(historical) A form of trial by combat between two people, the winner being deemed innocent.
captiving
captiving
verb
present participle of captive
capturing
capturing
verb
present participle of capture
carpetbag
carpetbag
adj
(chiefly US) Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers.
noun
A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century.
verb
(chiefly US) To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
carpeting
carpeting
noun
(informal) A severe reprimand or telling-off.
Carpet or a piece of carpet, especially when speaking of installation or removal.
Cloth or materials for carpets.
verb
present participle of carpet
coempting
competing
competing
adj
Being in the state of competition (often unintentionally).
verb
present participle of compete
computing
computing
noun
(computer science) The use of a computer or computers.
(literally) The process or act of calculation.
The study of computers and computer programming.
verb
present participle of compute
copyright
copyright
noun
(countable) Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.
(uncountable) The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.
(uncountable, informal, nonstandard) A violation of copyright law; copyright infringement.
verb
(transitive or intransitive) To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work.
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.
cytophaga
cytophagy
cytophagy
noun
(cytology) The ingestion of cells by phagocytes.
depicting
depicting
verb
present participle of depict
excepting
excepting
prep
with the exception of
verb
present participle of except
expecting
expecting
adj
Of a woman, female animal, or couple, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.
noun
The process by which somebody expects something.
verb
present participle of expect
genotypic
genotypic
adj
Of or pertaining to a genotype
geophytic
geophytic
adj
Relating to geophytes
geotropic
geotropic
adj
(biology) Of or pertaining to geotropism.
glyptical
glyptical
adj
Alternative form of glyptic
graphitic
graphitic
adj
Of, relating to, resembling, or having the structure of graphite.
hopatcong
impacting
impacting
verb
present participle of impact
incepting
incepting
verb
present participle of incept
nightcaps
nightcaps
noun
plural of nightcap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nightcap
octupling
octupling
verb
present participle of octuple
outpacing
outpacing
verb
present participle of outpace
packeting
packeting
verb
present participle of packet
pageantic
pageantic
adj
Of or relating to a pageant.
panguitch
panguitch
Proper noun
a city in Utah, USA, and the county seat of Garfield County.
patchogue
pectizing
pectizing
verb
present participle of pectize
phagocyte
phagocyte
noun
(cytology) A cell of the immune system, such as a neutrophil, macrophage or dendritic cell, that engulfs and destroys viruses, bacteria and waste materials, or in the case of mature dendritic cells; displays antigens from invading pathogens to cells of the lymphoid lineage.
verb
(transitive) To phagocytize
phlogotic
phlogotic
adj
(medicine) Of or pertaining to phlogosis.
picketing
picketing
noun
The act of one who pickets (in any sense).
verb
present participle of picket
pictogram
pictogram
noun
A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.
picturing
picturing
noun
depiction
verb
present participle of picture
pigsticks
pigsticks
noun
plural of pigstick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pigstick
placating
placating
verb
present participle of placate
plicating
plicating
verb
present participle of plicate
pocketing
pocketing
noun
A structure resembling a pocket or pouch.
Material used for making pockets for clothing.
The act of something being illicitly taken or purloined.
verb
present participle of pocket
pragmatic
pragmatic
adj
Interfering in the affairs of others; officious; meddlesome.
Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
noun
A busybody.
A man of business.
A public decree.
preacting
preacting
verb
present participle of preact
preciting
pregustic
proacting
proacting
verb
present participle of proact
proctalgy
pugnacity
pugnacity
noun
The act or characteristic of being aggressive or combative.
scapegoat
scapegoat
noun
In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.