(zoology) The instep of the foot (front of the tarsus)
adjudicator
adjudicator
noun
One who adjudicates.
adjurations
adjurations
noun
plural of adjuration
adjustoring
adjutorious
adumbration
adumbration
noun
(countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
(countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.
(countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
(specifically, heraldry) The outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
(uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
aeronautics
aeronautics
noun
The design, construction, mathematics and mechanics of aircraft and other flying objects
The theory and practice of aircraft navigation
aeronautism
aeronautism
noun
The practice of aeronautic travel.
aetosaurian
aetosaurian
noun
Any aetosaur of the order †Aetosauria
agatiferous
agatiferous
adj
Containing or yielding agates.
allotriuria
ambulatoria
amortisseur
amortisseur
noun
Short for amortisseur winding.
amphithuron
anatiferous
anatiferous
adj
Producing ducks. Formerly used of barnacles, since it was believed that they produced ducks and geese.
androtauric
annunciator
annunciator
noun
(UK, railways) A buzzer in a signal box that sounds when a train activates a treadle positioned on the track, and thus provides a warning or announcement of a nearby train.
A signalling device that shows which of several electrical circuits is active, especially such a device in a telephone switchboard
An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
Anything that announces something
anticarious
anticarious
adj
(dentistry) That prevents, or counteracts caries
antidromous
antidromous
adj
(botany) Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.
antineutron
antineutron
noun
(physics) The antiparticle corresponding to a neutron.
antipopular
antipopular
adj
Opposing the people.
antisudoral
antisudoral
adj
Preventing sweating.
antitropous
antitropous
adj
(botany) Displaying, of, or pertaining to antitropy.
antitumoral
antitumoral
adj
(oncology) antitumor
aphroditeum
aphroditous
apodyterium
apodyterium
noun
(architecture, historical) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, for getting undressed.
aponeurotic
aponeurotic
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.
apoturmeric
aquafortist
aquafortist
noun
One who prepares etchings or engravings using aqua fortis. [from 19th c.]
aristodemus
articulator
articulator
noun
(dentistry) A mechanical device to which casts of the teeth are fixed, reproducing recorded positions of the mandible in relation to the maxilla.
(phonetics) Any organ in the vocal tract used to articulate, produce speech.
One who articulates bones and mounts skeletons.
One who, or that which, articulates or expresses.
artificious
artificious
adj
(obsolete) Using, exhibiting, performed with or characterized by much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
astriferous
astriferous
adj
Bearing stars.
astronautic
astronautic
adj
Of or pertaining to astronautics.
atomiferous
atrabilious
atrabilious
adj
(medicine, obsolete) Having an excess of black bile.
Characterized by melancholy.
Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.
atrociously
atrociously
adv
in an atrocious manner
attribution
attribution
noun
(law) A legal doctrine by which liability is extended to a defendant who did not actually commit the tortious or criminal act.
An explicit or formal acknowledgment of ownership or authorship.
The act of attributing something.
auctioneers
auctioneers
noun
plural of auctioneer
auctorizate
audiometers
audiometers
noun
plural of audiometer
audiometric
audiometric
adj
Measured using an audiometer
Of or pertaining to audiometry
auditoriums
auditoriums
noun
plural of auditorium
auditorship
auditorship
noun
The office or function of auditor.
auditotoria
augitophyre
australioid
austronesia
austronesia
Proper noun
The Pacific islands of Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia considered as a group.
austrophile
authorially
authorially
adv
as an author
authorising
authorising
verb
present participle of authorise
authorities
authorities
noun
The bodies that enforce law and order or provide a public service
The bodies that have political or administrative power and control in a particular sphere
plural of authority
authorizers
authorizers
noun
plural of authorizer
authorizing
authorizing
verb
present participle of authorize
authorships
authorships
noun
plural of authorship
autocarpian
autocracies
autocracies
noun
plural of autocracy
autocratrix
autocratrix
noun
(in particular, historical) The enlightened despot Catherine II of Russia, who reigned from 1762 to 1796 as empress and autocratrix of all the Russias.
A female autocrat.
autodialers
autodialers
noun
plural of autodialer
autoerotism
autoerotism
noun
Sexual activity involving oneself, including masturbation.
autographic
autographic
adj
Containing or relating to an autograph.
automorphic
automorphic
adj
(geology) Describing a mineral, in an igneous rock, that is bounded by its own crystal face; euhedral, idiomorphic
(mathematics) Describing a number whose square ends in the number itself; circular
(mathematics) Of or pertaining to automorphy or an automorphism
Marked by automorphism, the ascription to others of one's own characteristics.
autosoteric
autosoteric
adj
Relating to autosoterism
autotrophic
autotrophic
adj
(biology) Relating to the production of organic compounds from carbon dioxide as a carbon source, using either light or reactions of inorganic chemical compounds, as a source of energy.
autotropism
autotropism
noun
The tendency of plant organs to grow in a straight line unless influenced by external stimuli.
autoturning
autoxidator
autoxidator
noun
(rare, chemistry) A substance that initiates or undergoes autoxidation
autoxidizer
auxiliatory
auxiliatory
adj
(obsolete) auxiliary; helping.
auxotrophic
auxotrophic
adj
(biology) Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself
bifurcation
bifurcation
noun
(biology) A division into two branches.
(by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
(computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
(geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
(mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
(nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
bijouteries
bijouteries
noun
plural of bijouterie
bimucronate
bimucronate
adj
(biology) Having two mucros
birdmouthed
biscuitroot
biscuitroot
noun
Any of a number of North American plants in the genus Lomatium, with edible, starchy roots.
bistournage
bittencourt
boatbuilder
boatbuilder
noun
A person involved in boatbuilding; one who builds boats.
boilersuits
boilersuits
noun
plural of boilersuit
borzicactus
bothridiums
bouleuteria
bouleuteria
noun
plural of bouleuterion
bouquetiere
boutonniere
boutonniere
noun
A small flower or bunch of flowers worn in a buttonhole or pinned to the lapel of a jacket.
boviculture
boviculture
noun
The rearing and care of cattle.
brontosauri
brontosauri
noun
plural of brontosaurus
brotuliform
buccinators
buccinators
noun
plural of buccinator
buccinatory
buccinatory
adj
Relating to the buccinator muscle.
bucerotidae
bucerotinae
cafetoriums
cafetoriums
noun
plural of cafetorium
calumniator
calumniator
noun
A person who calumniates (slanders, or makes personal attacks upon, others).
capitulator
capitulator
noun
A person who capitulates.
caquetoires
carburation
carburation
noun
Alternative spelling of carburetion
carburetion
carburetion
noun
The process, such as occurs in a carburetor, of mixing fuel with oxygen or air in appropriate proportion for combustion.
carnaptious
carnaptious
adj
bad-tempered, quarrelsome, snappy
catercousin
caulopteris
centuriator
centuriator
noun
A historian who distinguishes time by centuries, especially one of those who wrote the Magdeburg Centuries.
cetiosauria
cetiosaurus
chontaquiro
chromaturia
chromaturia
noun
(pathology) Any abnormal colouration of the urine
cineritious
cineritious
adj
(anatomy) Related to the cinerea.
cinereous
circulation
circulation
noun
(strictly) The movement of the blood in the circulatory system, by which it is brought into close relations with the cells and tissues of the body; (loosely) the circulatory system.
Currency; circulating coins; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measurement of diffusion
The movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
circulators
circulators
noun
plural of circulator
circulatory
circulatory
adj
Circular; going round.
Of or pertaining to a circulation, especially to the circulatory system.
noun
(chemistry) A vessel with two portions unequally exposed to heat, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.
circumlitio
cistophorus
cistophorus
noun
an Asiatic coin, worth about four drachmas, on which was stamped a cista
citharoedus
clostridium
clostridium
noun
Any of several mostly anaerobic gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Clostridium, that are present in the soil and in the intestines of humans and animals and are capable of forming spores
coadjutrice
coauthoring
coauthoring
verb
present participle of coauthor
coauthority
cocautioner
coculturing
coculturing
verb
present participle of coculture
coexecutrix
coexecutrix
noun
A joint executrix.
cofeaturing
cofeaturing
verb
present participle of cofeature
cojusticiar
colletarium
colleterium
colleterium
noun
(zoology) An organ, in female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.
collutories
collutories
noun
plural of collutory
collutorium
collutorium
noun
Synonym of mouth wash
colouration
colouration
noun
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of coloration
colourative
colourative
adj
Rare spelling of colorative.
colouristic
colouristic
adj
Alternative spelling of coloristic
columnarity
columnarity
noun
The state or quality of being columnar.
committitur
commixtures
commixtures
noun
plural of commixture
communitary
compositure
compulsitor
compulsitor
noun
(law, Scotland) That which compels.
computerise
computerise
verb
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of computerize.
computerist
computerist
noun
(dated) A computer user.
computerite
computerize
computerize
verb
(transitive, computing) To convert a manual function or system into a computer system.
(transitive, computing) To enter data into such a system.
(transitive, computing) To equip with a computer or a computer system.
computernik
computernik
noun
(informal, dated) A computer enthusiast.
conditorium
configurate
configurate
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To take form or position, like the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern.
(transitive, obsolete) To configure; to arrange or shape.
congruistic
congruities
congruities
noun
plural of congruity
conjuration
conjuration
noun
(obsolete) A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy.
(obsolete) The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner, or binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration.