| ADAGIO | • adagio n. (Music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully. • adagio n. (Music) A passage having this mark. • adagio n. (Dance) A male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts. |
| AGONAL | • agonal adj. Of or pertaining to struggle, competition or conflict; of or pertaining to an agon. • agonal adj. Of or pertaining to the pain of death. • AGONAL adj. relating to agon, the dramatic conflict between the chief characters in a literary work. |
| AGORAE | • agorae n. Plural of agora. • AGORA n. a marketplace in ancient Greece. |
| AGORAS | • agoras n. Plural of agora. • AGORA n. a marketplace in ancient Greece. |
| AGOUTA | • agouta n. Alternative form of agouti. • AGOUTA n. a small insectivorous mammal, allied to the moles, found only in Haiti. |
| ALOGIA | • alogia n. A general lack of additional, unprompted content in normal speech, a common symptom of schizophrenia. • ALOGIA n. the inability to speak. |
| ANALOG | • analog adj. (Of a device or system) In which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly)… • analog adj. Not relating to, or pre-dating, digital technology such as computers and the Internet; relating to real life. • analog n. (Countable) Something that bears an analogy to something else. |
| ANGOLA | • Angola prop.n. A country in Southern Africa. • Angola prop.n. The Louisiana State Penitentiary. • Angola prop.n. An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. |
| ANGORA | • angora n. An angora cat. • angora n. A goat of a domesticated breed that produces mohair. • angora n. A rabbit belonging to the Angora rabbit breed, one of the oldest domestic breeds of rabbits in the world… |
| ASIAGO | • asiago n. A hard Italian cheese similar to parmesan. • Asiago prop.n. A township near Vicenza in the Veneto, Italy. • ASIAGO n. (Italian) a type of Italian cheese. |
| DAGOBA | • dagoba n. A stupa. • DAGOBA n. (Sinhalese) a Buddhist memorial shrine, also DAGABA. |
| GALAGO | • galago n. Any of several species of small, nocturnal and arboreal African primates, of the genus Galago, with… • Galago prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Galagidae – the bushbabies or nagapies. • GALAGO n. (Wolof) a kind of African lemur. |
| GAZABO | • gazabo n. (Slang, derogatory) guy, fellow. • GAZABO n. a fellow. |
| GOANNA | • goanna n. Any of various monitor lizards native to Australia. • goanna n. (Australia, rhyming slang) A piano. • GOANNA n. a large monitor lizard. |
| LAOGAI | • laogai n. The use of prison labor and prison farms in the People’s Republic of China. • LAOGAI n. (Chinese) the system of forced labor camps in China. |
| OARAGE | • oarage n. (Archaic) The act of using oars; rowing. • oarage n. (Archaic, poetic) A sweeping motion that resembles rowing. • oarage n. Equipment used for rowing. |
| ORGANA | • organa n. Plural of organum. • ORGANON n. (Greek) a system of rules for scientific investigation, also ORGANUM. |
| PAGODA | • pagoda n. A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu… • pagoda n. (Now rare, usually in form pagod) An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol. • pagoda n. (Now historical) A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in… |
| TAONGA | • taonga n. (New Zealand) In Maori culture, any treasured thing, whether tangible or intangible. • TAONGA n. (Maori) treasure, something highly prized. |