(cooking) A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
(cooking) A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
(obsolete) An ulcer on the coronet of a horse, sheep, or donkey.
(rare) The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
A toadstone.
An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
cyprinidae
dapperling
dapperling
noun
(rare, archaic) A dwarf; a dandiprat; a dapper little fellow.
dendraspis
depreciant
depurating
depurating
verb
present participle of depurate
depuration
depuration
noun
The removal of impurities, especially from bodily fluids; purification, cleansing.
despairing
despairing
adj
Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
noun
A mood or display of despair.
verb
present participle of despair
diparentum
disaproned
discrepant
discrepant
adj
Showing difference; inconsistent, dissimilar.
noun
(archaic) A dissident.
dispensary
dispensary
noun
(dated) Synonym of pharmacy, particularly one included in a hospital that does not act as a point of sale.
A retail establishment that sells marijuana and related supplies to customers with a prescription to use it for medical purposes.
An institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice.
dispersant
dispersant
noun
(chemistry) Any substance that is used to prevent settling or clumping of particles suspended in a liquid.
drainpipes
drainpipes
noun
Synonym of drainpipe trousers
plural of drainpipe
drepanidae
dysphrenia
endocarpic
endosporia
endosporia
noun
plural of endosporium
epicaridan
epidendral
euripidean
euripidean
Adjective
Of definition relating to Euripides
handygripe
headspring
headspring
noun
(gymnastics) A move in which the gymnast places both hands on the mat with the top of the head about 6 inches in front, pushes off with the hands while flipping the legs overhead, and lands on the feet.
A fountainhead; a source.
A spring that sits at the top of a mechanism, pushing the internal parts inward.
verb
(gymnastics) To perform a headspring.
heparinoid
heparinoid
noun
(biochemistry) Any of a class of glycosaminoglycans derived from heparin
heptandria
incompared
incompared
adj
(obsolete) peerless; incomparable
infraposed
interpaved
interplead
interplead
verb
(law) To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an interpleader.
jeoparding
jeoparding
verb
present participle of jeopard
kidnappers
kidnappers
noun
plural of kidnapper
leopardine
leopardine
Adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a leopard.
leptandrin
leptandrin
noun
(organic chemistry) A bitter glucoside obtained from plants in the genus Leptandra.
lipreading
lipreading
noun
The act of reading lips.
verb
present participle of lipread
mainprised
mainprised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mainprise
nephridial
nephridial
adj
Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
overpained
pairedness
pairedness
noun
The quality of being paired.
palindrome
palindrome
noun
(by extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
(by extension) A sequence of items that follows the same pattern both forwards and backwards.
(genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand
A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
palisander
palisander
noun
rosewood
pandermite
pandermite
noun
(mineralogy) A hydrous borate of lime, resembling priceite.
pandership
pandership
noun
(obsolete) The work of a pander; pimping.
pandoridae
panorpidae
paradisean
paradisean
adj
paradisiacal
paraffined
paraffined
verb
simple past tense and past participle of paraffin
simple past tense and past participle of paraffine
paramedian
paramedian
adj
(surgery) to one side of the median position
parcidenta
parmenides
parotidean
parotidean
Adjective
Relating to the parotid gland.
partheniad
partheniad
noun
(obsolete) A poem in honour of a virgin.
pathfinder
pathfinder
noun
One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
One who first does something; a pioneer.
patronised
patronised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of patronise
patronized
patronized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of patronize