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
clappering
clappering
verb
present participle of clapper
colportage
colportage
noun
the distribution or selling of publications via carriers, particularly devotional literature
creophagia
creophagia
noun
Alternative form of kreophagy
cryptogame
cryptogame
noun
Alternative form of cryptogam
epigastric
epigastric
adj
Of or pertaining to the epigastrium.
epigraphic
epigraphic
adj
Of or pertaining to an epigraph or to epigraphy.
geographic
geographic
adj
Determined by geography, as opposed to magnetic (i.e. North)
Pertaining to geography (or to geographics)
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
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.
lepargylic
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
pelargonic
pelargonic
adj
(chemistry) Of or pertaining to pelargonic acid or its derivatives
Of or pertaining to plants of the genus Pelargonium
pelycogram
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.
phagocyter
pleuralgic
preachings
preachings
noun
plural of preaching
precanning
precanning
adj
Before canning.
precasting
precasting
verb
present participle of precast
precharged
precharged
adj
charged in advance
verb
simple past tense and past participle of precharge
preglacial
preglacial
adj
Before an ice age (usually referring to the Pliocene)
pregracile
prelogical
prelogical
adj
Before the development of logical thought.
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
pretracing
proctorage
proctorage
noun
(derogatory) Management by a proctor, or as if by a proctor; control; superintendence.
recampaign
recampaign
verb
(intransitive) To campaign again.
reclasping
reclasping
verb
present participle of reclasp
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.
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.
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
upreaching
upreaching
verb
present participle of upreach
vectograph
vectograph
noun
A kind of stereoscopic print or transparency to be viewed with polarized 3D glasses.