(anatomy) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or from the median line of the body
One who abducts; a kidnapper.
aboideau
aboideau
noun
(Canada, Acadian) A tide gate, designed to protect marshland, so constructed as to let out water at low tide, but to prevent an influx of water at high tide.
abounded
abounded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abound
abounder
abounder
noun
One who has plenty, one who abounds (in something).
abscound
acuerdos
adductor
adductor
noun
(anatomy) A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor
adipsous
adipsous
adj
(medicine) thirst-quenching
adjourns
adjourns
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjourn
adjurors
adjurors
noun
plural of adjuror
adjustor
adjustor
noun
Alternative form of adjuster
adjutory
adjutory
adj
(obsolete) Serving to help or assist.
adolphus
adoretus
adulator
adulator
noun
One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery; one who adulates.
adultoid
adultoid
noun
(sociology) An adolescent who engages in activities that symbolize adult status.
(zoology) A premature adult form of an insect.
aduncous
aduncous
adj
curved inwards; hooked
adustion
adustion
noun
(obsolete) The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
(surgery, obsolete) Cauterization.
aeluroid
aeroduct
aeroduct
noun
A proposed form of ramjet that harnesses charged particles in the upper atmosphere
aidoneus
ailuroid
airbound
airbound
adj
Of a pump etc.: containing too much air, such that the flow is impeded.
albumoid
allodium
allodium
noun
(dated or historical) Freehold land or property; land held in allodial tenure, or one's title to such land.
allround
amounted
amounted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of amount
androuet
aniakudo
annuloid
annuloid
adj
(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Annuloida.
aphodius
arboured
arboured
adj
Containing or situated close to trees.
ardurous
arguendo
arguendo
adv
(law) Used to set off the facts presented in an argument on a point of law from facts in dispute in the case.
(law) for the sake of argument; assuming without deciding; identifying the premises of a hypothetical argument while making it clear that no finding is being made on whether the premises are true.
armoured
armoured
adj
(military) Equipped with armoured vehicles.
Possessing, wearing, or fitted out with armour.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of armour
asmodeus
astounds
astounds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astound
audition
audition
noun
(countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
(rare) Something heard.
(uncountable) The sense of hearing.
An act of hearing; being heard.
verb
(intransitive) To take part in such a performance.
(transitive) To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.
auditors
auditors
noun
plural of auditor
auditory
auditory
adj
Of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing.
noun
(archaic) Synonym of audience.
(archaic) Synonym of auditorium.
aunthood
aunthood
noun
The quality or state of being an aunt.
aureoled
aureoled
adj
Surrounded by a corona or halo.
autacoid
autacoid
noun
(biochemistry) A hormone or similar compound that has a short-term, local effect
authored
authored
verb
simple past tense and past participle of author
autocade
autocade
noun
motorcade
autocide
autocide
noun
(agriculture) Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males.
(bacteriology) A substance produced by a bacterium that is fatal to that bacterium.
(obsolete, rare) A suicidal person.
An act of killing someone with an automobile.
An act of suicide committed by crashing a car.
autocoid
autocoid
noun
Alternative form of autacoid
autodial
autodial
noun
A feature in computer software, etc. that dials a telephone number automatically.
verb
To dial automatically.
autodyne
autodyne
noun
(radio, historical) A circuit that improved radio signal amplification by means of an audion.
autosled
autosled
noun
A motorized sled.
auxobody
avidious
avidious
adj
(obsolete) avid; eager; greedy.
avouched
avouched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avouch
baculoid
badmouth
badmouth
verb
(informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
barbudos
baudouin
baudrons
baudrons
noun
(Britain, dated) cat
beaudoin
beauford
bordeaux
bordeaux
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Bordeaux (“fungicide; wine”)
bordulac
bouchard
boudicca
boundary
boundary
noun
(cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
(cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (four) or 6 (six) runs respectively for the batting team.
(figurative, often in the plural) The bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things (such as one’s comfort zone, privacy, or professional sphere and the realm beyond).
(topology) (of a set) The set of points in the closure of a set S, not belonging to the interior of that set.
The dividing line or location between two areas.
bourgade
broaddus
broadrun
budorcas
bulltoad
bundoora
bunkload
cabecudo
cadiueio
caducous
caducous
adj
(biology) Of a part of an organism, disappearing in the normal course of development.
(botany) Tending to fall early.
camoudie
candours
candours
noun
plural of candour
caroused
caroused
verb
simple past tense and past participle of carouse
caudillo
caudillo
noun
A leader.
A military dictator, especially one ruling in Spain, Portugal or Latin America.
cauldron
cauldron
noun
(military) A strategic encirclement.
A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.
chaudoin
chaudron
chaudron
noun
Obsolete form of chawdron.
cladodus
cloudage
cloudage
noun
Mass of clouds; cloudiness.
cloudcap
coabound
coadjust
coadjust
verb
To adjust by mutual adaptations.
coadjute
coadjute
verb
To cooperate (with)
codiaeum
conducta
couderay
coupland
courland
courland
Proper noun
A region in western Latvia.
A duchy in that region.
cournand
couvades
couvades
noun
plural of couvade
croupade
croupade
noun
A leap in which the horse pulls its hind legs up towards the belly.
crunodal
crunodal
adj
(geometry) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode.
crusados
crusados
noun
plural of crusado
cruzados
cruzados
noun
plural of cruzado
cuboidal
cuboidal
adj
(geometry) Of, pertaining to, or having the shape of a cuboid
Resembling a cube
cupboard
cupboard
noun
(obsolete) A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet. [14th–18th c.]
(obsolete) Things displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate. [16th–19th c.]
(obsolete) Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food.
A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.
verb
To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
cupolaed
cupolaed
adj
Having one or more cupolas.
custodia
custodia
noun
(rare) pyx (container for the host)
danuloff
dartrous
dartrous
adj
(medicine) Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic.
defamous
defamous
adj
(obsolete) defamatory
dhourras
diabolus
diabolus
noun
(music) Synonym of tritone
diaconus
dialogue
dialogue
noun
(authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
(computing) A dialogue box.
(philosophy) A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
verb
(informal, business) To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.
(obsolete) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
(transitive) To put into dialogue form.
digamous
digamous
adj
(botany) androgynous
Pertaining to a second marriage, i.e. one taking place after the death of the first wife or first husband.
dinosaur
dinosaur
noun
(colloquial) any member of the clade Dinosauria other than birds.
(figuratively, colloquial) Anything no longer in common use or practice.
(figuratively, colloquial) Something or someone that is very old or old-fashioned, or is not willing to change and adapt.
(proscribed) Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago.
(sciences) any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, especially those that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.
diovular
djeloula
domatium
domatium
noun
(entomology, botany) A chamber produced by a plant in which insects, mites, or fungi live. It typically takes the form of a hollow under a leaf, or a system of tunnels in a thorn or stem. Ideally a domatium is a mutualistic adaptation, not to be confused with simple damage by a borer or gall-forming pest, though commonly there is no sharp distinction between domatia of value to the plant and galls caused by harmful aphids and mites for example.
donaghue
doralium
douanier
douanier
noun
An officer of the French customs.
doughman
douglass
douglass
Proper noun
a less common spelling of Douglas.
doumaist
doundake
douschka
douzaine
douzaine
noun
(Guernsey) A parish council, consisting of a dean and twelve douzeniers.
downhaul
downhaul
noun
(nautical) Any rope used to haul down a sail or spar.
dromaeus
dualogue
duboisia
duboisia
noun
(medicine, dated) duboisine
ducatoon
ducatoon
noun
(historical) A silver coin formerly used in Holland and other Dutch-speaking territories.
duckboat
dumontia
dundavoe
dunkadoo
dunkadoo
noun
(US, chiefly New Jersey) The American bittern
duodenal
duodenal
adj
Of or pertaining to the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine.
duodenas
duodrama
duograph
duograph
noun
(historical) A picture printed from two halftone photographic plates made with the screen set at different angles, and usually printed in two shades of the same colour or in black and one tint.
duomachy
duration
duration
noun
(finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.
(in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war
An amount of time or a particular time interval.
dustcoat
dustcoat
noun
A coat worn as protection from dust.
edacious
edacious
adj
Having an insatiable appetite; voracious, ravenous, piggish.
educator
educator
noun
A person distinguished for their educational work, a teacher.
euchorda
eudaemon
eudaemon
noun
A good or benevolent spirit.
eudorina
eudoxian
eudoxian
Noun
A follower of (died in 370), patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius.
Adjective
Of or relating to (408–355 BC), Greek astronomer and mathematician.
favoured
favoured
adj
(dated) Wearing a favour.
(in combination) Having a certain appearance or physical features.
Treated or regarded with partiality.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of favour
foujdary
foujdary
noun
Alternative form of faujdari
foulards
foulards
noun
plural of foulard
fucoidal
fucoidal
adj
(botany) fucoid
(geology) Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds.
fumaroid
furanoid
furanoid
adj
(organic chemistry) Having a structure based on furan.
noun
(organic chemistry) Any compound whose structure is based on furan.
gadabout
gadabout
noun
A person who restlessly moves from place to place, seeking amusement or the companionship of others.