A winding channel or crevice, such as occur in the depths of the sea or in mountains.
One of the fissures (sulci) separating the convolutions of the brain, or, by analogy, in the mind.
anticonformity
anticonformity
noun
A form of individualism that is an active rejection of conformity
antifelony
antifibrinolysin
antifibrinolysis
antiinflammatory
antiinflammatory
adj
Uncommon spelling of anti-inflammatory.
archconfraternity
archconfraternity
noun
(Roman Catholicism) A religious confraternity that, as a special concession of the Holy See, can join or affiliate with, and extend privileges to, other similar brotherhoods.
bountifully
bountifully
adv
In a bountiful manner.
chlorotrifluoroethylene
chlorotrifluoroethylene
noun
(chemistry) A chlorofluorocarbon with chemical formula CF₂CClF, used as a cryogenic refrigerant and in the manufacture of plastics.
chylifaction
chylifaction
noun
(biology) The formation of chyle.
chylification
chylification
Noun
The production of chyle
chymification
chymification
noun
The conversion of food into chyme
cockneyfication
cockneyfication
noun
the use of cockney words or mannerisms, especially by non-cockneys
coefficiently
coefficiently
adv
In a coefficient manner
coinfinity
comfortingly
comfortingly
adv
In a comforting manner
confectionary
confectionary
adj
Prepared as a confection.
Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.
noun
(dated) A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
(obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
(obsolete) One who makes confections; a confectioner.
(uncountable, rare) Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery.
A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
confectionery
confectionery
noun
(uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
(uncountable) The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.
confelicity
confelicity
noun
(rare) Pleasure in another's happiness.
confidentiality
confidentiality
noun
(countable) Something told in confidence; a secret.
(uncountable) The property of being confidential.
confidentially
confidentially
adv
In a confidential manner.
Spoken of in a private manner.
confidentiary
confidently
confidently
adv
In a confident manner; with confidence; with strong assurance; positively.
configurationally
configurationally
adv
With regard to a configuration
confinity
confinity
noun
contiguity, adjacency
confirmability
confirmability
noun
The state or property of being capable of being confirmed.
confirmatively
confirmatively
adv
With confirmation from other sources
confirmatorily
confirmatorily
adv
So as to confirm something.
confirmatory
confirmatory
adj
Serving to confirm something.
confirmity
confiscatory
confiscatory
adj
Using confiscation
conflictingly
conflictingly
adv
In a conflicting fashion.
conflictory
conflictory
adj
(rare) conflicting
confluxibility
conformability
conformability
noun
conformableness
conformationally
conformationally
adv
(chemistry) With respect to the conformation of a molecule
conformity
conformity
noun
A point of resemblance; a similarity.
The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
The state of things being similar or identical.
confraternity
confraternity
noun
(countable) A group with a common interest.
(countable) A religious fraternity or brotherhood.
(uncountable) Brotherly friendship.
confusability
confusability
noun
The condition of being confusable.
confutability
confutability
noun
The state of being confutable or disprovable.
coniferophyte
coniferophyte
noun
(botany) conifer
copyfitting
counterdifficulty
counterdifficulty
noun
A difficulty arising in response to another difficulty.
counterefficiency
counterfeitly
counterfeitly
adv
In a counterfeit way; falsely.
counterinflationary
counterinflationary
adj
(economics) Counteracting inflation.
countrify
countrify
verb
(transitive) To make rural or rustic.
countryfied
countryfied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of countryfy
countryfiedness
cryptoinflationist
cytodifferentiation
cytodifferentiation
noun
The morphological development of undifferentiated cells into more specialised ones
deflationary
deflationary
adj
(philosophy, logic) Belonging or relating to a family of theories claiming that assertions that predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called truth to such a statement.
Associated with or tending to cause deflation.
demystification
demystification
noun
The removal of mystery or confusion surrounding a topic or idea.
detoxifying
detoxifying
verb
present participle of detoxify
discomfortingly
discomfortingly
adv
In a discomforting manner
disconformity
disconformity
noun
(geology) A type of unconformity in which erosion or lack of deposition has occurred between two parallel sedimentary strata.
(religion) nonconformity
disinflationary
disinflationary
adj
(economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
dissyllabification
dissyllabification
noun
A division into two syllables.
disuniformity
disuniformity
noun
The quality of being disuniform.
dufrenoysite
dufrenoysite
noun
(mineralogy) A sartorite mineral with chemical formula Pb₂As₂S₅.
dysfunction
dysfunction
noun
(chiefly medicine) A failure to function in an expected or complete manner. Usually refers to a disorder in a bodily organ (e.g. erectile dysfunction), a mental disorder, or the improper behavior of a social group.
verb
(nonstandard, intransitive, chiefly biology) To fail to function correctly; to malfunction.
dysfunctional
dysfunctional
adj
Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.
Not performing its proper or intended function.
dysfunctioning
dysfunctioning
verb
present participle of dysfunction
dysfunctions
dysfunctions
noun
plural of dysfunction
electroaffinity
enforceability
enforceability
noun
The quality of being enforceable.
enforcibility
enforcibility
noun
Alternative form of enforceability
epididymodeferentectomy
epididymodeferential
ethoxycaffeine
factionally
factionally
adv
In a factional manner; in terms of factions.
factionary
factionary
adj
(obsolete) Belonging to a faction; partisan; taking sides.
fantasmagorically
faradocontractility
faradocontractility
noun
The tendency of muscles to contract under the influence of an induced electric current
fashionability
fashionability
noun
Fashionableness.
felsobanyite
ferrotyping
ferrotyping
verb
present participle of ferrotype
fibrinolytic
fibrinolytic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or producing fibrinolysis.
noun
A substance or drug that produces fibrinolysis.
fibrocrystalline
fictionality
fictionality
noun
State or quality of being fictional.
fictionally
fictionally
adv
In a fictional manner.
fictionary
fictionary
adj
Fictional.
noun
(countable, rare) A dictionary with contrived entries.
A parlor game in which participants invent definitions for an unfamiliar word found in a dictionary, and as one person reads them out, the others try to guess which one is the correct definition.
fissionability
fissionability
noun
The quality or degree of being fissionable.
flamboyantism
flamboyantize
floatingly
floatingly
adv
In a floating manner.
floutingly
floutingly
adv
With flouting; insultingly.
footingly
forecastingly
forecastingly
adv
So as to forecast or predict.
foredestiny
forensicality
forensicality
noun
The quality of being forensic; a forensic approach or attitude.
forgettingly
forgettingly
adv
So as to forget.
forlornity
forlornity
noun
The state of being forlorn.
formylating
formylating
verb
present participle of formylate
formylation
formylation
noun
(organic chemistry) Any reaction involving the introduction of a formyl group.
fornicatory
fornicatory
adj
Of or pertaining to fornication.
fortifying
fortifying
noun
The process by which something is fortified.
verb
present participle of fortify
fortifyingly
fortifyingly
adv
In a manner that fortifies.
fortnightly
fortnightly
adj
occurring once in a fortnight; once every two weeks
adv
once in a fortnight; once every two weeks
noun
A publication issued fortnightly (once every two weeks).
fosteringly
fosteringly
adv
In a way that fosters or encourages.
fotheringhay
foundationally
foundationally
adv
In a foundational manner.
foundationary
fountainously
fountainously
adv
In a fountainous manner.
fractionally
fractionally
adv
In a fractional manner
fractionary
fractionary
adj
(obsolete) fractional
frictionally
frictionally
adv
In terms of friction
frictionlessly
frictionlessly
adv
In a frictionless way; without friction.
frontality
frontality
noun
(art) The quality or state of being frontal
frontingly
frontolysis
frontolysis
noun
(meteorology) The degeneration or dissipation of an atmospheric weather front.
frontomaxillary
frontomaxillary
adj
(anatomy) frontal and maxillary
frontozygomatic
frontozygomatic
adj
(anatomy) zygomaticofrontal
fuliginosity
fuliginosity
noun
Matter deposited by smoke.
The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness.
fulminatory
fulminatory
adj
Thundering; striking terror.
functionality
functionality
noun
(US, law, uncountable) In United States trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
(organic chemistry, countable) The presence of a functional group.
(uncountable) The ability to do a task, performance, or execution; a set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
functionally
functionally
adv
In a functional manner.
functionary
functionary
noun
A paper-pusher, bean counter.
A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is not required.
fungitoxicity
fungitoxicity
noun
The quality of being fungitoxic.
fungosity
fungosity
noun
A fungal growth.
The quality of being fungous.
hydrodesulfurization
hydrodesulfurization
noun
(chemistry) a process for lowering the sulfur content of petroleum and similar products by catalytic hydrogenation, sulfur compounds being converted to hydrogen sulfide
hydroformylation
hydroformylation
noun
(chemistry) The reaction of an olefin with carbon monoxide and hydrogen to form an aldehyde.
hydrofranklinite
hydrogasification
hydrogasification
noun
The reaction of hydrogen with coal under high pressure to form methane
hyperconfident
hyperconfident
adj
Extremely confident.
hyperconfidently
hyperconformist
hyperconformity
hyperconformity
noun
Excessive conformity
hyperdeification
hyperfastidiousness
hyperfunction
hyperfunction
noun
(mathematics) A generalization of a function
(medicine) Abnormally elevated function
hyperfunctional
hyperfunctional
adj
Having, or characterised by, increased function
hyperfunctionally
hyperfunctioning
hyperfunctioning
noun
Excessive functioning
hyperinflation
hyperinflation
noun
(economics) A very high rate of inflation.
hyperperfection
hypofunction
hypofunction
noun
(medicine) Abnormally low function.
ichthyofauna
ichthyofauna
noun
The fish of a particular region
ichthyofaunal
ichthyofaunal
adj
Relating to ichthyofauna.
ichthyornithiformes
inconformity
inconformity
noun
(obsolete) Lack of conformity.
inconfutably
indemnificatory
indemnificatory
adj
That serves to indemnify
infamatory
infectiously
infectiously
adv
In an infectious manner.
infelicitously
infelicitously
adv
In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate
inferiority
inferiority
noun
An inferior power.
An inferior value or quality.
The quality of being a competitive disadvantage.
The quality or state of being inferior.
infirmatory
infirmatory
noun
(obsolete) An infirmary.
inflammatorily
inflammatorily
adv
In an inflammatory manner.
inflammatory
inflammatory
adj
Relating to, causing, or caused by inflammation.
Tending to inflame or provoke somebody.
noun
Any material that causes inflammation
inflationary
inflationary
adj
Causing or liable to cause inflation.
The rapid influx of precious metals from the new mines had an inflationary effect on the specie based economy.