(astronautics) A section or piece of a launch vehicle, rocket, or spacecraft that enters the atmosphere unprotected behind the nose cone or other body that is protected for entry.
(astronomy) A companion body that trails a satellite or spacecraft.
(nautical) The part of a vessel abaft midships.
The afterpart of a vehicle.
agroforestry
agroforestry
noun
An agricultural approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock.
alkylarylsulfonate
alkylbenzenesulfonate
alkylbenzenesulfonates
antifelony
apterygiformes
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
calyciflorate
certificatory
certificatory
adj
Serving to certify something.
noun
(archaic) A certificate.
chlorotrifluoroethylene
chlorotrifluoroethylene
noun
(chemistry) A chlorofluorocarbon with chemical formula CF₂CClF, used as a cryogenic refrigerant and in the manufacture of plastics.
closefistedly
cockneyfication
cockneyfication
noun
the use of cockney words or mannerisms, especially by non-cockneys
coefficiently
coefficiently
adv
In a coefficient manner
comfortlessly
comfortlessly
adv
In a comfortless manner
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.
confectionery
confectionery
noun
(uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
(uncountable) The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.
confectory
confectory
adj
(obsolete) Relating to the art of making confectionery.
confelicity
confelicity
noun
(rare) Pleasure in another's happiness.
confidentiality
confidentiality
noun
(countable) Something told in confidence; a secret.
(uncountable) The property of being confidential.
confidentially
confidentially
adv
In a confidential manner.
Spoken of in a private manner.
confidentiary
confidently
confidently
adv
In a confident manner; with confidence; with strong assurance; positively.
confirmatively
confirmatively
adv
With confirmation from other sources
confluently
confluently
adv
In a confluent manner
confraternity
confraternity
noun
(countable) A group with a common interest.
(countable) A religious fraternity or brotherhood.
(uncountable) Brotherly friendship.
coniferophyte
coniferophyte
noun
(botany) conifer
consentfully
consentfully
adv
With consent; consensually.
copyfitter
correctify
correctify
verb
(nonstandard) To correct.
counterdifficulty
counterdifficulty
noun
A difficulty arising in response to another difficulty.
counterefficiency
counterfactually
counterfactually
adv
In a counterfactual way.
counterfallacy
counterfallacy
noun
A fallacy that opposes another fallacy.
counterfeitly
counterfeitly
adv
In a counterfeit way; falsely.
counterfleury
counterfleury
adj
Alternative spelling of counterflory
counterflory
counterflory
adj
(heraldry) Decorated with fleurs-de-lis or other floral motifs arranged in pairs opposite each other, especially on opposite sides of a border on a shield or banner.
counterinflationary
counterinflationary
adj
(economics) Counteracting inflation.
countryfied
countryfied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of countryfy
countryfiedness
crystalliferous
crystalliferous
adj
Containing or producing crystals
cyanformate
cystiferous
cystoflagellata
cystoflagellate
cytodifferentiation
cytodifferentiation
noun
The morphological development of undifferentiated cells into more specialised ones
defamatory
defamatory
adj
damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue
defectology
defectology
noun
(in the former Soviet Union) The training of teachers of handicapped children.
deferentectomy
deferentectomy
noun
surgical severing of the vas deferens
defiatory
defiatory
adj
(obsolete) Bidding or manifesting defiance.
defibrillatory
deflationary
deflationary
adj
(philosophy, logic) Belonging or relating to a family of theories claiming that assertions that predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called truth to such a statement.
Associated with or tending to cause deflation.
deformability
deformability
noun
(countable) A measure of the extent to which something is deformable (under standard conditions)
(uncountable) The state of being deformable
deformity
deformity
noun
An ugly or misshapen feature or characteristic.
The state of being deformed.
defortify
deificatory
deificatory
adj
Serving to deify or make into a god.
deiformity
deiformity
noun
(obsolete) Resemblance to deity.
demystification
demystification
noun
The removal of mystery or confusion surrounding a topic or idea.
detoxify
detoxify
verb
To remove foreign and harmful substances from something.
detoxifying
detoxifying
verb
present participle of detoxify
diatrymiformes
dimethylsulfoxide
dimethylsulfoxide
noun
Alternative spelling of dimethylsulphoxide
doftberry
dufrenoysite
dufrenoysite
noun
(mineralogy) A sartorite mineral with chemical formula Pb₂As₂S₅.
edificatory
edificatory
adj
Tending to edification.
effortfully
effortfully
adv
In an effortful manner: with effort.
effortlessly
effortlessly
adv
Without effort; without difficulty or struggle.
effrontery
effrontery
noun
(countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
(uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.
efractory
eightyfold
eightyfold
adj
By a factor of eighty.
electroaffinity
elytriferous
elytriform
elytriform
adj
(zoology) Having the form or structure of an elytron.
enforceability
enforceability
noun
The quality of being enforceable.
enforcibility
enforcibility
noun
Alternative form of enforceability
epididymodeferentectomy
epididymodeferential
equiformity
equiformity
noun
The quality of being equiform.
ethoxycaffeine
exfoliatory
exfoliatory
adj
Relating to, or performing, exfoliation.
facetiously
facetiously
adv
(dated) In a pleasantly humorous or playful fashion.
In a facetious or flippant manner; in a manner that treats serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor
factorylike
factorylike
adj
Resembling a factory in any of various respects
factoryville
fallectomy
fameworthy
fameworthy
adj
Worthy or deserving of fame.
fangotherapy
fathomlessly
fathomlessly
adv
In a fathomless manner, to a fathomless degree.
fauntleroy
fecundatory
fecundatory
adj
Of or relating to fecundation.
felicitously
felicitously
adv
In a felicitous manner.
fellatory
fellatory
adj
Pertaining to fellatio.
felsobanyite
feodality
feodality
noun
Alternative form of feudality
feodatory
feodatory
adj
Obsolete spelling of feudatory
feretory
feretory
noun
A receptacle that houses relics of saints.
An area of a church where relics are kept.
fermentatory
fermentatory
adj
Of or relating to fermentation.
fermentology
fermentology
noun
The study of fermentation.
ferocity
ferocity
noun
The condition of being ferocious.
ferrocyanate
ferrocyanate
noun
(chemistry) A salt of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide.
ferroelectrically
ferroelectrically
adv
In a ferroelectric manner
With regard to ferroelectricity
ferroelectricity
ferroelectricity
noun
(physics) The electric polarization of a substance (spontaneous presence of a dipole moment) that is analogous to ferromagnetism
ferrotype
ferrotype
noun
A photograph produced by this means.
An early photographic process in which the image is made on an iron plate having a sensitized surface film.
verb
to take a ferrotype photograph
ferrotyped
ferrotyped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ferrotype
ferrotyper
ferrotypes
ferrotypes
noun
plural of ferrotype
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ferrotype
ferrotyping
ferrotyping
verb
present participle of ferrotype
ferryboat
ferryboat
noun
(nautical) A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule
ferryboats
ferryboats
noun
plural of ferryboat
festilogy
festilogy
noun
A treatise on church festivals.
festology
festology
noun
A form of martyrology that lists the feast days.
festoonery
festoonery
noun
That which is festooned; hanging ornamentation.
festoony
festoony
adj
Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling festoons.
fetography
fetology
fetology
noun
The scientific study of fetuses.
fetometry
fetometry
noun
The measurement of a fetus, typically by X-ray examination
feudatory
feudatory
adj
Relating to feudalism, feudal.
noun
A fee paid by such a vassal to hold land.
A feudal territory, a fief.
A feudal vassal.
fibrocrystalline
fibrocyte
fibrocyte
noun
An inactive connective tissue cell that is capable of forming collagen
fibromyectomy
fibromyomectomy
flagellatory
flagellatory
adj
Relating to flagellation or whipping.
flamboyantize
flatfootedly
flatfootedly
adv
In a flatfooted manner.
flebotomy
flexuosity
flexuosity
noun
A flexuous point; a sinuous curve.
Quality of being flexuous.
flocculently
flocculently
adv
In a flocculent manner.
floretty
floretty
adj
(heraldry, of a cross) Decorated (finished at the ends) with fleurs-de-lis, which (unlike a cross flory) are attached in their entirety to the arms of the couped cross, rather than the arms developing into that shape.
fluorimetry
fluorimetry
noun
(chemistry, physics) fluorescence spectroscopy
fluorometry
fluorometry
noun
(chemistry, physics) An analytical technique that uses fluorescence to detect and identify small samples of substances
fluorotype
fluorotype
noun
(historical) A photographic process in which salts of fluoric acid were employed for the purpose of producing images in the camera.
focimetry
focimetry
noun
The art or study of measuring the power of lenses.
focometry
fontenoy
fonteyn
footlessly
footlessly
adv
(not comparable) Without feet.
In a clumsy or inept way.
footpaddery
footpaddery
noun
(historical) The crime of robbing travelers on the road.
footweary
forbearantly
forbearantly
adv
In a forbearant manner.
forecastingly
forecastingly
adv
So as to forecast or predict.
foredestiny
forefatherly
forehatchway
foremartyr
foremostly
foremostly
adv
In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
forensicality
forensicality
noun
The quality of being forensic; a forensic approach or attitude.
forepayment
forepayment
noun
payment made in advance
foreseeability
foreseeability
noun
The state or characteristic of being foreseeable; predictability.