A cantilever that consists of two active layers: piezoelectric and metal.
biprism
biprism
noun
(mathematics) A fusion of two triangular prisms.
(physics) An optical device of this construction used to generate interference fringes.
bumpier
bumpier
adj
comparative form of bumpy: more bumpy
campari
campari
Noun
an Italian mildly bitter apéritif, coloured with cochineal, often drunk with soda water or orange juice
campier
campier
adj
comparative form of campy: more campy
carpium
crampit
crampit
noun
Alternative form of crampet
crimped
crimped
adj
With a crimp in it; crushed shut.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of crimp
crimper
crimper
noun
(chiefly Britain) A hairdresser.
A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
A person who crimps when climbing.
A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.
Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
crimple
crimple
verb
(archaic) to crumple, crimp
dampier
dampier
Proper noun
A port in the north-west of Western Australia
demirep
demirep
noun
(colloquial, dated) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
dimorph
dimorph
noun
Either of a pair of dimorphous substances
dirempt
dirempt
adj
(obsolete, past participial) Distinct; separate; secrete; divided.
verb
(transitive, principally in philosophy) To separate; to divide; to break off.
disrump
dumpier
dumpier
adj
comparative form of dumpy: more dumpy
emperil
emperil
verb
Dated form of imperil.
empires
empires
noun
plural of empire
empiric
empiric
adj
Empirical.
noun
(historical) A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.
Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack.
Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.
empirin
emporia
emporia
noun
plural of emporium
emprime
emprint
emprint
verb
Obsolete form of imprint.
emprise
emprise
noun
(archaic) An enterprise or endeavor, especially a quest or adventure.
(archaic) The qualities which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits; chivalric prowess.
verb
(obsolete) To undertake.
emprize
emprize
noun
Obsolete form of emprise.
emptier
emptier
adj
comparative form of empty: more empty
noun
A person who, or device which empties
ephraim
epiderm
epiderm
noun
(anatomy) The epidermis.
epigram
epigram
noun
(obsolete) An inscription in stone.
A brief but witty saying.
A short, witty or pithy poem.
epimere
epimere
noun
(biology) One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so-called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, as in a segmented leaf.
epimers
epimers
noun
plural of epimer
gimpier
gimpier
adj
comparative form of gimpy: more gimpy
gripman
gripman
noun
A man employed to manipulate the grip of a cable car.
gripmen
gripmen
noun
plural of gripman
hempier
humpier
humpier
adj
comparative form of humpy: more humpy
impairs
impairs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impair
impaler
impaler
noun
One who impales.
imparks
imparks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impark
imparts
imparts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impart
impearl
impearl
verb
(transitive, poetic) To decorate as if with pearls.
(transitive, poetic) To form into pearls, or make pearly.
impeder
impeder
noun
One who impedes.
impedor
imperia
imperia
noun
plural of imperium
imperii
imperil
imperil
verb
(transitive) To put into peril; to place in danger.
(transitive) To risk or hazard.
impetre
implore
implore
verb
To beg urgently or earnestly.
To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.
imports
imports
noun
plural of import
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of import
imposer
imposer
noun
One who imposes.
impower
impower
verb
Archaic form of empower.
imprasa
impregn
impregn
verb
(now rare, poetic) To impregnate; to make fruitful.
impresa
impresa
noun
(heraldry) A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate etc.
imprese
imprese
Noun
A heraldic device; an impresa.
impress
impress
noun
A heraldic device; an impresa.
A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
The act of impressing.
verb
(figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
(intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
(transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
(transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
(transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
(transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
(transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
imprest
imprest
noun
An advance of funds, especially to a government service or employee.
verb
To advance funds on loan.
imprevu
imprime
imprime
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To drive (a hunted animal) out of its shelter.
imprint
imprint
noun
A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
verb
To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.
improof
improve
improve
verb
(dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.
(intransitive) To become better.
(obsolete) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
(obsolete) To disprove or make void; to refute.
(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
improvs
improvs
noun
plural of improv
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of improv
imputer
imputer
noun
One who imputes.
jumpier
jumpier
adj
comparative form of jumpy: more jumpy
lempira
lempira
noun
The currency of Honduras, divided into 100 centavos.
limpers
limpers
noun
plural of limper
lumpier
lumpier
adj
comparative form of lumpy: more lumpy
maipure
manipur
manipur
Proper noun
State in north-eastern India which has Imphal as its capital.
marlpit
marlpit
noun
(dated) A pit where marl has been dug.
meropia
meropia
noun
Partial blindness
meropic
meropic
adj
(obsolete) Able to speak.
miscrop
miscrop
verb
To plant the wrong crops, so as to harm the usefulness of the land.
mispart
mispart
verb
To miscast for a role.
To part or divide badly.
mopeier
morphia
morphia
noun
Synonym of morphine
morphic
morphic
adj
(botany) Of or pertaining to morphs.
(rare) Of or pertaining to shape or form; morphological.
morphin
morphin
noun
Obsolete form of morphine.
morpion
morpion
noun
(obsolete) A louse.
muphrid
orphism
orphism
Proper noun
A religious movement in antiquity, supposed to have been founded by Orpheus.
A minor Cubist art movement focusing on pure abstraction and bright colours.
palmier
palmier
adj
comparative form of palmy: more palmy
noun
A type of puff pastry biscuit made in the shape of a palm leaf and rolled in sugar.
palmira
palmira
noun
Archaic form of palmyra.
palmiro
paramid
parsism
parsism
Noun
The Parsi sect of Zoroastrianism
paumari
perakim
pergrim
permiak
permian
permian
Noun
An inhabitant of the Russian region of Perm; specifically, one belonging to a branch of the Finno-Ugric peoples, including Komis and Udmurts, who speak Permic languages.
The language of such people; Permic.
Adjective
Pertaining to the Perm region of Russia, or its inhabitants.
Pertaining to their language; Permic.
Pertaining to the last geologic period of the Paleozoic era; comprising the Cisuralian, Guadalupian and Lopingian epochs from about 280 to 248 million years ago.
Proper noun
The Permian period.
perming
perming
verb
present participle of perm
permiss
permiss
noun
A choice that has been permitted.
A rhetorical device in which a thing is predicated on the decision of one's opponent.
verb
(transitive, nonstandard, rare) To grant permission to; permit
permits
permits
noun
plural of permit
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of permit
persism
persism
Noun
A Persian idiom.
Proper noun
Ancient Persian religion, especially as represented by the Magi.
pharmic
picamar
picamar
noun
(organic chemistry) An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar, and consisting essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
pilgrim
pilgrim
noun
(historical) A silk screen formerly attached to the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck.
(slang) A newcomer.
One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance.
verb
(intransitive) To journey; to wander; to ramble.
pimaric
pimpery
pinworm
pinworm
noun
Any of several nematode worms, of the family Oxyuridae, that are parasitic to mammals
pirrmaw
pismire
pismire
noun
(UK, Ireland, archaic) An ant.
pitmark
pitmirk
plumier
pomaria
pomeria
pomeria
noun
plural of pomerium.
pompier
pompier
noun
A pompier hook
porisms
porisms
noun
plural of porism
porrima
preemie
preemie
noun
(informal) A baby that has been born prematurely
prelims
prelims
noun
(uncountable, collective, Oxford University slang) Preliminary examinations taken as a whole, as sat by an individual or year group.
The preliminary front matter of a book, i.e. all content preceding the main text or work itself.
plural of prelim
premial
premial
adj
Serving to reward; rewarding.
premier
premier
adj
(heraldry) Most ancient.
Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.
noun
(Australia, sporting) The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
(nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
(politics, Australia, Canada, South Africa) The leader of a state or provincial government and cabinet.
(politics, UK parliament) The prime minister.
(politics, non-Westminster) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
verb
To govern in the role of premier.
To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.
premies
premies
noun
plural of premie
plural of premy
premise
premise
noun
(authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.
(logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
(usually in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
(usually in the plural, law) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
verb
To make a premise.
To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
premiss
premiss
noun
Alternative spelling of premise
premium
premium
adj
(automotive) High-end; belonging to the market segment between mid-market and luxury.
Superior in quality; higher in price or value.
noun
(finance) The amount by which a security's value exceeds its face value.
(insurance) The amount to be paid for an insurance policy.
A bonus paid in addition to normal payments.
A prize or award.
An unusually high value.
Something offered at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.
preomit
pretium
pretrim
pretrim
verb
(transitive) To trim in advance.
prigdom
prigman
primacy
primacy
noun
(archaic) excellence; supremacy.
(religion) The office, rank, or character of a primate, it being the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church
(religion) the office or dignity of an archbishop
The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc.
primage
primage
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) An additional import duty levied by customs.
(archaic) A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
(archaic, UK) An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
(engineering, rare) Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
primary
primary
adj
(chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
(geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
(medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
(medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
first or earliest in a group or series.
main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
noun
(aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
(electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
(medicine) Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease.
(military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
A primary colour.
A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
A primary school.
The first year of grade school.
The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
verb
(US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
(US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
primate
primate
noun
(ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.
(ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
(ecclesiastical) In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese.
(informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.
(zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.
primely
primely
adv
In a prime manner; very well; extremely; excellently.
Primarily.
primero
primero
noun
An old card game resembling poker.
primers
primers
noun
plural of primer
primeur
primeur
noun
(in the plural) fruit and vegetables that are available early in the season
(uncountable) new wine (such as Beaujolais nouveau)
primine
primine
noun
(botany) The outermost integument of an ovule (if it has two)
priming
priming
noun
(psychology) The implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus.
A substance used as a primer.
The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.
The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
verb
present participle of prime
primity
primity
noun
(obsolete) Quality of being first; primitiveness.
primmed
primmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of prim
primmer
primmer
adj
comparative form of prim: more prim
primomo
primost
primost
noun
A soft, spreadable Scandinavian cheese made from cow's milk.
primped
primped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of primp
primsie
primula
primula
noun
(botany) Any plant of the genus Primula; the primroses.
prismal
prismal
adj
Relating to a prism; prismatic.
prismed
prismed
adj
Containing prisms
proheim
promine
promise
promise
noun
(countable) A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use.
(countable) an oath or affirmation; a vow
(countable, computing, programming) A placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation.
(countable, obsolete) bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised
(uncountable) Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.
verb
(intransitive) To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.
(transitive, intransitive) To commit to (some action or outcome), or to assure (a person) of such commitment; to make an oath or vow.
promiss
protium
protium
noun
(physics) The lightest and most common isotope of hydrogen, having a single proton and no neutrons: ¹₁H
proxima
proxime
proxime
adj
(obsolete) next; immediately preceding or following