The naming of letters in an alphabetic writing system using words whose initial sounds are represented by the respective letters.
aepyceros
aeroscopy
aeroscopy
noun
(obsolete, meteorology) The branch of meteorology that involves the scientific examination of the various properties and composition of the atmosphere, and their variation
(rare) divination by observation of the sky
(zoology) aeroscepsy
apocrypha
apocrypha
noun
Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority (formerly also used attributively).
apparency
apparency
noun
(obsolete) Appearance.
The position of being heir apparent.
The quality of being apparent; apparentness.
archetype
archetype
noun
(literature) A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
(psychology) According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
(textual criticism) A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.
verb
To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.
auriscopy
auriscopy
noun
(medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
bankrupcy
bankrupcy
noun
Misspelling of bankruptcy.
calypters
calypters
noun
plural of calypter
calyptras
calyptras
noun
plural of calyptra
camphoryl
camphoryl
noun
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) Any univalent radical derived from camphor
capillary
capillary
adj
Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
Of or pertaining to hair.
Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.
noun
(anatomy) Any of the small blood vessels (from 5 to 10 micrometres/micrometers (μm) in diameter) that connect arteries to veins (They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: they convey blood between the arterioles and venules).
A narrow tube.
caprylate
caprylate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of caprylic acid
caprylene
caprylone
captainry
captainry
noun
(obsolete) Power or command over a district; chieftainship.
capybaras
capybaras
noun
plural of capybara
carpentry
carpentry
noun
(countable) A carpenter's workshop.
(uncountable) A collection of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
(uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking.
carpingly
carpingly
adv
in a carping manner; with complaints.
carpogamy
carpology
carpology
noun
the study of the structure of seeds and fruit
carpophyl
caryopses
caryopses
noun
plural of caryopsis
caryopsis
caryopsis
noun
(botany) A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal.
champerty
champerty
noun
(law) The investing of money into an individual's lawsuit.
chaplanry
chrysopal
chrysopal
noun
Synonym of chrysoberyl
chuprassy
clapeyron
clepsydra
clepsydra
noun
A water clock, especially as used in the ancient world.
clypeolar
coparceny
coparceny
noun
(law) An equal share of an inheritance.
copygraph
copygraph
noun
(dated) An early means of producing multiple copies of a document by means of pressing it against a slab of gelatin softened with glycerin and making further copies from the resulting reversed image.
corporacy
coryphaea
coryphaei
coryphaei
noun
plural of coryphaeus
creophagy
creophagy
noun
Alternative spelling of kreophagy
cryopathy
cryopathy
noun
(pathology) Any morbid condition caused by coldness
cryptarch
cryptical
cryptical
adj
cryptic
cryptogam
cryptogam
noun
Any plant that reproduces using spores (rather than seeds), formerly placed in the taxonomic group Cryptogamae, which included ferns, mosses, algae, fungi, lichens and liverworts.
culpatory
culpatory
adj
Expressing blame; censuring.
cymagraph
cymagraph
noun
An instrument for tracing the outlines of moldings.
cymograph
cymograph
noun
An instrument for obtaining drawings from the mouldings of Gothic architecture.
cypraeoid
cypridina
cystocarp
cystocarp
noun
A minute vesicle in some seaweeds, containing the reproductive spores.
cytospora
desperacy
empyrical
empyrical
adj
Containing the combustible principle of coal.
eucryphia
eucryphia
noun
Any tree of the genus Eucryphia
graphicly
graphicly
adv
Archaic form of graphically.
harpalyce
haruspicy
haruspicy
noun
The study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
heptarchy
heptarchy
noun
A government of seven people.
A group of seven states, especially (historical) those in Anglo-Saxon Britain.
The realm so ruled.
hyperacid
hyperacid
adj
Highly acidic.
hypobaric
hypobaric
adj
Of, relating to, or utilizing less than normal air pressure.
hyposarca
hyposarca
noun
anasarca
lochopyra
pachyderm
pachyderm
noun
(idiomatic) A person with thick skin; someone who is not affected by or does not care what others say about him or her.
(idiomatic) Someone who is insensitive.
(informal) An elephant
(obsolete, zoology) A member of the obsolete taxonomic order Pachydermata, grouping of thick-skinned, hoofed animals such as the rhinoceros, hippopotamus, elephant, pig and horse.
paedarchy
panegyric
panegyric
adj
panegyrical
noun
A formal speech publicly praising someone or something.
Someone who writes or delivers such a speech.
pantarchy
paralytic
paralytic
adj
(UK, Australia, Ireland, slang) Very drunk.
Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
Pertaining to paralysis.
noun
A drug that produces paralysis.
Someone suffering from paralysis.
paratypic
paratypic
adj
Relating to a paratype
parcenary
parcenary
noun
(law) The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.
parchedly
parchedly
adv
In a parched manner; with great thirst or dryness.
parenchym
parmacety
parmacety
noun
(obsolete) A sperm whale.
(obsolete) Spermaceti.
paronymic
paronymic
adj
Being or relating to a paronym.
pecuniary
pecuniary
adj
Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
pelicanry
pentarchy
pentarchy
noun
(politics) Government by five persons.
A federation of five nations, each under its own government or ruler.
A governing body consisting of five persons.
pernychia
persicary
pharyngic
pharyngic
adj
(archaic) pharyngeal
phylarchy
phylarchy
noun
Government by a class or tribe.
piscatory
piscatory
Adjective
Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
placatory
placatory
adj
That placates; pacifying.
playactor
playactor
noun
Alternative form of play-actor.
playcraft
plutarchy
plutarchy
noun
rule by the wealthy; plutocracy
pollarchy
pollarchy
noun
government by the mob or masses; mobocracy
polyarchy
polyarchy
noun
A government in which power is invested in multiple people.
polycarpy
polycracy
polycracy
noun
A dynasty within a democracy; Government by a clan or relatives of self-elected rulers amid a democratic process
A tyrannic regime within a democracy
polycrase
polycrase
noun
(mineralogy) A black or brown amorphous metallic complex uranium yttrium oxide mineral, found in granitic pegmatites.
popocracy
pothecary
pothecary
noun
Obsolete form of apothecary.
preachify
preachify
verb
To preach didactically; to sermonize.
preachily
preachily
adv
In a preachy manner.
preacidly
precatory
precatory
adj
(law) Expressing a wish but not creating any legal obligation or duty.
Expressing a wish.
predacity
predacity
noun
The quality of being predaceous.
pregnancy
pregnancy
noun
(countable) The condition of being pregnant; an instance of this.
(uncountable) The progression of stages from conception to birth.
The period of time this condition prevails.
prelegacy
priceably
privacity
procacity
procacity
noun
(dated) forwardness; pertness; petulance; an instance of such.
proctalgy
procuracy
procuracy
noun
The office of a procurator.
pyracanth
pyracanth
noun
Any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha having small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries
pyramidic
pyramidic
adj
Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form or imposing presence of a pyramid; pyramidal.
pyrexical
pyrexical
adj
Relating to fever; feverish; pyrexial.
pyritical
pyritical
adj
(mineralogy) Relating to, resembling, or consisting of pyrites.
pyromachy
pyromachy
noun
The use of fire in combat.
pyromancy
pyromancy
noun
Divination by fire; the use of fire to supernaturally gain information.
The magical power of conjuring or controlling fire.
receptary
receptary
adj
(obsolete) Generally or popularly admitted or received.
noun
(historical, pharmacy, pharmacology) A book of pharmacological recipes, incantations or charms.
(obsolete) That which is received.
repatency
reprobacy
reprobacy
noun
reprobation
rhyptical
sarcogyps
scapulary
scapulary
adj
scapular
noun
(zoology) scapular
A form of brace or suspender for keeping a belt or body bandage in place; it is made of a broad roller bandage split half way, the undivided part being in front, the divided ends passing over the shoulders and down the back.
scrappily
scrappily
adv
In a scrappy manner
skyscrape
spagyrics
spagyrics
noun
plural of spagyric
supremacy
supremacy
noun
(in combination) A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.
(in combination) The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.
Power over all others.
The quality of being supreme.
sympatric
sympatric
adj
(biology, genetics) Occurring in the same, or in overlapping, territory, especially of species that do not interbreed.