(medicine) the swallowing of air, especially in hysteria.
aglyphous
aglyphous
adj
(of a snake) Whose teeth are not specialized, especially whose teeth lack grooves for venom.
allograph
allograph
noun
A signature made by one person for another.
A variant form of a letter (or other grapheme).
amphigony
amphigony
noun
(obsolete) sexual reproduction
amphigory
amphigory
noun
A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless.
amphilogy
amphilogy
noun
ambiguity of speech; equivocation
amphogeny
anglophil
aphnology
apophlegm
apophyges
apophyges
noun
plural of apophyge
apothegms
apothegms
noun
plural of apothegm
arcograph
arcograph
noun
An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point.
atmograph
autograph
autograph
adj
(art) Made by the artist himself or herself; authentic.
Written in the author’s own handwriting.
noun
A manuscript in the author’s handwriting.
A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person.
verb
(transitive) To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book etc
(transitive) To write something in one's own handwriting
autophagi
autophagi
noun
(zoology) Birds that are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as they are hatched.
autophagy
autophagy
noun
(cytology) A type of programmed cell death accomplished through self-digestion.
(cytology) The process of self-digestion by a cell through the action of enzymes originating within the same cell. Often a defensive and/or self-preservation measure.
(rare) Self-consumption; the act of eating oneself.
auxograph
barograph
barograph
noun
A type of barometer that continuously records air pressure on a sheet or rotating drum
biography
biography
noun
A person's life story, especially one published.
The art of writing this kind of story.
verb
(transitive) To write a biography of.
bolograph
cecograph
cerograph
cerograph
noun
A writing on wax.
coliphage
coliphage
noun
Any of several bacteriophages that can infect strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli
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.
creophagy
creophagy
noun
Alternative spelling of kreophagy
cymograph
cymograph
noun
An instrument for obtaining drawings from the mouldings of Gothic architecture.
cytophaga
cytophagy
cytophagy
noun
(cytology) The ingestion of cells by phagocytes.
echograph
echograph
noun
An instrument that uses ultrasound to produce an echogram as a diagnostic aid.
eidograph
eidograph
noun
An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of pantograph.
endophagy
endophagy
noun
(rare) Cannibalism, within a group.
ergograph
ergograph
noun
A graph that shows a relation between human activities, or agricultural/climate factors, and a seasonal year.
An instrument for measuring and recording the work done by a single muscle or set of muscles, the rate of fatigue, etc.
esophagal
esophagus
esophagus
noun
(American spelling) Alternative spelling of oesophagus
gamophagy
gazpachos
gazpachos
noun
plural of gazpacho
geography
geography
noun
(archaic) an atlas or gazetteer.
(astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
(chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
(chiefly upper-class UK, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
(figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography
Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
geophagia
geophagia
noun
Consumption of clay, chalk or dirt.
gnathopod
gnathopod
noun
(zoology) A maxilliped.
gomphrena
gomphrena
noun
Any plant of the genus Gomphrena, the globe amaranths.
gopherman
gorakhpur
grapeshot
grapeshot
noun
(historical) A cluster of small iron balls, put together in a canvas bag in order to be used as a charge for a cannon.
graphiola
gyrograph
gyrograph
noun
A recording of gyratory stability, used to determine optimal bitumen mixtures for paving etc.
gyrophora
haplology
haplology
noun
(phonology, countable) An instance of deleting one of two almost identical syllables within a word.
(phonology, uncountable) The process of deleting one of two almost identical syllables within a word.
hemophage
hemophagy
hemophagy
noun
The condition of being hemophagous
heptaglot
heptaglot
noun
(rare) A book in seven languages.
heptagons
heptagons
noun
plural of heptagon
hodograph
hodograph
noun
(physics, mathematics) A curve described by the moving extremity of a line whose other end is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; used in investigations respecting central forces.
holograph
holograph
noun
(law, textual criticism) A handwritten document that is solely the work of the person whose signature it bears, especially a letter, deed, or will; an original manuscript, a protograph.
A hologram.
verb
To record by means of holography.
homograph
homograph
noun
(computing) A text character or string that looks identical to another when rendered.
A word that is spelled the same as another word, usually having a different etymology.
hopatcong
horograph
hospitage
hospitage
noun
(obsolete) hospitality
huapangos
huapangos
noun
plural of huapango
hypogaeic
ideograph
ideograph
noun
An ideogram.
idiograph
idiograph
noun
A mark or signature peculiar to an individual.
isographs
isographs
noun
plural of isograph
isography
isography
noun
(archaic) The imitation of another's handwriting.
(mathematics) An automorphism of transformation networks.
(music) The relationship between two pitch class sets that can be arranged into K-nets that are isographic (in the mathematical sense).
kymograph
kymograph
noun
A device that gives a graphical representation of a variation in a phenomenon such as blood pressure over time, using a pen on a rotating drum.
lagomorph
lagomorph
noun
A member of the mammalian taxonomic order, Lagomorpha, which includes hares, rabbits, and pikas.
logograph
logograph
noun
a character or symbol that represents a word or phrase.
lotophagi
lotophagi
Noun
The lotus eaters; a people visited by Ulysses who subsisted on the lotus.
manograph
manograph
noun
An optical device for making pressure volume diagrams for high-speed engines, involving a light-tight box or camera having at one end a small convex mirror reflecting a beam of light onto the ground glass or photographic plate at the other end. The mirror is pivoted so that it can be moved so as to copy the motion of the engine piston on a smaller scale.
megaphone
megaphone
noun
(figuratively) Mouthpiece or promoter; one who speaks for or publicizes on behalf of another.
(organic chemistry) A cytotoxic neolignan obtained from the laurel Aniba megaphylla.
A portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To use a megaphone; to speak through a megaphone.
melograph
melograph
noun
A device designed for analysing and plotting the frequency characteristics of ethnic music.
monograph
monograph
noun
A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
verb
(transitive) To write a monograph on (a subject).
(transitive, US) Of the FDA: to publish a standard that authorizes the use of (a substance).
monophagy
monophagy
noun
The feeding on a single type of food (e.g., a single plant species).
motograph
motograph
noun
(historical) A device used in the making of a loud-speaking telephone, depending on the fact that the friction between a metallic point and a moving cylinder of moistened chalk, or a moving slip of paper, on which it rests is diminished by the passage of a current between the point and the moving surface.
musophaga
musophagi
mycophagy
mycophagy
noun
(biology) The eating of fungus.
myographs
myographs
noun
plural of myograph
myography
myography
noun
The scientific description of muscles
nephogram
nephogram
noun
(physics) A graphical depiction of a physical quantity that resembles a cloud.
A picture of a cloud.
nomograph
nomograph
Noun
A nomogram.
odographs
odographs
noun
plural of odograph
oesophagi
oesophagi
noun
plural of oesophagus
oleograph
oleograph
noun
(art) A type of chromolithograph, using oil paint on canvas, that attempts to imitate oil painting
omnigraph
omnigraph
noun
A pantograph.
An automatic telegraph code-sound producer used to learn telegraph code.
omophagia
omophagia
noun
The eating of raw food, especially raw flesh.
omophagic
omophagic
adj
Eating raw flesh; using uncooked meat as food.
oncograph
oncograph
noun
An instrument for registering the changes observable with an oncometer.
ondagraph
ondograph
ondograph
noun
An instrument for autographically recording the waveforms of varying currents, especially rapidly varying alternating currents.
opegrapha
opiophagy
optigraph
optigraph
noun
A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes by means of an attached pencil.
orography
orography
noun
(geomorphology) the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains
the orographic features of a region
orphanage
orphanage
noun
(obsolete) Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.
A residential institution for the care and protection of orphans.
orphaning
orphaning
verb
present participle of orphan
osmograph
osmograph
noun
An instrument for recording the height of the liquid in an endosmometer or for registering osmotic pressures.
otography
otography
noun
The scientific description of the ear.
paragonah
patchogue
pathogene
pathogene
noun
Dated form of pathogen.
pathogens
pathogens
noun
plural of pathogen
pathogeny
pathogeny
noun
(medicine) The generation and method of development of disease.
pathogerm
pathology
pathology
noun
(academic medicine) The academic biomedical specialty that advances the aspects of the biomedical sciences that allow for those clinical applications and their advancements over time.
(biology, life sciences) Any of several interrelated scientific disciplines that advance the aspects of the life sciences that allow for such technological applications and their advancements over time.
(clinical medicine) The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).
Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
pedograph
pedograph
noun
An instrument carried by a pedestrian for automatically making a topographical record of the ground covered during a journey
penghutao
pezograph
pezograph
noun
(astronomy, geology) A regmaglypt.
phaenogam
phaenogam
noun
Alternative form of phenogam
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
phagosome
phagosome
noun
A membrane-bound vacuole within a cell containing foreign material captured by phagocytosis.
pharology
pharology
noun
The study of lighthouses, or other forms of light-signalling.
phlogisma
phonating
phonating
verb
present participle of phonate
phonogram
phonogram
noun
(law) An audio recording, regardless of physical format.
(linguistics) A character or symbol (grapheme) that represents a sound, as opposed to logograms and determinatives.
photalgia
photalgia
noun
eye pain caused by bright light
photogram
photogram
noun
A photograph made without using a camera; normally by placing an object in contact with photosensitive paper and exposing it to light
photograt
phragmoid
phthongal
phthongal
adj
(phonetics) Formed into, or characterized by, voice; vocalized.
phytogamy
pithoegia
pithoigia
ploughman
ploughman
noun
(Britain) Alternative spelling of plowman
pneograph
poephagus
polygraph
polygraph
noun
(archaic) A collection of different works, either by one or several authors.
(dated) A mechanical instrument for multiplying copies of a writing, resembling multiple pantographs.
(linguistics) A group of letters that represent a single phoneme.
(mathematics) A multidimensional directed graph; a computad.
A device which measures and records several physiological variables such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and skin conductivity while a series of questions is being asked to a subject, in an attempt to detect lies.
An author who writes on many subjects.
Any group of letters treated as a single item.
verb
(transitive) To administer a polygraph test to.
polyphaga
polyphage
polyphage
noun
A person who eats to excess
Any animal which can eat a variety of food; an omnivore
polyphagy
polyphagy
noun
(biology) The ability of an animal to eat a variety of food (e.g. several different families of plants)
ponograph
pothanger
pothanger
noun
pothook (hook used to suspend a cooking-pot)
poughquag
prognathi
prognathy
prophages
prophages
noun
plural of prophage
pyophagia
pyrograph
pyrograph
noun
A hand-held tool, with a heated tip, used in pyrography.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To make an image on wood (or other materials) by selectively burning the surface.
rotograph
rotograph
noun
A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints are made, and are then rapidly developed, fixed, cut apart, and washed.
verb
(transitive) To print by this process.
sciograph
setophaga
siphonage
siphonage
noun
The action of a siphon.
skiograph
sphagnous
sphagnous
adj
Pertaining to, or consisting of, sphagnum.
theophagy
theophagy
noun
(rare) The eating or consumption of a god, in a sacramental context.
tomograph
tomograph
noun
A machine for making an X-ray of a single plane of the body.
tonograph
tonograph
noun
tonometer
topograph
topograph
noun
A monument erected in a high place, such as a hilltop, indicating the direction and distance of notable landscape features which can be seen with the naked eye from that point.
toxiphagi
typograph
typograph
noun
(printing, historical) A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.
verb
To prepare type in such a machine.
urography
urography
noun
Radiography of the urinary tract.
votograph
xerophagy
xerophagy
noun
A restrictive diet (of bread and water, for example) as a punishment or religious form of discipline.
xylograph
xylograph
noun
A print taken from such an engraving.
An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).
verb
(transitive) To make a print from an engraving in wood.