| body English | a motion of the body by a player as if to make an object already propelled go in the desired direction |
| English Civil War | civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I, - |
English Revolution
Glorious Revolution
Bloodless Revolution | the revolution against James II, there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (-) |
English sparrow
house sparrow
Passer domesticus | small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe |
English lady crab
Portunus puber | crab of the English coasts |
| English toy spaniel | British breed having a long silky coat and rounded head with a short upturned muzzle |
| English foxhound | an English breed slightly larger than the American foxhounds originally used to hunt in packs |
| English setter | an English breed having a plumed tail and a soft silky coat that is chiefly white |
English springer
English springer spaniel | a breed having typically a black-and-white coat |
cocker spaniel
English cocker spaniel
cocker | a small breed with wavy silky hair, originally developed in England |
Old English sheepdog
bobtail | large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail, believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain |
bulldog
English bulldog | a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw, developed originally in England for bull baiting |
English sole
lemon sole Parophrys vitulus | popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America |
English horn
cor anglais | a doubleeed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch |
English saddle
English cavalry saddle | a saddle having a steel cantle and pommel and no horn |
perpendicular
perpendicular style
English-Gothic
English-Gothic architecture | a Gothic style in th and th century England, characterized by vertical lines and a fourentered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting |
| English | the discipline that studies the English language and literature |
Shakespearean sonnet
Elizabethan sonnet
English sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg |
Oxford English Dictionary
O.E.D.
OED | an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles |
| New English Bible | a modern English version of the Bible and Apocrypha |
| Basic English | a simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication, devised by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards |
English
English language | an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch, the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries |
American English
American language
American | the English language as used in the United States |
African American Vernacular English
AAVE
African American English
Black English
Black English Vernacular
Black Vernacular
Black Vernacular English
Ebonics | a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States |
King's English
Queen's English | English as spoken by educated persons in southern England |
| Middle English | English from about to |
| Modern English | English since about |
Old English
Anglo-Saxon | English prior to about |
| Oxford English | the dialect of English spoken at Oxford University and regarded by many as affected and pretentious |
Scottish
Scots
Scots English | the dialect of English used in Scotland |
English
side | (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist |
| English muffin | round, raised muffin cooked on a griddle, usually split and toasted before being eaten |
muffin
gem | a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan |
| bran muffin | muffin containing bran |
| corn muffin | cornbread muffin |
scarlet runner
scarlet runner bean
runner bean
English runner bean | long bean pods usually sliced into half-inch lengths, a favorite in Britain |
| English walnut | nut with a wrinkled two-lobed seed and hard but relatively thin shell, widely used in cooking |
| lemon sole English sole | highly valued almost pure white flesh |
congou
congo
congou tea
English breakfast tea | black tea grown in China |
English department
department of English | the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature |
| English Channel | an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain |
| English person | a native or inhabitant of England |
English
English people | the people of England |
English teacher
English professor | someone who teaches English |
| muffin man | formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins |
Sydenham
Thomas Sydenham
English Hippocrates | English physician (-) |
Old World yew
English yew
Taxus baccata | predominant yew in Europe, extraordinarily long-lived and slow growing, one of the oldest species in the world |
ivy
common ivy
English ivy
Hedera helix | Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits |
common daisy
English daisy
Bellis perennis | low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers |
English primrose
Primula vulgaris | plant of western and southern Europe widely cultivated for its pale yellow flowers |