A form of polyandry where a woman is married to two or more brothers.
Marriage between a brother and a sister.
blaspheming
blaspheming
noun
An act of blasphemy.
verb
present participle of blaspheme
cephalogram
cephalogram
noun
An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
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
gametophyll
hemiplegias
hemiplegias
noun
plural of hemiplegia
hemiplegics
hemiplegics
noun
plural of hemiplegic
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.
lymphagogue
lymphagogue
noun
Any agent that promotes the production of lymph.
lymphogenic
lymphogenic
adj
Connected with, or formed in, the lymphatic glands
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.