(chiefly technical) The act of positioning something around something else; or the state of being so positioned
(linguistics) A pair of adpositions that occur on either side of the complement
The act of circumposing.
circumscription
circumscription
noun
(taxonomy) The definition of what does and does not belong to a given taxon, from a particular taxonomic viewpoint or taxonomic system.
An electoral district; used often in texts treating electoral systems in Romance countries.
Anything that circumscribes or a circumscribed area.
The act of circumscribing or the quality of being circumscribed.
circumscriptions
circumscriptions
noun
plural of circumscription
circumspection
circumspection
noun
Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; consideration of all that is pertinent.
Caution, watchfulness, or vigilance fueled by such awareness.
circumspections
circumspections
noun
plural of circumspection
circumtropical
circumtropical
adj
(distributed) throughout the tropics
cirrhopetalum
climatotherapeutics
clumproot
clumproot
noun
Synonym of clubroot
coleoptilum
compacture
compacture
noun
(obsolete) The fact of being closely put together; compact nature or structure.
compitum
complaintful
complaintful
adj
(obsolete) Full of complaint.
complicitous
complicitous
adj
Complicit.
complutensian
complutensian
Adjective
Of or relating to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares), a city near Madrid in Spain.
compositous
compositous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the Compositae; composite.
compositure
composture
composture
noun
A kind of plaster.
Composition, makeup, formation.
Compost, composted manure.
compsognathus
compulsative
compulsative
adj
(obsolete) compulsatory; employing force or constraint
compulsatively
compulsatively
Adverb
By compulsion.
compulsatorily
compulsatorily
adv
In a compulsatory manner.
compulsatory
compulsatory
adj
Enforced by or resulting from compulsion; employing force or constraint; compulsory.
compulsitor
compulsitor
noun
(law, Scotland) That which compels.
compulsivity
compulsivity
noun
compulsion
compunct
compunct
adj
(obsolete) Affected with compunction; remorseful.
compunction
compunction
noun
A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.
compunctionary
compunctionless
compunctionless
adj
Without compunction.
compunctions
compunctions
noun
plural of compunction
compunctious
compunctious
adj
Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.
compunctiously
compunctiously
adv
With compunction.
compunctive
compunctive
adj
(obsolete) Sensitive with regard to wrongdoing; conscientious.
compurgation
compurgation
noun
(now chiefly historical) Acquitting someone from a formal charge or accusation following the sworn oaths of a number of other people; vindication.
compurgator
compurgator
noun
(historical, law) An ‘oath-helper’ in Anglo-Saxon or Germanic law who testified to the character of an accused person.
(now historical, law) A character witness in canon law who swore an oath that the accused was innocent.
compurgatorial
compurgatorial
adj
Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation.
compurgators
compurgators
noun
plural of compurgator
compurgatory
compurgatory
adj
compurgatorial
computability
computability
noun
(computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
computable
computable
adj
(computing theory) Of a problem, solvable by a Turing machine or any thereto Turing-equivalent model; Turing-computable.
(mathematics) of a number, able to be approximated to arbitrary precision by a computable function
(mathematics, set theory) Of a countably infinite set, having a computable indicator function.
Capable of being computed, or enumerated.
computably
computably
adv
In a computable manner
With regard to computability
computate
computate
verb
(obsolete) To compute
computation
computation
noun
The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
The result of computation; the amount computed.
computational
computational
adj
Of or relating to computation.
computationally
computationally
adv
In a computational manner
Using computation
computations
computations
noun
plural of computation
computative
computative
adj
calculating, shrewdly or selfishly reckoning
of or relating to computation, computational
computatively
computativeness
computativeness
noun
The quality of being computative.
compute
compute
noun
(computing, informal) computation
verb
(intransitive, informal) To make sense. (commonly used in mimicry of a science fictional robot and spoken in a robotic voice; most frequently in negative constructs)
(transitive) To reckon, calculate.
computed
computed
adj
Calculated, determined by computation.
Derived rather than measured.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of compute
computer
computer
noun
(by restriction, chiefly historical) A male computer, where the female computer is called a computress.
(now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
computerdom
computerdom
noun
(informal) The world of computers and the people associated with them.
computerdoms
computerese
computerese
noun
(informal, dated) The jargon associated with computers.
computereses
computerise
computerise
verb
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of computerize.
computerised
computerised
adj
Functioning upon or through the medium of computers; digital.
Having undergone computerisation.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of computerise
computerises
computerises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of computerise
computerist
computerist
noun
(dated) A computer user.
computerists
computerists
noun
plural of computerist
computerite
computerizable
computerizable
adj
Able to be computerized.
computerization
computerization
noun
The act of computerizing something, or something computerized.
computerize
computerize
verb
(transitive, computing) To convert a manual function or system into a computer system.
(transitive, computing) To enter data into such a system.
(transitive, computing) To equip with a computer or a computer system.
computerized
computerized
adj
American spelling and Oxford British English standard spelling of computerised.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of computerize
computerizes
computerizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of computerize
computerizing
computerizing
verb
present participle of computerize
computerless
computerless
adj
Without a computer.
computerlike
computerlike
adj
Having some similarity to a computer.
computernik
computernik
noun
(informal, dated) A computer enthusiast.
computerniks
computerniks
noun
plural of computernik
computers
computers
noun
plural of computer
computes
computes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compute
computing
computing
noun
(computer science) The use of a computer or computers.
(literally) The process or act of calculation.
The study of computers and computer programming.
verb
present participle of compute
computist
computist
noun
One who performs computations.
One who performs computus (calculation of the date of Easter).
computus
computus
noun
(historical) A book of tables for calculating dates of astronomical events and moveable feasts.
The calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar.
conceptaculum
conceptaculum
noun
Obsolete form of conceptacle.
conceptualism
conceptualism
noun
(philosophy) A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects; the doctrine that universals have an existence in the mind apart from any concrete embodiment.
The art movement towards conceptual art.
consumpt
consumpt
noun
(chiefly Scotland) The amount consumed; consumption.
(obsolete) Consumer; market.
verb
To consume.
consumpted
consumpted
adj
(archaic) Suffering from tuberculosis (consumption).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of consumpt
consumptible
consumption
consumption
noun
(pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
The act of consuming or destroying.
The act of eating, drinking or using.
The amount consumed.
consumptional
consumptional
adj
Relating to consumption.
consumptions
consumptions
noun
plural of consumption
consumptive
consumptive
adj
(pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
Of, or relating to consumption.
noun
A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
consumptively
consumptively
adv
In a consumptive manner.
consumptiveness
consumptiveness
noun
The state of being consumptive.
consumptives
consumptives
noun
plural of consumptive
consumptivity
consumptivity
noun
The quality or degree of being consumptive.
contemperature
contemperature
noun
(obsolete) The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture.
contemplature
contemporaneous
contemporaneous
adj
Existing or created in the same period of time.
contemporaneously
contemporaneously
adv
In the same period of time.
contemporaneousness
contemporaneousness
noun
The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
contemptful
contemptful
adj
Full of contempt.
contemptuous
contemptuous
adj
Showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.
contemptuously
contemptuously
adv
In a disrespectful or discourteous manner; condescendingly.
contemptuousness
contemptuousness
noun
The state of being contemptuous
costopneumopexy
costopulmonary
costopulmonary
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the ribs and the lungs.
cotemporaneous
cotemporaneous
adj
Living or existing at the same time; contemporaneous.
cotemporaneously
cotemporaneously
adv
During the same time period.
countercampaign
countercampaign
noun
A campaign that opposes another campaign.
countercampaigns
countercampaigns
noun
plural of countercampaign
countercompany
countercompetition
countercomplaint
countercomplaint
noun
A complaint raised in response to another complaint, and usually against the party that complained first
countercomplaints
countercomplaints
noun
plural of countercomplaint
countercompony
countercompony
noun
(heraldry) A checkerboard of two rows of squares in alternating tinctures
counterdevelopment
counterdevelopment
noun
A development that counteracts another development.
counterexample
counterexample
noun
(logic) An example that counters a general rule; an exception to a general rule; a specific instance of the falsity of (and falsifiability of) any proposed universal applicability of a rule or statement.
counterexamples
counterexamples
noun
plural of counterexample
counterimpulse
counterimpulse
noun
An impulse that runs counter to another impulse.
counterjumper
counterjumper
noun
(slang, derogatory, dated) A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
counterprogramming
counterprogramming
noun
Psychological programming carried out to combat the effects of earlier programming.
counterpronunciamento
counterrampant
counterstamp
counterstamp
noun
A countermark made with a stamp.
verb
To countermark with a stamp.
countersympathy
couplement
couplement
noun
(obsolete) union; combination; a coupling; a pair
couplements
couplements
noun
plural of couplement
crumpton
cryptogamous
cryptogamous
adj
Of or pertaining to the cryptogams
cryptomerous
cryptonymous
cryptonymous
adj
Relating to, or published under, a cryptonym.
cubitometacarpal
cubitopalmar
cuprobismutite
cuprobismutite
noun
(mineralogy) A black mineral, with a metallic lustre, found in quartz deposits; it is a mixed sulfide of copper and bismuth.
cuproplumbite
cyathophyllum
cystomorphous
dactylopatagium
dactylopatagium
noun
The portion of patagium found between the digits.
deepmouthed
deplumation
deplumation
noun
(medicine) Loss of the eyelashes due to disease of the eyelids.
(metaphoric) The stripping of someone's symbol(s) of status and prestige; humiliation.
The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
depositum
depositum
noun
(finance, obsolete) A deposit.
dermapterous
dermatophagus
dermopterous
despumation
despumation
noun
Separation of scum or impurities from liquid; clarification.