Finnish–English dictionary

kielet

(synecdochically, usually, in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.

kieli

An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.

kieli ja kirjallisuus

An academic field of study concerning the given subject.

kieliä

(transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; depict; foretell; suggest; allude to.

kielikunta

(linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

kielilläpuhuminen

Speaking a language one does not know, or speaking elaborate but apparently meaningless speech, while in a trance-like state (or, supposedly, under the influence of a deity or spirits); speaking in tongues. [from late 19th c.]

kielimies

A person skilled in languages.

kielimuoto

(linguistics) A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level; an isolect or lect.

kielimuunnos

A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc.

kielinen

Of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language.

kieliniekka

A person skilled in languages.

kielipari

(music) One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to be played together.

kieliperhe

(linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

kieliryhmä

(linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

kielisoitinten rakentaja

A person who, or a business which, makes or repairs stringed wooden musical instruments, such as lutes, violins, and guitars.

kielitaito

(linguistics) Implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.

kielitaituri

(also, figuratively) One who has mastered (especially when able to speak) several languages.

kielitiede

The systematic and scholarly study of language.

kielitieteellinen

Of or relating to linguistics.

kielitieteilijä

(usually) One who studies modern-day linguistics, that is, linguistic science.

kielletty

Prevented, either by a physical barrier or by conditions.

kieltää

To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate. [from 15th c.]

kieltää aseenkanto

(US, military) To place (someone) under a DNA (do not arm) order because of mental illness.

kieltää pääsy

(transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.

kieltäjä

One who denies the existence of something.

kieltämätön

Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.

kieltäminen

A denial; a renunciation; denial of desire or self-interest. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

kieltävä

(linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.

kieltävä vastaus

(psychology) A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.

kieltäytyä

(intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

kieltäytyä maksamasta

(transitive) To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.

kieltäytyä olemasta missään tekemisissä

(transitive) To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.

kieltäytyä tottelemasta

(transitive) To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey an order of (somebody).

kieltäytyminen

The practice of self-denial; self-restraint; forebearance from anything. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

kielteinen

(semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.

kielteisesti

In a negative manner; so as to be damaging or not positive.

kielteisyys

The characteristic of being pessimistic or contrarian.

kieltenpidin

(music, lutherie) An element, often triangular, to which the strings of a violin, guitar, etc. are attached at the lower end of an instrument.

kielto

A prohibition.

kieltolain aika

(history) Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.

kieltolaki

An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.

kieltosana

(grammar) A word that indicates negation.

kiemura

A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Alexander Mansfield Burrill.

kiemurainen

(informal) Not straight; wavy and irregular.

kiemurrella

(intransitive) To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.

kiemurteleva

Having curls.

kiemurtelu

(geography) One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse

kiemurteluttaa

(transitive) To cause something to wriggle.

kiepahtaa

Of a thing (especially a slender structure under compression): to collapse or distort under physical pressure.

kiepauttaa

(transitive) To cause to move in a curve.

kiepittää

(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

kieppeillä

Near; in the vicinity of.

kieppi

(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

kieppua

To physically swirl or rotate.

kieputtaa

(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

kieputus

(countable, uncountable, figurative) A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.

kierähdellä

(ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.

kieriä

(ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.

kierittää

(transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit

kiero

Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.

kiero silmä

(plural "walleyes") One or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes.

kieroilla

To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.

kieroon

Tilted to one side.

kieroselkäisyys

(pathology) The abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.

kierossa

Obliquely, crookedly; askew.

kierous

The state of being crooked

kieroutuneisuus

The state of being crooked

kieroutunut

Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.

kierrättää

To pass around, to circulate.

kierrättäminen

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.

kierrätys

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.

kierre

(bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.

kierreleuka

An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.

kierrellä

(idiomatic) To treat a topic, but omit its main points, often intentionally.

kierrelyönti

(sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.

kierrepakka

An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.

kierrepallo

(baseball) A curveball.

kierreportaat

A staircase in the form of a helix.

kierretappi

(mechanics) A cylindrical tool used to cut an internal screw thread in a hole, with cutting edges around the lower end and an upper end to which a handle is fitted to turn the tool.

kierretty

Having the tightly winding shape of a corkscrew.

kierretty lanka

A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.

kierros

The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

kierros kansan parissa

(British) A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally.

kiertää

To ignore the usual channels or procedures.

kiertää auki

(transitive) To loosen a screw or thing by turning it.

kiertää rullalle

To wind cylindrically or spirally.

kiertäminen

A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.

kiertävä

Curving around.

kiertävä tivoli

A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).

kierteen suunta

The direction a rope is twisted.

kierteinen

(chiefly, anatomy, zoology) Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute.

kierteittää

(transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).

kierteittää reikä

To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).

kierteitystappi

(mechanics) A cylindrical tool used to cut an internal screw thread in a hole, with cutting edges around the lower end and an upper end to which a handle is fitted to turn the tool.

kiertelevä

Of a long and winding route.

kiertelevä laulaja

(historical) Originally, an entertainer employed to juggle, play music, sing, tell stories, etc.; a buffoon, a fool, a jester; later, a medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment.

kiertelevästi

In a circuitous manner; following a circuitous route.

kierto

The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.

kierto-

Circuitous or roundabout.

kiertoaika

(telecommunications) The time elapsed for a message to travel to a remote location and then return.

kiertoajelu

The activity of going out looking at things; tourism.

kiertoilmaisu

(uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another one that is more offensive, blunt or vulgar.

kiertoilmaus

(often, humorous) A roundabout, indirect, or confusing manner of speech or writing

kiertokanki

(nautical) One of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid, and acting as part of the support for keeping the sides of the vessel in shape — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones; cf. abeam, beam-ends.

kiertokäynti

A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.

kiertokulku

The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.

kiertokysely

(computing) A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral or service to see if it has data to transfer.

kiertolainen

(Ireland) A member of an indigenous nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland, the Pavee.

kiertoliike

The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.

kiertoliittymä

(chiefly, UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.

kiertonikama

(skeleton) The second cervical vertebra of the spine

kiertonopeus

The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc.

kiertorata

(pinball) A path for the ball on the outer edge of the playfield, usually connected so that the ball entering in one end will come out of the other.

kiertotähti

(now, historical, or, astrology) Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. [from 14thc.]

kiertotie

(often, humorous) A roundabout route or process

kiertue

A show that travels from place to place.

kiertyä

To physically swirl or rotate.

kiertyminen

The state or condition of being convoluted.

kierukka

Initialism of intrauterine device.

kiesit

A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.

kiesus

(possibly, _, offensive, blasphemous) An exclamation, particularly used to express excitement or exasperation.

kietoa

(transitive) To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.

kietoa jonkin ympäri

(transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.

kietoutua

To become twined together.

kietoutuminen

The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.

kieunta

Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.

kievari

A restaurant or bar.

kihara

Having curls.

kiharainen

Having curls.

kiharapää

a person or animal with curly hair.

kiharat

Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head.

kihartaa

(transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.

kihartua

(intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.

kihelmöidä

(transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

kihelmöinti

(informal) A tingling or prickling sensation, felt in a limb when a nerve compression is relieved and in other situations.

kihinä

(countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir.

kihistä

To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).

kihlakunnantuomari

A judge in a municipal court.

kihlakunta

(historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.

kihlattu

One who is betrothed, i.e. a fiancé or fiancée.

kiho

(informal) A person of importance in a group or organization.

kihota

(transitive) To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.

kihti

(rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.

kihu

Any of three seabirds in the skua genus Stercorarius.

kihveli

A flat scoop with a handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.

kiidättää

To communicate quickly.

kiihdyke

(chemistry) Any substance that can bond or mix with, or disturb, another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a natural or artificial chemical process.

kiihdyte

(chemistry) Any substance that can bond or mix with, or disturb, another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a natural or artificial chemical process.

kiihdytin

(chemistry) Any substance that can bond or mix with, or disturb, another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a natural or artificial chemical process.

kiihdyttää

(transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.