Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike
allopatric
allopatric
adj
(biology) Not living in the same territory; geographically isolated and thus unable to crossbreed.
allotropic
allotropic
adj
(chemistry) Describing a form of an element that exhibits allotropy.
altarpiece
altarpiece
noun
a work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church
apiculture
apiculture
noun
The keeping and maintenance of bees for commercial reasons.
aporetical
aporetical
Adjective
Tending to doubt.
applicator
applicator
noun
A tool or device used to apply a fluid or semi-fluid substance to a surface.
A tubular device to insert a tampon into the vagina.
archetypal
archetypal
adj
Of or pertaining to an archetype.
archiplata
birthplace
birthplace
noun
(by extension) The location where something was created or devised.
The location where a person was born.
blackprint
blackstrap
blackstrap
noun
(obsolete) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
(obsolete, nautical, slang) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean.
The dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.
calipatria
calypterae
calyptraea
calyptrata
calyptrate
calyptrate
adj
Having a calyptra
noun
Any insect of the taxon Calyptratae
campestral
campestral
adj
Relating to open fields or uncultivated land.
capitellar
capitellar
adj
Relating to the capitellum
capitulars
capitulars
noun
plural of capitular
capitulary
capitulary
adj
Of or related to a chapter, in its various senses.
Of or related to the Capitoulate of Toulouse.
noun
A member of an ecclesiastical chapter
A set of decrees, especially those made by the Frankish kings
capreolate
capreolate
adj
(botany) Having a tendril or tendrils.
capturable
capturable
adj
That can be captured.
carpellate
carpellate
adj
(botany) Having functional carpels (and lacking stamens).
carpetless
carpetless
adj
Not carpeted
carpholite
carpholite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.
ceroplasty
ceroplasty
noun
ceroplastics; the art of modelling in wax
chapterful
chapterful
noun
As much as fills a chapter.
clistocarp
clistocarp
noun
Alternative form of cleistocarp
cloverport
clypeaster
coleoptera
colourtype
colourtype
noun
Alternative form of colortype
colportage
colportage
noun
the distribution or selling of publications via carriers, particularly devotional literature
colporteur
colporteur
noun
A peddler of publications, especially of religious books
compilator
compilator
noun
One who compiles something.
completers
completers
noun
plural of completer
completory
completory
adj
Serving to fulfil.
noun
A compline.
complotter
complotter
noun
One who complots; a conspirator.
contraplex
contraplex
adj
(telegraphy) Of message signals, passing in opposite directions at the same time.
coprolitic
coprolitic
adj
Of or pertaining to coprolites.
copulatory
copulatory
adj
Pertaining to copulation
coreplasty
coroplasta
coroplasty
corruptful
corruptful
adj
(obsolete) Tending to corrupt; full of corruption.
coupleteer
coupleteer
noun
One who writes couplets.
crankplate
cryptolite
cryptolith
cryptology
cryptology
noun
Secret or enigmatical language.
The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
decrepitly
decrepitly
adv
In a decrepit way.
dioptrical
dioptrical
adj
Alternative form of dioptric
duplicator
duplicator
noun
A device that reproduces something, such as printed documents or compact discs; a copier.
eolotropic
eolotropic
adj
Alternative spelling of aeolotropic
epicentral
epicentral
adj
Of or pertaining to an epicentre
noun
(anatomy) An epicentral bone
explicator
explicator
noun
One who or that which explicates.
extropical
flattercap
helicopter
helicopter
noun
(aviation) An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail that stabilize the aircraft.
(botany) The winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple.
(zoology, slang) A dragonfly.
A powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.
A whirling trick performed with devil sticks.
verb
(intransitive) To travel by helicopter.
(transitive) To transport by helicopter.
To overprotect one's children, as a helicopter parent does.
To rotate like a helicopter blade.
heptachlor
heptachlor
noun
An organochlorine compound formerly used as an insecticide.
heptarchal
hylotropic
hypertelic
hypertelic
adj
Relating to, or exhibiting hypertely
hypocrital
hypocrital
adj
(dated) hypocritical
interclasp
interplace
interplace
verb
To place between or among.
kilpatrick
laeotropic
laeotropic
adj
Turning to the left (typically in a left-handed spiral)
lecotropal
lectorship
lectorship
noun
The role or post of a lector.
leiotropic
leptochroa
leptorchis
lipotropic
lipotropic
adj
(biochemistry) helping to metabolize lipids
having an affinity for lipids; lipophilic
maplecrest
mercaptole
mercaptole
noun
(obsolete, chemistry) dithioketal
metacarpal
metacarpal
adj
Of the metacarpus.
noun
Any of the bones of the metacarpus
metropolic
microtypal
operatical
operatical
adj
Alternative form of operatic
operculata
operculate
operculate
adj
Having an operculum.
noun
Any gastropod mollusc that has an operculum
palaestric
palaestric
adj
Alternative form of palestric
palearctic
palearctic
adj
Relating to the Palearctic
palmchrist
paralytica
pararectal
pararectal
adj
(anatomy) Near or around the rectum.
paratoluic
parcellate
parcellate
verb
To divide something into sections or parcels
parcelment
parentelic
participle
participle
noun
(grammar) A form of a verb that may function as an adjective or noun. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.
particular
particular
adj
(comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.
(law) Containing a part only; limited.
(law) Holding a particular estate.
(logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
(obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
(obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
Specific; discrete; concrete.
noun
(now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)
(obsolete) A person's own individual case.
A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
patricidal
patricidal
adj
Of or pertaining to patricide.
patrilocal
patrilocal
adj
(anthropology, of a people or culture) In which newly married couples live with the husband's family.
(of a married couple) living with the family of the husband.
patrocliny
patrocliny
noun
The quality of being patroclinous.
patrologic
patrologic
adj
Alternative form of patrological
pectorales
pectoralis
pectoralis
noun
(anatomy) A pair of muscles that lowers the wings of birds in flight
pectorally
pectorally
adv
In a pectoral manner; in connection with the breast.
peculators
peculators
noun
plural of peculator
pentacular
pentacular
adj
Of or relating to a pentacle.
percentile
percentile
noun
(statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
(statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.
percentual
percentual
adj
Of, pertaining to, or expressed as a percentage
perceptual
perceptual
adj
Relating to perception.
percolated
percolated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of percolate
percolates
percolates
noun
plural of percolate
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of percolate
percolator
percolator
noun
A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds
A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
periculant
pericytial
pericytial
adj
Surrounding a cell
periductal
periductal
adj
Around a duct (for example, the ductus arteriosus).
perirectal
perirectal
adj
(anatomy) Around the rectum.
perlection
perlection
noun
the reading through of something.
petrarchal
petrolific
petrolific
adj
Yielding petroleum.
petrologic
petrologic
adj
Of or pertaining to petrology.
phylactery
phylactery
noun
(Judaism) Either of the two small leather cases, containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men at morning prayer; the tefilla.
(art, historical) A speech scroll, an illustrative device depicting speech, song or other sound as if written on a scroll.
(fantasy, role-playing games) An enspelled object used (by such as a lich) to contain and protect the owner's soul.
(historical) A case in which (Christian) relics were preserved.
Any small object worn for its magical or supernatural power; an amulet or charm.
pictorials
pictorials
noun
plural of pictorial
pictorical
pictorical
adj
Alternative form of pictoric
picturable
picturable
adj
Capable of being imagined.
Capable of, or suitable for, being depicted in a picture.
picturably
picturably
adv
In a picturable manner.
pictureful
pitcherful
pitcherful
noun
The quantity that a pitcher can hold.
placentary
placentary
adj
Relating to the placenta.
noun
(botany) The projecting line or ridge formed by the union of several placentas.
platycarya
platycoria
platymeric
platymeric
adj
Having a broad femur
playscript
playscript
noun
The script for a theatrical play.
plecoptera
plectopter
pleromatic
pleromatic
adj
Pertaining to pleroma.
pleuronect
pluperfect
pluperfect
adj
(grammar) Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
(informal) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
(mathematics) Relating to a certain type of graph, complying with the theorem (pluperfect graph theorem) discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970.
(mathematics) Synonym of multiperfect
More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
noun
A verb in this tense.
The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
plutarchic
plutarchic
Adjective
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Plutarch or his writings
plutocracy
plutocracy
noun
A controlling class of the wealthy.
Government by the wealthy.
plutocrats
plutocrats
noun
plural of plutocrat
polaristic
polaristic
adj
Relating to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar arrangement or disposition.
politicker
politicker
noun
(dated, colloquial or dialect) A politician; one who employs politics.
One who politicks; one who engages in politicking to increase their stature or power within a (non-governmental) business, organization, profession, etc.
pollinctor
pollinctor
noun
undertaker
polychrest
polychrest
noun
(medicine) A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases.
polycitral
polycrates
polycratic
polycratic
adj
(politics) Governed by many people or groups.
polycrotic
polycrotic
adj
(physiology) Of or pertaining to polycrotism; manifesting polycrotism
polyprotic
polyprotic
adj
(chemistry, of an acid or a base) That can donate (or accept) more than one proton; polybasic.
polytropic
polytropic
adj
(mathematics) many-valued
(physics) of any change in the thermodynamic properties of a gas in which its specific heat remains constant
ponticular
ponticular
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the ponticulus
poristical
poristical
adj
poristic
portcullis
portcullis
noun
(historical) An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth I, struck for the use of the East India Company, and bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse.
A gate in the form of a grating which is lowered into place at the entrance to a castle, fort, etc.
verb
To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar.
portulacas
portulacas
noun
plural of portulaca
postcrural
postcrural
adj
(anatomy) posterior to the leg or thigh
postfurcal
postfurcal
adj
Relating to a postfurca
postocular
postocular
adj
Situated behind the eyes.
noun
Any of the scales lying directly behind and in contact with the eye of a reptile.