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
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.
chlorotrifluoroethylene
chlorotrifluoroethylene
noun
(chemistry) A chlorofluorocarbon with chemical formula CF₂CClF, used as a cryogenic refrigerant and in the manufacture of plastics.
chylifaction
chylifaction
noun
(biology) The formation of chyle.
chylification
chylification
Noun
The production of chyle
chymification
chymification
noun
The conversion of food into chyme
cockneyfication
cockneyfication
noun
the use of cockney words or mannerisms, especially by non-cockneys
coefficiently
coefficiently
adv
In a coefficient manner
coinfinity
comfortingly
comfortingly
adv
In a comforting 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.
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.
configurationally
configurationally
adv
With regard to a configuration
confinity
confinity
noun
contiguity, adjacency
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.
confirmity
confiscatory
confiscatory
adj
Using confiscation
conflagratory
conflagratory
adj
That tends to produce conflagration; inflammatory
conflictingly
conflictingly
adv
In a conflicting fashion.
conflictory
conflictory
adj
(rare) conflicting
confluently
confluently
adv
In a confluent manner
confluxibility
conformability
conformability
noun
conformableness
conformationally
conformationally
adv
(chemistry) With respect to the conformation of a molecule
conformity
conformity
noun
A point of resemblance; a similarity.
The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
The state of things being similar or identical.
confraternity
confraternity
noun
(countable) A group with a common interest.
(countable) A religious fraternity or brotherhood.
(uncountable) Brotherly friendship.
confusability
confusability
noun
The condition of being confusable.
confutability
confutability
noun
The state of being confutable or disprovable.
coniferophyte
coniferophyte
noun
(botany) conifer
consentfully
consentfully
adv
With consent; consensually.
copyfitting
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.
countrify
countrify
verb
(transitive) To make rural or rustic.
countryfied
countryfied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of countryfy
countryfiedness
countryfolk
countryfolk
noun
One who lives in the country; a rural dweller.
cryptoinflationist
cyanformate
cytodifferentiation
cytodifferentiation
noun
The morphological development of undifferentiated cells into more specialised ones
deferentectomy
deferentectomy
noun
surgical severing of the vas deferens
demystification
demystification
noun
The removal of mystery or confusion surrounding a topic or idea.
discomfortingly
discomfortingly
adv
In a discomforting manner
disconformity
disconformity
noun
(geology) A type of unconformity in which erosion or lack of deposition has occurred between two parallel sedimentary strata.
(religion) nonconformity
dissyllabification
dissyllabification
noun
A division into two syllables.
dysfunction
dysfunction
noun
(chiefly medicine) A failure to function in an expected or complete manner. Usually refers to a disorder in a bodily organ (e.g. erectile dysfunction), a mental disorder, or the improper behavior of a social group.
verb
(nonstandard, intransitive, chiefly biology) To fail to function correctly; to malfunction.
dysfunctional
dysfunctional
adj
Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.
Not performing its proper or intended function.
dysfunctioning
dysfunctioning
verb
present participle of dysfunction
dysfunctions
dysfunctions
noun
plural of dysfunction
electroaffinity
enforceability
enforceability
noun
The quality of being enforceable.
enforcibility
enforcibility
noun
Alternative form of enforceability
epididymodeferentectomy
ethoxycaffeine
factionally
factionally
adv
In a factional manner; in terms of factions.
factionary
factionary
adj
(obsolete) Belonging to a faction; partisan; taking sides.
fantasmagorically
faradocontractility
faradocontractility
noun
The tendency of muscles to contract under the influence of an induced electric current
fecundatory
fecundatory
adj
Of or relating to fecundation.
ferrocyanate
ferrocyanate
noun
(chemistry) A salt of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide.
fibrinolytic
fibrinolytic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or producing fibrinolysis.
noun
A substance or drug that produces fibrinolysis.
fibrocrystalline
fictionality
fictionality
noun
State or quality of being fictional.
fictionally
fictionally
adv
In a fictional manner.
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.
flocculently
flocculently
adv
In a flocculent manner.
forecastingly
forecastingly
adv
So as to forecast or predict.
forensicality
forensicality
noun
The quality of being forensic; a forensic approach or attitude.
fornicatory
fornicatory
adj
Of or pertaining to fornication.
fractionally
fractionally
adv
In a fractional manner
fractionary
fractionary
adj
(obsolete) fractional
frictionally
frictionally
adv
In terms of friction
frictionlessly
frictionlessly
adv
In a frictionless way; without friction.
frontozygomatic
frontozygomatic
adj
(anatomy) zygomaticofrontal
functionality
functionality
noun
(US, law, uncountable) In United States trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
(organic chemistry, countable) The presence of a functional group.
(uncountable) The ability to do a task, performance, or execution; a set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
functionally
functionally
adv
In a functional manner.
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.
fungitoxicity
fungitoxicity
noun
The quality of being fungitoxic.
genuflectory
genuflectory
adj
Relating to genuflection.
hydroferrocyanate
hydrogasification
hydrogasification
noun
The reaction of hydrogen with coal under high pressure to form methane
hyperconfident
hyperconfident
adj
Extremely confident.
hyperconfidently
hyperconformist
hyperconformity
hyperconformity
noun
Excessive conformity
hyperdeification
hyperfunction
hyperfunction
noun
(mathematics) A generalization of a function
(medicine) Abnormally elevated function
hyperfunctional
hyperfunctional
adj
Having, or characterised by, increased function
hyperfunctionally
hyperfunctioning
hyperfunctioning
noun
Excessive functioning
hyperperfection
hypofunction
hypofunction
noun
(medicine) Abnormally low function.
ichthyofauna
ichthyofauna
noun
The fish of a particular region
ichthyofaunal
ichthyofaunal
adj
Relating to ichthyofauna.
ichthyornithiformes
inconformity
inconformity
noun
(obsolete) Lack of conformity.
inconfutably
indemnificatory
indemnificatory
adj
That serves to indemnify
infectiously
infectiously
adv
In an infectious manner.
infelicitously
infelicitously
adv
In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate
inflectionally
inflectionally
adv
In an inflectional manner.
infracotyloid
infructuosity
infructuously
infructuously
adv
unfruitfully
inofficiosity
inofficiosity
noun
(obsolete) The quality of being inofficious.
insatisfactorily
interferometrically
interferometrically
adv
By means of interferometry.
intrafactory
intrafactory
adj
Within a single factory.
magnetofluiddynamic
magnetofluiddynamic
adj
Relating to magnetofluiddynamics.
magnetofluiddynamics
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.
missyllabification
mystification
mystification
noun
A mystifying thing.
The act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
mystifications
mystifications
noun
plural of mystification
mythification
mythification
noun
Conversion into a myth.
nitrosylsulfuric
nonaffectingly
nonbeatifically
nonbeneficently
nonconfidentiality
nonconfidentially
nonconfidently
nonconfirmatory
nonconfirmatory
adj
Not confirmatory.
nonconfiscatory
nonconformability
nonconformistically
nonconformistically
adv
In a nonconformist manner.
nonconformity
nonconformity
noun
(geology) A type of unconformity in which a non-sedimentary rock intrudes in sedimentary layers.
Refusal to conform to the doctrine, discipline, or practice of a state religion, especially refusal by other Protestants to conform to the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England; the principles or practice of nonconformists; nonconformists as a class.
Rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law.
nondefectively
nondeficiently
nondiffractively
noneffervescently
nonefficiently
nonenforceability
nonenforceability
noun
The property of not being enforceable.
nonfacetiously
nonfacility
nonfacility
adj
(medicine) Not performed in, or not relating to, a medical facility.