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Definitions of glide
n. - The glede or kite. ²
v. i. - To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice. ²
v. i. - To pass with a glide, as the voice. ²
n. - The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction. ²
n. - A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 18, 97, 191). ²
n. - Movement of a glider, aeroplane, etc., through the air under gravity or its own movement. ²
v. i. - To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane. ²

The word "glide" uses 5 letters: D E G I L.

Direct anagrams of glide:
  gelid

Words formed by adding one letter before or after glide (in bold), or to degil in any order:
b -   bilged   d -   gilded   glided   l -   gilled   m -   glimed   midleg   n -   dingle   engild   r -   gilder   girdle   glider   regild   ridgel   s -   glides   u -   guiled   y -   edgily  

Shorter words found within glide:
de   deil   del   deli   die   diel   dig   ed   el   eld   ged   gel   geld   gid   gie   gied   gild   gled   id   idle   led   leg   lei   li   lid   lie   lied  

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