The act of hunting mice (or similar prey), especially by pouncing on them from above.
verb
present participle of mouse
mousoni
muconic
muconic
adj
Relating to a muconic acid or a derivative of it
mullion
mullion
noun
(architecture) A vertical bar between the panes of glass or casements of a window or the panels of a screen.
verb
(transitive) To shape into divisions by means of mullions.
munnion
munnion
noun
Alternative form of mullion
muonium
muonium
noun
(physics, chemistry) An exotic atom formed when a positively charged muon (an anti-muon) and an electron are bound by their mutual electrical attraction; chemically equivalent to a light, short-lived isotope of hydrogen.
murrion
murrion
adj
(obsolete) Infected with or killed by murrain.
noun
Alternative form of morion
musimon
musimon
noun
Synonym of mouflon (“wild sheep”)
neuroid
neuroid
adj
Resembling a nerve or similar neural structure; nervelike
nicolau
nigrous
nigrous
adj
Black.
nimious
nimious
adj
(obsolete) Excessive; extravagant; inordinate.
niobium
niobium
noun
A chemical element (symbol Nb) with an atomic number of 41: a light grey, crystalline, ductile transition metal used in superconducting materials.
niobous
niobous
adj
(archaic) Of or pertaining to niobium.
nitrous
nitrous
adj
(chemistry) Of or relating to nitrous acid or its derivatives.
(chemistry) Of, relating to, or derived from nitrogen, especially in which the valence of the nitrogen is lower than that of a corresponding nitric species.
(mycology, biology) Having a sharp odor like ammonia or nitric acid.
(now historical) Pertaining to or composed of nitre; having the properties of nitre, bitter.
noun
(automotive, informal) The system in some racing vehicles which pumps nitrous oxide into the engine to improve performance.
(dentistry, automotive, informal) Nitrous oxide.
niveous
niveous
adj
Snowy; resembling snow.
noctuid
noctuid
noun
Any moth in the species-rich family Noctuidae or the superfamily Noctuoidea.
nocuity
noguchi
nonsuit
nonsuit
noun
(law) A lawsuit that is dismissed as having been brought without cause, prior to an adjudication on the merits.
(law) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff.
verb
(law, transitive) To dismiss (a suit or plaintiff) on the grounds of his or her lawsuit having been brought without cause, prior to an adjudication on the merits.
noricum
noricum
Proper noun
A Celtic state and later Roman province, approximately corresponding to modern Austria.
nouille
nounize
nounize
verb
(transitive) To change (an adjective, verb, etc.) into a noun.
nourice
nourish
nourish
noun
(obsolete) A nurse.
verb
(intransitive) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
(intransitive, obsolete) To gain nourishment.
(transitive) To encourage; to foster; to stimulate
(transitive) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.
(transitive) To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.
(transitive)To cherish; to comfort.
(transitive, of a person) To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.
noxious
noxious
adj
Harmful; injurious.
nuisome
numitor
nuncios
nuncios
noun
plural of nuncio
oculina
ogonium
ominous
ominous
adj
Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
omnibus
omnibus
adj
Containing multiple items.
Of a transportation service, calling at every station, as opposed to express; local.
noun
(dated) A vehicle set up to carry many people (now usually called a bus).
(philately) A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.
A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.
An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
verb
(intransitive, dated) To drive an omnibus.
(intransitive, dated) To travel or be transported by omnibus.
(transitive) To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.
oniscus
opuntia
opuntia
noun
Opuntia, a genus of cactus that includes such cacti as the prickly pear and xoconostle.
orcinus
ouabain
ouabain
noun
A poisonous cardiac glycoside, g-strophanthin, found in the seeds of certain lianas.
oubangi
ouching
ouenite
ounding
ounding
Noun
waving
ousting
ousting
noun
The act by which somebody is ousted.
verb
present participle of oust
outfind
outfind
verb
(obsolete, poetic, transitive) To find out; to discover.
outgain
outgain
verb
(transitive) To outperform on a quantitative measurement.
outgrin
outgrin
verb
(transitive) To surpass in grinning.
outings
outings
noun
plural of outing
outjinx
outking
outlain
outlain
verb
past participle of outlie
outlimn
outlimn
verb
(transitive) To sketch out or delineate.
outline
outline
noun
(film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
(fishing) A setline or trotline.
A general description of some subject.
A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
A preliminary plan for a project.
A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
The outer shape of an object or figure.
verb
(transitive) To draw an outline of.
(transitive) To summarize.
(transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
outring
outring
verb
(intransitive) To ring out; to clamour.
(transitive) To surpass in volume of ringing sound; to ring louder than.
outsing
outsing
verb
(transitive) To sing better, longer or louder than.
outsins
outsins
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsin
outspin
outspin
verb
(transitive) To exceed in spinning; exceed in spinning thread.
(transitive) To spin out; finish; exhaust.
outwind
outwind
verb
(transitive) To extricate by winding; to unloose.
(transitive) To surpass in wind or breath.
outwing
outwing
noun
In various birds, an outer wing
verb
(transitive) To surpass or outstrip in flying.
oxonium
oxonium
noun
(inorganic chemistry) Any univalent oxygen cation derived from water, the simplest of which is the hydronium ion (H₃O⁺).
ozonium
pahouin
pontius
populin
populin
noun
(organic chemistry) A glycoside, related to salicin, found in the bark of certain species of the poplar (Populus).
poudrin
pouring
pouring
noun
The act by which something is poured.
verb
present participle of pour
poussin
poussin
noun
A Cornish game hen.
A chicken reared to be eaten at a few weeks of age.
pouting
pouting
noun
A fish in the cod family (Gadidae), Trisopterus luscus.
An expression or motion that pouts; a pout.
verb
present participle of pout
prionus
pudiano
pulsion
pulsion
noun
(now rare) The act of driving forward; propulsion.
(psychoanalysis) A subconscious drive or impulse.
pulvino
purloin
purloin
verb
(intransitive) To commit theft; to thieve.
(transitive) To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
quarion
quillon
quillon
noun
Either of the two arms of such a guard.
The guard of a sword or other bladed weapon designed to protect the hand from harm.
quinoas
quinoas
noun
plural of quinoa
quinoid
quinoid
adj
(organic chemistry) Having a structure based upon a quinone.
noun
(organic chemistry) Any substance whose structure is based upon a quinone.
quinols
quinols
noun
plural of quinol
quinone
quinone
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic compounds having two carbonyl functional groups in the same six-membered ring.
quinova
quinoyl
quinoyl
noun
(chemistry) A radical whose hydride is quinone, analogous to phenyl.
quinton
quinton
noun
(music) A type of violin that had five strings
quiteno
quoined
quoined
adj
(architecture) Furnished with a quoin.
quoniam
quoniam
noun
(slang, obsolete) A kind of drinking-cup.
quoting
quoting
noun
A quoted statement; a quote.
verb
present participle of quote
rainout
rainout
noun
(countable) Something which has been cancelled due to interfering rain.
(countable) Such a cancellation.
(uncountable) Radioactive fallout deposited by means of rain.
reunion
reunion
noun
A planned event at which members of a dispersed group meet together.
The process or act of reuniting.
rintoul
roguing
roguing
verb
present participle of rogue
ronquil
ronquil
noun
A perciform marine fish of the family Bathymasteridae, related to the eelpouts and prowfish.
rouging
rouging
verb
present participle of rouge
rouping
rouping
verb
present participle of roup
rousing
rousing
adj
That rouses or excites.
noun
The act by which somebody or something is roused.
verb
present participle of rouse
routine
routine
adj
According to established procedure.
Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
Regular; habitual.
noun
(computing) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.
A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
A set piece of an entertainer's act.
routing
routing
noun
(networking) A method of finding paths from origins to destinations in a network such as the Internet, along which information can be passed.
A channel cut in a material such as wood with a router or gouge.
verb
present participle of rout
present participle of route
rubicon
rubicon
noun
(card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: a score which, if not achieved by a losing player, increases the player's penalty.
A limit that when surpassed cannot be returned from, or an action that when taken cannot be reversed.
verb
(transitive, card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: to defeat a player who has not achieved the rubicon.
ruction
ruction
noun
A noisy quarrel or fight.
ruinous
ruinous
adj
Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous
Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin.
rullion
rullion
noun
(Scotland) An animal in poor condition.
A coarse woman.
A shoe made of untanned leather.
runnion
runnion
noun
Alternative form of ronion
ruption
ruption
noun
A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
sanious
sanious
adj
Of, relating to, or discharging sanies; ichorous.
sinuose
sinuose
Adjective
sinuous
sinuous
sinuous
adj
(figurative) Morally crooked; shifty.
Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
Moving gracefully and in a supple manner.
socinus
soupfin
soupfin
noun
The school shark.
souping
souping
noun
The dietary practice of eating mainly soup, for example in order to lose weight.
verb
present participle of soup
souring
souring
noun
(dated) Any sour apple.
(dated) Vinegar.
The process by which fabric is soured, washing out the lime by means of acid.
The process by which something is made, or becomes, sour; acidification.
verb
present participle of sour
sousing
sousing
noun
An immersing or drenching in liquid.
verb
present participle of souse
soutine
spinous
spinous
adj
(anatomy) Having a sharp projection.
(obsolete) Of a person: difficult to deal with, prickly.
(rare) Of a subject: providing many difficulties, thorny.
Having many spines.
Spine-like; spiny.
spinout
spinout
noun
(automotive) A skid that results in a vehicle rotating such that its longitudinal axis is no longer aligned with its direction of linear motion.
(business) The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
spumoni
spumoni
noun
(US) An Italian style of ice cream dessert made with layers of different colors and flavors (typically cherry, pistachio, and vanilla or chocolate) and usually containing candied fruits and nuts.
suasion
suasion
noun
The act of urging or influencing; persuasion.
subjoin
subjoin
noun
(databases) A subordinate or secondary join.
verb
To add something to the end; to append or annex
suction
suction
noun
(dentistry) A device for removing saliva from a patient's mouth during dental operations, a saliva ejector.
(informal) influence; "pull".
(physics) A force holding two objects together because the pressure in the space between the items is lower than the pressure outside that space.
(physics) A force which pushes matter from one space into another because the pressure inside the second space is lower than the pressure in the first.
The process of creating an imbalance in pressure to draw matter from one place to another.
verb
To create an imbalance in pressure between one space and another in order to draw matter between the spaces.
To draw out the contents of a space.
suiones
sulfion
sumiton
sunfoil
suption
thouing
thouing
verb
present participle of thou
tiburon
tiburon
noun
A shark; now specifically, Sphyrna tiburo or Negaprion brevirostris.
tinamou
tinamou
noun
Any of the birds belonging to the South American family Tinamidae, the only family in the order Tinamiformes. They are related to the ratites, together with which they form the superorder Paleognathae.
torulin
torulin
noun
An antineuritic basic compound isolated from yeast.
touring
touring
adj
Intended for a journey through a country or a region, related to tourism.
Working for a short time in different places.
noun
(informal) A touring car.
verb
present participle of tour
tournai
tousing
tousing
verb
present participle of touse
touting
touting
noun
The act of one who touts.
verb
present participle of tout
trusion
trusion
noun
(obsolete) The act of pushing or thrusting.
tueiron
tuition
tuition
noun
(Canada, US) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).
(India, Malaysia, Singapore) Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)
(archaic) Care, guardianship.
The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
turrion
uitotan
umbonic
umbonic
adj
Pertaining to an umbo.
unbroid
uncoils
uncoils
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of uncoil
uncomic
uncomic
adj
Not comic.
unction
unction
noun
A balm or something that soothes.
A quality in language, address or delivery which expresses sober and fervent emotion.
A religious or ceremonial anointing.
A smug, exaggerated use of language; smarminess.
An ointment or salve.
Divine or sanctifying grace.
undoing
undoing
noun
Annulment; reversal
Ruin; defeat, (also) that which causes defeat or ruin.
The act of loosening or unfastening
verb
present participle of undo
unhoist
unhoist
verb
(transitive) To bring back down (something previously hoisted).
unicorn
unicorn
adj
Having one horn.
noun
(attributive) Being many (especially pastel) colours; multicoloured.
(business) A person with multidisciplinary expertise, especially three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g., domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).
(finance) A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.
(historical) A 15th-century Scottish gold coin worth 18 shillings, bearing the image of a unicorn.
(historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם): a reem or wild ox.
(military) A howitzer.
(sexual slang) A single, usually bisexual woman who participates in swinging or polyamory.
A caterpillar, Schizura unicornis, with a large thorn-like spine on the back near its head.
A mythical beast resembling a horse or deer with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus.
Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.
The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
verb
(finance) To exceed a valuation of one billion U.S. dollars, while solely backed by venture capitalists.
(sexual slang) To participate in a sexual threesome as a bisexual addition to an established heterosexual couple.
uniflow
uniflow
adj
(of a steam engine) In which steam flows in one direction only in each half of the cylinder.
(of an engine) In which the gas mixture enters at one end of the cylinder controlled by the piston and the exhaust exits at the other.
uniform
uniform
adj
(chemistry, of a polymer) Composed of a single macromolecular species.
(geometry) (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes.
(mathematics) with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
Consistent; conforming to one standard.
Unvarying; all the same.
noun
(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.
A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
verb
(transitive) To clothe in a uniform.
unilobe
unioned
unioned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of union
unionic
unionic
adj
Not ionic.
unionid
unionid
noun
(zoology) Any member of the family Unionidae of bivalves
unioval
unioval
adj
Relating to, or derived from, a single ovum.
unipods
unipods
noun
plural of unipod
unisoil
unisons
unisons
noun
plural of unison
unition
unition
noun
(obsolete) Union; the act of uniting, or the state of being united.