Word Meanings - ENGULFMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A swallowing up as if in a gulf.

Related words: (words related to ENGULFMENT)

• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• SWALLOWER
  One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.
• SWALLOWWORT
  See Celandine. A poisonous plant of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort. African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia.
• SWALLOWTAIL
  A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
• SWALLOW-TAILED
  United by dovetailing; dovetailed. Swallow-tailed duck , the old squaw. -- Swallow-tailed gull , an Arctic gull , which has a deeply forked tail. -- Swallow-tailed hawk or kite , the fork-tailed kite. -- Swallow-tailed moth , a European moth
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.
• BANK SWALLOW
  See N