| AGNAIL | • agnail n. (Obsolete) A corn or sore on the toe or finger. • agnail n. Torn skin near a toenail or fingernail. • AGNAIL n. a torn shred of skin beside the nail. |
| 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. |
| ALANGS | • ALANG n. (Malay) a coarse grass of the Malay peninsula, also LALANG. |
| ALNAGE | • alnage n. (Historical) Measurement (of cloth) by the ell, specifically, official inspection and measurement of… • alnage n. (Historical) A duty paid for such measurement. • ALNAGE n. cloth inspection, also AULNAGE. |
| 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. |
| ANLAGE | • anlage n. (Biology) A primordium, the initial clustering of embryonic cells from which a body part develops. • anlage n. (Genetics) An allele, a specific version of a gene (as used by Gregor Mendel). • anlage n. (Psychology) Temperament, the predominant personality type. |
| GALANT | • galant prop.n. (Music) Alternative form of Galant. • Galant prop.n. (Music) Principally during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, a few decades either… • GALANT n. (French) an 18th-century style of music characterized by homophony and elaborate ornamentation. |
| GALENA | • galena n. (Mineralogy) A mineral, lead sulphide (PbS), mined as an ore for lead. • galena n. (Medicine, obsolete) A remedy or antidote for poison; theriac. • Galena prop.n. A place name for a number of United States towns and cities. |
| LAGANS | • LAGAN n. goods thrown into the sea for future recovery, also LAGEND, LIGAN. |
| LAGENA | • lagena n. (Anatomy) The upper part of the cochlear duct. • lagena n. (Anatomy) A similar structure, shaped like a flask, that is a hearing organ in some vertebrates. • lagena n. (Historical) A wine-vase; an amphora. |
| LAGUNA | • Laguna prop.n. A province of the Philippines. Capital: Santa Cruz. Largest city: Calamba. • LAGUNA n. (Italian) a shallow body of water, also LAGOON, LAGUNE. |
| LALANG | • lalang n. (Malaysia) Imperata cylindrica, a panicoid grass. • LALANG n. (Malay) a coarse grass of the Malay archipelago, also ALANG. |
| LANGAR | • langar n. (Countable) A public eating-place in South Asia, now especially a communal kitchen run by a Sikh community… • langar n. (Uncountable) The free food served at such a place. • LANGAR n. (Punjabi) a dining hall in a Sikh place of worship. |
| MANGAL | • mangal n. A mangrove swamp or ecosystem. • mangal n. A Middle Eastern-style barbecue (cookout), or the barbecue (grill; cooking apparatus) it is cooked on. • Mangal prop.n. A surname. |
| RAGLAN | • raglan adj. (Of a sleeve) Being or having a kind of sleeve that continues in one piece up to the neck of a garment… • raglan n. An overcoat with sleeves of this type. • Raglan prop.n. A village and castle in Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4107). |