a stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain
amplectant
amplectant
adj
(botany) That clasps a support, especially by twining around it
clasping or embracing
antechapel
antechapel
noun
The outer part of the west end of a chapel.
antileptic
antileptic
adj
(medicine) soothing, mood-stabilizing
antipolice
antipolice
adj
Opposed to or prejudiced against the police
aplacental
aplacental
adj
(zoology) Lacking a placenta; belonging to the Aplacentata.
beneplacit
cantaloupe
cantaloupe
noun
(Australia, US) Having a rough skin resembling netting; also known as muskmelon or rockmelon.
(UK, Ireland) Smooth-skinned, also known as true cantaloupe, found in the Middle East and also grown in Europe.
An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.
capitoline
centipedal
centipedal
adj
Having 100 or another large number of legs or appendages.
Of or resembling a centipede.
centiplume
centupling
centupling
verb
present participle of centuple
chainplate
chainplate
noun
(nautical) A plate on the side of a sailing ship to which the shrouds are attached.
cineplasty
cisplatine
clientship
clientship
noun
The position of a client.
clothespin
clothespin
noun
A clip or fastener used to secure garments to a clothesline while drying, and sometimes for other applications requiring holding or pinching.
verb
(transitive) To affix with a clothespin.
compellent
complacent
complacent
adj
Apathetic with regard to an apparent need or problem.
Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
complanate
complanate
adj
Flattened to a level surface.
verb
(transitive) To make level.
complement
complement
noun
(astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
(biochemistry) Synonym of alexin
(computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
(computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
(computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
(computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
(economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
(electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
(genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
(grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
(heraldry) Fullness (of the moon).
(immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
(logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
(music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
(nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
(now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.
(obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory.
(obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.
(optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
(set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
verb
(obsolete) Old form of compliment
To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
completing
completing
verb
present participle of complete
completion
completion
noun
(American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
(law) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
(mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
(mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.
The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect.
Misspelling of complement.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To pay a compliment (to someone); to express a favourable opinion (of someone).
conceptual
conceptual
adj
Of or relating to conceptualism.
Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception.
contraplex
contraplex
adj
(telegraphy) Of message signals, passing in opposite directions at the same time.
couplement
couplement
noun
(obsolete) union; combination; a coupling; a pair
crankplate
ctenoplana
dentiscalp
dentiscalp
noun
An instrument for scraping the teeth; a toothpick.
diplanetic
elephantic
elephantic
adj
(not comparable) Having elephantiasis
Of or relating to elephants
gigantic; massive
emplection
emplection
noun
Alternative form of emplecton
entoptical
entoptical
adj
Alternative form of entoptic
epicentral
epicentral
adj
Of or pertaining to an epicentre
noun
(anatomy) An epicentral bone
incomplete
incomplete
adj
(botany) Of a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs.
Not complete; not finished
noun
(Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.
(Usenet) A multipart file posted to Usenet that is incomplete and thus unusable.
A designation of being incomplete.
inculpated
inculpated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of inculpate
inculpates
inculpates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inculpate
inexplicit
inexplicit
adj
Not explicit.
interclasp
interplace
interplace
verb
To place between or among.
neoplastic
neoplastic
adj
of or relating to a neoplasm, neoplastics, neoplasty or neoplasia
nickeltype
opalescent
opalescent
adj
Exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal.
pachnolite
pachnolite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.
pallescent
pallescent
adj
Growing or becoming pale.
paniculate
paniculate
adj
Having a branched cluster of flowers.
parcelment
parentelic
peculating
peculating
verb
present participle of peculate
peculation
peculation
noun
(law, chiefly historical) The wrongful appropriation or embezzlement of shared or public property, usually by a person entrusted with the guardianship of that property.
pedantical
pedantical
Adjective
Pedantic.
pedanticly
pedanticly
adv
Obsolete form of pedantically.
pentacular
pentacular
adj
Of or relating to a pentacle.
pentadecyl
pentadecyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of very many isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₁₅H₃₁, formally derived from pentadecane by the loss of a hydrogen atom
pentelican
pentelican
Adjective
Pentelic
pentelicus
percentile
percentile
noun
(statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
(statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.
percentual
percentual
adj
Of, pertaining to, or expressed as a percentage
periculant
perlection
perlection
noun
the reading through of something.
pestilence
pestilence
noun
(archaic) Anything harmful to morals or public order.
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
petulances
petulances
noun
plural of petulance
phlyctaena
phlyctaena
noun
Alternative form of phlyctena
phlyctenae
phlyctenae
noun
plural of phlyctena
phonetical
phonetical
adj
of, or pertaining to phonetics.
pinacolate
pinacolate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any derivative of pinacol in which an atom is attached to the two oxygen atoms of pinacol
placements
placements
noun
plural of placement
placentary
placentary
adj
Relating to the placenta.
noun
(botany) The projecting line or ridge formed by the union of several placentas.
placentate
placentoid
placentoma
plancheite
planchette
planchette
noun
(chiefly Canada) One of the round colored dots pressed into paper money, used to distinguish authentic currency from counterfeit currency.
(spiritualism) A type of Ouija board. (A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes interpreted as of oracular or supernatural import.)
A plane table.
A small plank.
planchment
plasticine
plasticine
noun
Modeling clay.
plecotinae
pleonastic
pleonastic
adj
(grammar) Redundant.
(linguistics) Characterised by the use of redundant words or an excessive number of words.
(not comparable) Of, or relating to pleonasm.
pleonectic
pleonectic
adj
Greedy; covetous.
pleuronect
pleustonic
pleustonic
adj
Relating to the pleuston.
polyactine
polyactine
noun
The ray of a polyactinal sponge
polycletan
polyctenid
polyctenid
noun
(zoology) Any bug in the family Polyctenidae.
polyethnic
polyethnic
adj
(of a group or society) That contains people who together represent multiple ethnicities, especially such that they coexist and interact harmoniously.
(of a person) Who identifies as being of multiple ethnicities.
ponticello
postcoenal
postulance
pratincole
pratincole
noun
Any of several species of birds in the genera Glareola or Stiltia of the family Glareolidae.
precentral
precentral
adj
(anatomy) Anterior to a centre.
preconsult
precontrol
preinflict
prelecting
prelecting
verb
present participle of prelect
prelection
prelection
noun
A public lecture or reading, especially delivered at a college or university.
preneglect
pulsatance
pulsatance
noun
(physics) angular frequency (in radians per second)
punctulate
punctulate
adj
Marked with small punctures or spots.
verb
(transitive) To mark with small punctures or spots.
pycnostyle
pycnostyle
adj
(architecture) Having an intercolumniation of 1.5 times the diameter of the shaft of a column.
noun
(architecture) A colonnade of this kind.
scopoletin
scopoletin
noun
A coumarin found in the roots of plants in the genus Scopolia.
septmoncel
septuncial
splenocyte
splenocyte
noun
(biology, immunology) A type of monocyte characteristically found in spleen tissue
telephonic
telephonic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or transmitted by telephony.
transplace
transplace
verb
(transitive) to move or put something in an opposite or different place; to transpose