A telescope or surveying instrument that has a mount permitting both horizontal and vertical rotation
altazimuths
altazimuths
noun
plural of altazimuth
aphanozygous
arrhizous
arrhizous
adj
(botany) Having no root: applied to parasitical plants which have no root, but adhere to other plants by any part of their surface, and derive their nourishment from them; also to mosses and Hepaticœ which are destitute of rhizoids.
auschwitz
auschwitz
Proper noun
A city in Poland, also called Oświęcim.
A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; definition Nazi evil, the Holocaust.
authorizable
authorizable
adj
Capable of being authorized.
authorization
authorization
noun
(countable) (A document giving) formal sanction, permission or warrant.
(countable) An act of authorizing.
(government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.
(uncountable) Permission.
authorizations
authorizations
noun
plural of authorization
authorize
authorize
verb
(transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something).
(transitive) To permit (something), to sanction or consent to (something).
authorized
authorized
adj
Explicitly allowed.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of authorize
authorizer
authorizer
noun
One who, or that which, authorizes.
authorizers
authorizers
noun
plural of authorizer
authorizes
authorizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authorize
authorizing
authorizing
verb
present participle of authorize
autohybridization
autohypnotization
autohypnotization
noun
Synonym of autohypnosis
autoschediaze
autoschediaze
verb
To act in an autoschediastic manner
autotyphization
azimuth
azimuth
noun
An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object.
The quadrant of an azimuth circle.
azimuthal
azimuthal
adj
(cartography) Describing a map projection which preserves direction for all points relative to a selected point (or in some cases two points).
Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.
noun
(cartography) An azimuthal projection.
azimuthally
azimuthally
adv
In a manner with respect to the azimuth; with respect to the angle above a plane.
azimuths
azimuths
noun
plural of azimuth
azodisulphonic
azohumic
azosulphine
azosulphonic
azothionium
azthionium
azurmalachite
ballhausplatz
barukhzy
bashibazouk
bashibazouk
noun
Alternative spelling of bashi-bazouk
belshazzaresque
belzebuth
benzophloroglucinol
benzosulphimide
benzothiofuran
betthezul
boghazkeui
boozehound
boozehound
noun
(informal) alcoholic, drunkard
boucherize
boucherize
Verb
To impregnate (timber, railroad ties, etc.) with a preservative solution of copper sulphate.
butzbach
buzzerphone
buzzerphone
noun
(military, historical) A portable buzzer system for transmitting messages in Morse code.
chalaziferous
chalaziferous
adj
Having or bearing chalazas.
chalazium
chalutz
chalutz
noun
(historical) A member of a group of Jewish immigrants to Palestine who worked in agriculture or forestry.
chalutzim
chazanut
chazzanut
cheerfulize
cheerfulize
verb
(transitive, dated) To make cheerful.
chouanize
chromazurine
churchwardenize
chutzpa
chutzpa
noun
Alternative spelling of chutzpah
chutzpadik
chutzpadik
adj
Showing chutzpah; not showing due respect; impudent; impertinent; brazen.
To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.
dehumanized
dehumanized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dehumanize
dehumanizes
dehumanizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumanize
dehumanizing
dehumanizing
noun
An act of dehumanization.
verb
present participle of dehumanize
desulphurization
desulphurization
noun
(Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of desulfurization
desulphurize
desulphurize
verb
(Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of desulfurize (American spelling)
desulphurized
desulphurized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of desulphurize
desulphurizer
desulphurizing
desulphurizing
verb
present participle of desulphurize
disauthorize
disauthorize
verb
(transitive) To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit.
dishumanize
dzaudzhikau
dzhambul
dzhugashvili
dzugashvili
eleutherozoa
eleutherozoan
epirhizous
eucharistize
eucharistize
verb
(intransitive) To give thanks to God and remember Christ by communal activity, especially by eating and drinking the bread and wine of the Eucharist; to share in communion.
(transitive) Alternative form of Eucharistize
eucharistized
eucharistized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of eucharistize
eucharistizing
eucharistizing
verb
present participle of eucharistize
euhemerize
euhemerize
verb
(transitive, intransitive) Synonym of deify: to actually create mythology and legends from ancient historical figures and events.
(transitive, intransitive, derogatory) To invent a plausible but fanciful historical origin for something in order to explain away mythology and legends.
euhemerized
euhemerized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of euhemerize
euhemerizing
euhemerizing
verb
present participle of euhemerize
eunuchize
eunuchize
verb
(transitive) To make into a eunuch; to castrate.
eunuchized
eunuchized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of eunuchize
eunuchizing
eunuchizing
verb
present participle of eunuchize
euphemization
euphemize
euphemize
verb
(intransitive) To utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically.
(transitive) To describe in euphemistic terms.
euphemized
euphemized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of euphemize
euphemizer
euphemizer
noun
One who, or that which, euphemizes.
euphemizers
euphemizers
noun
plural of euphemizer
euphemizing
euphemizing
verb
present participle of euphemize
euphonize
euphonize
verb
(transitive) To make euphonic.
euphonized
euphonized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of euphonize
euphonizing
euphonizing
verb
present participle of euphonize
euphuize
euphuize
verb
To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression.
euphuized
euphuized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of euphuize
euphuizing
euphuizing
verb
present participle of euphuize
euthanatize
euthanatize
verb
(transitive) To euthanize.
euthanatized
euthanatized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of euthanatize
euthanatizes
euthanatizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of euthanatize
euthanizing
euthanizing
verb
present participle of euthanize
exauthorize
exauthorize
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To deprive of authority.
exauthorizeexc
extrahazardous
fitzhugh
fluphenazine
fluphenazine
noun
(pharmacology) An antipsychotic drug of the phenothiazine class, which can be administered orally or by injection.
furzechat
furzechat
noun
A bird, the whinchat.
gazehound
gazehound
noun
Synonym of sighthound (“a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance”)
gazophylacium
ghuz
glaucophanization
glaucophanization
noun
Conversion into glaucophane.
glaucophanize
habitualize
habitualize
verb
(US, law) To classify as a habitual offender (which has implications for sentencing).
To cause to treat something as habitual; to familiarize or accustom.
To make habitual.
hakenkreuz
hakenkreuz
noun
(chiefly India, often capitalized) The swastika that is used as a Nazi symbol.
hakenkreuze
hakenkreuzler
halutz
halutz
noun
(Judaism) A pioneer, especially one of the early Jewish immigrants to Palestine.
halutzim
halutzim
noun
plural of halutz
harlequinize
harlequinize
verb
(transitive) To make gaudy and comical.
harzburgite
harzburgite
noun
An ultramafic igneous rock, a variety of peridotite consisting mostly of olivine and low-calcium pyroxene.
haussmannization
haussmannization
Noun
The creative destruction of something for the betterment of society.
haussmannize
haussmannize
Verb
To destroy the old in order to build the new (in the manner of Baron Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris)
hazanut
hazardful
hazardful
adj
Full of hazard; dangerous; risky.
hazardous
hazardous
adj
Of or involving chance.
Risky; dangerous; with the nature of a hazard.
hazardously
hazardously
adv
In a hazardous manner.
hazardousness
hazardousness
noun
The condition of being hazardous
hazelhurst
hazelnut
hazelnut
noun
The fruit of the hazel tree.
hazelnuts
hazelnuts
noun
plural of hazelnut
hazlehurst
hazzanut
hemiazygous
hemizygous
hemizygous
adj
(genetics) Having some single copies of genes in an otherwise diploid cell or organism
heterozygous
heterozygous
adj
Of an organism which has two different alleles of a given gene.
heterozygousness
heterozygousness
noun
The quality of being heterozygous.
hinduize
hinduize
Verb
To convert to Hinduism
hinduized
hinduizing
hirudinize
homozygous
homozygous
adj
Of an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allele
homozygously
homozygously
adv
In a homozygous manner
homozygousness
homozygousness
noun
The quality of being homozygous.
hoodlumize
hoodlumize
verb
(transitive) To make into a hoodlum.
hormuz
houtzdale
huarizo
huarizo
noun
The hybrid offspring of a male llama and a female alpaca.