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Magazine on recreational linguistics, logology and word play
Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics is a quarterly magazine on recreational linguistics, logology and word play. It was established by
Word_Ways
Words can be read horizontally and vertically
Agency. In Word Ways in August and November 2002, he published several squares found in this wordlist. The square below has been held by some word square
Word_square
Long word in the English language
or ideology that opposes disestablishment The word construction could be lengthened further in many ways, for example: antidisestablishmentarian-istically
Antidisestablishmentarianism (word)
Antidisestablishmentarianism_(word)
Puzzles, board games, or video games based on language
Puzzles Rebuses – picture puzzles representing a word Verbal arithmetic Word chain Word play Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics Gillespie
Word_game
1967 book by Dmitri Borgmann
Bigrams". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 8 (2): 89–93. Tilque, Dan (November 1992). "The End of the Word: J". Word Ways: The Journal
Beyond_Language
Unincorporated community in California, United States
21, 2016. Borgmann, Dmitri A. (February 1977). "At the Outer Limits". Word Ways. 10 (2). Morristown, NJ: A. Ross Eckler: 120. Archived from the original
Zzyzx,_California
Basic elements of language
A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often
Word
Word, phrase or sentence with no repeated letter
Isograms (Part 1)". Word Ways. "Isogram". dcode.fr. Retrieved 3 February 2020. Gooch, Rex (February 1998). "Isograms: the Sequel". Word Ways – via Digital Commons
Heterogram_(literature)
Longest English-language dictionary word
217. ISBN 978-0-19-968988-0. Cole, Chris (1989). "The Biggest Hoax". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. Archived from the original on
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Verbal Art (2010), p. 71. A. Ross Eckler: Leigh Mercer, Palindromist. In: Word Ways. Volume 24, Issue 3, 1991, Article 2, p. 131–138 [1]. Published in Notes
List of English palindromic phrases
List_of_English_palindromic_phrases
Case of an n-gram, where n is 2
"Initial Bigrams". Word Ways. 8 (2). Retrieved 11 September 2016. Corbin, Kyle (1989). "Double, Triple, and Quadruple Bigrams". Word Ways. 22 (3). Retrieved
Bigram
Rearrangement of letters in a word or phrase
An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once.
Anagram
Sequence that reads the same forwards and backwards
Cambridge University Press, p. 443, ISBN 978-0-521-51597-9, Zbl 1271.11073 Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. Greenwood Periodicals et al
Palindrome
Word processor
Microsoft Word, or simply Word, is a word processing program developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the original name
Microsoft_Word
Word composed of a single letter
"Matchbook Magazine: One-word poems", Word Ways, vol. 45, no 3, August 2012. David Morice, "The Joyce Holland Hoax", Word Ways, vol. 45, no 3, August 2012
One-letter_word
dictionaries include and omit different words. The length of a word may also be understood in multiple ways. Most commonly, length is based on orthography (conventional
Longest_word_in_English
through the intervention of negotiator Eric Schmertz" In a 1970 article in Word Ways, Ralph G. Beaman converts past participles ending -ed into nouns, allowing
List of the longest English words with one syllable
List_of_the_longest_English_words_with_one_syllable
1939 novel written without the letter "e"
pronouns, and many common words. An article in the linguistic periodical Word Ways said that 250 of the 500 most commonly used words in English were still
Gadsby_(novel)
Literary technique of rearranging text
Reality Studio. Rogers, Ben (February 1969). "Some Neglected Ways of Words". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 2 (1). Greenwood Periodicals:
Cut-up_technique
Type of poem
work of literature. Vocabularyclept poetry was first proposed in 1969 by Word Ways editor Howard Bergerson. He took his little-known 1944 poem "Winter Retrospect"
Vocabularyclept_poem
Wales Online. Eckler, Albert Ross (1969). "Word Ways". The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 7–8. Word Ways: 146. Smith, Patrick (22 January 2005). "Ask
Place names considered unusual
Place_names_considered_unusual
British recreational mathematician (1893–1977)
known for devising the palindrome "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!". Word Ways called him "a luxuriant source of verbal exotica and linguistic curiosa
Leigh_Mercer
1965 book by Dmitri Borgmann
book, Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought, and other topics were worked into Word Ways articles. "Word salad". TIME. Vol. 86, no. 12. September
Language_on_Vacation
Word created by error in a dictionary
A ghost word, also known as a phantom word, lexical ghost, or vox nihili, is a word published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference work
Ghost_word
Sentence composed of homonyms
2016. Eckler, A. Ross Jr. (November 2005). "The Borgmann Apocrypha". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 38 (4): 258–260. Archived from
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
German-American author and logologist (1927–1985)
Gardner, who got Borgmann the editorship of Word Ways—ever met him personally. His successors at Word Ways, Howard W. Bergerson and A. Ross Eckler, Jr
Dmitri_Borgmann
known after publication in Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics in August 1980. It is well illustrated by the word eodermdrome itself. Eodermdrome
Eodermdrome
American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)
Ross (2010) "Look Back!" Word Ways: Vol 43: Issue 3, Article 6 Farrell, Jeremiah (November 2020). "More Word Ways?". Word Ways. 53 (3): 4. Retrieved September
Martin_Gardner
Vulgar term
Cunt (/kʌnt/ ) is a vulgar word for the vulva in its primary sense, and it is used in a variety of ways, including as a term of disparagement. It is often
Cunt
Anagrams". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 6 (4): 195–197. Eckler, Jr., A. Ross (May 2010). "Howard Bergerson". Word Ways: The Journal
Palindromes_and_Anagrams
Word puzzle
Word Ways. 9 (1). Eckler, A. Ross. "-Gry Words in the OED". Word Ways, 25:4 (November 1992): 253–54. Francis, Darryl. "Some New -Gry Words". Word Ways
-gry_puzzle
Fictitious encyclopedia entry
Hughes (1939) Cohen, Philip M. (November 1976). "What's the Good Word?". Word Ways. 9 (4): 195–196. Archived from the original on August 11, 2010. Retrieved
Zzxjoanw
Written or spoken word game
"Ghosts word game". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 14 October 2021. "NPL Directory". The Enigma. National Puzzlers' League. "Ghostbusters", Word Ways, 1987
Ghost_(game)
Type of substitution cipher
of Cryptology (2007): 43. Newby, Peter. "Maggie Had A Little Pigpen." Word Ways 24.2 (1991): 13. Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna. The Theosophical Glossary
Pigpen_cipher
Tautological name
Cumbrian toponymy Francis, Darryl (2003). "The Debunking of Torpenhow Hill". Word Ways. 36 (1): 6–8. Mills, A. D. (1993). A Dictionary of English Place-Names
Torpenhow_Hill
Text containing all letters of the alphabet in order
"Kickshaws". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 13 (3): 175–186. Eckler, A. Ross Jr. (May 2010). "Howard Bergerson". Word Ways: The Journal
Panalphabetic_window
free dictionary. Eckler, A. Ross (1976). "Must You Join the Queue?". Word Ways. 9 (2): 113–115. Archived from the original on August 2, 2010. Retrieved
List of English words containing Q not followed by U
List_of_English_words_containing_Q_not_followed_by_U
Mechanical device for typing characters
design. Francis, Darryl (1 November 2015). "AZERTY & QWERTZ keyboards". Word Ways. 48 (4): 292–295. Kroemer, Karl H.E (2014), "Keyboards and keying an annotated
Typewriter
American docufiction anthology television series
1000 Ways to Die is an American docufiction anthology television series that originally aired on Spike and later on Comedy Central from May 14, 2008, to
1000_Ways_to_Die
American mathematician
constrained writing and articles on logology were a regular feature of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. US Patent Office search results
Mike_Keith_(mathematician)
31st Johnson solid (22 faces)
MR 0290245. Francis, Darryl (August 2013). "Johnson solids & their acronyms". Word Ways. 46 (3): 177. Johnson, Norman W. (1966). "Convex polyhedra with regular
Pentagonal_gyrobicupola
American mathematician (1927–2016)
Allocation with Stefan A. Burr. Eckler was the publisher and editor of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. In 1996 he published a book
A._Ross_Eckler_Jr.
Activity that encompasses a wide variety of word games and wordplay
writing List of forms of word play Oulipo Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics Farrell, Jeremiah. "Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational
Logology_(linguistics)
American writer, visual artist, performance artist, and educator
throughout. In 1987, Morice became the editor of the Kickshaws column in Word Ways, a quarterly magazine of recreational linguistics. In 2006, when he reached
Dave_Morice
American-Canadian TV series (2004–2009)
The L Word is a television drama series that aired on Showtime in the United States from January 18, 2004 to March 8, 2009. The series follows the lives
The_L_Word
American typesetter with longest name ever
Genealogist. p. 73. Borgmann, Dmitri A. (February 1968). "The Longest Word". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 1 (1). Greenwood Periodicals:
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr.
Hubert_Blaine_Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff_Sr.
Jocular theory to describe seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects
Resistentialism", Word Ways: Vol. 23: Iss. 4, Article 15. Borgmann, Dmitri A. (2012) "Order in a Resistentialist World", Word Ways: Vol. 21: Iss. 1, Article
Resistentialism
Learning technique that helps in remembering
Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2011). "Mnemonics in Second Language Acquisition". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 44 (4): 302–309. Archived from
Mnemonic
American writer and poet
the longest palindrome in English. In 1969, Bergerson became editor of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, though stepped down a year later
Howard_W._Bergerson
Figure of speech
Dictionary. Retrieved 26 February 2013. Richard Lederer, "Oxymoronology" in Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics (1990), online version: fun-with-words
Oxymoron
Caregiver of offspring in their own species
2009-12-29. Retrieved 2011-11-04. Francis, Darryl. "Iatrologs and Iatronyms." Word Ways 4.2 (1971): 8. Davies, Jon. "Imagining intergenerationality: Representation
Parent
English word
spelling variations including okay, O.K. and many others, is an English word (originating in American English) denoting approval, acceptance, agreement
OK
Abbreviation consisting of initial letters of a phrase
multi-word name or phrase. Acronyms are often spelled with the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation. In English, the word is used
Acronym
Custom or tradition that distinguishes one group from another
phrasing or single word—that distinguishes one group of people from another. Historically, shibboleths have been used as passwords, ways of self-identification
Shibboleth
American mathematician (1937–2022)
Ross Eckler Jr. as editors and publishers of the quarterly publication Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, established in 1968. Farrell
Jeremiah_Farrell
American radio evangelist (1896–1985)
National Cemetery in Riverside, California. Eckler, Ross (1996). "Zzyzx". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. ISSN 0043-7980. Archived from
Curtis_Howe_Springer
Word game
A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that consists of the letters of words placed in a grid, which usually
Word_search
Base memory unit handled by a computer
hardware of a processor. The number of bits or digits in a word (the word size, word width, or word length) is an important characteristic of any specific
Word_(computer_architecture)
Word consisting of two words
known in linguistics and lexicography as a blend word, lexical blend, or simply a blend, is a word formed by combining the meanings and parts of the
Portmanteau
English puzzle enthusiast and poet (1914–1979)
and Ernest L. Thayer. His palindromic poems appeared occasionally in Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, and several were collected in
J._A._Lindon
34th Johnson solid (32 faces)
ISBN 978-1-4704-5592-7. Francis, Darryl (2013). "Johnson solids & their acronyms". Word Ways. 46 (3): 177. Weisstein, Eric W., "Pentagonal orthobirotunda" ("Johnson
Pentagonal_orthobirotunda
Term for African American Vernacular English
often preferred, especially in the context of formal academic research. The word Ebonics was originally coined in 1973 by African American social psychologist
Ebonics_(word)
Order of syntactic constituents
that a small number of families contain SVO structure. Fixed word order is one out of many ways to ease the processing of sentence semantics and reducing
Word_order
2019 American drama television series
The L Word: Generation Q is an American drama television series produced by Showtime that premiered on December 8, 2019, and ran for three seasons, ending
The_L_Word:_Generation_Q
American puzzle creator and editor (born 1952)
starting December 30, 2024. Shortz, William F. (1973). "British Word Puzzles (1700–1800)". Word Ways. Vol. 6, no. 3. Archived from the original on August 19,
Will_Shortz
American Writer
SOLVING WORD-BUILDING TIE-BREAKERS, STEP-BY-STEP". Everbearing.com. Retrieved July 17, 2007. Eckler, A. Ross (2010). "Look back!". Word Ways: The Journal
William_Sunners
Distinct words with identical written forms
meaning Drury, Donald A. (1969). "Homographs and Pseudo-Homographs". Word Ways. 2 (3): 146–154. Ryan, William M. (1968). "Affixes and the Making of Homographs
Homograph
A word sort is a developmental word study activity espoused by the Words Their Way curriculum as written by Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton
Word_sort
Text containing all letters of the alphabet
Pangrammatic Window" in Word Ways, 45, 313--316, 2012. "Sub-60-Letter Pangrammatic Windows" in the February 2006 edition of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational
Pangrammatic_window
2006 studio album by Clay Aiken
A Thousand Different Ways is the third studio album by Clay Aiken. It was released by RCA Records on September 19, 2006. The album, which was executive
A_Thousand_Different_Ways
Text used for user authentication to prove identity
(PIN). Despite its name, a password does not need to be an actual word; indeed, a non-word (in the dictionary sense) may be harder to guess, which is a desirable
Password
Online slang and alternative orthography
used primarily on the Internet. It often uses character replacements in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance
Leet
Two joined triangular cupolae
MR 0290245. Francis, D. (2013). "Johnson solids & their acronyms". Word Ways. 46 (3): 177. Timofeenko, A. V. (2009). "Convex Polyhedra with Parquet
Triangular_orthobicupola
Polyhedron with a pentagonal cupola and ten-sided prism
MR 0290245. Francis, Darryl (August 2013), "Johnson solids & their acronyms", Word Ways, 46 (3): 177. Johnson, Norman W. (1966), "Convex polyhedra with regular
Elongated_pentagonal_cupola
90th Johnson solid (22 faces)
MR 0290245. Francis, D. (August 2013). "Johnson solids & their acronyms". Word Ways. 46 (3): 177. Cromwell, P. R. (1997). Polyhedra. Cambridge University
Disphenocingulum
72nd Johnson solid (62 faces)
MR 0290245. Francis, Darryl (August 2013), "Johnson solids & their acronyms", Word Ways, 46 (3): 177. Fredriksson, Albin (2024), "Optimizing for the Rupert property"
Gyrate_rhombicosidodecahedron
92nd Johnson solid (20 faces)
MR 0290245. Francis, D. (August 2013), "Johnson solids & their acronyms", Word Ways, 46 (3): 177. Cromwell, P. R. (1997), Polyhedra, Cambridge University
Triangular_hebesphenorotunda
37th Johnson solid (26 faces)
MR 0290245. Francis, Darryl (August 2013), "Johnson solids & their acronyms", Word Ways, 46 (3): 177. Sommerville, D. M. Y. (1905), "Semi-regular networks of
Elongated_square_gyrobicupola
Pejorative slang word for a person or thing, mainly a woman
discussion of the appropriation of the N word by black communities, the term bitch is deployed in pop culture in multiple ways (with multiple meanings) at the
Bitch_(slang)
ISBN 9780471134183. Sallows, Lee (1993), "Base 27: the key to a new gematria", Word Ways, 26 (2): 67–77. "trigesimal - adjective". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford
List_of_numeral_systems
87th Johnson solid (17 faces)
MR 0290245. Francis, Darryl (2013). "Johnson solids & their acronyms". Word Ways. 46 (3): 177. Weisstein, Eric W., "Augmented sphenocorona" ("Johnson solid")
Augmented_sphenocorona
1868 study by Lewis Carroll
(1): 75–97 – via EBSCOHost. Dale, Ashley (2013). "The Alice Cipher". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 46 (2): 142–148 – via EBSCOHost
The_Alphabet_Cipher
British Scrabble player (born 1948)
journal Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, having contributed nearly 200 articles as of 2010. His articles on wordplay, word puzzles
Darryl_Francis
1985 studio album by Neil Young
Old Ways is the fifteenth studio album by Canadian-American musician and singer-songwriter Neil Young, released on August 12, 1985, by Geffen Records.
Old_Ways
Misinterpretation of a spoken phrase
2022. Don Hauptman (February 2010). "It's Not Easy Being Mondegreen". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 43 (1): 55–56. Willy Staley
Mondegreen
Text that sounds like a text in another language
Archived from the original on 11 January 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2018. Word Ways 36 (2003) "One of Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's Italo-Hebraic Bilingual Homophonous
Homophonic_translation
58th Johnson solid (16 faces)
MR 0290245. Francis, Darryl (August 2013). "Johnson solids & their acronyms". Word Ways. 46 (3): 177. Weisstein, Eric W., "Augmented dodecahedron" ("Johnson Solid")
Augmented_dodecahedron
Game whose outcome can be correctly predicted
arXiv:2507.05267 [cs.AI]. Frank, Alan (1987-08-01). "Ghostbusters". Word Ways. 20 (4). Price, Robert. "Hexapawn". www.chessvariants.com. Solving Kalah
Solved_game
Hypothetical language of extraterrestrial beings
Ourselves. Penguin. pp. 251–256. ISBN 978-1-9848-8197-7. OCLC 1242873084. Golomb, Solomon W. (1968). "Extraterrestrial Linguistics". Word Ways. 1 (4).
Alien_language
American writer (1910–1999)
appeared in Punch, Reader's Digest, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. Espy earned praise from contemporary
Willard_R._Espy
63rd Johnson solid (8 faces)
MR 0290245. Francis, Darryl (August 2013), "Johnson solids & their acronyms", Word Ways, 46 (3): 177 Koca, Mehmet; Al-Ajmi, Mudhahir; Koca, Nazife Ozdes (2011)
Tridiminished_icosahedron
Polyhedron with a square cupola and an octagonal prism
MR 0290245. Francis, Darryl (August 2013), "Johnson solids & their acronyms", Word Ways, 46 (3): 177. Johnson, Norman W. (1966), "Convex polyhedra with regular
Elongated_square_cupola
Word processing application
WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Corel. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the market
WordPerfect
89th Johnson solid (21 faces)
MR 0290245. Francis, D. (August 2013). "Johnson solids & their acronyms". Word Ways. 46 (3): 177. Cromwell, P. R. (1997). Polyhedra. Cambridge University
Hebesphenomegacorona
Pejorative British English slang term
Retrieved 25 September 2013. "Hooray Henry. (puns) (Brief article)". Word Ways. 1 May 2009. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014. Retrieved 25
Hooray_Henry
Ability to acquire knowledge without conscious reasoning
reasoning or needing an explanation. Different fields use the word "intuition" in very different ways, including but not limited to: direct access to unconscious
Intuition
91st Johnson solid (14 faces)
MR 0290245. Francis, D. (August 2013). "Johnson solids & their acronyms". Word Ways. 46 (3): 177. Cromwell, P. R. (1997). Polyhedra. Cambridge University
Bilunabirotunda
Science fiction series by Ursula K. Le Guin
suite Four Ways to Forgiveness is part of that universe, and so is the novel The Telling. But I have to warn you that the planet Werel in Four Ways is not
Hainish_Cycle
British mathematician (1952–2019)
life-long obsession with buses. He was also an occasional contributor to Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. Norton was very interested in
Simon_P._Norton
Vocabulary of an informal register
identity, exclude outsiders, or both. The word itself came about in the 18th century and has been defined in multiple ways since its conception, with no single
Slang
WORD WAYS
WORD WAYS
Male
English
 English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English weard, WARD means "guard, watchman."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a ford, Middle English, Old English ford, or a habitational name from one of the many places named with this word, such as Ford in Northumberland, Shropshire, and West Sussex, or Forde in Dorset.Irish : Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example Mac Giolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran).Jewish : Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.Translation of German Fürth (see Furth).
Surname or Lastname
Norwegian
Norwegian : variant spelling of Vold (see Voll).English : topographic name for someone who lived on any of the areas of open upland known from Middle English times onwards as wolds (e.g. the Yorkshire Wolds or the Cotswolds). This term derives from Old English wald ‘forest’ (see Wald). After the extensive clearance of forests in England, from before the Norman Conquest onward, the Old English term wald came to denote open uplands (wolds) in Middle English in certain areas of England.
Boy/Male
Teutonic American English Irish
Guard.
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, from the Old English word ford, FORD means "ford, river crossing."
Surname or Lastname
English (Northumbria) and Scottish
English (Northumbria) and Scottish : habitational name from East Ord in Northumberland, named with Old English ord ‘point’. Compare Ort 3.English : from a Germanic personal name (see Ort 2).Scottish : habitational name from various minor places named with Gaelic ord ‘hammer’, used as a topographical term for a rounded hill.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from the vocabulary word lord, presumably for someone who behaved in a lordly manner, or perhaps one who had earned the title in some contest of skill or had played the part of the ‘Lord of Misrule’ in the Yuletide festivities. It may also have been an occupational name for a servant in the household of the lord of the manor, or possibly a status name for a landlord or the lord of the manor himself. The word itself derives from Old English hlÄford, earlier hlÄf-weard, literally ‘loaf-keeper’, since the lord or chief of a clan was responsible for providing food for his dependants.Irish : English name adopted as a translation of the main element of Gaelic Ó Tighearnaigh (see Tierney) and Mac Thighearnáin (see McKiernan).French : nickname from Old French l’ord ‘the dirty one’.Possibly an altered spelling of Laur.The French name is particularly associated with Acadia in Canada, around 1760.
Surname or Lastname
German and Danish
German and Danish : variant of Wurm.English : nickname from Middle English wurm ‘serpent’, ‘dragon’ (Old English wyrm).
Girl/Female
Shakespearean
The Merry Wives of Windsor' Mistress Ford.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Herd.Respelling of Swedish HÃ¥rd (see Hard 2).
Boy/Male
American, British, Danish, English, Finnish, German, Swedish
Bold Adviser; Wise; Courageous Advice; Cord Maker; Wise Counsel; Honest Adviser; Surname
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Gourd.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Blossoms, Flowers
Male
English
Short form of English Gordon, GORD means "spacious fort."
Female
Scandinavian
Short form of Scandinavian Tordis, TORD means "Thor's goddess" or "Thor's woman."
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu).English and Scottish : nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from Middle English wÅd ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’ (Old English wÄd), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire 1221.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old English weard ‘guard’ (used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).Irish : reduced form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.Surname adopted by bearers of the Jewish surname Warshawski, Warshawsky or some other Jewish name bearing some similarity to the English name.Americanized form of French Guerin.The surname Ward was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652), author of the MA legal code, was born in Haverhill, Suffolk, England, and emigrated to Agawam (Ipswich, MA) in 1633. William Ward was one of the original settlers of Sudbury, MA, in about 1638. Miles Ward came from England to Salem, MA, in about 1639. Thomas Ward (d. 1689) settled in Newport, RI, in 1671; among his descendants were two governors of colonial RI.
Surname or Lastname
Scottish
Scottish : habitational name from the lands of Work in the parish of St. Ola, Orkney.English : from Old English (ge)weorc ‘work’, ‘fortification’, hence probably a topographic name or an occupational name for someone who worked on fortifications or at a fort.Danish : habitational name from a place so called.
Surname or Lastname
German (Wörl)
German (Wörl) : variant of Wehrle.English : perhaps a habitational name for someone from Worle in Somerset, which is most probably named with Old English wÅr ‘wood grouse’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘(woodland) clearing’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.
WORD WAYS
WORD WAYS
Boy/Male
Tamil
Krishnaiah | கà¯à®°à¯€à®·à®¨à¯ˆà®ƒ
Name of a God
Male
English
Pet form of English William, BILLY means "will-helmet."
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Love Filled with Friendship
Female
Hindi/Indian
(अमिता) Feminine form of Hindi Amit, AMITA means "infinite; immeasurable." Compare with another form of Amita.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Rajas good friend, Lover and life partner, Name of a flower, Sweet smelling and makes it’s presence
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornwall)
English (Cornwall) : habitational name from Madron in Cornwall, named for the patron saint of its church, St. Madernus.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Who does Not Speak Ill of Others
Female
Ukrainian
, life.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Great Poet
Girl/Female
Tamil
Rajlaxmi | ராஜலகà¯à®·à¯à®®à¯€
The one who will rule on money
WORD WAYS
WORD WAYS
WORD WAYS
WORD WAYS
WORD WAYS
adv.
With close adherence to words; word by word.
v. t.
To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
v. t.
To express in words; to phrase.
v. t.
To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
n.
One who cavils at words.
superl.
Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.
v. t.
To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
n.
The word or words governed.
superl.
Containing many words; full of words.
n.
A wood; a forest.
n.
Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
n.
Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
v. t.
To flatter with words; to cajole.
v. i.
To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
superl.
Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.
v. i.
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
n.
See Wood worm, under Wood.
v. t.
To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
n.
A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
a.
Respecting words; full of words; wordy.