(Scotland, law) An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.
(heraldry) A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
(medicine) A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
(medicine) The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
(music) A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
The act or process of augmenting.
augmentative
augmentative
adj
Growing, enlarging, increasing.
noun
(grammar) A form of word that expresses large size, intensity, or seniority
autoallogamy
autographism
autographism
noun
(dated, pathology) A skin condition in which wheals can be raised on the skin by tracing over it
automatizing
automatizing
verb
present participle of automatize
automobiling
automobiling
verb
present participle of automobile
autotomising
autotomising
verb
present participle of autotomise
autotomizing
autotomizing
verb
present participle of autotomize
beglamouring
beglamouring
verb
present participle of beglamour
bilingualism
bilingualism
noun
The condition of being bilingual; the ability to speak two languages.
bucketmaking
bucketmaking
noun
The manufacture of buckets.
bulletmaking
bulletmaking
noun
The manufacture of bullets.
burgomasters
burgomasters
noun
plural of burgomaster
buttermaking
calumniating
calumniating
verb
present participle of calumniate
camouflagers
camouflagers
noun
plural of camouflager
camouflaging
camouflaging
verb
present participle of camouflage
caprimulgine
chambersburg
chasmogamous
chasmogamous
adj
Exhibiting chasmogamy.
chaulmoogras
chaulmoogras
noun
plural of chaulmoogra
chaulmoogric
chaulmoogric
adj
Relating to the chaulmoogra tree or to chaulmoogric acid, obtained from its seeds.
circumgyrate
circumgyrate
verb
(intransitive) To be formed into a bent or curved shape (around something).
(intransitive) To make circuits (around an area or space).
(intransitive) To move around something.
(intransitive) To turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
(transitive) To cause to move around something; to cause to orbit.
(transitive) To cause to turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
(transitive) To form into a bent or curved shape.
coagulometer
coagulometer
noun
(medicine) A device used to measure the ability of the blood to coagulate (and the time taken to do so).
commeasuring
commeasuring
verb
present participle of commeasure
compurgation
compurgation
noun
(now chiefly historical) Acquitting someone from a formal charge or accusation following the sworn oaths of a number of other people; vindication.
compurgators
compurgators
noun
plural of compurgator
compurgatory
compurgatory
adj
compurgatorial
consummating
consummating
verb
present participle of consummate
counterimage
counterimage
noun
An image that counters or contradicts another.
cryptogamous
cryptogamous
adj
Of or pertaining to the cryptogams
cunninghamia
cunninghamia
noun
A china fir (Cunninghamia spp.), tall, ornamental evergreens in the cypress family, of east Asia.
daemonurgist
dehumanising
dehumanising
verb
present participle of dehumanise
dehumanizing
dehumanizing
noun
An act of dehumanization.
verb
present participle of dehumanize
demigauntlet
demigauntlet
noun
A bandage that covers the hand but not the fingers
demodulating
demodulating
verb
present participle of demodulate
dermasurgery
dermasurgery
noun
The surgical treatment of benign and malignant skin conditions; dermatologic surgery.
desquamating
desquamating
verb
present participle of desquamate
disambiguate
disambiguate
verb
(linguistics) To distinguish one word or lexical unit (from a different one which has a similar form).
To remove ambiguities from; to make less ambiguous; to clarify or specify which of multiple possibilities applies – e.g., possible meanings of an ambiguous statement – or to invite or require this.
doughfaceism
doughfaceism
noun
(derogatory) The character of a doughface; pliability.
dramaturgies
dramaturgies
noun
plural of dramaturgy
dramaturgist
dramaturgist
noun
A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
drumbeatings
drumbeatings
noun
plural of drumbeating
dynamogenous
ectopatagium
emasculating
emasculating
verb
present participle of emasculate
emmenagogues
emmenagogues
noun
plural of emmenagogue
epigastraeum
esophagismus
esophagismus
noun
Alternative form of oesophagismus
eurygnathism
eurygnathism
noun
(anatomy) The condition of having a wide jaw.
fagopyrismus
fagopyrismus
noun
Dated form of fagopyrism.
flammigerous
fuglemanship
fumigatories
fumigatorium
gametogenous
gametogenous
Adjective
Of or pertaining to gametogenesis.
gametogonium
gametogonium
noun
A germ cell that divides into gametocytes during gametogenesis.
gamopetalous
gamopetalous
adj
(botany) Having petals wholly or partially fused in such a way that the corolla takes the form of a tube, trumpet, channel, or similarly nearly-rigid structure.
gamophyllous
gamophyllous
adj
(botany) Composed of leaves or segments (e.g. perianth) united by their edges, compare apophyllous (free segments).
gamosepalous
gamosepalous
adj
(botany, of a calyx) Having united sepals.
gastrolobium
gastrostomus
glamourizing
glamourizing
verb
present participle of glamourize
glamourously
glanduliform
glaucomatous
glaucomatous
adj
Having the nature of glaucoma.
glenohumeral
glenohumeral
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
glucosamines
glucosamines
noun
plural of glucosamine
glutaminases
glutaminases
noun
plural of glutaminase
gomphocarpus
gourmanderie
gourmandises
gourmandises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gourmandise
gourmandisms
gourmandized
gourmandized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gourmandize
gourmandizer
gourmandizer
noun
One who gourmandizes.
gourmandizes
gourmandizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gourmandize
graminaceous
graminaceous
adj
Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
greatmouthed
grimmiaceous
grimmiaceous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the Grimmiaceae.
groundmasses
groundmasses
noun
plural of groundmass
gubernaculum
gubernaculum
noun
(biology) (rare) A trailing flagellum in certain protists used for steering.
(dentistry) (more fully gubernaculum dentis) A cord or sheath of connective tissue that connects the sac of an unerupted permanent tooth with the surface of the gum.
(embryology) Either of a pair of folds of peritoneum which connects the caudal end of the fetal testis with the bottom of the scrotum in a male fetus, and by failing to elongate in proportion to the rest of the fetus causes the descent of the testis into the scrotum; or an analogous cord of connective tissue attached to the ovary in a female fetus, which is the precursor of the round and ovarian ligaments.
(zoology) The reproductive tract of an invertebrate, or part of it; especially the section containing the gonophores (in a hydrozoan); a sclerotized structure in the cloaca (in a nematode).
gudermannian
gudermannian
noun
Alternative form of Gudermannian
guerrillaism
guesstimated
guesstimated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate
guesstimates
guesstimates
noun
plural of guesstimate
guestchamber
guestchamber
noun
A chamber for the purpose of housing a guest; a guestroom.
guestimating
guestimating
verb
present participle of guestimate
guitermanite
gutturalisms
gutturalisms
noun
plural of gutturalism
gymnasisiums
gymnocarpous
gymnocarpous
adj
(botany) Having fruit that is either smooth or not adherent to the perianth
(fungi) Having the hymenium exposed while the spores are forming.
gynoeciumcia
hematogenous
hematogenous
Adjective
Producing blood
Spread by blood
hemautograph
hemiageustia
hemignathous
hemignathous
adj
Having one mandible much shorter than the other
hemiligulate
heterogamous
heterogamous
adj
(biology) characterized by alternating generations of a parthenogenetic and sexual nature
(biology) involving heterogametes in the reproductive process
(botany) in which the stamens and pistils are not present in every flower; i.e. there are male and female flowers
in the daisy family Asteraceae, having two types of flowers in a flower head (such as some sterile, some hermaphrodite, or some female, some hermaphrodite)
homologumena
houghmagandy
housemaiding
housemaiding
verb
present participle of housemaid
housewarming
housewarming
noun
(idiomatic) A party to celebrate moving into a new home.
The act of welcoming a person/family to their newly purchased or newly rented home.
hypogastrium
hypogastrium
noun
An area of the human abdomen residing below the umbilicus.
illuminating
illuminating
adj
(figuratively) Providing clarification or explanation; educational, revealing.
Providing illumination or light.
verb
present participle of illuminate.
integumation
integumation
noun
The branch of physiology that deals with the integuments of animals and plants.
integumental
integumental
adj
Of or pertaining to the integument.
irregularism
judgmentally
judgmentally
adv
In a judgmental manner.
jungermannia
jungermannia
noun
Any of the genus Jungermannia of liverworts.
lagomorphous
lagomorphous
adj
(zoology) Of or relating to the lagomorphs.
languishment
languishment
noun
Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.
The state of languishing.
largemouthed
lingualumina
luxemburgian
macrotolagus
magisteriums
magistrature
magistrature
noun
Magistracy.
magnetopause
magnetopause
noun
The boundary between the Earth's magnetosphere and the sun's plasma.
magnicaudate
magnicaudate
adj
Having a long tail
magniloquent
magniloquent
adj
Speaking pompously; using deliberately long or esoteric words.
mallophagous
mallophagous
adj
Feeding on feathers.
mangelwurzel
mangelwurzel
noun
A root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.
manipulating
manipulating
verb
present participle of manipulate
manoeuvering
manoeuvering
noun
gerund of manoeuver; an act in which something or someone manoeuvers
verb
present participle of manoeuver
manoeuvreing
manslaughter
manslaughter
noun
(law) The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger; considered less culpable than murder, but more culpable than justifiable homicide.