An official responsible for maintaining order at the ancient Olympic Games.
anhydric
anhydric
adj
anhydrous
antarchy
apocryph
archcity
archegay
archways
archways
noun
plural of archway
archytas
arythmic
arythmic
adj
Alternative spelling of arrhythmic
autarchy
autarchy
noun
A condition of absolute power.
Alternative spelling of autarky (“national economic self-reliance”)
Autocracy (absolute rule by a single person).
Sovereignty or self-government (national political independence).
bachelry
bachelry
noun
(obsolete) The body of young aspirants for knighthood.
bitchery
bitchery
noun
Behavior considered typical of a bitch
botchery
botchery
noun
An act of botching.
Something botched; clumsy or careless workmanship.
brachysm
brachysm
noun
(botany) Unusually small size resulting from the shortening of internodes.
butchery
butchery
noun
(rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
(slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian.
A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
A meat market
The butchering of meat.
The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
camphory
camphory
adj
Smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor.
catchcry
catchcry
noun
A slogan, particularly one intended for mass repetition.
catheryn
catheryn
Proper noun
name, a rare nonstandard spelling variant of Catherine.
chaffery
chaffery
noun
(obsolete) traffic; bargaining; buying and selling
chairway
chambery
chambray
chambray
noun
A soft fabric woven with a white weft and coloured warp.
chancery
chancery
adv
(boxing) With the head of an antagonist under one's arm, so that one can pommel it with the other fist at will.
(figurative) In an awkward situation; wholly under the power of someone else.
noun
(boxing, slang) The position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm.
(historical) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.
(historical) In the Middle Ages, a government office that produced and notarized official documents.
(slang, archaic) Any awkward predicament.
(writing) Short for chancery hand.
In the United States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.
The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy.
The type of building that houses the offices and administration of a diocese; the offices of a diocese.
chapelry
chapelry
noun
The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large parish which has its own district chapel.
charlady
charlady
noun
(chiefly archaic or historical) A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation.
charleys
charleys
noun
plural of charley
charlyne
charpoys
charpoys
noun
plural of charpoy
chartley
chattery
chattery
adj
Tending to chatter
chayroot
cheapery
cheatery
cheatery
noun
(obsolete) Cheating; fraud.
checkery
cheerily
cheerily
adv
In a cheerful manner; with a cheery demeanour.
cheesery
cheesery
noun
(US) A bakery, cooking house, plant or other factory that specializes in making cheese.
chelydra
chelydre
chelydre
noun
(obsolete) A fetid water snake.
chemurgy
chemurgy
noun
(chemistry) a branch of applied chemistry that is concerned with preparing industrial products from agricultural raw materials.
cherilyn
chertsey
chertsey
Proper noun
A town in Surrey, England.
A town in New Zealand.
A municipality in Quebec, Canada.
cheverly
chevrony
chevrony
adj
Chevron-shaped, zigzag, especially (heraldry) chevronwise.
Having chevrons, especially (heraldry) charged with chevrons.
chiccory
chiccory
noun
Dated form of chicory.
chickery
chickory
chickory
noun
Alternative spelling of chicory
chiefery
chiefery
noun
(historical) An Irish head tax
A colonial administrative centre.
The form of government in which people are ruled by a chief.
The land ruled over by a chief; chieftainship.
The leaders or chiefs of a people, collectively.
The status or role of a chief; chieftainship.
chipyard
chipyard
noun
(US) A storage area for sawdust and small pieces of wood at a sawmill.
chirayta
chiromys
chironym
chirpily
chirpily
adv
In a chirpy way.
chirrupy
chirrupy
adj
making chirruping noises
chirurgy
chirurgy
noun
(archaic) surgery.
chivalry
chivalry
noun
(UK, law, historical) A tenure of lands by knightly service.
(now rare, historical) Cavalry; horsemen armed for battle.
(obsolete) The fact or condition of being a knight; knightly skill, prowess.
Courteous behaviour, especially that of men towards women.
Courtesy, respect and honourable conduct between opponents in wartime.
The ethical code of the knight prevalent in Medieval Europe, having such primary virtues as mercy towards the poor and oppressed, humility, honour, sacrifice, fear of God, faithfulness, courage and utmost graciousness and courtesy to ladies.
choirboy
choirboy
noun
(figurative) A piously innocent person.
A boy chorister.
chorally
chorally
adv
In a choral manner; as a choir.
choultry
choultry
noun
Alternative form of choltry
choyroot
chrisney
christly
christly
Adjective
Christlike
christye
chromyls
chromyls
noun
plural of chromyl
chronaxy
chronaxy
noun
Alternative form of chronaxie
chrysaor
chryseis
chryseis
Proper noun
Character of the book The Iliad.
chrysene
chrysene
noun
(organic chemistry) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, 1,2-benzphenanthrene, containing four fused benzene rings
chrysler
chrysler
Noun
An automobile of the make definition.
chrysome
chrysome
noun
Alternative form of chrisom
chrysopa
chrysops
chryssee
chrystal
chrystal
noun
Obsolete spelling of crystal
chrystel
chummery
chummery
noun
(India, historical) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj.
(South Asia) The shared home of a group of men who are unmarried or working at a distance from their families.
churchly
churchly
adj
Characteristic of a church; churchy.
Devoted to, or inclined to attach great importance to, the order and ritual of a particular section of the Christian church.
In accordance with ecclesiastical standards or ceremonies; appropriate for or befitting a church.
Pertaining to or relating to the church, its government, forms, or ceremonies; ecclesiastical.
churoyan
chyluria
chyluria
noun
A medical condition involving the presence of chyle in the urine.
cleruchy
cleruchy
noun
(historical, Ancient Greece) A form of Athenian colony in the time of Ancient Greece, under which the settlers or cleruchs retained their citizenship, and were assigned plots, or kleroi, of agricultural land, while the community remained a political dependency of Athens.
coryphee
coryphee
noun
Alternative form of coryphée
corythus
crayfish
crayfish
noun
(Australia) A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.
(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
(New England, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota) A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
(Singapore) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).
Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
verb
Alternative form of crawfish (to backpedal, desert, or withdraw)
to catch crayfish
craythur
craythur
noun
(Ireland) Alternative form of creature.
Whiskey.
crowshay
cutchery
cutchery
noun
A spice: kitchery.
Alternative spelling of cutcherry (administration office)
Alternative spelling of kedgeree (dish of fish, rice and eggs)
An Indian dish of rice boiled with split pulse, onions, eggs, butter, and condiments
cychreus
cyphered
cyphered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cypher
cytherea
decarchy
decarchy
noun
(politics) A government of ten people, especially (historical) various Greek councils of ten men
demarchy
demarchy
noun
Government by decision-makers who have been randomly selected by sortition (lot) from a pool of eligible citizens.
dihydric
dihydric
adj
(chemistry) Containing two hydroxyl functional groups.
dinarchy
dyarchic
dyarchic
adj
Alternative form of diarchic
dyschroa
endarchy
endarchy
noun
(botany) A vascular system in which development starts nearest the axis center and spreads outward.
A system in which decision-making is centralized.
erythric
erythric
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling erythrin.
eunuchry
eunuchry
noun
The state of being a eunuch.
eyereach
eyereach
noun
The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.
fetichry
filchery
finchery
finchery
noun
(historical) A structure into which finches are decoyed so that they can be caught in a net.
fitchery
flachery
frenchly
frenchly
Adjective
French.
Adverb
In the manner of the French or their language.
gunarchy
gunarchy
noun
Archaic form of gynarchy.
gynarchy
gynarchy
noun
(politics, countable) A government ruled by a woman or women.
(politics, uncountable) Government by a woman or women.
hardcopy
hardcopy
noun
Alternative form of hard copy
hatchery
hatchery
noun
A facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish or poultry.
hayracks
hayracks
noun
plural of hayrack
hayricks
hayricks
noun
plural of hayrick
hectorly
hectorly
adj
Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting.
heroicly
heroicly
adv
(archaic) In a heroic way; heroically.
hexarchy
hexarchy
noun
A group of six states.
heydrich
himyaric
himyaric
Adjective
Of or relating to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, or to his successors or people; applied especially to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic language.
hradcany
hydracid
hydracid
noun
(chemistry) An acid that does not contain any oxygen as opposed to an oxyacid; they are all binary compounds of hydrogen and a halogen or pseudohalogen.
hydrarch
hydremic
hydremic
adj
Relating to or exhibiting hydremia.
hydronic
hydronic
adj
Being or relating to a heating system that involves circulating hot water or steam.
hydropac
hydropic
hydropic
adj
(biology, of an egg) Having a yolk deficiency.
(obsolete) Insatiably thirsty (like someone with dropsy).
Dropsical; pertaining to or suffering from dropsy (edema).
Swollen with water; characterized by swelling and accumulation of fluid.
hydrotic
hydrotic
adj
Causing a discharge of water or phlegm.
noun
(medicine) A hydrotic medicine.
hypernic
hypernic
noun
The wood of a tropical tree Haematoxylon brasiletto (found in Nicaragua); a red dye extracted from it
hypocarp
hypocarp
noun
(botany) hypocarpium
hyraceum
hyraceum
noun
The petrified remains of hyrax urine and feces produced by the rock hyrax (“Cape hyrax”), Procavia capensis (“P. apensis”), typically found in the communal midden piles of hyrax colonies.
hyracina
hyracoid
hyracoid
adj
(zoology) Of or relating to the hyraxes (order Hyracoidea).
Displaying characteristics typical of hyraxes.
noun
An animal of the order Hyracoidea, i.e. a hyrax.
hyrcania
hysteric
hysteric
adj
(medicine) Hysterical; relating to hysteria.
noun
A hysterical person.
lachryma
lathyric
leechery
lynchers
lynchers
noun
plural of lyncher
mccarthy
mccarthy
Proper noun
of or origin.
minchery
monarchy
monarchy
noun
A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs.
A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).
States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.
The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
myriarch
myriarch
noun
(historical military) The commander of a Mongolian tomen.
(historical politics) The governor of a myriarchy in Mongolian Tibet.
navarchy
navarchy
noun
The office or state of a navarch
nomarchy
nomarchy
noun
nome
octarchy
octarchy
noun
A government of eight people.
A group of eight states.
ocyrrhoe
orphancy
orphancy
noun
The losing of both parents through their death.
orthocym
panarchy
panarchy
noun
(anarchism, rare) Rule by all; a system of governance in which each person has absolute power.
(poetic, rare) An all-encompassing realm.
(political science) An inclusive, multilateral system in which all parties may participate meaningfully.
(rare) Rule of all; absolute or total rule.
(systems theory) Dynamic symmetry across multiple scales.
The individual's right to choose any form of government without being forced to move from their current locale.
paparchy
paparchy
noun
Government by a pope; papal rule.
patchery
patchery
noun
(UK, India, military, historical) Living quarters for married soldiers.
Hypocrisy; trickery.
That which is thrown or sown together usually clumsily or with different color and textures, like patchwork.
peachery
peachery
noun
A hothouse in which peaches are grown.
petchary
pharmacy
pharmacy
noun
(countable) A place where prescription drugs are sold or dispensed.
(uncountable) The role or occupation of a pharmacist.
(uncountable) The science of medicinal substances, inclusive of pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry, and forensics.
phylarch
phylarch
noun
(historical) An Athenian hipparch, head of an Athenian clan in battle.
(historical) The ruler of a phyle in Ancient Greece.
A tribal chief, magistrate, or other local ruler.
pitchery
polyarch
polyarch
noun
(botany) A root that has many xylem bundles.
(rare) A state of many rulers, many leaders.
prophecy
prophecy
noun
A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.