of. Sometimes used instead of abductor when referring to the anatomical muscles.
accoutered
accoutered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accouter
accursedly
accursedly
adv
(degree, somewhat dated) Damnably; extremely.
In an accursed manner.
acensuador
acequiador
acerbitude
acerbitude
noun
(archaic) Sourness and harshness; acerbity.
acquirenda
acquirenda
noun
plural of acquirendum
acridinium
acridinium
noun
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) Any cation produced by protonation of an acridine.
acridonium
acridonium
noun
Alternative form of acridinium
acropodium
acropodium
noun
(anatomy) The upper surface of the foot
(architecture) A plinth or pedestal bearing a statue
ambuscader
ambuscader
noun
One who ambushes, or who is involved in an ambush.
anacardium
androecium
androecium
noun
(botany) The set of a flower's stamens.
andronicus
archidamus
audiencier
audiencier
noun
A bailiff in certain French courts.
auriculoid
autodermic
auxocardia
background
background
adj
Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
noun
(computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
(computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
(physics) Clipping of background radiation.
A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
verb
(journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
To put in a position that is not prominent.
simple past tense and past participle of backgrind
bandcutter
barracudas
barracudas
noun
plural of barracuda
betuckered
biarcuated
biarcuated
adj
Synonym of biarcuate
bicoloured
bicoloured
adj
Of two colours.
bifurcated
bifurcated
adj
Divided into two branches.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bifurcate
blackguard
blackguard
noun
(archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.
(old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.
verb
(intransitive) To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.
(transitive) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
bradycauma
brevicauda
buchbinder
buckboards
buckboards
noun
plural of buckboard
burchfield
burckhardt
butcherdom
butcherdom
noun
The condition or trade of a butcher.
byproducts
byproducts
noun
plural of byproduct
cacodorous
cadaverous
cadaverous
adj
Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
caducicorn
caducicorn
adj
(zoology) Having deciduous horns or antlers.
cagoulards
cagoulards
noun
plural of cagoulard
calentured
calentured
adj
Afflicted with calenture.
caloriduct
caloriduct
noun
A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.
campground
campground
noun
An area where a camp meeting (a retreat) is held.
An area where tents are pitched.
cannelured
cannelured
adj
Having cannelures
carbuilder
carbuilder
noun
(rail transport, US) A manufacturer of railroad cars.
carbuncled
carbuncled
adj
Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; marked with red sores; pimpled and blotched.
Set with carbuncles (red precious stones).
carburated
carburated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of carburate
carbureted
carbureted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of carburet
carburised
carburised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of carburise
carburized
carburized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of carburize
cardioncus
carduaceae
cardueline
cardueline
adj
(zoology) Belonging to the subfamily Carduelinae of finches.
carfuffled
carpodacus
carpodetus
cassaundra
caudalward
caudalward
adj
Having a caudal orientation
adv
In a caudal direction
cauterised
cauterised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cauterise
cauterized
cauterized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cauterize
cedarhurst
centaurdom
centaurdom
noun
The condition of being, or resembling, a centaur.
The world or realm of centaurs.
ceramidium
ceramidium
noun
(phycology) In macroalgae in the Rhodomelaceae family, the urn-shaped envelope surrounding the sporogenous filaments of the cystocarp
certitudes
certitudes
noun
plural of certitude
chadbourne
charadrius
chaudfroid
chaudfroid
noun
Alternative form of chaud-froid
chaukidari
cheesecurd
chondrules
chondrules
noun
plural of chondrule
chromidium
chromidium
noun
A granule of extranuclear chromatin in the cytoplasm of a cell
chunderous
chunderous
adj
(Australia, slang) sickening; nauseating
churchward
churchward
adv
Towards a church.
noun
(Christianity) Obsolete spelling of churchwarden
churchyard
churchyard
noun
A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.
chytridium
circulated
circulated
adj
distributed about a circuit
verb
simple past tense and past participle of circulate
circumdate
circumduce
circumduce
verb
(archaic, law, Scotland, transitive) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.
circumduct
circumduct
verb
(anatomy) To move an extremity about an axis so that the distal end delineates a circle whilst the proximal end stays fixed.
(law) Alternative form of circumduce (“to close a case to further proof”)
(law, obsolete) To contravene; to nullify.
(obsolete) To lead about or astray.
clangoured
clangoured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clangour
cloudberry
cloudberry
noun
A species of slow-growing bramble, Rubus chamaemorus.
The fruit of these plants.
cloudburst
cloudburst
noun
A sudden heavy rainstorm.
cloudcroft
cloudwards
cloudwards
adv
Towards the clouds; upwards
clubridden
coadjutors
coadjutors
noun
plural of coadjutor
coadjutrix
coadjutrix
noun
A female coadjutor
An assistant (and eventual successor) to an abbess
coastguard
coastguard
noun
Alternative spelling of coast guard
coauthered
coauthored
coauthored
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coauthor
coenduring
coenduring
verb
present participle of coendure
cofounders
cofounders
noun
plural of cofounder
coguardian
coguardian
noun
A joint guardian.
coldturkey
colubridae
comburendo
compounder
compounder
noun
(UK, archaic) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
(UK, historical) A Jacobite who favoured the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.
A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
comproduce
concluders
concluders
noun
plural of concluder
conductors
conductors
noun
plural of conductor
conductory
conductory
adj
Able to conduct (electricity, etc.)
condurango
condurango
noun
(medicine) The bark of a South American vine, Marsdenia cundurango, of the milkweed family, once erroneously believed to cure cancer.
condurrite
condurrite
noun
(mineralogy) A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide.
configured
configured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of configure
confounder
confounder
noun
(mathematics) A factor, in data analysis, that causes the effects of two distinct processes to be indistinguishable; a confounding variable
A person who confounds
conundrums
conundrums
noun
plural of conundrum
coprodaeum
coproduced
coproduced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coproduce
coproducer
coproducer
noun
Any of a group of producers who work together on a coproduction
coproduces
coproduces
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coproduce
corduroyed
corduroyed
adj
Dressed in corduroy.
Having a ribbed pattern, like corduroy.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of corduroy
coresidual
coresidual
noun
(mathematics) Any of four points on the common chord of a cubic curve intercepted by a cone
coriandrum
corrugated
corrugated
adj
Bent into regular curved folds or grooves.
Marked with parallel folds, ridges or furrows.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of corrugate
coruscated
coruscated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coruscate
counterbid
counterbid
noun
(business) A bid made in response to a previous bid by another party
verb
To make a counterbid
counterend
courtesied
courtesied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of courtesy
courtyards
courtyards
noun
plural of courtyard
crapaudine
crapaudine
noun
(cooking) A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
(cooking) A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
(obsolete) An ulcer on the coronet of a horse, sheep, or donkey.
(rare) The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
A toadstone.
An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
crassitude
crassitude
noun
(archaic) thickness, coarseness.
The state or quality of being crass.
creedbound
crenulated
crenulated
adj
Alternative form of crenulate
crocodilus
crocodylus
crunchweed
cuadrillas
cuadrillas
noun
plural of cuadrilla
cumberland
cumberland
Proper noun
A maritime former border county of England, since 1974 absorbed into Cumbria.
A city in Maryland, USA
A CDP in Virginia, USA
A river in the eastern United States, tributary to the Ohio.
A town on British Columbia, Canada.
cummerbund
cummerbund
noun
(fashion) A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as around a man's waist together with a tuxedo or dinner jacket.
cundurango
cundurango
noun
Alternative form of condurango
curcuddoch
curdsville
curledness
curledness
noun
The state of being curled.
curlyheads
curlyheads
noun
plural of curlyhead
curmudgeon
curmudgeon
noun
(archaic) A miser.
An ill-tempered person full of stubborn ideas or opinions.
cursedness
cursedness
noun
The state or quality of being cursed.
curvedness
curvedness
noun
The property of being curved.
cushewbird
cutterhead
cutterhead
noun
A rotating cylindrical cutting tool located at the head of a drill, boring machine, or the like.
dampcourse
debauchery
debauchery
noun
(archaic) Seduction from duty.
Indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition.
debouchure
debouchure
noun
The outward opening of a river, valley, or strait.
decamerous
decamerous
adj
Synonym of decempartite
decandrous
decandrous
adj
(botany) Having ten stamens
Of or pertaining to the Linnaean class of plants Decandria
decangular
decangular
adj
(rare) Having ten angles.
decarhinus
decoloured
decoloured
adj
(British spelling) From which the colour has been removed; bleached.
decorously
decorously
adv
In a decorous manner.
decurrence
decurrence
noun
The act of running down; a lapse.
decurrency
decurrency
noun
Alternative form of decurrence
decussoria
dedecorous
dedecorous
adj
(obsolete) disgraceful; unbecoming
dedicature
democritus
democritus
Proper noun
A Greek philosopher (c.460-c.370 BC). The originator of the atomic theory together with his teacher Leucippus.
denouncers
denouncers
noun
plural of denouncer
denticular
denticular
adj
Synonym of denticulate
deobstruct
deobstruct
verb
(chiefly medicine) To clear (something) of obstructions.