Words ending with lect
4 letter words ending with lect
- lect — (linguistics, sociolinguistics) A specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect.
5 letter words ending with lect
6 letter words ending with lect
- select — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
7 letter words ending with lect
- collect — If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people.
- deflect — If you deflect something that is moving, you make it go in a slightly different direction, for example by hitting or blocking it.
- dialect — A dialect is a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area.
- ecolect — A language variety unique to a household.
- inflect — to modulate (the voice).
8 letter words ending with lect
- acrolect — the most standard form of language
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- complect — to interweave or entwine
- deselect — (of a constituency organization) to refuse to select (an existing MP) for re-election
- idiolect — The speech habits peculiar to a particular person.
9 letter words ending with lect
- ethnolect — A language variety specific to an ethnic group.
- genuflect — to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship.
- intellect — the power or faculty of the mind by which one knows or understands, as distinguished from that by which one feels and that by which one wills; the understanding; the faculty of thinking and acquiring knowledge.
- pre-elect — to choose or select by vote, as for an office: to elect a mayor. Antonyms: reject.
- predilect — chosen in preference; preferred
10 letter words ending with lect
- genderlect — a type or style of speech used by a particular gender.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- re-collect — to collect, gather, or assemble again (something scattered).
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
11 letter words ending with lect
- circumflect — to emphasize with a circumflex accent
- free-select — to select (areas of crown land) and acquire the freehold by a series of annual payments
12 letter words ending with lect
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- self-neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
15 letter words ending with lect
- president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
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