(zoology, of a coloration or marking) That serves as a warning to predators, as of toxicity, especially falsely.
archisperm
asepticism
asepticism
noun
(dated) freedom from sepsis; asepsis
aspermatic
aspermatic
adj
That does not produce sperm
campaniles
campaniles
noun
plural of campanile
campership
campership
noun
Money paid to admit a child to summer camp.
campesinos
campesinos
noun
plural of campesino
capernaism
champenois
chumpiness
circumpose
circumpose
verb
(obsolete) To place within an encircling space; to pot (a plant).
(obsolete) To put round; to place around; to place or arrange circularly.
compagnies
compassive
compositae
composited
composited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of composite
composites
composites
noun
plural of composite
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of composite
compotiers
compotiers
noun
plural of compotier
compromise
compromise
noun
(computer security) A breach of a computer or network's rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself.
A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
verb
(intransitive) To find a way between extremes.
(transitive) To breach (a security system).
(transitive) To cause impairment of.
(transitive, intransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
compulsive
compulsive
adj
Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.
Uncontrolled or reactive and irresistible.
noun
One who exhibits compulsive behaviours.
conceptism
conceptism
noun
Alternative form of conceptismo
crimpiness
cuemanship
cuemanship
noun
The art or skill of playing a cue sport.
discompose
discompose
verb
(transitive) To destroy the composure of; to disturb or agitate.
(transitive) To disarrange, or throw into a state of disorder.
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.
empiricism
empiricism
noun
(medicine, now chiefly historical) Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; folk medicine, quackery.
(philosophy) A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses. (Often contrasted with rationalism.)
(social sciences, political science, sociology) used to describe research based on methodology shaped from empirical philosophy (see above), e.g. surveys, statistics, etc.
A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation.
empiricist
empiricist
noun
an advocate or supporter of empiricism
empiristic
empiristic
adj
(physics) Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.
epiplasmic
episcenium
episematic
episematic
adj
(zoology, of a coloration or marking) That serves to assist individuals of the same species to identify each other.
epispermic
epispermic
adj
(botany) Pertaining or belonging to the episperm, or seed covering.
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
heptasemic
heptasemic
adj
(ancient prosody) containing seven morae or units of time.
hypericism
hypericism
noun
Photosensitivity in livestock caused by consuming plants of the genus Hypericum.
hyperosmic
hyperosmic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
impeachers
impeachers
noun
plural of impeacher
impedances
impedances
noun
plural of impedance
imperfects
imperfects
noun
plural of imperfect
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imperfect
implicates
implicates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implicate
impolicies
impolicies
noun
plural of impolicy
impotences
impotences
noun
plural of impotence
imprecates
imprecates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imprecate
impudences
impudences
noun
plural of impudence
incomposed
incomposed
adj
(obsolete) disordered; disturbed
leptosomic
megascopic
megascopic
adj
(of a picture, etc.) Enlarged or magnified.
Of, or pertaining to, the megascope.
Visible to the naked eye.
megasporic
megasporic
adj
Pertaining to a megaspore.
menopausic
mercaptids
mercership
mercership
noun
The position, role, or work of a mercer.
mesocarpic
mesocarpic
adj
Relating to, or composed of mesocarp
mesophilic
mesophilic
adj
living and thriving at moderate temperatures
of, or relating to a mesophile
mesophytic
mesophytic
adj
Relating to a mesophyte.
mesosporic
mesotropic
metaphysic
metaphysic
adj
(philosophy, archaic) Metaphysical.
noun
(philosophy, countable) A fundamental principle or key concept.
(philosophy, countable) The metaphysical system of a particular philosopher or of a particular school of thought.
(philosophy, uncountable, archaic) The field of study of metaphysics.
micropenis
micropenis
noun
(medicine) An unusually small penis.
microscope
microscope
noun
An optical instrument used for observing small objects.
Any instrument for imaging very small objects (such as an electron microscope).
verb
To examine with a microscope, to put under a microscope (literally or figuratively).
microspace
microspace
noun
A very small space
microspore
microspore
noun
(botany) The smaller of the two spores produced by plants; compare megaspore.
(zoology) One of the numerous tiny spore-like elements produced through the encystment and subdivision of many monads
miniprices
miscompare
miscompare
verb
To compare incorrectly.
miscompose
miscompose
verb
To arrange an artistic work in a disharmonious way.
To make up out of the wrong ingredients or the wrong proportions of ingredients.
To produce a defective product or outcome.
To typeset incorrectly.
miscompute
miscompute
noun
An erroneous computation.
verb
To compute erroneously.
mispatched
mispatched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mispatch
mispatches
mispatches
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispatch
misproduce
misproduce
verb
To produce something poorly, or in an improper way
morphemics
morphemics
noun
(linguistics) The study of morphemes, or of the morphemic structure of a language.
myrioscope
myrioscope
noun
A form of kaleidoscope, especially one consisting of mirrors arranged so as by multiplied reflection from a small piece of carpet to show how it looks covering a whole floor.
panspermic
panspermic
adj
(biology) Relating to panspermy or to panspermia.
paramedics
paramedics
noun
plural of paramedic
peacetimes
peacetimes
noun
plural of peacetime
peacockism
pedicurism
pedicurism
noun
The practice or the art of giving pedicures.
perfectism
peridesmic
pharmacies
pharmacies
noun
plural of pharmacy
piciformes
pleomastic
pneumatics
pneumatics
noun
(theology, obsolete) The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and human beings.
The branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical properties of gases
polemicist
polemicist
noun
A person who puts forward controversial views
A person who writes polemics
polyoecism
pomeshchik
premusical
premusical
adj
Before music.
princedoms
princedoms
noun
plural of princedom
proscenium
proscenium
noun
(in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
(in an ancient theater) The row of columns at the front the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.
(in an ancient theater) The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
A proscenium arch.
prosodemic
pseudomica
rampancies
rampancies
noun
plural of rampancy
recompiles
recompiles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recompile
sachemship
sachemship
noun
The office or position of a sachem.
scampering
scampering
noun
A quick, light running motion.
verb
present participle of scamper
scepticism
scepticism
noun
(British spelling) alternative form of skepticism
scrimpiest
scrimpiest
adj
superlative form of scrimpy: most scrimpy
scrimpness
scrimpness
noun
The state of being scrimp.
semaphoric
semaphoric
adj
involving waving the arms, as if using semaphore
using semaphore
semicupium
semicupium
noun
(archaic) A half bath, or one that covers only the lower extremities and the hips; a sitz bath.
semicupola
semiepical
semipublic
semipublic
adj
Somewhat, but not entirely, public.
semitropic
semitropic
adj
Alternative form of semitropical
septicemia
septicemia
noun
(pathology) A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever.
septicemic
septicemic
adj
Typical of or pertaining to septicemia.
simplectic
simplectic
adj
Misspelling of symplectic.
simplicize
skepticism
skepticism
noun
A methodology that starts from a neutral standpoint and aims to acquire certainty though scientific or logical observation.
A studied attitude of questioning and doubt
Doubt or disbelief of religious doctrines
The doctrine that absolute knowledge is not possible
The practice or philosophy of being a skeptic.
specialism
specialism
noun
(countable) Speciality.
(uncountable) The concentration of one's efforts upon a particular field of study.
speciesism
speciesism
noun
(philosophy, ethics) An ethical stance that assigns different worth or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership, such as assigning greater rights to human beings than to other animals.
spencerism
spermaceti
spermaceti
noun
A wax obtained from the head of sperm whales and used to make cosmetics etc.
spermicide
spermicide
noun
A substance used for killing sperm.
spermiduct
spermiduct
noun
Synonym of vas deferens
sphacelism
superclaim
supercrime
symplectic
symplectic
adj
(group theory, of a group) Whose characteristic abelian subgroups are cyclic.
(mathematics) Of or pertaining to (the geometry of) a differentiable manifold equipped with a closed nondegenerate bilinear form.
(mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a bilinear form) That is alternating and nondegenerate.
(mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a vector space) That is equipped with an alternating nondegenerate bilinear form.
(petrology, mineralogy) Of or pertaining to a symplectite; symplectitic.
Placed in or among, as if woven together.
That moves in the same direction as a system of synchronized waves.
noun
(ichthyology) A bone in the teleostean fishes that forms the lower ossification of the suspensorium, and which articulates below with the quadrate bone by which it is firmly held.
(mathematics) A symplectic bilinear form, manifold, geometry, etc.