Here is a list of words with definitions that end in ‘gle.’ However, not all of these are widely known. Therefore, there are a few ‘gle’ ending words in this list of which there’s no definition in the most popular dictionary.
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Adangle
Dangling.
A-dangle
Dangling.
Aegle
A genus of thorny trees (family rutaceae) of tropical asia and western africa with compound leaves, greenish white flowers, and orangelike fruits.
Ajangle
Jangling.
Angle
A corner whether constituting a projecting part or a partially enclosed space; the figure formed by two lines extending from the same point; also : dihedral angle.
Arglebargle
Argy-bargy.
Argle-bargle
Argy-bargy.
Atingle
Tingling especially with excitement.
Bangle
A stiff usually ornamental bracelet or anklet slipped or clasped on; an ornamental disk that hangs loosely (as on a bracelet).
Beagle
Any of a breed of small short-legged smooth-coated often black, white, and tan hounds.
Bedraggle
To wet thoroughly.
Bejuggle
To deceive as if by sleight of hand : delude, cheat.
Bespangle
To adorn with spangles : dot or sprinkle with brillantly sparkling or glittering objects.
Bingle
Base hit.
Boggle
To start with fright or amazement : be overwhelmed; to hesitate because of doubt, fear, or scruples; mishandle, bungle.
Bogle
Goblin, specter; also : an object of fear or loathing.
Boondoggle
A braided cord worn by boy scouts as a neckerchief slide, hatband, or ornament; a wasteful or impractical project or activity often involving graft.
Brangle
Squabble, wrangle.
Bugle
Any of a genus (ajuga) of plants of the mint family; especially : a european annual (a. reptans) that has spikes of blue flowers and is naturalized in the u.s..
Bungle
To act or work clumsily and awkwardly; mishandle, botch.
Burgle
To break into and steal from (a home, business, etc.) : burglarize; to commit robbery.
Cangle
Wrangle.
Cingle
Girth, belt.
Coggle
Wobble, totter.
Comingle
Commingle.
Commingle
To blend thoroughly into a harmonious whole; to combine (funds or properties) into a common fund or stock; to become commingled.
Cringle
A loop or grommet at the corner of a sail to which a line is attached.
Cringle-crangle
In a zigzag manner.
Daggle
To wet and soil (as a garment) by dragging in mire; to make wet by sprinkling or splashing : draggle; to trail or drag about (as through mud or slush).
Dangle
To hang loosely and usually so as to be able to swing freely; to be a hanger-on or a dependent; to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (such as climbing in “climbing the mountain the cabin came into view”).
Dingle
A small wooded valley : dell.
Disentangle
To free from entanglement : unravel; to become disentangled.
Doggle
A child’s marble.
Draggle
To make wet and dirty by dragging; to trail on the ground; straggle.
Eagle
Any of various large diurnal birds of prey (family accipitridae) noted for their strength, size, keenness of vision, and powers of flight; the eagle-bearing standard of the ancient romans.
Embrangle
Embroil.
Engle
Robert f. 1942— american economist.
Entangle
To wrap or twist together : interweave; ensnare; to involve in a perplexing or troublesome situation.
Enveigle
To win over by wiles : entice; to acquire by ingenuity or flattery : wangle.
Epingle
A silk, rayon, or worsted clothing fabric in plain weave characterized by alternating wide and narrow cross ribs.
Espiegle
Frolicsome, roguish.
Fandangle
An ornate or fantastic ornament; nonsense, tomfoolery.
Fangle
A fashion especially when foppish or silly —used with new and usually derogatorily; a silly or fantastic contrivance : gewgaw, gaud.
Fenagle
To obtain (something) by indirect or involved means; to obtain (something) by trickery; to use devious or dishonest methods to achieve one’s ends.
Finagle
To obtain (something) by indirect or involved means; to obtain (something) by trickery; to use devious or dishonest methods to achieve one’s ends.
Fogle
A silk handkerchief or neckerchief.
Friggle
To fuss over trifles : putter.
Fugle
To act as fugleman.
Gaggle
Flock; especially : a flock of geese when not in flight; a group, aggregation, or cluster lacking organization; an indefinite number.
Gargle
To hold (a liquid) in the mouth or throat and agitate with air from the lungs; to cleanse or disinfect (the oral cavity) in this manner; to utter with a gargling sound.
Gier-eagle
A bird pronounced unclean in ancient jewish law.
Giggle
To laugh with repeated short catches of the breath; to utter with a giggle.
Goggle
To stare with wide or protuberant eyes.
Greggle
Wood hyacinth.
Guggle
Gurgle.
Gurgle
To flow in a broken irregular current; to make a sound like that of a gurgling liquid.
Haggle
To cut roughly or clumsily : hack; to annoy or exhaust with wrangling; bargain, wrangle.
Half-eagle
A 5-dollar gold piece issued by the u.s. from 1795 to 1916 and in 1929.
Hangle
An iron pothook.
Harpy-eagle
A large powerful crested eagle (harpia harpyja) of central and south america that is black above and chiefly white below.
Higgle
Haggle.
Hingle
The part (as a gate hinge or pot handle) by which something hangs.
Honeyfogle
Deceive, cheat, cozen; to obtain by cheating or deception : finagle; flatter, cajole, blandish.
Honeyfugle
Deceive, cheat, cozen; to obtain by cheating or deception : finagle; flatter, cajole, blandish.
Hornswoggle
To trick or deceive (someone) : bamboozle, hoax — often used with into or out of.
Huggle
Hug, cuddle.
Immingle
Blend, intermingle.
Ingle
A fire in a fireplace; fireplace; corner, angle.
Intermingle
Intermix.
Intertangle
Entangle, intertwine.
Inveigle
To win over by wiles : entice; to acquire by ingenuity or flattery : wangle.
Jangle
To make a harsh or discordant often ringing sound; to quarrel verbally; to talk idly.
Jiggle
To cause to move with quick little jerks or oscillating motions; to move from or as if from being jiggled.
Jingle
To make a light clinking or tinkling sound; to rhyme or sound in a catchy repetitious manner; to cause to jingle.
Jinglejangle
A jingling and jangling sound.
Jingle-jangle
A jingling and jangling sound.
Joggle
To shake slightly; to move shakily or jerkily.
Juggle
To perform the tricks of a juggler; to engage in manipulation especially in order to achieve a desired end; to handle or deal with usually several things (such as obligations) at one time so as to satisfy often competing requirements.
Jungle
An impenetrable thicket or tangled mass of tropical vegetation; a tract overgrown with thickets or masses of vegetation; a confused or disordered mass of objects : jumble.
Key-bugle
A bugle having six keys and a chromatic range of about two octaves.
Kleagle
A high-ranking officer in the hierarchy of the ku kluxers’ organization.
Leeangle
A heavy weapon of the australian aborigines with a sharp-pointed end about nine inches long bent at right angles to the shank.
Lingle
A shoemaker’s thread.
Love-entangle
Love-in-a-mist; a stonecrop (sedum acre); a virgin’s bower (clematis vitalba) of europe.
Mangle
To injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing; to spoil, injure, or make incoherent especially through ineptitude.
Miggle
Mig; mib.
Mingle
To bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix; to prepare by mixing : concoct; to become mingled.
Mingle-mangle
A usually confused mixture or medley : hodgepodge.
Misguggle
To handle roughly or clumsily : maul, mar, bungle.
Naggle
To haggle or dispute pettily.
Newfangle
Newfangled.
Niggle
Trifle; to spend too much effort on minor details; to find fault constantly in a petty way : carp.
Ningle
Catamite.
Ogle
To glance with amorous invitation or challenge; to eye amorously or provocatively; to look at especially with greedy or interested attention.
Paigle
One of several plants: such as; cowslip; oxlip.
Pentangle
Pentagram.
Pingle
Strive, struggle; to dawdle or trifle especially with one’s food.
Porbeagle
A viviparous mackerel shark (lamna nasus) chiefly of the north atlantic and southwestern pacific oceans with a pointed snout and crescent-shaped tail.
Porwigle
Tadpole.
Pringle
To tingle persistently or annoyingly; to cause a tingling in.
Puggle
A dog that is a cross between a pug and a beagle.
Pungle
To make a payment or contribution of (money) —usually used with up; pay, contribute —usually used with up.
Quadrangle
Quadrilateral; a 4-sided enclosure especially when surrounded by buildings; the buildings enclosing a quadrangle.
Quinquangle
Pentagon.
Raggle
To cut a raggle in (stone).
Raggle-taggle
Motley.
Rangle
Bits of gravel fed to hawks.
Rectangle
A parallelogram all of whose angles are right angles; especially : one with adjacent sides of unequal length.
Regle
Rule, govern.
Rejuggle
To juggle or rearrange (something or the parts or something) again.
Reshingle
To install new shingles on (something).
Right-angle
The angle bounded by two lines perpendicular to each other : an angle of 90° or 1/2 π radians.
Ringle
A metal ring; especially : one placed in an animal’s nose; circle.
Rosetangle
A red alga belonging to the ceramiaceae or a related family.
Scraggle
Sparse or ragged growth.
Scriggle
Wriggle, twist, squirm.
Sea-eagle
Any of various fish-eating eagles (especially genus haliaeetus).
Shingle
A small thin piece of building material often with one end thicker than the other for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
Shoggle
Joggle; dangle.
Single
Not married; of or relating to celibacy; unaccompanied by others : lone, sole.
Smuggle
To import or export secretly contrary to the law and especially without paying duties imposed by law; to convey or introduce surreptitiously; to import or export something in violation of the customs laws.
Snaggle
Snag.
Sniggle
To fish for eels by thrusting a baited hook into their hiding places; to catch (an eel) by sniggling.
Snuggle
To curl up comfortably or cozily; to draw close especially for comfort or in affection; to make snug.
Songle
A handful of gleaned grain; a small quantity.
Spangle
A small plate of shining metal or plastic used for ornamentation especially on clothing; a small glittering object or particle.
Sprangle
To spread out in different directions : branch out : ramify, straggle; to cause to sprangle : diffuse; to rough up the feathers of (an arrow) as by injury or carelessness.
Spreadeagle
To execute a spread eagle (as in skating); to stand or move with arms and legs stretched out : sprawl; to stretch out into the position of a spread eagle.
Spread-eagle
To execute a spread eagle (as in skating); to stand or move with arms and legs stretched out : sprawl; to stretch out into the position of a spread eagle.
Springle
Sprinkle.
Squiggle
Squirm, wriggle; to write or paint hastily : scribble; scribble.
Straggle
To wander from the direct course or way : rove, stray; to trail off from others of its kind.
Strangle
To choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle; to obstruct seriously or fatally the normal breathing of; stifle.
Struggle
To make strenuous or violent efforts in the face of difficulties or opposition; to proceed with difficulty or with great effort.
Surcingle
A belt, band, or girth passing around the body of a horse to bind a saddle or pack fast to the horse’s back; the cincture of a cassock.
Swiggle
Swig.
Swingle
A wooden instrument like a large knife that is about two feet long, has one thin edge, and is used for beating and cleaning flax : scutcher; the swiple of a flail; a cudgel resembling a flail.
Taigle
Catch, entrap; delay, hinder, fatigue; drag, trail, loiter.
Tangle
To unite or knit together in intricate confusion; to involve so as to hamper, obstruct, or embarrass; to seize and hold in or as if in a snare : entrap.
Tingle
To feel a ringing, stinging, prickling, or thrilling sensation; to cause such a sensation; tinkle.
Toggle
A piece or device for holding or securing: such as; a pin inserted in a nautical knot to make it more secure or easier to slip.
Triangle
A polygon having three sides; a percussion instrument consisting of a rod of steel bent into the form of a triangle open at one angle and sounded by striking with a small metal rod.
Tringle
A narrow straight molding usually of square section : fillet.
Twangle
Twang.
Twingle
Twist, wriggle.
Twingle-twangle
The twang of a musical instrument.
Unentangle
Disentangle.
Untangle
To loose from tangles or entanglement : straighten out.
Untoggle
To unfasten by removing a toggle from its loop.
Waggle
To reel, sway, or move from side to side : wag; to move frequently one way and the other : wag.
Wallydraigle
A feeble, imperfectly developed, or slovenly creature.
Wangle
To resort to trickery or devious methods; to adjust or manipulate for personal or fraudulent ends; to make or get by devious means : finagle.
Wide-angle
Having or covering an angle of view wider than the ordinary —used especially of lenses of shorter than normal focal length; having, involving the use of, or relating to a wide-angle lens.
Wiggle
To move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle; to proceed with or as if with twisting and turning movements : wriggle; to cause to wiggle.
Wiggle-waggle
Indecisive, vacillating.
Wiggle-woggle
Indecisive, vacillating.
Woggle
Waggle.
Wrangle
To dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker; to engage in argument or controversy; to obtain by persistent arguing or maneuvering : wangle.
Wriggle
To move the body or a bodily part to and fro with short writhing motions like a worm : squirm; to move or advance by twisting and turning; to extricate or insinuate oneself or reach a goal as if by wriggling.
The following words also end in gle; however, we couldn’t find definitions of these words from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
| Agle | Ameagle |
| Argle | Atangle |
| Aveugle | Awiggle |
| Back-angle | Bagle |
| Bedaggle | Begiggle |
| Bemangle | Bemingle |
| Betangle | Board-and-shingle |
| Braggle | Broggle |
| Brogle | Cagle |
| Circumspangle | Counterstruggle |
| Crengle | Cubangle |
| Daigle | Demieagle |
| Dingledangle | Dingle-dangle |
| Disembrangle | Driggle-draggle |
| Dringle | Enspangle |
| Equiangle | Espigle |
| Estrangle | Figgle |
| Fingle-fangle | Foretriangle |
| Gereagle | Gigle |
| Gingle | Gle |
| Gonagle | Hexangle |
| Higglehaggle | Hogle |
| Hornswaggle | Yarringle |
| Imbrangle | Intangle |
| Interentangle | Interjangle |
| Jargle | Jargogle |
| Katogle | Langle |
| Leangle | Liangle |
| Maggle | Maxisingle |
| Minole-mangle | Mismingle |
| Multangle | Nagle |
| Nonsingle | Octangle |
| Outjuggle | Outwiggle |
| Outwrangle | Outwriggle |
| Overdangle | Owlspiegle |
| Paegle | Paggle |
| Peggle | Piggle |
| Porriwiggle | Prestruggle |
| Pseudo-angle | Quaggle |
| Quasi-single | Quindecangle |
| Quinque-angle | Recipiangle |
| Remingle | Respangle |
| Roggle | Ruggle |
| Sagle | Semiangle |
| Semiquadrangle | Semisingle |
| Septangle | Sexangle |
| Shin-tangle | Shoogle |
| Skyugle | Slagle |
| Striggle | Swingdingle |
| Taggle | Teagle |
| Tingletangle | Two-angle |
| Underjungle | Unmingle |
| Unsingle | Upstruggle |
| Veigle | Viggle |
| Wariangle | Weigle |
| Weirangle | Wierangle |
| Wingle | Wraggle |
| Wringle | Zwingle |
