(architecture) One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment, or upon the gables in Gothic architecture.
One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.
amatorious
amatorious
adj
(obsolete) amatory
ammoniuret
amurcosity
audiometer
audiometer
noun
An instrument which is used to determine the acuity of hearing.
audiometry
audiometry
noun
(medicine) The quantitative assessment of a person's hearing ability, especially by means of an audiometer.
auditorium
auditorium
noun
(in a theater, etc.) the space where the audience is located
a large room for public meetings or performances
autodermic
autometric
autometric
adj
(mathematics) Relating to an autometry
cafetorium
cafetorium
noun
A large room, usually in a school, used as both a cafeteria and an auditorium.
chromatium
clamourist
colatorium
cometarium
cometarium
noun
(astronomy) An instrument intended to represent the revolution of a comet around the Sun.
cronartium
curatorium
curatorium
noun
A board of curators or advisory board, in certain European institutions.
dracontium
dracontium
noun
(pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus
eupatorium
eupatorium
noun
(botany) Any of the genus Eupatorium of perennial herbs.
fieulamort
fruitwoman
fulminator
fulminator
noun
One who fulminates, or criticizes intensely
fumatories
fumatories
noun
plural of fumatory
fumatorium
fumatorium
noun
An airtight compartment in which vapour may be generated to destroy germs or insects; especially, the apparatus used to destroy San Jose scale on nursery stock, using hydrocyanic acid vapour.
fumattoria
fumigators
fumigators
noun
plural of fumigator
fumigatory
fumigatory
adj
Having the quality of purifying by smoke.
haustorium
haustorium
noun
A cellular structure, growing into or around another structure to absorb water or nutrients, such as a cotyledon.
A root of a parasitic plant modified to take nourishment from its host.
humiliator
humiliator
noun
One who humiliates.
humoralist
humoralist
noun
One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.
immuration
immuration
noun
A walling up or immuring.
impuration
impuration
noun
(obsolete) The act of making impure; defilement; obscuration.
informatus
irrumation
irrumation
noun
Vigorous oral sex; the active penetration of a mouth with a penis.
maturation
maturation
noun
(biology) The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism.
(medicine) The process of maturating, or suppurating fully.
The process of becoming mature.
modularity
modularity
noun
The property of being modular.
moratorium
moratorium
noun
(law) An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments.
A suspension of an ongoing activity.
mortacious
mortuarian
mortuaries
mortuaries
noun
plural of mortuary
morulation
morulation
noun
(biology) The cleavage or segmentation of the ovum by which a morula is formed.
mountainer
mountainer
noun
(obsolete) A person who lives in a mountainous area.
mousterian
mousterian
Adjective
Of or from Le Moustier
Characteristic of Paleolithic flint tools found in this region
multiflora
multiflora
noun
The hardy rose Rosa multiflora
multilobar
multilobar
adj
Consisting of, or having, many lobes.
multipolar
multipolar
adj
(physics, biology) Having more than two poles.
(politics) Of or relating to an international system in which a number of states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
noun
An electromagnetic machine in which several magnetic poles exist.
muratorian
muratorian
Adjective
relating to Italian historian Ludovico Antonio Muratori
mutilators
mutilators
noun
plural of mutilator
mutilatory
mutilatory
adj
Of or relating to mutilation.
nasutiform
natatorium
natatorium
noun
(US) A swimming pool, especially an indoor one; a building housing one or more swimming pools.
nominature
nominature
noun
(archaic) nomination
numeration
numeration
noun
Any system of giving names to numbers.
The act of counting or numbering; enumeration.
octavarium
osmaterium
osmaterium
noun
Alternative form of osmeterium
otocranium
outadmiral
outmarried
outmarried
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outmarry
outmiracle
outmiracle
verb
(transitive) To surpass in miraculousness.
oxymuriate
oxymuriate
noun
(obsolete) chlorate
paratomium
paratorium
pastoriums
praetorium
praetorium
noun
Alternative form of pretorium
puritandom
remutation
remutation
noun
mutation again, or back to a previous form
rheumatoid
rheumatoid
adj
Presenting analogies with rheumatism.
rumination
rumination
noun
(figuratively) Deep thought or consideration.
(pathology) An eating disorder characterized by repetitive regurgitation of small amounts of food from the stomach.
(psychology) Negative cyclic thinking; persistent and recurrent worrying or brooding.
The act of ruminating; i.e. chewing cud.
ruminators
ruminators
noun
plural of ruminator
sanatorium
sanatorium
noun
An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.
sanctorium
sanitorium
sanitorium
noun
Alternative spelling of sanatorium
simulators
simulators
noun
plural of simulator
simulatory
simulatory
adj
simulated, or capable of being simulated
stimulator
stimulator
noun
A person, device or substance that stimulates.
stramonium
stramonium
noun
A narcotic drug obtained from the dried leaves of this plant.
The jimsonweed plant
sublimator
sudatorium
sudatorium
noun
A hot room used to induce sweating, steam room, steam bath, sauna.
tabuliform
tabuliform
adj
table-shaped
tambourine
tambourine
noun
A kind of Provençal dance.
A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
A tambourine dove.
verb
To make a sound like a tambourine.
To play the tambourine.
tambouring
tambouring
verb
present participle of tambour
tambourins
tambourins
noun
plural of tambourin
tambourist
tambourist
noun
A musician who plays the tambour.
tautomeric
tautomeric
adj
(chemistry) Of, relating to, formed or characterized by tautomerism.
tourmaline
tourmaline
noun
(mineralogy) A complex black or dark-coloured borosilicate mineral, compounded with various chemical elements and considered a semi-precious stone.
A transparent gemstone cut from it.
tourmalite
tumacacori
turkomania
turkomanic
ultramicro
ultramicro
adj
ultramicroscopic
unaromatic
unaromatic
adj
not aromatic
unimmortal
unimmortal
adj
Not immortal.
unmoralist
unmorality
unmorality
noun
(rare) The condition of being unmoral; amorality.
unromantic
unromantic
adj
Not romantic
urohematin
uromantist
urosomatic
uteromania
uteromania
noun
(medicine, dated) nymphomania; insatiable sexual desire in females