(Canada, politics) To elect (a politician, etc.) to an office automatically because no other candidates run; elect by acclamation.
(archaic, transitive) To shout; to call out.
(transitive) To declare by acclamations.
(transitive) To express great approval (for).
(transitive, obsolete) To claim.
(transitive, rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
acemila
acetiam
achymia
aciform
aciform
adj
Shaped like a needle.
acmatic
acmatic
adj
(rare) relating to the acme of something, highest.
acnemia
acosmic
acosmic
adj
Relating to acosmism
acromia
acromia
noun
plural of acromion
alchimy
alchimy
noun
Obsolete form of alchemy.
alembic
alembic
noun
An early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation.
algomic
almeric
ambolic
ambreic
ambrica
america
amharic
amicous
amicron
amictus
ammonic
ammonic
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the cornu ammonis.
(inorganic chemistry) Relating to ammonia.
amnesic
amnesic
adj
Of, pertaining to, affected by, or causing amnesia.
noun
(dated) A person with amnesia.
A medication with amnesic effects.
amoebic
amoebic
adj
(biology, pathology) Relating to, or caused by an amoeba.
amoraic
amyctic
amyelic
anaemic
anaemic
adj
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of anemic
anosmic
anosmic
adj
(pathology) Having anosmia; lacking a sense of smell.
(zoology) Lacking olfactory organs; anosmatic.
noun
(pathology) A person with anosmia; a person lacking a sense of smell.
anticum
aphemic
aphemic
adj
(speech pathology) Of, relating to, or afflicted with aphemia.
apomict
apomict
noun
(botany, zoology) Any apomictic plant or organism.
aramaic
aramaic
Proper noun
A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group including (but not limited to):
The language of the Aramaeans from the tenth century BC: often called Old Aramaic.
The language of the administration in the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian empires from the seventh to fourth centuries BC: often called Imperial Aramaic or Official Aramaic.
The language of portions of the Hebrew Bible, mainly the books of Ezra and Daniel: often called Biblical Aramaic.
The language of Jesus of Nazareth: a form of Galilean Aramaic.
The language of Jewish targums, Midrash and the Talmuds.
The liturgical language of various Christian churches: often called Syriac.
The liturgical language of the Mandaeans: usually called Mandaic.
Adjective
Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry.
arctium
armenic
armoric
armoric
Adjective
Relating to Armorica; Armorican.
Proper noun
The language spoken by the Gauls of Armorica, the ancestor of Breton.
athymic
athymic
adj
That lacks a thymus gland
atomics
atomics
noun
The study of physics at an atomic level.
plural of atomic
azimech
azulmic
bathmic
bathmic
adj
Relating to bathmism.
becrime
bigamic
bochism
brahmic
brahmic
Adjective
Related or belonging to a certain family of abugidas used to write many languages of South and Southeast Asia, descended from the
buckism
bulimic
bulimic
adj
Of, or relating to, bulimia nervosa.
Suffering from bulimia nervosa.
noun
A person suffering from bulimia nervosa.
bumicky
caaming
cabimas
cacimbo
cadmide
cadmium
cadmium
noun
A chemical element (symbol Cd) with an atomic number of 48: a soft, silvery-white metal. # (countable) A single atom of this element.
caesium
caesium
noun
The chemical element (symbol Cs) with an atomic number of 55. It is a soft, gold-colored, highly reactive alkali metal.
caimans
caimans
noun
plural of caiman
caimito
caimito
noun
Synonym of star apple, a tropical tree and its fruit
cainism
calcium
calcium
noun
The chemical element (Symbol Ca), with an atomic number 20. It is a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.
calmier
calming
calming
verb
present participle of calm
camaieu
camaieu
noun
(art) A cameo (relief carving).
(art) A style of painting in a small range of monochrome colours.
(art) A style of printing pictures producing the effect of a pencil drawing.
camaile
camails
camails
noun
plural of camail
camalig
camansi
camarin
cambial
cambial
adj
(botany) Of or pertaining to a cambium.
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to commercial exchange.
cambion
cambion
noun
(mythology) The offspring of either an incubus and a female human or a succubus and a male human.
cambism
cambism
noun
(rare) The business of currency exchange.
cambist
cambist
noun
A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.
cambium
cambium
noun
(anatomy) Periosteum, a membrane that covers the outer surface of bones
(botany) A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems.
(obsolete) One of the humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs.
cambrai
cambria
cambria
Proper noun
Wales.
cambric
cambric
noun
A finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.
cameist
camelia
camelia
noun
Obsolete form of camellia.
camelid
camelid
noun
(zoology) Any of a family of mammals including the camel, llama, alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña.
camilia
camilla
camille
camillo
camions
camions
noun
plural of camion
camirus
camisas
camises
camises
noun
plural of camis
plural of camise
camisia
camisia
noun
(historical) An ancient kind of shirt or nightgown.
camogie
camogie
noun
A women's stick-and-ball sport from Ireland, almost identical to hurling.
camoodi
camoodi
noun
A boa constrictor or other constricting snake
campagi
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
campily
campily
adv
In a campy manner.
campine
campine
Proper noun
A region to the east of the city of Antwerp, Belgium (in the provinces of Antwerp and Limburg), and southwest of Eindhoven, the Netherlands (in the province of North Brabant).
Noun
A chicken of a breed originating from the aforementioned region.
camping
camping
noun
(countable) The act of setting up a camp.
(uncountable) The recreational activity of temporarily living in a tent or similar accommodation, usually in the wilderness.
verb
present participle of camp
campion
campion
noun
Any flowering plant of the genus Silene.
Some flowering plants of the genus Lychnis.
capmint
capmint
noun
Synonym of calamint
cardium
cariama
cariama
noun
Alternative form of seriema
carlism
carlism
Noun
A political movement in Spain that seeks the establishment of a separate line of the Bourbon family on the Spanish throne
carmina
carmine
carmine
adj
Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.
noun
A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.
carmine:
carmita
carpium
casimir
catmint
catmint
noun
Synonym of catnip (the plant Nepeta cataria, or other members of the genus)
catoism
cattima
ceasmic
cedrium
celemin
celemin
noun
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 4.6 L.
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of land area, formalized as equivalent to about 537 m².
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land that could be sown with a celemin of seed.
celtism
celtium
celtium
noun
(historical) The name originally proposed for chemical element number 72, now called hafnium; the discoverer, Georges Urbain, conjectured it to be a rare earth element, and proposed the symbol Ct), but subsequent work demonstrated it to be a transition element, and hafnium was given the symbol Hf.
cembali
centime
centime
noun
(historical) A former subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the franc.
A coin having face value of one centime.
centimo
centimo
noun
A cent, i.e. ¹⁄₁₀₀, of certain (mainly historic) Iberian and Latin American currencies, and presently of the Euro (coinage version in Spanish), as a coin or theoretic value.
ceramic
ceramic
adj
Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.
noun
(countable) An object made of this material
(uncountable) A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high tempature.
ceriman
ceriman
noun
A large, woody vine native to Mexico, but grown throughout the tropics for its edible fruit, Monstera deliciosa, and also grown indoors as an ornamental under the name of Swiss cheese plant.
The fruit of this vine.
ceriums
ceriums
noun
plural of cerium
cesiums
chamian
chamise
chamise
noun
An evergreen shrub native to California, Adenostoma fasciculatum in the botanical family Rosaceae
chamiso
chamiso
noun
An evergreen shrub native to California, Adenostoma fasciculatum.
An evergreen shrub, Atriplex canescens, found in the southwestern United States.
chamite
chamkis
chamois
chamois
adj
Chamois-colored.
noun
(cycling) A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle.
A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.
An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather.
Short for chamois leather (“soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used)”).
The traditional colour of chamois leather.
verb
(transitive) To clean with a chamois leather cloth.
chamoix
chamsin
chamsin
noun
Alternative form of khamsin
charism
charism
noun
(Christianity, theology) A power or authority, generally of a spiritual nature, believed to be a freely given gift by the Grace of God.
chasmic
chasmic
adj
Like a chasm.
chemick
chemick
noun
Obsolete form of chemic.
chemics
chemics
noun
plural of chemic
chemins
chemise
chemise
noun
(historical) A loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
A short nightdress, or similar piece of lingerie.
A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
A woman's dress that fits loosely; a chemise dress.
chemism
chemism
noun
(obsolete, chemistry) chemical attraction
chemist
chemist
noun
(chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of pharmacy, especially as a standalone shop or general store.
(chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ghana) Synonym of pharmacist.
A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
chemizo
chiasma
chiasma
noun
(anatomy) A crossing of two nerves, ligaments etc.
(genetics, cytology) The contact point between the two chromatids of a chromosome during meiosis.
chiasmi
chiasmi
noun
plural of chiasmus
chiasms
chiasms
noun
plural of chiasm
chillum
chillum
noun
A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood.
The part of such a pipe that contains the tobacco and charcoal balls.
chiloma
chimane
chimars
chimayo
chimble
chimbly
chimbly
noun
Alternative form of chimbley
chimene
chimera
chimera
noun
(Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera, a supposed monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or serpent, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
(architecture) A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
(figurative) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
(figurative) Anything composed of very disparate parts.
(figurative) Synonym of bogeyman: any terrifying thing, especially as an unreal, imagined threat.
(genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
(mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.
(zoology) Alternative form of chimaera, a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.
chimere
chimere
noun
(ecclesiastical) The upper robe worn by some bishops of the Anglican communion, usually without sleeves.
Obsolete form of chimera.
chimers
chimers
noun
plural of chimer
chiming
chiming
noun
An instance of chiming; a sound that chimes.
verb
present participle of chime
chimlas
chimlas
noun
plural of chimla
chimley
chimley
noun
(UK, dialect, New England, archaic) Alternative form of chimney
chimney
chimney
noun
(Britain) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
(Northern Ireland, slang) A black eye; a shiner.
(vulgar, euphemistic) A vagina.
A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
verb
(climbing) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.
chingma
chingma
noun
A type of jute produced from the Indian mallow (Abutilon spp.).