A clip or fastener used to secure garments to a clothesline while drying, and sometimes for other applications requiring holding or pinching.
verb
(transitive) To affix with a clothespin.
depolished
depolished
verb
simple past tense and past participle of depolish
depolishes
depolishes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depolish
didelphous
didelphous
adj
Synonym of didelphic
diosphenol
diosphenol
noun
(chemistry) any of a class of cyclic α-diketones which exist as enols
diplophase
diplophase
noun
(biology) The diploid phase in the life cycle of an organism
discophile
discophile
noun
record collector
diskophile
disulphone
eosinophil
eosinophil
adj
Alternative form of eosinophilic
noun
(cytology, immunology) A white blood cell responsible for combating infection by parasites in the body.
fellowship
fellowship
noun
(arithmetic, archaic) The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.
(dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.
(education) A merit-based scholarship.
(education) A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.
(medicine) A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program or residency.
A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
verb
(intransitive, now chiefly religious, especially in Canada, US) To join in fellowship; to associate with.
(transitive) To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship. Now only in religious use.
geophilous
geophilous
adj
(botany) Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground.
(phytogeography) growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi.
Fruiting underground.
Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.
geothlypis
haploidies
haploidies
noun
plural of haploidy
heliopolis
helioscope
helioscope
noun
(astronomy) An apparatus for viewing the Sun without harming the eye, by means of an optical filter that attenuates most of sunlight while allowing only a small amount of the solar radiation.
helioscopy
hemophilus
herophilus
holdership
holdership
noun
The legal right to possess and use something that is owned by someone else.
The state of being a holder; the condition of having rights to something.
homophiles
homophiles
noun
plural of homophile
hospitable
hospitable
adj
cordial and generous towards guests
favorable for life; livable; suitable for life.
receptive and open-minded
hospitaler
hospitaler
noun
Alternative form of hospitaller
hospitalet
hyalopsite
hypersolid
hypersolid
noun
(geometry) A solid that extends into hyperspace, having more than three dimensions.
impolished
ischepolis
isocephaly
isoplethic
isoplethic
adj
Relating to isopleths.
lectorship
lectorship
noun
The role or post of a lector.
leptorchis
lithoscope
lithoscope
noun
(historical) An instrument for measuring the refractive indices of crystal materials.
lithosperm
mesophilic
mesophilic
adj
living and thriving at moderate temperatures
of, or relating to a mesophile
neophilism
neophilism
noun
neophilia
oenophiles
oenophiles
noun
plural of oenophile
overpolish
overpolish
verb
(transitive) To polish too much.
palaeophis
phelonions
phenolions
philoetius
philoneism
philoneism
noun
The love of novelty or innovation.
philosophe
philosophe
noun
(derogatory) An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster.
Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment.
phocylides
pilothouse
pilothouse
noun
(nautical) A wheelhouse.
A yacht or other small vessel which has a wheelhouse.
ploughwise
ploughwise
adj
Moving, like a plough on a field, alternately from left to right and from right to left.
adv
In a ploughwise manner.
pokerishly
pokerishly
adv
In a pokerish manner.
polianthes
polishable
polishable
adj
That can be polished.
polishedly
polishedly
adv
In a polished manner; refinedly, elegantly.
polishment
polishment
noun
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
polyphides
polytheism
polytheism
noun
The belief in the existence of multiple gods.
polytheist
polytheist
noun
a believer in, or advocate of, polytheism
poodleship
prehostile
psilophyte
psilophyte
noun
Any plant of the former taxon Psilophyta
Any plant that is adapted to live in a savannah
pushmobile
pushmobile
noun
An improvised wheeled vehicle propelled by pushing, used in children's races.
repolished
repolished
verb
simple past tense and past participle of repolish
repolishes
repolishes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of repolish
russophile
russophile
Noun
A person who loves the country, culture or people of Russia.
saprophile
saprophile
noun
Any saprophilous organism.
sarcophile
sarcophile
noun
(zoology) A carnivorous animal, especially a marsupial.
sceliphron
selaphobia
selaphobia
noun
(rare, medicine) Fear or intolerance of flashes of light.
serbophile
serbophile
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Serbophile
shinhopple
shinhopple
noun
The hobblebush.
shipholder
shipholder
noun
The owner of a ship.
shoopiltie
shoopiltie
noun
(Shetland) Synonym of kelpie (“water spirit”)
shoplifted
shoplifted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of shoplift
shoplifter
shoplifter
noun
A person who shoplifts, one who steals from shops.
shopsoiled
shopsoiled
adj
Alternative form of shop-soiled
shoupeltin
siphonales
siphonless
siphonless
adj
Without a siphon.
siphonlike
siphonlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a siphon.
slavophile
sphenoidal
sphenoidal
adj
Synonym of sphenoid
sphenolith
spheroidal
spheroidal
adj
Like a spheroid; roughly spherical.
noun
A spheroid
splotchier
splotchier
adj
comparative form of splotchy: more splotchy
stenophile
strophiole
strophiole
noun
(botany) An excrescence or tubercle around the hilum of certain seeds.
sulpholeic
sulphoxide
sulphoxide
noun
Alternative form of sulfoxide
telophasic
theophilus
theophilus
Proper noun
The addressee of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
name; rare in English.
trophesial
trophesial
adj
Pertaining to regulation of nourishment by the nervous system.