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
bechignoned
bechignoned
adj
Wearing one's hair in a chignon.
bedclothing
bedclothing
noun
bedclothes
beshadowing
beshadowing
verb
present participle of beshadow
beshrouding
beshrouding
verb
present participle of beshroud
boltheading
borderlight
boroughwide
boroughwide
adj
Throughout a borough.
burgherhood
burgherhood
noun
The role or status of burgher.
chondrogeny
copygraphed
copygraphed
adj
Reproduced by the copygraph technique.
copyrighted
copyrighted
adj
(law) Covered by a copyright, not public domain.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of copyright
delightsome
delightsome
adj
Characterised or marked by delight; very pleasing; 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.
demolishing
demolishing
verb
present participle of demolish
demonograph
dendrograph
dendrograph
noun
An instrument for measuring the growth of trees.
depolishing
depolishing
verb
present participle of depolish
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
dichogamies
dihexagonal
dihexagonal
adj
Consisting of two hexagonal parts united.
Having twelve similar faces.
diphosgenes
diphthonged
dogcatchers
dogcatchers
noun
plural of dogcatcher
doggishness
doggishness
noun
The quality of being doggish.
doughtiness
doughtiness
noun
The quality of being doughty.
doxographer
doxographer
noun
A classical historian who describes the opinions of Ancient Greek philosophers and scientists.
dragonheads
dragonheads
noun
plural of dragonhead
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.
droughermen
droughtiest
droughtiest
adj
superlative form of droughty: most droughty
endognathal
endognathal
adj
(zoology) Pertaining to the endognath.
endophagous
endophagous
adj
(biology, of a parasite) That feeds from within the host organism
englishhood
enshrouding
enshrouding
noun
The process or situation of something being enshrouded; a covering.
verb
present participle of enshroud
fingerholds
fingerholds
noun
plural of fingerhold
foresighted
foresighted
adj
Having foresight; foreseeing; provident.
forgathered
forgathered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of forgather
freeholding
freeholding
noun
property held in freehold
frogmarched
frogmarched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch
geophilidae
globeholder
glochideous
glochidiate
glochidiate
adj
(botany) Having barbs
goatherdess
goatherdess
noun
A female goatherd.
godchildren
godchildren
noun
plural of godchild
goddaughter
goddaughter
noun
A female child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent.
goddesshood
goddesshood
noun
The state of being a goddess; goddess-ship.
goddessship
goddessship
noun
Rare spelling of goddess-ship
godfathered
godfathered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of godfather
godmothered
godmothered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of godmother
goldenmouth
goldfinches
goldfinches
noun
plural of goldfinch
goldthwaite
goldthwaite
Proper noun
a small city in Texas, USA
goodhearted
goodhearted
adj
kind, generous and altruistic
goodishness
goodishness
noun
The quality of being goodish.
grandmother
grandmother
noun
A female ancestor or progenitor.
A mother of someone's parent.
grooverhead
groundsheet
groundsheet
noun
A sheet of waterproof material that is spread on the ground, often beneath a tent, and upon which a person may sit or sleep.
guardhouses
guardhouses
noun
plural of guardhouse
gudebrother
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
headborough
headborough
noun
(historical, law) Synonym of tithingman: a peace officer or underconstable.
(historical, law) Synonym of tithingman: the head of a tithing.
headworking
hedgehopped
hedgehopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hedgehop
hedgehopper
hedgehopper
noun
An aircraft that hedgehops.
hemorrhaged
hemorrhaged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hemorrhage
herrgrdsost
hobbledygee
hodgenville
hodgepodges
hodgepodges
noun
plural of hodgepodge
holographed
holographed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of holograph
homogenised
homogenised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of homogenise
homogenized
homogenized
adj
Having been made homogenous, said especially of milk (which when homogenized no longer separates into cream and skim milk).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of homogenize
homologated
homologated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of homologate
homologised
homologised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of homologise
homologized
homologized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of homologize
honeyguides
honeyguides
noun
plural of honeyguide
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
hydrogenide
hydrogenide
noun
(chemistry, archaic) A hydride.
hydrogenise
hydrogenise
verb
(transitive, British spelling, dated) Alternative spelling of hydrogenize
hydrogenium
hydrogenium
noun
(obsolete, chemistry) Hydrogen, especially when formerly considered as a metal.
hydrogenize
hydrogenize
verb
(transitive, chemistry, dated) to hydrogenate
hydrogenous
hydrogenous
adj
of, related to, or containing hydrogen
hydroglider
hydroglider
noun
A kind of boat driven by an air propeller.
hydrologies
hydrologies
noun
plural of hydrology
ideographic
ideographic
adj
Pertaining to an ideograph or ideography.
lightfooted
lightfooted
adj
Alternative form of light-footed
loggerheads
loggerheads
noun
(dialect) The knapweed.
Fisticuffs; fighting.
plural of loggerhead
longmouthed
longsighted
longsighted
adj
Alternative spelling of long-sighted
megatheroid
megatheroid
noun
(paleontology) One of a family of extinct edentates found in America, including the megatherium and the megalonyx, among others.
methodising
methodising
verb
present participle of methodise
methodizing
methodizing
verb
present participle of methodize
methodology
methodology
noun
(loosely) A collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field.
(originally sciences) The study of methods used in a field.
The implementation of such methods etc.
monographed
monographed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of monograph
moonlighted
moonlighted
adj
Illuminated by moonlight.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of moonlight
neighboured
neighboured
noun
(obsolete) The state or condition of being a neighbour; neighbourhood; neighbourship.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of neighbour
nonadhering
nonadhering
adj
Not adhering
nonshedding
nonshedding
adj
Alternative form of non-shedding
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
overholding
overholding
verb
present participle of overhold
overlighted
overnighted
overnighted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overnight
overshading
overshading
verb
present participle of overshade
overweighed
overweighed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overweigh
oxyhydrogen
oxyhydrogen
adj
Of, or using a mixture of, hydrogen and oxygen.
noun
(chemistry) A potentially explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen
pedagoguish
phagedenous
phagedenous
adj
(medicine) phagedenic
phlegmonoid
phlegmonoid
adj
Resembling a phlegmon.
phrenogrady
phryganeoid
pigeonholed
pigeonholed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pigeonhole
polygraphed
polygraphed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of polygraph
pregirlhood
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.
rebeholding
rhagionidae
roughfooted
roughhoused
roughhoused
verb
simple past tense and past participle of roughhouse
roughnecked
roughnecked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of roughneck
roughriders
roughriders
noun
plural of roughrider
roughtailed
schrodinger
shinglewood
shoebinding
shouldering
shouldering
noun
(architecture) The process of bracing a load with a jutting structural member such as a corbel or bracket.
A flanged portion of something, similar to a lip but occurring on the side rather than the rim.
The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder.
The rounding and raising of the top edges of slate tiles.
verb
present participle of shoulder
southbridge
southbridge
noun
(computing, electronics) A secondary microchip connected to the CPU only through the northbridge.
spotlighted
spotlighted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of spotlight
theologised
theologised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of theologise
theologized
theologized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of theologize
throughbred
typographed
typographed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of typograph
unbeholding
unbeholding
adj
(poetic, rare) That does not behold.
underbought
underbought
verb
simple past tense and past participle of underbuy
undergrowth
undergrowth
noun
The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes).
unroughened
unroughened
Adjective
Not roughened.
unthoughted
unthoughted
adj
(US, dialect) Not thought out in advance; spontaneous.
verdugoship
videography
videography
noun
The art and technology of producing moving (video) images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
The list of music videos a singer has appeared or sung in.
The occupation of making videos.
villagehood
villagehood
noun
The people and culture of a village.
The state of being a village.
watchdogged
watchdogged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of watchdog
whangdoodle
whangdoodle
noun
(obsolete) Term of disparagement
(often humorous) A whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction; a bugbear.
(poker) A ruling in which the opening stake limits are doubled for the next play after the appearance of a very good hand.
wrongheaded
wrongheaded
adj
Having an obstinately (persistently, stubbornly) perverse/erroneous opinion or judgement.
xylographed
xylographed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of xylograph