(music, obsolete) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
(obsolete) The ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapilla.
Any bird of the Eurasian genus Prunella, such as the dunnock.
acceptor
acceptor
noun
(biochemistry) A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
(chemistry) An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
(computing theory) A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.
(law, commerce) One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
(physics) A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
(physiology) A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
One who accepts.
accolent
accolent
adj
Occurring or living next to; neighboring; adjacent.
noun
One who lives nearby; neighbor.
accosted
accosted
adj
(heraldry) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accost
accouter
accouter
verb
(transitive) To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service
accoutre
accoutre
verb
(Commonwealth) Alternative form of accouter
acestoma
acetones
acetones
noun
plural of acetone
acetonic
acetonic
adj
(organic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or producing acetone
acetonyl
acetonyl
noun
(organic chemistry) The univalent radical CH₃-CO-CH₂- formally derived from acetone
acetoxim
acetoxyl
acetoxyl
noun
(organic chemistry) The acetate group, CH₃COO-, when viewed as a substituent
achiotes
achiotes
noun
plural of achiote
achroite
achroite
noun
(mineralogy) A colourless form of tourmaline
acoemeti
acolytes
acolytes
noun
plural of acolyte
aconites
aconites
noun
plural of aconite
acounter
actioner
actioner
noun
(informal) An action movie.
actiones
advocate
advocate
noun
A person who speaks in support of something, or someone.
A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
verb
(Scotland, law) To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.
(Scotland, law, in higher courts) To call a case before itself for decision.
(intransitive, with for) To engage in advocacy.
(transitive) To encourage support for something.
(transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
aerocyst
aerocyst
noun
An air vesicle.
aeroduct
aeroduct
noun
A proposed form of ramjet that harnesses charged particles in the upper atmosphere
affector
affector
noun
A nerve cell that directly activates a muscle
alcithoe
alcohate
alcohate
Noun
alcoholate
alcotate
allocate
allocate
verb
(computing) To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.
To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.
To set aside for a purpose.
allocute
allocute
verb
(chiefly US, law) To make an allocution.
ameiotic
ameiotic
adj
(biology) Not undergoing meiosis; relating to ameiosis
ammocete
ammocete
noun
Alternative form of ammocoete
ancestor
ancestor
noun
(figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.
(law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
(linguistics) A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.
An earlier type; a progenitor
One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.
verb
(transitive) To be an ancestor of.
anchoret
anchoret
noun
Alternative spelling of anchorite
anecdota
anecdota
noun
plural of anecdoton
plural of anecdotum
anecdote
anecdote
noun
A previously untold secret account of an incident.
A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.
An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To tell anecdotes (about).
anerotic
anoretic
anoretic
adj
Alternative form of anorexic
apectomy
aporetic
aporetic
adj
Tending to doubt.
apothece
araeotic
archetto
archpoet
arctogea
arrector
arrector
noun
Synonym of erector
atcheson
attercop
attercop
noun
(dialectal, Northern England) A peevish or ill-natured person.
(dialectal, Northern England) A spider.
autocade
autocade
noun
motorcade
autocide
autocide
noun
(agriculture) Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males.
(bacteriology) A substance produced by a bacterium that is fatal to that bacterium.
(obsolete, rare) A suicidal person.
An act of killing someone with an automobile.
An act of suicide committed by crashing a car.
autoecic
auxocyte
azotemic
azotemic
adj
Of or pertaining to azotemia.
balconet
balconet
noun
Alternative form of balconette (“small balcony”)
basecoat
basecoat
noun
The undermost coat of paint, etc., over which subsequent layers can be applied.
basocyte
bearcoot
beblotch
beclothe
beclothe
verb
(archaic, transitive) To clothe, to put clothes on someone or something.
becometh
becometh
verb
(archaic) third-person singular simple present form of become
bedoctor
bedoctor
verb
(transitive) To address as 'doctor'.
(transitive) To care for in the manner of a doctor.
(transitive) To confer a doctoral degree upon.
bedstock
bedstock
noun
(obsolete) The front or back part of the frame of a bedstead.
belcourt
betocsin
betonica
betorcin
bioethic
bioethic
noun
A principle or system of bioethics.
biotechs
biotechs
noun
plural of biotech
bisector
bisector
noun
(geometry) A line or curve that bisects or divides a line segment, angle, or other figure into two equal parts.
bivector
bivector
noun
(mathematics) An antisymmetric tensor of second rank.
blotched
blotched
adj
Covered in blotches (“uneven patches of colour or discolouration”).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blotch
blotches
blotches
noun
plural of blotch
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blotch
bluecoat
bluecoat
noun
(Britain) A traditional dress code at certain prestigious British schools
(US history) A soldier or officer in the Union army during the American Civil War
(dated) A policeman
boarcite
bockeret
bootlace
bootlace
noun
A long lace for fastening boots.
A long, thin, chewy confectionery, typically with liquorice or fruit flavour.
boracite
boracite
noun
(mineralogy) A mixed chloride and borate of magnesium that occurs as a white to green crystalline evaporite, with the chemical formula Mg₃B₇O₁₃Cl.
borchert
botchers
botchers
noun
plural of botcher
botchery
botchery
noun
An act of botching.
Something botched; clumsy or careless workmanship.
botchier
botchier
adj
comparative form of botchy: more botchy
brocatel
brocatel
noun
A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.
A kind of marble, clouded and veined with white, grey, red, and especially yellow; Siena marble.
brockets
brockets
noun
plural of brocket
brotchen
bruceton
bunceton
cabestro
cabestro
noun
A trained steer used in bullfighting.
cabotage
cabotage
noun
(law) The right to engage in such transport.
The exclusive right of a country to control such transport.
The transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country.
cabresto
cabresto
noun
A halter (headpiece for animal).
cachepot
cachepot
noun
An ornamental container for a flowerpot.
cacothes
cacotype
calorite
calottes
calottes
noun
plural of calotte
calotype
calotype
noun
A talbotype
camalote
camstone
camstone
noun
A kind of clay used to whiten doorsteps, etc.
candiote
canisteo
canoeist
canoeist
noun
A person who travels by canoe.
canotier
cantoned
cantoned
adj
(architecture) Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting mouldings or small columns.
(heraldry) Having a charge in each of the four corners; said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of canton
cantoner
cantoner
noun
An inhabitant of a canton.
canzonet
canzonet
noun
A short song, now especially one which is light and breezy.
capetown
capretto
capretto
noun
meat from a kid, or young goat
capriote
caproate
caproate
noun
(organic chemistry) A hexanoate.
capstone
capstone
noun
(figurative) A crowning achievement, culmination or finishing touch.
Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.
verb
(transitive) To complete as a crowning achievement; to top off.
(transitive, US, military, informal) To train in the Capstone Military Leadership Program.
caquetio
carenton
caretook
caretook
verb
simple past tense of caretake
carleton
carleton
Proper noun
An English surname,
caroteel
caroteel
noun
A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs..
carotene
carotene
noun
(organic chemistry) A class of tetraterpene plant pigments; they vary in colour from yellow, through orange to red, this colour originating in a chain of alternating single and double bonds.
(organic chemistry) Specifically, a number of isomers of tetraterpene hydrocarbons, C₄₀H₅₆, (especially beta-carotene), present in carrots etc, which are converted into vitamin A in the liver.
carreton
carroter
carroter
noun
One who carries out the carroting process upon animal pelts.
carstone
carstone
noun
(geology) A form of sandstone from the Cretaceous age used as a building stone
cartbote
cartbote
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.
cartoned
cartoned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of carton
cartoner
cartoner
noun
A machine that packs products into cartons.
castores
cataloes
cataloes
noun
plural of catalo
catechol
catechol
noun
(organic chemistry) The biologically important diphenol ortho-dihydroxy benzene; isomeric with hydroquinone and resorcinol.
category
category
noun
(mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
catenoid
catenoid
noun
(geometry) A three-dimensional surface formed by rotation of a catenary
cathodes
cathodes
noun
plural of cathode
cathouse
cathouse
noun
(US, slang) A brothel.
(literally) Any small house, structure or fold used to house a cat.
catogene
catstone
caveator
caveator
noun
One who enters a caveat.
cavetown
cavettos
caviteno
cavorted
cavorted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cavort
cavorter
cavorter
noun
One who cavorts.
cecilton
cecilton
Proper noun
A town in Maryland.
cecotomy
celation
cellocut
celloist
celloist
noun
(rare) Synonym of cellist
celomata
celotomy
celotomy
noun
(medicine) The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia.
cementon
cenation
cenatory
cenatory
adj
Of or relating to dinner (the evening meal) or supper.
cenobite
cenobite
noun
(fiction) A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.
A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.
A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
cenosite
cenosite
noun
(mineralogy) A hydrated carbonate / silicate of rare earth elements and calcium present in Scandinavia
cenosity
cenotaph
cenotaph
noun
A monument, generally in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere, especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.
centavos
centavos
noun
plural of centavo
centimos
centimos
noun
plural of centimo
centones
centones
noun
plural of cento
centonze
centrode
centrode
noun
The path traced by the instantaneous rotational centre of a plane figure when it undergoes motion in a plane
centroid
centroid
noun
(geometry, physics, engineering, of an object or a geometrical figure) The point at which gravitational force (or other universally and uniformly acting force) may be supposed to act on a given rigid, uniformly dense body; the centre of gravity or centre of mass.
(geometry, specifically, of a triangle) The point of intersection of the three medians of a given triangle; the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of the three vertices.
(graph theory, of a tree) Given a tree of n nodes, either (1) a unique node whose removal would split the tree into subtrees of fewer than n/2 nodes, or (2) either of a pair of adjacent nodes such that removal of the edge connecting them would split the tree into two subtrees of exactly n/2 nodes.
(mathematical analysis, of a function) An analogue of the centre of gravity of a nonuniform body in which local density is replaced by a specified function (which can take negative values) and the place of the body's shape is taken by the function's domain.
(of a finite set of points) the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of a given finite set of points.
(statistics, cluster analysis, of a cluster of points) the arithmetic mean (alternatively, median) position of a cluster of points in a coordinate system based on some application-dependent measure of distance.