Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.
Sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
admixtures
admixtures
noun
plural of admixture
amateurish
amateurish
adj
Suggesting or reflecting the efforts of an amateur; not seeming professional or polished.
amateurism
amateurism
noun
Amateur beliefs and practices generally.
The opinion or conviction that sports ought not to be played for money.
amiantuses
amplitudes
amplitudes
noun
plural of amplitude
antimasque
antimasque
noun
A comic or grotesque dance presented before or between the acts of a masque.
antiserums
antiserums
noun
plural of antiserum
artemisium
artemisium
Proper noun
A cape north of Euboea, Greece.
assimulate
assimulate
verb
(obsolete) To assimilate.
(obsolete) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate.
assumptive
assumptive
adj
(heraldry, of arms, not comparable) Originally, being arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College.
Forward or presumptuous.
Held as true or valid without evidence.
autogamies
autogamies
noun
plural of autogamy
autonomies
autonomies
noun
plural of autonomy
autotelism
autotelism
noun
(art) In literature or art, the belief that a work, having been created, is a justification in and of itself. Poems with a unified rhetorical device to frame the poem in a singular idea.
The belief that an entity or event has within itself its own meaning or purpose.
autotheism
autotheism
noun
Belief that one is a deity.
Belief that one is possessed by a divine power.
The doctrine of the self-subsistence of God, especially of the second person in the Trinity.
Worship of oneself.
autotomies
autotomies
noun
plural of autotomy
autotomise
autotomise
verb
Alternative form of autotomize
baumeister
betacismus
bismuthate
bismuthate
noun
(inorganic chemistry) The anion BiO₃⁻ of pentavalent bismuth; any salt containing this anion
culminates
culminates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of culminate
dentaliums
designatum
designatum
noun
(semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
disaugment
emulations
emulations
noun
plural of emulation
emuscation
emuscation
noun
(obsolete, rare) The removal of moss.
enthusiasm
enthusiasm
noun
(obsolete or historical) Possession by a god; divine inspiration or frenzy.
Intensity of feeling; excited interest or eagerness.
Something in which one is keenly interested.
erimanthus
eustachium
fulminates
fulminates
noun
plural of fulminate
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fulminate
fumatories
fumatories
noun
plural of fumatory
guestimate
guestimate
noun
Alternative spelling of guesstimate
humanities
humanities
noun
(obsolete) Synonym of classical studies: the study of Ancient Greek and Latin, their literature, etc.
The study of language, literature, the arts, history, and philosophy, sometimes including religion.
plural of humanity
humiliates
humiliates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humiliate
insimulate
insimulate
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To accuse.
magnitudes
magnitudes
noun
plural of magnitude
majestious
manistique
marquisate
marquisate
noun
The state or rank of a marquis.
The territory held by a marquis, margrave or marchioness.
marsupiate
marsupiate
Noun
marsupial
massecuite
massecuite
noun
A suspension of sugar crystals in a mother liquor, after boiling of syrup; produced in a sugar factory.
maturities
maturities
noun
plural of maturity
maumetries
maupertuis
melanthius
melianthus
metacismus
miniatures
miniatures
noun
plural of miniature
misdateful
miseducate
miseducate
verb
To educate wrongly.
misfeature
misfeature
noun
An undesirable or incorrect feature.
misnatured
misnatured
adj
Of a bad or wrong nature; malformed.
mistakeful
mistakeful
adj
Full of mistakes.
mithraeums
mortuaries
mortuaries
noun
plural of mortuary
mousterian
mousterian
Adjective
Of or from Le Moustier
Characteristic of Paleolithic flint tools found in this region
multiphase
multiphase
adj
That generates, or employs, multiple alternating current supplies with the same voltage but different phase angles.
multistage
multistage
adj
(astronautics, of a rocket) Composed of multiple detachable parts.
Having more than one step or phase.
multistate
multistate
adj
Involving multiple states (in all senses)
murasakite
mustelidae
mutessarif
mutessarif
noun
Alternative spelling of mutasarrif
mutualised
mutualised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mutualise
neutralism
neutralism
noun
(biology) The neutral theory of molecular evolution, holding that, at the molecular level, most evolutionary changes and variation within and between species are caused not by natural selection but by genetic drift of mutant alleles that are neutral.
A political policy of nonalignment in a situation of conflict.
The state of being neutral; neutrality.
osmaterium
osmaterium
noun
Alternative form of osmeterium
pasteurism
pasteurism
Proper noun
The prevention of certain diseases by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.
pasteurisation
pediastrum
periastrum
pneumatics
pneumatics
noun
(theology, obsolete) The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and human beings.
The branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical properties of gases
pneumatism
pneumatism
noun
spiritualism centred on the belief in the pneuma
pneumatist
psalterium
psalterium
noun
A psaltery (zither-like musical instrument)
An omasum.
quizmaster
quizmaster
noun
A person who poses questions to contestants on a quiz show.
rheumatics
rheumatics
noun
(Britain, colloquial) Rheumatism.
plural of rheumatic
rheumatism
rheumatism
noun
(pathology) Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability.