(hydrology) a stream, conduit, pond or reservoir, of a hydroelectric power plant at the outlet of the turbines.
afterbody
afterbody
noun
(astronautics) A section or piece of a launch vehicle, rocket, or spacecraft that enters the atmosphere unprotected behind the nose cone or other body that is protected for entry.
(astronomy) A companion body that trails a satellite or spacecraft.
(nautical) The part of a vessel abaft midships.
The afterpart of a vehicle.
antifibrinolysin
antifibrinolysis
artzybasheff
babyproofed
babyproofed
adj
Made babyproof.
babyproofing
babyproofing
noun
The act or process of making babyproof.
bailiffry
ballyllumford
barefacedly
barefacedly
adv
In a barefaced manner
barfly
barfly
noun
(slang, derogatory) a person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment
(slang, derogatory) a promiscuous person, especially a woman, who frequents bars hoping to find sexual partners
barfy
barfy
adj
(informal) Disgusting.
baufrey
beffrey
beffroy
belfry
belfry
noun
(architecture) A part of a large tower or steeple, specifically for containing bells.
(architecture) A tower or steeple specifically for containing bells, especially as part of a church.
(dialectal) A shed.
(obsolete) A movable tower used in sieges.
(obsolete) An alarm-tower; a watchtower containing an alarm-bell.
benefactory
benefactory
adj
Yielding benefit; doing good.
noun
One who gives benefit to others; a benefactor.
beneficiary
beneficiary
adj
Bestowed as a gratuity.
Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
noun
(insurance) One who benefits from the payout of an insurance policy.
(law) One who benefits from the distribution, especially out of a trust or estate.
One who benefits or receives an advantage.
beneficiaryship
beneficiaryship
noun
The role or status of beneficiary.
benzofuryl
benzoylformic
beryciform
beryciform
adj
(zoology) Belonging to the Beryciformes, an order of ray-finned fishes
noun
Any fish of the order Beryciformes
bifariously
bifariously
adv
In a bifarious manner.
bifilarly
bifilarly
adv
In a bifilar manner.
biformity
biformity
noun
A double form.
bifurcately
bifurcately
adv
In a bifurcate manner.
bodysurf
bodysurf
verb
To ride waves either without equipment or with a handboard.
bodysurfed
bodysurfed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bodysurf
bodysurfer
bodysurfer
noun
One who bodysurfs.
bodysurfers
bodysurfers
noun
plural of bodysurfer
bodysurfing
bodysurfing
verb
present participle of bodysurf
bodysurfs
bodysurfs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bodysurf
bombyciform
borofluohydric
bourgeoisify
bourgeoisify
Verb
To make bourgeois.
boyfriend
boyfriend
noun
A male friend.
A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
boyfriends
boyfriends
noun
plural of boyfriend
brachyfacial
brachyfacial
adj
(anatomy) Having a short face.
brandify
brazenfacedly
brieflessly
brieflessly
adv
(law) Lacking briefs (clients).
briefly
briefly
adv
(duration) For a brief period.
(manner) In a brief manner, summarily.
To be brief, in short.
brimfully
brimfully
adv
In a brimful manner
bronzify
bronzify
verb
(transitive) To turn into bronze.
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become bronze in colour, as by tanning.
brufsky
brutify
brutify
verb
(transitive) To make like a brute; to make senseless or unfeeling; to brutalize.
brutifying
brutifying
verb
present participle of brutify
buffaloberry
buffaloberry
noun
Any of several shrubs, of the genus Shepherdia, native to North America.
The edible berry of these plants.
buffoonery
buffoonery
noun
The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.
butterfly
butterfly
noun
(alternate history) A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
(finance) A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
(in the plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.
(medicine, attributive) A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
(now rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.
(sports) A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.
(swimming) The butterfly stroke.
A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
A person who changes partners frequently.
Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic).
verb
(transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
(transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
(transitive, of the point of divergence of an alternate history scenario) To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
butterflyer
butterflyer
noun
Alternative form of butterflier
butterflyers
butterflyers
noun
plural of butterflyer
butterflyfish
butterflyfish
noun
Any of a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and coralfish are also included in this group. Butterflyfish are fairly small, mostly from 12 to 22 cm (c.7-9 in) in length.
butterflyfishes
butterflyfishes
noun
plural of butterflyfish
butterflying
butterflying
verb
present participle of butterfly
butterflylike
butterflylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a butterfly.
butteryfingered
byssiferous
byssiferous
adj
Bearing a byssus or tuft.
carbonify
carbonify
verb
To convert to carbon; to burn or caramelize.
cerebriformly
cerebriformly
adv
In a cerebriform manner.
certifiability
certifiability
noun
The quality of being certifiable.
certifiably
certifiably
adv
Genuinely
Undoubtedly, demonstrably.
With the potential for certification.
coffeeberry
coffeeberry
noun
A shrub with glossy green leaves and bright red fruits that look like those of the coffee tree, native to the far western edge of North America, from Oregon to Baja California, Frangula californica
colymbiform
colymbriformes
comfortability
comfortability
noun
Synonym of comfort (“contentment, ease”)
Synonym of comfortableness (“the quality or state of being comfortable or relaxed”)
comfortably
comfortably
adv
Easily; without effort or difficulty.
In a comfortable manner.
confabulatory
confabulatory
adj
colloquial
confabulating (fabricating)
conversational
confirmability
confirmability
noun
The state or property of being capable of being confirmed.
conforbably
conformability
conformability
noun
conformableness
conformably
conformably
adv
With or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.
corymbiferous
corymbiferous
adj
(botany) Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.
corymbiform
corymbiform
adj
(pathology, of a lesion) clustered
Having the form of a corymb
craftsbury
cribriformity
cribriformity
noun
The condition of being cribriform
cymbaeform
cymbiform
cymbiform
adj
(botany) Elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as in the glumes of many grasses.
cystofibroma
cystofibroma
noun
(pathology) A fibroma containing cysts
daftberry
defibrillatory
deflagrability
deflagrability
noun
(chemistry, archaic) The quality of being deflagrable.
deformability
deformability
noun
(countable) A measure of the extent to which something is deformable (under standard conditions)
(uncountable) The state of being deformable
defrayable
defrayable
adj
Capable of being defrayed.
differentiability
differentiability
noun
The ability to be differentiated.
diffrangibility
diffrangibility
noun
Ability to be diffracted.
discomfortably
disconformably
disconformably
adv
In a disconformable manner
diversifiability
diversifiability
noun
The quality or capacity of being diversifiable.
doftberry
embryoferous
embryoniferous
embryoniferous
adj
(biology) Having an embryo.
embryoniform
embryoniform
adj
(biology) Like an embryo in form.
enforceability
enforceability
noun
The quality of being enforceable.
enforcibility
enforcibility
noun
Alternative form of enforceability
factorability
factorability
noun
(mathematics) The condition of being factorable.
fairbury
fairbury
Proper noun
A city in Illinois, USA.
A city in Nebraska, USA
farkleberry
farkleberry
noun
(countable) A berry from a shrub of this species.
(uncountable) A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium arboreum) native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri, and south to Florida and eastern Texas, and taking the form of a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3-5 m (rarely 9 m) tall.
faussebraye
faussebraye
noun
(military) A second rampart, exterior and parallel to the main rampart, and considerably below its level.
faussebrayed
favorability
favorability
noun
Something which is favorable
The quality or degree of being viewed favorably
favorably
favorably
adv
In a favorable manner.
favourably
favourably
adv
(Britain, Canada) In a favourable manner.
feaberry
feaberry
noun
(UK, dialect, archaic) A gooseberry.
febricity
febricity
noun
feverishness
febrility
febrility
Noun
feverishness
february
feebleheartedly
fenberry
fenberry
Noun
The cranberry.
fermentability
fermentability
noun
The condition of being fermentable
ferreby
ferromolybdenum
ferromolybdenum
noun
An iron-molybdenum alloy.
ferryboat
ferryboat
noun
(nautical) A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule
ferryboats
ferryboats
noun
plural of ferryboat
ferrysburg
fertilisability
fertilizability
fertilizability
noun
The condition of being, or the extent to which something is fertilizable
feverberry
fibbery
fibbery
noun
The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
fibrillary
fibrillary
adj
Of or pertaining to fibrils, or nanoscale fibers
fibrinogenically
fibrinolyses
fibrinolyses
noun
plural of fibrinolysis
fibrinolysin
fibrinolysin
noun
(biochemistry) An enzyme derived from plasma of bovine origin, or extracted from cultures of certain bacteria, that attacks and inactivates fibrin.
fibrinolysis
fibrinolysis
noun
The process wherein a fibrin clot, the product of coagulation, is broken down.
fibrinolytic
fibrinolytic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or producing fibrinolysis.
noun
A substance or drug that produces fibrinolysis.
fibrocrystalline
fibrocyst
fibrocystic
fibrocystic
adj
(pathology) Having increased fibrosis together with increased cystic spaces.
fibrocystoma
fibrocyte
fibrocyte
noun
An inactive connective tissue cell that is capable of forming collagen
fibrocytic
fibrocytic
adj
Relating to fibrocytes
fibrofatty
fibrofatty
adj
(of tissue) fibrous and fatty
fibromyalgia
fibromyalgia
noun
(medicine, pathology) A condition characterised by chronic pain, stiffness, and tenderness of the muscles, tendons, and joints.