(obsolete) Destruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.
aminoplast
amphanthia
amphictyon
amphictyon
noun
(Ancient Greece) One of the deputies from the confederated states of Ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.
amphitryon
amplectant
amplectant
adj
(botany) That clasps a support, especially by twining around it
clasping or embracing
ampliation
ampliation
noun
(law, civil law) A postponement of the decision of a cause for further consideration or reargument.
enlargement; amplification
ampulating
amputating
amputating
verb
present participle of amputate
amputation
amputation
noun
surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.
the loss of a limb, etc. through trauma
anabaptism
anabaptism
Noun
The doctrine of the Anabaptists.
anacamptic
anacamptic
adj
Reflecting or reflected.
anemopathy
antepartum
antepartum
adj
Describing the period before childbirth; antenatal
antetemple
antetemple
noun
The portico or narthex in an ancient temple or church.
antipapism
antipapism
noun
Opposition of the pope or his faction.
antipewism
antipodism
antipodism
noun
(topology) The relation between points on a sphere which are directly opposite each other; or the function which maps a point to its opposite point.
A form of foot juggling where the juggler lies on his or her back, usually on a sort of chair.
antiprimer
apartments
apartments
noun
plural of apartment
aphanitism
aplanatism
aplanatism
noun
(optics) Freedom from spherical aberration.
apneumatic
apneumatic
adj
(medicine) Devoid of air; free from air, or effected by or with exclusion of air.
(rare) Of or pertaining to the nonexistence of soul or spirit; non-spiritual.
appallment
appallment
noun
(obsolete) depression occasioned by terror; dismay
applotment
applotment
Noun
apportionment
armipotent
armipotent
adj
(obsolete) Powerful in battle.
noun
(poetic, archaic) A powerful combatant.
assumption
assumption
noun
(logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
(rhetoric) Assumptio.
A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.
The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
The taking of a person up into heaven.
The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
atropamine
atropinism
atropinism
noun
atropine poisoning
attempting
attempting
verb
present participle of attempt
camponotus
camptonite
camptonite
noun
(mineralogy) A lamprophyre containing plagioclase and feldspar.
compacting
compacting
verb
present participle of compact
compaction
compaction
noun
The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.
companator
comparting
comparting
verb
present participle of compart
compartner
compartner
noun
Obsolete form of copartner.
compatient
compatient
adj
(obsolete) suffering or enduring together
compearant
compearant
noun
(Scotland, law) A person who appears in court.
compensate
compensate
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
To do (something good) after (something bad) happens
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
complacent
complacent
adj
Apathetic with regard to an apparent need or problem.
Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
complaints
complaints
noun
plural of complaint
complanate
complanate
adj
Flattened to a level surface.
verb
(transitive) To make level.
complicant
cryptonema
decampment
decampment
noun
A prompt departure.
The act of decamping.
department
department
noun
(historical) A military subdivision of a country
(in a university) One of the divisions of instructions
(obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
(often in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
A part, portion, or subdivision.
A specified aspect or quality.
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
diparentum
emancipate
emancipate
adj
Freed; set at liberty.
verb
To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence
To set free from slavery or bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit
To set free, as a minor from a parent
emancipist
emancipist
noun
(Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
empalement
empalement
noun
Obsolete form of impalement. in particular in botany as a term for the calyx of a flower.
encampment
encampment
noun
A campsite.
A group of temporary living quarters and/or other temporary structures.
entrapment
entrapment
noun
(chemistry) A method of isolating specific cells or molecules from a mixture, especially by immobilization on a gel.
(law) Action by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime, in order to arrest and prosecute that person for the crime.
The state of being entrapped.
enwrapment
enwrapment
noun
A wrapper or envelope.
The act of enwrapping.
epaulement
epaulement
noun
(ballet) A position in which one shoulder is thrust forward and the other back, and the torso turned at a right angle to the supporting leg.
A barricade of heaped earth for protection from gunfire.
epistomian
escapement
escapement
noun
(clocks, mechanics) The contrivance in a timepiece (winding wristwatch) which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration.
A mechanism found in devices such as a typewriter or printer which controls lateral motion of the carriage.
An escape or means of escape.
The number of fish that escape commercial fishing operations and travel upstream to spawn.
escarpment
escarpment
noun
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
espacement
foretopman
foretopman
noun
(nautical) A sailor who controls the masts in the foretop.
gymnoplast
gymnoplast
noun
(biology) A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, such as a white blood corpuscle.
hemipteran
hemipteran
adj
Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera order; hemipterous
noun
A hemipter.
heptameron
heptameron
noun
A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
hetmanship
hetmanship
noun
The role or status of hetman.
himantopus
homopteran
homopteran
noun
Any insect of the former hemipteran order Homoptera.
hypanthium
hypanthium
noun
(botany) The bowl-shaped part of a flower on which the sepals, petals, and stamens are borne
impackment
impactment
impactment
noun
impaction
impainting
impainting
verb
present participle of impaint
impairment
impairment
noun
(accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
A deterioration or weakening
A disability or handicap
The result of being impaired
an inefficient part or factor.
impalement
impalement
noun
(botany) (obsolete) In the sense of an enclosure, the calyx of a flower. In still older works, also spelt empalement (q.v.)
(heraldry) The joining of two coats of arms on one shield.
A space fenced in, such as by palings, possibly in the form of an enclosure or cup.
The act of torturing or executing someone by impaling them on a sharp stake.
impanation
impanation
noun
(Christianity) The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper — as opposed to transubstantiation.
impartance
impartance
noun
impartation
impartment
impartment
noun
The act of imparting something, or the thing imparted; disclosure.
impatience
impatience
noun
The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
impatiency
impatiency
noun
(obsolete) Impatience.
imperation
imperation
noun
Synonym of empire
The action of governing or commanding; governance.
impetulant
impinguate
impinguate
verb
(obsolete) To fatten; to make fat.
implanting
implanting
verb
present participle of implant
implicants
implicants
noun
plural of implicant
importance
importance
noun
Something of importance.
The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
personal status or standing.
significance or prominence.
importancy
importancy
noun
(obsolete) That which is important.
(obsolete) importance; significance
impregnant
impregnant
adj
(obsolete) Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.
noun
(obsolete) That which impregnates.
impregnate
impregnate
verb
(intransitive, dated) To become pregnant.
(transitive) To cause to become pregnant.
(transitive) To fertilize.
(transitive) To fill pores or spaces with a substance.
(transitive) To saturate, or infuse.
impuissant
impuissant
adj
weak; impotent; feeble
impunctate
impunctate
adj
(anatomy) Not punctate; not marked by spots, dots, points, or punctures.
(biology) Lacking pores.
impunctual
impunctual
Adjective
Not punctual.
impuration
impuration
noun
(obsolete) The act of making impure; defilement; obscuration.
imputation
imputation
noun
(game theory) A distribution that is efficient and individually rational.
(genetics) The statistical inference of unobserved genotypes.
(statistics) The process of replacing missing data with substituted values.
(theology) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another.
Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
Opinion; intimation; hint.
That which has been imputed or charged.
The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
intemporal
inwrapment
lampoonist
lampoonist
noun
One who lampoons.
leptamnium
leptomonad
leptomonad
noun
(biology) A form of some promastigote flagellates, similar to a nectomonad except for being shorter and replicative
Any trypanosomatid of the genus Leptomonas
leptomonas
lymphation
magneoptic
magneoptic
adj
(archaic) magnetooptical
maintopman
maintopman
noun
(nautical) A sailor on duty on a maintop.
maintopmen
maintopmen
noun
plural of maintopman
manipulate
manipulate
verb
(intransitive, dated) To use the hands, especially in scientific experiments.
(transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that is unknown to the one being manipulated and beneficial to the manipulator; to use
(transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
(transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
(transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
manstopper
manstopper
noun
A weapon, bullet, dog, etc. that can quickly and reliably incapacitate a person.
manucaptor
manucaptor
noun
(law, obsolete) In English common law, a person empowered to take bail and capture a person who forfeits it.
manuscript
manuscript
adj
Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
noun
A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
matagalpan
matronship
matronship
noun
matronage
maupassant
mecopteran
mecopteran
noun
Any of the carnivorous insects in the order Mecoptera
megaphyton
melanotype
melanotype
noun
Alternative form of melainotype
menotyphla
mephitinae
metaphyton
metaphyton
noun
Any metaphytic filamentous alga
misappoint
mispainted
mispainted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mispaint
misparting
misparting
verb
present participle of mispart
misplanted
misplanted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misplant
monopathic
monopathic
adj
(medicine) Affecting only one organ or function.
monophotal
monopteral
monopteral
adj
(architecture) Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; said especially of a temple.
monoptical
monoptical
adj
Alternative form of monoptic
monopttera
morphactin
morphactin
noun
Any of a class of synthetic compounds that limit plant growth.
morphinate
morphinate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt of morphine
multiplane
multiplane
adj
Consisting of several planes or surfaces
noun
A motion-picture camera used in traditional animation to move a number of pieces of artwork at various speeds and various distances, creating a sense of parallax or depth.
An airplane having at least three superposed main planes
multiplant
multiplant
adj
Of or pertaining to more than one plant (factory or industrial building).
nameplates
nameplates
noun
plural of nameplate
nippitatum
nippitatum
noun
(now rare) Strong beer or ale (or occasionally some other alcoholic drink).
nonpayment
nonpayment
noun
The failure to make a payment
omniparent
omniparent
adj
That produces all things
noun
A universal parent; god
omniparity
omniparity
noun
Equality in every part; general equality.
outpayment
outpayment
noun
An outgoing payment; expenditure.
palermitan
palliament
palliament
noun
(obsolete) A dress; a robe.
palmerston
palmitinic
paludament
paludament
noun
A paludamentum.
panaritium
panaritium
noun
(medicine) The purulent inflammation of a digit.
pancosmist
pancosmist
noun
A believer in pancosmism.
pancratism
pancratium
pancratium
noun
(botany) Any of the genus Pancratium of African and Eurasian perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family. The flowers are large, white and fragrant.
(historical) An ancient athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
pandermite
pandermite
noun
(mineralogy) A hydrous borate of lime, resembling priceite.
panoramist
panoramist
noun
A person who creates panoramas.
pantameter
pantamorph
panthelism
pantomania
pantometer
pantometer
noun
An instrument for measuring angles for determining elevations, distances, etc.
pantometry
pantometry
noun
(dated) A proposed scheme for universal measurement.
A tendency to measure everything; fixation on measurement or quantitative aspects.
pantomimed
pantomimed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pantomime
pantomimes
pantomimes
noun
plural of pantomime
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pantomime