| BENIGHT | • benight v. (Chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached. • benight v. To darken; to shroud or obscure. • benight v. To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness. |
| ENLIGHT | • enlight v. (Archaic, transitive) To illuminate. • ENLIGHT v. to shed light on. |
| ETCHING | • etching n. (Uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid. • etching n. (Countable) The image created by this process. • etching v. Present participle of etch. |
| GAHNITE | • gahnite n. (Mineralogy) A rare mineral ZnAl2O4 in the spinel group. • GAHNITE n. (Swedish) a mineral, zinc spinel. |
| HEATING | • heating n. A system that raises the temperature of a room or building. Compare heater. • heating n. The act of making something hot. • heating adj. Causing heat. |
| HEFTING | • hefting v. Present participle of heft. • HEFT v. to lift up, feel the weight of. |
| HENTING | • henting v. Present participle of hent. • HENT v. (obsolete) to seize, take, also HEND. |
| LIGHTEN | • lighten v. (Transitive) To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate. • lighten v. (Intransitive) To become brighter or clearer; to brighten. • lighten v. (Intransitive, now rare) To flash lightning, to give off lightning. |
| NIGHEST | • nighest adj. (Archaic) superlative form of nigh: most nigh. • NIGH adj. near. |
| NIGHTED | • nighted adj. Dark; clouded. • nighted adj. Overtaken by night; belated. • nighted v. Simple past tense and past participle of night. |
| NIGHTIE | • nightie n. (Informal) A woman’s nightgown or nightdress for wearing to bed. • nightie phr. Alternative form of nighty (“good night”). • NIGHTIE n. a nightgown, also NIGHTY. |
| RIGHTEN | • righten v. (Transitive) To make right; correct. • righten v. (Transitive) To set right or upright; right. • RIGHTEN v. (archaic) to set right. |
| THEEING | • theeing v. Present participle of thee. • THEE v. to use the pronoun thee. |
| THEMING | • theming v. Present participle of theme. • theming n. The application of a theme. • THEME v. to plan according to a central subject. |
| TIGHTEN | • tighten v. (Transitive) To make tighter. • tighten v. (Intransitive) To become tighter. • tighten v. (Economics) To make money harder to borrow or obtain. |