The comparative study of primitive, illiterate or "savage" cultures.
agriotype
agriotype
noun
An ancestral wild form of a domestic animal or plant.
agromyzid
agromyzid
noun
(entomology) Any member of the family Agromyzidae.
agrypniai
agrypnias
amphigory
amphigory
noun
A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless.
anagyrine
anargyroi
anargyroi
noun
plural of anargyros
archigony
argufying
argufying
verb
present participle of argufy
argyrosis
argyrosis
noun
Synonym of argyria
aroynting
aroynting
verb
present participle of aroynt
arterying
arylating
arylating
adj
(organic chemistry) That inserts aryl groups into molecules.
verb
present participle of arylate
asynergia
asynergia
noun
(pathology) A lack of muscular coordination
aurifying
aurifying
verb
present participle of aurify
barkingly
barkingly
adv
With barking sounds.
betraying
betraying
noun
betrayal
verb
present participle of betray
bewraying
bewraying
noun
The act or process of divulging or revealing information
verb
present participle of bewray
biography
biography
noun
A person's life story, especially one published.
The art of writing this kind of story.
verb
(transitive) To write a biography of.
bracingly
bracingly
adv
In a bracing manner
brandying
brandying
verb
present participle of brandy
bridgeway
burgality
cardialgy
cardialgy
noun
(medicine) Heartburn.
carkingly
carkingly
adv
(archaic) In a carking manner; so as to weary or distress.
carpingly
carpingly
adv
in a carping manner; with complaints.
carryings
carryings
noun
plural of carrying
crannying
crannying
verb
present participle of cranny
cravingly
cravingly
adv
With longing or craving.
crayoning
crayoning
noun
A drawing done in crayon.
verb
present participle of crayon
dairyings
darlingly
darlingly
adv
In a darling way.
dartingly
dartingly
adv
In a darting manner; rapidly.
dayspring
dayspring
noun
(archaic) The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; daybreak.
defraying
defraying
verb
present participle of defray
dignitary
dignitary
adj
Relating to dignity.
noun
An important or influential person, or one of high rank or position.
drygalski
epigraphy
epigraphy
noun
Inscriptions collectively.
The study or decipherment of inscriptions, especially of ancient ones.
estraying
estraying
verb
present participle of estray
fearingly
fearingly
adv
With fear; fearfully.
figurally
figurally
adv
in a figural manner
flaringly
flaringly
adv
In a flaring manner.
fogramity
fragilely
fragilely
adv
In a fragile way or manner.
fragility
fragility
noun
(obsolete) Liability to error and sin; frailty.
The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
Weakness; feebleness.
frugality
frugality
noun
A sparing use; sparingness.
The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; thrift.
gainsayer
gainsayer
noun
A person who gainsays others; a disagreeable person.
One who contradicts or denies what is alleged; an opposer.
garnishry
garnishry
noun
(archaic, rare) adornment
garrulity
garrulity
noun
The state or characteristic of being garrulous.
garyville
gasoliery
germanify
germanify
Verb
To make German.
germanity
gimcracky
gimcracky
adj
Gimcrack.
glabreity
glabriety
glaringly
glaringly
adv
(figurative) So as to be highly visible or obvious; so as to attract notice or attention.
(literally) With intense light.
gracility
gracility
noun
(often anatomy, botany, zoology) The property or condition of being gracile.
grainways
graphicly
graphicly
adv
Archaic form of graphically.
gratility
gratingly
gratingly
adv
So as to grate or jar; in a tiresome or irritating manner.
With a grating sound.
gravidity
gravidity
noun
pregnancy
graylings
graylings
noun
plural of grayling
graysbies
grayville
grazingly
grazingly
adv
So as to graze, or brush closely against.
gryllidae
grypanian
guberniya
guberniya
noun
(historical) A major administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire; a governorate or province.
gynandria
gynarchic
gynarchic
adj
Of or pertaining to gynarchy.
gyrations
gyrations
noun
plural of gyration
gyrinidae
gyromitra
hagiarchy
hagiarchy
noun
A sacred government run by holy people.
handygrip
harpingly
hierogamy
hierogamy
noun
The ritual enactment of sexual relations between gods and goddesses in order to guarantee fertility of crops
hooraying
hooraying
verb
present participle of hooray
hurraying
hurraying
verb
present participle of hurray
hydrating
hydrating
verb
present participle of hydrate
iatrology
iatrology
noun
Medical science.
imaginary
imaginary
adj
(mathematics, of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of √ (called imaginary unit).
Existing only in the imagination.
noun
(mathematics) An imaginary quantity.
(sociology) The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
Imagination; fancy.
ingeniary
ingrately
ingrately
adv
(obsolete) ungratefully
irrigably
irrigably
adv
Such that it can be irrigated.
isography
isography
noun
(archaic) The imitation of another's handwriting.
(mathematics) An automorphism of transformation networks.
(music) The relationship between two pitch class sets that can be arranged into K-nets that are isographic (in the mathematical sense).
jarringly
jarringly
adv
In a jarring manner.
larkingly
larkingly
adv
While sporting or frolicking; playfully.
lawyering
lawyering
noun
The practicing of law as a profession; being a lawyer.
verb
present participle of lawyer
layerings
layerings
noun
plural of layering
legionary
legionary
adj
Containing a great number.
Relating to, or consisting of, a legion or legions.
noun
(military, Ancient Rome) A soldier belonging to a legion; a professional soldier of the ancient Roman army.
A member of a legion, such as the American Legion, or of any organization containing the term legion in its title (e.g. the French Foreign Legion).
magistery
magistery
noun
(countable) An art or a skill.
(countable) Synonym of magistracy (“the dignity or office of a magistrate; the collective body of magistrates”)
(countable, pharmacology, veterinary medicine) A medicine prepared for a specific use.
(obsolete) A concentrated extract of a substance.
(obsolete) The product of such a transformation.
(uncountable) The quality possessed by a master; authority, mastership, mastery; also, the exercise of authority.
(uncountable, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of magisterium (“the teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church”)
A fine substance deposited by precipitation, formerly applied to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions.
A pure quality with the power to cure or to turn one substance into another; also, a substance such as a philosopher's stone able to turn one substance into another.
magyarism
magyarism
noun
(rare) Alternative letter-case form of Magyarism
magyarize
malingery
malingery
noun
The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
mariology
mariology
Noun
The theological study of the Virgin Mary.
markingly
martyring
martyring
verb
present participle of martyr
mcgilvary
microgamy
migratory
migratory
adj
(of birds, etc) Migrating.
Roving; wandering; nomadic.
myriagram
myriagram
noun
(obsolete) A unit of mass of ten thousand grams, or ten kilograms. Adopted as an equivalent of the French avoirdupois XX.
niggardly
niggardly
adj
Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.
adv
(now rare) In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.
nightmary
nightmary
adj
Characterized by, beset by, or resembling, nightmares.
oligarchy
oligarchy
noun
A government run by only a few, often the wealthy.
A state ruled by such a government.
Those who make up an oligarchic government.
originary
originary
adj
(obsolete, often preceding 'of') Having its origin (in); originating (from).
(rare) Pertaining to or being the origin of something.
(rare) primitive, original
noun
(obsolete) native (a person born in a particular geographic place, such as a country or region)
ortyginae
panegyric
panegyric
adj
panegyrical
noun
A formal speech publicly praising someone or something.
Someone who writes or delivers such a speech.
panegyris
panegyris
noun
(obsolete) A festival; a public assembly.
In Ancient Greek religion, a religious festival on a fixed day in honor of a god, often including prayers, games, and panegyrics.
pargyline
pargyline
noun
(pharmacology) the monoamine oxidase inhibitor N-benzyl-N-methyl-prop-2-yn-1-amine.
parlaying
parlaying
verb
present participle of parlay
parleying
parleying
noun
The act of one who parleys.
verb
present participle of parley
parodying
parodying
noun
An instance of parody.
verb
present participle of parody
pharyngic
pharyngic
adj
(archaic) pharyngeal
playgirls
playgirls
noun
plural of playgirl
polygyria
polygyria
noun
micropolygyria
pratingly
pratingly
adv
With idle talk; with loquacity.
prayingly
prayingly
adv
With prayer.
prepaying
prepaying
verb
present participle of prepay
presaying
pterygial
pterygial
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the pterygium
pyrgoidal
pyrgoidal
adj
tower-shaped
quarrying
quarrying
noun
A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry.
The extraction of material from a quarry.
verb
present participle of quarry
rackingly
rackingly
adv
So as to cause suffering.
radiology
radiology
noun
(medicine) The specialty of medical imaging and its interpretation, originally and especially radiography but now including all imaging modalities, including ones that use no radiation (such as ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging).
(medicine, obsolete) The use of radioactive substances in diagnosis and treatment (which today is the province of nuclear medicine).
railingly
railingly
adv
With scoffing or insulting language.
rallyings
rallyings
noun
plural of rallying
ramifying
ramifying
verb
present participle of ramify
rampingly
rampingly
adv
With rage or violence.
rantingly
rantingly
adv
With ranting; speaking loudly and angrily.
rarefying
rarefying
verb
present participle of rarefy
rarifying
rarifying
verb
present participle of rarify
raspingly
raspingly
adv
In a rasping way.
ratifying
ratifying
verb
present participle of ratify
rattingly
regionary
regionary
adj
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical region.
noun
(Christianity, historical) Synonym of regionarius (“type of Roman Catholic ecclesiastic”)
(historical) A catalogue of monuments and buildings in ancient Rome, produced from a survey.