(botany) That clasps a support, especially by twining around it
clasping or embracing
anemopathy
antepartum
antepartum
adj
Describing the period before childbirth; antenatal
antetemple
antetemple
noun
The portico or narthex in an ancient temple or church.
antipewism
antiprimer
apartments
apartments
noun
plural of apartment
apneumatic
apneumatic
adj
(medicine) Devoid of air; free from air, or effected by or with exclusion of air.
(rare) Of or pertaining to the nonexistence of soul or spirit; non-spiritual.
appallment
appallment
noun
(obsolete) depression occasioned by terror; dismay
applotment
applotment
Noun
apportionment
armipotent
armipotent
adj
(obsolete) Powerful in battle.
noun
(poetic, archaic) A powerful combatant.
atropamine
attempting
attempting
verb
present participle of attempt
bethumping
bethumping
verb
present participle of bethump
camptonite
camptonite
noun
(mineralogy) A lamprophyre containing plagioclase and feldspar.
centiplume
chimneypot
chimneypot
noun
Alternative form of chimney pot
compartner
compartner
noun
Obsolete form of copartner.
compatient
compatient
adj
(obsolete) suffering or enduring together
compearant
compearant
noun
(Scotland, law) A person who appears in court.
compellent
compendent
compensate
compensate
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
To do (something good) after (something bad) happens
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
competence
competence
noun
(countable) The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task or skill.
(countable, law, politics) the legal authority to deal with a matter.
(dated) A sustainable income.
(geology) The degree to which a rock is resistant to deformation or flow.
(linguistics) The system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language, as opposed to its actual use in concrete situations (performance), cf. linguistic competence.
(uncountable) The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
competency
competency
noun
(law) Meeting specified qualifications to perform.
(linguistics) Implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.
(obsolete) A sufficient supply (of).
(obsolete) A sustainable income.
The ability to perform some task; competence.
complacent
complacent
adj
Apathetic with regard to an apparent need or problem.
Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
complanate
complanate
adj
Flattened to a level surface.
verb
(transitive) To make level.
complement
complement
noun
(astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
(biochemistry) Synonym of alexin
(computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
(computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
(computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
(computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
(economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
(electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
(genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
(grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
(heraldry) Fullness (of the moon).
(immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
(logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
(music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
(nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
(now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.
(obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory.
(obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.
(optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
(set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
verb
(obsolete) Old form of compliment
To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
completing
completing
verb
present participle of complete
completion
completion
noun
(American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
(law) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
(mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
(mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.
The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect.
Misspelling of complement.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To pay a compliment (to someone); to express a favourable opinion (of someone).
components
components
noun
plural of component
compresent
compresent
adj
(philosophy) Existing together concurrently.
comptonite
conceptism
conceptism
noun
Alternative form of conceptismo
consumpted
consumpted
adj
(archaic) Suffering from tuberculosis (consumption).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of consumpt
couplement
couplement
noun
(obsolete) union; combination; a coupling; a pair
cryptonema
decampment
decampment
noun
A prompt departure.
The act of decamping.
department
department
noun
(historical) A military subdivision of a country
(in a university) One of the divisions of instructions
(obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
(often in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
A part, portion, or subdivision.
A specified aspect or quality.
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
depictment
deployment
deployment
noun
(parachuting) the start of something
An arrangement or classification of things.
An implementation, or putting into use, of something.
The distribution of military forces prior to battle.
deportment
deportment
noun
Apparent level of schooling or training.
Bearing; manner of presenting oneself.
Conduct; public behavior.
Self-discipline.
deutonymph
deutonymph
noun
The third instar of a mite.
dimplement
dimplement
noun
The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions.
diparentum
diremption
diremption
noun
(rare) a ripping apart; a forceful sundering
elopements
elopements
noun
plural of elopement
emancipate
emancipate
adj
Freed; set at liberty.
verb
To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence
To set free from slavery or bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit
To set free, as a minor from a parent
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.
embonpoint
embonpoint
adj
Plump, chubby, buxom.
noun
Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.
empalement
empalement
noun
Obsolete form of impalement. in particular in botany as a term for the calyx of a flower.
emplection
emplection
noun
Alternative form of emplecton
employment
employment
noun
(economics) The number or percentage of people at work
A use, purpose
An activity to which one devotes time
The act of employing
The state of being employed
The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
emportment
encampment
encampment
noun
A campsite.
A group of temporary living quarters and/or other temporary structures.
entrapment
entrapment
noun
(chemistry) A method of isolating specific cells or molecules from a mixture, especially by immobilization on a gel.
(law) Action by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime, in order to arrest and prosecute that person for the crime.
The state of being entrapped.
enwrapment
enwrapment
noun
A wrapper or envelope.
The act of enwrapping.
epaulement
epaulement
noun
(ballet) A position in which one shoulder is thrust forward and the other back, and the torso turned at a right angle to the supporting leg.
A barricade of heaped earth for protection from gunfire.
epicentrum
episternum
episternum
noun
(anatomy) The upper segment of the sternum
(entomology) The anterior part of the pleuron of an insect.
epistomian
equipments
equipments
noun
(nonstandard) plural of equipment
escapement
escapement
noun
(clocks, mechanics) The contrivance in a timepiece (winding wristwatch) which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration.
A mechanism found in devices such as a typewriter or printer which controls lateral motion of the carriage.
An escape or means of escape.
The number of fish that escape commercial fishing operations and travel upstream to spawn.
escarpment
escarpment
noun
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
espacement
exemptions
exemptions
noun
plural of exemption
expediment
expediment
noun
Obsolete form of expedient.
experiment
experiment
noun
(obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.
verb
(intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
(transitive, obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
(transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
foretopman
foretopman
noun
(nautical) A sailor who controls the masts in the foretop.
foretopmen
foretopmen
noun
plural of foretopman
hemipteran
hemipteran
adj
Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera order; hemipterous
noun
A hemipter.
hemipteron
hemipteron
noun
Alternative form of hemipteran
hempstring
heptameron
heptameron
noun
A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
hetmanship
hetmanship
noun
The role or status of hetman.
homopteran
homopteran
noun
Any insect of the former hemipteran order Homoptera.
homopteron
hymenopter
hymenopter
noun
(archaic) hymenopteran
idempotent
idempotent
adj
(mathematics) (said of a binary operation) Such that all of the distinct elements it can operate on are idempotent (in the sense given just above).
(mathematics) (said of an algebraic structure) Having an idempotent operation (in the sense given above).
(mathematics) (said of an element of an algebraic structure with a binary operation, such as a group or semigroup) Such that, when it operates on itself, the result is equal to itself.
(mathematics, computing) (said of a function) Such that, when performed multiple times on the same subject, it has no further effect on its subject after the first time it is performed.
noun
(mathematics) An idempotent element.
(mathematics) An idempotent structure.
impackment
impactment
impactment
noun
impaction
impairment
impairment
noun
(accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
A deterioration or weakening
A disability or handicap
The result of being impaired
an inefficient part or factor.
impalement
impalement
noun
(botany) (obsolete) In the sense of an enclosure, the calyx of a flower. In still older works, also spelt empalement (q.v.)
(heraldry) The joining of two coats of arms on one shield.
A space fenced in, such as by palings, possibly in the form of an enclosure or cup.
The act of torturing or executing someone by impaling them on a sharp stake.
impartance
impartance
noun
impartation
impartment
impartment
noun
The act of imparting something, or the thing imparted; disclosure.
impatience
impatience
noun
The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
impatiency
impatiency
noun
(obsolete) Impatience.
impediment
impediment
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.
A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech.
A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress.
impedition
impedition
noun
(obsolete) A hindrance; that which impedes.
impenitent
impenitent
adj
Not penitent; specifically (Christianity), not repenting of one's sins; unrepentant.
noun
One who is not penitent.
imperation
imperation
noun
Synonym of empire
The action of governing or commanding; governance.
impetition
impetulant
impinguate
impinguate
verb
(obsolete) To fatten; to make fat.
implements
implements
noun
plural of implement
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implement
importance
importance
noun
Something of importance.
The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
personal status or standing.
significance or prominence.
importment
importuned
importuned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of importune
importuner
importuner
noun
One who importunes.
importunes
importunes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of importune
imposement
imposement
noun
(obsolete) imposition
impotences
impotences
noun
plural of impotence
impotently
impotently
adv
In an impotent manner.
impregnant
impregnant
adj
(obsolete) Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.
noun
(obsolete) That which impregnates.
impregnate
impregnate
verb
(intransitive, dated) To become pregnant.
(transitive) To cause to become pregnant.
(transitive) To fertilize.
(transitive) To fill pores or spaces with a substance.
(transitive) To saturate, or infuse.
impresting
impresting
verb
present participle of imprest
imprinters
imprinters
noun
plural of imprinter
impudently
impudently
adv
In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.
impugnment
impugnment
noun
The act of impugning, or the state of being impugned.
impunctate
impunctate
adj
(anatomy) Not punctate; not marked by spots, dots, points, or punctures.
(biology) Lacking pores.
impunities
impunities
noun
plural of impunity
impunitive
impunitive
adj
Relating to impunity
incomplete
incomplete
adj
(botany) Of a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs.
Not complete; not finished
noun
(Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.
(Usenet) A multipart file posted to Usenet that is incomplete and thus unusable.
A designation of being incomplete.
intemporal
inwrapment
leptamnium
leptomonad
leptomonad
noun
(biology) A form of some promastigote flagellates, similar to a nectomonad except for being shorter and replicative
Any trypanosomatid of the genus Leptomonas
leptomonas
magneoptic
magneoptic
adj
(archaic) magnetooptical
maintopmen
maintopmen
noun
plural of maintopman
manipulate
manipulate
verb
(intransitive, dated) To use the hands, especially in scientific experiments.
(transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that is unknown to the one being manipulated and beneficial to the manipulator; to use
(transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
(transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
(transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
manstopper
manstopper
noun
A weapon, bullet, dog, etc. that can quickly and reliably incapacitate a person.
mecopteran
mecopteran
noun
Any of the carnivorous insects in the order Mecoptera
mecopteron
megaphyton
melanotype
melanotype
noun
Alternative form of melainotype
menotyphla
mentorship
mentorship
noun
state of being a mentor
mephitinae
metaphyton
metaphyton
noun
Any metaphytic filamentous alga
mispainted
mispainted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mispaint
misplanted
misplanted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misplant
mispointed
mispointed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mispoint
mispresent
mispresent
verb
(transitive) To present badly or wrongly.
misprinted
misprinted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misprint
misreprint
monopteral
monopteral
adj
(architecture) Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; said especially of a temple.
monopteroi
monopteroi
noun
plural of monopteros
monopteron
monopteron
noun
(architecture) A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella.
monopteros
monopteros
noun
(architecture) A classical temple made up of one circle of columns supporting a roof.
monopttera
monponsett
montpelier
montpelier
Proper noun
The state capital of Vermont in the United States of America
A district of Bristol, England.
Any of several other towns in the USA, Canada and the UK.
morphinate
morphinate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt of morphine
multiplane
multiplane
adj
Consisting of several planes or surfaces
noun
A motion-picture camera used in traditional animation to move a number of pieces of artwork at various speeds and various distances, creating a sense of parallax or depth.
An airplane having at least three superposed main planes
myoprotein
myoprotein
noun
(biochemistry) Any protein that occurs in muscle tissue.
nameplates
nameplates
noun
plural of nameplate
neophytism
neophytism
noun
The property of being a neophyte.
nephometer
nephrotome
nephrotome
noun
(biology, dated) A section of the mesoderm formerly believed to give rise to the pronephros and eventually to the rest of the kidney.
nephrotomy
nephrotomy
noun
(surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting, or making an incision in, a kidney.
nonpayment
nonpayment
noun
The failure to make a payment
nympholept
nympholept
noun
A person in a state of nympholepsy.
omentopexy
omentopexy
noun
(surgery) The operation of suturing the omentum to the abdominal wall, securing anastomotic communication between the portal system and that of the vena cava.