(Canada, Acadian) A tide gate, designed to protect marshland, so constructed as to let out water at low tide, but to prevent an influx of water at high tide.
aboiteau
aboiteau
noun
(Canada, Acadian) Alternative form of aboideau
aeluroid
aequorin
aequorin
noun
(biochemistry) A photoprotein, isolated from luminescent jellyfish and other marine organisms, composed of two distinct units: the apoprotein apoaequorin and the prosthetic group coelenterazine.
aerobium
agouties
agouties
noun
plural of agouty
aidoneus
ajourise
aleikoum
anemious
anemious
adj
Pertaining to anemia.
aquotize
aureolin
aureolin
noun
A yellow pigment used in painting, composed of potassium cobaltinitrite.
aureolin:
autocide
autocide
noun
(agriculture) Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males.
(bacteriology) A substance produced by a bacterium that is fatal to that bacterium.
(obsolete, rare) A suicidal person.
An act of killing someone with an automobile.
An act of suicide committed by crashing a car.
autoecic
autosite
autosite
noun
The independent twin of a pair of conjoined twins whereas the other twin is parasitic.
auximone
beaudoin
beauvoir
bedouins
bedouins
noun
plural of bedouin
beliquor
berairou
biferous
biferous
adj
(botany) Bearing flowers or fruit twice each year
bimodule
bimodule
noun
(mathematics) An abelian group that is both a left and a right module, such that the left and right multiplications are compatible
binnogue
bisetous
bisetous
adj
Alternative form of bisetose
blousier
blousier
adj
comparative form of blousy: more blousy
boethius
bohemium
bohemium
noun
(chemistry) Former name of rhenium.
boisseau
bouchier
bouderie
bouncier
bouncier
adj
comparative form of bouncy: more bouncy
bountied
bountied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bounty
bounties
bounties
noun
plural of bounty
bourride
bourride
noun
A dish made with monkfish, mayonnaise, and a vegetable brunoise.
bouteria
boutique
boutique
noun
(film) A film production company making only a few movies per year.
(often attributive) Any company specializing in bespoke or custom-made products or services for clientele in a niche market.
A small shop located within a larger one.
A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.
bouviers
bouvines
bowieful
brouille
bufonite
bufonite
noun
(paleontology, obsolete) A fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of pycnodonts, whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations.
cadiueio
caesious
caesious
adj
Having a blue color very low in chroma.
camoudie
caquetio
cenobium
cenobium
noun
A monastery, a monastic community.
chiquero
choiseul
choiseul
Proper noun
A commune in France
A town and quarter in Saint Lucia
An island and a province in Solomon Islands
ciboules
ciboules
noun
plural of ciboule
cinerous
cinerous
adj
Alternative form of cinereous (“ash-colored”)
citreous
citreous
adj
Of the colour of citron or a citrus fruit; yellowish.
cloudier
cloudier
adj
comparative form of cloudy: more cloudy
clupeiod
clupeoid
clupeoid
adj
(zoology) Of or relating to fish closely related taxonomically to herring.
noun
(zoology) Any of a group of fish closely related taxonomically to herring.
codiaeum
coiffeur
coiffeur
noun
A male hairdresser.
verb
To cut or style hair
coiffure
coiffure
noun
hairstyle
verb
(transitive) to style or arrange hair
coinsure
coinsure
verb
To insure (or be insured) jointly with another
To take out coinsurance
coituses
coituses
noun
plural of coitus
coliseum
coliseum
noun
A large theatre, cinema, or stadium.
A large, often circular building, for indoor sporting events, exhibitions, concerts, etc.; arena.
colusite
colusite
noun
(mineralogy) An isometric-hextetrahedral bronze mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, germanium, sulfur, tin, and vanadium.
comenius
contineu
continue
continue
noun
(video games) An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.
verb
(intransitive, copulative sense obsolete) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
(poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
(transitive) To make last; to prolong.
(transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
(transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
(transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
copiague
copihues
copihues
noun
plural of copihue
coquelin
coquille
coquille
noun
A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
A meal, especially a seafood dish, served in an actual scallop shell or a dish (container) shaped like a shell.
A scallop shell or a dish (container) shaped like one, especially when used to serve the aforementioned food.
coremium
coremium
noun
synnema
corineus
coulisse
coulisse
noun
A fluting in a sword blade.
A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.
A side scene of the stage in a theater or the space between the side scenes.
coumbite
counties
counties
noun
plural of county
countrie
countrie
noun
Obsolete spelling of country
couperin
couriers
couriers
noun
plural of courier
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of courier
courtier
courtier
noun
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Sephisa.
A person in attendance at a royal court.
A person who flatters in order to seek favour.
couthier
couthier
adj
comparative form of couthie: more couthie
coutille
coutille
noun
Alternative form of coutil
creusois
croesusi
crouchie
croupier
croupier
noun
One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.
The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.
cruzeiro
cruzeiro
noun
The monetary unit of Brazil from 1942 to 1986 and 1990 to 1993.
cruziero
cubicone
cuboides
cucoline
cuminole
cungeboi
cungevoi
cunjevoi
cunjevoi
noun
(Australia) A coastal sea squirt, Pyura stolonifera, found in some parts of Australia and South Africa.
A large flowering plant, Alocasia macrorrhizos, native to tropical islands from Asia to Australia.
cupidone
cusinero
cusinero
noun
(US, historical) The cook who prepares meals from a chuck wagon.
decurion
decurion
noun
(historical) A member of local government in ancient Rome.
(historical) An officer in charge of ten men in the ancient Roman army.
deductio
defusion
defusion
noun
(proscribed) The act of defusing.
(psychology) The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.
Misspelling of diffusion.
deignous
deignous
Adjective
haughty; disdainful
delirous
delitous
delusion
delusion
noun
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
A fixed, false belief, that will not change, despite evidence to the contrary.
That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody.
depilous
depilous
adj
hairless
desirous
desirous
adj
Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; eager to obtain.
dialogue
dialogue
noun
(authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
(computing) A dialogue box.
(philosophy) A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
verb
(informal, business) To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.
(obsolete) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
(transitive) To put into dialogue form.
dicerous
diecious
diegueno
digenous
digenous
adj
(biology) Relating to digenesis.
diluendo
dimerous
dimerous
adj
(botany) In two parts; having two parts in each whorl of a flower.
(entomology) Having two-jointed tarsi.
disbogue
dishouse
dishouse
verb
(transitive) To deprive of house or home.
dominule
douanier
douanier
noun
An officer of the French customs.
doughier
doughier
adj
comparative form of doughy: more doughy
dourines
douville
douzaine
douzaine
noun
(Guernsey) A parish council, consisting of a dean and twelve douzeniers.
douzieme
droiture
duettino
duettino
noun
A duet of short extent and concise form.
duodiode
edacious
edacious
adj
Having an insatiable appetite; voracious, ravenous, piggish.
eduction
eduction
noun
(geology) A process by which the Earth's crust spreads sideways and exposes deep-seated rocks.
The act of educing, of deducing: deduction.
The result of educing; something which has been educed; inference, deduction.
effusion
effusion
noun
(chemistry, physics) Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
(figurative, by extension) An outpouring of speech or emotion.
(medicine) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.
A liquid outpouring.
elegious
elegious
adj
(obsolete) Melancholy, miserable, plaintive.
elusions
elusions
noun
plural of elusion
elutions
elutions
noun
plural of elution
embolium
empodium
empodium
noun
(zoology) A bristle-like or pad-like structure between the tarsal claws of Diptera
emporium
emporium
noun
(also figuratively) A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.
(also figuratively) A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods.
(by extension, obsolete) The brain.
(historical) A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).
emulsion
emulsion
noun
(chemistry) A colloid in which both phases are liquid.
(photography) The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.
A stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.
verb
(transitive) To paint with emulsion paint.
emulsoid
emulsoid
noun
A colloid solution consisting of a suspension of liquid particles in a liquid.
encomium
encomium
noun
(literature) A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.
(rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
(rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
enginous
enginous
adj
(obsolete) Contrived with care; ingenious.
(obsolete) Pertaining to an engine.
eniopeus
eohippus
eohippus
noun
An extinct early Eocene mammal, Hyracotherium leporinum, ancestral to the modern horse.
epigeous
epigeous
adj
Growing on, or close to, the ground.
epigonus
epilogue
epilogue
noun
(computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.
A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword
A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play
The performer who gives this speech
verb
(transitive) To conclude with an epilogue.
epulosis
epulotic
epulotic
adj
Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores.
noun
Any agent that promotes the skinning over or healing of sores.
equation
equation
noun
(astronomy) A small correction to observed values to remove the effects of systematic errors in an observation.
(mathematics) An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; from which one is to determine a particular quantity.
The act or process of equating two or more things, or the state of those things being equal (that is, identical).
equiform
equiform
adj
Having the same form; uniform, equiformal
equivoke
equivoke
noun
Alternative form of equivoque
equivote
equivote
noun
(obsolete, rare) A hung vote, one having an equal number of votes cast on each side of the question.
eruction
eruption
eruption
noun
A sudden release of pressure or tension.
A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.
An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.
euchroic
eucolite
eucolite
noun
(mineralogy) An optically negative variety of eudialyte.
eucommia
eucosmid
eudorina
eudoxian
eudoxian
Noun
A follower of (died in 370), patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius.
Adjective
Of or relating to (408–355 BC), Greek astronomer and mathematician.