handle /hanˈdl/

1. To hold, move about, feel freely, etc with the hand
2. To make familiar by frequent touching
3. To manage (esp successfully)
4. To discuss
5. To deal with, treat
6. To cope with, take in one's stride (informal, esp N American)
7. To pass through one's hands
8. To trade or do business in

To respond to control (in a specified way)

1. A part by which a thing is held, opened or picked up
2. Anything affording an advantage or pretext to an opponent
3. Feel, as of a textile
4. The total takings from betting on a horse race, etc
5. One's name (slang)

handˈled adjective

Having a handle

handˈler noun

1. Someone who handles
2. A boxer's trainer or second
3. Someone who trains, holds, controls, incites, or shows off an animal at a show, fight, etc
4. Someone who trains and uses a dog or other animal that works for the police or an armed service

handˈling noun

• exasperation
• exasperations
• exasperative
• exasperator
• exasperators
• ex auctoritate mihi commissa
• exc.
• Exc.
• Excalibur
• excamb
• excambed
• excambing
• excambion
• excambions
• excambium
• excambs
• excarnate
• excarnated
• excarnates
• excarnating
• excarnation
• excarnations
• ex cathedra
• excaudate
• excavate