A form of polyandry where a woman is married to two or more brothers.
Marriage between a brother and a sister.
albedograph
alnagership
alnagership
noun
The role or status of an alnager.
alphabeting
alphabeting
verb
present participle of alphabet
angelophany
angelophany
noun
The appearance of an angel to a human being.
anglophiles
anglophiles
noun
plural of anglophile
anglophobes
anglophobes
noun
plural of anglophobe
archipelago
archipelago
noun
(by extension) Something scattered around like an archipelago.
(collective) A group of islands.
(now rare) The Aegean Sea.
bibliophage
bibliophage
noun
(figuratively) A person who loves to read books; a bookworm.
A creature that consumes books’ physical contents.
blaspheming
blaspheming
noun
An act of blasphemy.
verb
present participle of blaspheme
caligrapher
caligrapher
noun
Alternative form of calligrapher
cephalalgia
cephalalgia
noun
(medicine) A pain in the head; headache.
cephalalgic
cephalalgic
adj
(medicine) Relating to, or affected with, headache.
noun
A remedy for the headache.
cephalogram
cephalogram
noun
An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
cephalology
chapelgoing
chapelgoing
adj
Regularly attending chapel.
dephlegmate
dephlegmate
verb
(chemistry, dated) To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; used of spirits and acids.
epephragmal
epiphragmal
flexography
flexography
noun
A method of printing using a rubber or polymer rotating printing plate, most commonly used for packaging (labels, tape etc.).
gametophyll
ganocephala
gastrophile
gelotherapy
generalship
generalship
noun
By extension, leadership, good management.
The position or office of a general.
The skills or performance of a good general; military leadership, strategy.
The term of office of a military general.
geophilidae
geophysical
geophysical
adj
Of or pertaining to geophysics.
glassophone
glassophone
noun
(music) A set of glasses filled with differing amounts of liquid so that they produce different musical notes when struck.
glaucophane
glaucophane
noun
(mineralogy) A blue amphibole mineral, a mixed aluminate of sodium, magnesium and aluminium that exhibits pleochroism, with the chemical formula Na₂(Mg,Fe²⁺)₃Al₂Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂.
glyptotheca
glyptotheca
noun
A room or building devoted to works of sculpture.
grapholects
grapholects
noun
plural of grapholect
haplologies
haplologies
noun
plural of haplology
helicograph
helicograph
noun
An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.
heliographs
heliographs
noun
plural of heliograph
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heliograph
heliography
heliography
noun
(obsolete) Photography.
The art of making a heliograph.
The scientific study of the sun.
The system of signalling by heliograph.
hemiplegias
hemiplegias
noun
plural of hemiplegia
heptangular
heptangular
adj
Having seven angles.
holographed
holographed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of holograph
holographer
holographer
noun
One who creates holograms.
lamplighted
lamplighted
adj
Synonym of lamplit
lamplighter
lamplighter
noun
(historical) A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn.
(historical) Any device or contrivance for lighting lamps, such as a length of paper to be set alight at one end.
A kind of tall bicycle.
legateships
legateships
noun
plural of legateship
lexigraphic
lexigraphic
adj
Of or pertaining to lexigraphy.
lightplanes
lightplanes
noun
plural of lightplane
logographer
logographer
noun
a chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences
one skilled in logography
lymphagogue
lymphagogue
noun
Any agent that promotes the production of lymph.
megacephaly
megacephaly
noun
macrencephaly
megalograph
megalograph
noun
A camera lucida used in megalography
meliphagous
meliphagous
adj
Of an animal, that feeds on honey or nectar.
melographic
melographic
adj
(dated, of a musical instrument) Capable of producing a written transcription of any music played upon it.
myelography
myelography
noun
(medicine) A type of radiographic examination that uses a contrast medium to detect pathology of the spinal cord, including the location of a spinal cord injury, cysts, and tumors.
oesophageal
oesophageal
adj
Alternative spelling of esophageal
oleographer
oleographic
oleographic
adj
Relating to oleography.
organophile
palaeoglyph
palaeograph
palaeograph
noun
Alternative spelling of paleograph
paleography
paleography
noun
(obsolete) Paleogeography.
Ancient scripts or forms of writing themselves, as uncial, scriptio continua, or methods of using papyrus scrolls.
The study of old or ancient forms of writing.
pamphletage
pantheology
pantheology
noun
A system of theology embracing all religions; a complete system of theology.
pathologies
pathologies
noun
plural of pathology
pelvigraphy
phalangette
phalangidea
phalangides
phengitical
phenolating
phlebograms
phlebograms
noun
plural of phlebogram
phlebograph
phlegmatism
phlegmatist
phlegmatous
phraseology
phraseology
noun
A collection of phrases; a phrasebook.
A group of specialized words and expressions used by a particular group.
Study of set or fixed expressions.
The style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech.
pigheadedly
pigheadedly
adv
In a pigheaded manner.
plagihedral
plagihedral
adj
(crystallography) Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as in levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.
plagiophyre
plectognath
plectognath
noun
Any fish of the order Tetraodontiformes.
plegaphonia
pleophagous
plessigraph
ploughshare
ploughshare
noun
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of plowshare
polygraphed
polygraphed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of polygraph
polygrapher
polygrapher
noun
A person skilled in the operation of a polygraph.
polyhalogen
polyphagies
preachingly
preachingly
adv
In a way that preaches.
predaylight
predaylight
adj
Before daylight.
prehandling
pyelography
pyelography
noun
(medicine) radiography of the kidney, ureter and bladder following injection of a radiopaque substance
retelegraph
retelegraph
verb
To telegraph again.
selenograph
selenograph
noun
(dated) A picture or delineation of the Moon's surface.
spaceflight
spaceflight
noun
Alternative spelling of space flight
splathering
splathering
verb
present participle of splather
stelography
stelography
noun
The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.
telegraphed
telegraphed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of telegraph
telegraphee
telegrapher
telegrapher
noun
(historical) A telegraph operator, one who sent telegrams.
telegraphic
telegraphic
adj
Brief or concise, especially resembling a telegram with clipped syntax.
Of, or relating to the telegraph.
telophragma
tragelaphus
tragelaphus
noun
A fictional animal, half goat, half stag, used by the philosopher Aristotle as an example of something that is knowable even though it does not exist.
ungraphable
xylographed
xylographed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of xylograph