo, rapidly. (references)

Children

Taiwan

In 1999 the first juvenile court was established in Kaohsiung to handle criminal cases. (references)

Indonesia

Ordinary courts handle juvenile crime, and juveniles often are imprisoned with adult offenders. (references)

Pakistan

The Commission of Inquiry for Women has observed that child sexual abuse is a subject that "has been virtually ignored," and called for a public education campaign on the subject, including introducing it into school curriculums and training nurses and doctors in how to handle such cases. (references)

Civil Liberties

Czech Republic

No independent body has been established to handle the appeals of those denied refugee status. (references)

Australia

He found that poor supervision at Woomera had enabled a minority of guards to handle detainees in a humiliating or verbally abusive manner. (references)

Greece

In contrast Greek Orthodox officials have an institutionalized link between the church hierarchy and the Ministry of Education and Religion to handle administrative matters. (references)

Economic History

Chile

Private agencies handle most advertising. (references)

Pakistan

Private traders handle all exports of rice. (references)

Philippines

Distributors handle after-sales service support. (references)

Human Rights

Jamaica

Three courts handle criminal matters at the trial level. (references)

Russia

These judges handle a variety of civil cases as well as criminal cases. (references)

Botswana

These courts handle minor offenses involving land, marital, and property disputes. (references)

Indigenous People

Colombia

Traditional Indian authority boards operate some 545 reserves; the boards handle national or local funds and are subject to fiscal oversight by the national Comptroller General. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

Special courts, on which both military and civilian judges sit, handle most security-related cases. (references)

NIGERIA

Establishment of specialized courts to handle intellectual property rights issues is being considered. (references)

Political Rights

Belgium

The linguistic community councils handle matters more directly affecting the mental and cultural well-being of the individual, such as education and the administration of certain social welfare programs. (references)

Trade

Spain

Airlines may handle the inspection of air shipments. (references)

Argentina

We recommend that an agent or distributor handle this process. (references)

Travel

Indonesia

They depend largely on the local telephone exchange's capacity to handle traffic. (references)

Senegal

Some local banks operate Automatic Teller Machines, which handle MasterCard, Visa and Cirrus cards. (references)

Singapore

Most agents/distributors have visited the United States and often handle several U.S. product lines. (references)

Women

Bolivia

The Family Violence Units of the police handle crimes of domestic violence and physical and/or sexual abuse against women and children. (references)

Taiwan

The authorities fund domestic violence hot lines, which also handle calls for assistance from victims of sexual assault and child abuse. (references)

Mozambique

In 2000 police commanders from the Maputo area held a seminar on domestic violence, where they were instructed to handle such cases as criminal matters. (references)

Worker Rights

Vanuatu

In the public sector, the Public Service Commission would handle violations. (references)

Malawi

The police and the Ministry of Gender, Youth, and Community Services handle any cases that arise. (references)

Russia

In September the Government established a Moscow Labor Arbitration Court to handle the increasing number of labor violations registered each year. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "handle": ax handle ♦ axe handle ♦ be made a handle of ♦ binding handle ♦ broom handle ♦ crank handle ♦ Cross handle ♦ door handle ♦ easy to handle ♦ fly off the handle ♦ give a handle to calumny ♦ grab handle ♦ grip handle ♦ hammer handle ♦ handle a subject ♦ handle bar ♦ handle of a knife ♦ handle of a tool ♦ handle oneself ♦ handle roughly ♦ handle smb. tactfully ♦ handle smb. with care ♦ handle smb. with velvet gloves ♦ handle to one's name ♦ handle well ♦ handle with care ♦ handle with care! ♦ handle with kid gloves ♦ handle without mittens ♦ hoe handle ♦ knife handle ♦ Ladder handle ♦ lend a handle to calumny ♦ make a handle of ♦ mop handle ♦ pump handle ♦ rake handle ♦ rough handle ♦ spade handle ♦ star handle ♦ starting handle ♦ To give a handle ♦ To handle without gloves ♦ To handle without mittens ♦ tool handle. Additional references.

Beginning with "handle": handle-bar, handle-bars, handle-bit, handle-free, handle-operated, handle-shaped, handle-sliding, handle-width.

Ending with "handle": door-handle, pick-handle, Sword-handle.

Containing "handle": basket-handle arch.

Afrikaans

hanteer (manipulate), behandel (care for, cure, deal, deal with, discuss, treat). (various references)

Albanian

rast (case, chance, circumstance, event, happening, instance, matter, occasion, piece, place, possibility, scope), dorëz (cueist, ear, selector), dorezë (butt, crook, glove, grip, gripe, griping, haft, handgrip, joystick, knob, stock, tommy bar), kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang), lëviz me dorë (manhandle), manovrohet, merrem me (address oneself to, engage, engage in, follow, look after, see to, settle down to), mundësi (capability, capacity, chance, eventuality, ingress, likelihood, look in, odds, opportunity, possibility, potential, potentiality, power, presumption, probability, scope, space, wherewithal), bisht (crook, fag end, flagellum, prat, queue, scape, stalk, stem, stub, tail, tail end, tip, train), prek (adjoin, affect, attack, brush, feel, graze, hit, hurt, move, palpate, penetrate, reach, rub, touch, touch on, touch upon), zë (bar, begin, block out, calk, catch, caulk, clog, close, engage, find, have, hold, knead, occupy, part, plug up, seize, shut out, sound, take, tie up, voice), reagon, shes (bargain away, barter away, betray, dispose of, flog, market, negotiate, realize, sell, vend), sillem (behave, comport, conduct oneself, demean, deport, deport oneself, do, move about, perform, Potter, quit, walk), titull (appellation, caption, degree, designation, dignity, heading, name, rubric, title), trajtoj (attend, reckon in, touch, treat), tregtoj (deal, trade, vend), u bëj ballë situatave, vegjë (cannon, ear, hand-loom, hanger, loom, lug), ofiq (appointment, duty, nickname, office, post). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممسك (cleat, holder, inlet, stop), ‏مقبض الة, ‏مقبض (grasp, grip, grip handle, haft, handgrip, inlet, lever, lug, panhandle, power outlet, shaft, shank, socket, squeeze, stick), ‏مس (befall, contact, feel, finger, graze, impinge, palpate, tip, touch, twiddle), ‏ناور (jockey, manage, maneuver, manoeuvre, shunt), ‏لمس (fell, finger, perceive, sense, touch), ‏قام ب (do, encompass, sit in, transact), ‏قاد (carry, command, conduct, direct, drive, drove, govern, guide, head, helm, induct, introduce, lead, lead in, lead up to, marshal, mastermind, navigate, officer, orientate, pilot, preside, run, see out, shepherd, show, show out, steer, take the lead, usher), ‏تاجر ب, ‏عامل بطريقة خاصة, ‏عالج موضوعا (exhaust, expatiate), ‏عالج (address, cover, cure, deal, debug, doctor, dose, fix, heal, manage, medicine, pack, process, rectify, remedy, treat), ‏عروة (tab, tag), ‏ذراع رافعة. (various references)

Basque

girten (haft). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оперирам (operate), изпълнявам (accomplish, accord, act up to, carry into effect, carry out, complete, effectuate, execute, exercise, fill, fulfil, fulfill, implement, make up, perform, play, practise, pursue, put into effect, put through, redeem, satisfy, verify), име (appellation, appellative, denomination, designation, fame, name, rating, record, title), пипам (feel, filch, interfere, meddle, paw, touch, trifle), повод (cause, ground, halter, motive, occasion, peg, reason, rein, room, signal, subject), предлог (excuse, plea, preposition, pretence, pretense, pretext), прякор (alias, by name, cognomen, epithet, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet, surname), боравя с (manage), занимавам се с (address oneself to, engage in, go in for, occupy, prosecute, run on, see about, see to, treat), манипулирам с (manipulate), дръжка (arm, bail, ear, grip, gripe, haft, handgrip, helve, hold, lever, peduncle, petiole, pull, shank, stem, stock), опипвам (feel, feel about, finger, fumble, grope), управлявам (administer, administrate, con, direct, fly, govern, guide, helm, keel, manage, navigate, operate, rule, run, superintend, take), оправям се с, обслужвам (cater for, maintain, service, tend, valet, wait on, wait upon), отнасям се с (serve, use), третирам (serve, treat, use), търгувам с (traffic, transact), работя с (manage), разглеждам (analyse, analyze, bolt, canvass, consider, do, eye, hear, look through, oversee, regard, scan, see, see into, see over, take up, treat, view), ръкохватка (stock), ръчка (ear, grip, gripe, helve, lever, rein, tiller, tommy bar), справям се с (account for, cope with, cut, dispose of, hack, meet, reckon with, touch), маневрирам (jockey, maneuver, manoeuvre, shunt). (various references)

Chinese 

把柄 . (various references)

Czech

ouško, řídit (administrate, conduct, control, direct, drive, fly, govern, guide, head, keep, lead, manage, manoeuvre, navigate, operate, order, pilot, preside, regulate, steer, supervise, wield), řešit (deal with), dotýkat se (affect, concern, touch, touch upon), dotknout se (offend, touch, upset), držadlo (grip, holder, shaft, strap), jílec (hilt, sword-hilt), klièka (hitch, kink), klika (clique, crank, door handle, in-group, ring), kontrolovat (audit, check, control, examine, inspect, monitor, oversee, police, rein, screen), šlechtický přídomek, násada (butt, haft, helve, stick), zacházet s, ovládat (command, control, dominate, govern, manage, overmaster, possess, sway, tutor, wield), páka (lever), prodávat (carry, flog, market, sell, stock, vend), rameno (beam, branch, leg, shoulder), střenka, ucho (ear, eye, lug), vahadlo (yoke), záminka (blind, excuse, pretense, pretext), zabývat se (follow up), manipulovat (fix, manipulate). (various references)

Danish

behandle (care for, cure, deal, deal with, discuss, treat). (various references)

Dutch

kruk (crank, crutch, stool), handvat (knob, tongs), steel (barrel, channel, knob, pipe, stalk, stem, tube), oor (ear, tongs), manipuleren (manipulate), klink (bolt, catch, click, jack, latch, lever latch, pawl, phone jack, pin, rack element, ratchet, socket, telephone jack), hengsel, behandelen (care for, cure, deal, deal with, discuss, treat). (various references)

Esperanto

trakti (deal with, treat), tenilo (knob), manipuli (manipulate), fingrumi (finger), anso. (various references)

Faeroese

honk (knob), handtak (knob), handfara (deal, deal with, treat), hødda, viðgera (deal, deal with, treat), tingast (deal, deal with, treat), klinka (rivet, solder), fara við (deal, deal with, treat). (various references)

Farsi 

لمس , قبضه شمشیر, وسیله (Appliance, Inducement, Instrument, Instrumental, Makeshift, Medium, Organ, Recourse, Resource), سروکارداشتن با (Deal, Treat, Truck), احساس بادست , استعمال کردن (Apply, Employ, Exercise), رفتارکردن (Act, Behave, Demean, Treat), دسته گذاشتن , دسته (A, Administration, Army, Batch, Covey, Detachment, Hand, Helm, Hilt, Horde, Host, Ilk, Parcel, Party, School, Sect, Section, Set, Shaft, Sheaf, Shog, Skein, Squad, Stack, Stem, Stud, Team, Usurer), دست زدن به (Touch), بکاربردن (Apply, Exert, Put, Use). (various references)

Finnish

kädensija (knob). (various references)

French

traiter, manier, toucher (hand), poignée (grip handle, haft, handful, handgrip), manivelle, manipuler (haul), manche (haft), anse. (various references)

German

griff (butt, chord, clasp, clutch, feel, fingering, grab, grasp, grasping, grip, gripe, haft, head, hilt, hold, knob, snatch, taking hold, talon, tongs, touching), behandeln (attend to, care for, cure, deal, deal with, discussed, doctor, dress, medicate, process, serve, to attend, to handle, to treat, treat, use), stiel (blade, broomstick, helve, knob, peduncle, petiole, shaft, shank, stalk, stem, stud), heft (book, booklet, comic, exercise book, exercise-book, folder, grip, haft, hilt, issue, knob, magazine, notebook, number), handhaben (implement, manage, manipulate, operate, to handle, to operate, wield, work), verarbeiten (assimilate, consume, digest, overcome, process, to process, treat, use, work), knauf (head, knob, pommel), henkel (tongs), hebel (crowbar, hand gear, lever, levers), Handgriff (grip, hand grip, handgrip, handhole, manipulation, n.), bearbeiten (adapt, arrange, badger, belabor, bludgeon, cultivate, dress, edit, hew, hewed, machine, process, revise, shape, to edit, tool, treat, work, work on). (various references)

Greek 

χερούλι (knob), χειρίζομαι (go about, manage, manipulate, operate, wield), λαβή (clutch, grip, haft, heft, knob, lug, pommel, pummel). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחזק (grip, holder), מאחז (grasp, grip), ידית (grip, haft, lug, shaft), למשמש (examine, feel, finger, manipulate, rummage, touch), לנגוע ביד, קת (butt, haft, shaft), אזן (ear, lug), אחז (grasp, grip), כף (palm, scale, sole, sole of foot, spoon), בית יד (glove, sleeve), בית אחיזה (ear of a vessel). (various references)

Hungarian

nyél (grip, haft, helve, hilt, mounting, pile, pole, shaft, shank, stave, stele, stem, stock), kar (arm, chorus, faculty, faculty of arts, hand, lever, pinion, quire, school, wing), fogantyú (arm, crank, ear, grip, haft, handhold, holder, horn, knob, lever, loop, pull). (various references)

Indonesian

pegangan (banister, catch, clutch, grip, knob), menangani, memperlakukan (treat), garan, gagang (spadix, stalk, stem). (various references)

Italian

maniglia (doorknob, pull, strap), manico (arm, crank, grip, haft, helve, hilt, knob, neck, shaft), trattare (bargain, be, be a question, cure, deal, deal in, deal with, discuss, machinate, negotiate, process, talk over, transact, treat), manovella (crank, winch), manopola (gantlet, gauntlet, grip, knob, mitt), impugnatura (butt, grasp, grip, haft, hilt). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

弦 (bow string, chord, string). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ハンドル (steering wheel), ひきて (catch, knob, patron, performer or player), さばき (break, deal with, decision, dispose of, drain, flow off, judgment, sell, tear, tribunal, verdict), つる (bow string, chord, crane, string, to be cramped, to contract, to cramp, to fish, to hang), にぎり (grip), げん (bow string, chord, fundamental, not to be touched, original, primary, primitive, raw, remark, serious, statement, string, word), はしゅ (grip, knob, planting, seeding, sowing), とって (grip, knob), え (bay, depending on, drawing, -fold, grip, inlet, painting, picture, -ply, sketch, type of beefsteak plant, understanding). (various references)

Korean 

손잡이 (knobs). (various references)

Manx

stiurey (captain as team; guidance, captain; guidance, command, control, controllability, direct, direction, guide, handling, helm, lead, manage, manipulate, manipulation, navigate, navigation, pilot, piloting, regulate, regulation, rudder, steer, steering, superintendence, supervise, supervision), shout (wooden beam), obbraghey (act, action, behaviour, behaviour of machines, crew, cultivate, elaboration, employment, exercise, forge, function, handling, influence, labour, motion, operate, operation, performance, ply, process, start, wangle; persuance, work, work up, wreak), illish, freayll rick er (oversee), cass doarnane. (various references)

Norwegian

hank, håndtere, håndtak, behandle. (various references)

Occitan

margue (haft). (various references)

Papiamen

trata (deal, deal with, treat). (various references)

Pig Latin

andlehay.(various references)

Portuguese

punho (duke, fist, grasp, grip, haft, handgrip, handhold, knob, wrist), cabo (bight, cable, cape, cord, corporal, end, flex, foreland, grip, gripe, guy, hand, headland, helve, hilt, hokum, hook, hub, knob, leg pull, naze, non-com, non-commissioned officer, preventer, rope, stock, tail), trinco (click, latch), manipular (confection, manhandle, manipulate, prepare), manejar (carry, do without, drag out, lug, manage, manipulate, pull, sway, wield), asa (ear, knob, wing), apalpar (feel, finger, fumble, grope, palp, paw, touch), alça (gunsight, ring, sight, strap). (various references)

Romanian

manşã (club), coadã (brush, pigtail, queue, rear, shaft, shank, staff, stalk, stem, tail, trail, train, tress), coarbã (wimble), conduce (accompany, administer, be in command, boss, boss the show, captain, carry on, charge, command, conduct, control, convey, direct, drive, escort, govern, guide, head, husband, lead, lead the way, manage, master, operate, order, overrule, pilot, preside, restrain, rule, run, sail, see, see off, show, show up, steer, superintend, supervise, take, wield), cotor (butt, haft, helve, stock, stub), face comerţ (deal in, sell, truck), lua în mânã (take up), mâner (gripe, haft, handgrip, helve, hilt, knob, lever, lug, shaft), atinge cu mâna, mãnunchi (bunch, bundle, cluster, fascicle, head, knot, lock, pack, sheaf, truss, wisp), ureche (audition, ear, eye, hearing, loop, strap), manevra (crank, manipulate, manoeuvre, run, sail, scheme, switch, work), manipula (control, juggle, key, manipulate, manoeuvre, operate, prove), manivelã (crank, lug, winch), mijloc (center, centre, depth, instrumentality, mean, means, medium, method, middle, midst, resource, thick, vehicle, waist, way), pipãi (feel, fondle, touch), pretext (blind, color, colour, cover, excuse, ground, guise, mask, occasion, pretence, pretext, veil), toartã (bail, ear, hook, lug, shackle), trata (argue, attend, back a bill, banquet, cover, deal, discourse, discuss, doctor, entertain, negotiate, nurse, physic, regale, serve, style, treat, use, work), mânui (manage, manipulate, operate, prove, sway, wield). (various references)

Russian 

удобный случай (opportunity), ручка (arm, grip, haft, holder, knob, lug, pen, penholder, pud, pud 1, shaft, stick, stock), рукоять (grip), рукоятка (control lever, grasp, grip, haft, handgrip, handhold, hilt, holder, lever, stele, stick, tiller), трогать (affect, finger, move, palm, paw, reach, tamper, touch), вручение (commitment, committal, delivery), обращаться (allocute, apostrophize, appeal, apply, approach, circulate, plead, recur, refer, treat), обходиться (cost, deal, make shift, treat), оперировать ручка, брать руками, делать руками. (various references)

Scottish

meuraich, laimhsich, bean (meddle, nf. g. mnatha; d. mnaoi; v. bhean; pl. mnathan; g.pl., touch, wife, woman). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rukovati (maneuver, manipulate, manoeuvre, operate, wield), ručica (crank, lever), drška (grip, haft, handgrip, helve, hilt, stem), baratati (manage). (various references)

Spanish

asa (ASA, bail, ear, handgrip, merry-thought), tratar (attend, behave towards, carry, deal, deal with, doctor, let up, like, process, to treat, treat, try on, walk over), palanca (bar, crowbar, hand gear, handgrip, influence, lever, leverage, levers, prise, prize, pry, pull, purchase, springboard, stockade, toggle), manubrio (crank, handgrip, handlebar), manivela (crank, handgrip, wind), manija (handgrip), mango (haft, handgrip, helve, holder, mango, shaft, shank, stock), empuñadura (grip, handgrip, hilt, start). (various references)

Swedish

handtag (butt, grip, helve, hilt, hold, lug, pull), vev (crank, winch), hantera (manage, manipulate, manoeuvre, manoevre, wield), handskas med (manage, treat), handha (administer, have charge of, manage). (various references)

Turkish

kıvırmak (angle, bend, contort, Crimp, crisp, crook, curl, curl up, do successfully, drape, enfold, entwine, entwist, fold, fold down, frill, frizz, frizzle, gauffer, goffer, gopher, have a command of, inflect, intwine, manage, meander, squirm, squirm out of, tuck, tuck in, tuck up, turn back, turn down, twist, wind, wind up), üstesinden gelmek (accomplish, come through, cope, dope, dope out, fix, get over, get the better of, go over big, hurdle, lick, overcome, polish off, surmount, tide over), başa çıkmak (cope, get over, help, overcome), dokunmak (affect, be intolerant of, clap, contact, disagree, feel, kiss, tip, touch), eğitmek (coach, condition, educate, school, teach, train), ele almak (approach, deal, go about, go around, go at, tackle), ele gelmek, eline almak, ellemek (feel, finger, grope, paw, play with, touch), geçinmek (earn a living, get along, get along with, getting on with, go along, make a living, make both ends meet, make out, manage, rub along, subsist, support oneself), işlemek (brake, brand, commit, cultivate, discourse, engrave, farm, ferry, forge, function, go, grave, hammer, indwell, instil, instill, operate, penetrate, perform, perpetrate, print, process, run, sink, sink into, stamp, strike, tame, till, travel, treat, work), çıkar yol (egress, expedience, expediency, out, solution, way out), imkân (chance, facility, feasibility, possibility, potentiality, the possible), yumuşacık olmak (be soft to the touch), kabza (grasp, haft, handgrip, hilt), kol (arm, branch, crank, embranchment, flipper, foreleg, limb, offset, ramification, rod, rounds, sleeve, stick, stolon, subsection, tappet, wing), kullanmak (apply, call forth, dispose, dispose of, draw on, drive, employ, engage, exert, exploit, harness, head, lay on, make use of, operate, pilot, ply, put account, ride, roll, run, take advantage of, turn to account, use, utilize, wield), kulp (bail, grip, handgrip, handhold, holder, lug, pretext), meşgul olmak (be at smth., be busy, be into, be occupied with doing, concern oneself, deal, engage in, occupy oneself, take up, weigh in, work, work away), olanak (facility, possibility, potentiality, scope, the possible), sap (butt, cauline, grip, haft, halm, handgrip, handhold, haulm, helve, hilt, lug, nut, peduncle, scape, shaft, shank, stag, stalk, stem, stick, Stipe, stock), tutacak (grab handle, handgrip, handhold, holder), vesile (means, peg, purchase), yol (angle, approach, Avenue, channel, cutting, expedient, gateway, itinerary, journey, meatus, outlet, path, road, route, tack, thoroughfare, trail, via, walk, way, weigh, wise), idare etmek (administer, administrate, bestride, boss, conduct, content oneself, control, direct, govern, guide, husband, look after, make both ends meet, make do, make it do, make out, make shift, manage, manipulate, mastermind, officer, quarterback, rein in, rub, rub along, rule, scrape along, spin out, steer, supervise). (various references)

Turkmen 

tutawaз (banister, railing), ellemek (touch). (various references)

Ukrainian

ручка (arm, haft, lug, penholder, stele), трактувати, торкатися (bear on, dab, palp, touch, touch on), нагода (chance, circumstance, occasion, opening), привід (alibi, cause, cloak, grievance, occasion, pretence, pretense, pretext, salvo, subject), припасовувати ручку, поводитися (act, bear oneself, behave, comport, conduct oneself, treat, walk), держак (haft, handgrip, helve, holder, shaft). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hết sức (all-fired, blooming, deadly, dogged, enourmously, extremely, fault, frightfuly, grossly, half, halves, highly, howling, hugely, immortally, jolly, mightily, mighty, out, precious, profound, sorely, thoroughly, thundering, unco), tay cầm (grasp, holder), không tự chủ được nữa, cán (haft, stock), đầy đủ (complete, completely, full, fully, plenary, replete, richly, sufficing, teetotal, tuberose, unabridged). (various references)

Welsh

troed (foot, leg), trin (battle, dress, till, transact, treat), trafod (discuss, transact), teimlo (feel, manipulate, touch), dwrn (fist, hilt, knob), dolen (bot, link, loop, ring), coes (leg, shank, stalk, stem), clust (ear), carn (cairn, haft, hilt, hoof). (various references)

gam, tag. (various references)

adtracta, adtractaverit, adtractent, adtrectavimus, ansa, ansae, ansam, ansas, capulus, contrecto, manicula, manubrio, pertractans, taxare, tentavit, tracta, tractabant, tractabunt, tractanda, tractandum, tractant, tractantem, tractare, tractaret, tractatu, tractaverat, tractaverunt, tractavi, tractemus. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "handle": handleable, handlebar, handlebars, handled, handleless, handler, handlers, handles, handless. (additional references)

Words ending with "handle": manhandle, mishandle, overhandle, panhandle, rehandle, stickhandle. (additional references)

Words containing "handle": chandler, chandleries, chandlers, chandlery, manhandled, manhandles, mishandled, mishandles, overhandled, overhandles, panhandled, panhandler, panhandlers, panhandles, rehandled, rehandles, stickhandled, stickhandler, stickhandlers, stickhandles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Handle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: andel, andle, chandel, haddle, Hadklu, hadle, hadlo, Hadnall, haedle, haidle, haldle, hande, Handell, handie, handlet, handls, handly, hanel, Hangle, hanple, hanslow, hantle, haodle, hardle, haudle, hawdle, Haydalla, hindel, hindge, hindle, hinle, hondle, hudnae, Hudnall, mandle, pandle, Sandle, vandle, wandle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eland, haled, laden, naled.

-2 letters: dahl, dale, deal, dean, dhal, elan, hade, haed, haen, hale, hand, head, heal, held, lade, land, lane, lead, lean, lend.

-3 letters: ale, and, ane, dah, dal, del, den, edh, eld, end, had, hae, hen, lad, lea, led, nae, nah.

-4 letters: ad, ae, ah, al, an, de, ed, eh, el.

+1 letter: handled, handler, handles, handsel, inhaled.

+2 letters: blanched, chandler, enhaloed, handbell, handheld, handlers, handless, handlike, handsels, hanseled, hardline, headland, headline, headlong, homeland, launched, longhead, lunkhead, nailhead, rehandle, shetland, unhailed, unhalved, unhealed, unlashed.

+3 letters: benchland, chandelle, chandlers, chandlery, channeled, chlordane, decathlon, enchilada, handbells, handhelds, handlebar, handseled, handwheel, hanselled, headlands, headlined, headliner, headlines, heartland, heathland, heralding, hobnailed, homelands, longheads, lunkheads, manhandle, mishandle, nailheads, panhandle, philander, planished, rehandled, rehandles, shetlands, unlatched, unleashed.