producing approximately equal numbers of male and female offspring
anemograph
anemograph
noun
(obsolete or historical) An anemometer that makes a graphical recording.
anglophile
anglophile
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Anglophile
anglophobe
anglophobe
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Anglophobe
anglophone
anglophone
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Anglophone
champagned
champagned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of champagne
champagnes
champagnes
noun
plural of champagne.
champaigne
chapelling
chapelling
verb
present participle of chapel
chaptering
chaptering
verb
present participle of chapter
cheapening
cheapening
noun
The process by which something is cheapened or made vulgar.
verb
present participle of cheapen
copenhagen
copenhagen
Proper noun
The capital city of Denmark.
One of the former counties of Denmark.
A community in Louisiana.
A children's game in which one player is enclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.
Noun
A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.
endophragm
esophagean
esophagean
adj
(archaic) Pertaining to a oesophagus; esophageal.
genophobia
genophobia
noun
The physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
gramaphone
gramophone
gramophone
noun
(Britain, dated) A record player.
granophyre
granophyre
noun
A subvolcanic rock with angular intergrowths of quartz and alkali feldspar.
guanophore
guanophore
noun
A type of chromatophore, in the skin of some fish and reptiles, that contains granules of guanine
gynephobia
gynephobia
noun
Alternative form of gynophobia
handygripe
happenings
happenings
noun
plural of happening
headspring
headspring
noun
(gymnastics) A move in which the gymnast places both hands on the mat with the top of the head about 6 inches in front, pushes off with the hands while flipping the legs overhead, and lands on the feet.
A fountainhead; a source.
A spring that sits at the top of a mechanism, pushing the internal parts inward.
verb
(gymnastics) To perform a headspring.
hepatising
hepatising
verb
present participle of hepatise
hepatizing
hepatizing
verb
present participle of hepatize
heptagonal
heptagonal
adj
(mathematics, of a number) Belonging to the sequence generated by the formula (5n²-3n)/2.
Having seven angles and sides.
heptagynia
herpangina
herpangina
noun
(medicine) mouth blisters; a painful mouth infection caused by coxsackieviruses
impeaching
impeaching
verb
present participle of impeach
iphigeniah
lightplane
lightplane
noun
A small, lightweight aeroplane.
lineograph
megaphoned
megaphoned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of megaphone
megaphones
megaphones
noun
plural of megaphone
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of megaphone
megaphonic
megaphonic
adj
(of a sound) Produced by a megaphone
(of a voice) loud and echoey, as if produced by a megaphone
Of, or pertaining to, a megaphone
megaphyton
meliphagan
necrophaga
necrophagy
necrophagy
noun
The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh
neographic
neographic
adj
Of or relating to innovative forms of writing.
nephograph
nephograph
noun
A device for taking photographs of clouds.
nephralgia
nephralgia
noun
Neuralgia (i.e. pain) of the kidneys.
nephralgic
nephralgic
adj
Relating to nephralgia.
neurophagy
orphanages
orphanages
noun
plural of orphanage
pathogenic
pathogenic
adj
(music) Consisting of harsh, percussive, nonverbal sounds.
(pathology) Able to cause (harmful) disease.
perhalogen
phaenology
phagedaena
phagedaena
noun
Alternative form of phagedena
phagedenic
phagedenic
adj
Relating to phagedena.
phalangeal
phalangeal
adj
(anatomy) Relating to a phalange
Relating to a phalanx
noun
(anatomy) A phalange (bone of a finger or toe)
phalangean
phalangite
phalangite
noun
(historical) Specifically, a pikeman fighting in a Macedonian phalanx, armed with a two-handed pike and using a smaller shield than the hoplite's aspis.
(obsolete) A soldier belonging to a phalanx.
phanerogam
phanerogam
noun
(botany) Any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).
pharyngeal
pharyngeal
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the pharynx.
(phonetics) Articulated with the pharynx; a term usually describing a consonant which is articulated by the rear area of the tongue being raised to below the region between the uvula and the pharyngeal wall. The term cannot apply to a plosive or stop consonant.
noun
(phonetics) A sound that is articulated with the pharynx; ellipsis of pharyngeal consonant..
philogeant
phosphagen
phosphagen
noun
(biochemistry) Any of a class of energy storage compounds, chiefly found in muscular tissue in animals, allowing a high-energy phosphate pool to be maintained in a concentration range, which, if it all were ATP, would create problems due to the ATP consuming reactions in these tissues.
phrenogram
phryganeid
phryganeid
noun
(zoology) Any caddis fly belonging to the family Phryganeidae.
preachings
preachings
noun
plural of preaching
prehearing
prehearing
adj
Before a legal hearing.
preheating
preheating
verb
present participle of preheat
preshaping
preshaping
verb
present participle of preshape
presharing
prewashing
prewashing
verb
present participle of prewash
rangership
rangership
noun
The role or status of keeper of a forest or park.
renography
renography
noun
imaging of the kidney
rephrasing
rephrasing
noun
Something differently phrased.
verb
present participle of rephrase
scenograph
scenograph
noun
A perspective representation or general view of an object.
sharpening
sharpening
noun
(in the plural) The debris produced when a pencil is sharpened.
The act by which something is sharpened.
verb
present participle of sharpen
sphagnales
sphenogram
sphenogram
noun
A cuneiform character.
sphingidae
springhead
springhead
noun
(figuratively) A source.
A head or end-piece for a carriage-spring.
The source of a natural spring.
stenograph
stenograph
noun
A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.
A shorthand character.
A stenography machine.
verb
To write or report in stenographic characters.
tenography
tenography
noun
The diagnostic imaging of tendons.
upreaching
upreaching
verb
present participle of upreach
venography
venography
noun
(medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which an X-ray of the veins, a venogram, is taken after a special dye is injected into the bone marrow or veins.