(military) The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping.
An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
Good-faith acceptance of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
(medicine) An increase in the frequency or duration of blinking.
brachygnathous
brachygnathous
adj
Relating to brachygnathia
branchiogenous
branchiopodous
branchiosauria
branchiosaurus
brunelliaceous
brunelliaceous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the Brunelliaceae.
buccobranchial
bulbocavernous
bulbocavernous
adj
Relating to the bulbocavernosus
burmanniaceous
burmanniaceous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the family Burmanniaceae.
calcaneocuboid
calcaneocuboid
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the calcaneus and the cuboid bone.
cannabinaceous
cannabinaceous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the Cannabinaceae.
carbunculation
carbunculation
noun
(rare) The blasting of something, by excessive heat or cold.
charlottenburg
colourableness
colourableness
noun
The state or quality of being colourable.
commutableness
commutableness
noun
The quality of being commutable or interchangeable.
conduceability
conducibleness
conducibleness
noun
The state or quality of being conducible.
conductibility
conductibility
noun
The ability to conduct electricity.
confabulations
confabulations
noun
plural of confabulation
confluxibility
congeliturbate
constabularies
constabularies
noun
plural of constabularie
plural of constabulary
construability
construability
noun
The quality of being construable; ability to be construed.
consubsistency
consubstantial
consubstantial
adj
Of the same substance or essence.
consubstantive
contributional
contributional
adj
Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.
contributively
contributively
adv
In a contributive fashion.
contributorial
contributorial
adj
Of or relating to a contributor.
contributories
contributorily
contributorily
adv
In a contributory manner.
convulsibility
counterbalance
counterbalance
noun
(figuratively) A force or influence that balances, checks or limits an opposite one.
(literally) A weight that is put in opposition to an equal weight so it keeps that in balance.
verb
(transitive) To apply weight in order to balance an opposing weight.
(transitive, figuratively) To match or equal in effect when applying opposing force
counterbarrage
counterbarrage
noun
A barrage in response to another barrage.
counterbattery
counterbattery
adj
(military) Directed against opposing artillery.
counterbeating
counterbewitch
counterboycott
counterboycott
noun
An opposing boycott set up in response to another boycott.
counterbracing
counterbracing
verb
present participle of counterbrace
counterembargo
counterembargo
noun
An embargo that a nation sets up in response to another embargo against it.
counterembowed
counterembowed
adj
(heraldry) Bent, curved or arched in two directions, both to the left and to the right, or both upwards and downwards.
countersubject
countersubject
noun
(music) The secondary melody in contrapuntal music
cryptobranchus
cumbersomeness
cumbersomeness
noun
The state of being cumbersome
customableness
customableness
noun
(obsolete) Quality of being customable; conformity to custom.
decompoundable
decompoundable
adj
Capable of being decompounded.
deutocarbonate
discontinuable
discontinuable
adj
Capable of being discontinued.
doublecrossing
doublecrossing
verb
present participle of doublecross
doublehatching
eburnification
eburnification
noun
The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.
excommunicable
excommunicable
adj
Liable or deserving to be excommunicated.
fibronucleated
granuloblastic
granuloblastic
adj
Relating to granuloblasts
hemoglobinuric
hemoglobinuric
adj
Exhibiting or relating to hemoglobinuria
noun
An individual who has hemoglobinuria
hydrocarbonous
hydrocarbonous
adj
(archaic) Being or relating to a hydrocarbon.
incommunicable
incommunicable
adj
(of a disease etc) That cannot be communicated or transmitted
(of a person) Who does not communicate freely; uncommunicative or reserved
incommunicably
incommunicably
adv
In an incommunicable manner or fashion.
inconsumptible
inconsumptible
adj
(obsolete) inconsumable
isocorybulbine
labiotenaculum
lubriciousness
lubriciousness
noun
lewdness, salaciousness
slipperiness
malpublication
mcconnellsburg
misconstruable
misconstruable
adj
Capable of being misconstrued.
mucomembranous
nabuchodonosor
neurobiotactic
neurobiotactic
adj
Relating to neurobiotaxis.
nitrobacterium
nitrobacterium
noun
Any of the several genera of bacteria in soil that take part in the nitrogen cycle, oxidizing ammonium and organic nitrogen compounds to the more soluble nitrite and nitrate.
noctambulation
noctambulation
Noun
sleepwalking
noctambulistic
noctambulistic
adj
Relating to a noctambulist or sleepwalker.
noncombustible
noncombustible
adj
That will not readily ignite and burn.
noun
(mostly plural) Any substance that is not combustible.
nonconductible
nonconductible
adj
Not conductible.
nonconnubially
nonconstruable
noncontinuable
noncontinuable
adj
Not continuable.
noncontinuably
noncontributor
noncontributor
noun
One who is not a contributor.
noncorruptible
noncorruptibly
nonculpability
nondisturbance
nondisturbance
noun
(law) An agreement not to disturb tenants in a residence.
nonlubricating
nonobscurities
nonobstructive
nonobstructive
adj
Not obstructive.
nonpublication
nonpublication
noun
Lack of publication; failure to publish.
nonpuncturable
nonpuncturable
adj
Not puncturable.
nonpurchasable
nonpurchasable
adj
Not purchasable.
nonputrescible
nonsubmergence
nonsubscribers
nonsubscribers
noun
plural of nonsubscriber
nonsubscribing
nonsubscribing
adj
That does not subscribe (to a belief, a periodical, etc.).
nonsubscripted
nonsubscripted
adj
unsubscripted
nonsubsistence
nonsubtraction
nonsubtraction
adj
Not of or relating to subtraction.
noun
Absence of subtraction; failure to subtract.
nonsubtractive
nonsubtractive
adj
Not subtractive.
nonsusceptible
nonsusceptible
adj
Not susceptible
nonsusceptibly
nontuberculous
nontuberculous
adj
Not tuberculous.
obscuranticism
obstructionism
obstructionism
noun
A deliberate policy of obstructing something, especially a political process or body.
obstructionist
obstructionist
adj
Obstructionistic.
Pertaining to obstructionism.
noun
Someone who attempts to impede the progress of legislation.
Someone who systematically obstructs the actions of others.
orobanchaceous
orobanchaceous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the family Orobanchaceae, plants mostly parasitic on the roots of other plants.
overabundances
overabundances
noun
plural of overabundance
overcontribute
overcontribute
verb
To contribute in excess of a standard or expectation.
overexuberance
overexuberance
noun
Excessive exuberance
planoorbicular
pleurobranchia
plumbosolvency
plumbosolvency
noun
The ability of a solvent, notably water, to dissolve lead.
pneumobacillus
pneumobranchia
pontificalibus
precontributed
preobstruction
prepublication
prepublication
adj
Preceding, or in preparation for, publication.
noun
A preliminary version of a publication, produced in advance of the final version.
procurableness
producibleness
producibleness
noun
producibility; the state or quality of being producible.
propublication
protuberancies
protuberancies
noun
plural of protuberancy
pseudembryonic
pseudembryonic
adj
Of or relating to a pseudembryo.
pseudobranchia
pseudobranchia
noun
(marine biology) A small patch of gill-like filaments on the inner surface of the opercle near the junction of the preopercle.
pseudobranchus
pulmobranchial
quinocarbonium
quinocarbonium
noun
(chemistry, attributive) Applied to coloured triarylcarbinol salts that might be regarded as either carbonium compounds or quinonoid derivatives.
rambunctiously
rambunctiously
adv
In a rambunctious manner.
reconfigurable
reconfigurable
adj
That can be reconfigured.
recontribution
recontribution
noun
(finance) The process of contributing an amount previously withdrawn back into the same fund.
rediscountable
rediscountable
adj
(finance) Able to be rediscounted.
resubscription
resubscription
noun
The act of resubscribing.
ribonucleoside
ribonucleoside
noun
(biochemistry) Any nucleoside component of RNA.
ribonucleotide
ribonucleotide
noun
(biochemistry, genetics) Any nucleotide having ribose as its sugar
somnambulistic
somnambulistic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a somnambulist.