(botany) A moss or similar plant with cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.
anoscope
anoscope
noun
The instrument used in anoscopy.
antelope
antelope
noun
(US) The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
(archaic, mythology) A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.
Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
antepone
anteport
anteport
noun
An outer port, gate, or door.
antilope
antipode
antipode
noun
Something directly opposite or diametrically opposed.
antipole
antipole
noun
(geography) The opposite pole.
(geometry) A position directly opposite (possibly also used figuratively).
antipope
antipope
noun
(Christianity) A person who claims or claimed to be the pope, usually as the result of a disputed election or deposition, but is not considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the real pope.
apertion
apertion
noun
(archaic) An opening; an aperture.
(archaic) The act of opening.
aphelion
aphelion
noun
(astronomy) The point in the elliptical orbit of a planet, comet, etc., where it is farthest from the Sun.
apocrine
apocrine
adj
(anatomy, biology, histology) Of or pertaining to an apocrine gland or to its mode of secretion, which involves the budding of portions of the secreting cells.
apolline
apolunes
apolunes
noun
plural of apolune
appleton
appleton
Proper noun
Place names in England, named for an apple enclosure.
a village in Oxfordshire. Originally in Berkshire.
a suburb of Warrington, Cheshire.
A town in Maine.
A city in Minnesota.
A town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
A city in Wisconsin
from either of the places.
appointe
aproneer
aproneer
noun
(obsolete, derogatory) A shopkeeper.
atropine
atropine
noun
(toxicology, pharmacology) An alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other sources, such as the seeds of the thorn-apple. Though overdoses would be fatal it is used as a drug in medicine for its paralytic effects (e.g. in surgery to relax muscles, in dentistry to dry the mouth, in ophthalmology to dilate the pupils).
autompne
beanpole
beanpole
noun
(informal) A tall, thin person.
A thin pole for supporting bean vines.
belmopan
bespoken
bespoken
adj
(obsolete) betrothed or engaged to be married (compare with: spoken for)
verb
past participle of bespeak
biphenol
biphenol
noun
(organic chemistry) Any compound that has two phenolic hydroxy groups; such a phenolic derivative of biphenyl
bonspell
bonspell
noun
Alternative form of bonspiel
bonspiel
bonspiel
noun
A tournament in the sport of curling.
canephor
canopied
canopied
adj
covered overhead with (or as if with) a canopy.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of canopy
canopies
canopies
noun
plural of canopy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canopy
capetown
caponier
caponier
noun
(military, historical) A type of fortification structure which allows firing along the bottom of a dry moat that surrounds the main fortress.
caponise
caponise
verb
Alternative form of caponize
caponize
caponize
verb
(transitive) To castrate (a cockerel) in order to fatten it for table use.
capstone
capstone
noun
(figurative) A crowning achievement, culmination or finishing touch.
Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.
verb
(transitive) To complete as a crowning achievement; to top off.
(transitive, US, military, informal) To train in the Capstone Military Leadership Program.
caupones
cawnpore
cenotaph
cenotaph
noun
A monument, generally in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere, especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.
cephalon
cephalon
noun
(zoology) The head of a trilobite.
chaperno
chaperon
chaperon
noun
A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
A type of hood, often ornamental or official, with an attached cape and a tail, later worn as a hat with the face hole put over the top of the head instead.
An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
verb
To accompany; to escort.
To mother.
chenopod
chenopod
noun
Any member of the subfamily Chenopodioideae, (the main part of the sometime family Chenopodiaceae); the goosefoots
chopines
chopines
noun
plural of chopine
coexpand
coexpand
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To expand together; to (cause to) undergo coexpansion.
compends
compends
noun
plural of compend
compense
compense
verb
(obsolete) To compensate.
compinge
compinge
verb
(obsolete) To compress; to shut up.
compline
compline
noun
(Christianity) The last of the canonical hours, sung just before retiring to bed.
componed
comprend
comptean
concepci
concepts
concepts
noun
plural of concept
conepate
conepate
noun
(dated) The skunk.
conepatl
conepatl
noun
(obsolete) A kind of skunk.
conplane
conspect
consperg
conspire
conspire
verb
(intransitive) To agree, to concur to one end.
(intransitive) To secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results.
(transitive) To work together to bring about.
contempt
contempt
noun
(law) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.
(uncountable) The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.
The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
copaline
copaline
noun
(mineralogy) Partly mineralized copal; an organic substance found as irregular pieces of a pale yellow colour.
coparent
coparent
noun
Alternative form of co-parent
copeland
copeland
Proper noun
A forest between Ennerdale and Egremont in Cumbria (and a present-day borough in that area).
of someone from that area.
A city in Kansas.
A community in Saskatchewan, Canada.
copesman
coprinae
coprince
coprince
noun
Any of a group of princes who govern jointly, as in Andorra.
cornpipe
corpsmen
corpsmen
noun
plural of corpsman
couperin
couponed
couponed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coupon
cupidone
cupstone
cupstone
noun
A stone containing a cupule.
dapsones
dapsones
noun
plural of dapsone
demiphon
demophon
deponent
deponent
adj
(grammar, of a verb) Having passive grammatical form (that is, conjugating like the passive voice), but an active meaning.
noun
(grammar) A deponent verb.
(law) A witness; especially one who gives information under oath, in a deposition concerning facts known to him or her.
deponing
deponing
verb
present participle of depone
deposing
deposing
verb
present participle of depose
despoena
despoina
desponds
desponds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despond
diaphone
diaphone
noun
(phonology) A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme; all the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.
A kind of organ pipe.
A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.
diphenol
diphenol
noun
(organic chemistry) Any compound that has two phenol groups; especially the isomeric benzenediols (catechol, resorcinol and hydroquinone).
dipteron
disponed
disponed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dispone
disponee
disponee
noun
(law, Scotland) The person to whom any property is legally conveyed.
disponer
disponer
noun
(law, Scotland) One who legally transfers his or her own property to another.
disponge
disponge
verb
(poetic, rare) To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge.
dognaped
dognaper
dognaper
noun
Alternative spelling of dognapper
dopamine
dopamine
noun
(biochemistry, pharmacology) A monoamine C₈H₁₁NO₂ that is a decarboxylated form of dopa, present in the body as a neurotransmitter and a precursor of other substances including adrenalin.
dopiness
dopiness
noun
The characteristic of being dopey.
downpipe
downpipe
noun
The drainpipe that connects a roof-line gutter with the ground.
dropline
dropline
noun
A long, vertical fishing line having a series of hooks.
dyophone
dyspnoea
dyspnoea
noun
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of dyspnea
earphone
earphone
noun
A transducer that converts electric signals into sound and is held near the ear, especially as part of a telephone; an earpiece or headphone.
echinops
ecophene
ecophene
noun
(genetics, ecology) The range of phenotypes produced by a genotype in a particular habitat
egophony
egophony
noun
(medicine) A bleating sound sometimes observed in patients with various lung conditions
empatron
empoison
empoison
verb
To poison.
emprison
emprison
verb
Obsolete form of imprison.
encolpia
encolpia
noun
plural of encolpion
plural of encolpium
endocarp
endocarp
noun
(botany) The woody inner layer of the pericarp of some fruits that contains the seed.
endopods
endopods
noun
plural of endopod
endpoint
endpoint
noun
(biology, medicine) A defined occurrence during the observation period of an experiment or study.
(chemistry) The stage in a titration at which a change in the colour of an indicator indicates that no more titrant should be added.
(mathematics) Either of the two nodes of a graph of degree 1.
(networking, telecommunications) The entity at one end of a connection.
(programming) Part of a system that serves as a hook, allowing third-party code to intercept and modify behaviour at that point.
Either of the two points at the ends of a line segment.
eniopeus
enkolpia
enoplion
ensophic
ensporia
entoptic
entoptic
adj
(medicine) Located within the eyeball.
(medicine) Of or relating to visual phenomena caused by objects within the eye, or the objects themselves.
entrepot
entrepot
noun
Alternative spelling of entrepôt
entropic
entropic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or as a consequence of entropy.
envapour
envelope
envelope
noun
(astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
(biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
(computing) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
(electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
(engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
(geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
(music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
Something that envelops; a wrapping.
verb
Archaic form of envelop.
envelops
envelops
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of envelop
eophyton
epanodos
epanodos
noun
(rhetoric) The repetition of a sequence of words or phrases in reverse order.
Recapitulation of the main points in a discourse.
epigonal
epigonal
adj
Alternative spelling of epigonic
Near or surrounding the gonads (in the embryos of some fish)
Relating to, or characteristic of, a prehistoric culture of coastal Peru and Chile
epigones
epigones
noun
plural of epigone
epigonic
epigonic
adj
Being or relating to an epigone or disciple; imitative.
epigonos
epigonus
epimeron
epimeron
noun
(entomology) In insects, the lateral piece behind the episternum.
(zoology) In crustaceans, the part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage.
epiploon
epiploon
noun
(anatomy) The greater omentum.
epitenon
epitenon
noun
(anatomy) A bundle of parallel arrays of fascicles, forming a sheath around tendons.
epitonic
epitonic
adj
Abnormally tense or tonic; exhibiting an abnormal degree of tension or strain.
eponymic
eponymic
adj
Of or relating to an eponym.
eponymus
epopoean
epoxying
epoxying
verb
present participle of epoxy
epperson
epsilons
epsilons
noun
plural of epsilon
epulones
epyllion
epyllion
noun
(literary) A "little epic".
(literary) A brief narrative poem with a romantic or mythological theme.
ereption
ereption
noun
(obscure) A sudden snatching away.
eruption
eruption
noun
A sudden release of pressure or tension.
A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.
An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.
espanola
esponton
ethephon
ethephon
noun
A plant growth regulator that is converted into ethylene when metabolized by the plant.
euphonia
euphonia
noun
Any of the birds of the genus Euphonia.
euphony
euphonic
euphonic
adj
Characterized by euphony; harmonious.
euphonon
euphonon
noun
(music) A musical instrument resembling the organ in tone and the upright piano in form.
euphonym
euphonym
noun
A pleasant-sounding name.
eupnoeas
eupnoeic
eupnoeic
adj
(medicine) breathing normally
eupyrion
eupyrion
noun
(archaic, historical) A device historically used for obtaining instantaneous light, such as a lucifer match.