Highly accurate or definitive; treated or worthy of treatment as a scholarly authority
authoritatively
authoritatively
adv
In an authoritative manner, being worthy of trust.
authoritativeness
authoritativeness
noun
The quality of possessing authority.
The quality of trustworthiness and reliability.
avicularimorphae
avouch
avouch
noun
(obsolete) evidence; declaration
verb
To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.
To confirm or verify, to affirm the validity of.
To declare freely and openly; to assert.
avouchable
avouchable
adj
Capable of being avouched.
avouched
avouched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avouch
avoucher
avoucher
noun
One who avouches.
avouchers
avouchers
noun
plural of avoucher
avouches
avouches
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of avouch
avouching
avouching
verb
present participle of avouch
avouchment
avouchment
noun
A positive declaration.
The act of avouching.
avouchments
avouchments
noun
plural of avouchment
behaviour
behaviour
noun
Britain standard spelling of behavior.
behavioural
behavioural
adj
(British spelling) Of or pertaining to behaviour.
behaviourally
behaviourally
adv
With respect to behaviour
behaviourism
behaviourism
noun
(British spelling) Standard spelling of behaviorism.
behaviourist
behaviourist
noun
Britain standard spelling of behaviorist.
behaviours
behaviours
noun
plural of behaviour
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
bohuslav
bronchocavernous
bronchovesicular
bronchovesicular
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the bronchus and vesicles.
cauthornville
cervicohumeral
cervicohumeral
adj
Relating to the neck and the shoulder.
chivalrous
chivalrous
adj
(of a man) Honourable, especially to women; gallant.
involving chivalry.
chivalrously
chivalrously
adv
In a chivalrous manner.
chivalrousness
chivalrousness
noun
The state of being chivalrous.
chivalrousnesses
coquilhatville
counteravouch
counteravouchment
curvograph
curvograph
noun
An arcograph.
disavouch
disavouch
verb
(transitive) To disavow.
effluviography
effluviography
noun
(photography, obsolete) The effects upon the dry photographic plate of certain electric emanations, including those later known as the X-rays.
eventognathous
fluviograph
fluviograph
noun
(dated) An instrument for measuring and automatically recording the rise and fall of a river.
guahivo
haviour
haviour
noun
(obsolete) Demeanour, behaviour, comportment.
havioured
haviours
heliogravure
heliogravure
noun
An engraving of this kind.
The process of photographic engraving.
helvellaceous
helvellaceous
adj
(mycology) Belonging to the Helvellaceae.
houvari
hypovanadious
hypovanadous
inauthoritative
inauthoritative
adj
Not authoritative.
inauthoritativeness
inauthoritativeness
noun
The quality of being inauthoritative.
ischiocavernosus
ischiocavernosus
noun
(anatomy) A muscle just below the surface of the perineum, used to flex the anus, stabilize the erect penis (in males), and tense the vagina (in females).
ischiocavernous
ischiocavernous
adj
Synonym of ischiocavernosal
kurchatovium
kurchatovium
noun
(physics) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
lithogravure
lithophotogravure
misbehaviour
misbehaviour
noun
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of misbehavior
nonauthoritative
nonauthoritative
Adjective
Not authoritative.
nonauthoritatively
nonauthoritativeness
nonchivalrous
nonchivalrously
nonchivalrousness
nonexhaustive
nonexhaustive
adj
Not exhaustive
nonexhaustively
nonexhaustiveness
outachieved
outachieved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outachieve
outachieves
outachieves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outachieve
outachieving
outachieving
verb
present participle of outachieve
outvanish
overbashful
overbashful
adj
Excessively bashful.
overbashfully
overbashfulness
overbashfulness
noun
Excessive bashfulness.
overdistraught
overdraught
overdraught
noun
(chiefly Britain) An overdraft.
overenthusiasm
overenthusiasm
noun
Excessive enthusiasm.
overenthusiastic
overenthusiastic
adj
excessively enthusiastic
overenthusiastically
overenthusiastically
adv
With excessive enthusiasm.
overexhaust
overexhausted
overexhausting
overexhausts
overfaithful
overfaithful
adj
Too faithful.
overfaithfully
overfaithfully
adv
In an overfaithful manner.
overfaithfulness
overfraught
overfraught
adj
Full of distress; overloaded with cares or worries.
verb
past participle of overfreight
overhaughtily
overhaughtiness
overhaughty
overhaughty
adj
Excessively haughty.
overhaul
overhaul
noun
(firefighting) The process after the fire appears extinguished in which the firefighters search the structure for signs of hot spots that may cause the structure to reignite. Often this includes the process of salvage under the blanket term, salvage and overhaul.
A major repair, renovation, or revision.
verb
(nautical) To keep (running rigging) clear, and see that no hitch occurs.
(transitive) To search (a ship) for contraband goods.
To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.
To pass, overtake, or travel past.
overhauled
overhauled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overhaul
overhauler
overhauler
noun
One who overhauls.
overhauling
overhauling
noun
The act by which something is overhauled.
verb
present participle of overhaul
overhauls
overhauls
noun
(colloquial, US) An overall.
plural of overhaul
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overhaul
overhuman
overhumane
overhumanity
overhumanize
overhumanize
verb
(transitive) To overly humanize a nonhuman or subhuman entity.
overhumanized
overhumanized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overhumanize
overhumanizing
overhumanizing
verb
present participle of overhumanize
overlaugh
overlaunch
overlaunch
verb
(shipbuilding, transitive) To run the butts or scarphs of planks or pieces of timber to a certain distance beyond the adjacent ones, in order to strengthen the work.
overpurchase
overpurchase
noun
An expensive purchase.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To pay too dear a price.
To buy too much of something.
overpurchased
overpurchased
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overpurchase
overpurchasing
overpurchasing
verb
present participle of overpurchase
overraught
overraught
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of overreach
overslaugh
overslaugh
noun
(US, dialect) A bar in a river.
verb
(US, dialect, slang, transitive) To hinder or stop, as by an overslaugh or impediment.
overslaughed
overslaughed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overslaugh
overslaughing
overslaughing
verb
present participle of overslaugh
overslaughs
overslaughs
noun
plural of overslaugh
oversqueamish
oversqueamish
adj
Excessively squeamish.
oversqueamishly
oversqueamishness
oversqueamishness
noun
The quality of being oversqueamish.
overtaught
overtaught
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overteach
phosphoenolpyruvate
phosphoenolpyruvate
noun
(organic chemistry) An important intermediate in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis, having the chemical formula C₃H₅O₆P
photogravure
photogravure
noun
(countable) A print so made.
(uncountable) An intaglio process for printing photographic reproductions in newspapers and books.
verb
To print by this process.
photogravurist
photovisual
photovisual
adj
(astronomy) Relating to the magnitude of a star as measured by the size of its image on an isochromatic photographic emulsion.
(optics) Of certain achromatic lenses, having the same focus for the actinic and for the brightest of the visual rays.
pluviograph
pluviograph
noun
An instrument for measuring the amount of water that has fallen (i.e. a rain gauge), with a feature to register the data in real time to demonstrate rainfall over a short period, often an automated graphing instrument.
pluviographic
pluviographic
adj
Relating to pluviography.
pluviographical
pluviography
pluviography
noun
The graphic presentation of precipitation data.
The use of a pluviograph; the automatic recording of precipitation.
pneumoventriculography
pneumoventriculography
noun
ventriculography of the ventricles of the larynx
pseudoapprehensive
pseudoapprehensively
reavouch
reavouch
verb
To avouch again.
rhabdovirus
rhabdovirus
noun
Any of the rod-shaped viruses belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae.
saviourhood
saviourhood
noun
The status of being a saviour.
saviourship
saviourship
noun
The dignity or office of a saviour.
semichivalrous
semichivalrous
adj
Partly chivalrous.
shavuot
shavuot
Proper noun
A Jewish holiday that occurs in the spring, a harvest festival, also commemorating the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai.
shavuoth
sulphovanadate
sulphovinate
superchivalrous
superchivalrous
adj
Very chivalrous.
superchivalrously
superchivalrousness
thoreauvian
thoreauvian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American writer and philosopher, or his writings.
tracheloclavicular
unauthoritative
unauthoritative
Adjective
Not authoritative.
unauthoritatively
unauthoritatively
adv
In an unauthoritative manner.
unauthoritativeness
unauthoritativeness
noun
The quality of being unauthoritative.
unauthoritiveness
unavouchable
unavouchableness
unavouchably
unavouched
unavouched
adj
Not avouched.
unchivalrous
unchivalrous
adj
Not chivalrous.
unchivalrously
unchivalrously
adv
In an unchivalrous manner; without chivalry.
unchivalrousness
unchivalrousness
noun
The quality of being unchivalrous; lack of chivalry.