A winding channel or crevice, such as occur in the depths of the sea or in mountains.
One of the fissures (sulci) separating the convolutions of the brain, or, by analogy, in the mind.
anticonformity
anticonformity
noun
A form of individualism that is an active rejection of conformity
archaeopterygiformes
archconfraternity
archconfraternity
noun
(Roman Catholicism) A religious confraternity that, as a special concession of the Holy See, can join or affiliate with, and extend privileges to, other similar brotherhoods.
benefactory
benefactory
adj
Yielding benefit; doing good.
noun
One who gives benefit to others; a benefactor.
calefactory
calefactory
adj
warming
noun
(architecture) The room or building in a monastery holding its communal fire, kept warm and used as a sitting room.
A warming pan, or similar device used by a priest to warm his hands
calorifically
calorifically
adv
In a calorific manner
calorify
calyciferous
calyciferous
adj
Bearing the calyx.
calycifloral
calycifloral
adj
(botany) Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.
calyciflorate
calyciflorous
calyciflorous
adj
(botany) calycifloral
calyciform
calyciform
adj
(botany) Having the form or appearance of a calyx.
calyptriform
calyptriform
adj
Having the form of a calyptra.
carbonify
carbonify
verb
To convert to carbon; to burn or caramelize.
carryforward
carryforward
noun
(accounting, taxation) An income tax loss or credit not usable in the current year that can be applied to offset income or taxes paid, respectively, in subsequent tax years.
cauliflory
cauliflory
noun
The quality of being cauliflorous.
certificatory
certificatory
adj
Serving to certify something.
noun
(archaic) A certificate.
chylifactory
chylifactory
adj
Alternative form of chylifactive
chylificatory
classificatory
classificatory
adj
Serving to classify.
comfortability
comfortability
noun
Synonym of comfort (“contentment, ease”)
Synonym of comfortableness (“the quality or state of being comfortable or relaxed”)
comfortably
comfortably
adv
Easily; without effort or difficulty.
In a comfortable manner.
confabulatory
confabulatory
adj
colloquial
confabulating (fabricating)
conversational
confectionary
confectionary
adj
Prepared as a confection.
Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.
noun
(dated) A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
(obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
(obsolete) One who makes confections; a confectioner.
(uncountable, rare) Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery.
A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
confederacy
confederacy
noun
(politics) A state where the sovereign constituent units delegate their authority to the centre. As opposed to a federation, where the central and regional governments are each equal and sovereign in their own sphere.
An alliance.
Specifically, an instance of a decentralized governing structure among the indigenous peoples of North America.
confessary
confessary
noun
(obsolete) One who makes a confession.
confessionary
confessionary
adj
Of or relating to confession.
noun
A confessional.
A manual or guide to making confession.
confidentiary
configurationally
configurationally
adv
With regard to a configuration
confirmability
confirmability
noun
The state or property of being capable of being confirmed.
confirmatively
confirmatively
adv
With confirmation from other sources
confirmatorily
confirmatorily
adv
So as to confirm something.
confirmatory
confirmatory
adj
Serving to confirm something.
confiscatory
confiscatory
adj
Using confiscation
conflagratory
conflagratory
adj
That tends to produce conflagration; inflammatory
conforbably
conformability
conformability
noun
conformableness
conformably
conformably
adv
With or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.
conformationally
conformationally
adv
(chemistry) With respect to the conformation of a molecule
confraternity
confraternity
noun
(countable) A group with a common interest.
(countable) A religious fraternity or brotherhood.
(uncountable) Brotherly friendship.
corticifugally
corticifugally
adv
In a corticifugal manner.
counterfactually
counterfactually
adv
In a counterfactual way.
counterfallacy
counterfallacy
noun
A fallacy that opposes another fallacy.
counterinflationary
counterinflationary
adj
(economics) Counteracting inflation.
cryptoinflationist
crystalliferous
crystalliferous
adj
Containing or producing crystals
crystalliform
crystalliform
adj
In the form of a crystal.
curryfavour
cyanformate
cyanformic
cyathiform
cyathiform
adj
In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.
cycadiform
cycloparaffin
cycloparaffin
noun
(chemistry) A cycloalkane.
cymbaeform
cypraeiform
cystofibroma
cystofibroma
noun
(pathology) A fibroma containing cysts
cytodifferentiation
cytodifferentiation
noun
The morphological development of undifferentiated cells into more specialised ones
deificatory
deificatory
adj
Serving to deify or make into a god.
dihdroxycholecalciferol
discomfortably
disconformably
disconformably
adv
In a disconformable manner
dissatisfactorily
dissatisfactory
dissatisfactory
adj
Causing dissatisfaction.
edificatory
edificatory
adj
Tending to edification.
efractory
electroaffinity
enforceability
enforceability
noun
The quality of being enforceable.
facilitatory
facilitatory
adj
That serves to facilitate.
factionary
factionary
adj
(obsolete) Belonging to a faction; partisan; taking sides.
factorability
factorability
noun
(mathematics) The condition of being factorable.
factorially
factorially
adv
(mathematics) According to a factorial series or ratio.
factory
factory
adj
(colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
noun
(UK, slang) A police station.
(chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor.
(now historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
A factory farm.
factorylike
factorylike
adj
Resembling a factory in any of various respects
factoryship
factoryville
falconry
falconry
noun
The sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks.
fancymonger
fancymonger
noun
(obsolete) A lovemonger; a whimsical lover.
fancywork
fancywork
noun
Decorative embroidery.
fantasmagorically
faradocontractility
faradocontractility
noun
The tendency of muscles to contract under the influence of an induced electric current
farinaceously
farinaceously
adv
In a farinaceous manner.
fecundatory
fecundatory
adj
Of or relating to fecundation.
femorococcygeal
ferricyanogen
ferricyanogen
noun
(chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe₂(CN)₁₂, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
ferrihydrocyanic
ferrocyanate
ferrocyanate
noun
(chemistry) A salt of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide.
ferrocyanhydric
ferrocyanic
ferrocyanic
adj
(inorganic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from a ferrocyanide
ferrocyanide
ferrocyanide
noun
(inorganic chemistry) The complex ion Fe(CN)₆⁴⁻; any salt containing this ion; they are used in making blue pigments
ferrocyanogen
ferrocyanogen
noun
(chemistry) The tetravalent radical Fe(CN)₆.
ferroelectrically
ferroelectrically
adv
In a ferroelectric manner
With regard to ferroelectricity
ferrohydrocyanic
fibrinogenically
fibrocrystalline
fibrocystoma
fibromyxosarcoma
fictionary
fictionary
adj
Fictional.
noun
(countable, rare) A dictionary with contrived entries.
A parlor game in which participants invent definitions for an unfamiliar word found in a dictionary, and as one person reads them out, the others try to guess which one is the correct definition.
fideicommissary
fideicommissary
noun
(law, ancient Rome) the beneficiary of a fideicommissum.
flexographically
flexographically
adv
By means of flexography.
floriculturally
floriculturally
adv
In terms of floriculture.
floristically
floristically
adv
In a floristic manner; according to flora.
With regard to floristry
fluoroscopically
fluoroscopically
adv
By means of fluoroscopy.
foolocracy
foolocracy
noun
Rule by fools.
forebackwardly
forecastingly
forecastingly
adv
So as to forecast or predict.
forehatchway
forensicality
forensicality
noun
The quality of being forensic; a forensic approach or attitude.
forensically
forensically
adv
In a forensic manner.
Regarding forensics, or forensic science.
a forensically thorough search
formaldehydesulphoxylic
formalistically
formalistically
adv
in a formalistic manner
formicary
formicary
noun
An ant colony, a pile of earth built by ants in which they nest.
formulaically
formulaically
adv
in a formulaic manner; according to an established formula
fornicatory
fornicatory
adj
Of or pertaining to fornication.
fractionally
fractionally
adv
In a fractional manner
fractionary
fractionary
adj
(obsolete) fractional
fractiously
fractiously
adv
In a fractious manner.
fractuosity
fractuosity
noun
The state of being fractured; superficial fracture
frictionally
frictionally
adv
In terms of friction
frontozygomatic
frontozygomatic
adj
(anatomy) zygomaticofrontal
functionary
functionary
noun
A paper-pusher, bean counter.
A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is not required.
furfuraceously
gyrfalcon
gyrfalcon
noun
(obsolete) Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons.
Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.
gyrfalcons
gyrfalcons
noun
plural of gyrfalcon
honorifically
honorifically
adv
In an honorific manner.
horrifically
horrifically
adv
In a horrific manner.
hydroferricyanic
hydroferricyanic
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen.
hydroferrocyanate
hydroferrocyanic
hydroferrocyanic
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from hydrogen, ferrous iron, and cyanogen.
hydrofluosilicate
hydrofluosilicate
noun
(chemistry) A salt of hydrofluosilic acid.
hydrogasification
hydrogasification
noun
The reaction of hydrogen with coal under high pressure to form methane
hyperdeification
hyperfocal
hyperfocal
adj
(photography) Describing the distance on which a camera must be focused in order to achieve the maximum depth of field
hyperfunctional
hyperfunctional
adj
Having, or characterised by, increased function
hyperfunctionally
hypocrateriform
hypocrateriform
adj
(botany) Shaped like a salver.
hyraciform
inconformably
indemnificatory
indemnificatory
adj
That serves to indemnify
infracotyloid
insatisfactorily
interferometrically
interferometrically
adv
By means of interferometry.
intrafactory
intrafactory
adj
Within a single factory.
justificatory
justificatory
adj
providing justification
lachrymaeform
lachrymiform
lachrymiform
adj
Shaped like a teardrop
malefactory
malefactory
adj
Doing evil or wicked things.
manufactory
manufactory
adj
(obsolete) Relating to manufacture.
noun
(archaic) A manufacturing process; a particular industry or part of an industry.
(archaic) A plant where something is manufactured; a factory.
modificatory
modificatory
adv
In a modifying manner; tending or serving to modify.
morbifically
morbifically
adv
In a morbific way.
multifactorially
multifactorially
adv
Involving several factors.
mycoflora
mycoflora
noun
Fungi collectively, especially those of a particular region