Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

atilt

adjective, adverb, preposition

Forms a-tilt

adjective At an angle from the vertical or horizontal. “The child listened, her head atilt.”
adverb At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over. “He wore his hat rakishly atilt.”
adverb Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust). “to run / ride atilt at someone or something”
preposition Diagonally over or across.

Synonyms

Pref. a- + tilt.

adverb In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. "To run atilt at men." Hudibras.
adverb In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “atilt”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details