A peptide that participates in the regulation of the menstrual cycle, cell proliferation, apoptosis, metabolism, and many other diverse functions.
advance
advance
adj
Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
Forward.
Preceding.
noun
(in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
A forward move; improvement or progression.
An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
verb
(intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction.
(intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
(intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
(intransitive) To move forwards; to approach.
(transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate.
To help the progress of (something); to further.
To increase (a number or amount).
To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
To raise or increase (a price, rate).
anchovy
anchovy
noun
Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in 16 genera, of which the genus Engraulis is widely sold as food.
avionic
avionic
adj
(aviation) of, or relating to avionics (aviation electronics)
calvano
calvina
calving
calving
noun
(by extension) The process by which an iceberg is formed.
The act of giving birth to a calf
The breaking away of a mass of ice from an glacier, iceberg etc.
verb
present participle of calve
canvass
canvass
noun
(countable) A seeking or solicitation of donations, information, opinions, support, etc.
(countable) A thorough discussion or investigation. (Possibly; the meaning is unclear.)
(countable, US, politics) A scrutiny of the votes cast in an election to reject irregular votes; also, a tally, audit, and certification of votes.
(countable, specifically, politics) A seeking or solicitation, or determination, of support or favourable votes in a forthcoming election or poll.
(uncountable) Rejection (at an election, of a suit, etc.).
Obsolete spelling of canvas
verb
(by extension) To assail or attack (someone or something).
(by extension) To batter, beat, or thrash (someone or something).
(by extension) To severely criticize (a person, a written work, etc.).
(by extension, politics, obsolete except US, Philippines) To scrutinize (the ballot in an election or the votes cast) and reject irregular votes; also, to challenge or dispute (an election result).
(specifically, politics) To seek the support of (voters or a constituency) in a forthcoming election or poll through personal solicitation or public addresses.
(specifically, politics) To seek the support of voters or a constituency in a forthcoming election or poll; to campaign.
To debate, to discuss.
To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc. from (people or a place)
To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc.; to conduct a survey.
To thoroughly examine or investigate (something) physically or by discussion; to debate, to gather opinion, to scrutinize.
To toss (someone) in a (canvas) sheet for fun or as a punishment; to blanket.
caravan
caravan
noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.
A convoy or procession of travelers, their vehicles and cargo, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.
verb
(UK, Australia) To travel and/or live in a caravan (vehicle).
To travel in a caravan (procession).
carvene
carvene
noun
(organic chemistry) An oily substance, C₁₀H₁₆, extracted from caraway.
carving
carving
noun
(sculpture) A carved object.
The act or craft of producing a carved object.
verb
(snowboarding) Executing turns without pivoting.
present participle of carve
carvone
carvone
noun
(organic chemistry) A terpenoid found naturally in many essential oils, most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway and dill.
catvine
caveman
caveman
noun
(informal, figuratively, derogatory) A brutish person, one who behaves in a rough, uncivilized way.
(informal, figuratively, derogatory) A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.
(informal, figuratively, derogatory) Someone, especially a man, who has regressive, old-fashioned attitudes, particularly with regard to women; someone opposed to change or modernity.
An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.
cavemen
cavemen
noun
plural of caveman
caverns
caverns
noun
plural of cavern
cavings
cavings
noun
plural of caving
centavo
centavo
noun
(historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
chauvin
civitan
concave
concave
adj
(functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
(geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl
hollow; empty
noun
(gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
(manufacturing) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
(skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
(surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
A concave surface or curve.
One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
The vault of the sky.
verb
To render concave, or increase the degree of concavity.
concavo
convair
corvina
corvina
noun
A red Italian grape variety, used in wines from Valpolicella and the wider region around the city of Verona.
Any of various fish, including Cilus gilberti, Larimichthys polyactis, and members of the genera Cynoscion and Isopisthus.
cravens
cravens
noun
plural of craven
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of craven
craving
craving
noun
A strong desire; yearning.
verb
present participle of crave
curvant
devance
enclave
enclave
noun
(computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
verb
(transitive) To enclose within a foreign territory.
havance
incarve
inclave
inclave
adj
(heraldry) Resembling a series of dovetails; said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary.
levance
levancy
navarch
navarch
noun
(historical, Ancient Greece) The commander of a fleet.
scrivan
scrivan
noun
(obsolete) A clerk or writer.
unvicar
unvicar
verb
(transitive, rare) To deprive of the position or office of a vicar.
unvocal
unvocal
adj
Not vocal.
vacance
vacance
noun
(obsolete) A vacation.
vacancy
vacancy
noun
(physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
A blank mind, unoccupied with thought.
An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
An unoccupied position or job.
Empty space.
Lack of intelligence or understanding.
vacandi
vacante
vaccina
vaccina
noun
Alternative form of vaccinia (“cowpox”)
vaccine
vaccine
adj
(archaic) Of, pertaining to, or derived from cattle or cows.
(immunology) Of or pertaining to cowpox as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox; also, of or pertaining to such material used for vaccination.
(medicine) Of, pertaining to, caused by, or characteristic of cowpox.
noun
(also medicine, obsolete) The disease cowpox, especially as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox.
(computing) A software program which protects computers against, or detects and neutralizes, computer viruses and other types of malware; an antivirus.
(historical) Material taken from cowpox pustules used for vaccination against smallpox.
A substance given to stimulate a body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease (or a derivative of it; or a related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute; also, a dose of such a substance.
Something defensive or protective in nature, like a vaccine (sense 1.1).
The process of vaccination; immunization, inoculation.
verb
(transitive, archaic) Synonym of vaccinate (“to treat (a person or an animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease”)
vagancy
vagancy
noun
(obsolete) A wandering; vagrancy.
valance
valance
noun
(bedding) A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from beneath the mattress to the floor used to conceal the boxspring or space under the bed and prevent dust from accumulating there.
A decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism and so on at the top of a window.
A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window.
A short, decorative edging of cloth that conceals the legs of a couch, sofa, etc.
The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk, which covers the joint when the lid is closed.
valence
valence
noun
(chemistry) The combining capacity of an atom, radical or functional group determined by the number of electrons that it will lose, gain, or share when it combines with other atoms etc.
(chemistry) The number of binding sites of a molecule, such as an antibody or antigen.
(chemistry, medicine, obsolete) An extract; a preparation, now especially one effective against a certain number of strains of a pathogen.
(especially psychology) A one-dimensional value assigned to an object, situation, or state, that can usually be positive or negative.
(linguistics) The number of arguments that a verb can have, including its subject, ranging from zero (for the likes of "It rains") to three (for the likes of "Bob gives Alice a flower") or, less commonly, four.
(sociology) Value.
Alternative spelling of valance
valency
valency
noun
(especially chemistry) Valence.
(graph theory) The number of edges connected to a vertex in a graph.
(linguistics) The capacity of a verb to take a specific number of arguments.
The capacity of something to combine with other things.
valinch
valinch
noun
A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole.
vanadic
vanadic
adj
Of or pertaining to vanadium, especially to vanadium with an oxidation number of 5.
vanwyck
vascons
vatican
venatic
venatic
adj
Of, pertaining to or involved in hunting.
vencola
vendace
vendace
noun
Either of two types of whitefish, Coregonus albula and Coregonus vandesius.
vesanic
vesanic
adj
(medicine, archaic) Relating to insanity.
vicenza
vicenza
Proper noun
A town and associated province in Veneto, Italy.
vicinal
vicinal
adj
(chemistry) Describing identical atoms or groups attached to nearby (especially adjacent) atoms in a molecule.
(mineralogy) Describing subordinate planes on a crystal, which are very near to the fundamental planes in angles, and sometimes take their place.
Of or pertaining to a neighborhood; neighboring.
vicugna
vicugna
noun
Alternative spelling of vicuna
vicunas
vicunas
noun
plural of vicuna
vincula
volcano
volcano
noun
A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.
A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.