A profound fear of human beings, or of human society.
antibishop
antibishop
noun
(historical, ecclesiastical, chiefly in medieval and early modern history) A pretender to the episcopal office, such as a bishop appointed by an antipope. [from 18th c.]
antiblennorrhagic
antiblennorrhagic
adj
(pharmacology) Countering or preventing blennorrhoea.
noun
(pharmacology) Any medicine that counters or prevents blennorrhoea.
antihemoglobin
antihydrophobic
antihydrophobic
adj
Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia.
noun
(rare) A remedy for hydrophobia.
antiprohibition
antiprohibition
adj
Opposing the prohibition of alcoholic drink.
antiprohibitionist
antiprohibitionist
noun
One who opposes the prohibition of alcoholic drink.
antithrombic
antithrombic
adj
(biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the action of antithrombin
antithrombin
antithrombin
noun
A small molecule that inactivates several enzymes of the coagulation system.
antlophobia
antlophobia
noun
(rare) The fear of floods or inundation.
apeirophobia
apeirophobia
noun
The fear of infinity and/or eternity.
apiphobia
apiphobia
noun
An inordinate fear of bees.
aporobranchia
aporobranchian
aporobranchiata
approachability
approachability
noun
The characteristic of being approachable; the ability to be approached.
approachabl
approachable
approachable
adj
Easily approached; easy to talk to.
approachableness
approachableness
noun
The state or quality of being approachable.
aquaphobia
aquaphobia
noun
A fear of water, especially a morbid fear of drowning.
arabophil
arachnephobia
arachnephobia
noun
Misspelling of arachnophobia.
arbitratorship
arbitratorship
noun
The role or status of an arbitrator.
arbroath
arbroath
Proper noun
a coastal town and former royal burgh in council area, Scotland
arbuthnot
arceuthobium
archabomination
archbeacon
archbishop
archbishop
noun
A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)
archbishopess
archbishopess
noun
(rare) A female archbishop.
(rare) The wife of an archbishop.
archbishopric
archbishopric
noun
(ecclesiastical) The jurisdiction of an archbishop.
(ecclesiastical) The rank or office of an archbishop.
archbishoprics
archbishoprics
noun
plural of archbishopric
archbishopry
archbishops
archbishops
noun
plural of archbishop
archbold
archbotcher
archboutefeu
archbuffoon
archebiosis
archebiosis
noun
(biology) The origination of living matter from non-living; abiogenesis.
archibaldo
archibenthos
archiblastoma
archibold
archibuteo
archisymbolical
archrobber
archsnob
archvagabond
arrowbush
arteriophlebotomy
arthrobacter
arthrobacterium
arthrobranch
arthrobranch
noun
A gill, of a crustacean, that is attached to the membrane between the body and the base of the leg
arthrobranchia
ashburton
ashburton
Proper noun
a small town on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, England.
a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
a river in Western Australia, which flows into the Indian Ocean.
a large town in Canterbury, New Zealand.
a river (with two branches) in Canterbury which flows past the town to the Pacific Ocean.
a town in Natal, South Africa.
a neighbourhood in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
asheboro
ashipboard
ashipboard
adv
on shipboard
aspidobranchia
aspidobranchiata
aspidobranchiate
asthenobiosis
asthenobiosis
noun
(biology) A form of hibernation or estivation that is not dependent on season, temperature or humidity
asthenobiotic
asthenophobia
astraphobia
astraphobia
noun
An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.
astrapophobia
astrapophobia
noun
astraphobia
astrophobia
astrophobia
noun
A fear of stars and celestial space.
atelophobia
atelophobia
noun
The fear of imperfection or not being good enough.
athrob
athrob
adj
Throbbing.
attenborough
attenborough
Proper noun
A village in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire, England.
aulophobia
aulophobia
noun
fear of flutes
aurophobia
aurophobia
noun
The fear of gold; by extension, the fear of wealth.
authorisable
authorisable
adj
Alternative spelling of authorizable
authorizable
authorizable
adj
Capable of being authorized.
autobahn
autobahn
noun
By analogy, any wide, high-speed road.
The high-speed intercity highways of Germany and Austria.
autobahnen
autobahns
autobahns
noun
plural of autobahn
autobiographal
autobiographal
adj
(archaic) autobiographical
autobiographer
autobiographer
noun
One who writes his or her own life or biography.
autobiographers
autobiographers
noun
plural of autobiographer
autobiographic
autobiographic
Adjective
Of or relating to a person's life or an account of a person's life, as told by the subject.
autobiographical
autobiographical
adj
Of or relating to a person's life or an account of a person's life, as told by the subject.
autobiographically
autobiographically
adv
In an autobiographical manner.
autobiographies
autobiographies
noun
plural of autobiography
autobiographist
autobiographist
noun
An autobiographer.
autobiography
autobiography
noun
(countable) A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
(uncountable) Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.
autohybridization
autoinhibited
autoinhibited
adj
Subject to, or produced by autoinhibition
verb
simple past tense and past participle of autoinhibit
automysophobia
automysophobia
noun
An abnormal fear of being dirty.
autophobia
autophobia
noun
Fear or dislike of automobiles.
The morbid fear of being alone or of oneself.
self-hatred
autophoby
autophoby
noun
Archaic form of autophobia.
avouchable
avouchable
adj
Capable of being avouched.
azygobranchia
azygobranchiata
azygobranchiate
babehood
babehood
noun
Babyhood.
babloh
baboonish
baboonish
adj
Like a baboon.
baboosh
baboosh
noun
(archaic) An Oriental slipper.
babouche
babouche
noun
A Turkish or Moroccan slipper having no heel.
babyhood
babyhood
noun
The state or period of infancy.
babyhoods
babyhoods
noun
plural of babyhood
babyhouse
babyhouse
Noun
A doll's house.
babylonish
babylonish
Adjective
Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia.
Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8.
Pertaining to Rome and papal power.
Confused; Babel-like.
bacchanalization
bacchanalization
noun
Riotous revelry.
baccharoid
baccheion
bachelor
bachelor
noun
(Canada) A bachelor apartment.
(obsolete) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
(obsolete) Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.
(obsolete) An unmarried woman.
A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree.
bachelordom
bachelordom
noun
The state of a male who is a bachelor, i.e. unwed.
bachelordoms
bachelorette
bachelorette
noun
(Canada) A very small bachelor (single room) apartment.
(Canada, US) An unmarried woman.
bachelorhood
bachelorhood
noun
The condition of being a bachelor.
bachelorhoods
bachelorhoods
noun
plural of bachelorhood
bachelorism
bachelorism
noun
A manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.
Bachelorhood.
bachelorize
bachelorize
verb
To confer a bachelor's degree on.
To live the life of a bachelor; to socialize without a wife.
To live without neither spouse nor children; to live alone or with other single people.
To make into a bachelor; to deprive of a spouse.
To make or become typical of a bachelor.
bachelorlike
bachelorlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bachelor.
bachelorly
bachelorly
adj
Befitting a bachelor.
bachelors
bachelors
noun
plural of bachelor
bachelorship
bachelorship
noun
The state of being a bachelor.
bachelorwise
bachelorwise
adv
In the manner of a bachelor; (as though) living alone as a single man.
bacillariophyta
bacillophobia
bacillophobia
noun
The fear of microbes.
backcloth
backcloth
noun
The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.
backhoe
backhoe
noun
(chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader and an excavator/digger.
A piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth. Used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.
verb
To excavate using such equipment.
backhoes
backhoes
noun
plural of backhoe
backhooker
backhouse
backhouse
noun
(US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.
backhouses
backhouses
noun
plural of backhouse
bactericholia
bacteriochlorophyll
bacteriochlorophyll
noun
(biology) A photosynthetic pigment occurring in various phototrophic bacteria, related to the chlorophylls.
bacteriohemolysin
bacteriopathology
bacteriophage
bacteriophage
noun
(microbiology, virology) A virus that specifically infects bacteria.
bacteriophages
bacteriophages
noun
plural of bacteriophage
bacteriophagia
bacteriophagic
bacteriophagic
adj
Of or pertaining to a bacteriophage.
bacteriophagous
bacteriophagous
adj
Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
bacteriophagy
bacteriophagy
noun
The feeding on bacteria.
bacteriophobia
bacteriophobia
noun
An abnormal fear of bacteria
bacteriorhodopsin
bacteriorhodopsin
noun
(biochemistry) Any of several related purple photosynthetic proteins, found in halobacteria, that act as proton pumps
bacteriotherapeutic
bacteriotherapeutic
adj
Relating to bacteriotherapy.
bacteriotherapy
bacteriotherapy
noun
(medicine) Any therapeutic use of bacteria
bactetiophage
badmouth
badmouth
verb
(informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
badmouthed
badmouthed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of badmouth
badmouthing
badmouthing
verb
present participle of badmouth
badmouths
badmouths
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth