A peptide that participates in the regulation of the menstrual cycle, cell proliferation, apoptosis, metabolism, and many other diverse functions.
adtevac
adtevac
noun
A technique for drying blood plasma.
advaita
advects
advects
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advect
advents
advents
noun
plural of advent
adverts
adverts
noun
plural of advert
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advert
aestive
aestive
adj
(rare) Of or relating to summer.
akvavit
akvavit
noun
Alternative spelling of aquavit
allveta
alvaton
alverta
amative
amative
adj
Pertaining to love; amorous.
antaiva
aquavit
aquavit
noun
A Scandinavian liquor that is about 40% alcohol by volume; distilled from potato or grain mash and flavored with caraway seeds, anise, fennel, dill and other spices and herbs, depending on variety.
atavism
atavism
noun
(sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
atavist
atavist
noun
A genetic characteristic emerging after absence from several generations.
A person of atavistic beliefs or habits.
athrive
autovon
autovon
Proper noun
of: a worldwide US military telephone system from the 1960s to the 1990s.
avalent
avalent
adj
(grammar, rare, of a verb or predicate) Non-valent, having valency zero: taking no arguments.
avatara
avatars
avatars
noun
plural of avatar
avenant
aventre
aventre
verb
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
averted
averted
adj
Turned away, especially as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avert
averter
averter
noun
One who, or that which, averts.
avertin
avertin
noun
(organic chemistry) The brominated alcohol 2,2,2-tribromoethanol that is used as an anaesthetic for small animals
avestan
avestan
Proper noun
An ancient Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta.
An alphabet which was developed based on Pahlavi scripts and used to write Avestan and Middle Persian languages.
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Avesta or Avestan.
aviated
aviated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aviate
aviates
aviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aviate
aviatic
aviatic
adj
Relating to aviation
aviator
aviator
noun
(obsolete) A flying machine.
(obsolete) An experimenter in aviation.
An aircraft pilot. The use of the word may imply claims of superior airmanship, as in navy aviator vs. air force pilot.
avictor
avidity
avidity
noun
(biochemistry) The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins.
Eagerness; intenseness of desire.
Greediness; strong appetite.
avigate
avigate
verb
(dated) To perform aerial navigation.
aviston
avitzur
avocate
avocate
verb
(obsolete) To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.
avocets
avocets
noun
plural of avocet
avolate
avolate
verb
(obsolete) To fly away; to escape.
avosets
avosets
noun
plural of avoset
avouter
avoutry
avoutry
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of advoutry (“adultery”)
avowant
avowant
noun
(law) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.
avowter
batavia
batavia
noun
Alternative form of Batavia (“variety of lettuce”)
bavette
bavette
noun
(pasta) A type of thick spaghetti.
beef flank steak
beef flap steak
beef skirt steak
becivet
becovet
bestove
bevomit
bevomit
verb
(transitive) To vomit upon; vomit all over.
bovista
bravest
bravest
adj
superlative form of brave: most brave
noun
(informal) Firefighters.
brevete
brevets
brevets
noun
plural of brevet
brevity
brevity
noun
(rare, countable) A short piece of writing.
(uncountable) Succinctness; conciseness.
(uncountable) The quality of being brief in duration.
buvette
calvert
calvity
calvity
noun
(uncountable) Baldness.
An area of skin that has become bald.
captiva
captive
captive
adj
Held prisoner; not free; confined.
Of or relating to bondage or confinement; serving to confine.
Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.
noun
(figurative) One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.
One held prisoner.
One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
verb
(transitive, archaic) To capture; to take captive.
carvist
caterva
catvine
cautivo
cavated
caveats
caveats
noun
plural of caveat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caveat
cavelet
cavelet
noun
A little cave.
cavetti
cavetti
noun
plural of cavetto
cavetto
cavetto
noun
(architecture) A concave moulding with a regular curved profile that is part of a circle.
cavorts
cavorts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cavort
cavuoto
centavo
centavo
noun
(historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
centrev
charvet
chetive
cheviot
cheviot
noun
A coarse woolen fabric made from the wool of Cheviot sheep.
chevret
civitan
civitas
civitas
noun
(Roman history) A city and its territory
(Roman history) The social body of the citizens united by law
(pedantic) A community.
(pedantic) A state, (chiefly) a city-state.
clavate
clavate
adj
(biology) Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.
colvert
convect
convect
verb
(intransitive) To undergo convection.
(transitive) To move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer (heat or a fluid) by convection.
convent
convent
noun
(India) A Christian school.
A coming together; a meeting.
A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
verb
(obsolete) To be convenient; to serve.
(obsolete) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
(obsolete) To meet together; to concur.
convert
convert
noun
(Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
A person who has converted to a religion.
A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
verb
(intransitive) To become converted.
(intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
(intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
(intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
(transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
(transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
(transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
(transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
(transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
(transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
(transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
(transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
(transitive, intransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
(transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
(transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
(transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
(transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
conveth
convict
convict
noun
(law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
A person deported to a penal colony.
The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
verb
(chiefly religion) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
(transitive) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
convite
convito
corvets
corvets
noun
plural of corvet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corvet
costive
costive
adj
constipated
miserly, parsimonious
couvert
couvert
noun
cover charge
coverts
coverts
noun
plural of covert
coveted
coveted
adj
Highly sought-after.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of covet
coveter
coveter
noun
One who covets.
covisit
cravats
cravats
noun
plural of cravat.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cravat
crivetz
crivitz
cultive
culvert
culvert
noun
A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
verb
To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.
curvant
curvate
curvate
adj
bent in a regular form; curved
curvets
curvets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curvet
curvity
curvity
noun
The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
cutover
cutover
adj
Having been cleared of valuable timber.
noun
(by extension) Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.
An area of cutover land.
The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
cuvette
cuvette
noun
(analytical chemistry) a small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer
(military) a cunette
a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table
an inner lid of a timepiece
datival
datival
adj
(grammar) dative
datives
datives
noun
plural of dative
devault
devaunt
devests
devests
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devest
deviant
deviant
adj
Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
noun
(Internet) A member of the online art community DeviantArt.
A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
deviate
deviate
noun
(sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
(statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
verb
(intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
(intransitive, figurative) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
(transitive) To cause to diverge.
devilet
devilet
noun
(archaic) A little devil.
devinct
devoted
devoted
adj
(obsolete) Cursed; doomed.
Strongly emotionally attached; very fond of someone or something.
Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.
Zealous; characterized by devotion.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of devote
devotee
devotee
noun
(religion) A fanatical or zealous believer in a particular religion or god.
(slang) Someone with an amputee fetish.
An ardent enthusiast or admirer.
devoter
devoter
noun
A worshipper.
One who devotes or commits something to a cause, etc.
devotes
devotes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devote
diverts
diverts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of divert
divests
divests
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of divest
dmitrov
dovecot
dovecot
noun
Alternative form of dovecote
dovelet
dovelet
noun
(obsolete) A baby dove.
An affectionate term for someone.
dravite
dravite
noun
(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, boron, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
duvetyn
duvetyn
noun
Alternative spelling of duvetyne
eightvo
eightvo
noun
(printing) octavo
elative
elative
noun
(grammar) In Finno-Ugric languages, one of the locative cases, expressing “out of,” or “from” as in Finnish talosta, Hungarian házból (“out of the house”). Its opposite is the illative case (“into”). In Finnish, the case form is used also to express "out of" or "proximity" in a figurative sense which in English is often conveyed by the word "about".
In Semitic languages, the “adjective degree of superiority.” In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the elative. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of “greatest”, “supreme.”
elevate
elevate
adj
(obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.
verb
(dated) To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).
(dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
(obsolete, Latinism) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.
(transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
(transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
(transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
(transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
(transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
(transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.
(transitive, obsolete) To lift the spirits of (someone)
elevato
elverta
emotive
emotive
adj
(grammar) Expressing an emotion.
Appealing to the emotions.
Of or relating to emotion.
noun
(grammar) A word or construct that expresses an emotion.
emptive
emptive
adj
(rare) Responding to or acting to counteract something when it happens (rather than beforehand).
envault
envault
verb
(transitive) To enclose in a vault; to entomb.
estevan
estevan
Proper noun
A city in Saskatchewan
estevin
estival
estival
adj
Coming forth in the summer.
Of or relating to summer.
evanthe
evected
evectic
evector
evector
noun
(geometry) A differential operator that allows a contravariant to be constructed from an invariant.
eveleth
evenest
evenest
adj
superlative form of even: most even
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of even