Any of the many beetles of the family Buprestidae, which in the larval stage are destructive wood borers and as adults are often brightly coloured.
buprestis
buttercup
buttercup
noun
Affectionate or ironic term of address.
Any flower of the genus Narcissus; a daffodil.
Any of many herbs, of the genus Ranunculus, having yellow flowers; the crowfoot.
capablest
capablest
adj
(nonstandard) superlative form of capable: most capable
caperbush
caperbush
noun
Alternative form of caper bush
carpetbag
carpetbag
adj
(chiefly US) Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers.
noun
A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century.
verb
(chiefly US) To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
carpetweb
chippable
chippable
adj
Capable of being removed by chipping.
clapbread
clapbread
noun
clapcake
clippable
clippable
Adjective
Capable of being clipped.
comptible
comptible
adj
(obsolete) accountable; responsible
(obsolete) sensitive
copulable
copulable
adj
Able to be sexually penetrated.
crabapple
crabapple
noun
An unpleasant person; a person who is crabby.
Any of the wild species of apple tree, genus Malus, which generally yield small, bitter fruit (in comparison to domestic apples, Malus domestica).
cryoprobe
cryoprobe
noun
(surgery) An instrument used to apply extreme cold to a tissue as part of cryosurgery.
cupbearer
cupbearer
noun
(chiefly historical) One who ceremonially fills and hands out the cups in which a drink is served.
cynophobe
cynophobe
noun
A person with cynophobia.
deiphobus
demophobe
deposable
deposable
adj
Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
deputable
deputable
adj
Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy.
drapeable
drapeable
adj
Able to be draped.
dropberry
ecophobia
ecophobia
noun
A feeling of powerlessness to prevent cataclysmic environmental change, apocalypse, etc.
Fear of one’s home.
embaphium
emptiable
emptiable
adj
Capable of being emptied.
ephebeion
ephebeion
noun
(historical) A room for young men in an Ancient Greek gymnasium.
epibiotic
epibiotic
adj
Living on the surface of another organism.
epiblasts
epiblasts
noun
plural of epiblast
epibolies
epibolies
noun
plural of epiboly
epibolism
epilabrum
epilobium
epilobium
noun
Any plant of the genus Epilobium.
eruptible
eruptible
adj
Able to be erupted.
escapable
escapable
adj
Able to be escaped or run from
Not needed or necessary
euphorbia
euphorbia
noun
Any plant of the genus Euphorbia, the spurges.
euphorbus
excepable
expetible
expetible
adj
(obsolete) Worthy of being wished for; desirable.
expirable
expirable
adj
That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.
exponible
exponible
adj
Able to be, or requiring to be, explained.
exposable
exposable
adj
Capable of being exposed.
exprobate
exprobate
verb
Obsolete form of exprobrate.
flappable
flappable
adj
(informal) Capable of becoming flustered or upset.
graspable
graspable
adj
Able to be grasped
Able to be understood or comprehended; understandable
groupable
groupable
adj
(sciences, by extension from the basic sense) Compatible mathematically or (more generally) scientifically.
Capable of being grouped together.
hephzibah
hephzibah
Proper noun
name of Biblical origin. Used by Puritans in the 17th and 18th century, but rare today.
A town in Richmond County, Georgia, United States
hyperbata
hyperbola
hyperbola
noun
(geometry) A conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane that intersects the base of the cone and is not tangent to the cone. The function y(x) = 1/x draws a hyperbola.
hyperbole
hyperbole
noun
(countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
(countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.
(uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
hypercube
hypercube
noun
(computing) A computer architecture in which each processor is connected to n others, by analogy with a hypercube of n dimensions.
(computing) A data cube with more than three dimensions.
(geometry) A geometric figure in four or more dimensions, which is analogous to a cube in three dimensions. Specifically, the n-dimensional equivalent of a cube for any non-negative integer n.
(geometry) Such a figure in four dimensions; a tesseract.
hypnobate
hypobases
ibuprofen
ibuprofen
noun
(pharmacology) A synthetic compound used widely as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug.
verb
(rare) To treat with ibuprofen; to administer ibuprofen to.
impacable
impacable
adj
(obsolete) Not to be appeased or quieted.
impatible
impatible
Adjective
Impassible.
impayable
impedible
impedible
adj
Capable of being impeded or hindered.
impliable
impliable
adj
(archaic) not pliable; inflexible; unyielding
Capable of being implied.
imposable
imposable
adj
Capable of being imposed or laid on.
impotable
impotable
adj
(rare) not drinkable
improbate
improbate
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To disallow.
(obsolete, transitive) To disapprove of.
impuberal
impuberal
adj
(rare) Immature; not having come to puberty.
impuberty
impuberty
noun
The condition of not having reached puberty.
impunible
imputable
imputable
adj
(law) Accusable; culpable; chargeable with fault.
That may be imputed
incapable
incapable
adj
Not capable (of doing something); unable.
Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit.
noun
(dated) One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.
koopbrief
maplebush
neophobia
neophobia
noun
The fear or hatred of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.
neophobic
neophobic
adj
Afflicted by neophobia; fearing or disliking what is new
noun
(psychology) A person or animal that fears or dislikes new or novel experiences or food.
nonpueblo
nonpueblo
adj
Not belonging or relating to a pueblo.
noun
A community or location that is not a pueblo.
obreption
obreption
noun
(obsolete) The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise.
(obsolete, Scotland, law) Act of obtaining gifts of escheat by fraud or surprise.
obstipate
obstipate
verb
(medicine) To induce severe constipation through an intestinal blockage
(rare) To become or cause to become blocked up
obstupefy
obstupefy
verb
(obsolete) To stupefy.
occupable
occupable
adj
Alternative form of occupiable
operabily
opposable
opposable
adj
Capable of being placed opposite something else.
Susceptible to being opposed or resisted.
overplumb
paceboard
paceboard
noun
(medicine) A board marked with symbols, used to help a person with multiple sclerosis to time their speaking so as to be clearly intelligible.
Obsolete form of pasteboard.
pachelbel
paderborn
paintable
paintable
adj
Able or suitable to be painted (rendered by an artist in paint).
That can be painted; to which a coating of paint can be applied.
palatable
palatable
adj
(figurative) Tolerable, acceptable.
Pleasing to the taste, tasty.
palebelly
palembang
palembang
Proper noun
A city in Indonesia, located on South Sumatra.
palpebrae
palpebrae
noun
plural of palpebra
palpebral
palpebral
adj
(anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or located on or near the eyelids.
noun
(zootomy) A dermal bone found near the eye socket of some animals.
paperback
paperback
adj
(of a book) Having flexible binding.
noun
A book with flexible binding.
verb
(transitive, publishing) To issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition.
paperbark
paperbark
noun
Any of several Australian plants, of the genus Melaleuca, that have flaky bark
paperboys
paperboys
noun
plural of paperboy
parabases
parabases
noun
plural of parabasis
parabrake
parabrake
noun
Synonym of drag parachute
paraebius
parboiled
parboiled
adj
partially boiled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of parboil
parbuckle
parbuckle
noun
A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened aloft, and both ends of the rope are looped under, then over the cylinder and looped back towards the attachment point. The object rests in the loops, and rolls upward in them as the rope ends are hauled up, or downward when the ends are payed out.
verb
To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle
parchable
pardubice
parolable
parolable
adj
Eligible for parole.
parriable
passersby
passersby
noun
plural of passerby
patballer
patballer
noun
One who plays patball.
patchable
patchable
adj
Able to be patched into an electrical circuit or system.
Able to be repaired; mendable.
peaceable
peaceable
adj
Characterized by peace; peaceful, tranquil.
Favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc.).
peaceably
peaceably
adv
In a peaceable manner.
peachblow
peachblow
adj
(ceramics) Of a delicate purplish-pink colour suggesting peach blooms; applied especially to a style of Chinese porcelain.
pearlbird
pearlbush
pebbliest
pebbliest
adj
superlative form of pebbly: most pebbly
pebrinous
pebrinous
adj
Having the disease called pébrine.
pedotribe
peekaboos
peekaboos
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peekaboo
pegboards
pegboards
noun
plural of pegboard
pelobates
pelobatid
pelobatid
noun
(zoology) Any member of the family Pelobatidae of spadefoot toads.
pemberton
pemberton
Proper noun
A village in British Columbia, Canada
A suburb of Wigan, England
A city in Minnesota
A borough in New Jersey
An unincorporated community in Ohio
A town in Western Australia
pennsboro
pennsburg
pennybird
penobscot
penobscot
Proper noun
A Native American nation or tribe.
An extinct Abenaki (Algonquian) language, spoken in parts of the northeastern United States and in Quebec, related to Western Abenaki.
A town in Hancock County, Maine, USA.
Noun
One of a sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeastern United States, particularly Maine.
penumbrae
penumbrae
noun
plural of penumbra
penumbral
penumbral
adj
Of, or pertaining to, the penumbra.
penumbras
pepperbox
pepperbox
noun
(architecture) A tower capped by a cupola, looking similar to a giant pepper shaker.
(architecture, slang, chiefly in the plural) Any of the buildings of the Royal Academy and National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, having cupolas on the roof.
(firearms) A repeating firearm with three or more barrels grouped around a central axis.
A buttress at one side of the court in the game of fives.
A pepper shaker.
pequabuck
perborate
perborate
noun
(inorganic chemistry) Any salt, derived from borate and hydrogen peroxide, of the hypothetical perboric acid
perchable
perchable
adj
Suitable for perching upon.
perflable
perflable
adj
(obsolete) Capable of being blown through; permeable to air currents.
periblast
periblast
noun
(biology) The protoplasmic matter which surrounds the entoblast, or cell nucleus, and undergoes segmentation.
periblems
periblems
noun
plural of periblem
periboloi
periboloi
noun
plural of peribolos
peribolos
peribolos
noun
(architecture, historical) An enclosed court, especially one surrounding a temple.
peribolus
peribolus
noun
Alternative form of peribolos
perilobar
perilobar
adj
(anatomy) Around a lobe.
periorbit
periorbit
adj
Alternative form of periorbital
permeable
permeable
adj
absorbing or allowing the passage of fluids
permeably
permeably
adv
In a permeable manner.
perscribe
perturbed
perturbed
adj
(mathematics) Slightly modified.
Disturbed; flustered.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of perturb
perturber
perturber
noun
(physics) A source of perturbation.
One who or that which perturbs.
perusable
perusable
adj
Capable of being perused.
perviable
peterboro
petrobium
pettibone
philabegs
philabegs
noun
plural of philabeg
philibegs
philibegs
noun
plural of philibeg
philibert
phlebitic
phlebitic
adj
Of or pertaining to phlebitis.
phlebitis
phlebitis
noun
(pathology) Inflammation of a vein, usually in the legs.
phototube
phototube
noun
A gas-filled electron tube that has a photosensitive cathode.