A town in southeastern Massachusetts, south of Boston.
aborting
aborting
verb
present participle of abort
abrogate
abrogate
adj
(archaic) Abrogated; abolished.
verb
(molecular biology, transitive) To block a process or function.
(transitive) To put an end to; to do away with.
(transitive, law) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
adopting
adopting
verb
present participle of adopt
adrogate
adrogate
verb
(transitive, Ancient Rome, law, historical) To adopt (a person who is his own master).
aegrotat
aegrotat
noun
(Britain) An unclassified degree awarded to such a student.
(Britain, dated) A certificate indicating that a student is ill, excusing attendance at lectures and examinations and allowing courses to be passed without finishing the work.
aeolight
aethogen
aethogen
noun
(chemistry) A compound of nitrogen and boron which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride.
(historical) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Oliver Cromwell's time, to look after their interests.
An implement for shaking or mixing.
One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others, for example political reformers.
agitprop
agitprop
noun
(countable) An instance of such propaganda.
(countable) An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.
(uncountable, also attributively) Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, politics) To disseminate (something as) political propaganda, especially communist propaganda, through art, drama, literature, etc.
agnation
agnation
noun
(grammar) The property of being agnate.
consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation
agnition
agnition
noun
(obsolete) acknowledgement
agnoetae
agnoites
agnostic
agnostic
adj
(computing) Of a software component etc.: unaware or noncommittal regarding the specific nature of the components or input with which it interacts.
(usually with a prepositional phrase) Having no firmly held opinions on an issue or matter of uncertainty.
Doubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity.
Of or relating to agnosticism or its adherents.
noun
A person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity.
agnostus
agonista
agonists
agonists
noun
plural of agonist
agostini
agostino
agouties
agouties
noun
plural of agouty
agriotes
agrostis
agrostis
noun
Any grass of the genus Agrostis, bentgrass.
agrotera
agrotype
agrotype
noun
A type of soil used for agriculture
alagarto
algaroth
algaroth
noun
Alternative form of algarot
algorist
algorist
noun
One who develops algorithms.
One who uses arabic numerals to represent numbers and to perform calculations, as opposed to one who uses Roman numerals to represent numbers and an abacus to perform calculations.
The aspect of a biological organism that follows a systematic process to interpret perceptual data.
algovite
although
although
conj
But, except.
Though, even though, in spite of or despite the fact that: introducing a clause that expresses a concession.
anagnost
anagnost
noun
(now chiefly historical) Someone who reads aloud, especially who reads lessons, passages etc. during a church service.
angelito
angiport
angiport
noun
(obsolete) A narrow road passing between two houses or a row of houses, or an alley leading to a single house.
angleton
angleton
Proper noun
A city in Texas, USA
angstrom
angstrom
noun
(physics) A unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁰ meters (that is, one ten-billionth of a meter), approximately the size of an atom, and denoted by the symbol Å, used especially to measure the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation or distances between atoms.
antagony
antagony
noun
(obsolete) contest; opposition; antagonism
antalgol
antigone
antigone
Proper noun
the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who defies the king of Thebes, Creon, by burying her brother Polynices
antilogs
antilogs
noun
plural of antilog
antilogy
antilogy
noun
(rhetoric) A contradiction in related terms or ideas. Usually an inconsistency in syllogisms, of a person or group supposedly of one set of ideals.
antismog
antismog
adj
That counters the effects of smog.
That reduce the production of pollutants that cause smog.
aphthong
aphthong
noun
(phonology) A letter or combination of letters employed in spelling a word but not pronounced.
apothegm
apothegm
noun
A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
araguato
araguato
noun
A South American howler monkey, the ursine howler (Alouatta arctoidea).
arctogea
argentol
argenton
argonaut
argonaut
noun
An adventurer on a dangerous but rewarding quest.
Any of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae (of which only the genus Argonauta is not extinct).
arrogant
arrogant
adj
Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.
arrogate
arrogate
verb
(transitive, uncommon) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.
astogeny
astogeny
noun
Any morphological change in colonial zooids as the colony grows
astrolog
athrough
atmology
atmology
noun
The branch of science dealing with the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapour.
autogamy
autogamy
noun
Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.
Sologamy, marriage to oneself.
autogeny
autogeny
noun
spontaneous generation
autogiro
autogiro
noun
(aircraft) An aircraft in which lift is provided by unpowered rotating wings and thrust is provided by a conventional propeller.
autogram
autogram
noun
A sentence that describes itself, in the sense of providing an inventory of its own characters.
autogyro
autogyro
noun
Alternative spelling of autogiro
autology
autology
noun
(grammar) The property of a word or phrase which describes itself.
(more generally) The ability of a concept to apply to itself; self-reference.
The study of oneself.
autosign
autosign
verb
(computing, transitive) To sign (a cryptographic certificate) automatically.
avigator
avigator
noun
An aerial navigator.
balatong
bastogne
bergamot
bergamot
noun
A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair.
A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume.
A variety of pear.
A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
Mentha × piperita, nothosubspecies citrata, more commonly known as bergamot mint
Monarda didyma, also known as American bergamot or bee balm.
The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
The fruit from the bergamot tree
bettonga
bloating
bloating
noun
A bloated condition; distention.
verb
present participle of bloat
boasting
boasting
noun
The making of boasts.
verb
present participle of boast
boatings
boatings
noun
plural of boating
bogotana
bonaught
boothage
borating
borating
noun
treatment or reaction with a borate
bostangi
bostangi
noun
Alternative spelling of bostanji
botargos
bottegas
bragwort
broughta
burgamot
burgamot
noun
Archaic form of bergamot.
bushgoat
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.
cantdogs
cantdogs
noun
plural of cantdog
catalogs
catalogs
noun
plural of catalog
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of catalog
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.
catogene
chingtao
cigarito
clottage
coacting
coacting
verb
present participle of coact
coagents
coagents
noun
plural of coagent
coagment
coagment
verb
(obsolete) To join together.
coapting
coapting
verb
present participle of coapt
coasting
coasting
noun
The act of disengaging the gears of a moving vehicle and rolling along without the use of engine power.
The act of sailing along a coast, or from port to port.
verb
present participle of coast
coatings
coatings
noun
plural of coating
cogitant
cogitant
adj
(rare) thinking, that thinks
cogitate
cogitate
verb
(intransitive) To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
(transitive) To consider, to devise.
cognates
cognates
noun
plural of cognate
cognatic
cognatic
adj
Of or relating to a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor or ancestress through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where relations are traced through both father and mother.
cognatus
cognatus
noun
(law) A person connected through cognation.
congrats
congrats
intj
(informal) Clipping of congratulations.
contagia
contagia
noun
plural of contagium
contango
contango
noun
(obsolete, London Stock Exchange) Fee paid by a buyer to the seller on settlement day when the buyer wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
The amount by which prices for future delivery are higher than prices for near delivery.
The situation in a futures market where prices for future delivery are higher than prices for immediate (or nearer) delivery, indicating the expectation that the price of the underlying asset will go up.
verb
(obsolete, London Stock Exchange, transitive, intransitive) To charge (a buyer) a fee to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
costigan
cottaged
cottaged
adj
Filled with or having cottages.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cottage
cottager
cottager
noun
(Britain, slang) One who engages in sex in public lavatories; a practitioner of cottaging.
A person who has the tenure of a cottage, usually also the occupant.
cottages
cottages
noun
plural of cottage
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cottage
cottagey
cottagey
Adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a cottage.
courtage
cytogamy
cytogamy
noun
(biology) The self-fertilization of parameciums without exchange of DNA
derogate
derogate
adj
(archaic) debased
verb
(intransitive) To act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself.
(intransitive) To remove a part, to detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.).
(obsolete, transitive) To partially repeal (a law etc.).
(transitive) To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
(transitive, intransitive) To take away (something from something else) in a way which leaves it lessened.
dogcarts
dogcarts
noun
plural of dogcart
dogmatic
dogmatic
adj
(philosophy, medicine) Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.
Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
noun
One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; opposed to the empiric.
dogpatch
dogpatch
Proper noun
Any community inhabited by hillbillies.
dogplate
dogstail
dogstail
noun
A perennial grass, of the genus Cynosurus, that is grown for fodder
dogwatch
dogwatch
noun
(by extension) A night shift, or other very late or early period of duty.
(nautical) A very brief period of naval service.
(nautical) Aboard a ship, either of the two short two-hour watches that take place between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
donating
donating
verb
present participle of donate
downgate
dragboat
dragbolt
dragonet
dragonet
noun
A small dragon.
Any of the small perciform marine fish of the families Callionymidae and Draconettidae (slope dragonets) found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific, the family containing approximately 186 species in 18 genera.
ectoglia
edgarton
elongate
elongate
adj
Lengthened, extended, elongated; relatively long and slender.
verb
(intransitive) To become long or longer by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
(intransitive, obsolete) To depart to, or be at, a distance (from something); especially, to appear to recede from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
(transitive) To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
(transitive, obsolete) To move to or place at a distance (from something).
ergatoid
ergatoid
adj
(of ants) wingless, adult and reproductive
noun
Such an ant
ergostat
escargot
escargot
noun
(countable) A snail (often Helix pomatia) used in preparation of that dish.
(uncountable) A dish, commonly associated with French cuisine, consisting of edible snails.
estragol
estragon
estragon
noun
tarragon
faggoted
faggoted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of faggot
faggotry
faggotry
noun
(offensive, derogatory, slang) The stereotypical behaviours of a faggot (male homosexual) or homosexuality in general.
(offensive, slang) Contemptible actions in general.
fagoters
fagoters
noun
plural of fagoter
fagoting
fagoting
noun
A decoration of a fabric achieved by removing threads and tying others into bunches.
The joining of hemmed edges of fabric with crisscrossed threads.
verb
present participle of fagot
figurato
flagboat
flagonet
flagroot
flagroot
noun
sweet flag
flagtown
flatlong
flatlong
adv
With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
floatage
floatage
noun
Alternative form of flotage
floating
floating
adj
(linguistics, of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.
Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
That floats or float.
noun
(in the plural) Material that floats in a liquid.
(veterinary medicine) A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.
The motion of something that floats.
The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.
verb
present participle of float
flotages
flotages
noun
plural of flotage
fogeater
fontange
fontange
noun
A headdress popular among aristocrats in Europe in the late 17th century and early 18th century, made with pleated layers of starched lace and ribbon.
footages
footages
noun
plural of footage
footgear
footgear
noun
sturdy footwear
foregate
foregate
noun
A main entrance or front gate.
frontage
frontage
noun
Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.
The front part generally.
The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
The land between a property and the street.
The length of a property along a street.
frottage
frottage
noun
(countable, art) An image so made.
(uncountable, art) A method of making an image by placing a piece of paper against an object and then rubbing over it, usually with a pencil or charcoal.
(uncountable, sexology) The practice of rubbing parts of the body against those of another person for sexual stimulation.
verb
(sexology) To rub parts of the body against those of another person for sexual stimulation.
To rub, especially to rub onto one surface placed upon another surface that is textured, in order to create a mottled or patterned area on the first surface.
gadabout
gadabout
noun
A person who restlessly moves from place to place, seeking amusement or the companionship of others.