(military) The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping.
An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
Good-faith acceptance of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
accountably
accountably
adv
In an accountable manner.
accumbency
accumbency
noun
(rare) The state of being accumbent or reclining.
amblyrhynchus
ambulomancy
ambulomancy
noun
Any of various forms of divination that involve walking, often in circles.
autosymbiontic
backcountry
backcountry
noun
A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible; the boondocks.
bankrupcy
bankrupcy
noun
Misspelling of bankruptcy.
bankruptcy
bankruptcy
noun
(finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.
bathycurrent
binocularity
binocularity
noun
Binocular vision.
binocularly
binocularly
adv
In a binocular manner.
bishydroxycoumarin
bishydroxycoumarin
noun
(organic chemistry) Synonym of dicumarol
bouffancy
bouffancy
noun
The quality of being bouffant.
bounceably
brachygnathous
brachygnathous
adj
Relating to brachygnathia
brachyuran
brachyuran
adj
Of or pertaining to crabs.
noun
(zoology) A crab.
brachyuranic
brachyuranic
adj
Synonym of brachyuran
bronchopulmonary
bronchopulmonary
adj
Of or pertaining to both the bronchi and the lungs.
buccinatory
buccinatory
adj
Relating to the buccinator muscle.
buccopharyngeal
buccopharyngeal
adj
Relating to the buccopharynx
Relating to, or connecting the mouth and pharynx
buoyance
buoyance
noun
The state or quality of being buoyant
buoyances
buoyances
noun
plural of buoyance
buoyancies
buoyancies
noun
plural of buoyancy
buoyancy
buoyancy
noun
(by extension) Resilience or cheerfulness.
(physics) The upward force on a body immersed or partly immersed in a fluid.
The ability of an object to stay afloat in a fluid.
butyrolactone
butyrolactone
noun
(organic chemistry) Any lactone derived from a hydroxybutyric acid
cambyuskan
canterbury
canterbury
noun
A rack for magazines or other papers, usually wooden, often done as a decorative piece.
carnaubyl
cayubaban
censurability
censurability
Noun
The state or condition of being censurable; blameworthiness.
censurably
censurably
adv
In a censurable manner.
chrysobalanus
churnability
churnability
noun
The condition of being churnable
circumambiency
circumambiency
Noun
The act of surrounding or encompassing.
circumambiently
circumambiently
adv
In a circumambient manner.
circumstantiability
claybourne
cogitabundity
cogitabundity
noun
(archaic, literary) The state of being cogitabund, or deep in thought.
cogitabundly
commensurability
commensurability
noun
The quality of being commensurable or commensurate
commensurably
commensurably
adv
In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
communicability
communicability
noun
The quality of being communicable.
communicably
communicably
adv
In a communicable manner.
concubinary
concubinary
adj
Of or pertaining to a concubine
noun
The state of being a concubine
concubitancy
conduceability
confabulatory
confabulatory
adj
colloquial
confabulating (fabricating)
conversational
confusability
confusability
noun
The condition of being confusable.
confusably
confusably
adv
In a confusable way; such that they may be confused.
confutability
confutability
noun
The state of being confutable or disprovable.
conjecturably
conjecturably
adv
In a conjecturable manner
conjugably
connubiality
connubiality
noun
Something characteristic of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness.
The quality of being connubial.
connubially
connubially
adv
as in marriage
constabulary
constabulary
adj
Characteristic of police; police-like, rather than military.
Of or relating to constables.
noun
A police force.
The police in a particular district or area.
construability
construability
noun
The quality of being construable; ability to be construed.
consubstantiality
consubstantiality
noun
The quality of being consubstantial.
consubstantially
consubstantially
adv
In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.
contributary
contributary
adj
Obsolete form of contributory.
corynebacterium
corynebacterium
noun
Any bacterium, of the genus Corynebacterium, many of which are pathogenic or parasitic.
countability
countability
noun
The quality of being countable.
countably
countably
adv
(mathematics) In a way that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
In a countable manner; in a way that can be counted.
counterbattery
counterbattery
adj
(military) Directed against opposing artillery.
cranbury
cryptobranchus
cubomancy
cyclobutane
cyclobutane
noun
(countable, organic chemistry) Any derivative of this compound.
(uncountable, organic chemistry) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₄H₈; a light inflammable gas.
cynocrambaceous
deoxyribonuclease
deoxyribonuclease
noun
(biochemistry, genetics) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of DNA.
desoxyribonuclease
desoxyribonuclease
noun
Alternative form of deoxyribonuclease
dubiocrystalline
dubitancy
dubitancy
noun
doubt; uncertainty
enunciability
enunciability
noun
The quality or degree of being enunciable.
exuberancy
exuberancy
noun
Archaic form of exuberance.
hydrocarbonaceous
hydrocarbonaceous
adj
(chemistry, archaic) Of the nature of, or containing, hydrocarbons.
hydrocarbonous
hydrocarbonous
adj
(archaic) Being or relating to a hydrocarbon.
incalculability
incalculability
noun
The quality or state of being incalculable.
incalculably
incalculably
adv
In an incalculable manner.
incensurably
incommensurability
incommensurability
noun
The state or characteristic of being incommensurable.
incommensurably
incommensurably
adv
In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
incommunicability
incommunicability
noun
The quality or state of being incommunicable.
incommunicably
incommunicably
adv
In an incommunicable manner or fashion.
incommutability
incommutability
noun
The quality or state of being incommutable.
incommutably
incommutably
adv
In an incommutable manner.
incomputably
incomputably
adv
To an incomputable degree.
inconfutably
inconsumably
inconsumably
adv
Such that it cannot be consumed or used up; inexhaustibly.
incubatory
incubatory
adj
Serving for incubation.
inculpability
inculpability
noun
Lack of culpability; freedom from blame.
inculpably
inculpably
adv
In an inculpable way; blamelessly.
incurability
incurability
noun
The quality or state of being incurable—not being able to be cured.
incurably
incurably
adv
In an incurable manner.
ineducability
ineducability
noun
Inability to be educated.
ineluctability
ineluctability
noun
The state or condition of being ineluctable.
ineluctably
ineluctably
adv
In an ineluctable manner.
inexcusability
inexcusability
Noun
The quality of being inexcusable.
inexcusably
inexcusably
adv
In an inexcusable manner.
influencability
influenceability
influenceability
noun
The quality or state of being influenceable.
inoculability
inoculability
noun
The quality of being inoculable.
inscrutability
inscrutability
noun
The condition of being inscrutable
inscrutably
inscrutably
adv
In an inscrutable manner.
intercommunicability
intercommunicability
noun
The ability to intercommunicate.
jubilancy
jubilancy
noun
(rare) Jubilation.
lautenclavicymbal
membranaceously
membranaceously
adv
In a membranaceous manner.
neuroembryological
neuroembryological
adj
Of or pertaining to neuroembryology.
nonabsolutistically
nonautobiographically
nonbuoyancy
nonbureaucratically
noncalculably
noncensurably
noncoagulability
noncoagulability
noun
The property of not being coagulable.
noncommunicability
nonconjecturably
nonconnubiality
nonconnubially
nonconstruability
noncontinuably
noncrushability
nonculpability
nonculpably
noncultivability
nonexcusably
nonexuberancy
nonprotuberancy
nonpurchasability
nonsubtractively
nontubercularly
obscurancy
perturbancy
perturbancy
noun
Alternative form of perturbance
prebankruptcy
prebankruptcy
adj
Preceding a bankruptcy.
probankruptcy
pronunciability
pronunciability
noun
pronounceability
protuberancy
protuberancy
noun
A protuberance.
The quality or state of being protuberant.
pseudobenefactory
quindecasyllabic
quindecasyllabic
adj
(prosody) Having fifteen syllables.
quinquesyllabic
quinquesyllabic
Adjective
Having five syllables.
rambunctiously
rambunctiously
adv
In a rambunctious manner.
rebankruptcy
reconfigurability
reconfigurability
noun
The state or degree of being reconfigurable.
somnambulancy
somnambulancy
noun
Alternative form of somnambulance
somnambulency
somnambulically
somnambulically
adv
In a somnambulic manner.
somnambulistically
somnambulistically
adv
In somnambulistic fashion; as if sleepwalking.
subadjacently
subagency
subagency
noun
An agency that is subordinate to, or part of, another.