hand-while
/ˈhandwʌɪl/rare after 17th cent. Now archaic
noun
A short period or span of time; a moment, an instant.
Origin
Old English. From hand + while. Apparently originally with allusion to the short span of a handbreadth.
- malperformance
- malpighiaceous
- Malpighian
- Malpighian body
- Malpighian cell
- Malpighian corpuscle
- Malpighian layer
- Malpighian tube
- Malpighian tubule
- Malpighi, Marcello
- malpita
- malpitte
- Malplaquet, Battle of
- malposed
- malposition
- malpositioned
- malpractice
- malpractitioner
- malpraxis
- malpresentation
- Malraux, André
- malrotation
- MALS
- malt
- Malta