(countable) An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.
(uncountable, also attributively) Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, politics) To disseminate (something as) political propaganda, especially communist propaganda, through art, drama, literature, etc.
agraphia
agraphia
noun
(pathology) A loss of the ability to write (usually resulting from a brain injury).
The inability to write.
agraphic
agraphic
adj
(medicine) Affected with or pertaining to agraphia.
agripina
agrotype
agrotype
noun
A type of soil used for agriculture
agrypnia
agrypnia
noun
(psychiatry, pathology) Persistent loss of sleep; insomnia; sleeplessness.
airgraph
airgraph
noun
(UK, historical) A form of airmail used to send messages to servicemen during the Second World War.
algraphy
algraphy
noun
(photography) An early photographic technique, similar to zincography or lithography, using paper impregnated with an aluminium salt.
amperage
amperage
noun
(physics) The electric current; charge transmitted per unit time, measured in amperes.
anagraph
anagraph
noun
(obsolete) A physician's prescription or recipe.
(obsolete) An inventory; a record.
A kind of anagram.
angiport
angiport
noun
(obsolete) A narrow road passing between two houses or a row of houses, or an alley leading to a single house.
apograph
apograph
noun
(textual criticism) A copy or transcript of a manuscript (called the antigraph).
apologer
apologer
noun
(obsolete) A teller of apologues.
aproning
aproning
noun
Material for making aprons.
verb
present participle of apron
araponga
araponga
noun
Synonym of bare-throated bellbird (Procnias nudicollis)
arapunga
arapunga
noun
Alternative form of araponga
areopagy
areopagy
noun
(obsolete) secret tribunal, conclave
arpeggio
arpeggio
noun
(music) The notes of a chord played individually instead of simultaneously, usually moving from lowest to highest.
verb
(intransitive) To produce arpeggios; to produce sounds resembling arpeggios.
(transitive) To play (a chord) as an arpeggio; to play (a piece of music) with arpeggios.
(transitive, intransitive, figurative) To move (the hand or fingers) against a surface as if playing arpeggios on a keyboard; to touch different points in succession along a surface.
asperger
asperger
noun
A ceremonial herb bundle or perforated object used to sprinkle witch's water at the commencement of a ritual
asperges
asperges
noun
A Christian rite in which the congregation is sprinkled with water.
The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of asperge
aspergil
asperugo
aspiring
aspiring
adj
Hoping to become.
noun
(archaic) Aspiration.
verb
present participle of aspire
bagpiper
bagpiper
noun
One who plays the bagpipes.
bespreng
bespring
biograph
biograph
noun
(rare) A biographical essay.
An early device to show moving pictures on a screen.
verb
(rare, transitive) To write a biography of.
blurping
bugproof
bugproof
verb
(transitive) To make resistant to insects.
capering
capering
noun
The motion of one who capers.
verb
present participle of caper
caprifig
caprifig
noun
A hermaphrodite fruit, inedible to humans, of certain usually uncultivated species of Ficus, which is the source of the pollen with which fig wasps pollinate edible female fruit in both cultivated and uncultivated Ficus trees.
carpings
carpings
noun
plural of carping
carpogam
chirping
chirping
noun
(gerund of chirp) The act, or an instance of, chirping.
verb
present participle of chirp
consperg
cramping
cramping
noun
The action of something that cramps.
verb
present participle of cramp
crapping
crapping
verb
present participle of crap
creepage
creepage
noun
A gradual, creeping movement.
The leakage of an electrical current across the surface of an insulator (dielectric)
creeping
creeping
noun
The act of something that creeps.
verb
present participle of creep
crimpage
crimpage
noun
Money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
The act or practice of crimping, or entrapping soldiers or sailors into service.
crimping
crimping
noun
The act by which something is crimped.
verb
present participle of crimp
crisping
crisping
noun
(archaic) A process of curling or forming into ringlets.
(topology) A crisp, clearly-defined object that exists within a more vaguely defined object.
verb
present participle of crisp
cropping
cropping
noun
(agriculture) The growing of crops.
(mining) An outcrop that is mined for the ore it contains.
The act by which something is cut short or truncated.
verb
present participle of crop
crumping
crumping
verb
present participle of crump
depurged
diagraph
diagraph
noun
(dated) A drawing instrument that combines a protractor and scale.
digraphs
digraphs
noun
plural of digraph
disperge
disperge
verb
(obsolete) To sprinkle.
dognaper
dognaper
noun
Alternative spelling of dognapper
dogproof
dogproof
adj
Resistant to damage caused by dogs.
verb
(transitive) To make resistant to damage caused by dogs.
dragrope
dragrope
noun
A rope used to drag something.
Alternative form of drag rope (“rope carried in a hot air balloon”)
drapping
drapping
verb
present participle of drap
drippage
drippage
noun
A dripping; something that drips.
dripping
dripping
noun
Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
The sound or action of something that drips.
The use of a drip tip to drip e-liquid directly onto the atomizer of an e-cigarette.
verb
present participle of drip
drooping
drooping
adj
That droops or droop.
noun
An instance of something drooping.
verb
present participle of droop
dropling
droppage
dropping
dropping
noun
(usually in the plural) A piece of animal excrement; dung.
Something dropped; a droplet.
The act of something that drops or falls.
verb
present participle of drop
drugshop
drugshop
noun
drugstore; pharmacy
dryprong
duograph
duograph
noun
(historical) A picture printed from two halftone photographic plates made with the screen set at different angles, and usually printed in two shades of the same colour or in black and one tint.
earplugs
earplugs
noun
plural of earplug
engraphy
epergnes
epergnes
noun
plural of epergne
epigrams
epigrams
noun
plural of epigram
epigraph
epigraph
noun
(mathematics, of a function) The set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.
A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
An inscription, especially on a building.
verb
(transitive) To provide (a literary work) with an epigraph.
erupting
erupting
verb
present participle of erupt
eurypyga
exograph
expiring
expiring
adj
Ending, terminating, dying.
verb
present participle of expire
expunger
expunger
noun
One who expunges.
fireplug
fireplug
noun
A fire hydrant.
fogproof
fogproof
adj
Resistant to fogging up.
footgrip
frapping
frapping
noun
(nautical, usually in the plural) Rope lashed tightly over the rigging or other area.
verb
present participle of frap
galloper
galloper
noun
(Australia) The Chinamanfish, a type of snapper
(military) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.
A carousel or roundabout (especially in the plural)
An aide-de-camp.
One who gallops.
gamphrel
gapeworm
gapeworm
noun
A parasitic nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that infects the tracheas of some birds and causes the disease gapes.
garapata
garapata
noun
(US) A kind of wood tick.
garapato
garpikes
garpikes
noun
plural of garpike
gasproof
gasproof
adj
Made of or covered with material that doesn't allow gas in.
gazumper
gazumper
noun
One who gazumps.
gemperle
genapper
geopolar
geoprobe
geoprobe
noun
A probe used for studying the earth.
geotropy
geotropy
noun
geotropism
gephyrea
geropiga
geropiga
noun
Alternative form of jeropiga
giftwrap
giftwrap
verb
Alternative form of gift-wrap
gleipnir
glimpser
glimpser
noun
One who glimpses something.
glumpier
gonopore
gonopore
noun
A small genital opening in the female of some insects etc.
gospeler
gospeler
noun
(music) A singer of gospel music
(obsolete, Early Modern) A Protestant or evangelical Christian.
A person who preaches from the Gospels
gospodar
gospodar
noun
Alternative form of hospodar
gosports
gossiper
gossiper
noun
A person who gossips.
gossipry
gossipry
noun
Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy.
grafship
grafship
noun
The rank or position of a graf (German or Austrian count).
grampian
grampian
Proper noun
a former local government region in north-east Scotland, which was created in 1975 and abolished in 1996.
grandpap
grandpap
Noun
grandfather
grandpas
grandpas
noun
plural of grandpa
grapeful
grapeful
adj
(poetic) Full of grapes.
grapelet
grapelet
noun
A little grape.
grapheme
grapheme
noun
A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.
In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.
graphics
graphics
noun
(computing) The art or visual representations displayed by a computer.
(computing) The pictorial representation and manipulation of data; the process by which a computer displays data.
The graphic arts.
The making of architectural or design drawings.
graphing
graphing
verb
present participle of graph
graphite
graphite
noun
A grey colour, resembling graphite or the marks made with a graphite pencil.
An allotrope of carbon, consisting of planes of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal arrays with the planes stacked loosely, that is used as a dry lubricant, in "lead" pencils, and as a moderator in some nuclear reactors.
Short for graphite-reinforced plastic, a composite plastic made with graphite fibers noted for light weight strength and stiffness.
verb
(transitive) To apply graphite to.
graphium
graphium
noun
A butterfly of the genus Graphium.
A stylus (for writing).
grapiest
grapiest
adj
superlative form of grapey: most grapey
grapline
grapline
noun
A grapnel (small anchor).
graplins
graplins
noun
plural of graplin
grapnels
grapnels
noun
plural of grapnel
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grapnel
grappled
grappled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grapple
grappler
grappler
noun
A wrestler; one who fights by wrestling.
One who grapples.
grapples
grapples
noun
plural of grapple
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grapple
grapsoid
grapsoid
adj
(zoology) Relating to the genus Grapsus or family Grapsidae.
noun
(zoology) Any of the crabs in the genus Grapsus or family Grapsidae
graspers
graspers
noun
plural of grasper
grasping
grasping
adj
Greedy, eager for wealth.
noun
The act of one who grasps or covets.
verb
present participle and gerund of grasp
grasshop
grasshop
noun
(now rare, dialectal) grasshopper
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To move erratically here and there, like a grasshopper
graupels
graupels
noun
plural of graupel
graypate
greypate
gripeful
gripeful
adj
Disposed to gripe; extortionate.
griphite
griphite
noun
A vitreous, resinous, yellow or dark-brown, molecular compound that is both diploidal and isometric.
gripiest
gripless
gripless
adj
Lacking a grip.
gripment
grippers
grippers
noun
plural of gripper
grippier
grippier
adj
comparative form of grippy: more grippy
gripping
gripping
adj
Which catches someone's attention; exciting
noun
Obsolete form of griping (“pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines”).
The act of forming a grip.
verb
present participle of grip
gripsack
gripsack
noun
(colloquial, dated) A traveller's bag.
grisping
grogshop
grogshop
noun
A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk.
groupage
groupage
noun
The consolidation of several small shipments into a single container
groupers
groupers
noun
plural of grouper
groupies
groupies
noun
plural of groupie
plural of groupy
grouping
grouping
noun
A collection of things or people united as a group.
Shot grouping.
The action of the verb to group.
verb
present participle of group
groupist
groupist
noun
A proponent of groupism.
grouplet
grouplet
Noun
A small group.
groupoid
groupoid
noun
(algebra and category theory) A set with a partial binary operation that is associative and has identities and inverses.
(algebra) A magma: a set with a total binary operation.
grownups
grownups
noun
plural of grownup
grumphie
grumphie
noun
(Scotland) A sow (female pig).
grumpier
grumpier
adj
comparative form of grumpy: more grumpy
grumpily
grumpily
adv
In a grumpy manner; in a cranky manner.
grumping
grumping
verb
present participle of grump
grumpish
grumpish
adj
surly; sullen; gruff; grumpy
gryphaea
gryphaea
noun
(zoology) Any of the genus †Gryphaea of extinct gryphaeid oysters, devil's toenails.