Phrase Hound found 43 phrases and 15 compound words that contain tongues. The most common are listed below. Open tongues in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 43
- speaking in tonguesThe act of 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); glossolalia.
- spoke in tonguessimple past of speak in tongues
- tongues-speakerOne who speaks in tongues; one who exhibits glossolalia.
- cat tonguesplural of cat tongue: A small chocolate bar or (sometimes chocolate-covered) cookie/biscuit which is shaped somewhat like the tongue of a cat.
- flamingo tonguesplural of flamingo tongue: A small colourful sea snail, of species Cyphoma gibbosum.
- foreign tonguesplural of foreign tongue: Any language not native to particular person or place.
- mother tonguesplural of mother tongue: The language one first learned; the language one grew up with; one's native language.
- native tonguesplural of native tongue: One's first language, learned in early childhood.
- silver tonguesplural of silver tongue: The trait of being articulate and clever at speaking, often in a deceitful way.
- gift of tonguesGlossolalia.
- speaking with tonguesspeaking in tongues
- speak in tonguesTo speak in a language unknown to the speaker, especially when in a state of religious ecstasy; glossolalia.
- anti-tonguesOpposing the religious practice of speaking in tongues.
- blue-tonguesplural of blue-tongue: A disease of ruminants, caused by Bluetongue virus of the genus Orbivirus, carried by mosquitos, midges etc.
- cats' tonguesplural of cat's tongue: A small chocolate bar or (sometimes chocolate-covered) cookie/biscuit which is shaped somewhat like the tongue of a cat.
- civil tonguesplural of civil tongue: A polite manner of speaking.
- double-tonguesthird-person singular simple present indicative of double-tongue: To employ the double-tonguing technique.
- drop tonguesplural of drop tongue: Synonym of pole (“a construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage”); a long, horizontal beam that extends from the front of a wagon or carriage, with a mechanism that allows it to pivot downward, thereby …
- earth-tonguesplural of earth-tongue
- father tonguesplural of father tongue: A separate language for expressing ideas, as opposed to the vernacular (mother tongue) which is employed for everyday speech.
- geographic tonguesplural of geographic tongue: An inflammatory condition of the mucous membrane of the tongue, usually on the dorsal surface.
- ice tonguesplural of ice tongue: A long, narrow sheet of ice projecting out from a coastline, forming when a valley glacier moves very rapidly out into a body of water.
- loose tonguesplural of loose tongue: The act or habit of excessively speaking or discussing subjects that are private or confidential.
- pull tonguesTo stick one's tongue out.
- pulled tonguessimple past and past participle of pull tongues
Compound words 15
- beardtonguesplural of beardtongue: A flowering plant in the genus Penstemon with a prominent, often hairy, staminode.
- bluetonguesplural of bluetongue: A disease of ruminants, caused by Bluetongue virus of the genus Orbivirus, carried by mosquitos, midges etc.
- bonytonguesplural of bonytongue: Any in the family Osteoglossidae of large freshwater fishes or its parent groupings, suborder Osteoglossoidei and order Osteoglossiformes.
- earthtonguesplural of earthtongue
- goosetonguesplural of goosetongue: Any of several plant species including:
- hartstonguesplural of hartstongue: The fern Asplenium scolopendrium.
- houndstonguesplural of houndstongue: Any of genus Cynoglossum of small-flowered herbs and shrubs of the Old World
- intertonguesthird-person singular simple present indicative of intertongue: To interlock.
- outtonguesthird-person singular simple present indicative of outtongue: To make more noise than, especially in speaking.
- smoothtonguesplural of smoothtongue: Any of a number species of ray-finned fish of the taxonomic genus Leuroglossus