An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point.
asparagic
caprifigs
caprifigs
noun
plural of caprifig
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
carpingly
carpingly
adv
in a carping manner; with complaints.
carpogamy
carpognia
carpogone
carpology
carpology
noun
the study of the structure of seeds and fruit
cecograph
cerograph
cerograph
noun
A writing on wax.
chirpling
ciphering
ciphering
noun
(archaic) A calculation or computation.
(music) A cipher (fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed).
verb
present participle of cipher
comparing
comparing
verb
present participle of compare
compering
compering
verb
present participle of compere
cooperage
cooperage
noun
(countable) A cooper's workshop.
(uncountable) The art, trade, or products of a cooper (barrelmaker).
(uncountable) The price paid to a cooper for work carried out.
coopering
coopering
noun
The vocation of, or output of, a cooper (barrelmaker): synonym of cooperage.
verb
present participle of cooper
coppering
coppering
noun
An envelope or covering of copper.
The act of covering with copper.
verb
present participle of copper
coppinger
coprology
coprology
noun
scatology
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.
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.
creepages
creepages
noun
plural of creepage
creophagy
creophagy
noun
Alternative spelling of kreophagy
crimpling
crimpling
verb
present participle of crimple
crippling
crippling
adj
Causing a severe and insurmountable problem; detrimental.
Causing serious injuries, damage, or harm; damaging.
That cripples or incapacitates
noun
Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
State of being crippled; lameness.
verb
present participle of cripple
crumpling
crumpling
noun
A crumpled shape or structure.
A small crump
The act by which something crumples.
verb
present participle of crumple
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.
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.
cyphering
cyphering
noun
Skill in arithmetic.
verb
present participle of cypher
digraphic
digraphic
adj
Of or pertaining to a digraph.
echograph
echograph
noun
An instrument that uses ultrasound to produce an echogram as a diagnostic aid.
engraphic
engraphic
adj
Of or pertaining to an engram
escarping
escarping
verb
present participle of escarp
figpecker
figpecker
noun
A bird, the western Orphean warbler, Sylvia hortensis, prized by gourmets.
geocarpic
geocarpic
adj
Relating to geocarpy.
geotropic
geotropic
adj
(biology) Of or pertaining to geotropism.
graphemic
graphemic
adj
Being or that is a grapheme; being or that is an irreducibly meaningful unit of written language.
Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
graphical
graphical
adj
(computing) Of, related to, or using graphics.
Of, related to, or shown on a graph.
Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines.
graphicly
graphicly
adv
Archaic form of graphically.
graphitic
graphitic
adj
Of, relating to, resembling, or having the structure of graphite.
grecophil
gripsacks
gripsacks
noun
plural of gripsack
guarapucu
gyroscope
gyroscope
noun
An apparatus composed of a wheel which spins inside of a frame (gimbal) and causes the balancing of the frame in any direction or position. In the form of a gyroscopic stabilizer, used to help keep aircraft and ships steady.
hypoergic
oncograph
oncograph
noun
An instrument for registering the changes observable with an oncometer.
pacaguara
packagers
packagers
noun
plural of packager
panegyric
panegyric
adj
panegyrical
noun
A formal speech publicly praising someone or something.
Someone who writes or delivers such a speech.
paragenic
paragenic
adj
(biology) Originating in the character of the germ, or at the first commencement of an individual; said of peculiarities of structure, character, etc.
paragogic
paragogic
adj
Of, relating to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word.
paralogic
paralogic
adj
Relating to paralogism
parceling
parceling
noun
(nautical) Alternative form of parcelling
verb
present participle of parcel
paregoric
paregoric
adj
Assuaging or soothing pain.
noun
A painkiller; a medicine which soothes or relieves pain; specifically the traditional patent medicine consisting of camphorated tincture of opium.
pedigraic
pellagric
pellagric
Adjective
Related to, or suffering from, pellagra.
pharyngic
pharyngic
adj
(archaic) pharyngeal
pickering
pickering
Proper noun
A town in North Yorkshire, England.
A city in Ontario, Canada.
from the town.
picograms
picograms
noun
plural of picogram
pictogram
pictogram
noun
A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.
picturing
picturing
noun
depiction
verb
present participle of picture
pilgarlic
pilgarlic
noun
(archaic) A bald-headed person.
(archaic) A pitiable or foolish person.
podgorica
podgorica
Proper noun
the capital city of Montenegro
polyergic
polyergic
adj
Having multiple functions, or functioning in multiple ways.
porogamic
porogamic
adj
(botany) Exhibiting or relating to porogamy.
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.
preaching
preaching
noun
The act of delivering a sermon or similar moral instruction.
verb
present participle of preach
preacting
preacting
verb
present participle of preact
preceding
preceding
verb
present participle of precede
precharge
precharge
adj
before a charge
noun
(law) The period of time before the person is charged with a crime.
(semiconductors) The phase in the access cycle of DRAM during which the storage capacitors are charged to the appropriate value.
verb
(semiconductors) To charge the storage capacitors as a part of the DRAM precharge phase.
precising
precising
verb
Alternative form of précising; present participle of precis
present participle of precise
preciting
precuring
precuring
verb
present participle of precure
prefacing
prefacing
verb
present participle of preface
pregnance
pregnance
noun
Obsolete form of pregnancy.
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.
pregustic
prelegacy
preracing
preracing
adj
Before racing (sporting activity).
prickling
prickling
noun
A sensation that prickles.
verb
present participle of prickle
princeage
proacting
proacting
verb
present participle of proact
proclergy
proctalgy
procuring
procuring
verb
present participle of procure
producing
producing
verb
present participle of produce
prongbuck
prongbuck
noun
(dated) The springbok.
The pronghorn
proracing
psychurgy
puckering
puckering
noun
A fold or pinched bunch of fabric caused by the shrinkage of one layer among many.
verb
present participle of pucker
pyrogenic
pyrogenic
adj
(geology) of a mineral formed from magma at high temperature
(pathology, chemistry) generating or produced by heat, especially in the body; causing or caused by fever
ragpicker
ragpicker
noun
A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man (UK) or ragman (US).
recapping
recapping
verb
present participle of recap
recopying
recopying
noun
The process of copying something again.
verb
present participle of recopy
recouping
recouping
verb
present participle of recoup
regmacarp
regmacarp
noun
(botany, obsolete, rare) A fruit which, when mature, splits open to release its seeds; a dehiscent fruit.
repackage
repackage
verb
To package again, to give new packaging to.
repacking
repacking
noun
The process of packing something again or anew.
verb
present participle of repack
repechage
repechage
noun
(sports) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.
replacing
replacing
verb
present participle of replace
repricing
repricing
noun
The changing of a price.
verb
present participle of reprice
respacing
respacing
noun
spacing again, or by a different amount
verb
present participle of respace
respicing
sarcogyps
scarphing
scarphing
verb
present participle of scarph
sceptring
sceptring
verb
present participle of sceptre
sciagraph
sciagraph
noun
(architecture, archaic) A vertical section of a building; a sciagraphy.
(physics) A radiograph.
verb
(transitive) To create a sciagraph (radiograph) of; to look inside by this or a similar technique.
sciograph
scrapeage
scrapeage
noun
Scraping.
scrapings
scrapings
noun
plural of scraping
scrapling
scrappage
scrappage
noun
(UK) An amount of money paid by the government to a person trading in an old car (to be scrapped) for a more environmentally-friendly new one.