A practice among some peoples, such as the Basques, of the husband of a woman in the last stages of pregnancy taking to bed, avoiding certain foods, or imitating other behaviours of a pregnant woman.
Sympathetic pregnancy: the involuntary sympathetic experience of the husband of symptoms of his wife's pregnancy, such as weight gain or morning sickness.
couvert
couvert
noun
cover charge
coverup
coverup
noun
Alternative spelling of cover-up
cultive
culvers
culvers
noun
plural of culver
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.
cursive
cursive
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).
(of writing) Having successive letters joined together.
Running; flowing.
noun
(countable) A cursive character, letter or font.
(countable) A manuscript written in cursive characters.
(uncountable) Joined-up handwriting.
curvate
curvate
adj
bent in a regular form; curved
curvets
curvets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curvet
curvier
curvier
adj
comparative form of curvy: more curvy
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
decurve
educive
educive
adj
That educes.
evacuee
evacuee
noun
A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war
incurve
incurve
verb
(intransitive) To curve inwards.
(transitive, rare) To cause something to curve inwards.
levulic
lucivee
lucivee
noun
Alternative form of lucifee
overcup
overcup
noun
The oak Quercus lyrata whose acorns are enclosed by their cups
overcut
overcut
adj
(participial adjective) Excessively cut.
noun
(motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone else by pitting after them and running in clean air to make up time.
An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
The act or result of excessive cutting.
verb
(transitive) To cut excessively.
recurve
recurve
noun
A landform consisting of a hook at the tip of a coastal spit.
A recurve bow.
A type of knife blade shape that involves several curves including a concave curve on a portion of the edge, resulting in a belly that is lower than the handle bottom.
verb
(of a storm) To change direction.
To curve again, to rebend.
To curve back on itself.
scevour
uncover
uncover
verb
(military, transitive) To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.
(reflexive, intransitive) To expose the genitalia.
(reflexive, intransitive) To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect.
To remove a cover from.
To reveal the identity of.
To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
unvoice
unvoice
verb
(transitive, linguistics) devoice
upcover
upcurve
upcurve
noun
An upward curve.
verb
To curve upwards.
uveitic
uveitic
adj
Relating to uveitis.
vacuate
vacuate
verb
To empty; to clear out.
vacuefy
vacuole
vacuole
noun
(cytology) A large membrane-bound vesicle in a cell's cytoplasm.
A small empty or air-filled space or vacuity.
vacuome
vacuome
noun
The vacuoles and vacuolar system of an organism
vecture
vecture
noun
(obsolete) The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
verruca
verruca
noun
(botany) A sexine element similar to a wart.
(mycology) A rounded projection or wart.
(pathology) A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus.
vescuso
vouched
vouched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vouch
vouchee
vouchee
noun
(law, archaic) The person who is vouched, or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.
voucher
voucher
noun
(advertising) A copy of a published advertisement sent by the agency to the client as proof of publication.
(historical) A mechanical device used in shops for automatically registering the amount of money drawn.
A piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services.
A receipt.
One who or that which vouches.
verb
(transitive) To establish the authenticity of; to vouch for.
(transitive) To provide (a beneficiary) with a voucher.
(transitive) To provide a vouch for (an expenditure).
vouches
vouches
noun
plural of vouch
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vouch