(business) The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business.
(law) An equitable remedy requiring wrongfully obtained profits to be distributed to those who deserve them.
A relaying of events; justification of actions.
verb
present participle of account
accoutring
accoutring
verb
present participle of accoutre
accrington
accrington
Proper noun
A town in Hyndburn borough, Lancashire, England.
acerbating
acerbating
verb
present participle of acerbate
acetifying
acetifying
verb
present participle of acetify
acierating
acierating
verb
present participle of acierate
acquitting
acquitting
verb
present participle of acquit
actinogram
actinogram
noun
The record produced by an actinograph
actinology
actinology
noun
(sciences) The study of the effect of light on chemicals.
activating
activating
verb
present participle of activate
activizing
activizing
verb
present participle of activize
acutograve
advocating
advocating
verb
present participle of advocate
aeciostage
aetiogenic
afflicting
afflicting
noun
An affliction.
verb
present participle of afflict
agalactous
agalactous
adj
Lacking milk to suckle with.
agathocles
agnostical
agnostical
adj
Alternative form of agnostic
agnotozoic
agonistics
agonistics
noun
The range of activities associated with aggressive encounters between members of the same species, including threat, attack, appeasement, or retreat.
(literature) Challenging the conventions of tragedy.
apologetic
apologetic
adj
(dated) Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense.
Having the character of apology; regretfully excusing.
aragonitic
aragonitic
adj
(geology) Of, pertaining to, or formed from aragonite
archegetes
archregent
arctangent
arctangent
noun
(trigonometry) Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the tangent function. Symbol: arctan, tan⁻¹
arctogaeal
arctogaeal
adj
(biogeography) Of or relating to the Arctogea, a biogeographical division comprising the Holarctic and Paleotropical regions.
arctogaean
arctogaeic
argillitic
argillitic
adj
(geology) Relating to, or containing, argillite.
argonautic
argonautic
adj
(by extension) adventurous
relating to Jason's ship, the Argo
arthralgic
arthralgic
adj
(pathology) Of, pertaining to, or suffering from arthralgia
astigmatic
astigmatic
adj
(medicine) Suffering from astigmatism.
noun
(medicine) One who has astigmatism.
astricting
astricting
verb
present participle of astrict
astrogonic
astrogonic
adj
Of or pertaining to astrogony.
astrologic
astrologic
adj
Archaic form of astrological.
asyzygetic
asyzygetic
adj
(mathematics) Not syzygetic
athrogenic
atticising
atticizing
attingence
attingence
noun
The property of being attingent; adjacency.
attingency
attingency
noun
Alternative form of attingence
attracting
attracting
verb
present participle of attract
auctioning
auctioning
verb
present participle of auction
autecology
autecology
noun
one of two broad subdivisions of ecology, which studies the individual organism or species.
authigenic
authigenic
adj
(geology) Generated where it is found or observed.
backbiting
backbiting
adj
Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.
noun
The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
verb
present participle of backbite
backdating
backdating
noun
The act by which something is backdated.
verb
present participle of backdate
backstring
beclothing
beclothing
verb
present participle of beclothe
becrusting
bedticking
besticking
besticking
verb
present participle of bestick
bewitching
bewitching
adj
Enchanting.
noun
The act by which somebody is bewitched; a curse or enchantment.
bigamistic
bigamistic
adj
bigamous
biogenetic
biogenetic
adj
Of or pertaining to biogenesis.
Of or pertaining to biogenetics.
biscuiting
blacklight
blacklight
noun
Alternative form of black light (“ultraviolet bulb”)
boycottage
boycotting
boycotting
noun
The act of something being boycotted.
verb
present participle of boycott
bracketing
bracketing
noun
(architecture) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
The act of enclosing (text, etc.) in brackets.
verb
present participle of bracket
bratticing
bratticing
noun
The material used for forming brattices.
verb
present participle of brattice
butchering
butchering
noun
The act by which someone or something is butchered; a slaughter or killing.
verb
present participle of butcher
cabineting
cabotinage
cabotinage
noun
overacting; hamming
cagliostro
caligation
caligation
noun
(obsolete, nonce word) dimness; cloudiness
calystegia
camletting
canulating
canulating
verb
present participle of canulate
capitaling
captaining
captaining
verb
present participle of captain
captioning
captioning
noun
The act of assigning a caption.
verb
present participle of caption
cardington
caretaking
caretaking
noun
The act of taking care or taking charge of something.
carpetbags
carpetbags
noun
plural of carpetbag
carrington
carrington
Proper noun
A village in Barbados.
A city in North Dakota.
A village in Lincolnshire, England.
A village in Midlothian, Scotland.
cartilages
cartilages
noun
plural of cartilage
cartmaking
cartmaking
noun
The manufacture of carts.
cartograph
cartograph
noun
cartogram
cartonnage
cartonnage
noun
Pasteboard.
The papyrus used to wrap mummies in ancient Egypt.
cartooning
cartooning
noun
The act of drawing a cartoon or caricature.
verb
present participle of cartoon
cartridges
cartridges
noun
plural of cartridge
cartwright
cartwright
noun
a person who makes carts; a wainwright
castagnole
castigable
castigable
adj
Able or worthy to be punished.
castigated
castigated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of castigate
castigates
castigates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of castigate
castigator
castigator
noun
One who castigates.
castrating
castrating
verb
present participle of castrate
catagmatic
catagmatic
adj
(medicine, dated) Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.
catagories
catalogers
catalogers
noun
plural of cataloger
cataloging
cataloging
noun
Alternative form of cataloguing
verb
present participle of catalog
catalogist
catalogize
catalogize
verb
To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue.
catalogued
catalogued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of catalogue
cataloguer
cataloguer
noun
(informal) A person who is fanatical about buying items from catalogues.
One who catalogues.
catalogues
catalogues
noun
plural of catalogue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of catalogue
catalyzing
catalyzing
verb
present participle of catalyze
catamiting
catamiting
verb
present participle of catamite
cataracteg
catcalling
catcalling
verb
present participle of catcall
catchingly
catchingly
adv
In a catchy or alluring manner.
catchlight
catchlight
noun
(photography) A gleam of reflected light in a subject's eye.
categorial
categorial
adj
categorical, absolute, without exception
categorical, pertaining to a category
pertaining to categorial grammar
categories
categories
noun
plural of category
categorise
categorise
verb
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of categorize.
categorist
categorist
noun
One who categorizes.
categorize
categorize
verb
(transitive) To assign a category; to divide into classes.
catenating
catenating
verb
present participle of catenate
cateringly
cathecting
cathecting
verb
present participle of cathect
cathograph
catnapping
catnapping
noun
The kidnapping or theft of a cat.
verb
present participle of catnap
cattlegate
cautioning
cautioning
noun
The act of giving a warning.
verb
present participle of caution
cavitating
cavitating
verb
present participle of cavitate
celtologue
centigrade
centigrade
adj
(of a scale) Having 100 divisions between two fixed points.
Celsius (since 1948).
noun
(countable) A unit of angle equal to the hundredth part of a quadrant. Its symbol is gon.
(countable, dated) A single degree on this scale.
(uncountable) A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Known as the Celsius scale since 1948.
centigrado
centigrams
centigrams
noun
plural of centigram
centrifuge
centrifuge
noun
(figuratively) An apparatus in which humans are spun to simulate acceleration in an aircraft or spacecraft.
A device in which a mixture of denser and lighter materials (normally dispersed in a liquid) is separated by being spun about a central axis at high speed.
verb
To rotate something in a centrifuge, typically in order to separate its constituents.