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 |
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 |
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 |
perennial ryegrass English ryegrass Lolium perenne | European perennial grass widely cultivated for pasture and hay and as a lawn grass |
common oak English oak pedunculate oak Quercus robur | medium to large deciduous European oak having smooth leaves with rounded lobes, yields hard strong lightolored wood |
English walnut English walnut tree Circassian walnut Persian walnut Juglans regia | Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood, widely cultivated |
sweet violet garden violet English violet Viola odorata | European violet typically having purple to white flowers, widely naturalized |