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Definitions of lag
a. - Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. ²
a. - Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. ²
a. - Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. ²
n. - One who lags; that which comes in last. ²
n. - The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. ²
n. - The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing. ²
n. - A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine. ²
n. - See Graylag. ²
v. i. - To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. ²
v. t. - To cause to lag; to slacken. ²
v. t. - To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4. ²
n. - One transported for a crime. ²
v. t. - To transport for crime. ²
n. - The failing behind or retardation of one phenomenon with respect to another to which it is closely related; as, the lag of magnetization compared with the magnetizing force (hysteresis); the lag of the current in an alternating circuit behind the impressed electro-motive force which produced it. ²

The word "lag" uses 3 letters: A G L.

Direct anagrams of lag:
  gal

Words formed by adding one letter before or after lag (in bold), or to agl in any order:
a -   alga   gala   c -   clag   d -   glad   e -   egal   gale   f -   flag   i -   glia   l -   gall   n -   lang   o -   gaol   goal   s -   gals   lags   slag   y -   agly  

Shorter words found within lag:
ag   al   la  

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