A simple jet engine consisting essentially of a tube with a means of delivering fuel and ignition into the tube. The engine can only be started in a fast airflow. This type of engine is expected to be able to provide cruising speeds at Mach numbers of around 5 to 7 (5 to 7 times the speed of sound).
boydton
boydton
Proper noun
a small town in Virginia, USA
citydom
custody
custody
noun
(Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.
Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
cystoid
cystoid
adj
Resembling a cyst or bladder.
dacoity
dacoity
noun
(chiefly India, Myanmar) Violent robbery carried out by a dacoit or a gang of dacoits.
dakoity
dakoity
noun
Alternative spelling of dacoity
dayhoit
daytona
destroy
destroy
verb
(US, colloquial, slang) To sing a song poorly.
(bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up.
(colloquial, transitive, hyperbolic) To defeat soundly.
(computing, transitive) To remove data.
(slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
(transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
(transitive) To put down or euthanize.
(transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
(transitive, intransitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
dicotyl
dicotyl
noun
(botany) dicotyledon
dioptry
dioptry
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of diopter
ditolyl
ditolyl
noun
(chemistry) An aromatic hydrocarbon, C₁₄H₁₄, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.
doherty
dorothy
dossety
dotardy
dottily
dottily
adv
In a dotty manner.
doughty
doughty
adj
(dated or archaic) Bold; brave, courageous.
noun
(archaic, rare) A person who is bold or brave.
drayton
drayton
Proper noun
Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones.
a village in Norfolk, England
a hamlet in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England.
a village in Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England.
a village near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.
a village in Somerset, England.
drostdy
drostdy
noun
(historical) A local government district of the Cape Colony (part of modern South Africa).
drouthy
drouthy
adj
(Scotland, US) Droughty, dry.
(Scotland, US) Thirsty.
dryfoot
drylots
duotype
duotype
noun
(historical) A print made from two halftone photographic plates made from the same negative, but etched differently.
dystome
endotys
idiotcy
idiotcy
noun
Archaic spelling of idiocy.
idiotry
idiotry
noun
(obsolete) Idiocy
methody
methody
Noun
A Methodist.
modesty
modesty
noun
(specifically) Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness.
Moderate behaviour; reserve.
The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
notedly
notedly
adv
In a way that is noted; notably.
odylist
odylist
noun
A believer in odylism.
outeyed
outyard
outyard
noun
(beekeeping) A temporary location with better sources of pollen to which a hive is moved during times when the plants in the normal location of the hive have dried up.
verb
(American football) To gain more yards than.
phytoid
phytoid
adj
Resembling a plant, plantlike.
stroyed
stroyed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of stroy
styloid
styloid
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.
Resembling a stylus or pen.
noun
(anatomy) Ellipsis of styloid process..
tardyon
tardyon
noun
(physics) Any particle with non-zero mass (i.e. one that travels more slowly than the speed of light).
throddy
throddy
adj
(UK, dialect, archaic) dumpy; bulky; fat
thyroid
thyroid
adj
(anatomy) Of, relating to, or being the thyroid cartilage.
(anatomy) Of, relating to, or being the thyroid gland.
Suggestive of a disordered thyroid gland.
noun
(anatomy) Ellipsis of thyroid cartilage..
(anatomy) Ellipsis of thyroid gland..
(medicine) An extract prepared from the thyroid gland of animals and used in treating deficiency of thyroid hormones.
thyrold
toadery
todayll
torydom
toyland
toyland
Proper noun
an imaginary land inhabited by living toys
the world of the design, manufacture and marketing of toys
tripody
tripody
noun
(poetry) Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
tutoyed
tutoyed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of tutoy
tylopod
tylopod
noun
(zoology) Any even-toed ungulate mammal, of the suborder Tylopoda, including the camels
typhoid
typhoid
adj
Characterised by or relating to typhus.
noun
(pathology) Short for typhoid fever.
wyandot
wyandot
Proper noun
A Native American people, formed from the Huron confederacy, that lived in and around Ohio.