A form of polyandry where a woman is married to two or more brothers.
Marriage between a brother and a sister.
adenography
adenography
noun
(anatomy) The division of anatomy describing the glands
agathodemon
agathodemon
noun
Alternative spelling of agathodaemon.
albedograph
autographed
autographed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of autograph
backlighted
badgerbrush
badgerbrush
noun
The plant Symphoricarpos occidentalis.
barehanding
beshadowing
beshadowing
verb
present participle of beshadow
billheading
boltheading
bridgeheads
bridgeheads
noun
plural of bridgehead
budgereegah
budgereegah
noun
Archaic form of budgerigar.
bulkheading
bulkheading
noun
bulkheads in general
cabbagehead
cabbagehead
noun
(geology) A roughly spherical aggregation of a mineral.
A common type of jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris
A head of cabbage.
A stupid person; an idiot.
A style of smokestack on a wood-burning locomotive that has a roughly spherical top on a straight narrow stack.
The larval form (caterpillar) of Crocidolomia pavonana, which is a pest that eats cabbages.
candlelight
candlelight
noun
The light emitted by a candle.
chandelling
chandelling
verb
present participle of chandelle
chandlering
chandlering
noun
The trade of a chandler
changedness
changedness
noun
The quality of having been changed.
chargedness
chargedness
noun
The quality of being charged.
chargehands
chargehands
noun
plural of chargehand
chargrilled
chargrilled
adj
grilled on burning charcoal
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chargrill
chugalugged
chugalugged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chugalug
copygraphed
copygraphed
adj
Reproduced by the copygraph technique.
daughterkin
daughterkin
noun
(endearing) A daughter.
deadheading
deadheading
noun
The driving of an unladen vehicle, such as a bus with no passengers, in order to take it from one place to another.
The removal of dead flowers from a plant in order to encourage the growth of new ones, and to prevent the production of seeds.
verb
present participle of deadhead
deadweights
deadweights
noun
plural of deadweight
dehydrating
dehydrating
verb
present participle of dehydrate
delightable
delightable
adj
(obsolete) Delightful.
demographer
demographer
noun
a person who studies demography
demographic
demographic
adj
Of or pertaining to demography.
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.
A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.
An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.
demonograph
dendrograph
dendrograph
noun
An instrument for measuring the growth of trees.
dephlegmate
dephlegmate
verb
(chemistry, dated) To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; used of spirits and acids.
dermography
dermography
noun
A change in skin coloration in response to an irritating stimulus, such as scratching.
desmography
desmography
noun
The description of ligaments; a treatise describing ligaments
despatching
despatching
verb
present participle of despatch
dethatching
dethatching
verb
present participle of dethatch
diaphragmed
diaphragmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of diaphragm
dichogamies
dihexagonal
dihexagonal
adj
Consisting of two hexagonal parts united.
Having twelve similar faces.
dischargees
dischargees
noun
plural of dischargee
dischargers
dischargers
noun
plural of discharger
disheathing
dogcatchers
dogcatchers
noun
plural of dogcatcher
doxographer
doxographer
noun
A classical historian who describes the opinions of Ancient Greek philosophers and scientists.
dragonheads
dragonheads
noun
plural of dragonhead
draughtiest
draughtiest
adj
superlative form of draughty: most draughty
draughtsmen
draughtsmen
noun
plural of draughtsman
dreadnaught
dreadnaught
noun
Alternative spelling of dreadnought
dreadnought
dreadnought
noun
(informal) A type of warship heavier in armour or armament than a typical battleship.
(military, nautical, historical) A battleship, especially of the World War I era, in which most of the firepower is concentrated in large guns that are of the same caliber.
(music) A type of acoustic guitar with a very large body and a waist that is less pronounced than on other guitar shapes, producing a deep, bold sound.
A garment made of thick woollen cloth that can defend against storm and cold.
A person who fears nothing.
One that is the largest or the most powerful of its kind.
Something that assures against fear.
The cloth itself; fearnaught.
echafaudage
endognathal
endognathal
adj
(zoology) Pertaining to the endognath.
endophagous
endophagous
adj
(biology, of a parasite) That feeds from within the host organism
featheredge
featheredge
noun
Alternative form of feather edge
figureheads
figureheads
noun
plural of figurehead
flaughtbred
forgathered
forgathered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of forgather
freightyard
freightyard
noun
A yard where goods to be transported are stored.
frogmarched
frogmarched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch
gaddishness
gaddishness
noun
(nonce word) Quality of being gaddish.
ganderteeth
gatecrashed
gatecrashed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash
gederathite
gelechiidae
geophilidae
gerhardtite
gerhardtite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen.
gladhearted
gladhearted
adj
cheerful
glochidiate
glochidiate
adj
(botany) Having barbs
goatherdess
goatherdess
noun
A female goatherd.
goddaughter
goddaughter
noun
A female child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent.
godfathered
godfathered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of godfather
goldthwaite
goldthwaite
Proper noun
a small city in Texas, USA
goodhearted
goodhearted
adj
kind, generous and altruistic
grandeeship
grandeeship
noun
The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship.
grandfather
grandfather
noun
(by extension) A male forefather.
(computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
A father of someone's parent.
verb
(transitive) To be, or act as, a grandfather to.
(transitive, chiefly US, law) To retain discontinued laws or rules for (a thing, person or organization previously affected by them).
grandmother
grandmother
noun
A female ancestor or progenitor.
A mother of someone's parent.
grandnephew
grandnephew
noun
A grandson of one's sibling; a son of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's grandson: fraternal grandnephew. Sister's grandson: sororal grandnephew.)
graphitized
graphitized
adj
(chemistry, of carbon) Converted to graphite
verb
simple past tense and past participle of graphitize
greenheaded
grooverhead
guardhouses
guardhouses
noun
plural of guardhouse
haggardness
haggardness
noun
The characteristic of being haggard; tiredness.
halogenated
halogenated
adj
(chemistry) Formally derived from another compound by the replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with a halogen.
(chemistry) Treated or reacted with a halogen.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of halogenate
hamstringed
handgravure
handreading
handselling
handsetting
handweaving
handweaving
noun
the manufacture of handwoven goods
handwringer
handwringer
noun
A person who clasps and squeezes the hands in an excessive expression of distress.
harbingered
harbingered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of harbinger
headborough
headborough
noun
(historical, law) Synonym of tithingman: a peace officer or underconstable.
(historical, law) Synonym of tithingman: the head of a tithing.
headhunting
headhunting
noun
(anthropology) The practice of cutting off and preserving the head of one's enemy.
The active recruitment of executive or talented personnel.
verb
present participle of headhunt
headsprings
headsprings
noun
plural of headspring
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of headspring
headworking
healthguard
hedgemaking
hedgemaking
noun
The construction of hedges.
hemorrhaged
hemorrhaged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hemorrhage
highdaddies
highhearted
highhearted
adj
Alternative form of high-hearted
highlanders
highlanders
noun
plural of highlander
holographed
holographed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of holograph
homologated
homologated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of homologate
hydatogenic
hydrogenase
hydrogenase
noun
(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of a substrate by the reversible oxidation of hydrogen.
hydrogenate
hydrogenate
verb
(chemistry, transitive) to treat something, or react something, with hydrogen; especially to react an unsaturated fat with hydrogen, in the presence of a nickel catalyst, to produce a harder saturated fat
ideographic
ideographic
adj
Pertaining to an ideograph or ideography.
jacklighted
lamplighted
lamplighted
adj
Synonym of lamplit
largehanded
lethargised
lethargised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lethargise
lethargized
lethargized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lethargize
lightheaded
lightheaded
adj
Alternative spelling of light-headed
loggerheads
loggerheads
noun
(dialect) The knapweed.
Fisticuffs; fighting.
plural of loggerhead
mastheading
mastheading
verb
present participle of masthead
megatheroid
megatheroid
noun
(paleontology) One of a family of extinct edentates found in America, including the megatherium and the megalonyx, among others.
michigander
michigander
Noun
A native or resident of the state of Michigan in the United States of America.
In particular, a man from Michigan, contrasted with a
monographed
monographed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of monograph
nearsighted
nearsighted
adj
Alternative form of near-sighted
nightcapped
nightcapped
adj
(law) (of a warrant) that can be executed any time, as opposed to non-nightcapped, that can only be executed during the daytime on business days
Wearing a nightcap.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of nightcap
nightshades
nightshades
noun
plural of nightshade
nonadhering
nonadhering
adj
Not adhering
overcharged
overcharged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overcharge
overdraught
overdraught
noun
(chiefly Britain) An overdraft.
overhanding
overhanding
verb
present participle of overhand
overshading
overshading
verb
present participle of overshade
paragraphed
paragraphed
verb
To be made the subject of an article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.
simple past tense and past participle of paragraph
pedagoguish
phagedaenic
phagedaenic
adj
Alternative form of phagedenic
phagedenous
phagedenous
adj
(medicine) phagedenic
phalangidea
phalangides
phrenogrady
phryganeoid
pigheadedly
pigheadedly
adv
In a pigheaded manner.
plagihedral
plagihedral
adj
(crystallography) Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as in levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.
polygraphed
polygraphed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of polygraph
preadhering
predaylight
predaylight
adj
Before daylight.
prehandling
pseudograph
pseudograph
noun
(graph theory) A graph that contains loops as well as multiple edges between vertices
A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.
puddinghead
redischarge
redischarge
verb
(transitive) To discharge again.
reexchanged
reexchanged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of reexchange
rehardening
rehardening
verb
present participle of reharden
rehydrating
rehydrating
verb
present participle of rehydrate
rethreading
rethreading
noun
The process of threading something again.
verb
present participle of rethread
rhagionidae
rightheaded
roughtailed
sciagraphed
sciagraphed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of sciagraph
shaggedness
shaggedness
noun
(dated) shagginess
shepherdage
skiagraphed
skiagraphed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of skiagraph
slaughtered
slaughtered
adj
(informal) Extremely drunk.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of slaughter