Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance.
noun
(art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
(bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
(firearms) The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
(law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
(mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.
(military) Combat.
(music) The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
(music, lutherie) The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar or other string instrument.
(obsolete) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
(physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
(religion) A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
(sciences) a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
(slang, typically with a quantifier) Sexual intercourse.
A way of motion or functioning.
Fast-paced activity.
Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
The effort of performing or doing something.
The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
verb
(transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.
(transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
aortic
aortic
adj
Of or pertaining to the aorta or the aortic valve.
atocia
atocia
noun
(rare) Of a woman, infertility (inability to conceive and give birth to children).
atomic
atomic
adj
(computing, of an operation) Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
(logic, of a proposition) Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
(physics, chemistry) Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
(programming, of a commit in a VCS) Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
Infinitesimally small.
Unable to be split or made any smaller.
noun
(computing) An atomic operation.
atonic
atonic
adj
(linguistics) not having tone (pitch)
(medicine) Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy.
(of a sound or syllable) unstressed
(pathology) Lacking muscle tone.
noun
(phonetics, dated) A sound with lack of tone or vocality.
atopic
atopic
adj
(medicine) Pertaining to or suffering from atopy.
atoxic
atoxic
adj
Synonym of nontoxic
azotic
azotic
adj
(chemistry, obsolete) Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote
(obsolete) Fatal to animal life.
biotic
biotic
adj
(biology) Of, pertaining to, or produced by life or living organisms
Misspelling of biontic.
noun
A nutritional substance that improves the health of gastrointestinal microorganisms, especially one that occurs naturally.
A simple organic organism that is more complex than an organic molecule but simpler than a plant or animal.
biscot
bostic
capito
cation
cation
noun
(physical chemistry) a positively charged ion, i.e. one that would be attracted to the cathode in electrolysis
cativo
cativo
noun
Prioria copaifera, a flowering tree of Central and South America.
cautio
cestoi
chicot
chiton
chiton
noun
(historical) A loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece.
Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.
chorti
citola
citola
noun
cittern
citole
citole
noun
An archaic musical instrument whose exact form is uncertain, generally shown with four strings
citron
citron
adj
Of a greenish yellow colour.
noun
A greenish yellow colour.
A small citrus tree, Citrus medica.
The candied rind of the citron fruit.
The fruit of a citron tree.
coaita
coaita
noun
(dated) Any of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, especially Ateles paniscus.
coatie
coatis
coatis
noun
plural of coati
codist
codist
noun
A person who codifies; a codifier.
An expert in the codes of civil law.
coedit
coedit
verb
(transitive) To edit together.
cogito
cogito
noun
(philosophy, often preceded by the, sometimes capitalized) The argument "cogito, ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") from the philosophy of René Descartes; the mental act of thinking this thought; a conscious being which performs this mental act.
coital
coital
adj
of or relating to the sex act or coitus
coitus
coitus
noun
(formal or humorous) Sexual intercourse, especially involving penile-vaginal penetration.
coltin
comfit
comfit
noun
(Australia) A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force.
A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To make into a dry sugared confection.
comite
comity
comity
noun
Courtesy and considerate behaviour towards others; social harmony.
Friendly understanding and mutual recognition between two entities, especially nations.
commit
commit
noun
(computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
(programming) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
(obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
(transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
(transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
(transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
(transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
(transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.
(transitive, intransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
(transitive, obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
(transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
condit
confit
confit
noun
Any of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation.
verb
(transitive) To prepare (food) in this manner.
conite
conite
noun
(mineralogy) A magnesian variety of dolomite.
contin
cootie
cootie
noun
(Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, childish, usually in the plural) Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children).
(Canada, US, colloquial) A louse (Pediculus humanus).
(dated, British Army military slang) A louse (Pediculus humanus).
(rare) A nest-building female American coot (counterpart to cooter).
(rare, slang) A sideswiper, a type of telegraph key.
copist
copist
noun
(obsolete) A copier; one who copies.
copita
copita
noun
A sherry glass with a tapering bowl.
coptic
coptic
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Copts, the or to the Coptic language.
Noun
The Coptic language of Egypt.
coptis
corita
cortie
cortin
cortin
noun
corticosteroid
costin
cotati
cotice
coting
coting
verb
present participle of cote
cotise
cotise
noun
Alternative form of cottise
cotoin
cottid
cottid
noun
(zoology) Any fish in the family Cottidae, the sculpins.
cotuit
cotwin
cotwin
noun
A twin's twin.
coutil
coutil
noun
A woven cloth created specifically for making corsets.
covite
coxite
coxite
noun
Either of a pair of lamellate structures on the underside of each abdominal segment in certain insects.
crotia
crotin
cubito
cytoid
cytoid
adj
(physiology) cell-like; applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.
dacoit
dacoit
noun
(chiefly India, Myanmar, Pakistan) A bandit or armed robber, especially former parts of British India.
verb
(chiefly India) To commit armed robbery.
dicots
dicots
noun
plural of dicot
diotic
diotic
adj
Of or relating to both ears.
docity
docity
noun
The quality of being teachable.
eciton
erotic
erotic
adj
Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.
noun
An amorous composition or poem.
exotic
exotic
adj
(finance) Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.
(gambling) Being or relating to various wagers, such as the trifecta, that involve betting on the finishing positions of multiple competitors across one or more races.
Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
Non-native to the ecosystem.
noun
(biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
(physics) Any exotic particle.
An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
fictor
fictor
noun
An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any malleable material.
geotic
geotic
adj
(rare, chiefly mysticism or religion) Part of or related to the earth; geological or terrestrial.
goetic
goetic
adj
Pertaining to black magic or necromancy.
gothic
gothic
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Gothic
isotac
kotick
lictor
lictor
noun
An officer in ancient Rome, attendant on a consul or magistrate, who bore the fasces and was responsible for punishing criminals.
matico
matico
noun
A Peruvian plant (Piper aduncum) allied to the pepper, whose leaves are used as a styptic and astringent.
miotic
miotic
adj
(biology) Causing miosis (the constriction of the pupil of the eye).
noun
Any drug that causes miosis.
mostic
myotic
myotic
adj
Alternative form of miotic
noctis
noetic
noetic
adj
Of or pertaining to the mind or intellect.
Originating in or apprehended by reason.
noun
A purely intellectual entity.
The science of the intellect.
nostic
notice
notice
noun
(chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
(chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
(countable) A formal notification or warning.
(countable) A published critical review of a play or the like.
(obsolete, transitive) To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably.
(transitive) To become aware of; to observe.
(transitive, now rare) To remark upon; to mention.
octile
octile
noun
(astronomy) An octant.
(statistics) Any of the quantiles that divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.
(statistics, by extension) A subset thus obtained.
octine
octoic
octoic
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling octane; used specifically to designate any of a group of acids including caprylic acid.
octoid
octoid
adj
(engineering) Being a form of gear or tooth that resembles the involute, but whose complete path of contact on the surface of a sphere is in the form of a figure eight.
octopi
octopi
noun
(nonstandard) plural of octopus
octroi
octroi
noun
(historical) A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, such as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.
(historical) A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls.
oecist
oecist
noun
(Ancient Greece) A founder of a colony.
optics
optics
noun
(figuratively) Perception, image, public relations, especially in politics.
(physics) The physics of light and vision.
The light-related aspects of a device.
plural of optic
oretic
orthic
orthic
adj
orthoclastic
osetic
otisco
otitic
otitic
adj
(medicine) Relating to otitis, or inflammation of the ear.
photic
photic
adj
Of, related to, or irradiated by light; especially describing that part of the near-surface ocean is which photosynthesis is possible.
picote
picote
noun
Alternative form of picot
picots
picots
noun
plural of picot
pictor
poetic
poetic
adj
Characteristic of poets; romantic, imaginative, etc.
Connecting to the soul of the beholder.
Relating to poetry.
pontic
pontic
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the pons.
noun
A false tooth that forms part of a dental bridge.
postic
postic
adj
(obsolete) backward
ptotic
ptotic
adj
Of or pertaining to ptosis.
rhotic
rhotic
adj
(linguistics, of an English accent) That allows the phoneme /ɹ/ even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and bard or barred (/bɑːɹd/); (of an English speaker) who speaks with such an accent.
(linguistics, phonetics, of a phoneme) Having a sound quality associated with the letter R; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/ and /r/.
noun
(phonetics) A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).
sciota
scioto
scotia
scotia
noun
(architecture) A concave molding with a lower edge projecting beyond the top.
scotic
scotic
adj
After dusk.
scotti
sintoc
sintoc
noun
A spice used in the East Indies, consisting of the bark of a species of Cinnamomum sintok.
sitcom
sitcom
noun
Acronym of single income, two children, oppressive/outrageous mortgage.
Situation comedy.
sothic
sothic
Adjective
Of or relating to the star Sirius, particularly in Egyptian or ancient Greek contexts.
stoics
stoics
noun
plural of stoic
tercio
tercio
noun
(bullfighting) Any of the three stages of a bullfight: the vara, the banderilla and finally the death.
(military) A mutually supportive infantry formation made up of pikemen, swordsmen and arquebusiers or musketeers.
texico
thoric
thoric
adj
(inorganic chemistry) relating to, or containing thorium
tichon
ticino
ticino
Proper noun
An Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland.
tictoc
tocsin
tocsin
noun
A bell used to sound an alarm.
An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, originally especially with reference to France.
toffic
toluic
toluic
adj
Of or pertaining to a toluic acid or its derivatives
tombic
tombic
Adjective
Of or relating to tombs.
tonica
tonics
tonics
noun
plural of tonic
topics
topics
noun
plural of topic
tricon
tricot
tricot
noun
A soft knit fabric.
trochi
trochi
noun
plural of trochus
trocki
tropic
tropic
adj
(biochemistry, incomparable) Having the quality of indirectly inducing a biological or chemical change in a system or substrate.
(weather, climate) Hot and humid.
Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.
Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes.
noun
Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°27′ north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.
victor
victor
noun
(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Victor from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
The winner in a fight or contest.
zoetic
zoetic
adj
(rare) Of or pertaining to life
zootic
zootic
adj
Containing the remains of organized bodies; -- said of rock or soil.