A person who campaigns for a person running for political office or works, or supports, in an organised and active way towards a goal; an activist.
A person who has served in a military campaign.
Someone with experience in a certain field.
caperingly
caperingly
adv
in a capering manner
carpetbags
carpetbags
noun
plural of carpetbag
carpogenic
carpogenic
adj
(botany) Producing fruit, or causing fruit to develop.
cephalagra
cephalagra
noun
gout in the head
cerography
cerography
noun
A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
chapelgoer
chapelgoer
noun
One who regularly attends chapel.
chaptering
chaptering
verb
present participle of chapter
chargeship
chargeship
noun
The position or office of a chargé d'affaires.
chemigraph
chippering
chippering
verb
present participle of chipper
clappering
clappering
verb
present participle of clapper
colportage
colportage
noun
the distribution or selling of publications via carriers, particularly devotional literature
compeering
compeering
verb
present participle of compeer
copperwing
creepingly
creepingly
adv
By creeping, moving stealthily and slowly; insidiously; cunningly.
creophagia
creophagia
noun
Alternative form of kreophagy
crispening
crispening
verb
present participle of crispen
cruppering
cruppering
verb
present participle of crupper
cryptogame
cryptogame
noun
Alternative form of cryptogam
decrypting
decrypting
verb
present participle of decrypt
discerping
discerping
verb
present participle of discerp
encrypting
encrypting
verb
present participle of encrypt
epigastric
epigastric
adj
Of or pertaining to the epigastrium.
epigraphic
epigraphic
adj
Of or pertaining to an epigraph or to epigraphy.
epirogenic
ergophobic
ergophobic
adj
averse to doing work
excerpting
excerpting
noun
The act of taking an excerpt.
verb
present participle of excerpt
geographic
geographic
adj
Determined by geography, as opposed to magnetic (i.e. North)
Pertaining to geography (or to geographics)
geomorphic
geomorphic
adj
Of or pertaining to the shape or structure of the surface of the Earth
graecophil
graphemics
graphemics
noun
(linguistics) The study of the graphemes, or writing units, of a script, and of their relation to the phonemes of the spoken language
gyroscopes
gyroscopes
noun
plural of gyroscope
hectograph
hectograph
noun
(historical) An old printing machine that involves transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame.
verb
To duplicate (a document) by this process.
hygroscope
hygroscope
noun
An instrument that indicates changes in atmospheric humidity
hypergolic
hypergolic
adj
(chemistry, aeronautics, of a reactant, fuel, or propellant) Igniting spontaneously upon contact with an oxidiser.
(chemistry, aeronautics, of a reaction) Involving such a hypergolic agent.
increeping
increeping
verb
present participle of increep
lepargylic
leprologic
leprologic
adj
(rare) Synonym of leprological: Of or related to leprology.
logperches
logperches
noun
plural of logperch
macrophage
macrophage
noun
(immunology, cytology) A white blood cell that phagocytizes necrotic cell debris and foreign material, including viruses, bacteria, and tattoo ink. It presents foreign antigens on MHC II to lymphocytes. Part of the innate immune system.
megaparsec
megaparsec
noun
(astronomy) A unit of distance equal to a million parsecs
megasporic
megasporic
adj
Pertaining to a megaspore.
microphage
microphage
noun
(biology) A small phagocyte, especially a polymorphonuclear leucocyte (a granulocyte)
necrophaga
necrophagy
necrophagy
noun
The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh
neographic
neographic
adj
Of or relating to innovative forms of writing.
nephralgic
nephralgic
adj
Relating to nephralgia.
panegyrica
panegyrics
panegyrics
noun
plural of panegyric
parageusic
parageusic
adj
Of or relating to parageusia.
paralgesic
paralgesic
adj
Of or relating to paralgesia.
paraplegic
paraplegic
adj
Of, related to, or suffering from paraplegia.
noun
A person who suffers from paraplegia.
parcelling
parcelling
noun
(nautical) One of the long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used also in mousing on the stays, etc.
verb
(Britain) present participle of parcel
paregorics
paregorics
noun
plural of paregoric
pedicuring
pedicuring
verb
present participle of pedicure
pelargonic
pelargonic
adj
(chemistry) Of or pertaining to pelargonic acid or its derivatives
Of or pertaining to plants of the genus Pelargonium
pelycogram
perceiving
perceiving
noun
The act by which something is perceived.
verb
present participle of perceive
percentage
percentage
noun
(informal) Benefit or advantage.
A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
percussing
percussing
verb
present participle of percuss
perfecting
perfecting
noun
(printing) The process of printing on both sides of the printed-on material during its single pass through the printing press.
verb
present participle of perfect
periegetic
periegetic
adj
(rare) Relating to a periegesis.
petrogenic
petrogenic
adj
(of hydrocarbons etc) Produced by the incomplete combustion of petroleum
Of or pertaining to the formation of rock.
petrologic
petrologic
adj
Of or pertaining to petrology.
phagocyter
pickeering
pickeering
verb
present participle of pickeer
piercingly
piercingly
adv
In a piercing manner.
pigsticker
pigsticker
noun
(UK, India) A horse well-suited to hunt wild boar.
(UK, India) A hunter of wild boar.
(US, dialect) A sled with a pointed front.
A large knife, used as a weapon.
A pork butcher.
A spike bayonet
pleuralgic
preachings
preachings
noun
plural of preaching
precanning
precanning
adj
Before canning.
precasting
precasting
verb
present participle of precast
preceeding
precenting
precenting
verb
present participle of precent
precessing
precessing
verb
present participle of precess
precharged
precharged
adj
charged in advance
verb
simple past tense and past participle of precharge
preclosing
preclosing
Adjective
Before closure.
precluding
precluding
verb
present participle of preclude
precognize
precognize
verb
To display or have precognition; to have (paranormal) knowledge of a future event before it occurs.
precollege
precollege
adj
Occurring before, or in preparation for, college
preconsign
preconsign
verb
(transitive) To consign beforehand; to make a previous consignment of.
precooking
precooking
verb
present participle of precook
precooling
precooling
verb
present participle of precool
precopying
precopying
verb
present participle of precopy
predicting
predicting
verb
present participle of predict
preglacial
preglacial
adj
Before an ice age (usually referring to the Pliocene)
pregracile
prelecting
prelecting
verb
present participle of prelect
prelogical
prelogical
adj
Before the development of logical thought.
preneglect
prenticing
prenticing
verb
present participle of prentice
preorganic
prepackage
prepackage
verb
(transitive) To enclose in packaging prior to sale.
prepacking
prepacking
verb
present participle of prepack
preplacing
preplacing
verb
present participle of preplace
prepricing
prepricing
verb
present participle of preprice
prescoring
prescoring
verb
present participle of prescore
pretracing
princeling
princeling
noun
(derogatory) A descendant of some prominent and influential senior communist official in the People's Republic of China.
A minor or unimportant prince.
proceeding
proceeding
noun
(always in plural) A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
(law) Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.
A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction
An event or happening; something that happens
Progress or movement from one thing to another.
The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction
verb
present participle of proceed
processing
processing
noun
The act of retrieving, storing, classifying, manipulating, transmitting etc. data, especially via computer techniques.
The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.
The action of the verb to process.
verb
present participle of process
proctorage
proctorage
noun
(derogatory) Management by a proctor, or as if by a proctor; control; superintendence.
projecting
projecting
adj
(psychology) Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence.
Sticking out.
noun
A projecting part.
The act by which something is projected.
verb
present participle of project
prosecting
prosecting
verb
present participle of prosect
protecting
protecting
verb
present participle and gerund of protect
protogenic
protogenic
adj
(botany) Relating to intercellular spaces formed within undifferentiated plant tissues.
(geology) Relating to crystalline or fire-formed rocks.
Of or pertaining to an early or original race or lineage; primitive.
pyrogentic
recampaign
recampaign
verb
(intransitive) To campaign again.
receipting
receipting
verb
present participle of receipt
reclasping
reclasping
verb
present participle of reclasp
recoupling
recoupling
noun
The act or process by which something is recoupled.
verb
present participle of recouple
rectigraph
repackaged
repackaged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of repackage
repackager
repackager
noun
An individual or company that repackages a product.
repackages
repackages
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of repackage
repugnance
repugnance
noun
Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
Extreme aversion, repulsion.
repugnancy
repugnancy
noun
(archaic) Resistance, fighting back.
The quality of being repugnant: (logical) opposition, contradiction, incompatibility.
The quality of being repugnant: offensiveness, repulsion.
respecting
respecting
prep
regarding; considering
verb
present participle of respect
resplicing
resplicing
noun
The act by which things are respliced.
verb
present participle of resplice
ridgepiece
ridgepiece
noun
ridgepole, ridgeboard
saprogenic
saprogenic
adj
Causing or resulting from putrefaction.
scampering
scampering
noun
A quick, light running motion.
verb
present participle of scamper
scapegrace
scapegrace
noun
A wild and reckless person (especially a boy); a scoundrel.
scarpering
scarpering
verb
present participle of scarper
scenograph
scenograph
noun
A perspective representation or general view of an object.
sceptering
sceptering
verb
present participle of scepter
scuppering
scuppering
verb
present participle of scupper
sporogenic
sporogenic
adj
Producing spores.
Reproducing via spores.
supercargo
supercargo
noun
An officer on board a merchant ship who has charge of the cargo and its turnover (or the senior of two if one has two, the other being the subcargo; usually historical, since nowadays a person with such a job would remain on shore).
uncapering
uncreeping
unpiercing
unpiercing
adj
Not piercing.
upreaching
upreaching
verb
present participle of upreach
upsurgence
vectograph
vectograph
noun
A kind of stereoscopic print or transparency to be viewed with polarized 3D glasses.