A peptide that participates in the regulation of the menstrual cycle, cell proliferation, apoptosis, metabolism, and many other diverse functions.
advance
advance
adj
Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
Forward.
Preceding.
noun
(in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
A forward move; improvement or progression.
An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
verb
(intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction.
(intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
(intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
(intransitive) To move forwards; to approach.
(transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate.
To help the progress of (something); to further.
To increase (a number or amount).
To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
To raise or increase (a price, rate).
advenae
advents
advents
noun
plural of advent
alevins
alevins
noun
plural of alevin
alvaton
alviani
alvinia
amoving
amoving
verb
present participle of amove
anchovy
anchovy
noun
Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in 16 genera, of which the genus Engraulis is widely sold as food.
andover
andover
Proper noun
A town in Hampshire, southern UK.
andvare
andvari
angevin
antaiva
anviled
anzovin
arvejon
arverni
arverni
Noun
A member of an ancient, powerful Gallic tribe living in what is now the Auvergne region of France, who opposed the Romans on several occasions.
arvonia
arvonio
autovon
autovon
Proper noun
of: a worldwide US military telephone system from the 1960s to the 1990s.
avadana
avadana
noun
(Buddhism) A form of Buddhist literature correlating the virtuous deeds of past lives with events taking place in subsequent lives.
avalent
avalent
adj
(grammar, rare, of a verb or predicate) Non-valent, having valency zero: taking no arguments.
avallon
avarian
avarian
Adjective
Of or relating to Avaria.
Noun
A native or inhabitant of Avaria.
avelina
aveline
avellan
avenage
avenage
noun
(obsolete, law) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.
avenant
avenary
avenery
avenged
avenged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avenge
avenger
avenger
noun
One who avenges or vindicates
One who takes vengeance.
avenges
avenges
noun
plural of avenge
avenida
avenine
avenous
avenses
aventre
aventre
verb
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
avenues
avenues
noun
plural of avenue
avernal
avernal
Adjective
Avernian
avernus
avernus
Proper noun
The entrance to Hell or the underworld, or the underworld itself.
A lake in Southern Italy.
avertin
avertin
noun
(organic chemistry) The brominated alcohol 2,2,2-tribromoethanol that is used as an anaesthetic for small animals
avestan
avestan
Proper noun
An ancient Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta.
An alphabet which was developed based on Pahlavi scripts and used to write Avestan and Middle Persian languages.
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Avesta or Avestan.
aveyron
aveyron
Proper noun
One of the départements of Midi-Pyrénées, France (INSEE code 12)
avidins
avidins
noun
plural of avidin
avignon
avignon
Proper noun
A city in Provence, France.
avilion
avinger
avionic
avionic
adj
(aviation) of, or relating to avionics (aviation electronics)
avision
avision
noun
(obsolete) A vision of a prophetic or admonitory nature.
aviston
avowant
avowant
noun
(law) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.
avowing
avowing
verb
present participle of avow
baranov
beknave
beknave
verb
(transitive, rare) To call (someone) a knave.
(transitive, rare) To treat as a knave.
bevenom
bevined
bhavani
bhavani
Proper noun
A Hindu goddess, consort of Shiva.
bivinyl
blevins
bonnive
bovines
bovines
noun
plural of bovine
braving
braving
noun
A bravado; a boast.
verb
present participle of brave
calvano
calvina
calving
calving
noun
(by extension) The process by which an iceberg is formed.
The act of giving birth to a calf
The breaking away of a mass of ice from an glacier, iceberg etc.
verb
present participle of calve
canvass
canvass
noun
(countable) A seeking or solicitation of donations, information, opinions, support, etc.
(countable) A thorough discussion or investigation. (Possibly; the meaning is unclear.)
(countable, US, politics) A scrutiny of the votes cast in an election to reject irregular votes; also, a tally, audit, and certification of votes.
(countable, specifically, politics) A seeking or solicitation, or determination, of support or favourable votes in a forthcoming election or poll.
(uncountable) Rejection (at an election, of a suit, etc.).
Obsolete spelling of canvas
verb
(by extension) To assail or attack (someone or something).
(by extension) To batter, beat, or thrash (someone or something).
(by extension) To severely criticize (a person, a written work, etc.).
(by extension, politics, obsolete except US, Philippines) To scrutinize (the ballot in an election or the votes cast) and reject irregular votes; also, to challenge or dispute (an election result).
(specifically, politics) To seek the support of (voters or a constituency) in a forthcoming election or poll through personal solicitation or public addresses.
(specifically, politics) To seek the support of voters or a constituency in a forthcoming election or poll; to campaign.
To debate, to discuss.
To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc. from (people or a place)
To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc.; to conduct a survey.
To thoroughly examine or investigate (something) physically or by discussion; to debate, to gather opinion, to scrutinize.
To toss (someone) in a (canvas) sheet for fun or as a punishment; to blanket.
caravan
caravan
noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.
A convoy or procession of travelers, their vehicles and cargo, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.
verb
(UK, Australia) To travel and/or live in a caravan (vehicle).
To travel in a caravan (procession).
carvene
carvene
noun
(organic chemistry) An oily substance, C₁₀H₁₆, extracted from caraway.
carving
carving
noun
(sculpture) A carved object.
The act or craft of producing a carved object.
verb
(snowboarding) Executing turns without pivoting.
present participle of carve
carvone
carvone
noun
(organic chemistry) A terpenoid found naturally in many essential oils, most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway and dill.
catvine
caveman
caveman
noun
(informal, figuratively, derogatory) A brutish person, one who behaves in a rough, uncivilized way.
(informal, figuratively, derogatory) A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.
(informal, figuratively, derogatory) Someone, especially a man, who has regressive, old-fashioned attitudes, particularly with regard to women; someone opposed to change or modernity.
An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.
cavemen
cavemen
noun
plural of caveman
caverns
caverns
noun
plural of cavern
cavings
cavings
noun
plural of caving
censive
centavo
centavo
noun
(historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
centrev
cerveny
cervine
cervine
adj
Pertaining to a deer; deer-like.
noun
A deer of the subfamily Cervinae; an Old World deer.
cevenol
chauvin
chevron
chevron
noun
(chiefly Britain) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
(heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
(informal) A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
verb
To form or be formed into chevrons
civitan
clovene
clovene
noun
(organic chemistry) The tricyclic sesquiterpene (1S,5S,8S)-4,4,8-trimethyltricyclo[6.3.1.0^(1,5)]dodec-2-ene present in clove oil
concave
concave
adj
(functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
(geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl
hollow; empty
noun
(gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
(manufacturing) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
(skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
(surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
A concave surface or curve.
One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
The vault of the sky.
verb
To render concave, or increase the degree of concavity.
concavo
connive
connive
verb
(intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
(intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
(intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
(intransitive, obsolete) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
conover
convair
convect
convect
verb
(intransitive) To undergo convection.
(transitive) To move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer (heat or a fluid) by convection.
convell
convene
convene
verb
(intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
(intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
(transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
(transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
(transitive, with "on" or "upon") To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.
convent
convent
noun
(India) A Christian school.
A coming together; a meeting.
A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
verb
(obsolete) To be convenient; to serve.
(obsolete) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
(obsolete) To meet together; to concur.
convert
convert
noun
(Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
A person who has converted to a religion.
A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
verb
(intransitive) To become converted.
(intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
(intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
(intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
(transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
(transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
(transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
(transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
(transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
(transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
(transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
(transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
(transitive, intransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
(transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
(transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
(transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
(transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
convery
conveth
convexo
conveys
conveys
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of convey
convict
convict
noun
(law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
A person deported to a penal colony.
The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
verb
(chiefly religion) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
(transitive) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
convite
convito
convive
convive
noun
(obsolete) a feast or banquet
(obsolete) a participant in a feast or banquet
verb
(obsolete) To feast with others
convoke
convoke
verb
(transitive) To convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
To call together.
convoys
convoys
noun
plural of convoy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of convoy
corvina
corvina
noun
A red Italian grape variety, used in wines from Valpolicella and the wider region around the city of Verona.
Any of various fish, including Cilus gilberti, Larimichthys polyactis, and members of the genera Cynoscion and Isopisthus.
corvine
corvine
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of crows or ravens.
coveney
covings
covings
noun
plural of coving
cravens
cravens
noun
plural of craven
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of craven
craving
craving
noun
A strong desire; yearning.
verb
present participle of crave
curvant
curving
curving
adj
That curves or curve.
noun
A shape or motion that curves.
verb
present participle of curve
cvennes
danvers
danvers
Proper noun
A village in Illinois
A town in Massachusetts
A city in Minnesota
A community in Nova Scotia, Canada
davened
davened
verb
simple past tense and past participle of daven
davison
deaving
dekoven
delavan
delevan
delving
delving
noun
Alternative form of dilving
The act of one who delves.
verb
present participle of delve
devance
devaney
devaunt
deveins
deveins
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devein
develin
develin
noun
(UK, dialect) The European swift.
deviant
deviant
adj
Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
noun
(Internet) A member of the online art community DeviantArt.
A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
devinct
devinna
devinne
devland
devonic
devonna
devonne
dezhnev
divined
divined
adj
Made divine, made holy.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of divine
diviner
diviner
adj
comparative form of divine: more divine
noun
One who divines or conjectures.
One who foretells the future.
One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.
divines
divines
noun
plural of divine
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of divine
divinyl
divinyl
noun
(chemistry) Two vinyl functional groups in a molecule
dogvane
dogvane
noun
(nautical) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or other light material, fastened to the end of a short staff and placed on the weather gunwale of a sailing ship to assist the helmsman to judge the direction of the wind.
(obsolete, nautical) A cockade worn on a hat (worn in the British Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries)
donavon
donovan
donovan
Proper noun
name, transferred from the surname.
The Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan
dovened
dovened
verb
simple past tense and past participle of doven
driving
driving
adj
(of wind, rain, etc): That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent
That drives (a mechanism or process).
noun
(golf) The act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.
In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
verb
present participle of drive
droving
droving
verb
present participle of drove
dunlavy
dunlevy
duvetyn
duvetyn
noun
Alternative spelling of duvetyne
dvandva
dvandva
noun
(linguistics, lexicography) A copulative or coordinative type of compound in which members, if not compounded, would be in the same case and connected by the conjunction and. Common in languages such as Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese, but less so in English.
dvornik
dvornik
noun
(archaic) A doorman, porter, janitor, or groundskeeper in a Russian household